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What is Tiote doing there, man? Fucking hell.

Shocking from Raylor.

Well timed by Best. If he keeps that up he'll get a fair few goals.

Merson should just be shot in the face at close range with an AA-12. Put him and his family out of their sideshow misery.

Rodallega is no better than Best or even Shola.

Had to follow you in on that.

That's where you're wrong. Loven takes many solid runs without being used. Because of Nolan we don't have a cm that's able to serve him the balls we need (through balls behind the defense, either on ground or in air). Barton is able to do this, but since he plays as RM he's often crossing the ball to the other side. It's much harder to hit a through ball from his position. Loven is not that gong ho as Ranger: He doesn't run that much, but his runs are good and accurate. If he's calledd off for offside, it's often very marginal or a wrong decision. We need an attacker today that constantly is trying to break through Bolton's defense. That's what physical teams hate: passing and through balls on the ground in the longitudinal direction. We will not win this game by hitting those long balls. That's also why we played so well against Bham and Burn: we kept the ball on the ground. Mate, you're talking about Peter Lovenkrands here. We were the only team in England prepared to offer him a contract 18 months back, and he's deteriorated since. If you look at our worst attacking performances of the season, he's the common demoninator.

I'd love Zhirkov, even for big money.

Bad odds.

Can't see it, certainly not at the rate they've been shipping goals recently.

His runs usually amount to nothing.

I've lost around £300 in the last couple of weeks, like. Stopped the rot in midweek, but i'm still playing it safe today with: Toon draw Villa Man U £10 returns £91.

I absolutely love Tiote as a player, but that winning percentage stat has as much to do with the lower-Championship standard rubbish that play in his absence as it does with his sheer brilliance.

Id be surprised if we got that lot for £150k per week True, probably underestimated the wages a bit. Still; Gameiro - £50,000 El Arabi - £38,000 Reo-Coker - £25,000 Van Aanholt - £17,000 Jarvis - £27,000 £157,000 a week? Reo-Coker is on a lot more than that now, will be moving on a free transfer, and will therefore - as there is no fee involved - be looking for a sizeable signing on wedge, and a high wage, much more than 25k. No-one will pay him more than £30k a week ... saying that aren't Stoke paying all of Carew's reported £50k a week wage? He's got the potential to be a much better player than Bellamy. Bellamy was world class at his best. How much have you seen of Gamerio to make such a massive call?

Only 5 goals away from being our top scorer. Never happened before.

C**t Replacing Hughton will never been a good idea. Just becuase things are going in the right direction doesn't justified that stupid decision. Mind you guys we are in that right direction because of what Hughton starts 18 month ego. Just seen this. What an angry individual. We need to rid this forum of such filth.

I'm starting to think these long deals may be Ashley's indirect way of communicating.

It already is our strongest midfield since Sir Bob, even without Ben Arfa and Ireland.

Man U draw and Arsenal win turned out to be a great bet at 3/1.

How do they deserve to win nowt?

Replacing Hughton has turned out to be a very good decision.

Most of us thought that about Carroll. You never know till he's thrown in the deep end whether he can swim or not, unless it's blatantly obvious.

Gameiro better than Bellamy? Not yet.

I don't see how Williamson is crucial against physical teams, like. He's certainly physically inferior to Taylor.

recently aye, i think he's pissed off there and has more than that. not too long ago he was touted as a possible england call up. in the right set up, and i'm not saying we are, a very decent forward could emerge. He has 7 caps.