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Oh please yes.

World Cup bitterness? Short answer: yes Long answer: :angry4:

Will Nevada Smiths be showing it? I was gonna go there anyway, and if they do I'm surely calling out of work to go watch it! Their website says yes.

Taylor and the Swiss cunt pretty much share the same strengths and weaknesses imo.

Thinking of Roeder just reminded me how hilarious it is that we've had two managers in the last five years who are quite possibly mentally disturbed

Anyone going to be at Nevada Smith's for the Reading match? I'm in New York for a week so I figure I might as well give the place a visit.

I can no longer distinguish between Ashley and Kinnear as they have merged into a singular entity of hate for me. They're like the left hand and right hand of Satan.

He'd possibly be the best winger in the Championship by a comfortable margin. Way to miss my point. I think if we kept everyone we have right now and just added a striker, we'd have a non-zero chance of going up even with Ashley on board. He means we could have Pele circa 1970 but with some thick c*** in charge we wouldn't go up Yes, and I disagree. So?

He'd possibly be the best winger in the Championship by a comfortable margin. He was s*** last week before he got the goal though. Absolutely non-existent in the first half as far as providing a wide outlet. He wasn't that bad imo. I doubt I'll get much agreement, but I feel that Duff has been fairly decent since he got a full pre-season last year. It's just that it's difficult for us to see beyond how horrible and useless he was for his first two seasons here.

He'd possibly be the best winger in the Championship by a comfortable margin. Way to miss my point. I think if we kept everyone we have right now and just added a striker, we'd have a non-zero chance of going up even with Ashley on board.

Hope Kazenga gets a go. Still worrying. I hate to say this but Damien Duff was one of our best players. We are significantly weakened without him. Significantly? Hardly, he did nowt against West Brom except score a goal that was set up on a plate for him. Kazenga will at least do more in the other 89m of the match and actually, dare I say it, create a chance for a striker. Kazenga is bright and he's got a good future hopefully.. But Duff is a better player at the moment. It would be the best for Lua Lua if he's eased into the first team this season behind a couple experienced players. Besides, if we sell him we literally have no backup on the wings. None.

He'd possibly be the best winger in the Championship by a comfortable margin.

4m is crazy insane ballistic money for Duff. But we're not buying anyone so we can't afford to sell anyone either. I wouldn't even sell Geremi or Shola the way our squad is right now.

For six million, yeah, I'd bite their hands off

You could look at it that way... Honestly I'd bite Hodgson's hand off for 4m if we weren't in the state we're in now. But we all KNOW that there is going to be no replacement if Duff goes out the door. We really can't afford to sell any of our players, no matter how overpaid and past their best they might be.

Regardless it's very hard for a player to say no once the club accepts a bid. Who wants to stay where they're not wanted? Are we wanted? Seems like every decision in the last few years was made with pissing us off in mind. We stay, s***, we pay to stay. If someone paid me 6m to support another club, I'd have to say I'd consider it

Regardless it's very hard for a player to say no once the club accepts a bid. Who wants to stay where they're not wanted?

Hope Kazenga gets a go. Still worrying. I hate to say this but Damien Duff was one of our best players. We are significantly weakened without him.

No Duff in the side so I guess Simpson comes in and Ryan Taylor is moved up? Worrying.

I'm immensely happy at this news, but that happiness is tempered by the expectation that there will inevitably be some horrible news later today to cancel this out. There has to be. This is NUFC.

There seems to be a horrifying sense of inevitability to a Kinnear return.

It frustrates me so much that our squad right now is absolutely BEGGING for a striker, there are something like a dozen strikers available out there who could pull off 20 goals in the Championship... ...And you just know that the idiots running the club will make sure we don't get one of them before September.

He'll be gone eventually, there's no stopping that... I don't mind except for the fact that we'd be down to two wingers and we're not buying anyone.

I think Jonas will be off by the weekend, so Lua Lua will have to do for the season I suppose... (backup? what's that?) IMO Reading aren't that good at the moment, and we're at home so we have to be seen as favorites. Hopefully Shola will show that he can do a job in the Championship because like it or not, Shola-Carroll seems like our front two for the rest of the season.

I've honestly never seen him play, but every morning I wake up in fear that he'll sign for another club. I just feel that one striker + one manager indeed would open up the possibility of a lucky promotion for us.