Pilko

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...

I'll help sort it out again if you like, Greg. I reckon the 3G would be fine unless anyone else has any problems. I have no problem with that date as far as I can see, but closer to the time I'll confirm. Yeah, put me down please.

Stuff getting fit. I can't wait to feature against you lot as the fattest, slowest, shittest player there is maaan! Better get eating then if you want to beat Nixon

Hoddle and youngsters? Wasn't it him who played a centre-half up front during a criplling injury crisis and didn't even include any young lads on the bench, deciding to stick 2 keepers and a half-injured striker on there instead?

Was it you who set me up for my goal with that beautiful outside-of-the-foot curved through ball, marky? Whoever it was deserves a because it was the best through ball all game.

You musn't have noticed me in the first half then.

There was at least 2 occasions when I thought that you were Dave. Wearing the same colour t-shirt and both about four foot two.

I'm not exactly Billy fucking Whizz like, I only have some form of 'pace' (generous calling it that tbh) because I've got such long legs.