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Man Utd could afford to get rid of Ronaldo for 80 milllion because they already had his replacement(s) at the club in Nani and to a far lesser extent Obertan. And then they spent nearly 20 mill on Valencia. Thats how you build a squad, not selling the star player and taking a huge risk in attempting to bring in a direct replacement in the same window. Perhaps Toonpack you're happy we haven't got a senior left back at the club. I'm certainly not and theres no guarantee we'll get one next month either.Liverpool needed a left back so they went out and bought one. Yes I'm pleased with our start but it couldve been so much better if Pardew had been properly supported. We're just not giving ourselves the best chance.

Aye tool were good, helmet, primus, fishbone etc were all better than PJ. The bad brains too, they were brillant. Saw a lo

A lad at work today was saying how great Pearl Jam were.....I said I could name 5 better American bands from the early nineties who were better....these are what I came uo with....Pearl Jam did one decent song, Alive, and that was fuckin it iyam.

You sounded more like Neville when you spoke to talksport that time mind....

Williamson is in the squad for the reserves v Bolton tomorrow.....if he comes through unscathed is Pardew desperate enough to play him v Swansea?...

nevertheless, Paul Lambert is a good manager, he's put his team together and they are playing for him. Def one to watch. What would he do at a club with more resources. Change the playing style ? The style they play, like Stoke etc, is limited but pays dividends with the right type of player, up to a point. Aye, thought they were tactically spot on tbf to them (I thought we were as well actually but the defence was always going to be our undoing). I've seen them get the ball down and actually play it as well this season so they have that in their locker too. I don't blame him for playing direct yesterday and focusing on set-pieces, it got them the points. I was surprised at how they played yesterday, with all the media wanking themselves off about how well they play the ball about. Horses for courses though as you say, Morrison & Holt v Perch and Simpson is no contest, as predicted by many on here in the week. Shola did ok defending the set pieces, but relying on him when he's got a job to do at the other end as well is asking a bit much of most players, let alone Shola. I've not seen much of MOTD etc this season due to other things, but have they been playing passing football ? I presumed the way they played yesterday is more or less how they have played all season. If they play a passing game, then it gives Lambert more potential to succeed at a bigger club with more resources IMO. Maybe I'm thinking of Swansea, theyre getting plaudits for good football too. I only have council telly and only really watch other premier league clubs when I'm actually at a game, so I'm no expert really. They were lmited yesterday to say the least, but theyre newly promoted so thats normal. I'll reserve judgment on Lambert ,after the press blowing smoke up Owen Coyle's arse in the last year it just shows that it can all go tits up, however good the initial signs are. A Glaswegian at work was boasting about how many Scottish managers were working in the premier league at the moment and he looked a bit hurt when I asked him how many of them were any fuckin good outside of Ferguson and Moyes I wouldnt want any of them.

nevertheless, Paul Lambert is a good manager, he's put his team together and they are playing for him. Def one to watch. What would he do at a club with more resources. Change the playing style ? The style they play, like Stoke etc, is limited but pays dividends with the right type of player, up to a point. Aye, thought they were tactically spot on tbf to them (I thought we were as well actually but the defence was always going to be our undoing). I've seen them get the ball down and actually play it as well this season so they have that in their locker too. I don't blame him for playing direct yesterday and focusing on set-pieces, it got them the points. I was surprised at how they played yesterday, with all the media wanking themselves off about how well they play the ball about. Horses for courses though as you say, Morrison & Holt v Perch and Simpson is no contest, as predicted by many on here in the week. Shola did ok defending the set pieces, but relying on him when he's got a job to do at the other end as well is asking a bit much of most players, let alone Shola. As an aside, I thought Shola was very good yesterday. For all the bleating on about not starting Ben Arfa, I thought Ba and Shola up top were giving them some real bother at times. Few times, their lack of understanding with each other showed but between the two of them, they caused some trouble. Lovely midfield play as well for Ba's second. Can't believe I'm saying that Thats the thing, we still went there and scored two. With someone taking charge at the back thats a minimum of a point, and more than likely 3. Picking Shola was the correct decision for two important reasons, and Ben Arfa and his fanboys will just have to lump it. He is, to put it mildly, tempremental. He took Marseille to court for fuck sakes. If anyone is surprised that he may well end up in a huge gallic sulk because he's not getting games then they've been burying their heads in the sand since he signed. Who claimed that their long term personal happiness and domestic bliss at home was almost entirely centered on the signing of Ben Arfa and what he might do for us? I think it may have been CT, which says a lot about him really

nevertheless, Paul Lambert is a good manager, he's put his team together and they are playing for him. Def one to watch. What would he do at a club with more resources. Change the playing style ? The style they play, like Stoke etc, is limited but pays dividends with the right type of player, up to a point. Aye, thought they were tactically spot on tbf to them (I thought we were as well actually but the defence was always going to be our undoing). I've seen them get the ball down and actually play it as well this season so they have that in their locker too. I don't blame him for playing direct yesterday and focusing on set-pieces, it got them the points. I was surprised at how they played yesterday, with all the media wanking themselves off about how well they play the ball about. Horses for courses though as you say, Morrison & Holt v Perch and Simpson is no contest, as predicted by many on here in the week. Shola did ok defending the set pieces, but relying on him when he's got a job to do at the other end as well is asking a bit much of most players, let alone Shola.

If Stoke lost 3 of that four, who would the "other" replacement be, and would they be as succesfull, not that they've been very good this year so far anyway. (Huth wanted away btw, which is the other problem of having "quality" back-ups). I'm not disputing we should upgrade Perch, however, I am disputing we could realistically upgrade those ahead of him. Theyd still have had one out of the 4 to head the ball away when it came in though...theyre all leaders, take charge in the box etc etc. And if all 4 of them were injured I'd suggest playing Danny Higginbottom there, another centre back by trade. Its called building a squad. Pulis has had more time to build his, granted. But going on the evidence of his tenure here I think Ashley is just content to say to Pardew "Graham will find you this, this and this and thats it, get on with it" We need a bit more thought and investment than that, and the short termism and naivety of Ashley's policy will become more and more apparent as the season goes on. And its January in 3 weeks. Ho-hum.

spot on Paddock Lad. Do you still go in the Denton ? Think you're mixing me up with someone else mate. I'm not from Newcastle and I live on the south coast nowadays. Was up at Norwich yesterday, canny day out ruined by 90 mins of shite, same old same old etc.

Stoke City seem to have at least 4 experienced centre backs in their squad. And in almost all cases they have played for or been on the fringes of their national team squads at some stage of their careers. They may not all be brilliant, and I have my own opinions of them, but Pulis and his chairman have built the squad correctly. If we'd have had one of Shawcross, Huth, Woodgate or Upson yesterday just to head the ball away from the area when it came in then we may have got something. Who knows, its all conjecture. But we wouldve stood a better chance if Pardew had been allowed to address a glaring weakness in the squad after Campbell departed. We all knew we were weak in this posistion and Norwich didnt have to come up with anything more original than just lumping the ball into the area to put 4 past us. Two full backs in central defence, and the likes of Stoke can call on 4 half decent ones, fuckin hell. The wheels havent come completely off though. We weren't as good as some were saying 6 or 7 weeks ago and we were never going to be as bad as some were suggesting pre season. It could be so much better if we'd have invested the Carroll money properly but we didn't and thats old news. Rome wasn't bulit in a day, but I don't think Ashley can be arsed to lay the foundations properly.

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Well that would help our balance of payments. Pipe down Frenchie. It's a loss leader though innit? You get whole families where nobody works, they have more kids and those kids don't work. In some ways I can't blame them. If the choice is a shit job for shit money or, no job for the same money, then where's the incentive? We need to make people feel that work is actually worthwhile. Years ago you could put your moderately-uninterested-in-school 16 year old council house dweller into an apprenticeship......now, around 20 odd years after the virtual end of the industries which employed the vast majorty of them, the few apprentices which are/were required nowadays have been replaced by semi skilled Poles. Same with huge armies of girls working on factory production lines to any great extent. No point complaining about about "benefit culture" because its here to stay and that won't change as the jobs aren't here any more. We dont make anything. Huge amounts of jobs you dont need experiance for are part time minimum wage. This is partly a result of the current financial dire straits we're in, but mostly down to the huge pool of cheap labour that big busuiness wanted and which the last Labour government delivered for them. And China. And India. Watch Brazil as well in the next few years too. This country to a large extent has lost its reason for existing.

or or is it just unspeakably uncool to have a pair of trainers designed by David Beckham?......

Who did Bellamy bray fuck out of with a golf club?....Jon Arne Riise?....theyre in direct opposistion by the sounds of it tonight scousers playing Suarez and Carroll as well, Ruiz sounding shite, nowts each.

Warwick Hunt?......

Sounds like summat I could torture Mrs P with...Nice. She'll be sucked in by the Brad Pitt angle only to be broken by stats and sporting trivia. Ha! me and Mrs PL are seeing it at ten past two ......she hates sport of any kind, but she trusts me with choosing films. It helps that Brad Pitt is in it or she wouldnt be going anywhere near it.

Anyone see motd last night/this morning?....a mate who did his achilles playing sunday league said after seeing it this morning he thought Jenas did his yestersday too.

last game v Ukraine in Donestk...better hope theyve won the first two, cant see that being easy...

Whats Englands "group of death"?...Spain, Portugal, France?.... Easiest?....Poland,Greece, Rep of Ireland?... I love the Euro's, always better satandard of football than the WC. Euro 2000 was the best touarnament I can rememeber. Only 2 shit teams, Engalnd and Germany, and we beat them with a Shearer header one nil...I won 500 quid on that