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Martin Jol you criticise a quote coming from the Express, but are wetting yourself in excitement about a link with a player in the DAILY MAIL??? You do realise that the Mail lies on a daily basis about most things right? And on the whole spurs to wembley thing, I think that would be an absolute shame and yet another example of the FA whoring their amazing stadium around, when it should be reserved for special occassions. Spurs would be able to fill 50% of it at most anyway.

I really wish Tottenham fans for once would just shut the hell up. So what they have some fancypants scout named comolli...who the fuck cares? thats about the best thing they have! They concede more goals than us, their ground is total crap, they are not in European competition as often as us, and for the love of god they play JERMAINE JENAS!!!!!!!!! I just find it ridiculous to see spurs fans prattering on on our board that they are good. it really does just boggle the mind. NUFC are a joke, but spurs in one of their best periods for a LONG time are just total comedy!

I don't think roeder is a good manager. I don't think our defence is very good at all. But some of the stuff in this thread is so way over the top its unbelievable, comments like we are a laughing stock and the general consensus seems to be that we are the worst team in the league! This is debatably one of our worst teams over the last 10-15 years with arguably one of the worst managers - and we are still in 11th place. If we are such a laughing stock then what are Boro, Blackburn Wigan? And lets take a look at Spurs - 48 goals conceded to our 43, and i wasn't laughing at newcastle on sunday because i was too busy laughing at tottenhams comedy defending against wigan which boumsong and bramble at their peak of shiteness couldn't of achieved.

Northern Monkey i agree that it sounds ridiculous, and the only reason i posted it was to see if anyone knew of any reason why this could be categorically untrue so i could tell my friend who is convinced this is going to happen (and in his words it is "all over the wednesday forums") to shut up.

Is it even possible for SJH to buy sheff wed? I would have thought there would be some kind of conflicting interests with having large shares in 2 clubs

A friend of mine is a sheff wed fan and keeps going on about Sir John Hall being linked with buying Sheffield Wednesday. I have told him this does not really make any sense as the guy is pretty old and I was under the impression that he still owned a substantial part of NUFC. Does anyone know anything about this?

I think Martins has the same problem as Ameobi, they both see something happen and THEN move. If Owen was to help him with anticipation, movement and positioning then we would have an awesome striker. Too often I have seen Martins running in a straight line towards the goal down the middle of the pitch.

I see quite a few people here havnt seen very much of Kuyt, so i thought i would give some information on him. I live with dutch guy who is an absolutely fanatical feyenoord fan and he goes on and on about how good this guy is. He makes us all watch Eurogoals aswell so i have seen quite a bit of him now. Firstly he is a good finisher and scores all types of goals both feet and headers, long range and tapins. His hold up play and passing also looks fairly good. Perhaps the most impressive thing about him though is his attitude and professionalism. In much the same way as Shearer i get the iimpression that Kuyt would die before he faces defeat. He never ever causes problems for the club and is a great leader for Feyenoord. My dutch friend always says how Kuyt has played many times this season with illnesses and injuries. I personally value this attitude to the club and record of playing through pain very highly, especially considering owens record of hardly playing. If we were to buy Kuyt we would get a highly professional player who would run himself into the ground and bag a fair few goals along the way. Oh and interestingly my housemate also doesnt rate Huntelaar as highly as Kuyt, saying that Huntelaars phenomenal goal tally last season was due largely to the fact that he played RBC (the dutch leagues version of the mackems but worse) 4 times twice for Heerenveen and twice for ajax, bagging about 12 or 13 goals against them.