Ronaldo

He'll do till we go up. Our 4th choice is Ben Tozer.

Is Lua Lua still failing to perform in the reserves?

That's a fair point.

I remember that post well because York was pretty much spot on with it. He's a good poster and I didn't expect that rubbish on the other page. Taylor could be an OK central defender in the premiership but has never looked like one to me.

Well..... This is about 60% into last season, doesn't appear that you considered him an imposter at that point. Unfortunately, his iffy form in the last 2 months, Shearer dropping him and our relegation has clouded your judgement. Agree with you point on Taylor though.

Ha.

Colo has proved over a long period that he's an accomplished defender, Taylor hasn't, yet. Point to one bad season in the premiership for Colo whilst completeing ignoring Taylor's five.

Ignore it.

A lot of fans are going through tough times with their team and take comfort in the myth that football as a whole is rotten/dying/ruined by the Sky era. It's pathetic tbh.

I'd shift Taylor at full-back if this actually did happen. Then he would give us some extra umph (aye I said that) going forward as well. I'd rather not shift either of our own players to make way for a player just looking to get fit and return to his club. If I was pushed i'd move Colo to RB over Taylor. Taylor is here to stay, Colo is passing through and Taylor doesn't deserve to be moved out of position whatsoever, he's been just as good as Colo this season. Taylor needs settled games in the centre, finally for the first time in his career he's got the same manager for a season (not sure about that but i bet its not far off) and a constant partner. If Colo is staying next season he also needs games till the end of the season to get him ready for next year (if we do go up) so accommodating a player over them would be wrong imo. Plus we've signed Simpson, and same goes to him, he really does need games to get himself up to speed for the next season, regardless of division. Taylor has only ever been consistently good when played at RB.

Newcastle games are obviously an exception. As a viewer, as opposed to a fan, i've seen very, very few i haven't enjoyed.

Rampant Sky Sports Soccer Fan Boy. Our game is going tits up man, cant you see this? I've seen about 2 premiership games in the last 17 years that i haven't enjoyed personally.

That was at his peak before all the financial fallout. I know, I was replying to LIIWBU.

If we get Perch we've absolutely no need to have Butt in the squad, give him to Hull for free please.

Davies is better than Taylor in the centre, that's certainly what i'd do.

Good news, another CB not fit for the premiership, well done Bruce.

I think it was estimated at about £1.9bn when he first bought the club.

We've got 5 defenders in the squad fit for championship football, of course we need another.

starting to become the new NE5 Says you, who only signed up to the forum in the first place to have a go at Allardyce. I'm by no means a fan of the guy, wouldn't want him anywhere near the club in an ideal world. But those saying we'd have got relegated don't really have a leg to stand on, the results and points tally from the first 5 months of the season strongly suggest that we'd have been safe with him.

So do most.

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Sell Harper. Forster had a really good game against Leeds with the exception of a dodgy goal kick, i'd keep him personally.

Why has this even been posted? What absolute tripe.

What was it then, a bad result, an ok result? 2 wins in 14 ignores the 10 games or so before that. We weren't doing well as such but enough for mid-table.

Absolutely nowt in the first part of that season leads me to believe we would have been relegated. As for the part in bold, you've missed my point love.