Yorkie

Stupid prices for what's bound to be a shit game where we play shit. Aye, we'd like more fans, but it ain't gonna happen for prices like that. The Blackburn game is £1 for kids and £5 for adults. That's how it should be, especially for a game like this.

I like Beckham's actually. My Side.

Bobby wasn't going to sell Shearer right after he'd scored 30 goals in all competitions the previous season... (28 for the pedants)

Bobby wasn't going to sell Shearer. He turned down Liverpool's offer. He wanted Mpenza aswell - who was doing very well at the time. He saw him as the long term replacement goalscorer for Shearer.

We're voting in Feb?

Apologies!

<Snip. We've been through all this...> Wins: 6 ... Draws: 3 ... Losses: 2 ... Points: 21/33 Total Points: 57 This is what i can see, really. Probably a little pescimistic, but i simply cannot see us winning at the likes of Sheffield United and Wigan - teams fighting for their lives, well Wigan are. It really is a nice run in and we should do well.

Ah shite.

Where did you say all this?

Aye Colin Murray would be OK... if he didn't present football games. I can imagine he'd do alright on the Poker things. John Barnes/Jon Helm/Joe Royle... all crap.

That's boiling your piss? Bloody hell - i can't imagine what you were like in the Souness era. I think it's clear that Nobby is the penalty taker. Martins just wanted the one last night. And so he should! We want to see him hungry for goals.

Good game from Bramble. His one good game in six or seven if the past five years are anything to go by.

Didn't look too convinced in my opinion. But he said that overall he was pleased with the performance, very unhappy about the goal conceded, and was disappointed by the sloppyness at times, not going to get complacent but pleased overall.

Nonsense. You want your goalscoring centre-forwrds to be greedy for crying out loud! I think it's great to see him so desperate to get his name on the scoresheet. It's not 'just' to get his name on the scoresheet - it's not 'just' that. He's the number 9 centre-forward and he is desperate to be top goalscorer, and justfiy his price tag - and so he should do. I'm fecking glad Shearer was greedy... I thought he had a poor game aswell, one of his worst this season without a doubt, but i can't agree with what you've said there for a second.

Tmonkey, Dave, agree wholeheartedly with both.

Aye that tickled me aswell.

Tonight merely confirmed it for me. Not a bad performance, not a bad one at all, but that wasn't Kieron Dyer. He had very little influence on the game, apart from a good run for the first goal, and there was NAFF ALL movement upfront. Movement that he would have been providing had he have been played up there. Of course, there was no alternative this evening but for him to play in centre-mid - but that is the only time in which he should be used there. When we're down to bare bones. He's a forward.

I thought Duff put in a very decent performance in the second half to be quite frank. Would like to see him release the ball earlier, his main and only flaw throughout the game, but he tore the right-back to pieces (granted, the opposition was abysmal), but it's definitely an improvement and it's nice to see his spark returning. This really should just kick him on, and with another good performance next week, hopefully things will start to snowball. Not particularly impressed with the dive, though. I don't think he needed to - because he would have scored anyway. It wasn't that tight an angle. But, atleast the fact that he was going to score, makes the goal actually justifable. Not impressed by the dive though.

Nobby's just come back from injury. He's had plenty of rest the 'od bugger.

If we were offered the chance to take Ben Haim on a free, and turned it down, Roeder and Shepherd would want killing - very, very painfully. Hence why they would, because they're not stupid (arguably). Very good defender, Ben Haim. Absolutely key player for Bolton over the past couple of years.

Yup.

He was great on the right-wing against Liverpool, though, Nobby, so i wouldn't be against having him start there in the return leg. I still believe that his delivery and passing ability is second to none - and i just want to see goals in the second leg. We really could destroy these mugs if we wanted to. I want to see another Ventspils (H) mentality, where we absolutely peppered their goal from start to finish, as we should do against shite part-timers. Only, score, this time...

Harper Solano --- Edgar --- Bramble --- Huntington Duff --- Parker --- Butt --- O'Brien Martins --- Luque Subs: Srnicek, Taylor, Babayaro, Milner, Pattison, Lua Lua, Carroll Why not? Just go for it. We're through.

I wanted to see Alan O'Brien... but Duff's got to play now. Would be stupid to not allow him to kick on from here.

I hope we start a couple of youngsters next week and go fucking hell for leather. And obliterate them.