Ronaldo

There's never really much of a plan in mind when we sign anyone beyond value.

They'd have scraped a 1-0, at least.

As if that was taken seriously, man.

I'd rather we just signed two proper defenders who don't need to have their hands held.

They'd never look perfectly fine but they'd be less exposed.

Would've been 0-0 with Hughton still in charge. Progress.

Mapou and Colo are both terrible in the air. Both of them need to be paired with someone we apparently aren't willing to buy.

I've yet to see anything that even resembles an apology, like. Not like you to endorse media misrepresentations, Bill.

I rate him very much in terms of potential. Mole needn't tell fibs to advocate his promotion to the starting spots.

He absolutely has not, and you know it. And no it didn't. Except it did, Pardew won manager of the month with him at CB. He played two games at CB during that 'run'.

He absolutely has not, and you know it. And no it didn't.

He hasn't apologised, he's basically denied doing anything wrong other than being out.

It's flexible.

This still going on? Can't we all just agree that England's a much better country with an underachieving team and nobody hates Ireland.

The envy is part of it.

To be fair Triggs you're a good lad but you seem to spend an awful lot of time in this thread being negative for someone with a neutral stance towards England.

Bitter much?

There it is.

15 between them would be my best guess, having thought about it.

On the other hand, Williamson and MYM would be my pick for the CB pairing this season. Disgusting as that sounds.

There seems to be a few players who fall into that category eg Abeid, Bigi, MYM, where the belief seems to be that they'd become better players under a better manager. As I say, that seems to be based on hope rather than any evidence on the field. And here we have one who clearly didn't see one of our best runs last season when MYM and Williamson played together. They played together for the wins against a totally non-scoring AVB Spurs and Chelsea if memory serves. Not sure I'd call 2 games a 'run'.

Not as much as it would hurt you to see Ireland qualify Just another foreign country to us. No different from any other. You can't say the same about us. Not another foreign country to Ronaldo, he fucking hates Ireland I'm fairly sure you're flattering yourself somewhat there I'm not and I'd say he would probably admit he hates Ireland or at least has a dislike for Ireland I'm a proud Brit and obviously react to anti-British nonsense from the Irish but I really don't dislike Ireland more than any other European country. I love Father Ted too and some of that was actually filmed in Ireland, so goes the rumour.

Nah, it's always great fun watching Ireland when they qualify.

Can the players brought in replace the goals and assists of Cabaye & Remy? That's 21 goals and at least 4 assists. Think we'll struggle for goals again without a new striker. I'd take only 1 good striker as the last of our dealings. CM / Widemen we can get by on and finish top half with a 15 goal striker. 21 goals from De Jong, Cabella & Riviere is realistic. 10-15 I would say. We need a striker.