Chris_R

--------------Given Hughes Albert Woodgate Enrique -------Solano Speed Ginola ------------Beardsley --------Shearer Ferdinand Subs: Pav (Possibly not our second best keeper, but a legend nonetheless) Coloccini Robert Dyer Watson (For versatility if nothing else) Asprilla Bellamy Right back definitely the weak link there, struggling between Watson, Venison, Beye and Hughes, none of them really shine above the others. Think with that team (and subs) we'd do pretty bloody well.

Shit game. Ok we've got lots of posession but we're completely incapable of doing anything with it. Could play until tomorrow and we'd still not score.

Fucking sectarianism, arguing over something that isn't even real in the first place. The very definition of retarded.

Buy 2 new, quality strikers. Keep Ameobi and Best as backups Get rid of Lovenkrands who is now ineffective Send Ranger on loan Just really echoing what 95% of people have already said but meh.

Turn it into a casino so that Ashley, Pardew, Llambias and pals can sit and play Roulette all night.

Liverpool every time. Desperate for them not to qualify for Europe next year.

We're all but guaranteed safety, so just take our time. Absolutely no need to have him on the pitch before he's good and ready. That said, there's over £500k per league position available in prize money, wouldn't surprise me if that came into our thinking somehow...

Perch was shit, there's no saying otherwise. Every time he got the ball I was terrified and most of the time he either fucked up or gave it away with a shite pass. Don't dislike him as a person, seems to try hard and gives his best, but his best is looking woefully short of what's required and he's either got to improve massively or should never get near the first team ever again.

On the match stats thing on my stream, it's just come up "Peter Lovenkrands - Completed passes: 0" Sums up his value to the team really. Though surely he passed it nicely onto Sherla's head for the goal?

Have really enjoyed that so far. Definitely deserving the lead, Nolan's goal looked like he had all the time in the world to slot the ball away. Well he did, tbf. Defending was shocking. Wolves only idea seems to be to kick us off the park. I'm convinced the only reason they took Milijas off was because he was on a yellow so couldn't kick people as much anymore, get someone else on who can run round and do some fouling instead. Would love to see the bunch of dirty cunts get relegated.

The madness isn't the bench today, it's what we did in January. Loaning out a decent player like Routledge, getting in a crocked one like Ireland and at the same time we can't say we were surprised by the fact that Ben Arfa, Gosling and Smith are out injured still. Those 3 injuries are something we should have looked to get cover for but instead we ended up one more man down by loaning Routledge out and replacing him (numerically at least) with someone who's fucked. Idiocy.

There was no chance Ranger would start. I'm not surprised that Lovenkrands starts, but I'm massively disappointed by it. Lovenkrands offers nothing at all as a footballer. He may even get a goal or 2 at some point but that won't change my opinion. He does nothing at all.

See we're playing with 10 men again, Lovenkrands still in the starting 11. FFS.

So we don't have to pay the player a 'loyalty bonus' when they leave. Would have saved us millions on Carroll as often players are entitled to 10% of the transfer fee if they haven't asked to leave. Have heard it said numerous times that players often have loyalty clauses in their contracts like this, so wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Carroll and Given had them too and that we made them hand in transfer requests in order to waive their right to this money in order to leave for massively better contracts.

Yeah, because Liverpool paid £35m solely for him to play in that game. Fucking imbecile.

Some tremendous skill by Ferguson there. If that was Lionel Messi people would be creaming their pants over it. 4-4-2: Thank fuck!

Fucking hate Stoke. Horrible, horrible shithole of a town, shithole of a club, play in shitty red and white stripes. Wish they'd just fuck off and die.

Inexperience showing there unfortunately. Perhaps inexperience to be so far up the pitch chasing shadows, but when the ball was pushed forward he didn't race back to try and close Pennant down which IMO was just bad play. Doubtful he'd have got there given their relative starting positions, but you've got to try (And he didn't) as it's possible Coloccini could have held him up for a while.

Ferguson was far too far up the pitch there, left Pennant in acres to put the cross in.

There's nothing I can do about it so I've just stopped worrying. I'd love him to stay but if he doesn't we'll just have to move on. I'd much prefer it if he went abroad, I couldn't cope with him going to Spurs or Liverpool and getting wanked over every week by the pundits who have more or less ignored him because he's played for us. Tbf, they're not really ignoring him these days. Every pundit wanks over him now. Only because they think he'll be off to Liverpool or Spurs in a couple of months. They're just getting some practice in.

Might I suggest "Smith"?

Carroll will win balls in the air, I don't think there's a great deal any DC can do to stop that. The key is mopping up after him, making sure the knockdowns are dealt with. Stick Williamson on him, and have Coloccini mop up. It's the only way.

I thought to play for Ireland you just had to be able to find Ireland on a map. Of Ireland.

Reads to me that his point is the reverse of that. Looks like he's insinuating that he's been given a guaranteed start by Pardew. Apologies I've misread it, it's difficult sometimes guaging tone on an internet forum.

taylor isnt first choice, taylor wont sign new contract -> pardew comes in -> taylor is first choice, taylor signs new contract am i missing something? Pardew thinks Taylor is a better player than Williamson? Most here would disagree, but it's entirely possible for someone else to have a differing opinion, Shirley? Why does it have to mean there's a clause in his contract? He might just prefer Taylor.