Greg

Our talent scouts are paid thousands so I don't see why I should have to provide a response. If they do their job properly they'll be able to find cheap players that are better than Shola. Benni McCarthy and Mpenza are just a couple of this season's examples that half-decent strikers can be picked up on the cheap. We only have one Scout, that is a problem that has already been identified and should be rectified soon. I just feel you are being over harsh on Ameobi simply because you don't like him and you are failing to see that he is capable of doing a job and the defence must be our priority.

He isn't better than anyone. He won't keep 'a goal every other game' up just like Roeder didn't keep his winning run going. Shola had a little honeymoon purple patch under the new manager where a few bounced in off his knees. He's fucking shit and it's unbelievable that we're going to have to endure another season of it without anyone at the club acknowledging his shitness. He is going to be 3rd choice behind Martins and Owen, name me a player we can get, with our tight budget and the need for defenders who is going to come here and be second fiddle to Martins and Owen, he also offeres us another option to Martins and Owen. The critsism Ameobi gets from some is just stupid. He is a decent squad player, he has always had the ability to score goals just needed to be more consistent, he has scored goals in the Camp Nou away to Barcelona and away to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League to name a few, under Roeder he has shown some consistency and I hope he can carry that on when he returns from this injury. He can be frustrating to watch but selling him would do us no good when we need to focus most of our spending on the other end of the pitch this summer. We're aiming for top four? Well lets list our competitors first 3 strikers and decide if our 3rd choice is good enough... Saha Rooney Ole Gunnar/Smith Kuyt Bellamy Crouch Drogba Shevchenko Crespo/Kalou Henry 'The beast'! Van Persie/Adebayor/Walcott Keane Berbatov Defoe Ok, so would you like to tell me which of the above are worse than Shola? If you can't, then you should acknowledge that he is NOT good enough even as a third choice striker. As third choice he will play A LOT of games and he simply isn't up to it, that's if we do have ambitions to match the above. We want to be in the top 4, but think about it... we have fallen a long long way since the days of Sir Bobby Robson and we are a long way from there, next season a top 6 finish would be a sucess, saying we should be aiming for the top 4 with this squad is deluded. Answer me this, say we have £10 million this summer, maybe £15 at a push... You seriously want to spend that on another striker who is better than Ameobi rather than on a centre back, left back and a right back? If you think it'd cost 10 million to get a striker better than Ameobi then you're deluded. I'm not saying that, but it would certainly take about £4million or around about which would take away a hefty chunk from our transfer budget and it is defenders that we need. It is all about priorities right now. And you say Ameobi is not good enough for back up for a top 4 side, well he did it under Sir Bobby Robson? And he is a lot better now than he was then. Name me who you would want to see us sign who is better than Ameobi and who we can get for a very small fee so not to dent our budget that must be used to sign defenders.

He isn't better than anyone. He won't keep 'a goal every other game' up just like Roeder didn't keep his winning run going. Shola had a little honeymoon purple patch under the new manager where a few bounced in off his knees. He's fucking shit and it's unbelievable that we're going to have to endure another season of it without anyone at the club acknowledging his shitness. He is going to be 3rd choice behind Martins and Owen, name me a player we can get, with our tight budget and the need for defenders who is going to come here and be second fiddle to Martins and Owen, he also offeres us another option to Martins and Owen. The critsism Ameobi gets from some is just stupid. He is a decent squad player, he has always had the ability to score goals just needed to be more consistent, he has scored goals in the Camp Nou away to Barcelona and away to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League to name a few, under Roeder he has shown some consistency and I hope he can carry that on when he returns from this injury. He can be frustrating to watch but selling him would do us no good when we need to focus most of our spending on the other end of the pitch this summer. We're aiming for top four? Well lets list our competitors first 3 strikers and decide if our 3rd choice is good enough... Saha Rooney Ole Gunnar/Smith Kuyt Bellamy Crouch Drogba Shevchenko Crespo/Kalou Henry 'The beast'! Van Persie/Adebayor/Walcott Keane Berbatov Defoe Ok, so would you like to tell me which of the above are worse than Shola? If you can't, then you should acknowledge that he is NOT good enough even as a third choice striker. As third choice he will play A LOT of games and he simply isn't up to it, that's if we do have ambitions to match the above. We want to be in the top 4, but think about it... we have fallen a long long way since the days of Sir Bobby Robson and we are a long way from there, next season a top 6 finish would be a sucess, saying we should be aiming for the top 4 with this squad is deluded. Answer me this, say we have £10 million this summer, maybe £15 at a push... You seriously want to spend that on another striker who is better than Ameobi rather than on a centre back, left back and a right back?

Howay United!

He isn't better than anyone. He won't keep 'a goal every other game' up just like Roeder didn't keep his winning run going. Shola had a little honeymoon purple patch under the new manager where a few bounced in off his knees. He's fucking shit and it's unbelievable that we're going to have to endure another season of it without anyone at the club acknowledging his shitness. He is going to be 3rd choice behind Martins and Owen, name me a player we can get, with our tight budget and the need for defenders who is going to come here and be second fiddle to Martins and Owen, he also offeres us another option to Martins and Owen. The critsism Ameobi gets from some is just stupid. He is a decent squad player, he has always had the ability to score goals just needed to be more consistent, he has scored goals in the Camp Nou away to Barcelona and away to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League to name a few, under Roeder he has shown some consistency and I hope he can carry that on when he returns from this injury. He can be frustrating to watch but selling him would do us no good when we need to focus most of our spending on the other end of the pitch this summer.

As you keep reminding us!

Rome - Paris - New York - Benwell

Goal every other game under Roeder, if keeps that up I have no problem with it. We have certainly missed him this season, he is better than Sibierski.

yep bit of sour grapes there by the sound of it...he pinched my job and Im doing better than him bla bla bla .....would love to stick it right up them today to shut the twat up ..we dont need anyone else to tell how bad we are Well, at least it hopefully does the trick. It undermines the fact that 'arry is an utter tw*t and hopefully does fire up our players. It's not about if he is right or wrong. But Redknapp shows that he has no class by making that kind of public comments. He has had said similar things before our previous two games this season, and we've beaten them twice. So lets hope we do them again today!

That is what we paid for Cardiff though... Mine was only £25! But aye, the prices are exactly the same with 3 categories like when we were at Cardiff!

Thirded.

Unlucky!

Man how early?! Mine snot in till the 23rd 16th for me! I'm skint as fuck.

About 2 and a half hours! Fucking pathetic!

Semis are; Espanyol v Weder Bremen Osasuna v Sevilla

Spurs are out!

Tainio sent off!

From what I remember the commentators could not help but have a dig at Van Gaal saying that the first thing he did in the mornings was have a look at himself in the mirror and that he has a big nose! Can't remember tbh but it certainly wasn't a wankfest like this!! Great free kick by Jenas there, straight into the stand.

Fantastic miss there from Dawson!

2-2 Lennon Two fluky goals

1-2 defoe

Now they are giving it the 'this should have been the final' fuck off, worst commentry I've ever heard!!

Fuck off David Pleat.. I've never known someone talk to much shite!

How bias are these wankers that are commentating here? There was a little bit of contact there but Zokora went down as if he had been shot! When we played AZ it was as if the commentators wanted us to loose.

Boos greet the half time whistle at White Hart Lane!!!