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Jay Simpson on loan from Arsenal. 30 goals next season alongside Carroll who will get 20.

An unbelievable statement! Eduardo is everything Owen was and more. Adebayor, Van Persie, Carlos Vela and even Bendtner are far more useful. The likes of Arshavin, Nasri and even Diaby can play as second strikers also. Unless they are looking for a boot cleaner Owen need not apply. Arsenal create chances left, right and center. How many times have ALL the players you have listed tried to walk into into the net and either draw or not even score at all! Owen would be a great addition, imo more clinical than all those strikers, certainly more intelligent. A crap side, and a forward who relies on service isnt going to make him look good. A good side + confidence and his ability in front of goal, great match-up for him. Jeeeeeeeeeeeesus Lord please have mercy on this man for the blasphemy he has spoketh! Owen more clinical than who? What football do you watch? Are you seriously joking? Owen whose shots generate less power than a newborn's would? Owen who cannot shoot from outside the box? Owen who cannot shoot with his left foot? Who can no longer go past anyone? Who can no longer finish one on one with the goalie? Owen is now a midget striker who occassionally scores headers from 5 yards or less or tap ins from 5 yards from less. 95% of his goals come this way. Outside of these he does absolutely nothing else in general play. How dare you compare this player to Eduardo, Adebayor, Van Persie, Arshavin, Vela etc. How dare you man! I am flabbergasted.

An unbelievable statement! Eduardo is everything Owen was and more. Adebayor, Van Persie, Carlos Vela and even Bendtner are far more useful. The likes of Arshavin, Nasri and even Diaby can play as second strikers also. Unless they are looking for a boot cleaner Owen need not apply.

The sad thing is even if we go down we'll need a very well thought out overhaul of the squad because this team, funnily enough, would be worse in the championship than the premiership in my opinion. They'll just get pushed around and bullied to all day and will crumble to bits.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I'm sorry but this will never work. If I saw these two upfornt I would push my defensive line all the way up to the edge of the Nedwcstle United box. An attack without Oba does not work, whatever you think about him. When is Loven back? We could do with him upfront.

Honestly we are the worst footballing side in the league. Stoke, Blackburn and a few others play disgusting brands of football but they at least have a plan and stick to it. We don't do anything well. We don't have a style of football because we don't even play football. I'm still not sure what they do out there because it isn't football. Just a bunch of random actions between some really cluelees players' feet and the ball, while hoping something comes out of nowhere. West Brom play better than us, Boro do also and God forgive me even Sunderland figure out the occassional passing sequence a couple of times a game. We are the worst team in this league and if we go down we really can have no complaints at all.

Put Smith in for Butt and that team would be the closest to any chance we have the rest of the way this season. We went to complete s*** when Butt went off and Smith moved in the middle. Butt knows how the play the role, Smith doesn't. For all his faults, Butt did what he was supposed to do yesterday, if you can forget all of his misplaced passes. You really think that was all down to Butt going off do you? Ridiculous suggestion. Had more to do with Viduka going off and the players alresdy tiring and losing hope. Start the game without Butt and you will see the closest thing to coherent football at the club this season. The man has been i n the team all season at the age of 34(?) and we have been crap all year. get him the hell out of there for a change and let's see if someone else can make a more positive contribution for goodness sake. We've totally mishandled this situation the whole bloody season.

It will always be his nature. His real value is in the mayhem he creates for defenders when he is full of confidence and buzzing around the place. He will score you goals but is not exactly a clinical guy that you can count on every single time. With no one else around him even looking a goal threat and with him trying harder and pressing more and more he will only look worse. He's not someone you want trying too hard to do everything as it can really look messy then.

I said that. It was cringeworthy as f***. I felt like a Bolton or Wigan supporter. ...but with fewer points. Yup, saw that coming. We are in no position right now to take any kind of cheapshots at any other team or their set of fans because we'll only get it back twice over and it will be a lot more painful. Trotter things are really crap right now so go easy on us folks.

Put Smith in for Butt and that team would be the closest to any chance we have the rest of the way this season.

A stupid gimmick to "get the fans going" because "we need the fans to get behind us and be the 12th man". No. What was actually needed was a decent 11 players on the pitch who had some idea of how to play football and the guts to go out there and actually try to put in a performance.

The one constant in this team all season has been Butt. He takes the most responsibility in my book. Everyone else has been dropped at some point, be it Duff, Owen, Martins, Jonas etc. Nicky Butt apparently is our most important player as he is straight into the team when fit, this despite being one of the worst players at the club including the reserves and all. Ultimately though, as I have said before, management must take the blame because butt cannot be expected to take himself out of the team. Every manager has failed u sin this respect.

Coloccini had a decent game. lucky not to give away another penalty this season, he's just a bramble is disguise, your waiting for 1 mistake from him distin was awesome, handled everything we threw at their defence with ease, why the f*** did we not pay the wages ffs for him I've not seen any coverage of the game but in real time it looked like a penalty to me. I couldn't understand why Crouch wasn't booked though if it wasn't a pen? Blatant dive if not. Other than that I thought he was alright, particularly considering the criticism he's had lately. Watched the game on Setanta and although from the front it looked a certain pen when showed from other angles he actually pulled his legs back away from Crouch so didn't in fact touch him. He had a good game and Butt was excellent too both commentators said he put a great shift in. What was obvious is that the defence and midfield were constantly gesturing for the attack to make runs and come for the ball which simply wasn't happening. To be fair to Pompey they played really, really well and I doubt even the top teams would have scored against them last night. On a positive note we looked like a different team last night than what we usually do (loads more effort and desire). If we play the same way for the remaining games we should get something from them to keep us up. Butt excellent? Put in a great shift? We don't need good shifts we need him to maintain posession of the ball as much as possible and simple effective passing to players who can try to make things happen. Butt has not had a single good game this season. He has delivered us into the hands of relegation.

Hey man, I like your positive outlook on things as I am generally a very very positive and optimistic person, but they will KILL us. Our focus should be conceding as few as possible and not damaging our goal dofference which is an advantage we have over some around us. Rafa could play the likes of David Ngo'g, Lucas, Babel and Benayoun and these guys would absolutely still maul us to bits. We are a nothing team whose only hope of victory is against the teams most similar to oursekves who are in and around us.

Neither were the two other strikers who played last night, actually. Owen is hiding 99.9% of the time he is on the pitch. Viduka hasn't even managed to find his way on to the pitch and has been hiding in treatment rooms. If Owen was hiding he wouldn't have stolen Martins's throughball to fluff that 1v1, and he was doing plenty of defending for us on top of that (not his job though, and should have saved his stamina for making runs to get on the end of things instead). f*** off with the Viduka comment, what is he supposed to do about that? You know what you're right. Owen isn't so much hiding he's just become a really really rubbish striker who never gets attempts in on goal because he cannot shoot from outside the box, cannot go by anyone or make any meaningful contributions to general play (the occasional cute but non-incisive link up play DOES NOTHING!). You keep waiting on that perfect ball Micheael, so we can all watch you fluff it again with another one of those pathetically weak strikes of yours. What can Viduka do? How about making a commitment to his team and taking better care of his body? He's a disgrace. All his fitness problems have clearly been down to the despicable condition he is in.

Neither were the two other strikers who played last night, actually. Owen is hiding 99.9% of the time he is on the pitch. Viduka hasn't even managed to find his way on to the pitch and has been hiding in treatment rooms.

It pretty much is all over ... It will hurt like hell, but probably not as much as most think it will, because if we are all being honest with ourselves this team, probably moreso than all the others deserves to go down. They have been awful in every way shape and form throughout the season.

He has been very poor lately, but at least he is still finding himself in these positions and trying to score. It's a shame he hasn't managed it. Where are all our other strikers though? Who else is stepping up to the plate and trying to take some responsibility? Who else is getting shots in on goal? Say what you will, and I do agree he has been poor of late but at least Oba isn't hiding.

It was never going to be sustainable as people began to realise how dire things were as we continued to fluff chances and make a mess of things. Any fan even in the stadium gets credit for simply showing up in my book. The players on this team don't even deserve that much support for their performances this season.

For someone who relies on confidence so much it is not going to pretty watching him play in our current team of worthless cowards who inspire no confidence in anyone. The greater the pressure and the lower the confidence in our team the less of a player Martins will look unfortunately. And yet he is still the most likely to score the goals we need to stay up. Put him in a team that is playing well where other players around him can make things happen and it isn't all on him and he is dynamite. It's always been the case with this guy. An Everton or a Villa would be smart to take a flye ron him in the summer for around £8 million. He would be a very good player in either of these teams.

People will cry their hearts out and weep uncontrollably when Redknapp comes back in for him and he joins Spurs on the cheap and puts in legendary performance week after week when he is in a team that can pass the ball effectively. And boy o boy will I bump this shit then! Anyone critisizing this guy clearly doesn't understand how ill suited he is to our tragedy of a team where not one other player has even a tenth of the ability or heart that he does.

Why are people talking about Butt putting in a shift or supposedly breaking up play and winning the ball back?! Are you kidding me! Yes he does try hard and actually seems to care, but at the end of the day his play is the most detrimental to the functioning of the whole team and it has been this way all season. Ultimately though, he cannot be expected to go to the manager and say he doesn't want to play because he is crap. The managers have all failed in this regard because they haven't taken responsibility of the situation. So he puts the odd tackle in? Big fookin deal! Half the time he is unable to get around the pitch well enough and is just by passed. He never ever ever, not even once ever, uses the ball productively. This is someone that plays 90 mins every match by the way! Do you know how easy that makes life for the opposition? They don't even have to take account of him no pressure needed, just let him have the ball and get tight on everyone else as he will just lob it back to our goali alld day. It is ludicrous. People talk about having no one else play there because we have no other DM. Well I would argue he has been so bad that it would have been worth trying anyone else in there DM or not. Alan Smith should have got more of an opportunity in there, Guthrie, Geremi and yes even Coloccini. This season we have seen the likes of Coloccini get benched for a bad game, we've seen Enrique get benched numerous times for no absolute reason whatsoever in my book, we've even seen Jonas benched for supposedly not being effective enough (HA!!!) for goodness sake! Yet Butt remains. If Butt's name was Butticini he would have been fookin run out of the club by now and denounced as an epic disaster to football. It is laughable it really is. This is someone who Souness had written off three/four years ago. Souness for crying out loud?! One of the lowest rated managers of this club in recent times. Even he knew Butt was rubbish back then. Here we are in 2009 and Butt is a first teamer week in and week out. No questions asked?! Bollocks to that. No body on this Earth can justify this sort of decision making.

Still trying to figure out how a grown man can hit the ball no harder than a kitten would ... Astonishing.

Go with the guy who takes £100,00 a week from the club. The guy who is supposedly our captain. The guy who is invisible all game and then doesn't score the chances he supposedly always scores. The guy who comes to training in a helicopter because he'd rather not live in the area. The guy who is always injured or not match fit. The guy who has no left foot, who cannot score from outside the box and who cannot generate the force of a feather on the ball when he shoots. The guy who never wanted to be here in the first place and can't help but remind us everytime he is on the pitch it seems. Go with that guy ...

A foreigner sure wouldn't play the likes of Butt and Duff just because they have a bit of good banter with him in the dressing room that's for sure. In any other language these players are s*** and would be treated like such by a foreign manager. To continue to trot out the likes of Nicky Butt game after game even after going back and analysing the game tapes is phenomenal to me. f***ing incompetency from every single one of Allardyce, Keegan, Kinnear and Shearer I'm afraid.