Ronaldo

9 good games under Keegan, 7 good games under Souness. 16 effective games in 4 years leading people to believe that Owen will 'come good eventually' absolutely pathetic. People dont want to admit that it's the patches with goals that are the exception, not the rule

Far too many people on here ignoring the fact even Michael Owen at his best gives you little else but goals The same people will come out with nonsense like '1 in 3 is pretty good' when it clearly isn't for such a player

2 singles for the night £2 on Drogba first scorer at 8/1 £10 Chelsea to win at 5/1

I'd agree with that. He looks like he wants the ball and wants to try things. Definitely one of our better players last night. We struggled to find a shape last night, and the longer the game on, the more ragged we became. A lot of people have pinned their hopes on 4-3-3 with Owen in a free role, but the players didn't seem to have much confidence in it last night. Owen is good at drifting into scoring positions from deep, but he doesn't create anything for his team-mates, which is a major part of what you expect from someone in that free role. He fluffed the one chance he had, which Martins was in a position to get anyway. It's like playing with 10 men, but unlike last season, the other 10 are short of form and confidence and we're not getting away with it. My major concern at the time of Shearer's appointment was that he would stick with Owen no matter what, and unfortunately I think it's a mistake that's going to scupper what chance we had of staying up. Agree with your point about Duff. Could well be putting himself in the shop window for next season mind. Re: Owen, I'd drop him big style. I would have played Martins behind Viduka and Carroll last night. Martins playing deep, with his pace, would have pulled the Portsmouth defence completely out of shape. Owen playing there totally nullified any attacking threat we had. Not only is he low on confidence, but he is weak as a weak streak of piss and won't shoot from range. He takes a full working week to turn and his play is rushed. Shearer should listen to his own words me thinks. He says Owen isn't scoring because we're not creating much for him i.e. not creating incisive chances to put the ball on a plate for him. Well then big Al, if we're creating nowt then keep Owen off the pitch and play someone who will bust a gut to make something out of nothing. themanupstairs knows the score, why the f*** doesn't Shearer?

player of the month for March

Duff represents everything wrong with the club, overhyped, overpaid, past his best, a serial blame shifter and basically a ineffective tosser of a footballer. Oh, and a cheat who's incredibly shit at cheating

because he's the club captain and was a good player 5 years ago

Resentment and complacency run through that team and it's easy to see why Bassong earns (at best) a tenth of what Owen does and a seventh of what Duff and Smith pull in. Says it all to be honest

Go with the guy who takes £100,00 a week from the club. The guy who is supposedly our captain. The guy who is invisible all game and then doesn't score the chances he supposedly always scores. The guy who comes to training in a helicopter because he'd rather not live in the area. The guy who is always injured or not match fit. The guy who has no left foot, who cannot score from outside the box and who cannot generate the force of a feather on the ball when he shoots. The guy who never wanted to be here in the first place and can't help but remind us everytime he is on the pitch it seems. Go with that guy ... is that 1 goal in 15 now for the goal machine? Looking forward to his last game already

we wouldn't be 18th in the table with Grant, no fucking chance whatsoever

Smith and Duff didn't half have a go at him tonight for not supporting the attack like, Duff in particular was screaming and shouting for a while

Which was the last team that stayed up with 34 points? This is a misconception, you can't look at other team's fixtures and hope they lose. They could be facing a team of juniors if the opposition has nothing to play for. What sort of team will FA cup finalists Everton put out against the mackems on Saturday for example? If we don't take the points we need we won't stay up. Clearly I wasn't refering to Sunderland though mate, they're on 35

Kinnear was never ever going to do anything but take this football club down, everyone in the country knew it bar that fat fucking scumbag

Shearer's learning as he goes along mate, it's a recipe for disaster as much as a cause for optermism

the atmposphere in the Gallowgate tier 3 was nowhere near what I expected, the only voice I heard for 90 mins was my own, then when injury time was announced the fuckers just poured out, hope the cunts never come back

Just. Having Shearer/or a decent fucker that has a clue what hes f***ing doing will help a bit, as well. well we've failed to take more than a point from Stoke, Spurs and Portsmouth. Forgive me if i'm not hugely impressed

funny I remember saying I wanted Avram Grant in November and being told that he'd do even worse than the current setup HTT?

this is where we'll be exposed but in exactly the opposite way to tonight. Sadly we cant play football or scrap We need to see passion and bollocks and yellow fucking cards, Butt and Smith should play, and spend the 90 mins kicking, spitting and acting like the fucking tossers that they are. With Beye and Bassong in the defence I think we'll avoid a repeat of the hiding in December

about right, 7's for Bassong, Colo and Beye for me though

the daft thing is, 3 more points could actually keep us up. Be the most underserved survival in the history of the league. Part of me goes to games like that and thinks relegation is almost necessary, first and foremost we need rid of the wankers that are the first ones to make noise in the chronicle and will be the first ones to fuck off when we go down. Talentless, gutless TWATS

Who the fuck is that tosspiece with the fkin microphone? what an absolute ballache

well that was £50 I really didn't want to win ... I'll have it... I'm putting it towards my beer/gun funds

And guess what, Shearer will never drop him, isn't it great One of the worst things we've done in the 16 years I've been going to the game is spending £17m on that useless little cunt

I agree. Which is why i think we are getting relegated. this. As I said 2 weeks ago, we're going down with 35

Very glad Shearer is our manager as opposed to Kinner doesn't change the fact that me and everyone around me knew when the team was announced that he'd got it monumentally wrong the 3rd game in a row Duff Butt Smith as your midfield??? Fucking pathetic, needs to wake up. Too many managers have come in a not realised that these players are shit until it's too late. Who are these fucking idiots that wake up every morning, look in the mirror and put Nicky fkin Butt and Damien cunting Duff on their teamsheet? Honestly