Chaser

Anyone seen him play yet? Havent seen him feature on any of the reserve/u18 results.

How many of you would stick with the team that were demolished this weekend? Personally, I would look to be playing the following against Blackburn Harper Beye Faye Cacapa Enrique Milner Butt Nzogbia Duff Owen Carroll Given, Taylor, Emre, Martins, Viduka on the bench.

We've tried buying proven premiership players. The trouble is, theyve either been on their way down or had some baggage which has meant that theyve never been much good. Keegan bought untried players the last time he was here. Lets hope he's still got an eye for it this summer as he needs to get working on it.

Aye, hasnt really worked for City, Chelsea or Liverpool for that matter.

Aye Pete Boyle has created a hell of a lot of songs for them.

Aye no way is Martins only 22. Same goes for the Yak really. Hardest paper round on Earth apparently in Nigeria.

Think Milner plays a big part for us. Would be disappointed if he went

I think if we sold all of those players, we may be able to make around £15 million in sales. Barton, Smith & Emre would probably make about £10 million in total. If we sold N'Zogbia, I would expect Spuds to bid around £5 for him alone. Taylor might also attract interest. The rest we may have to peddle or let go of.

aye was embarrassing the amount of times they won possession from Shay punting it out. You would at least think he would attempt to play a pass after doing it that many times.

Thing is the first half was pretty decent football. Keeping it on the floor, using the wingers, the only thing we lacked on was passing in the centre and that was down to Barton & Butt. It was when they started scoring we just lost it

As in the title, we have to make a serious clearout rather than an adjustment to shake this side up. This needs to be a revolution. Who do we keep and who do we clear? Going on the idea that people dont want to go, I would keep the following: Given, Harper Beye, Faye Milner, Duff, Nzogbia, Butt Owen, Martins. These wouldnt necessarily form the nucleus of the side for next season but could at least be squad players if required. Butt does a job which would probably see him as a squad player. Im still not sure of Owen but if we dont get rid this season then he'll go next season anyway. This would see the following leave Carr, Taylor, Cacapa, Enrique, Rozenhal, Ramage Emre, Barton, Geremi Viduka, Smith, Ameobi.

Barton is preoccupied with going to prison

Agreed - Taylor is awful and shows no positional awareness at all - the tackle(?) he made for the second ronaldo goal was nothing short of disgraceful and he should be viewed by all as a liability. I still like faye - he was not as solid as i have seen him but he has good positional sense and wins loads in the air - best of a bad bunch and i thought he was having a blinder for much of the first h Couldnt agree more with this, Taylor has learnt nothing positionally and makes rash decisions which dont pay off. He is our new Bramble unfortunately. Barton needs to be dropped. Gave the ball away several times, played passes too heavy, looks like a man waiting on a prison sentence. How bad must Enrique be to not get a shot at LB? N'Zogbia needs to be put back into midfield, although where Im not sure as Duff was one of the better players yesterday.

Relegation form without a doubt. Devoid of confidence, devoid of ideas, devoid of a defence. The misery continues

Id go for Scandinavians. Always pretty good on FM and plus they adapt to the weather quite well too..

definitely gone

I dont know what to think about all this. When SA came I thought having all these technical folk would be a good idea but now we're getting rid.

its the players which win games, and its plain to see that these players just arent capable of holding it for 90 minutes. Theyre not a team.

thanks for the posts, missed it this eve and now cant be arsed to listen again

Never heard it called a 'bonty' like. A 'bonnie', aye. Bondy down here

Beye & Faye are both welcome returns to the side as they'll go straight back into the first 11. Martins & Owen up front together suggest to me a lack of height, but then height isnt an issue if we're not punting it upfield. Both players better suited to running onto balls, and as we saw yesterday, Owen is still a decent header of the ball. Martins is obviously the pacier one now and we should see a different dimension to the side with him in it. Get Nzogbia back into midfield and sort out the left back position (Can Enrique regain his place?) and we might start seeing some goals.

But if Carr was left at RB, then Beye could come in at Centre Back as he certainly looks like he has the ability to play there. Him & Faye could be the pairing while Taylor is left on the bench.

Where is akabusi or any other ITK when you need one?

Spuds just confirmed theyre not interested in signing him. Looks like Shit stirring by Mckay again

got Virgin so cant get SkyOne which is annoying as I would really like to see this. Will have to wait til it hits terrestrial, or Discovery