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I wouldn't mind us playing Guti at left back against Norwich tbh then playing R.Taylor or Santon (if he's not injured he surely has to have a chance now) at right back and a CB pairing of Simpson, Kadar or Perch Fuck me that's a dreadful back 4 but I really wouldn't mind seeing Gutierrez at left back and Sammy on the left wing.

He's just completely lacking a football brain in anyway tbh, good athlete but not a footballer. As said earlier he definitely hides from the ball and the amount of times he gets the ball from Simpson or Guthrie and passes it straight back before running behind the player marking him is ridiculous. Puts in 1 decent ball a game maximum which is very poor considering the positions his athleticism allows him to get in, he managed to trick Cole a couple of times but done nothing with it and when you beat a player as good as Cole you have to use that opportunity to put in a good ball. Extremely frustrating player.

I'll be surprised if Krul is still here at the start of next season.

Aye, the sequence of play in the 2nd half where Obertan was played in wonderfully by ameobi to proceed to put a woeful ball in which fell to R.Taylor who done well and dummied his man which give him as long as he wanted for him to put the ball about 20 foot above everyone showed we're desperate for a player who can put the ball in, R.Taylor, Simpson, Guti and Obertan none of them deliver decent crosses into the box with any consistency whatsoever especially considering how many times a game they're in good positions.

Lack of depth and poor refereeing cost us there, I've seen enough of Obertan now time he was dropped. R.Taylor was also very disappointing again didn't seem to realise that Sturridge was a constant threat and kept pressing and leaving him with yards of space. Disappointing but the fact I am shows how well we've been playing, very poor today just really hope Colo and Taylor aren't out for any games because Perch is a total liability.

Agree Armchair, there's no 'rehibilitating' monsters like this and they don't deserve the chance to be anyway no one can argue that.

Still a difficult group but better than B and C

Get the fuck in

This

Dull as fuck this

They come out with how they're going to hammer us every single derby whether they sign a 12 year old youth team member or they do nowt. I remember watching North East tonight the week before the 2nd derby last season and they were saying they were going to beat us 6-0 "cos the mags beat us 5-1 so we're going to really embarrass them" fucking mugs. Didn't O'Neill leave villa less than 2 weeks before we thrashed them 6-0? if so not sure how he's supposed to thrash us with a worse squad.

They're fucking wank whoever they have in charge.

Cheers for the change Tom. No matter what he tweeted before or after it he still said it, the bloke is scum.

Cheers.

What a total wanker, how do you change your name on here?

Just heard about this, in total shock here. Great man, great player absolutely gutted about this. R.I.P Speedo.

The man is a complete tosser, I highly doubt we'd be very far of relegation every season if we got the results he predicts. Like Tom says here we'd have 10 points so far this season if we'd got the results he predicted, we'd be in massive trouble if so.

Aye they hammered him last night "I took all these children away from their homes without fully knowing where they were going, what am I a Penn State recruiter". He was interviewed this week in all said he wasn't a nonce but he "probably shouldn't have showered with boys" and that he touched their legs etc but isn't sexually attracted by them, they've also released info saying his houses back garden overlooks a elementary school playground and he used to sit and watch them every day. Sounded like a full on nonce in all heavy breathing the lot, lock him up.

well they had more points, no? you still get 3 points for a win..etc etc. They lost a group game, we didn't, points are irrelevant in this comparison. Only a yank would rely on a stat like that. .....check your facts stevie, same amount of games they won two group games and drew one....england won one and drew two.....whatever, agree with alex's post they would have been seeing a better opportunity to go through where as everyone including the england XI knew germany was going to drub you. They lost a group game to Holland.

Utter pish. Japan lost today to wait for it.....drum roll................NORTH FUCKIN KOREA. That team in our group, Montenegro are better than Japan. Confident enough of Japan beating England to put money on it, people are getting way too carried away here as 'shite' as people like to think England are we're still a very strong international side.

If we can manage a draw I'll be chuffed, despite how well we've been doing I see it being a loss though.

The lad at CSKA moscow and the young kid on loan at Feyenoord (?) from Arsenal are supposedly canny (only seen each of them play a few times in European games admittedly), but I do get Stevie's point. I reckon the best answer has been Alex's that the best athlete's gravitate to where the money (and fame) in the country is, Weightlifting, badminton, table tennis etc are dominated by Asians, so even though millions of them probably do play football they're simply lads who weren't born with the coordination or balance etc to make it as a top player whereas the lads that do have that skill and may have been top players ended up playing Table tennis or weightlifting. Or maybe the (slightly racist) answer is they may not, for the most part, have the right genetic make up for the sport. Similar to how West African nations produce better footballers to east African nations, (as genetically they tend to be more powerful and explosive and eastern Africans tend to be better at distance running due to the altitude of many east African countries) same as most black American footballers can trace their roots back to west African countries. So imo it's probably a mix of interest (they prefer watching to playing) and genetics (?(stereo typically Asians have better hand eye coordination which is why they dominate table tennis etc))

Are you Newcastle Ant? I agree the wages do my head in and the agent fees are mental sometimes (Urby Emmanuelson's agent asking me for £6m!), I managed to get Daniel Sturridge for £2.6m in my 2nd season after having a ton of loan bids rejected for him my first season (wasn't able to pay 100% of his 60k a week) and he only wanted around £40k a week from me. I'm struggling to find a formation that allows me to comfortably beat teams I'm the overwhelming favorite over which is a bit frustrating.

Slovakia are shite man, their world cup group was Paraguay, an imploding Italy and NZ. They got comfortably beaten by Paraguay and then lost in the next round how does that make them good? Not quite sure how it's laughable to say Wales, Montenegro and Bulgaria are better than Armenia, Macedonia and Andorra.

Russia are canny but Slovakia aren't anything. Wales, Montenegro, Switzerland and Bulgaria are all better than Armenia, Macedonia and Andorra tbh I'd say they're both easy groups and both similar in difficulty mainly due to us having 1 less team in the group. We both struck lucky.