OTF

Here's hoping we can kick them while they are down. Nought to ddo with hurting them, all to do with helping us mind you.

Lovely. Late but still lovely. Let's now hope that the Coloccini business wraps up quickly.

Yes I doubt that no other English clubs would have had an interest. He's playing in France because he carried on like a tit at QPR on multiple occassions and likely fell out with management/the owners.

How would you know that noone came? QPR were willing to pay the most so that's where he went.

Doubt that severely. It's just that QPR were the ones who would pay even more than he was getting here.

Can forsee a post asking if there's a way of having the pages change automatically as pressing the button is too hard.

Completely different circumstances of course, but they previously cut their losses with Barton so I'd not rule it out by any stretch.

The Arsenal rule of fresh legs should ensure that we flog them in the latter stages of the second half. Seriously though, new players through the door ASAP, almost a week to train together then send them out with something to prove.

We've already lost Ba BTW in case you missed it, but for the others Ashley probably looks at it and thinks "Got 50% off on their wages his season" as we plainly should have had these type of signings wrapped in the summer. ...and yeah perhaps they've lined up somewhere for Simpson to go on the cheap before his contract is up.

James Perch FC

And look who's bottom

Or he'd know that coming here, if he's replacing Williamson, the fans are going to absolutely love him. Would know loads about Ben Arfa, Cabaye and Debuchy etc etc. Sure we're in the shit at the minute but the rest of this season is one eighth of a four year contract and you would hope that he'd have the vision to look beyond the immediate dire position.

Think your friend is a little misguided on that last point, he's 6 foot and 80kg (12st 8 - About the weight of Stevie's right thigh or CT's lunch). For a defender he's not particularly big. It doesn't mean he can't make up for it with athelticism and strength though, and it will be a brief welcome relief to havea player come through the door and sign should that actually happen.

The shit that's going on? The 'shit' is a gamble on a thin squad and a group of promising young players, instead of bringing in the requires players earlier. Both have not paid off. Your comment makes no sense.

Our second half performance was so poor that even the forum is going down.

This is going to drive Reading's confidence sky high. How many more must win games can we afford to lose? We're surely now in full crisis mode, with so so many poor decisions having lead us marching headstrong there that it's virtually pointless to point any one of them out as the cause.

Coloccini: "it's just a flesh wound"

I'm so down about this right now that it only seems logical that we won't see Ben Arfa play for us again.

....and is painting himself into a corner with his 'must be a bargain on my terms' policy for the following reasons: 1. Noone wants to come into a relegation fight unless they're handsomely paid for it. 2. Selling clubs will know we're desperate. 3. It goes without saying that...

If they couldn't line up a striker or a central defender for this long there's no chance there's a decent manager who would come here now and put their career in jeopardy.

Probably to call his agent. We'll be the only team not to have won away from home if it stays as it is. Incompetence sums up our season.

Oberthis coming on.

Disgusting.

Cabaye now taken off unbelievable.

For fuck sake.