Pilko

We're going to piss about for another 3 weeks and then miss out on this guy, aren't we?

Agreed. Beckford had an encouraging season, Saha is ageing, Cahill is injured a lot, and Anichebe is a joke. Why would they sell him for anything approaching a 'good value' price? It's unthinkable. Thankfully, Douglas has probably pulled this out of his arse. Another slow news day as the Erding saga drags on and on.

I did think of that exact same analogy, funnily enough.

Taylor at right back? Not so sure about that, like. Not just basing that on the horrible Everton game, either. Well aware he's done well there before, coincidentally against Everton under Kinnear.

Mike's shit, death to the fatties #helmets

Group of Life.

Lee Evans: "Gonorrhea... Herpes... Madeupistan!"

Guthrie will get an extension, Shola probably will too. The rest on that bit, barring a miracle with Jose/Barton, will be off. Of the young-uns, I'd say Tavernier, Sammy Ameobi and Richardson will almost certainly get deals. In the 'maybe' pile for me are Newton, Kadar, Airey and Soderberg. Inman will be off imo, despite all that initial promise.

LAUGHTER IS NOT ARGUMENTATION

Eh? Who scored so early

Would love Scotland. Then we can turn over the daft wee bassas annoyance disapproval disdain

Villa must have really piled up the pre-season games for him to get that many already.

Top scorer leaves + assistant takes over + financial uncertainty. Recipe for disaster at Coventry tbh. Derby also seem to have finished about 19th for a few years, Savage has gone, and they seem to never win home games. Edit: just realised that applied to Watford too still reckon they'll be alright this year. About 16th or so.

Coventry look a good bet to go down this year. Derby too. One of my mates has bet on Watford, couldn't bring myself to do it though. GG's sadness would override the money won anyway. Plus, I don't actually see them going down.

West Ham won't win the league. Look at Leicester, fucking hell.

:lol: amazing as ever, Skirge.

im with you on this one, the away end at the stade de plop then belowing out to the tune of Lilly the Pink "we will drink a drink a drink to mevlut erdinc, erdinc, erdinc - the makem slayer from turkey ee ee" not bad

At least the Ben Arfa saga was exciting. This is boring.

You can even see Robinson smirk at the end

4-4-1-1 against Darlo, I think.

Excellent post.

What a fucking shit pre-season this has been. I truly hope we don't bother with any of these pointless far-flung tours any more. Get them somewhere in Europe for warm weather training, no need to fuck about and go all the way to the US.

Bloody hell. Imagine the tarmacing they could do with that.