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You can guarantee it wouldn't though. Didn't he go off with a hamstring injury or something?

Fucking shit. I'm well pissed off.

Pathetic match of football from two pathetic football teams. Pathetic officiating display from the always pathetic Mike Dean and his two pathetic assistants. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.

Look, who cares about SA. We have one thing to focus on for the next 2 hours, and it's not that fat bastard Sam Allardyce. HOWAY THE TOON!!

Well, from my point of view, the earlier the better (I live in Australia, with a +10.5 hour time difference)

Great. We're coming up against another 4-5-1. Same formation Bolton played. Another 0-0?

So, would we have preferred to sign Kevin Nolan, Andy 'Balloon' Reid and other no good players than sign nobody then?

We should get ready for the Championship then eh?

Where's the Smith/Ameobi option

Aye. Here's for hoping

When Beye, Faye, Martins and Geremi come back our squad will already be bigger. GK: Given, Harper DR: Beye, Carr CB: Taylor, Cacapa, Faye DL: Enrique MR: Milner MC: Barton, Butt, Emre, Geremi ML: N'Zogbia, Duff FC: Viduka, Owen, Martins, Ameobi, Smith Yeah I suppose that's only 20, a bit thin. But if everyones fit it still means that 4 are going to not even make the bench. Although with Viduka and Owen always injured.....

I believe that comes under Violent Conduct

Wonder how often he was in the fitness room

Depends what he should've been sent off for. Violent Conduct/Serious Foul Play, then yes he would've. But, if it was for 2 yellows or denying a goalscoring opportunity, that only carries a 1 match ban.

Owen/Martins. Although KK rates Mark Viduka very highly it would seem. The style KK wishes to have us playing sees no need for a target man, and Obafemi Martins' pace will trouble even the quickest of backlines.

CM RM CF Barton is good enough to be a regular first choice if he can get his act together. Showed his class at Man City, we've only seen glimpses of it.

I don't think we're in a relegation battle, but if we don't win on Sunday, with the games we have coming up we're right in one. It's such a crucial game. Given Carr Taylor Cacapa Enrique Duff Barton Emre N'Zogbia Owen Viduka Harper, Rozehnal, Smith, Butt, Milner And we'll actually have people on the bench to choose from

Unbelievable player. Can't stop scoring goals. Only downside to his game is his diving.

Smith the easy one to target again? I can think of 5 or 6 who were worse than him.

..... is crap ?? I've yet to see him play a good game. I've seen him play a good half a game, but never a full one. Is there anyone lazier on our list at the moment? You'd be hard pressed to find someone.

At half time of our game, I took a look at some of the other matches, and same at the end of our game (since they kicked off 15 mins later). Boro vs. Wigan - Middlesbrough were lucky to win from what I saw. I'm not going to say we should beat them, because if I do they'll no doubt beat us, but they weren't very good, and Wigan lost to them, so that tells you about Wigan. Sunderland vs. Brum - Birmingham have matched it with the top sides, but it's going to mean SFA if they can't start getting points from teams around them. They have Derby on the weekend I think. There's still hope for Birmingham. Sunderland looked good, and sadly I think they might stay up. Bolton vs. Fulham - Yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn. If we don't finish above both of these sides, I'll stop supporting Newcastle United (not really, but god they're bad). Derby Fulham Wigan Bolton 3 of the above 4 will go down. Probably the top 3. We're too close for comfort, but it's very, very unlikely that we'll go down.

This forum is depressing. It really is. The sad thing is, people actually expected us to get a result of Arsenal. Now, that's delusion for you.

Could you do anything playing as a striker with that defence? Owen didn't do anything either. Lets stick him in the reserves.

Sunday.