SteveMc

Employers pay Ni too.

Vuckic sounds good - the word starlet seems to be appropriately used here

Goal scorer is the least of our worries, at least if we keep the current personnel. It's about the lack of creativity in central midfield for me

Just because he’s yet to suck blood doesn’t mean he hasn’t sunk his fangs in. True, but because he's yet to suck blood it means that anyone trying to say he will is guilty of peddling conjecture in a bid to suit their own agneda. It's also getting really f***ing irritating

The Argentina point is very pertinent. Hasn't he scored and provided an assist in his last 2 games for them? Fact is we are poor going forward and rely on the lad too much. He's trying to force things for us and is getting frustrated and lacking a bit of confidence. Our best player by some margin in many games this year and it astounds me that he's getting grief.

That's s****. We certainly haven't lost against Arsenal at home in the league in the last 3 seasons

For speculation read inquest

He's ok. Has put himself about well when he's played. Can't see the problem with this.

When he first came back from the achilles maybe, but he was back to his best before Christmas

Still played at Hawthorns though

After all that rumour he played against West Brom. Not only that but Lambsarse says that we own all our players fully now.

Do people still genuinely think that? It's laughable

The club may be telling him exactly that

Not advocating that we should be a feeder club at all. Simply saying that we need to build ourselves back up to previous heights. At the moment we aren't as attractive a propisition as Arsenal (neither have we been for a few years) As such we have to be realistic and accept that the odd player will move on in the short term. As such our best bet of becoming more than also rans is to continue our current policy. It seems anomalous but it is good that champions league clubs are sniffing around Bassong. It means we're doing something right. Eventually we'll hopefully have 6 or 7 Bassongs and a team good enough to make progress and for players to want to stay at. I can't see Arsenal et al sniffing around Damien Duff or Nicky Butt.....

wooo - all went a bit crazy for a minuten then

If Arsenal come in for him and he wants to go it is hardly a 'foul up'. It is an indictment that at the moment our players would jump at the chance of going to Arsenal. However, in this case the club don't seem to have done much wrong. Sign young player for next to nowt, play him and he's a hit, offer him new contract. All sounds fine to me. indeed it is good news that we're spotting good un's, rather than waiting for others to find them and then paying over the odds. if he leaves he leaves, but the money should be used to buy 5 more such players - hopefully a couple of them would be top drawer too.

He may have his faults but he's a consumate professional. Never gives less than 100%

Yes that's exactly what he is saying

I thought (distribution aside) Colo played really well. Harper didn't have a save to make, apart from the goal, in the whole match. We had a number of good opportunities at the other end to take something from the game. It was our profligacy in front of goal that cost us.

Other clubs get treated as some kind of modern day Robin Hood figures when they cut prices. Ours as just the opposite. I know much of this is of their own making but they are truely damned if they do/ don't aren't they? I think this is great news personally, how it could be construed as anything but is beyond me.

I thought he was doing well until the sending off.

That's likely what Aston Villa fans thought. You're improving without doubt, but not good enough to expect to go and win tough away games every time.

And ironically the team they are going to support on the road will be fatally undermined due to falling revenue from season ticket sales. Myself I'm going to carry on doing what I've always done - whcih due to geography is about 7 or 8 home games paid for individually and a membership. This is a time when our club needs our support.

This is more than likely bs. The Sunday Sun had us lining up Aguirre last week. We've got JFK for the forseeable

You know that your luck is shite as a club when even the manager gets injured. Jesus, what can go wrong will go wrong.....