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Why would he have to drop a decent player? Because he has to drop one of Duff, Milner, and Zog? Not the most difficult of decisions. seems pretty hard to me Put it this way: I'd give Duff away for nothing tomorrow if there was a club stupid enough to take him. Well, good job your name isn't Kevin Keegan then.

Why would he have to drop a decent player? Because he has to drop one of Duff, Milner, and Zog? Not the most difficult of decisions. seems pretty hard to me

Why would he have to drop a decent player? Because he has to drop one of Duff, Milner, and Zog?

I don't get it. He was a class player beyond a shadow of a doubt. What the fuck happened to the lad. Oh, now I remember. NUFC happened.

I think it's just a case of Keegan not being able to make up his mind picking between Zog, Duff, and Milner. So he just says to himself: "hey, I'm Kevin Keegan, I like attacking fullbacks. Fuck it I'll have Zog at LB. Problem solved." The sooner he takes a long hard look at things and realizes that unfortunately, he's going to have to drop one of the three decent players in our squad, the better. Enrique has looked good every time he's played and he's got bags of potential. But at this rate, he's going to fuck off back to Spain for less than half the money we payed for him.

Can " I " really be classed as a word ? If it's not a word, what is it then?

A million times more admirable than booing. No matter how s*** the preformance was. Foriegner? Windup?

A million times more admirable than booing. No matter how shit the preformance was.

The more I start thinking of this as us v. Reading the more I worry. Neither of us are playing like any semblance of a football club, but the vast majority of Reading's squad either came through the academy or has spent the best parts of their careers there. When push comes to shove and relegation draws near they will play their hearts out to save the club they love. As for us, I can't help but think the vast majority of our players are probably just thinking "oh f*** it, if we get relegated I'll just jump ship." The likes of N'Zogbia, Viduka, and Enrique probably already have one foot out the door. How many of our players do you think would be honestly devastated if we're relegated? I suppose Taylor, Milner, and some of the young lads may show some tears on the pitch, but would anyone else care? It's this sort of thing that disturbs me and makes me wonder if we can come on top when the do-or-die match vs Reading or whoever else ends up being our rivals for 17th place comes around. You lot better win! If you can't beat reading we want our points from two weeks ago back

Fulham will not go down this season imo. Say bye bye to Derby, Sunderland and Wigan. Fulham could concievably survive if their luck turns around in a big way, but Sunderland and Wigan? NUFC are more likely to go down than either of those two. Maybe Brimingham.

Carr, Butt, Smith, Ameobi, Emre should all be flogged. Hopefully the 5 combined will net us about 10m. N'Zogbia will probably leave. Enrique as well unless his treatment improves dramatically. Bare minimum to avoid relegation next season: 1 striker, 1 CM, 1 LB What we'll need in additoin to that to challenge for top 7: 1 GK, another CM, a LM, a CB, a 1 RM Every single one of those players is going to have to be decent quality. Oh, and this isn't even taking into account the fact that Owen, Duff, Beye, Faye, and Geremi will all be a year older next season. No telling when any one of those could break down physically. Basically looking at an expenditure of 4~8 players at about 6~10m a piece. Mike Ashley, I hope you're willing to spend some money.

hope we sell him abroad at least. Would be pissed if he comes good and starts scoring on us year after year after year.

Worse than Derby and Fulham? Fulham have been decent, just horribly unlucky. No worse than Birmingham or Bolton. Reading is playing a good deal worse than we are though, not that it's any consolation.

does anybody know what exactly is happening with Enrique? Thought somebody said he was back in Spain?

Jesus, why don't you put a quid on nuclear war to break out and the FUCKING WORLD TO END while you're at it. :rant:

possibly the worst game of his career today.

Carroll definitely deserves to be on the bench every game now. At the very least he should be yard ahead the pecking order over Ameobi since it looks like he basically does everything Ameobi does but better. As for Edgar and Kadar, throwing kids into the back line in the thick of a relegation battle is not a good idea, no matter how shit our current defenders are.

Positives * Very Good first 20 minutes * Duff playing his best in a while * Carroll looks good enough to be floating around the first team now. Then again, that probably says more about our first team than it does about Carroll * WE SCORED AGAINST MAN UNITED OMFG!!!! Negatives * Dear God.

compared to his usual level of play, this was actually a good Alan Smith preformance. Still the absolute depths of shit though.

no booing because no one's left in the stand to boo. I guess that's a plus. Roll on next week.

Are they? I might be mistaken.

wow, that defending... Just, wow.

I'm a compulsive Given apologist but I have to admit that Harper's been looking better these last two games.

Only team in the prem (other than Derby) playing worse than us at the moment. Five league losses on the trot, no league goals in the last four matches, last won on December 22nd. Seeing how the Mackems/Boro/Wigan/Birmingham are all playing decently and Fulham and Derby are already down, I think it's basically us v. them for the last spot. Surely they won't get anything at Villa Park, so hopefully our head start is staying at six points. They also arguably have the more difficult schedule from now on. However, the complication is that we still have to play them and we always seem to lose these games against team's having a bad run. So.. Think we can do it?

Smith obviously trying to change the fact that he hasn't gotten his obligatory yellow card yet