Ronaldo

If Shearer gets the job we both know it'll have little to do with sensible judgement. Which is where the comparison can be made.

Ranger has started 4 in the league and 2 in the mickey mouse cup. He isn't ready yet, despite his brilliant potential.

Basically, no

Lovenkrands sacked by his last club, no club after him all summer. He is no longer the flyer he was during his spell with the Gers & its worrying that Rangers who he trained during the summer did not try to sign him obviously he didn't stand out while training with Novo, Boyd & Naismith. He was released, just like Ranger was from Southampton

...with some competition from Shearer *ducks* you don't need to duck, when it happens that's exactly what it will be. In fact, I bet it'll happen days after Hughton finally stops putting Butt in then squad. Then we'll have it all to look forward to yet again.

I know, but nothing Harewood doesn't. So we should play Carroll and Harewood. And in case you blinked we didn't buy any creative midfielders in the summer. I've maintained all along that I want Carroll and Harewood up front but for those using the 'not fit' excuse for Marlon, where on earth does that leave Lovenkrands? Not a single appearance up front since he got here. In a league where Kevin fucking Nolan manages 5 in 10, i'd expect the strikers to start pulling their weight with goals.

2 goals between them in 16 games Marlon should fit in with his goal record of late then http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10728 Has Harewood been playing against lower level championship defenders?

Ok, Carroll has 2 in 8. Ranger has 0 in 8 breathtalking, and incase you blinked we haven't been playing against Nesta and Maldini every week Lovenkrands offers plenty that Carroll and Ranger dont

Love the fact people want to blame Harper but not Enrique or the defenders that off. We need to stop pissing about with the ball at the back, it nearly cost us twice against Plymouth

2 goals between them in 16 games Lovenkrands must be shaking his head in disbelief

Carroll did too much running at time last night, he doesn't really have the stamina to do that over 90 minutes. He needs to concentrate on getting into the right positions instead of winning physical duels. I'd still start Carroll on Saturday like. But he's similar to Ranger in that he isn't really the answer yet

He lived in Stocksfield for a long while, friend of my grandma used to babysit for him

A 6 for Harewood and an 8 for Jonas? My fucking word

As for the fraud That would the brochure distributor with the 'powerful physique'

not going to get into a debate about that again. Anyone bringing up the Leyton Orient game as a positive thing needs a slap though. The worst players on the pitch that day are still here by all accounts. Martins had 45 minutes coming back from an injury and won a penalty so the effort couldn't have been that minimal.

Bit like Oba then, who seems to have free pass from Newcastle fans but at least the players at club spotted the fans favorites as frauds when it came to head after Leyton Orient game. Shame these iron men haven't spotted Butt as a fraud

Tend to agree with this, and Dave tbh

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Tony Blair either only on the very first reply like

Yeah well, againt half-decent central defenders it wont work, which is why we need Jonas and Harewood starting and a little bit of football played.

It was nowt to do with homework imo We gave the ball away far too often and just seemed to lack shape, structure and any sort of a plan other than to whack it to Carroll. And don't even get me started on the first half, the midfield were pretty much bossed from start to finish due to the ridiculous diamond formation in which we ended up with 4 cloggers scrapping for the same ball in the middle of the park. Absolutely embarrassing.

This is almost a shame. It was funny seeing him stay on the bench, game after game after game.

As were Cardiff, Blackpool (by all accounts) and Sheff Wed to some degree. We're just not a good footballing side when we play certain players and certain tactics

We knew QPR would be the toughest yet? Don't see how, they're a pretty woeful team

He made us look a different team when he came on, and the cohesion with Enrique is very encouraging. Why should he release the ball earlier? Before Harewood came on he had nobody to aim for