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An Al Queda dream. Still , I expect the likes of toonie and the other left wing loonies will defend their "rights" Literally has fuck all to do with anything said in that post. I think he's implying that Al-Qaeda are massive Blondie fans.

Mastering the toe poke is a good option. Very little/no windup/backswing for a toe poke, so you can easily knock off a pass before your opponent can prepare to block it. Obviously only works for players in very forward positions though.

Maybe that's why he's so upset. Realising that he's not the only father of his own child.

Folks lets not forget that the economy has changed a metric fuckton since 2006. All factors must be considered behind any decline in ticket sales, not just the geography. At any length, unlike the rest of you soft-cocks I'll be there

Who really gives a shit what happened or happens off field between the pair? In the end it's down to on the field, so I'm glad Carroll was included in the team that played after the incident. It's patently clear that many of the world's best players are complete cocks off the pitch (and no I'm not saying either of these two are amongst the world's best).

What a knobend of an interviewer. Obviously intentionally so, but as a result the article offers pretty much nothing interesting or insightful. Yes Alan Shearer likes football, no he doesn't suffer fools well.... next!

For the record I'm sure Hughton took Guthrie off as he doesn't want him to burn out ahead of the Forest match. Could have taken off Routledge a little earlier as well.

It sounded like (from what I heard anyway) Tamas Kadar had another good game for us. Could emerge to become a real talent, as he definitely has more ability on the ball than your average defender.

Much to my delight! .. and as I said not true predictions. If I went with true predictions though they would have been off by a country mile anyway. I was also counting on Carroll not being available for this (and potentially many more matches). But I'm stoked that we got the result. Carroll playing, and scoring will hopefully help in putting this issue to rest a little more quickly. In the end the key is that we get promoted, so we should use whatever players we have at our disposal to do so.

True that. Was stung last time by being optimistic. Hence my pessimistic outlook this time around.

you're expecting us to nearly double our number of losses between now and the end of the season? NF have only won 4 times on the road this season, they wont beat us at SJP I was intentionally giving it a pessimistic outlook. I think and hope that we'll get more points than that, but wanted to see how the table would look if we lost a few key matches, most notably against Forest.

Why couldn't this be Fitz Hall and Leon Best. Best would have missed

Why couldn't this be Fitz Hall and Leon Best.

2nd place promoted ahead of Nottingham Forest on for and against. Had them down for a win at our place, so it's kind of a pessimistic outlook. These are the results I had us pencilled in for: Doncaster 1 NUFC 0 NUFC 1 Nottingham Forest 3 Peterborough 1 NUFC 1 NUFC 1 Sheff Utd 0 NUFC 1 Blackpool 0 Reading 1 NUFC 1 Plymouth 1 NUFC 2 NUFC 3 Ipswich 0 QPR 2 NUFC 1 So that's 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses Home: 3 wins 1 loss Away: 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Hasn't stopped him from playing for us in the past

Indeed. Even if Taylor didn't want to press any charges am I correct in thinking that he could be charged anyway? With his history there's no chance that any judge will give him anything less than jail/gaol time. A period of time to reflect in the clink may actually do the world of good for him though I'm sure not holding my breath. All of this is assuming he is guilty and that Taylor wasn't boffing his mum.

Completely out of character for Carroll ... Just because he's halfway to decent he has to be a caveman, though maybe he's halfway to decent because he's a caveman. Taylor has no excuse. Should have stunned Carroll with a 'he went thataway' arm pointing routine.

Xisco would never put a team mate on his arse.. now put it in his arse, that's another matter. ..Now, where's me coat.

Nolan and Best upfront? Not going to start Shola or Barton, only other hope is that Ranger gets played up front, though I don't have much faith in a combination of Ranger and Best scoring goals. If Nolan is used up front (or just behind) I'm convinced that Hughton will put Butt in the midfield alongside Guthrie .

I guess we'll know for sure by tomorrow. If Carroll's in the side it's all bollocks. If he's not, then at least something has gone down. If it has they'll need to be upfront about it. No way that something like this could be swept under the carpet. This probably means that Ashley and Derek will try to sweep it under the carpet and will take the same bunkered approach they did after the Keegan debacle.

This kind of us vs him attitude is childish at best. For Ashley it's a business. The best thing for his business is for the club to be doing well. If it's not it's ultimately costing him money. Being relegated to the championship was obviously not what Ashley wanted, it would have turned out to be one very expensive lesson for him (don't sell when you should be buying, and don't rely on shit overpaid past it crocks). He's still got a lot to learn - like to appoint honest, trustworthy people in positions of power but he knows now that he can't simply 'do as he likes' as no matter how many mugs there are to 'back him up' there's no money in running a club poorly and bugger all in running it well thanks to the overinflated prices of players.

This is fucking pathetic if true. Carroll can get fucked, obviously has got problems. If it wasn't true do you think a denial would have come out from the club by now? Best must have started it, tryinmg to keep a starting spot in the side.

I agree, threads like this are a load of shit and end up making everyone look like pedantic moaning bitches (even though they're the life-blood of forums). I just couldn't help myself.

You can only play the hand of cards you're dealt. No matter how much you whinge, bitch and moan about the dealer they're not going to change. Alternately you can talk endlessly about better hands you've had in the past and waste everybodies time.

You're right, but you fail to comprehend how much has changed in the league in that time. The spending from Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United has accelerated at a crazy level. Plus now you have Manchester City in the picture. It's MUCH harder to qualify for the Champions League nowadays than it was when we did it previously. We should be able to challenge for the Europa though. Challenging for the top half of the table is a reasonable expectation, and looks beyond us at the moment. Yeah, I too think that we should but only in a few years time after we stabilise in the League first. At the moment we don't have a squad that's seemingly capable of Europa qualification and we know that we're not going to see the type of gargantuan influx of funds that will see us immediately compete with the likes of Aston Villa, Tottenham and Everton. 2 years might seem like a long time now, but it will fly by. In the meantime I think we have to set reasonable expectations of what we're capable of all things considered.