AyeDubbleYoo

He's just trying to give Carroll a boost, don't see any reason for criticism.

Just read an article about Blackburn saying they have had no bids. I don't know what to believe!

The banner just makes us look thick as mince and won't achieve anything. Supporters should concentrate on supporting the team to get them through the match at hand.

I seriously doubt that Kinnear was the main man behind the decision to offer Shola a new contract... he's an interim manager at best. Sounds like a dubious attempt to have a dig at him to me.

Aye, but if all the rumoured signings of the last couple of windows happened we would have about 237 players.

The only point of the FA Cup for me is to watch these early rounds games with the little teams... it really is magic. Very disappointed it isn't on, and Kettering should be rightly annoyed about missing out on the cash.

As much as I'd like rid of Barton, we can't possibly let a central midfielder go this window.

The last thing we should ever do is have Owen as our only striker, we always play shit with that formation. Carroll, Xisco, Ranger, just pick anybody FFS.

Not surprised Shola looks happy!

Thing about Shola is we've backed ourselves into a corner by horribly mismanaging many of our players' contracts, combined with the perilous situation we're in regarding relegation. We need to tie Shola down because, firstly, we might be able to sell him if he does alright this season. Second, we might well lose Owen and Viduka, and even Martins might be sick of battling relegation come the summer. So for many reasons signing him up again was the correct decision, in our current situation.

Is anyone actually expecting any decent business to be done this January? Very few clubs ever manage to make any good signings at this time of year, except the mad spenders.

By the future I mean from now onwards. Our short term target is to not to get relegated. Ashley's medium term goal seems to be to sell the club. Long term depends on the short and medium goals. Well, he said the club's no longer for sale. Whether he'll change his mind when the economy perks up remains to be seen, but that could be another 3-5 years. From now onwards you're right, first thing is to stay up... and that will continue to be the objective in future seasons unless we get a good manager and Ashley is prepared to invest in the squad. Otherwise we will continue to allow other teams to overtake us, sadly.

The Big Sho

I still don't feel the bone-chilling fear of relegation that I did during the Allardyce era. Not sure if that's justified, but it's how I see things. The future is challenging, but I don't see why we can't turn things around. We saw the quality players that the Ashley regime managed to bring in already. I don't think much will be done in January, but I assume by 'the future' you mean long term rather than the next couple of seasons?

Woo!

In the position we're in, we need exactly the type of player that Darren Bent is... physically strong, fast but lacking the world class ability that would make him too expensive for us! Similar to the type of side that Pompey were building I suppose, or other teams who have overtaken us in recent seasons.

I thought this was going to be about Dean Windass! On a serious note I would take Darren Bent.

Don't see why we want to sell Xisco anyway, much rather keep him and give him a fucking chance.

This was always the most likely outcome, still don't think it makes him more or less likely to sign in the end.

Who cares? Very honest answer!

Too fucking right, he never deserved that one in the first place.

On about -7 now.

Sometimes I hate Newcastle Utd. But sometimes I fucking love them!

You are aware that Keegan came back, right? His record is better than the Record KK have in his second term thus make him a better one over him. Uh oh.

Zoggy had a few setbacks though, partly his own attitude problems and partly the pointless signing of Duff just when he was playing his best. I still reckon he'll do really well if we have some confidence in him.