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Just what we need, another overrated "star" who would do nothing for the team. Remember how good he was at motivating the England team when it mattered? Have you seen how well he's done with Mexico?

There's a dead rabbit on the road outside that could probably do a better job than those 2 tbh

If we can't beat Boro, Fulham & Portsmouth we deserve to go down

We don't play to his strengths at all. True, he's not the greatest passer & he's really not a target man type striker, but put him through to run on goal & he does very very well. Trouble is, we're not set up to play that type of game, I can't really think of any time since Roeder where the team has been set up to play to his strengths. It's more luck than judgement when the team do create those types of chances for him.

I'm not sure that this is a good or bad thing

Im sure this exact same thing has happened to us before. I am pissed so cant recall when but im sure it happened. Man Utd, 1st game of the season

Lack of leadership on & off the pitch. Whilst Taylor was off the pitch why didn't our captain direct Beye to cover the centre whilst R Taylor dropped to right back? Why Didn't Butt take it on himself to fill that gap?

The players need to take a huge chunk of the blame. No matter what's gone on off the field there's no excuse for the performances some of the supposed "senior" players have produced. Has anyone figured out yet where Duff disappeared to in the 2nd half? I figure he popped out for a pie & chips since it's the only thing that would account for him vanishing for most of the 45 minutes.

Was probably telling him to stop hitting opposition players

Wish it was, then we might actually see a miracle on the last day of the season Plus, the team's coach might explode on the way back from Villa

Probably confused him with Steven Taylor

I'd not include Duff, he simply vanished in the second half today, think he got about 6 touches.

Any player that needs motivation to play in front of 52000 people in a Premiership game should be shot.

Harper - 6 - Couldn't do a lot about the goals Enrique - 6 - Solid at the back, didn't do a lot going forward S Taylor - 7 - A couple of great blocks but probably going to get a ban for the foul on Arshavin once the FA look at it Bassong - 7 - Did his job well enough Colo - 3 - Woeful today R Taylor - 4 - Gave away pointless free kicks, offered little going forward Duff - First half 8, Second half 1 - Just stopped playing after the restart Nolan - 6 - Got forward well but didn't do enough defensively Butt - 3 - Too slow to get forward to aid the attack, too slow to chase back Lovenkrands - 7 - Linked up well with Martins Martins - 7 - Scored a decent goal, but should never be allowed to take another penalty Beye - 6 - Not a centre half Owen - 1 - Showed exactly why he was dropped Ameobi - 1 - What was the point? Hughton - 3 - Took some balls to drop Owen but he fucked up the substitutions

Ameobi coming on but Duff not going off Insane, Duff has had about 3 touches this half

just falling all over ourselves at the back disgraceful considering how much we apparently concentrate on defending in training

too fucking slow

S Taylor now crocked

Oba!!!!!!!!!!!

Do our players have money on us going down?

Don't need to worry about that. Taylor will be given a 3 match ban once the FA view the video of his "challenge" against arshavin

ffs Bassong injured

1 good game in 7/8 = decent? Nahhhh... He's been a top performer for the last 3~4 times he's played. Granted, it's not that hard to shine given the rest of our current setup... You're so used to him being utter shite that an adequate performance makes you think he's playing well

awful pen

They're going to massacre us down our left. Duff??? FFS