Monroe Transfer

It's not as simple as "not taking it seriously". It's a balancing act. We don't have s strong enough team to field our best 11 in every match, it's just not feasible and this is the case for most clubs of our size. If we played our best team in this match, we'd probably have to weaken the squad for the Norwich match instead. Liverpool and Spurs will put out weakened teams tomorrow as well. Maritomo for all their quality are not going to be as good as most clubs in our league so I can understand not needing to play our best possible 11 against them for this reason too. I'm sure the club are taking it as seriously as possible. It's not like we're putting out a reserve squad - it's a mix of both really. We're also missing a bunch of usual starters (now including the ill Cisse and the banned Ben Arfa), so we're forced to play young players in this team at least.

Parky is on first name terms with all the A list celebrities, don't you know.

You watch much Ligue 1? Genuine question, I'm just getting back into it myself.

Ben Arfa is banned for the record. If Cisse is ill then I'm not sure how people can blame the club for weakening the squad in that regard. Bemused as to why Ba hasn't travelled though, guess it can olnly to save him for the weekend.

I see Lord Tebbit is calling for the death penalty for all cop killers...

I thought Hooper was a striker

Isn't Ferguson barely match-fit?

Did that JJ Hooper play? I always thought Moyo would end up quietly leaving. Never heard anything about him getting promoted out of the reserves/U21s. Really is time for some of these lads to make the step up. Or I can see a clearout next summer.

Fucked up to say the least.

Why?

How many megapixels is your camera? 1?

Coped with them better in the second half iyam, Pienaar too.

Bitter much? Could understand the attitude if you'd just joined this board but you've got 1706 posts...

I can't tell if CT is actually being serious now, or whether he's just being a WUM.

Whole team looked utter dogshit in the first half tbh.

Almost as if Pardew engineered it so that Ba had a point to prove...

Classic DM reader.

Lazy twat.

Plenty to criticise but forget that, tonight I'm going to just be happy we came away from there with a point.

Has anyone even come close to say anything like that?

I've always just got their torrents from TPB. Never been a problem, and they have so many seeders that most downloads are fast.

I can't believe Harte is 'only' 35. I can't remember being into football and not knowing his name. Was a class player for Leeds iirc.

There's more to football than an end product, you know. Or perhaps you don't know, thinking about it.

Yup, and he had a decent pre-season too.