junkhead

man, the Guardian don't half come up with some shit... Butty and Smithy

If I were the manager, I'd play him in the reserves until he proves he can be useful at that level.. then I can consider giving him a place as a sub

BOOOOO

worst bump of the year

I agree about Oba.. Joe better not rush him, because if he injures himself again then that's bye bye premier league

Exactly. Let's put it like this - As things stand, we're going to continue with Nicky Butt and Damien Duff starting every game in our midfield till the end of the season. Now if anybody has the guts to tell me that they're good enough or that we couldn't get better than them.. Ultimately this is going to cost us our survival.. Strengthened my ass..

ffs

..and at least 213 times for Tranmere

Don't worry, we'll have plenty of chances to judge his ability over the next four years

live? about 112.

great, too bad he's s*** at everything else For f***'s sake... I've got to do something else for a bit, the negativity on here is spectacular. Funnily enough, this was the same quote that made me decide to stop being on here for a bit, starting from.....now. I'm sorry, that was clearly a stupid comment. It's just that I've seen enough of Ryan Taylor to know that he's not capable of beating a man, which is quite important for a wing player and he's not a better defender than David Edgar. Yes, he can take good free kicks but Nicky Butt takes good free kicks too. Yes, he's another body, but we don't need bodies, we need quality.

Just hat the hell do you want to say with that OP, Towelie.. who fucking cares about Michael fucking Johnson.. do you think that's the only reason people are unhappy? Have a word ffs

i'd also say they have a pretty coherent game plan, a settled/balanced side and a manager who knows what they are doing. we all know stoke city are s*** but they have certain strengths that they play to and they make a half decent fist of it. we have more quality (when players are fit) but there's no overall vision, our squad is an unbalanced mess, a hodge-podge of signings from different managers or even scouts that doesn't really amount to a team. Exactly

I respect people's optimism and of course there's still time, but I'm thick enough to watch around five premier league games every weekend and it's a motherfuckin fact that we play the worst football out of all clubs - and I'm including Stoke 'long throw' City in that. We've had two decent games this season - Man Utd away and Villa home. That's it - two games out of twenty four. Add Kinnear's inadequacy, the lost points against relegation rivals, the injuries and the lack of reinforcements to that and you can see why it's extremely hard for me to be optimistic. I don't doubt that there are worse squads out there, it's just that they compensate the lack of quality with passion and commitment on the field. At the same time we're having the patience of watching wasters like Damien Duff and Nicky Butt single-handedly costing us points every week, because they don't care about nothing else than the fat pay checks we're paying them. And I'm sure the worst is yet to come, because undoubtedly it would take ages for Kinnear to find out that Smith is useless, if he ever realizes it. I just pray that Oba comes back healthy and is strong enough to carry us on his own like he did in the Roeder season. That's our only hope.

great, too bad he's shit at everything else

Right here waiting on some news. I refuse to give up till we hear something. Still hopeful wum feck off

10.. I'll even bet some large money on it to ease the pain.

sick

that's it

is Taylor better than Duff on the wing? he certainly isn't better than N'zogbia. Horrible window yet again Really..a player from Bolton and one from wigan?? Shows how low our expectations are..buying off clubs around us.. Yep should have signed Lampard and Ronaldo. No one's asked for massive signings FFS Just an improvement on our squad I think we have done that. we have. but most people made their minds up months ago that we havent. In what way do you feel we've improved the squad? given wanted out and handed in a transfer request. little we can do about that. harper is a more than adequate replacement and is free. £6 million up + big wages gone. just a loss/a draw at best. n'zogbia WAS NEVER GOING TO PLAY FOR US AGAIN. lovenkrands WILL PLAY FOR US. £6 million up. win by default. nolan is better than butt, smith, geremi and is far more reliable than barton. win. taylor plays in many positions and is a decent squad player (squad depth innit). win. overall, improvement. not a huge one but an improvement. Injured during the window Barton, Owen Carroll. Cover ...nil =loss nolan? lovenkrands? like i say, not a huge improvement, but an improvement. Lovenkrands is useless, Nolan is shit and Taylor is on Edgar's level.. what we managed is add three more below-par players to the squad, like we didn't have any before.. fuck all

worked his socks off?? WORK RATE?? Duff?? what movie do you live in? DAMIEN DUFF MUST DIE!

hahahahaha

hysterically

Setanta are a good couple of hours late on news..