Papa Lazaru

Yes we should be careful that this doesn't get serious! And anyway i'd be chucking you in for having a go at short people!!!

If we do that now we'll get a red card for threatening the officals! Sadly that sort of attitude will help to an extent with decisions as the refs in this country are idiots, but unless you change your shirt t an arse or manu top you are never going to get their level of decisions.

Think you can have an extra go. Incidentally does 'all criminals' include people who take drugs and people who hit charvas? 12180[/snapback] Anybody hitting or in any way hurting charvas gets a reprieve! "All criminals" to save time is indeed all of them basically, as nobody is forced to commit a crime, if we're taking this sort of seriously then the only ones not included are people who acted in self defence to something but still got locked up, wrongly accused and maybe very minor and ineffectual crimes.

Premiership refs all criminals charvas

What Souness forgot to shout at JJ was, "Remember we are playing in a league where the cheating scum that pretend to be refs are up the backside of a certain 2 teams, so when i say tackle harder i mean don't make any contact whatsoever or the twat will red card you!"

Owen is that rare thing, a proven goal scorer at every possible level of football who guarentees goals wherever he is. And since goals win matches it makes him very valuable indeed, so if we did bid £12m for him it would still be great business (should he decide to sign for us if none of the others want him!)

This is my worry when I've mentioned the possibility of relegation. We'll probably look neat and tidy, and pretty solid and all that, but there aren't enough goals in the team. We'll draw too many matches with a team like the one Souness put out today. A draw was all he hoped for today, that was obvious because he could have easily gone 4-4-2 with Dyer up front offering a threat behind their defence. 12140[/snapback] Its why we have to sign more attackers and goal scorers, or better still not have got rid of the ones we had AND sign more! Its obvious that Parker and Emre will improve the midfield alot and that we can be quite solid and retain possession better, but we have to create more chances and get goals to win matches. Be interesting to see the formation and tactics at home to a team like West Ham

That might be the final book in the series if you change Sir Lancelot into Harry Potter!

I agree Phil, fuck the fines, get out there and rip the cheating little cunt to shreds, demand he be sorted out, demand we never get him again, anything to draw attention to the bastard.

Fair play to Bell he's stepped the scoring up a gear and as Boycott said from a confidence point of view it wouldn't have helped him if he'd been dropped down the order.

Mine was: Hannibal the Ultrasonic Assault Weapon

Given - 8 - Did well, not at fault for goals Carr - 7 - Did alright apart from one mistake Boumsoung - 8 - Impressive Taylor - 8 - Looking a class act Makosi - 7 - Much improved Emre - 7 - Another class act and works his arse off Parker - 9 - MOM got in the way of everything Bowyer - 7 - Solid but didn't do much Dyer - 6 - Lacked fitness and didn't see much of the ball Jenas - 6 - Going quite well until twat sent him off Shearer - 6 - Didn't do much and missed a chance

And his corners, not one of them found a toon player, it was almost as if he wasn't taking them!!!

Need 3 strikers but people would happilly see two brought in, realistically i expect one maximum. We need cover at/a new LB as well and just generally need to increase the depth of the squad.

It just seemed obvious to me, we want to win, we know those two will go after the bowling and score quickly. Also Pietersen will always take Warne on, won't always beat him but he'll try to dominate him. Even if both got out cheaply we are trying to get runs not worry too much about wickets so i think they had to go for it.

Parker was outstanding and i hope Souness has learned what i've always said, you don't need the likes of Butt and Faye to compete in midfield. What you need is footballers first and foremost but with them working hard and tackling, not two players who can't control or pass a football and who actual do less defensively than the players did today! When he played Butt and Faye we have no ball retention at all as they are clueless so the opposition dominates and Faye concedes numerous stupid freekicks with daft tackles. Whereas Parker, Emre and the rest together were tracking back but could control and pass the ball releaving the pressure on us that we normally have from giving the ball away. 12039[/snapback] Shame we've got no quality strikers though, isn't it? 12043[/snapback] Its a massive shame! Its why many of us have said don't get rid of Bellamy and Kluivert, and others have said don't get rid until you have replaced them. It would appear that with say 2-3 signings we have a good first team, certainly better than i thought on the basis of that game. What we currently don't have though is enough goals in the team and a squad to cope with injuries, suspensions and loss of form. But i will say after watching that i am happier than i was, which couldn't have been hard!

The ref also missed when Ljumgberg cheap shotted Emre from behind whilst Parker was on the ground, which left Emre injured, but what do you expect!

Parker was outstanding and i hope Souness has learned what i've always said, you don't need the likes of Butt and Faye to compete in midfield. What you need is footballers first and foremost but with them working hard and tackling, not two players who can't control or pass a football and who actual do less defensively than the players did today! When he played Butt and Faye we have no ball retention at all as they are clueless so the opposition dominates and Faye concedes numerous stupid freekicks with daft tackles. Whereas Parker, Emre and the rest together were tracking back but could control and pass the ball releaving the pressure on us that we normally have from giving the ball away.

People like Souness have plenty of money and should take the fine to properly call the ref for the cheat he is and highlight what goes on in terms of refs being up the arse of certain teams. The more people do it the more others will jump on the band wagon and soon refs might actually have to stop cheating and do their fucking job properly.

I think we should have moved Flintoff and Pietersen up the order ahead of Bell for this situation, we need runs fast now. I rate Bell and want him in the team, but he is likely to build more slowly than the other two and they should have moved up ahead of him for me.

You mean the one where Given pushed it forward and Henry booted it out of play!!! I just wish even 1 person in the media would grow a pair and start calling them for the cheating bastards they are in favour of their beloved manu and arse. Its beyond a joke

I am sick to death of the fucking twats in this country who year in and year out cheat in favour of manu and arsenal, its an absolute disgrace. JJ's foul was a yellow card, plain and simple and every fucker knows it including the officials and its what would have been given if a arse player had done it. In the meantime with Dyer through their last man takes him out, simple red card decision, so the cheat, i mean ref gives him nothing. It completely ruins the fact that we were in control of that match, playign really well and could have won it, absolutley disgraceful and so, so predicatable in this country with our officials.

Exactly, the more people in the game still rate him and rate him highly, the better it will be for us if we sell him.

Papa - we may not enforce the follow on even if we can - I wouldn't want to bat last on that pitch against Warne, when you see how much Ashley Giles is getting out of it. Still though, the pyschological effect it would have on them would be brilliant. 11351[/snapback] I know what you mean and was thinking it myself, the balance of the positives of making them follow on against the risk of Warne ripping through us on that pitch. I've noticed whenever Giles is doing well and getting wickets, obviously i'm delighted but then you tend to think, shit what will Warne do if Giles is causing this much touble!!!

Yet another great days play! I noticed they showed a stat that so far this series Giles has got out all of the top 8 Aussies batsmen and to think they thought he was shite before the series started! If we can get Australia to follow on it will be an amazing effort as people just don't do that to them, but it won't be easy while Warne is still around.