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You ever seen them play? Any stars we should look out for? Other than your cousin?

He has shown good ability to hold the ball up and at times good vision even if he should have been more selfish. When he was last getting half a run in the team Carroll looked about as prolific as a rich tea biscuit the differrence is Carroll was given a good run started banging them in for fun. Should be a lesson in that. Carroll's run of games were in the Premier League not the Championship. They weren't like, up until January, Carroll was falling well short of what we needed even in the CCC. true but at least even in his worst times he looked a remote goal threat, ranger does not Opinion - I've seen Ranger miss a number of good chances and score twice. In my eyes "not being a goal threat" is someone like Leon Best who is so awful that he doesn't get chances. Ranger's only started 7 games and is 19 years old (today!) ffs. Talk about being written off. Up until the end of January, Carroll had only four goals and was starting most games. Neither should be written off at the moment. Obviously you'll still get idiots, saying get rid after a handful of games. As for causing bother, can't we try and sort his head out ourselves? Or just grin and bear it, like teams have done with the likes of Bellamy.

We didn't average 52,000 last season though. Wasn't it closer to 48,000 anyway?

Certainly bodes well for the future with, as you say Chase, both the U15s and U18s doing well. I take it this means we play the likes of Barcelona and Inter Milan U15s?

I was surprised not to see any of the famous Ronaldo-Higuain link up play tonight.

rooney consider's him best player in the world *Imagines Rooney and Xavi in the same team* We've watching Messi and Xavi in the same team man, how can you beat that?

Could be useful in breaking some legs in next season´s derby. Speaking of which, I'd give Anichebe a man-marking job on Nolan next season. I doubt Anichebe is just going to try and break Nolan's legs. Other teams should be worried if anything with our lot about: Danny 'The Fag(an) Hater' Guthrie, Andy 'The Hitman' Carroll, Joey 'The Smoking Cigar' Barton and Kevin 'Colleen' Nolan.

I thought that his gowl was an own goal, Lovenkrands did a lot more up front today and should have scored a s*** load. What's that got to do with Carroll's aerial ability?

Not very good when he's on the end of them though. It's probably best to post that after a game where he hasn't scored a header.

Apart from insulting the fans. How come we need to lower our expectations? Believe me Chris, they are low. He doesn't actually say anything like that. True, hadn't actually read the article properly, should've realised the headline would be sensationalist rubbish.

She hates Newcastle, that seems a good enough reason for most papers.

Says nowt wrong there. Apart from insulting the fans. How come we need to lower our expectations? Believe me Chris, they are low.

If we got a big money offer for any of them we should sell... Depends what your definition of big money is though. If we got our money back on Colo I'd probably take it, £8-9m for Jonas, likewise, £7-8m for Taylor, likewise.

Betting on Liverpool Niel, I don't know how you do it. I could never bet on Sunderland, I think I'd rather lose money than see them win.

I know you're probably joking, but Ronaldo, do you think Rooney is better than Messi?

Not even the best Argentinian, that's Higuain.

Krul? Because he's a better keeper?

Exactly, which is why, in tougher games Real have stuggled; and why they will probably end this season trophyless. I don't think anyone can deny that Real played their best football this season without Ronaldo (see Deportivo (A) for evidence). Ronaldo scores and it will seem stupid, but I think a lot of the time he's detrimental to the team. Watch Ronaldo's highlights v Atletico, all he did was shoot and in the end he wasn't involved in any of the goals I don't think. It was like with Harewood and Shola with us, both seemed to score goals but as a team, we played better football with Carroll (and Ranger, to be fair) upfront, not that it matters now with Carroll scoring loads but people need to look beyond the stats sometimes. As for Higuain, look at the games he hasn't scored in. Lyon (H), Sevilla (H), Lyon (A), Marseille (A), Barcelona (A). Basically, the big and important games. He still hasn't proved himself against the top teams. He's a top striker but he can't be included with Torres, Drogba et al until he starts scoring the important goals. I realise it's obvious that against bigger teams players will score less but his performances in those games were hardly eyecatching either. I'm not saying he won't do it in the future but at the moment I don't think he has yet.

Madrid are so much better than last year it isn't even worth talking about. Higuain and Ronaldo are cleaning house. Higuain always seems to choke in big games, flat track bully at the moment. As for Ronaldo, Real have played their best football with him out of the team. When's he's in the team all he does is shoot, 30 yards out, 20 yards out, whatever, just shoot.

Mitch Megginson LOL

Harper Beye--Colo--Taylor--Jose Duff--Guthrie--Nolan--Jonas Viduka--Owen I think most of those are realistic transfers, especially with Viduka on a free.

I read on and it looked like he was going mental.

Er... he did bring Barton on.

What you spending your tilbage on mate?