ChrisMcQuillan

Sadly, there's been about twenty final straws over the last few years. People will calm down and go back. Not saying they should, but they will.

Someone said a while ago that everything Ashley's done was with long-term money-saving in mind. Selling Carroll would mean relegation. That, last season, meant a £40m loss with Ashley pumping money in every week to keep us afloat. That means for Carroll's sale to make business sense, the offer would have to be over £50m. The only people capable of offering that would be Man City, and you could demand £70m in that case. They're not going to pay that for Carroll, not yet anyway. No need to panic. Ashley won't sell because the long-term loss of revenue outweighs the short-term benefit.

Not the first time that's been said. I mentioned it in the "Not Worthy of a Thread" thread. My mate said he swore he saw Ashley and Llambias at the Sydney test too.

Anyone watching on Sky Plus rewind until the ball Tremlett cut Smith in two with, abou 10 mins ago, and looks like them in the background behind aleem dar just after the muted appeal. Supposedly.

Friend texting me insisting he just saw Ashley and Llambias in the background of the Ashes test tonight. :S

Blackburn Wigan Wolves

In a dream world, I've love to see Carroll with Lacina Traore just for the giggles. It'd be like being attacked by two twelve-foot dildos. A thoroughly terrifying experience.

Harper - 7 - Basically got an assist. Simpson - 7 Coloccini - 8 S. Taylor - 7 Enrique - 7 Barton - 9 Nolan - 7 Tiote - 9 Jonas - 8 Shola - 6 (awful apart from his goal) Lovenkrands - 5 Routledge - 7 Best - 6 Smith - N/A

Am going to go with 3 - 1 to Wigan, with Ameobi to score for us.

We'll make them look like world beaters, trust me.

Yes, but replacing Carroll and Hatem with Shola and Loven is like replacing Rooney and Berbatov with a boat anchor.

Hughton didn't start Ranger once in the PL. Carroll and Ameobi were fit for most of that time. He didn't start Lovenkrands ahead of Ranger. He did against Fulham. Again, that was before Ranger had shown how big an impact he could make off the bench. At least as far as I know. This RangerRevolution has only started since those few substitute appearances, really.

Hughton didn't start Ranger once in the PL. Carroll and Ameobi were fit for most of that time. He didn't start Lovenkrands ahead of Ranger.

'Experience' ahh, the same 'experience' that pardew's got It's a bit like being managed by Angus Deayton, isn't it?

Barely had to do anything.

Better attitude. More important than points, don't you know?

Fucking Taylor.

Just hoof and hope from GK to the pace of Shola.

It'll probably be Harper Simpson Taylor Campbell Perch Routledge Gosling Nolan Jonas Smith Ameobi Something mental like that. Jonas as the only foreigner, cause we don't have any other option till Bentley comes in.

Why are Chelsea never this shit against us?

"One of the factors in Hughton’s axing is understood to have been his insistence that his right-hand man, after Colin Calderwood had quit to manage Hibernian, was an “external’’ appointment." Surely, therefore, our new assistant will have to be internally appointed.

Traore's been linked with everyone over the last two years. He won't be coming here.

If I recall, that was the first time Cole had EVER scored a brace in a PL game.

Everyone should calm down. It'll be 33 year old Glen Phillips from Dagenham and Redbridge Reserves.

Why the hell would Harper replace Krul? You give Krul the nod after his mistakes to allow him to atone for them against Spurs. He does, with a world-class save. And then you drop him? Poor.