Yorkie

i think they lost the plot.... by losing their leadership... clearly selling of viera suffer them now Gawd. Have the crazy pills been scattered since about half 1?

It is true though, really. In many cases - keepers are playing at their best when they're 32/33.

Now i'm convinced! I didn't realise you'd been saying all along! Well there ya go.

Okidoke.

Aye.

Either way, fucking bargain!

Yup. Sell Given, man? Jesus Christ! So many reasons not to, i'm not even going to waste my team listing them.

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I'd be gutted if he ended up at Spurs.

You must really hate Baba, then.

Harper gives me the shits, man. Sorry mate, i can contemplate the rest of what you've said in this thread - but preferring Srnicek over Harper, (seemingly) on ability alone, is just crazy!

No. It won't. Never ceases to amaze that people bang on about Parker as a defensive midfielder when he has no attributes of a quality defensive midfielder. There is more to it than effort and sweat. Tbh. Parker's more likely to devlop/adapt* into an attacking centre-mid than he is a defensive midfielder. However he'll do neither under the coaching set up we've got at the moment. *Adapt from whatever the hell he actually is at the moment.

Makes sense in theory, HTL, it does. However - the centre-back prospect of Bramble and Moore just frightens me in all honesty. Moore was utter dross against Portsmouth, and we all know what Bramble's like. And a Drogba-Bramble 'battle' makes me piss myself really, with laughter. Also, with Nobby, Souness tried that and it didn't work. However, like i say, the side works in theory. And if Chelsea play with two strikers, they'll play narrow, and we'd counteract that - on paper anyhow. And to be fair, Luque made his trade at Deportivo on the left side of a 4-3-3, so you're right there... What's with Pav in goal, though?

People STILL going for Parker/Emre in the middle are the one's that need to be shot. Still beyond me is that one.

I tell you what, after all this, i'll be pretty miffed if he doesn't end up here.

No offence, but that post just typifies someone who doesn't go into the dressing rooms. There was a spat with Dyer. Who was just a cunt anyway. How do you know he'd lost the dressing room?

No offence, but that post just typifies someone who doesn't watch/go to the matches. You're trying to get me back. I saw plenty of games under Bobby's reign. The previous season we weren't particularly great, but we hadn't improved the squad. The summer of 04/05 we brought in five players. I'd have loved to have seen those five play under Bobby tbh, because they were all good signings. Even Carr was a decent enough signing at £2m. But there was Milner and N'Zogbia who he brought in, aswell as your Ambroses and Bellamys, Jenas, Dyer. He'd brought the average age of the squad back down, aswell as holding onto the likes of Given and Shearer, and Robert aswell, more experienced heads. I believe that it was a squad that was going to develop, i reckon it would have turned into something really good.

There was no stopping Keegan, tbh. He left because he couldn't face getting sacked, and he knew that he wasn't going to take Newcastle any further than he was. But the Sir Bobby sacking, you're dead right. Absolute madness in my opinion, and i'll never have any other view but that. It was just sheer stupidity. We were so close to a trophy as far as i am concerned - he was building what was going to be a superb team.

Ho hum.

Bold statement, and i can imagine many will disagree, but i believe we would have eventually won the league under Bobby. He was building a fantastic team. If not the league, then definitely a trophy.

I didn't realise it was that tight, actually. Still, i think it'll be difficult for him.

He could have done, but not now i don't reckon. He hasn't got enough time left. If he gets another World Cup in, he'll have done well.

Carroll's missus is alright apparantely.

Have to love Italian football supporters.

You mean the one that's right infront of you when you log onto the site?