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So what else is new? If we sell him we may as well pack it in now since we'll be going down faster than you can say Joe Kinnear.

Get a grip man, we've been openly speculating about Carroll going to Spurs on this board ever since we found out about the injury, no surprise that at least one rag has decided to make a story out of it and no surprise that someone on this board would post it. It's always amused me how the Sun, supposedly England's 'most-read' rag, I mean paper, have absolutely no idea how to use the word 'toon.' It's always "Toon want this" or "Toon will demand at least 30 million", and I'm not talking about headlines or even sub-headers.

We can beat these with or without Carroll and I look forward to seeing it happen. 2-0 to us, Super Shola and Barton to do the damage.

He's 24 now, how long is this 'promise' going to go on? Will he still have loads of 'potential' at 26, 27, 28, like Shola? He's shite like. Better at RB than CB as you've said before and as we saw in '08-09.

I still have 5 years on my sentence mate - I'm trying to avoid a shag, if you know what I mean.

If we get a decent striker in, I'd play him and Carroll up front with Ben Arfa on the left and Barton on the right. Tiote and Nolan in the centre. Williamson should replace S. Taylor, who should be beaten savagely trained until he learns that defenders should defend first and appeal/point/playact later. If we keep the same crop of strikers (some in the very loosest sense of the word) that we have now, I'd want Ben Arfa behind Carroll and Jonas in for him on the left, rest of the lineup to remain the same. But what I say doesn't matter, since the actual purpose of this topic is not to discuss potential first XIs but to give CT another opportunity to big up a player (LuaLua) whose play he's probably never seen more than 30 minutes of and to have another whinge about how shit Jonas is.

Harper only had one save to make in 90minutes Nowt to do with Taylor, who was gash.

I thought Jonas was quite good in the second half. If you guys haven't figured him out yet by this point, he's never going to be a world beater to say the least but he was a good attacking option/pressure outlet. Good performance against a shit team, better finishing would've seen us hammering them (near things from Shola, Jonas, Colo and Taylor, maybe even the Best chance at the end) but I question why Pardew played shit like Best, Smith, and Lovenkrands unless it really is for the shop window. S. Taylor is a crap centre-back and Williamson should've been back in as soon as he was off suspension.

Listen to those Wigan cretins (all 15,000 of them) chanting "off, off, off". Fair tackle, that's a yellow for Joey Barton while it's play on for Steven Gerrard.

Maybe he tweets too much.

Tiote runs half the field and passes 2-3 defenders only for Shola to be offside. Now he's off for Best. Bugger, I was sure he'd never play for us in the Premier League.

Does this mean Barton will move into centre mid? No point in that, he's been at his best this season out wide and definitely in this game.

I really hope we won't pay the price for these crossbar-rattlers and near misses.

That was a good cross by Jonas. Happens so rarely I thought I'd mention it for posterity.

We were comfortably better in the half but we could've used another goal to really put this to bed. Barton very much back to form on the right side.

Christ, Lovenkrands, peg it with the fucking right, you're 3 yards out.

Fine, fine strike from Barton there but it was perseverance that scored that goal.

GET IN!

Silky skills from the Fenham Pele there!

I can hardly blame him, Cattermole nearly killed him with a similar tackle earlier this season. Was it not Henry for wolves, either way they're both cunts Right on both counts.

I can hardly blame him, Cattermole nearly killed him with a similar tackle earlier this season.

Fuck me senseless, what a miss.

Given was "injured" just before he was sold as well. As Heyman says, either way it's bad news. Call me crazy, though, but I think we should have enough in the tank even without Carroll to beat Wigan and a truly dire West Ham.

CT is the new Gemmill. Except Gemmill was actually right about Martins.

couldn't be bothered starting a new thread, nor finding the right one. If the mods/admin want to be useful, nows there chance Source? Either way there's no chance, we can't afford his wages. Cardiff can't afford Bellamy's wages either. There's a chance, although we've been consistently linked with SWP over the past 3 seasons to no end. We paid about 5 million for Jonas after arbitration - somebody fact check me if that's wrong. Getting Ben Arfa for the same price should be seen as a sign of ambition. Somehow I doubt Ashley and his cronies would fork out that kind of wedge on a permanently crocked player (and therefore one with no resale value).