Ash

What a moron. Why? He's not really gonna get played at Tottenham, why would he stay? Just seems a very odd move.

What a moron.

Harper Kadar - Williamson - Coloccini - van Aanholt Routledge - Guthrie - Smith - Jonas Best - Lovenkrands Subs: Krul, R.Taylor, Hall, Nolan, Ranger, Carroll, Ameobi/Pancrate

Said the same to my old man last night. Hargreaves > Barry.

Carlos Vela? Get fucked, we have no chance!

Imagine the size of Nolan in 3D.

Egypt at Wembley in March is the only confirmed game so far. Rumours of a couple of games in May too, one possibly in Austria against Japan where we are going to have our training base. Mexico have also been mentioned as potential opponents but no confirmation as yet where it will take place, if at all.

The form that Rooney is currently in, could we maybe see a change in formation for England? I know the current system is working well with Heskey alongside Rooney, but I think playing a 4-5-1/4-3-3 could aid us with the talent we have in midfield. I think it could also allow us to get the best out of Gerrard and Lampard, who are the two other most important players in the squad.

Was tempted to back the draw between Arsenal and Man Utd but having seen the teams I'm tempted to plump for Arsenal...

Anybody on here apply for tickets? After a bit of a delay, the results of our application were recieved the other day. We only applied for tickets for the Final if England get there and all got allocated a ticket. Just got to hope we make it that far now!

You need to understand where you stand in the football pecking order, its several places below Wigan! The view of a fan from another small town club is hardly likely to be relevant.

That's the difference with our strikers and a decent one though; a decent one would have scored today, despite the lack of chances we created. Not saying that the central midfield is any good by the way, I've said for years it's the weakest point of the side, but we could just about get away with Nolan and Smith in this league. We actually have two players in the squad at the minute in Guthrie and Barton (when fit) that would be a massive improvement on the previous pairing mentioned, not likely to happen though. With nobody up front to stick away chances, regardless of feeding off scraps or not, it could well cost us.

Shearer would have helped bring his game on but not anywhere near as much as he'd have improved Ranger. As it is, he isn't here and we have a young lad who is being stuck up front on his own in a stupid formation. Fair enough, that isn't helping him out, but his general play is just awful at times.

If Ronaldo hadn't posted that, would people have argued it? He's absolutely spot on.

I think what Ronaldo meant was a striker that will get us out of this division.

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This the lad we've been linked with in the past? If it was, he sounded quite promising from what people who've seen him play had to say about him.

Stick in a £3m bid for him and he'd be ours in my opinion. Money well spent too.

Aye, it is a bit of a bastard wait. He tipped either us or Bradford to win the CC and thinks we'll be the 'surprise package'. We've sold just short of it upto last night, should break the 9k barrier by next Saturday. Hope you're right about the bet. I reckon it'll be a close game and 8 is a decent enough start. Long will be really up for it, I know that. Still not convinced about Eastmond been able to lead a team around the park. Tempted to put a bit on us outright at 11/5.

Hope you didn't back us because of what I've been telling you, I might be slightly biased! Did you see Stevo's predictions on SSN today? We play next Saturday by the way mate.

Good, he's shit.

I'd take him only being out for two weeks in an instant. Was expecting him to be missing for at least 4-6 weeks so anything less would be brilliant.

Had £15 on us -1 @ 9/5. Had £10 on us and Everton in a double. Had £10 on us -1 and Everton -1 in a double. Paid around £145.