Ashley17

These results are only good if we go and win our winnable home games (i.e. Stoke next week) Don't fuck it up chaps

"He [shola] is understood to have suffered a kick to his ankle in a tackle with Obafemi Martins and his injury will be assessed on Friday." That's one way to get your place back Oba

Won't be sorry to see him gone tbh

Downer for Shola at any rate

Yeah, mackems have Bolton at home next week so although we're down to 17th it's not the end of the world as of yet. We're 3 points off 14th now though....could do with a win as soon as possible or face actually being cut adrift from the mid table pack

Think the boooooos were for the ref. The plus of games like this is that I don't care who wins and hope there's as much injustice as possible in the game, with some hefty tackles. So it's going pretty well as far as I'm concerned

BBC suggest the defender from Roma is Mexes

Lampard is "doubtful" according to the beeb.

Riise not getting a game for Roma then? Let's list those who have scored past us... Darren Fletcher Clinton Morrison Scott Dann Robin Van Persie x2 Denilson Marlon King Di Michele Matthew Etherington Roman Pavlychenko Jamie O'Hara Christopher Samba Roque Santa Cruz Feillani Mikel Arteta Robinho Stephen Ireland Ismael Miller Kieran Richardson Djibril Cisse Andy Johnson Danny Murphy Ryan Taylor Titus Bramble ZOMG IT COULD BE ANY OF THEM!!!!

To those being ironic - For those genuinely confused - It's Sunday 21st.

Before anyone goes mad, £10m can buy you Andy Johnson in today's market. However a £10 million rated full back is a bit of a rare commodity.

Tony Coton isn't dead man, you're thinking of Tim Carter I think

If Duff just lets it hit him, it stays out. It's the fact that he panics and....knees it into the opposite corner that is annoying.

The shortcomings with Enrique's passing are largely due to where he is on the pitch. He gets the ball on half way, here are his options: 1) Pass to the left winger - if this is Duff, he will not be on the left wing. If this is Jonas, he is heavily marked. Problems. 2) Pass to a centre midfielder - Butt and Guthrie playing within 5 yards of each other, possibly further back than where we have the ball. See the "lack of movement" thread. 3) Pass back to the centre halves - Will draw groans for being negative 4) Hump it into the box - playing the percentages will obviously result in a degree of success/unsuccessful passes. And of course there are some occasions when he just passes the ball straight out of play, which is unforgivable

Got to be honest, when he first went down I assumed he was play acting to stop them countering. However he looked absolutely gutted he couldn't carry on which makes me worry it's serious

Rooney having a "chest infection" is far too convenient. Same with Rio being out, Ferguson knows they can beat Stoke without those 2 so exagerrates their injuries/illness and don't have to go away for international duty, come back next weekend as fit as a fiddle. [/Conspiracy]

Duff bottles more tackles than anybody I have ever seen. That is not giving 100%

Geremi is only useful if Owen's in the team (which he should be one way or another) Geremi is like the opposite of Jonas - Jonas looks impressive and is always involved but has next to no end product. Geremi does fuck all except provide a great cross in every 10 that Owen/Richard Dunne coverts.

As this is an attendance thread, just as a side thought: If we go down, will our attendance fall to 30k(ish)? Presumably ticket prices will fall and there's always been the theory that the majority of fans will always turn up for league games no matter what. I reckon we'd probably still get near enough 40,000.

Don't open this can of worms, fucking hell man.

Yellow brick road time. Kinnear has no brain so he can be involved somehow

How the fuck does Carson get in and Green doesn't

Return of the entertainers tbh

The main problem Colo has is he's so slow on the turn, Camara ghosted past him today on that 1 on 1 it was scary. I know Camara's quick but Colo had a 5 yard headstart

Everyone was shite today in fairness, first half especially.