Pilko

The only thing I don't like about Guthrie is that he fades badly in the second half, especially if he's been booked.

Swashbuckling left wingback, took my FM08 Wigan side to UEFA Cup qualification in his first season. A snip at £4m.

Ilunga would be ace, considering he's a LB who can deputise at CB. Looked excellent this season for WHU.

Mercedes.

His name translates as: I fall Vinícius Blacksmith

good spot joey. does it specify what position he plays?

Rich brought two 'mates' I think as well. And I was also banking on the fact that at least a couple of the people there will be unavailable or injured or whatever at the next one. But I shouldn't.

I think we should count Stephen as someone who played at this one, because to be fair he gave us a good few weeks notice for a perfectly genuine and unavoidable reason on why he wasn't able to attend. Remember there is a couple of gaps anyway, because this time we won't need to fill the teams up with people's mates?

I think you should hang fire for at least another week Greg, and just wait to see what the majority opinion is in terms of date. Can we agree that it should be between 1pm and 3pm kickoff though, as 6pm was waaaay too late? As for the dates, at this current time I can manage either.

Do people even read the articles? FRINGE players, and people suggest Zog and Enrique who have played in 90% of the last dozen or so games. Personally, I think the most likely ones are Smith, Geremi and Edgar.

Despite having 78530583985935038 players out injured I bet none of LuaLua, Ranger, Donaldson or Kadar will get any playing time.

Good spot, was waiting for someone to comment on this After all of his big talk in the build-up as well. Hey, I blame the weather, the team, the opposition, the manager, the referee, the substitutions, the man of the match award, the mascot, the turnstile operator, wristwatches, the latest Mcfly single, global warming, Steve Bunce, DVDs that dont come with commentary tracks, clouds, eyelids and gastric flu, but it wasn't my fault To be fair I acknowledged my crappy first half performance and main errors earlier in the thread!

Nixon wants to learn some fucking positional sense, he's the first right back I've seen to spend an entire half in the centre circle...

At least Smith's is workable, just hire a professional hitman and he'll never play for this club again, until he's forced to retire/drops dead.

pretty sure I started picking you up when I realised no-one else was (thought CP40 or Rich would have done it) Aye you did in the second half, but the first half I was completely alone, ready to ripple the net, then northerngimp did his Geremi impression.

Wish people would stop whinging. We have a pacy, versatile player here who can pass and move, and possibly cross. 6 month deal with the promise of a longer one if he performs? We can't go wrong.

You're kidding, right?

I take it you've forgotten how truly abysmal Smith is (I can't blame you, I've tried all sorts to wipe my memory and the nightmares still persist)? Smith makes Butt look like Messi in comparison*. *possibly an exaggeration. The reason I originally posted that was because Butt has been so consistently shite for so long, I was voting on a purely "anything except Butt" basis. And I'd kind of half-forgotten exactly how bad Smith was.

Carroll and Taylor could probably play but are being rested on medical advice, meaning they are likely to feature against Blackburn.

They probably saw my pissweak header from your freekick and decided not to bother.

After Butt's recent form, Smith.

And by the way, did anyone notice that during corners the blue team always seemed to shout "yes, mark the big lad here" and yet they had three players marking Nixon at the back stick and I was totally free on the penalty spot?

Mick, do you fancy posting up the couple of photos that you said were alright? Here's hoping they catch a funny facial expression or stance or whatever.

Come on Dave, I thought you were bigger than that.

cue a clamouring to play CB on the other team...