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Great ball from Routledge. Carroll was fouled in the box from behind, cunt of a ref. Carroll deserves another for having to play with the rest of the side. Tiote can't be back soon enough.

Fuck. Hope that's not Colo's confidence shot for the rest of the season. That was fucking horrible. Lucky that Sol and Saylor are back. Williamson and Coloccini could be goen for three each. We're honestly our own worst enemies.

Soft from Coloccini, hope his head doesn't drop. Elmander has had our defense worried all game. Lovelyhands on.

Commentators confusin the issue about who Routledge is coming on for. Should be Nolan or Smith in my opinion, but there's no way he'll take off Nolan and he'll probably wuss out and take off Guthrie who is so obviously out of position it's not at all funny - but he should be moved into the middle because even out of position he's been 100 times better than Smith. ...and it's Guthrie off.

Time to make some changes Chris. We've got lucky to get our goal, don't think they'll be putting anymore through balls through for Carroll for us. Change it up.

Nolan started the game well, has all been downhill from there. Good defense from Coloccini there.

Excellent goal, and a composed confident finish. Took us apart clinically. Lets see if our players heads dropped. I can see us just hoofing it constantly to an increasingly frustrated Andy Carroll. ...Ahoy! maybe not so frustrated. Great finish Carroll nice assist from their bloke there...

If he had an avatar like yourself he'd at least have some value. sammy agree about getting Smith off. FFS, get them all off.

I'll tell you one place we won't be - Anywhere near an Everton forum you sad, pathetic bastard.

Half the time when we get the ball he's dashing forward as though he's playing lone striker. Hope Hughton serves it up to him. Catastrophic dallying lead to both of their goals, though for the first it was largely complete idiocy from Nolan that was to blame. Seems to me we're lacking some leadership out there.

<holds gun to head> FFS clear it you idiots. Off-side, but shouldn't even have had a look in. Have a look at the positioning of Alan Smith if you want to see complete uselessness in action. Drop back and give a passing option you idiot.

Nolan you twit.

Thankfully we get pretty much every game live over here on Foxtel (the equivalent of Sky). The only exception this season was the Blackburn match, which was showed after the match ended because there was five other games on at the same time and the Newcastle game drew the short straw. With retrospect it'd be because it was a Blackburn match and it's a given that it's going to be rubbish to watch. Free Streaming online doesn't compare to that in the quality stakes.

Last season in Australia if your provider was iinet you had access to two live games and four replays per week as part of your package. This season the local broadcaster, Foxsports, took those rights back and now for $80 per season you can get 4 live matches and 5 highlights matches each round. Now considering the cheapest cable tv package is $50/month, $80 a season is sweet fuck all. So spongebob is right it's only a matter of time. It will help a lot when the coverage is of equal quality to the television feed (at least the sd feed). If I could get that online I'd do away with the Foxtel (sky equivalent) in a heartbeat.

Well said.

Nicely sums up the Ashley experience.

You should be happy with just about anyone replacing 'Sam' at Ewood Park - unless you're a sadist and would rather slowly and painfully suck the life and enjoyment out of football. Good on Owen Coyle, though it's sad that any good work done by him and Gary Megson before him won't ultimately be realised because they've gone bust on the natural limitations of a club that size. Not for nothing but I think that they're enjoying a good patch of form at the moment that definitely won't be season long.

This thread is embarrassing. The fact that it can flirt with feasability says a lot for the standing of the ownership and board with the supporters.

I think Hughton was thinking that a player like Guthrie is more like Barton in terms of getting deliveries in from the wide areas, rather than beating his man. I can see why he'd opt for that but he hasn't got the discipline to stay out wide and was basically playing as a central midfielder for most of the last game. Routledge would give the side a better balance when Barton's out IMO. ..however we'd have noone to take set pieces. They should get Enrique taking them though we'd miss his pace on the occassions where opposing teams counter from our corner.

Xisco's got nothing to lose. Play, do nothing and people will think he's shit, play and be ok and people will think he's shit, play and have a blinder and people will think he's got lucky. Wasn't hold up play his speciality in Spain? Granted it was in Spain, but Ranger is far too raw to start. I think we'll still see Carroll anyway. If Shola's not ready to come back it will be alongside Nolan otherwise Shola will be back. I'd probably prefer Guthrie in the middle over Nolan so wouldn't mind if Shola's not fully fit.

Xisco's got nothing to lose. Play, do nothing and people will think he's shit, play and be ok and people will think he's shit, play and have a blinder and people will think he's got lucky. Wasn't hold up play his speciality in Spain? Granted it was in Spain, but Ranger is far too raw to start. I think we'll still see Carroll anyway. If Shola's not ready to come back it will be alongside Nolan otherwise Shola will be back. I'd probably prefer Guthrie in the middle over Nolan so wouldn't mind if Shola's not fully fit.

Your a bit all over the shop. Loving lovenkrands, Enrique's no1 fan and now you gonna go to Colo Definitely Enrique's no. 1 fan Never loved Loven, just liked the way he celebrated some of his goals. Colo's emotion in his celebration of his equaliser against Wigan was fantastic.

Lovenkrands isn't shit. He's not great though, and is a bit of a lightweight. If we got rid of him we'd struggle to replace him with someone as good for less than 3 million. Came mighty close to scoring on the weekend, which I know is not much of a consolation but it does show that with minescule amounts of first team football this season he was able to pick straight back up and get into dangerous positions, and only not have his name on the scorers sheet because of some very good goal keeping. Didn't do great with a headed chance, but did good work in the leadup to that, having earlier had the ball first making the pass then timing his run to be in a good position to have the header. At any length I probably look like I'm in love with him because of the pic I have as my avatar.. I'm not though only put him there because I love the way he so passionately celebrated scoring some of his goals. I should change it to Colo.

Football's about the only sport stupid enough to suffer from it, firstly because the players are largely pricks and secondly because officials and the people running the game do fuck all which encourages it. We had a chance to cross into the box with Fulham struggling and get a shot in, instead one of them fakes an injury the ref stops it and we end up not with a chance to score but the ball hoofed up to Krul and 11 men back defending. Then you see the rugby and a guy with an actual real injury is practically trampled over as he gets treatment by the rest of them getting on with it, because thats what you do. Yeah, Danny Murphy hit in the face with a ball. Could only improve his looks TBH. Getting hit in the face with a ball is not a legitimate reason to stop a game. Any other sport and it would be business as usual. Football players are some of the biggest overreacting soft cocks and most fully deserve the bad reputation they've garnered through their excessive dramatics. The FA and FIFA must share the blame because the facts are that players are rewarded for overacting. A challenge that the ref may have missed or not called, with a little bit of overacting becomes something that's quite obvious. In the box the amount of players that plan to go to ground, just waiting for the slightest contact is embarrassing (Steven Gerrard I'm looking at you). Even when there's absolutely no contact the absolute worst that can happen is that they get a yellow card. Conversely, if there's even incidental contact if the attacking player can sell it well enough, and the ref is a big enough fool to buy it (this will unfortunately come down to the profile of the player, big profile forward = penalty, big profile defender = no penalty) then the penalty is given and a yellow or even red card could be given. That's far from fair and with such an advantage to the attacking side it's going to keep on happening. Stay on your rfeet and get a shot off and you've got a chance of scoring, or go to ground and you've got a better chance of scoring (from the spot) plus a good chance at getting an opposition player sent off, or at the very least yellow carded. Some players (again looking at Gerrard) have the hide to dive to the ground then get up and get in the referees face in an effort to get the other player sent off. Absolutely disgraceful, fucking cheating cunts. /End Rant

What I really hate this season is the ones that got away. However, the season is 1/3 gone and I'm able to lament the ones that got away whilst we sit in the top half of the table.