Lenny

Sounds promising. Can we convert a few chances today though please lads.

Surely Barton being on the bench is just a case of needing to put a name on the team sheet? Didnt think he was near being fit enough to play yet.

I know things are bad, but you can't go for damage limitation against another relegation battler.

Judging by what we've got available (if Taylors passes fit) I'd probably go with: Given Edgar Taylor Colo Bassong Duff Butt Guthrie Jonas Owen Xisco I know that means moving Bassong over to left back, but I'd quite honestly rather have Edgar in defence than N'Zogbia. I'd rather see Butt dropped for N'Zogbia but that's not going to happen, hence sticking Butt in my lineup.

Its still pretty fucking bad at the moment to be fair.

ermm... What if they are French? BONJOURRRRR, YA CHEESE EATIN' SURRENDER MONKEYS! http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/gallery/town/GroundskeeperWilly1.gif Seriously though, do you, or do you not have a folder full of ready made simpsons characters with relevant quotes?

ermm... What if they are French?

Can't see us winning this one unfortunatly, though the way things are I can't see us winning any games at the moment. I really would like us to stick one over Allardyce as well, otherwise we'll have to put up with more of his subsequent bullshit.

On the plus side he had a fucking excellent volley wrongly disallowed last week.

22 goals in 30 mins

Just read an article on whether Lua Lua will be starting tonight and noticed this: Kinnear said: "I am thinking about that. It's just who I start with up front, to be honest. "I haven't got any choice with what's not available to me - no Shola, no Viduka, no Oba Martins and no Andy Carroll. "That's four strikers who won't be involved in the game, so I might go five across the middle and play Michael up front by himself." I really don't understand why Kinnear is seemingly acting like Xisco doesn't exist. Admittedly I don't know the ins and outs but I do feel sorry for Xisco in this case, especially now he isn't even able to leave this window. If he was to go on to another club now, he could probably pick himself up reasonably easily, but he's in effect wasted a whole season of his development now.

It makes too much sense unfortunately.

He really isn't good enough to be whining as much as he is. As I've said before, under most other circumstances I'd happily see him fuck off, but unfortunately we need him until the end of the season.

Some of the criticism on here verges almost on the pathetic.

I don't really know what he's like but its got to the stage where a body is a body. Decent squad player with a bit of pace at least.

You cant swap Shay twice man!!! He is that good tbf.

First time I've really paid any attention to Palacios, he looked very good. Would love to see an athletic midfielder like him playing for us.

I honestly would have thought Spurs would have been out of trouble by now. Redknapp isn't particularly doing the job the media are making out he is doing. They were poor today.

Can't say I'd say no to him at the moment (not that I'd say no to many managers at the moment). You'd at least know what you're going to get with him.

Stop being fucking awkward!

Screen 4 and 5 you get to see.... Snow!

Can't disagree with any of that.

Re: Parker - I can smuggly say that I never got on his back like a number of people on here I thought he was absolute class in his first season for us. The Arsenal performance epitomised his first year for us. Roeder just didnt know how to deploy him, or wanted to change something that wasn't broken.

You would think that players wanting to leave including possibly the club captain, fans booing players, a quite frankly terrible manager and no direction from the board only really points to one thing. If this sort of thing was happening to another club I'm sure I would be thinking that they would be going down this season. Fortunately theres so many other teams that could go down as well. I get the feeling we'll be there right until the wire this year. Whether we go down or not, I really don't know.