Pilko

Harper - decent, 7 Taylor - won the pen by diving, otherwise fine - 6 Colo - shite, 5 Bassong - looking more and more the part, 8.5 Enrique - brilliant in defence and attack, 8 Jonas - final ball was awful, 6.5 Nolan - got more involved as the game went on, 6.5 Butt - retained possesion well and tackled well, 7 Duff - all fart and no shit, as usual, 5 Ameobi - did not look fit... nice pen, 6 Carroll - unlucky with header in first half, nice touches, 7 Lovenkrands - slotted in fine, 6

Feeling sick now. Off to my mates in 10 minutes.

We'll not lose so nothing is my fault, anyway, I'm off now. 3-1. Haha, excellent stuff. Hope you're right.

At a friends' in West Monkseaton. The beer fest is about to begin. COME ON THE TOON

What a load of tosh. He moved to Man City because they're way more ambitious than us. End of. The manner of his exit, the timing etc. he's just another mercenary, they all are at the end of the day. From now on I'll not be putting any stock in any of our players, Shay is the last straw. It's taken you a while to notice. How many non-mercenaries are there in the whole of football? Shearer. Harper.

No.

It's here where I want to thank Mick for being so optimistic in this thread, dishing out excellent advice and predicitions on this game. If we lose though, it's your fault.

It will be hard to tell until a few years time how good a job has been done. As the key is not just bringing in talented players, but also having the right staff and culture at the club to allow them to develop into top quality footballers. For example we need a structure set so all the youth teams play in a way that mirrors the first team, so that when they do make the step up they won't be out of place at all. If they have the talent of course. Can't disagree with any of that, from either Slugsworth or Tooj. I do think that we should be signing young players who are 19 or 20 though as well as these 16 year olds, so we can reap the benefits on some of them a bit sooner.

Haha, if Man City do buy Ferdinand, Hughes has lost the plot completely.

Skysports site said they'd confirmed an interest.

Every passing minute that goes by makes me think more and more than Given won't leave this window.

Gonna be at my mates watching it for most of tomorrow, me and the other 2 lads going there have a case of beer (24) each, plus whatever is in the house. More than enough to drown our sorrows / drink as we discuss the draw / celebrate a victory.

I had a dream last week that Kinnear got sacked and Steve Harper got put in permanent charge. Don't ask.

He's 22, not 24? I think.

Unlucky 'Arry. :arry:

Portsmouth are going down unless they remove Adams asap.

Spurs pull one back.

Redknapp after the game: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gifhttp://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5664/twitcherkg7.gif Can someone PLEASE add that to the smiley list?

No. This thread is retarded. And so is the person who started the thread.

Not in squad? Thank god for that.

14.04 Newcastle winger Charles N'Zogbia expects to be a Wigan player by the end of the weekend.

I hope not.

We've allowed him to speak to City so that as soon as we agree a fee, all he needs is a medical and he can sign.

Stuck a fiver on Liverpool/Chelsea and Newcastle/Sunderland being score draws - gets me £35

Rab C Nesbitt would do a better job of describing him than I would.