Ronaldo

I worry that Shearer will play Butt, apart from that I couldn't really care less

Right on the button - this side are not in the same class as KK's 92/93 promotion team ; even the midfield, supposedly the best part of the side, is mediocre and one paced. Promotion is still a long way off in my view and the Play-offs would be a success bearing in mind the problems surrounding the club. Defence is the best part of the team by an absolute mile.

Cole is the best in the world at LB, Ferdinand and Terry are the best international combination in the world on paper. Johnson is the weak link but he can be protected

Or Xavi and Iniesta. Pfff. Gerrard and Lampard are absolutely top-draw, comparable in terms of quality to those two, imo, if different in style. absolutely, easily as good as the spanish two. Truth be told another striker in Rooney's league and we'd be looking comfortably better than the Spainsh first Xl.

When you're as good on the ball as Bellamy is, you afford to drop deep and wide

Brown's a good defender, never fulfilled his potential but still good enough to be in that squad. I have absolute and complete faith in Capello to pick the right players.

If we try to use Harewood as a battering ram type we'll deserve everything we get from him, ie nothing.

Lovenkrands bring absolutely nothing to the wing, he's a finisher and nothing else

Niether have them have been given more than 2 games in central midfield this season, lets not draw conclusions just yet. In fairness to Smith, he's been brilliant in that position.

people still putting Lovenkrands on the LW? I didn't expect such nonsense from you tbf

Has to be Keegan

There's nothing I hate more than international weekends

God, you're a waste of time. Directly off a long ball, we've scored 2 in 11 games

What the fuck are you on about? I'm not talking about Ranger, Carroll or whoever. I'm referring to the long ball tactics we've played most of the time this season with little success.

Ryan Taylor, Geremi, Nicky Butt or even a wide playing Guthrie keeping Jonas out of the side would basically be madness

Jonas has been back for a game and a half, lets not write off his contribution just yet

We don't have a Viduka anymore, which is what such a system requires. A 4-4-2 with Jonas and Enrique down the left will make us look a muh more polished attacking unit

2 goals in 11 games against the worst of defences doesn't represent success to me. The long ball tactic succeeds only in us losing the ball time and time again. We looked out most dangerous going forward against Brom, Reading and Ispwich to me. Simply because we played some football and got the ball wide when we could.

Harewood has to be there man, the rest have proved they aren't goal scorers, at least yet

No faith in that whatsoever, simply because it relies of Nolan - who's knackered and ineffective for 2 games out of 3

With who on the left, Nolan?

Against Sheff Wed it helped get us the goal but we looked incredibly stale in that game, the same against Leicester tbh. Against Reading it did nowt.

We never have anything on the wing anyway

Alternatively, we could stop playing long ball football. In terms of goals it hasn't given us success this season. That said, Carroll is the only player I'd start with Harewood