Chris_R

Because in chronological order he will lose his England place before his Newcastle place. He's already lost his England place. Didn't start the last game and didn't even get on from the bench.

Luque tried to kick the ball out of play, rebounds of Pennant and freakily drops over the head of Harper.. Haha, Luque still getting the blame for our woes!

When was the last time we spent any time in the opposition penalty area in order to get a gift like that? You don't score like that from your own half.

IIRC that's where Alex Ferguson cut his managerial teeth. Not that I'm suggesting that John Hartson will one day manage a side to 9 Premier League titles mind.

Out: Manchester United Arsenal Chelsea In: (If the original poster can bring sides in from outside the Championship...!) Blyth Spartans Whitley Bay Bedlington Terriers That's done for 2 reasons. Firstly, we'll have some nice local away games. Secondly, we should have slightly better odds of not getting relegated.

Maybe there is a clause in Smith's contract that he must start every game if fit, and Keegan is starting him because of that - But then he'll take him off immediately after kickoff and put Martins on. Yeah, I know. I wish. Would be fucking hilarious though if it happened. As for N'Zogbia being dropped for non-footballing reasons, perhaps he's just been dropped because he was shambolic at left back last game? Just a thought. Ah well, fingers crossed. Desperately need a win today, desperately.

In a desperate bid to guilt him into staying and get him onside.

I'd like to see: Harper Beye Taylor Faye Enrique Milner Barton N'Zogbia Duff Owen Martins I know people will say there's no height in the front line, but Beardsley / Cole was a pretty short front line and boy did it work! I'm not saying that lineup is perfect in any way or comparable to Beardsley / Cole up front, but I think that pace going forward would scare the shit out of most teams. And that's something we don't do at the moment - Scare teams.

Excellent. I don't want us to survive simply because there's teams that are even worse than us, but if that's how it has to be then fine.

Current stats from Yahoo sports updates: Reading V Villa 0 Score 0 2 Shots 12 1 On Trgt 4 Looking like one way traffic at the moment. Just hope that Villa beat them.

"horror story" doesn't even come close by the sounds of things. Fat Fred wants to be ashamed of himself. Seems like he was doing a bit of a Robert Maxwell really, and papering over the cracks as much as he could and sticking his head in the sand even though he knew that eventually it would all catch up with him. Pity he didn't own a yacht.

Gazza then Beardsley imo. Can't rate those I never saw, ie Milburn or Charlton.

Complete legend. Well played on your first 75, hope there's many more to come.

If we got 8m Euros, I don't feel too bad about his sale any more. I thought we'd flogged him for a 10p mixup and a packet of Space Raiders.

I think Option 3 as well. We need all the support we can get. The prospect of a few hundred extra voices in the crowd to cheer us on in a vital match is well worth the remote possibilty of losing £28k

I do rate Martins, but have you actually seen him get past his man? In the games I've watched, Viduka gets past his man far more frequently (and with surprising ease) than Martins does despite his lack of pace. Yes.

With Butt's ability to pass the ball away EVERYTIME he gets the ball, how can you even place him on the bench? Barton and Emre, or Faye and Emre in CM for me. Barton has been terrible and is going to prison , Emre is too lightweight and isn't consistent, Faye is needed in defence.... Butt gets it by default for me. Of course we need better, but we don't have better available.

Pace is the wrong word to be fair. It's his ability to have a snap shop at goal. Smith doesn't even look at the goal in a game, where as Martins would shoot from 40 yards if it dropped right. Whilst he does have the ability to have snap shots, I think his pace is more of a worry to the opposition. He has genuine pace, and the ability and willingness to go past his man. Something that is lacking in the rest of our forward line and it's that pace that creates space for others when he goes on runs (With or without the ball).

Martins plays. End of. Whilst he's far from perfect, he's the only forward we've got who can create something on his own and given the poor service from midfield we need someone like that. His pace terrifies people, and with him playing then we'll open teams up more, this will create more space for the rest of the team and everyone will benefit.

OK, so for (At this stage) just over £100 you get: - A Munich memorial scarf with letter from David Gill. I presume these are on general sale or at least are very recent and widely available - Maybe a mass issue like for Shearer's testimonial? ie it's hardly a one-off. - A copy of the program from the Man U - Sheff Wed match 50 years ago. Yes, it says a copy. Given that the original will be in black and white and their being no picture of said program on the listing, then my money is on it being a photocopy. - Program from todays match. What's that, £3.50 and still on sale? That said, fair play to the guy. People that stupid to bid that much money on that frankly deserve to get fleeced. Call it a stupidity tax if you like.

We need better than him. Like Smith, tries hard but not good enough.

Wheater needs to be in any modern-day ugly 11. Repugnant.

If we sell him for an amount that would allow us to recruit an equally talented replacement of a similar age, then I'll have no problems. However that amount is not £7m. Double it and you're getting there. And don't sell to Spurs, for god's sake. They're a side we should realistically be wanting to get above, not sell them our best player. I could understand selling him to Arsenal or Chelsea as they're out of our sights at the moment but not to clubs right around us in terms of the league position, even if they are on an up at the moment and we're on a down.

Given Beye Faye Taylor Enrique N'Zogbia Duff Milner Owen Martins That said, I'd not be devastated if we sold any of them with the possible exception of N'Zogbia. Everyone else needs to either improve massively or gtf.

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean he's going to blame no-one but himself.