Fatwax

We're hardly any better than Blackburn.

Our midfield is quite poor I'd admit. Losing Gutierrez for 6 weeks and Barton to injury and suspension hasn't helped though. Guthrie & Butt isn't great, but it's still no better or worse than Cattermole & Brown at Wigan, Bowyer & Parker at West Ham, McCann & Nolan at Bolton, Whitehead & Reid at Sunderland, Andrews & Mokoena at Blackburn, etc. Well to be honest I think that any of the 5 teams you've named could possibly go down. You can say that injuries haven't helped us, but after that all we've got to come back is Barton who IS a step up, but not much of one.. and if you're going by that you could say that West Ham are missing Dyer etc. I just don't see any chance of Europe this season. It's impossible to tell if we'll go down and I don't think we will - more out of habit than anything, heh - but we've already screwed up 2 recent chances of getting a bit of space between us and the bottom feeders - Fulham and Wigan. Teams that go down lose these kind of matches.

We had no other senior LW in the squad and the signing of Duff for only £5m made sense. I wouldn't say it was unnecessary signing, but in hindsight it hasn't worked out for us at all. Not that you can really use hindsight when signing players.

Yeah on paper we are.. we've got some good players but we're no way near being a good team. Our midfield has no understanding and absolutely no depth. One injury throws us out of balance.

The Dutch have a nickname for Newcastle United. I forget the exact wording, but we're considered a graveyard that ends the careers of top players.

Cole was offside when Anelka shot. Linesman got it spot on. Given taking the ball over the line might be worth a watch if they can show whether it went in or not. He was offside from the second shot, no debate about that. Straight out of the rule book that scenario, with accompanying pictures. The ball didn't go all the way over the line from replays, which it has to for it to count. Two good decisions at the end of the day.

I think this performance shows how the weak link really is the midfield, which is what alot of us on here have been saying for a while now. Our defence played brilliantly today with constant pressure. A midfield with some actual ball retention in it would ease so much pressure and help create more goals at the other end. I continue to be impressed with Coloccini & Bassong. Enrique didn't have a bad game at all either.

I don't know how anyone can dispute that offside. Cole was offside from the Malouda shot. If it had gone it, it would have been a goal, but the rebound caused Cole to be in play.

One long range scorcher to fly past Given that'll be shown in every Sky 08/09 season clip for years to come. Guaranteed.

Soccer AM is alright I guess.. nothing on Fantasy Football League though!

Where are you from out of interest?

Saw the Argie goal on ITV, with the news reporter saying that "Carlos Tevez for Man Utd was involved in the build up to the goal".. I know it's only a little thing, but do you reckon they do it on purpose? It's far too regular.

Of course Duff is saying this, he knows which side his bread's buttered.

Why is this cunt mouthing off about selling players we can't really afford to lose? Sick of him. I have no doubt that anyone he brings in will be in the Duff/Butt mould. Excellent.

He'd blame the referee alot. And as for this statement that's supposed to be making an appearance after the Chelsea thrashing, I have no doubt in my mind that it'll be nothing but negative bullshit that'll probably lead to N-O needing a new server.

Hmmm, people say that we never give our managers time but to be fair we've rarely hounded out a manager that wasn't being detrimental to the team... Roeder, Souness & Allardyce as examples. My memory is a little hazy on Dalgleish & Gullit, maybe one of the older supporters would like to properly fill me in but as I remember it one of them dismantled Keegans excellent team and the other fell out with Shearer and Lee.. infact didn't Gullit walk or is my memory on the blink again?

Newell has taken the job at Grimsby Town, count him out

Must have been a London fixture, that.

I've never seen that available for the PS3.

What was you doing on that site? I like Jonas and all, but I aint cruising bizarre pseudo-porn sites for his likeness. Now Nile Ranger on the other hand..

Have I woken up in Bizarro world here? When did ANY club want Taylor? He wants to go to Spurs aswell does he? Sorted. Get him and Dawson infront of Gomes. Sexual.

What's the bet?

Well yeah.. but we would have stood a better chance of winning if we had left our creative output (Jonas) on, and taken off the player that hadn't done much and looked knackered - Duff.. When we had 3 strikers on the entire team lost shape and pace. Martins was the only player left on with any real speed on him and he'd be ineffective all match anyway. His subs are regularly either clueless or far too late, some examples: Man City - Andy Carroll came on instead of Xisco and Carrolls lazy as fuck jogging about and lack of bal retention led to City counter attacking. Sunderland - Brought on Gutierrez & Barton on in the 80th minute pretty much, far too late in the game. We needed these players earlier. Fulham - See above, removed the pace and ruined the shape of the team.

8.03 miles CH Hull City AFC HU3 6HU 0870 837 0004 13.57 miles L2 Grimsby Town Football Club DN35 7PY 0147 260 050 14.04 miles CH Scunthorpe United Football Club DN15 8TD 0871 221 1899 29.36 miles L2 Lincoln City Football Club LN5 8LD 0870 899 2005 31.30 miles L1 Doncaster Rovers Football Club DN4 5JW 0130 276 4664 43.86 miles L2 Rotherham United Football Club S60 1HR 0870 443 1884 45.80 miles CH Barnsley Football Club S71 1ET 0122 621 1211 48.53 miles L2 Mansfield Town Football Club NG18 5DA 0870 756 3160 49.07 miles CH Sheffield United Football Club S2 4SU 0870 787 1799 49.35 miles CH Sheffield Wednesday Football Club S6 1SW 0870 999 1867 Pile of shit.

Morgan has always been a cunt. Disgrace to the sport.