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thump rat · Post by **thump rat** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:26 pm

jim wrote:Was at the Newcastle game. List of players needing shot in that team:

Shay Given: worst kicking I've seen from a goalkeeper in years.
Joey Barton: absolutely useless.
Michael Owen: I forgot he was on the park.
Charles N'Zogbia: how can you make so many mistakes in only 90 minutes?

To be fair Shay Given did have a hamstring injury, question is why was he playing in the first place... And N'Zogbia is quality, although admittedly was shite yesterday. Don't know why he is wasted at left-back, should be in the centre or on the left-wing.

duttier yuppie · Post by **duttier yuppie** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:11 pm

United exposed the Toon constantly on Saturday - all of their goals were good.

I fancy them for the league, the pressure is getting to Arsenal - their captain cried at the end for the love of God (although emotions were high because of Eduardo)

United will keep their cool and win the league.

Meanwhile, the wheels are coming off at my own beloved team (Chelsea). Seems there's a terrible atmosphere amongst the players, no faith in the coachl. I have to say Sunday was a joke - we didn't turn up and the tactics were poor (no Joe Cole!!).

So, for relegation - who do we reckon?

Derby, Fulham, Reading/Sunderland? Don't see NUFC going down - there are other much worse teams.

datura · Post by **datura** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:31 pm

i think sunderland will stay up on the strength of their home form.

re arsenal, i thought they'd slip up by now, but have been v consistent, although if the goals dry up for Adebayor they may struggle to score until Van Percival returns.

Utd need to stop dropping shitty points agains the lower sides if we want to win it.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:34 pm

I think it'll be us, Fulham and Sunderland. I hope to fuck we beat Sunderland on Saturday.

manray · Post by **manray** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:45 pm

This is going to be a very tight finish between the top two Arsenal and UTD.

The stats say arsenal has better form having only lost a single game this season against UTD's four. Having said that UTD have had a superb run as of late and are looking very very threatening.

I am very sad for Eduardo. He is an amazing player and he has really helped us as a team. Walcott is starting to show some confidence and personally I think with Van Persie out Wenger should be fielding Walcott first and Bendtner second as Bendtner shows real energy when he comes in as a sub.

Hleb is looking amazing too. Last 3-4 matches he has started to strike and blimey they have been absolute crackers.

As long as Adebayor keeps converting we will be ok. He is probably the best striker in the premiership right now, the depth of his play is amazing. He drifts left and right and moves around often in a support position. Defenders just cant handle him. Against Milan it was unbelievable and their defence has to be the best in the world.

duttier yuppie · Post by **duttier yuppie** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:48 pm

United are only 2 points behind Arsenal and I'd say Arsenal have a trickier run in, including a game at OT to come.

Starting to think Everton will take the fourth spot now too!! They're looking tidy.

badger · Post by **badger** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:54 pm

Duttier Yuppie wrote:Starting to think Everton will take the fourth spot now too!! They're looking tidy.

yeah it's great to see us doing really well recently. been pretty poor until the last few years

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:16 pm

Thump Rat wrote: And N'Zogbia is quality, although admittedly was shite yesterday. Don't know why he is wasted at left-back, should be in the centre or on the left-wing.

Because KK was unable to sort out a decent left back during the transfer window despite having approx £30m to chuck at the problem?

I think if they manage to pull it together enough to avoid the drop then he should be able to rejig the squad over summer and come out with a squad that doesn't have too many holes in it and that suits the style of play that he wants. But coming in half way through the transfer window without a bastard clue of what's going on in terms of players worth looking at, and with a gappy squad left over from Big Sam's ineffective stodge approach and half of whom were away in africa for the couple of weeks when he really wanted to get things off to a positive start did pretty much fuck him.

IMO keeping Allardyce until late in the season and then giving a new manager a chance to put the house in order over summer (assuming Big Sam hadn't actually sorted stuff out himself by then) would have made a lot more sense.

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:29 pm

I am fully confident we will win the league

Fulham and Derby should boost our goal difference

vlad the inhaler · Post by **vlad the inhaler** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:45 pm

Derby, Fulham, Reading/Sunderland? Don't see NUFC going down - there are other much worse teams.

Newcastle are going to get sucked in. I haven't seen a "team" play with such a lack of confidence in ages. At least under Allardyce they could defend a bit better and I thought Keegan's main strength was to motivate players? I havent seen their run in but it doesnt look good either way.

Fancy Hodgson to pull a rabbit from the hat and keep Fulham up. He knows how to get teams to play & with their defence reinforced and the return of Bullard and Mcbride I fancy them to sneak out of it.

My team Reading however look pretty fucked.

duttier yuppie · Post by **duttier yuppie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:31 pm

Newcastle getting sucked in further...bet you're chuffed given the Royals won.

Arsenal still dropping points..yes, Villa are good but home games should be 3 pointers if you're gonna win the league. Bottlers!!

There's talk of a three way title race which would be a first for ages - I'm trying not to get overly optimistic about the prospect but if Chelsea win their game in hand they'll be breathing down the necks of the top 2!!

Chuffed Spurs got thrashed - their fan on MOTD last night "we can afford to slip up a bit in the league now"...Think the excitement is getting to them a bit!

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:56 pm

I would just like to say that Arsenal are lucky, lucky bastards. The mighty Villa deserved 3 points.

manray · Post by **manray** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:44 pm

kins83 wrote:I would just like to say that Arsenal are lucky, lucky bastards. The mighty Villa deserved 3 points.

So lucky that we had to score the goal for them? I think not.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:48 pm

Regardless, we went a goal up. And we hit the bar. To equalise with the last kick of the game is lucky as far as I'm concerned. Lucky lucky lucky.

harlesden · Post by **harlesden** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:54 pm

go on barnsley

datura · Post by **datura** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:55 pm

who cares about the fa cup anymore

datura · Post by **datura** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:05 pm

Harlesden wrote:go on barnsley

lmao, wtf is happening here!!

the 2 favourites might both be knocked out

harlesden · Post by **harlesden** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:09 pm

datura wrote:
Harlesden wrote:go on barnsley
lmao, wtf is happening here!!

the 2 favourites might both be knocked out

portsmouth will win it i think

although a barnsley v bristol rovers final would be great

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:57 pm

It will be great ha ha

Barnsley played well, and Preston won too !!

phill the bass · Post by **phill the bass** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:25 am

Just wanna say how crap West Ham were today.....dreadful. No ideas, no confidence. All is not well at Upton Park.

However all is good at the Lane. Up the Spurs. Big game this Wednesday.

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