Yorkie

No. Players can't play against their parent clubs If it says so in the contract..... Lua Lua played and scored against us.

The guy really looks ecastatic to be here. His facial expressions from the bench when we scored against West Ham were priceless.

over how long ?does that mean last christmas you were saying the opposite of what you are now saying. if you think milner should be replaced then i can't understand why you don't think n'zogbia shouldn't be replaced, both players have similar potential and at least milner doesn't become more of a hinderance but keeps working when it's not going for him. i agree with dropping milner right now,like i said drop n'zogbia last year. N'Zogbia has the tools Milner will never have. No lover of hard work without talent. Prefer a lazy b****** like Robert or Petrov to Milner any day. He simply doesnt have it. N'Zogbia is not going to be great either but has an awful lot more going for him than Milner. Nb: No I wasnt saying the opposite last xmas. Was that the last time James played well? He certainly did ok then. Nothing then told he shouldn't be replaced though. i don't see what n'zogbia has done in his time here to rate him any better then milner. Just ability. Milner doesn't have the tools. My main concerns with Milner: His technique isn't great. (zog has a better touch and ability on the ball) His crossing is patchy (as is Zogs but he can whip a ball and Milner can't do it as well) He has below average Premiership pace (Zog isnt lightning but he has above average pace) Both are strong but Zog is more aggressive. Both decent squad players. milners technique is as good,i'd say he's better dribbling than n'zog and gets past his man more. milners crossing is as good as n'zogbia's milner can play well on either side n'zogbia has a better eye for goal milners defends better from midfield then n'zogbia but n'zogbia makes an adequate full back. both decent squad players with potential. Hehehe I've never read so much rubbish in one post as this even your best line "Nzogbia has a better eye for goal" is not quit correct either..N'Zogbia has GREAT eye for goal compared to Milner... Madras has says fuck all wrong. He's slow, but he beats his man frequently. His crossing is erratic, just like N'Zogbia's. He can play well on either side. 'N'Zogbia has a better eye for goal', i think is the only thing i'd disagree with. More preditory instinct in the box, maybe. See the Derby game for N'Zogbia's so called 'great eye for goal'. Milner does defend better from the wing position.

Arteta - £12,000,000 - take it or leave it. Would be difficult to prise him away from Everton, but if we're significantly higher in the table than they are, then his head could well be turned. He nearly joined us, or wanted to join us, once before if i recall correctly. He's fucking mint and both the quality right-winger/innovative centre-mid that we need. If not, i'd go for Shaun Wright-Phillips...

Fortunately. Not that i feel it's his fault. Viduka, Owen and Martins will all be fit for Spurs - meaning Smith would have been squeezed into the midfield again. Possibly at one of Barton's or Emre's expense.

Agree entirely. The 05/06 season will remain his finest individual season at the club. Shame we as a team were shite for three quarters of it. He hasn't been the same since then. But he's hardly over the hill for a goalkeeper and i think he'll pick up, but he's probably beyond his exceptional best. (Not kneejerking here, i still think he's a bloody good goalkeeper and will continue to be for the duration of his time at the club, but he's clearly been wobbled since that injury)

I feel dirty asking for the likes of Milner and Given to be dropped, but Shay really should be dropped for that today.

Cruel on Gretna. That Alfonso Alves must be class. Yeah, it's a shit league - but seven goals. For a fairly naff team.

Geremi --- Butt --- Emre --- N'Zogbia ... for Spurs, from what i saw. Rest Milner ffs, he's doing nowt - been saying it for a while now. He's so obviously fucked. Emre/Barton would be even better like.

That's the thing though - we won. It's not about what you can do at your best, it's what you can do at your worst.

Couldn't really tell, but both looked fucking fast to me. Towards the end of the game, Owen played this poor ball from inside our half, fairly central, to just over the half way line. It was going to be a fifty-fifty but Enrique got to the ball before the opposing player was within five yards of him, just stopping it from going out of play aswell.

By the way, another late win. We never used to win late under Souness/Roeder. Great stuff. Such a pleasing day.

Saw the last half an hour on an utterly shit stream. Saw the goals, ish, but i'm not gonna make too much of a judgement of that. Will probably be able to make a better assessment after watching Football First; we might even get game of the day.

Winning having played poor and been dominated. Fantastic. We're fucking difficult to beat at home - which was one of Sam's chief aims. Result.

Everton are a good side like. So you'd settle for a draw at home to a 5th-8th team? Away, aye a draw is decent - at home, we should be beating our closest rivals. TT is right, it's vital that we win these games.

Come on ffs.

He's gonna occupy the right.

Beyewatch made me chortle at first. Nowadays the pun doesn't even register.

http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1128902,00.html How ominous is the Emre picture? And the one below it, what's up with Geremi's head? Sorry - gave me a giggle or two. Wish Craig Hope would give it a fucking rest with the captions, though.

+ playing in the Euros in the summer. ... just for anyone who denies that him being fucked, isn't a contributor to his sub-par performances.

I think his goals against Barnsley and City in-particular show how much he has actually come on this season. Add to that his assist for Owen's goal against Wigan, and you can see that there's evidence of his improvement. The touch and movement for the those two goals were impeccable (the Barnsley one fortuitous admittedly), with the obviously superb finishes. He took those goals like a clinical, out-and-out, top class striker, which - in spite of the fact he scored a lot - he didn't look like last season. His general play has improved too. One of the most pleasing things that i've noticed this season, is that he's actually utilising his pace, and that's how he's created his own chances; we have a lot to thank Sam for there. It's fantastic to see him genuinely improving on his faults, when a lot of people said that he wouldn't. Yeah, he's still erratic at times, but expereince and confidence (he's still a confidence player, i reckon) will help rectify those anomilies. He's just mint.

You won't get much, their in League One.

Erm, cos Yakubu is twice the player Nugent is? People have to be careful with Everton. They've got more than enough quality to jump up and bite the likes of ours and City's arses.

Nah, Everton will be good this season. Looking into this crystal ball of mine, i reckon they'll probably finish above us.