Ronaldo

I'm not the one having a go at a player who's basically changed our entire attack for the better.

I'm as happy as a sandboy that we won and are promoted but let's not f*** about, he was awful tonight and is nowhere near a Premiership player. If he's nowhere near a premiership player, why were you so happy when we signed him?

I'm defending Routledge. I hope the lad isn't going to be blamed every time the local hero doesn't score next season.

He beat his man time and time again and there was not a soul in the box for him.

We were shocking against a shocking team for the first 35 minutes.

Should have had a hatrick? Alright, sober up.

Giving Hughton a '9.5' for narrow win over Sheffield Utd and Routledge a '4' is pretty laughable imo. Anway, no more negativty.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7035/njbjhb.jpg Too good.

He played 4-4-2 at home, with 2 wingers, 2 attacking centre midfielders, a quick striker with a tall striker and went for the win. What else is he gonna do? Who mentioned selection?

I though Routledge was our best player in the first half, but far too often the strikers were nowhere near him.

The best possible tactics? Come on, we were playing against a team placed 10th.

I've said it before, we play our best football by far when we concede and thus, the original tactics go out of the window. Like Alan Smith and Kevin Nolan, he's done a job this season. However, we shouldn't forget the difficulty in the task that lies ahead.

You just wont let this year long vendetta against Colo drop, will you? Simpson I agree with, he's been absolutely shocking in the last 3 months.

Routledge 4 and Jonas 9. That's the most biased nonsense i've heard since Jayson's last post.

That really does say it all about you.

We were poor tonight, but who gives a shit? We're up, we've got one hand on the trophy and we can start planning for next season.

Good team.

Caretaker roles? I'm basing it on what i've seen of Hughton for the past 2 years, I don't believe he's up to the massive job needed to keep us in the premier league, even if giving him the position is the nice thing to do. Go to January and the common opinion on here was that Hughton had done an Ok job but needed to be replaced in the summer. I don't want to lose Hughton as a coach but as a man-manager and tactician, we can do better.

At the very least I can tell you what it'll start with.

Re Keegan, check my post above. Re Hughton in the PL..............even someone with as limited ability to understand as you would have to admit that the circumstances he took over as caretaker in the PL where the club and the players were at their lowest ebb would have some sort of effect on results. Players confidence, confusion, fans disatisfaction, pressure, injuries, owner's status, demonstrations, you name it, had such an effect on the club and the players that I doubt anyone could hyave come in and stabilised the club. This time around, he has virtually single handely built the club back up, management wise. He has got rid of the under performers and signed some players of his own who are enhancing the team. He will go into the PL better prepared with a squad totally backing him. CAN YOU SPOT THE DIFFERENCES??????????/ As for your assertion regarding the comparisons with Wenger and Ferguson, let me ask you this question. Had you heard of Wenger before he was surprisingly appointed manager of Arsenal? I doubt it because he was a total unknown, having managed in the J League. I seem to remember that Ferguson was apparently 24 hours away from being sacked as Man Utd manager until they beat us in the cup in the mid 80s. Before managing MU, he had limited experience albeit with a decent Aberdeen side at the time. Managers have to start somewhere. This is Hughton's opportunity and who is to say he will not be a success because we just do not know. However, Man Utd would probably not be the force they are today if they had sacked Ferguson and Arsenbal may not be the force they are today if they had not gambled on an unknown. GET MY DRIFT? You're insane.

Exactly, get him told.

I'd prefer to give you the job than any manager who has the phrase 'proper english player' in their vocabulary.

Why & who are you typing that for? They have whacked in 42 goals in league goals it is not rocket science to say they are playing well together. I was more referring to the way they're linking up tbh. They aren't linking up at all man, the interplay between them is almost non-existent (which kinda goes with Madrid's playing style, they are extremely direct). They are both tremendously effective though. Cronaldo leads the shoots on goal stat in La Liga by a country mile, and he has only played 21 of 31. He doesn't do passing. I disagree completely, they're finding the other all the time, especially Gonzalo. It was suggested they'd trip on each other's toes, but that isn't happening. Interesting stat about CR btw, he's always gone for glory but in the premier league he never really seemed that selfish a player, not that Ferguson would have stood for it anyway.

I highly doubt it. It's a figure not even worth acknowledging, given that you could probably almost build a premier league team from scrarch with that.

Why & who are you typing that for? They have whacked in 42 goals in league goals it is not rocket science to say they are playing well together. I was more referring to the way they're linking up tbh.