ShearMagic

Given Carr - Taylor - Cacapa - Enrique Rozehnal Emre - N'Zogbia Milner Duff Owen

No. Hahaha... sorry. I completely missed the other thread.

Lets hope we don't get trounced 5-1 like we did against Birmingham last year. Smith and Butt are suspended. Barton, Martins, Geremi, Beye, Faye all unavailable. Teams, tactics and all general match talk in here.

It's a two match ban for Smith. Usually I wouldn't be that bothered, but it leaves us very short in midfield with Butts two match ban at the same time. N'Zogbia and Emre in central midfield?

Hope he doesn't move. I would've wasted a tenna getting his name on my shirt if he does But in all seriousness, I wouldn't blame him if he was to move. Hope to hell that he doesn't though.

They'd nearly go down without him.

I'm angry with the appointment, but the pre-conceived ideas is what's done for each of our last 4 managers. Let's at least give them a chance eh?

We're not serious??? 5 million a year + flights, for a very average manager. We deserve everything we get.

Diarra, Need someone creative in the midfield that can actually create chances.

Well he was super impressive in the match against Palermo last season. Long time ago, but its the one thing in my memory that sticks out, its also apparent from reading the Falkirk board that most of the people with a clue have been impressed.

Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne. Alan Shearer Peter Beardsley.

Arshavin is a fantastic player. Well worth the 7m IMO, is pacy and will solve our creative problems (some of them).

:clap: Absolutely sensational article that.

Yawn... Can the admin put a ban on these types of threads?

Very interesting.... but I couldn't give a shit

Viduka, Butt, Faye

Actually had a very good first half I thought. Second half he favoured the Mackems more but that was to be expected tbh. Pretty decent game I thought.

Mike Ashley Funniest thing I've seen in a long long time.

Been an alright game to watch, nothing spectacular though. Derby have battled hard, but they just lack quality. West Ham have done well, deserve their lead.

Agree about the Viduka part. You're kidding about Jones getting MOTM? Thats ridiculous.

Post match reaction:

Dwelled on the ball for a little too long and then severely underhit a backpass to Steve Harper, Rozehnal had to cut in before Jones got to it and he is the one that kicked it behind for the corner that they scored from. What do people seriously expect from us this year? To all of a sudden finish top 4? I'd be happy with around 7th, which would require us to get around 60 points. We're about on track at the moment (albeit, we haven't played any of the big 4)

Haha one of my mates actually had a valid point. Maybe Sam Allardyce puts all the people that can play a certain position in a hat, and then just picks them out?

thats just incorrect. i thought owen looked very good today. great control for his shot on goal, and was never offside in the 20th odd minute. i would have brought martins on earlier, but you cant deny he did well when he had the chance, its just it was obvious he wasn't going to get enough chances to score. viduka imo was very poor today, much worse than owen, and i say this as a big viduka fan. I can't agree with this. I've given Owen plenty of chances, and he fails to deliver all of the time. I just don't rate him anymore when he's wearing the black and white shirt. Great control for his shot on goal? If thats the only thing he did that was good all game, he had a poor game.

To be fair, the offsides aren't the referees decisions. I didn't think he was that bad in the first half, however, in the second I thought they got lots of soft frees, and we couldn't buy one.