Away Toon

Well the boycott is well under way anyhow 42,000 for the Fulham game. I think we are regularly going to see much lower attendances at SJP than we have seen since we've been in the Premier League. Maybe Ashley will then bail out and sell up, we can only hope so, we are going absolutely nowhere being run like this.

Henderson looks good to me, first time i've actually seen the quality he has.

Vuckic also looks like he could be a handful playing just behind a main striker, he's big, puts himself around and obviously is technically good. Who knows how good a finisher he is or the rest of the so called strikers we have, maybe Pardew knows from watching them in training. Sammy showed yesterday that he could play either on the left or right, could beat his man with either trickery or pace and although he seems left footed, he didn't half spank his goal with his right. It's about time we started playing our promising younger players instead of just talking them up, look at Arsenal with Wiltshire and Ramsey etc

I think we have enough players already who can play the secondary striker role, Ben Arfa, Sammy, Oberton, even Ranger, they all are pretty quick and can work off a main striker. The main striker is the problem, neither Ameobi, Ba or Best look likely to score the goals that we need or to bother anybody but the absolutely worst premier league defences. Bendtner is probably the best option out there though I doubt we will pay the transfer fee Arsenal would like. Still if we are going to continue to miss out the midfield and play the long ball as we have done in the first three games I doubt it makes much difference who we sign anyhow.

I voted he'll stay with us, but quite honestly that was only down to wishful thinking.

Who was saying he was shit with his right foot?

I think converting Best to a central defender might be a good idea

It says something when Ryan taylor is by far the biggest goal threat we have

if it wasn't for Krul it would be 4 by now

Krul saves us again. Sammy does more with his first ball than Ba did all match.

Best should be off for that challenge. Straight Red Card as he elbowed him in the face. We'd hardly miss him.

Ba, Best and Shola don't look like they've 10 goals a season between them, so who is going to score? Seeing them play like this makes you realise that Carlton fucking Cole would actually be an upgrade over the three of them. A frightening thought.

Ba, Best and Shola are basically the same striker, big, black and immobile, with very little goal threat. Maybe Ba's not fit, I hope so anyhow as he looks terrible.

Well Marveaux looks promising but that's all really. Krul saved us from being out of this already.

Completely deserved, we are all over the shop, and look defensively diabolical.

Well 10 minutes gone and Scunthorpe well on top.Poor Marv hasn't touched the ball yet I reckon

This transfer window needs to close quickly or we'll lose Colo as Valencia now definitely have the money to buy him having sold Mata to the Russians. I think we overrate Tiote and there is not that much interest at the moment in buying him. Another good season, where he doesn't get booked every other game, he'll be gone as well. I'll always support the players wearing the shirt, but the club I just hate it and will continue to do so until Ashley sells up.

I think that Joey would probably like to stay with us in an ideal world. He obviously likes the fans, the city and the region and is settled here. However he's seen that the club has no real ambitions beyond survival, and most importantly no doubt feels unwanted by the club who will be making him unemployed next summer. I'm sure that like the other players that have been sold recently he seriously dislikes the people running the club. QPR will no doubt offer him similar money to his present salary but on a long term contract. If they get relegated he can leave on a free if he wants, as Ba did, if he wants that in his contract. QPR might be a smaller club than we are but they are certainly no less successful, in fact as we know there is hardly a club in the top two or three divisions that have won less than us over the last 40-50 years. Also they now have a motivated owner, who will invest in the club and try to make them better than they are, something it's very hard to say about our present ownership.

I really hope that they don't fire agent Bruce. this is so much fun.

Erding proche de Rennes Priorité du Stade Rennais, Mevlut Erding a choisi de rejoindre la Bretagne avant la fin du mercato. Pierre Dréossi va rencontrer Leonardo, directeur sportif du PSG, pour finaliser ce transfert. Erding devrait quitter Paris pour rejoindre Rennes.(EQ) Mevlut Erding s'est fait une raison. L'ancien Sochalien a compris qu'à Paris il ne jouerait, cette saison, qu'en cas de blessure de Kevin Gameiro. Or, à 24 ans, l'attaquant aux 47 buts en Ligue 1 (en 144 matches) aspire logiquement à plus de temps de jeu. Voilà pourquoi l'international turc a décidé de quitter le PSG avant la fin du mercato. Joueur le plus convoité de l'effectif parisien à la grande surprise de Leonardo, Erding a reçu ces derniers jours de nombreuses offres (Newcastle, Galatasaray, Rubin Kazan, Lille, Saint-Etienne, Bordeaux...). Désireux de poursuivre sa carrière en France, Erding a finalement choisi de prendre la direction de Rennes, malgré l'insistance de Lille et de Bordeaux ces dernières heures, Francis Gillot, en quête d'un buteur, ayant appelé directement l'ancien Sochalien. Definitely off to Rennes then for around 8 million E. Didn't do a very good job persuading him to join up did we.

Woodgate was class, but we know that already. On a play/pay deal he would have been worth a shout, we need cover at CB and him and Colo would be a serious upgrade on anything we have had at the back for at least a decade

Ratings Krul 7 A little bit uneasy under the high ball but good reflexes and kicking game Simpson 6 Solid, cleared one off the line S. Taylor 7 Excellent defending, good physical presence. Colo 8 Fast, cool and collected R. Taylor 6 Out of position, but stuck to his task Barton 7 Should have left Gevinho on the ground and let the referee book him for diving. Tiote 6 Not at his best but not for want of trying Cabaye 6 Looked better when he pushed forward, will be a good player when he's up to speed Jonas 7 Worked his socks off Ba 5 Doesn't look fit Shola 7 Again worked hard, lots of skill at times Obertan 6 Obviously fast, faded after a good first 20 minutes Best 6 Shola, Ba and Best all look very similar players which is probably not a good thing Lovenkrands 6

Pip will have to go on the wankers list for starters. Support the players, support the team, if you have to criticise, the manager and owners are easy enough targets

great defending by Steven Taylor

Nobody has played that badly, the fact that it's 0-0 against a good looking Arsenal team is the proof of that. Simpson, Taylor and especially Shola have all played well. The speed of the game is passing Cobaye a little but that's half to be expected, Tiote is off the pace a little as well. These are not criticisms of the players, they are both working very hard to close down space.