Hughesy

I love the lopsidedness - makes it far far more interesting and striking.

I think that one horrendous error might be clouding your judgment a little on how Guthrie played that day and how rubbish we are as a whole during the match.

I don't quite get this guy... if this doesn't happen and he has said that it will - why would anyone ever believe anything he says? Surely he has been wrong enough times now for ppl to ignore him?

His articles are usually quite scathing about Sullivan and Gold. So that's a bit strange really...

50/50 really.

That is an odd article because I genuinely rate Samuel as being a decent journalist. Very strange. Can almost see where he is going with the first bit about us not being a 'massive' club, because we aren't... But the bit about West Ham and Nolan is just plain wrong.

I am not sure the presence of Kevin Nolan would make me any more willing to buy a season ticket.

No-one is forcing him to leave. He could just see out the remaining two years of his well remunerated contract.

if,say for example the fee is £2mill then his wages of, again for example £40kpw, there's over 4mill to reinvest in the club (hopefully) Just stuff a shirt with £10 notes and stick it on the pitch. it'd probably be more mobile.

I've heard it all now. Well - it makes sense.

How would a 'warning' from Barton help anyone?

I agree. The whole 'great team spirit' thing seems to be a bit over the top. Not really sure what Nolan precisely does in the dressing room that is so great, but I can't see it being anywhere near as important as is made out. After all, who do we actually have to confirm that Nolan is a great leader? Barton. And er... Nolan.

Of course it is, man. They can hardly wait to come here, with our impeccable record of treating players well. I didn't realise that to treat a player well you have to give them 5 year contracts until they are 33 years old. Now I see where we are going wrong.

He'll fail his medical when he steps on the scales and they realise that he is clinically obese anyway...

I don't think we are resting our hopes on Ba, are we?

With £35m burning a hole in our pocket? Never seen Erdinc play but I must admit when Carroll left, I expected him to be replaced by more than a free transfer with a history of failing medicals. Didn't you? I always thought buying a quality striker would be the hardest part of the jigsaw. Noticeable that no one is mentioning any credible alternatives to the players we've targeted so far. That's my point - there aren't exactly a wealth of top quality strikers who are available. If there are, no-one seems to be able to name them. Most of them would be as big a punt as Erdinc.

So a big price tag would have kept you happy? From what I have seen of Ba, he would be a good acquisition on a free.

That would be Gameiro that about 0.5% of this forum have actually even seen play... About 15% have probably bought him on FM. Most didn't even know who he was until about 3 weeks ago...

I just want to know who people thought we were going to sign as strikers this year? Who did you think we were going to buy that is much better than Ba and Erdinc?

Whilst I understand this is the usual provocative boring s**** you peddle re: Pardew, I think it's safe to say that Shearer didn't look too far off a circus performer during his brief stint in charge of Newcastle. We scored in 2 out of the 8 games he took charge of, Cardiff will be lucky to stay up at that rate. Say what you like about the circumstances, the likes of Lawrie frigging Sanchez and Paul Hart have come in for similar-length stints at Premier League clubs and kept them up. Why does everyone on this bloody forum have to always nurse such deliberately contrary views. Shearer clearly didn't look like a circus performer. Pardew clearly isn't a clown.

And you know exactly what Dowie's contribution was how? I don't know how he knows but he's right. At the talk in I went to with Nolan, he absolutely hated Dowie and said the majority of the dressing room were the same. Basically called him a prick but in a more polite way. What more evidence could you need....

Just a quick reality check here - who were the people who are writing the likes of Erdinc off already expect we were going to get?

Think I did as well...

Let me know who you go for... mine never wins..

I agree. I thought he looked exceptional a couple of seasons ago and whenever I have seen play this season... he hasn't been as bad as others make out.