Lush Vlad

Did I miss something? I know he's thrown a few shockers in against us in the past, but I rate Dawson.

Watched the highlights from the York game earlier. His goals

Get the fuck out

Having a dig at our European games in that thread as well

Not this argument again. Depending on what point those twats are trying to get across depends on what areas are 'Mag strongholds' One week sunderlands areas stretch right up to Gateshead and Durham is 100% red and white, next week the only area in the North East that support SAFC are from Pennywell. Utter fucking mongs

yup, and i remember his lunges at digard, modric and ronaldo too. f***ing horrible t*** of a player. cattermole, you're fooling nobody Remember the Modric one, over the top of the ball and straight leg lunge. I seem to remember RTG at the time claiming it wasn't even a yellow, probably not even a foul as he touched the ball

This. He's tidy in possession most the time, has a good engine and weighs in with the odd goal. However, some of the comments from the press were ridiculous. Our media does have a tendancy to over hype players. Bale at the start of last season for example (not saying he's not a great player BTW!)

What a fucking weapon, not like a follow this twat's career, mainly because he's a fucking useless, boring clogger. But he has made 3 shocking challenges on our players over the years and his card stats suggest otherwise. The tackles on Barton, Beye and Jonas were all dangerous lunges, two of which resulted in long term injuries. I think the "soft yellow cards, refs out to get me" comments are utter shite. He's actually been lucky with not getting a second yellow on a few occassions, the WBA game being the perfect example. Can't believe this moron can come out with bollocks like this

If Rasberry Pavlova plays, you'll struggle. He is such a hot and cold player, and seems to be cold the majority of the time, shit attitude as well. As someone else said, it's difficult for AP, does he stick or twist? I'm caught in two minds, but I would say if we're only going to make minimal changes, then Santon should start. Watched the Wales game last night and now can see the reasons why people would think it's a good idea dropping Obertan and shifting Jonas to wide right, Bale was on fire. If he plays half as good as that on Sunday I feel Simpson will either need some assistance to leave SJP after corkscrweing himself into the ground or he'll spend the majority of the game with the fans behind the goal after backing off so much. That said, Obertan might play a blinder and release the pressure running the ball on counter attacks and giving Bale something more to think about with his defensive work. This has all the markings of a quality game with a few goals. 0-0 anyone?

From .com. He actually only played 70 odd minutes in the first game still class that he's come through another match ok. If the likes of Santon and Ben Arfa don't start on Sunday, I fully expect to see them play against Wigan.

Fair do's, looks bloody tiny at the match. As they say though, not the size of the dog in the fight and all that, he doesn't shy away from the rough stuff.

Isn't Henry like 6ft 2", terrible aerial stats as well as his shit tackling, the man really is a footballing mule. Cabaye is a dwarf in comparison, he's barely 5ft 8" and hardly has a big frame, yet wins every other header he goes for and can make a tackle without nearly killing someone. Kelvin Henry

Subbed off? I thought he was taken off because he was injured

Already got tickets, but had a quick scan the other day and it looks like we're going to get a good crowd for this. Not sure how many Spurs are bringing up, but if we get anywhere near 48k it would be brilliant, especially when you consider the price and the fact it's 4pm on a Sunday and on TV!

Fooking hell, 3 bits of good news I've just read in the last 10 minutes

Good news, now just got to hope he comes through the 90 without any problems.

He's just missed 4 or 5 days worth of training... The rest of the squad also missed a similar amount thought I believe. Pretty sure Carver said start of last week the players not on International duty were off at the start of the week, would be in on Thursday and then would be given some time off until the Monday (as in yesterday). If he trains all week and looks sharp, why not start him? Would rather a short of match practice Ben Arfa got 60-70 minutes than Shola, who also won't be 100% fit, he never fucking is!

It's on nufc.com, they were quoting the Sengal FA website.

But it seems like Ba won't be!

Hopefully just precautionary, seeing as it's a bit of a pointless match for Senegal anyway. We'll struggle if he's out for more than a few weeks. On the plus side, if he is out for Sunday, it would hopefully mean HBA gets a start. Could also mean Shola or Lovenkrands play though

Aye, just read that now. Hopefully nowt serious, but thought he was carrying a knock anyway? Best and HBA vs Spurs then.

Going to be fit for the Spurs game. A wasted spot on the bench and no doubt a wasted sub as well, can see him coming on at some stage

It was about 3 minutes before half time. The top of his foot came in to contact with the bottom of a boot. I thought that it was his ankle at first but it wasn't that far up his foot. Ta. My medical knowledge is a bit limited like, but surely if he had around 20 minutes with the injury and somebody checking it at half time, it's highly unlkikely he's broken something, especially when you consider he came back out for the second half? Probably just heavy bruising, trying to convince myself he'll be fine

Not seen it yet, just a shit tackle near the end of the first half I take it?