jdckelly

How? have to start at round 1 i think

its oliver, safe to ignore him

while in no way can full conclusions be drawn about shearer as a manager there are some things that can be taken from his brief stint in the job and some educated guesses based on reasonable speculation. The main thing to be taken is he seems to be very strong on discipline and trying to create team unity through eating meals together etc. Noe those measures didnt have any notable effect on us last season but it would be harsh to judge him on that even if worrying points can be taken from that stint. Mainly his inability to motivate the team for a 2nd half fight back v villa nothing to lose yet nowt of the side, that worrys me. On the reasonable speculation end of the scale he does seem to want total control over the football club top to bottom however how can any rookie manager expect to get 100% control, the only ones who I'd think have 100% control in england are Fergie and Wenger and they've earned that control over time, and its not even clear if fergie has total control judging by the sale of ronaldo and not spending the cash afterwards.

what a highlight though

i detest itv i really do, the sooner the beeb gets the fa cup back the better

nah barrow brought fans with them, more than showed up for the wigan all premier league match in fact

what was beye doing having his arm around his shoulder

the notw would have us believe that lafa prefers heskey to horseface......................................

they probably get a cut so therefore are being greedy

probably jls

Joey had a point with his midweek interview on players being out of touch with reality and probably drew his conclusions from oba if thats what he spent a week

frankly those guys make ashley seem competent in comparison and thats the most damning thing i can say about them

I prefer Sergio Ramos (minus his persistent fouling). whenever ive seen maicon for brazil hes impressed me a lot

well done reading, very impressive performance out of them, but lets hope they're back to normal next week

Aye, We've a great chance of winning it this year. Too right, Chelsea will be shitting themselves Why do you think Drogba and co are going to Africa, scared they'll get us in round 4. of coarse

could be worse imagine watching that sort of thing week in week out as a stoke fan

for lack of other options on tv

not what we needed but we're not out, whether thats a good thing or not remains to be seen

Should pay Coloccini for a week and a bit. orders from ashley then get through this round

He wouldn't want it. Give it to Roeder. agreed

just saw the backpages on ssn silly season has started in full, rooney to real madrid for 60m according to the star and the express would have us believe that arry will pay 12m for micah richards (hes mad if thats true)

looks like fergie jnr for preston

lets see harper barton both taylors nolan shola smith simpson if he signs, theres 8 right there, doesnt really change much once we have 8 on hand who qualify just means we wont have a squad size above 25 over 22

chairman more likely to go for "experienced managers" like fat sam gary megson curbishley etc when they eject a manager mid-season rather than take a punt on someone young like fergie jnr or shearer

also on the subject of rafa and signings according to the guardian he wants van der vaart and horseface himself van nistelroy on loan from real madrid, now if they pull that off i would like to know how they are paying for that, surely are voronin isnt on that much a week that he can pay for maxi rodriguz horseface and van der vaarts wages