Dr Gloom

he deserves it tbh

"some of our supporters would prefer us to win the FA Cup more than anything else." what a load of cobblers. would anyone honestly rather we won the fa cup than the league or the european cup?

apparently bayern wouldn't pay much more than £3-4m for him

pay increase to £75k... allegedly

what's everyone's thoughts? happy, or would you rather see him sold and barton signed as his replacement? i am personally pretty pleased that he will be staying. he's a much better footballer than parker.

Good cover? He is better than any of our defenders, bar none. I think he meant he can play in a few positions. He'd start when fit were he here, obviously. aye. he'd stroll in to our starting lineup ahead of the likes of carr, bramble, ramage etc

shame really. the orangeman would have provided good cover at full back and centre back.

how ironic that leazesmag makes no defence of shepherd in his appointment of souness. souness is a dreadful manager - we all knew that before he took the job - but it was fat fred that appointed him, when few other sane chairmen would. what does that say about shepherd?

when does he "go on about Owen all the time" ? Name me these "big name players" who have won us nothing, because the only one I can think of is in fact Owen, and I would like to have seen the reaction if we had replaced Shearer with someone of the calibre of Johnathon Stead ? The Geordie Nation stuff that he comes out with was also said by Sir John Hall, but that was alright, why ? Also, I consider the talking up of the club by Shepherd to be no more daft than the same things people say on message boards who also think the club have a divine right to win trophies which is what Shepherd says. The best thing you could do is just take no notice and realise nobody laughs at them like you think they do, unless you think message boards are the real world. Because I can tell you that I meet many supporters of many clubs, most of them are envious of the players we buy and regularly playing in europe and aren't interested in the slightest what Fred says. The time to moan is when he stops supporting and backing his managers, and hopefully the next board don't have that approach. leazes - shepherd is ridiculed across the country by supporters of all clubs. get over it.

shepherd expected souness to do better, otherwise he wouldn't have backed him to the hilt with cash. roeder is operating under less pressure. shepherd knows he's got a small squad and he isn't likely to sack him largely because of how much expectations were lowered by the souness debacle.

coloured? you couldn't make it up

I do actually forget he's still here sometimes when it comes to thinking who we have left! The injuries now have reached proportions that no football club thats existed could cope with, yet we have to, and not just in the league but the cup also. Its a good job we have a while till the UEFA cup starts again or we'd be unable to field a team in one of the competitons! In an ideal world we'd be 2 or 3 up at half time allowing Roeder to sub a couple of key players at half time for a rest and a third part the way through, but sadly this should be a tough game, likely to see us pick up more injuries and a tired team afterwards. I have no idea what the team will be for the match nor what i would pick for the match. Lets be honest you need to wait until about kick off time these days before you know if anyone else is going to drop out with an injury! it's so fucking annoying. i know it sounds like an excuse to fans of other clubs but can anyone remember the last time we put out something resembling our strongest eleven? i'm guessing it must have been during sir bobby's time.

usual drivel and lack of foresight from you assmuming emre doesn't go, it would be madness to blow the majority of our transfer budget on another midfielder when we're crying out for defenders and forwards. even a mind as small as yours should know that

bare bones in midfield as well as defence now with butt and parker out. only options are to play milner and dyer on the flanks with emre alongide pattison in the middle or drop le sib back and play (gulp) luque up front.

bramble has to go in the summer. i'd be looking to extend moore's contract by another year, sign one top class centre half and groom the young lads.

i don't think many people have said "anyone but fred", but a good majority want him out and with good reason. the failings of other chairmen doesn't make fred any less of a baffoon.

nah.

he looks a lot better than bramble. edgar looked solid too. you'd never know they were the kids when we count babyaro, carr and bramble among our 'senior pros'.

gordon bennet.

watching it now 7msports1 can you pm me the link? cheers

aye. i fancy us to lose today like

anyone got the link?

can he play at left back? last time i checked we were pretty well stocked on centre midfielders

shame he had to come off so early against bolton. we looked crap after he was subbed