Ronaldo

It's an absolute disgrace, I agree. But I never expected you to get so passionate about a player you callled a 'joke of a defender' at the end of last year.

Selhurst park is an absolute abomination of a stadium. Out of the 10 (or so) championship stadia i've been to, it's by far the worst

Were Jagielka or Lescott particularly England-standard before they came to us? Had Lescott or Jagielka had 5 years premiership experience when they signed for you? Taylor's not a good premiership defender

He'll get found out at Everton, he isn't anywhere near Lescott's league. He wont get his England chance for another 5 years tbh

You aswell? Oh no, jesus christ

and Harps, right after the shot

Alan Smith in the Championship = Roy Keane in the Premiership. Both top quality players at that level. To say Smith is a liability because he may get sent off is absurd. Its his drive and passion that makes the odd red card possible. How haven't you been banned yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8210335.stm :lol:

I can see us going into September with this squad plus 2 young loanees and minus 3 absolutely essential players.

the phoney handshakes and generic backslapping. Fuck the lot of em

Nolan is such a waste of space, just like Smith and Butt

Butt is worse, I feel physically sick seeing him in black & white. Give it a few months and i'm sure i'll feel the same about Smith though

Prior to 2002 I don't think any were released mate. I could burn some and drop them off the next time i'm in the states but that's gonna cost ya

Kilgallon is a very good championship defender tbh, I'd probably prefer him to Sol Campbell

I hope we can use Carroll sparingly. There are a lot of teams in this league that he'll blatantly do well against compared to the others, and for those I have no reservations about his selection. But a strikeforce of Carroll and Ameobi with Xisco coming on after 70 minutes isn't going to get us promoted, imo

We need a new striker, blatantly. And we need to try playing some football with Xisco in the team. Until we do that we have nowt to go on as far as he's concerned

Shola vs Boro 2003-04. That was some day out, Speed chests it down...............

He's got a hell of a shot on him, just needs the confidence to use it. So confidence is the reason he hasn't managed a goal with his feet (with the exception of that tap-in at City) Best locate some confidence soon then, because the other aspects of his game aren't strong enough to justifty selection

He should have been sent off tonight; in the second half he gave away a free-kick in a very dangerous area with a stupidly late challenge. He's an absolute fucking liability.

He had a few words for the midfield towards the end of the night like, which was somewhat encouraging. Looked pretty tentative up until that point Blackburn pal of mine said he was their best player towards the end of last season

How'dyou work that out then? He was good against WBA and Reading and merited a palce in the side, especially if Guthrie wasn't 100% fit. We all know you hate Hughton for some bizarre reason, but expecting him to pre-judge the events of the match before he picks the team is a bit much like - you've got to admit. I was putting words in Obama's mouth

Shearer did that around 2003 I think

that's basically what we said last season about last season's team (around this time too)

he'll be gone by January