Ronaldo

I was just about to post that. I loved Bobby's subtle hint that he'd actually have been prepared to sell Shearer.

Carr had been linked with us since the summer of 2002 and iirc Bobby said a year later that he was 'a player I like' as for Carrick, damn right

Looks pretty quick to me, how fast do you want him to be able to go? Aye, he looks rapid once he gets going. Eats up the ground. You'll not get many with his build with the brilliant acceleration. why not? Eh, genetical reasons? What about Olympic sprinters who are much bigger and stronger than Ranger? exactly

Speed and Solano replaced with Butt and Ambrose, honestly. I realise Bobby wasn't behind the selling of Speed but I'm also sure he could have easily stopped it. Bobby also said that 29 was a good age at which to sell Nobby yet he went after a 29 year old Butt (who played in a position requiring more stamina) 6 months later. I don't believe he'd lost the dressing room but I do think he'd lost judgement. He was also bitten hard in the arse by the looming presence of Shearer and the cuntishness of Dyer.

we were rubbish that day, as we were the previous game against Norwich and the one before that against Spurs. The mistake made was keeping Shearer in the team for 3 out of those first 4 games

I answered your question if you read it again Every game apart from us and Forrest is on Tuesday

we've played later than the other teams pretty often. Cardiff was a Sunday and there's been 3 late kick saturdays kick-offs for TV. Just use your brain mate.

we played later than anyone else on saturday and had the longest return journey (would be the excuse)

good odds all the same

Huddersfield wont win that

Looks pretty quick to me, how fast do you want him to be able to go? Aye, he looks rapid once he gets going. Eats up the ground. You'll not get many with his build with the brilliant acceleration. why not?

Ronaldinho is just tragic

do you play football or read about it ,i think the sun is about your level of footbal too hot, but aye, more or less

ah well, 0-0 Milan reaping what they've sown for the past half-decade

take that as a yes

Which is what? That we're getting better results against weaker sides? Yeah what a miraculous turn around. Just because its the managers job doesnt mean you ignore the situation and write them off if its not instantly achieved. So one manager gets 5 points from eight games in a harder division, but with a better squad. Performances weren't exactly good, there seemed to be no new manager "bounce", and the squad's general attitude didn't seem to improve that much, but we had been in free-fall most of the season to be fair. Its pretty hard to show an improvement in form when five of your eight fixtures are Chelsea (h), Liverpool (a), Spuds (a), Villa (a) and Stoke (a). It's pretty hard to get a seriously depleted squad of kids and players who were so awful the previous season that they got relegated to play well enough to get 22 points from nine games. Especially when you've had no money to spend, your club is in the middle of a crisis/takeover, you're not a permanent manager and if the takeover happens could be out of a job, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, it's a toss up between them. Neither are proven good managers, we could do better. To state it implicitly, in case anyone is in any doubt: I am not saying Hughton is the man for the job, I am simply saying that his record is at least comparable to Shearer's, yet no-one thinks he is good enough whereas a lot of people think Shearer is good enough for some reason. That reason is nothing to do with his record as a manager, it is based upon something else entirely. Personally I'm inclined to think just about any manager could do as well as he's done, we simply have far better players then most other teams in this league. Not saying we need to replace Hughton right now obviously. But long term I'd have Shearer over Hughton any day. Why? Based upon what? Because he's a geordie presumably. There can't be any other reason. there are other reasons, but right now I'd rather have Hughton

Pippo to save the day

Is your name Danny by any chance?

yep

well played matey, you've just inspired me to put my car on Milan winning 2-0

Bit like Burt Reynolds, very reliable but er......

Only Milan letting me down now

they drew 2-2 yesterday As for Villareal, can't see it mate

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