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Thanks for everything, Mike.

We could do worse than Suazo, I mean if we are definitely going to sell Owen this deal wouldn't been the worst we've seen bandied about. Obviously I would prefer not to.

I don't want to spend the money on a position we don't (desperately) need help in on a mediocre player, which is what Doyle is. We have Shola, he's actually having a decent season so far, there's certainly no need to be spending money on another striker unless they are of significant quality. (Of course, this statement assumes we won't sell anyone. If we do, we'll of course need replacements, although I still think we can do better.)

Don't be fucking stupid. If we're talking about Doyle as replacement for the likes of Owen he's not good enough but he's way better than Shola. He would be a canny addition to our squad for me as unfortunately the days of us signing Ferdinand's, Shearer's and Owen's are well gone. I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

Apologies, Farrington you sorry bastard, but I don't think anyone who has supported the club for the last 2 years let alone the last 28 could ever consider Alan pissing Oliver anything but a fawning apologist whose writing is as poor as his sense of responsibility for the club. When we needed someone to really hold the Shepherd and Ashley reigns to account he failed us. Just putting in shitty and biased match reports and doing arse-licking interviews with some of our players doesn't make you a sort of journalistic iconoclast who got the London press to follow his stunning work. What a load of bollocks, piss off Oliver.

Can't have it both ways tbh, either don't have democratic elections (in which case they're backwards barbarians who will never be modern) or don't cry when they don't go as planned (in which case they're terrorists) Israel has the best security force in the world in the Mossad. I simply reject the idea that Israel can't find and deal with whoever is responsible for the rocket attacks without demolishing the homes, businesses, lives of people who are not involved. That is terrorism, end of story. [/shieldsupcaptain]

Was offside and Carroll can go, keep Shola though, I have a feeling we will be needing him.

I'd take Ledley but certainly not Doyle, sidestep at best from the Shola class of players.

5 million for one of the best keepers in the Premier League and 15 million for Bellamy and Scott Parker - I doubt he's going though.

Don't get cheesed off because your precious Taylor isn't good enough to displace that lad with about 4 games under his belt. And I admit to mentioning Guthrie twice but I'm not the one who claimed half our starting eleven today are full internationals. Butt had one poor game against Wigan and people want him taken out and shot - short memories tbh. Yes, I did put N'Zogbia and Enrique in my strongest XI. There's no contradiction there. All I said is that they aren't full internationals, which they aren't. It shocks me that some of you are honestly trying to argue we could ever have got a result here considering the squad we put out, but it takes all kinds I suppose.

Taylor, Guthrie, Edgar, Enrique, N'Zogbia, Guthrie - none of these are full internationals. Edgar is a reserve player and Taylor hasn't started in some time. So no, I don't agree with you, and I maintain that this was a subpar starting XI that is a substantial step down from something like Given/Enrique/Beye/Bassong/Colloccini/Jonas/Barton/Butt/N'Zogbia/Owen/Martins.

I am sorry if you are prepared to laugh at a scoreline of 5 fkn 1, but I am not. It is shocking and unlike you I am thinking ahead. This is not only a loss but a catalyst for further losses, demoralised team. What else is there to do but laugh? Did you just watch the same game as me? It could have been 10! If you have any sense you'll write this game off because we were never going to get anything out of it and start looking ahead to our next league game which is a winnable one at home to West Ham. We got a point from Chelsea (A) and Man. U (A). Write the game off before it starts, feck off. If people adopted your philosophy the so called 'untouchables' will all be around 90points a season. AND DO YOU FKN don't understand, the 5-1 probably means we are too demoralised to turn up against West Ham either. No wonder the team do not seem to be interested. No, since the team aren't borderline monkeys like you, they'll know we were always going to get pummelled by the league leaders considering the depleted state of our team. And yes, we did write off the Chelsea and Man U games and got points from them - but think about the games we believe are nailed on wins that turn out to be dropped points and it evens out.

I am sorry if you are prepared to laugh at a scoreline of 5 fkn 1, but I am not. It is shocking and unlike you I am thinking ahead. This is not only a loss but a catalyst for further losses, demoralised team. What else is there to do but laugh? Did you just watch the same game as me? It could have been 10! If you have any sense you'll write this game off because we were never going to get anything out of it and start looking ahead to our next league game which is a winnable one at home to West Ham.

Decent cross from Kazenga there, would be nice to see him get a game every now and then instead of some of the dross we have appearing for us in midfield. You know, in games we aren't losing 5-1.

And Attain has got to be the dumbest poster on this board. Not to lash out or anything but you come across thicker than mince sometimes.

Taylor shouldn't still be on the pitch. What a joker. Geremi's set pieces have been good today - trying to take whatever positive I can from this. Jonas has looked decent? I thought.

Surely a backpass from Carra, what are these bastards in yellow playing at today?

Pathetic goal. And Benitez is taking pictures with the fans, goes to show how little he has to do to beat a rabble like ours.

GET IN EDGAR! Taylor should've scored on his header and Duff was surely not even remotely close to being offside, that's a poor decision. We could well have been equal in this game which would be undeserved but it could have happened. It's not hopeless, stranger things have happened, we need the Kinnear team talk now. Holding out for 2-2.

Dear me, if Given lets in 8 after this he'll have already done more than could ever be asked of any keeper. Some of those saves were nothing short of fantastic.

Carragher looks vulnerable this afternoon. Given's been immense so far but I fear there are many more saves to be made.

Was there anyone who didn't see this coming? Disgraceful.

They'll regret this.

Are you R|CO in disguise Attain?

to quote JawD, we're not going down man.