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  1. What really annoyed me the other night was Shearer and the other pundits saying "Lampard and Gerrard can play together, no problem". Based on what? We''ve persisted with this for four years and it has never worked! Lampard had one good qualifying campaign 3 years ago and has been Dickson-Etuhu-on-a-bad-day anonymous ever since. Gerrard plays one good game in seven or eight at international level and is a shadow of his club self. We''re doing the same now with Hargreaves. He was widely pilloried as being the weakest link i the England squad before the World Cup but one and a half good games later he was somehow a massive success story and destined to lead England to future glory. Now he''s back to form giving blink-and-you''ll-miss-him performances in the midfield. There''s simply not enough competition for places. An England manager needs to have the stones to drop Lampard (whose club performances have only been average at best this season, let alone his international abominations), and let Gerrard and Hargreaves know that they''re on borrowed time if they don''t improve quickly. They''re all scared that if they play someone else and lose, the papers will round on them, but the fact is that if we persist with this lack of competition we''ll never win anything anyway.
  2. I think Hughes acts as a benchmark. At the moment we are so short of players that we do actually need Hughes around. Once we add one or two more he''ll be superfluous. But the fact that we need a player of such low ability shows how far we still have to go in the squad rebuilding. For all those that question the quality that can be purchased for as little as we paid for Fotheringham and Lappin, both are clearly better footballers than Hughes. It won''t take a lot of cash before we can add enough bodies to make his surplus to requirements. Love his commitment, but for all the good wishes, the "Clap Clap Clap Clap HUGHES" chants etc, he''s actually being patronised and treated like a special needs case. When the claps start I''m always waiting for a cry of "TIMMMMYYY" a la South Park. The hideous errors are actually being overlooked now, and in the Derby game in particular he put us in trouble a number of times. We can''t afford to play him except when there''s no other option, because if we do, he''ll make mistakes that will cost us.
  3. I''d stick in at-home-mothers who drive 50 yards from their driveway to the local primary school to drop the kids off and pick them up. On a similar theme, people who drive whacking great freelanders, jeep cherokees etc when all they have them for is the school run or popping to Asda, and they usually struggle to control them on small city streets, park abysmally and generally make life difficult for the rest of us. That Tricia Penrose on Fame Academy can go in too. Desperate wannabe. And Norwich Union!  
  4. Has to be Hucks. Dion has been immense and deserves second place and will probably take it with genuine gratitude and be chuffed. But whilst Dublin gives us leadership and confidence, Hucks gives us genius and magic. It''d be interesting to see who''d win if Earnie was fit and on 25-30 goals!
  5. I think you meant to say that he''s moving "hooose". "There''s nae dooot in maa mind aboot tha''."  
  6. [quote user="baldyboy"] chris martin, i mean. i think he has been fantastic and i know many will probably slate me for saying this but i think dublin should start on saturday as martin needs to be well managed, and he was clearly tired when he went off. it also looked like he was carrying an injury for part of the second half. i must admit i thought dublin would start instaed of him last night.   [/quote] Totally agree, and said the same thing last night. It''ll do no good to play him if he''s tired because that will effect his performance and a poor performance will in turn effect his confidence. Better to rest him up and unleash him again in a week or so''s time.
  7. If we go with the same team as Saturday we''ll definitely concede, and we may struggle to score against a very good (and extremely big) defence. If Dion plays we have a chance, but whether that''s as a striker or defender who knows?!! I''ll guess he''ll go with same team and we''ll lose 3-1. Sorry! Just don''t get a particularly good feeling for tonight.  
  8. I think it was 20-25%. They did well out of the deal. 15% of £10m for Ashton would still be 1.5m which isn''t bad.
  9. [quote user="Evil Monkey"]Oh, and CO2... I know where you live, and I''m coming to trade your punk ass for some trees...[;)] [/quote] I''ve got wood.
  10. [quote user="Broken_hearted_canary"] Frankly the board would have to be stupid to sell earnie for such a small sum, im sure it wouldnt encourage financial prudence to sell your biggest asset at a loss. wages wise we''ll soon be rid of MJL, Thorne, McV, and hopefully gally (to be replaced with Marshall :-) . however good people think martin is he''s not going to be a 20 goal striker in his first season. Maybe jarvis will come back from orient with a new lease of life or even hendo (if played in his proper position). Mid & Def are the crucial areas we tend to go missing from in games so we shud make these priority, how much money there is is questionable it depends if the boiler will need fixing again. Hopefully west ham + Watford will go down and Ashton/Green/Francis will go for good prices    -ashton to newcastle £10m we get £1.5m (is it a 15% sell on fee we have?)    -   Francis (assume we have a 15-20% sell on fee so another few hundred thousand    - Green (are we not due money anyway from west ham + we must have a sell on fee) [/quote] I think Ashton is 15% and Green does have a sell-on clause but I don''t know for how much. Francis won''t raise a penny because we flogged him to Wigan and got our last cash from him when they sold to Watford.  
  11. [quote user="Broken_hearted_canary"] Frankly the board would have to be stupid to sell earnie for such a small sum, im sure it wouldnt encourage financial prudence to sell your biggest asset at a loss. wages wise we''ll soon be rid of MJL, Thorne, McV, and hopefully gally (to be replaced with Marshall :-) . however good people think martin is he''s not going to be a 20 goal striker in his first season. Maybe jarvis will come back from orient with a new lease of life or even hendo (if played in his proper position). Mid & Def are the crucial areas we tend to go missing from in games so we shud make these priority, how much money there is is questionable it depends if the boiler will need fixing again. Hopefully west ham + Watford will go down and Ashton/Green/Francis will go for good prices    -ashton to newcastle £10m we get £1.5m (is it a 15% sell on fee we have?)    -   Francis (assume we have a 15-20% sell on fee so another few hundred thousand    - Green (are we not due money anyway from west ham + we must have a sell on fee) [/quote] I think Ashton is 15% and Green does have a sell-on clause but I don''t know for how much. Francis won''t raise a penny because we flogged him to Wigan and got our last cash from him when they sold to Watford.  
  12. Hey, Granty still hasn''t ruled us out yet...  
  13. [quote user="Grumpy "]Its definitely me sitting in the rear of the car.[/quote] Ronald McDonald''s sitting on your lap mate. I''d have a word...
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