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If he's playing regularly and up to his potential I'd say he's top 6 standard.

FFS, are there no standards at all in football journalism?

It's a non story really, the new prices are so expensive that you may as well subscribe to Sky. They'll also give you a Sky+ box free most of the time. I'm very disappointed, I was planning to get them.

Is the toon army going to be on the real ones the players are wearing? I fucking hope not.

Doubly stupid as it only applies to the smaller clubs - Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea rest players all the time if they believe they can win a game easily. The decision to fine Wolves was ridiculous.

Never understand the stick players get for being injured. I don't have any reason not to believe that the vast majority love the game and want to playing as much as possible.

By the way, why is our online club shop so fucking awful?

We only put up with the non-enjoyable football in the hope that it will keep us in the top flight long enough for it to become enjoyable in the future, that's a very good point. If we honestly believed we could never progress, or football was only ever going to be boring and frustrating, then we might see a decline in fans.

I think we're having that as our new club motto.

Does KK get slagged off for playing attacking football? I've never heard that.

Yep, probably, I'm not really sure. My personal preference is to go out and attack, but I've got the luxury of being a fan and not a manager whose job is on the line. I can see why Hughton has employed a reletively conservative approach in many games though, it was clearly working and we were picking up points. When we start going 5 or 6 weeks without a win, it will be really interesting to see what happens.

I've gone for Boselli as one of my fantasy bargains, could be a revelation or could be awful. At least he's cheap.

Fixed that for you.

And the court cases of course.

Bellamy, Carroll, Barton and Smudger though, we'd need to factor in all the suspensions.

True, Spurs have just announced a ban. Geordie vuvuzela = funny Real vuvuzela = annoying

Well it's not just a question about aesthetics, it's a question about which you think is more likely to work.

I love Bellamy, he's a mint player and a right little charver - which is great when he's on your team! Cronky has an interesting point about disrupting the team, but that would apply to any high-quality signing to a certain extent. Players have to learn to accept new additions to the squad, ideally ones that are better than them.

All our most experienced players have been our worst players pretty much, but that's not because they were experienced. Most of our 'experienced' players have actually been in terminal decline when they arrived, obviously nobody wants that. I would take a couple of wise heads for the right price... i.e. if Campbell is free and his wages aren't mental - but I wouldn't be signing anyone over 27 on a long contract for any sort of transfer fee. Not in the quality bracket that we're looking at anyway.

If he could get back to his best be could be "like a new signing"

Thing is, he wouldn't have just come up with that - a journo would have asked him something like "After the World Cup performance, you must think you can get in the England team, eh Joey?"

Really! Yep, I guess a lot of the random pickers just go on last season's points, which because he was in the Championship game are pretty high.

15% of Telegraph managers have picked Kevin Nolan.

I wouldn't be against giving the A Train the number nine shirt... he seems like he has the attitude where it would be a boost rather than a burden.

The white one looks canny I reckon... once again the third shirt is much better than the second.