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Wish I could get SSN for just two days a year. It's just not as much fun when I have to hear all of it second-hand.

Everything will be fine when we get Beye back. He just makes the defense work like magic. Habib Beye is awesome. Should change his last name to Ranger.

Im well pissed off too man but what the f*** you hope he breaks his leg? I wasn't aware that wishing ill on someone in my head was illegal.

Thoughts on the deal itself: Fine, he's gone. A player swap would have been ideal but we all know that those kinds of deals are notoriously hard to work out so as long as we got an acceptable sum (which I trust we have,) it's not a big deal. The only thing now is that money MUST be reinvested into the squad immediately. If not, the pitchforks come out tomorrow evening. Thoughts on Shay Given: Emotionally, I feel devastated. I think we've all been taking Shay for granted for a long time now. Despite the fact that he's been blatantly too good for us for several years now, we'd come to think that he'd never leave. For that reason I feel like he never really got the appreciation he deserved. A lot of people got on his back whenever he had a rare downturn in form, and the "is Given world class or not?" Debate is surely one of the most idiotic conversations that's ever gone on in this board. I feel like I would if my lass left me for some blinged out kid with a Porsche. Rationally? He can go fuck himself. I refuse to cave into the "he's done enough for us, good luck to him" attitude. Fact of the matter is he knows as well as anyone that we're well in the shit and that the very survival of this club rests on the next few months. Is it really that hard for him to put his move off till the summer? What the fuck is he going to do by moving to Man City 6 months early, help them finish the season at tenth? He's ditched us in our hour of greatest need for a club that won't get UEFA football this season and might not even get it next season, never mind the Champions league. The truth is that he's just no longer bothered with us anymore, he's nothing more than a rat abandoning a sinking ship and pocketing a bit of cash on the way. He cares absolutely nothing for this club or its fans and I refuse to care about him. I hope he breaks his leg or gets replaced with Buffon in the summer. Preferably both. Fucking asshole.

They've been on the up a tiny bit since they seemed destined for relegation the last time we beat them. They're also relatively competent at beating s*** sides. We're really, really bad away. Signs aren't good, but as a loss here is the end for us, I'm not even going to entertain the option.

Agree that there wasn't much difference in performances between teh two. Butt always has a decent game when he's coming back off two weeks rest. That was the best we'll probably see from him. Nolan was signed 24 hours ago and linking up with new teammates for the first time. He can only get better.

Hopefully. Oba and Shola up front just takes frustrating to a whole new level.

He landed badly on his ankle at one point I think. He was blatantly crocked around the 60th minute. Knowing our luck, we should be getting word shortly that he's out for the season.

The more I think about it there's a race on between us and Portsmouth. Which owner wakes up and sacks their shit manager first.

He'd rather play with Butt and Duff every week instead of warming the bench for Robinho

Negotiating team should be over there just about begging for Sturridge

Thats where Owen comes in (for the rest of the season). Martins would've helped Jonas a lot more today as well. He would've given Jonas someone to aim at and even play off. Thats when Jonas is very effective, imo. When he cuts inside and links up with people- because thats the way he plays. As Yorkie said, he's not your average 90's winger like Gillespie. I honestly think Lua Lua should replace Duff next week. Whether his crossing is good I dont know but he'll take a bit of the work load of Jonas' shoulders thats for sure. I hope so too because that would mean Joe Kinnear is no longer manager.

Keegan, or any other competent manager for that matter, would turn this into a confidence-booster for the squad. (Like Birmingham Away last season) Kinnear probably went in there and killed any morale the lads might have built up.

It's not a confidence issue for Colo. Mentally I think he's as solid as a rock. More of a "still getting used to playing in a different league" issue. And Saylor should never, ever play in central defense again.

We really should be thanking him. He might have just fucked up his career as a Premiership footballer to save us a point. True Geordie Legend.

Fuck me he's my fantasy captain. Mega negative points.

At the end of the day he's miles better than Saylor or Cacapa and we've got bigger priorities than buying another CB. We can reassess him in the summer.

Enrique did well at LB today. They linked up well together. Think he'd rather have a striker that can convert Or a holding midfielder that can support him Or a competent winger on the other side so he doesn't have to do all the running. I imagine LB is fairly low on his Christmas list.

O RLY? Where'd this get said? Big enough? JFK's unreliable enough when he's being straightforward, now he's trying to be cryptic.

If we can kick Butt out of the team with another CM I'd be significantly less worried about relegation. Change of manager and we'd be laughing all the way to the top half.

Bit of a come-down from Veloso that

Just praying that Pompey don't sack Adams any time soon.

If it's gonna even out we're gonna need three or four more dodgy calls before the end of the season.

Cue, a mass late night refreshing newsnow until falling asleep when nothing is mentioned until after tmrw lunch time. Oh fucking hell, deadline really is tomorrow isn't it.

We'll be pulling some completely random European out of a hat I think. Think there's more to the Donadel rumors than we thought. Stuff reported from foreign sources is generally reliable and they went as far as to say that we'd agreed a fee.