Scottish Mag

Don't get me wrong I am not saying we have not had bad luck on the injury front, but the handling of it going into the season could have been better. We all knew Owen was crocked and Shola needed surgery yet started the season with a piss poor front line and at the back whilst you cannot be sure you will def pick up injuries Carr, Bramble, Moore and Babayaro all have poor injury records yet we went into the season with those 4 and two relatively inexperienced defenders in Ramage and Taylor.

Babayaros constant injuries (including that illness Icantbearsedis) we were all aware of of going into the season. How the fuck Roeder never attempted to do anything about it in the summer is a complete mystery. And the same can be said about Carr, Bramble and Moore.

Dunno about a decent defender in the making but at times he certainly plays like he could be the new Titus..

..if we continue to lose a few more games and finish 13th/14th etc?

Awww shite ITV must be showing more footage of us, as I see TVs Naughtiest Blunders has started.. More dives and elbows from Taylor and Titus fuck ups I expect..

Just seen the other thread..

So who else has already visited uefa.com and cancelled their ticket application already?

Fuck off with this big punt up the park by Given... Was that our tactics for the night? Fucking scary, we have no idea what else to do?

Nothing like the commentators getting behind the team, have they done anything bar slag us off since the programme started? Wankers

Poor mans Chopra...

Looks about right to me...

League's shoot-out plans savaged The League's plans have been shot down Football managers and chairmen have laughed off proposals to decide drawn Football League games with a penalty shoot-out. League chairman Lord Mawhinney wants to introduce shoot-outs to allocate a bonus point at the end of a drawn game. Bristol City chairman Steve Lansdown has described the plans as "a crackpot idea" and his Cardiff counterpart Peter Risdale thinks it is a "nonsense idea". Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock said he "detests penalty shoot-outs". The Blades boss added: "They have probably got little else to discuss on the agenda if that is the main directive. "I don't see anything wrong with the Championship. "If they want to titivate and mess about they should try to get to Fifa and get the divers and the people who are injured treated while the game is in progress to get the game moving quicker. "They should try to do constructive things." Bluebirds chairman Ridsdale is adamant that introducing a penalty shoot-out would not improve football as a spectacle. "It won't make the game more exciting," he added. "People will come to Cardiff, stick 11 men behind the ball hoping for a draw and the try to beat us on penalties." Lansdown told BBC Radio Four: "I think it came from one of Lord Mawhinney's 'eureka!' moments. "Chairmen I've spoken to think on the same lines as me, and managers make it clear it's not something they'd want." The Football League will discuss the proposal at its regular monthly meeting on Thursday and if it gains enough support it will go forward as a motion to change the rules at the League's annual general meeting in June. Under the proposal, both sides will still get a point from a draw, but at the end of the game a penalty shoot-out will provide a bonus point. Lansdown added: "We should never try to dissuade people from coming up with ideas on how to improve the game and we shouldn't be scared to implement new ideas. "The idea is to makes games more exciting and get a result, but you can meddle too much. "I think the way the League is structured at the moment with three points for a win and a point for a draw there's plenty of opportunity to get excitement into the game. "A good score draw is as exciting as a win sometimes. "Thinking back to a couple of our games this season against Cheltenham and Bournemouth where we came back from 2-0 down to get a draw. "Both sets of fans left those two games happy, the opposition supporters because they had got a point from a team at the top of the table, and ours because we came back from two goals down and it felt like a win."

Damien Duff is determined to ensure his hard work on the training ground pays off in the final weeks of the season. The Irish winger joined Newcastle from Chelsea last summer, but he has shown only flashes of quality on account of a number of niggling injuries. Duff produced a solid display against AZ Alkmaar last week to prove to Newcastle fans he is still committed to the cause and he is looking to continue his good work in the final weeks of the season. "Obviously I've had a lot of injury problems this season, which haven't helped me and so I haven't been fully fit or completely match-sharp when I have played," Duff told The Sun. "But I've put in a lot of hard work on the training ground with Nigel Pearson, working on certain things - and that seems to be paying off. "I feel really sharp now. I came into this season without a proper pre-season behind me and I don't think a lot of people realise that or see what it means. "There are no problems now. I feel fit and good. I had a virus which lasted for 10 days or so and that knocked the wind out of me but I feel grand now and raring to go. "When you join a new club, a big club, you're desperate to show your worth straight away, to prove to everyone what you can do. That didn't happen for me. "It's frustrating but I have to get over that, keep working hard and show the fans what I'm all about. I'm determined to do that."

Andy Goram was class tbh...

In all honesty who really cares about tonight, I'm just "delighted" Spurs got through..

Modern arsehole fan who doesn't even support their local team tbh. Helensburgh doesn't have a team tbh, but I do try to go and see Rhu Amateurs which is the closest village

As I'm a "modern arsehole fan" it doesn't bother me either way if we score. Its great booing at the end of matches though...

Rangers out...

The Football League board is to consider a proposal to scrap draws and decide matches by penalty shoot-outs, BBC Five Live understands. The idea will be discussed by Football League chairmen and chief executives at a board meeting on Thursday. No timescale has been given for implementing the change if the chairmen go ahead with the proposal. "Why can't we just have a draw?" Bournemouth boss Kevin Bond told the Daily Echo newspaper. There are currently two proposals to be considered - a traditional penalty shoot-out or where a player would have eight seconds to try and score after receiving the ball on the half-way line. "I don't agree with it because I think it's too much of a radical change," Bond added. "I'm very open-minded and I think certain laws of the game need to move with the times but that would be too much of a drastic measure."

don't drink in the house...only if I'm having a party Aye, like we believe that...

But its the 5th best concrete in the league tbh..

honestly, i hate them, they mean nowt to me and nowt to england, this post stevie shouldnt even be up Did anyone ask what they meant to England?

No, that's the narrow criteria you've now attached to this debate to try and regain some credibility. Most other people made the point Sunderland had the potential to be bigger, which is of course a completely different point to the one initially discussed. Not like you to move the goal posts though, is it? No Alex, I have credibility, this is what I have always said, that the mackems have the potential to be one of the biggest clubs in the country. I have said it on numerous occasions, but people have disagreed with me, probably the same people who think it is impossible for NUFC to appoint unambitious directors - although I can excuse that ignorance on the basis they don't understand what unambitious directors are, in spite of myself trying to tell them. Probably the same people who booed Bobby Robson too, on the basis they thought it was impossible for us to finish outside of a UEFA cup spot. The people who said that Sunderland didn't have the potential to be the biggest clubs in the country ARE THE SELF SAME PEOPLE that booed Bobby Robson. Leazes knows this to be true. And they are also "fuckwits", "clueless", "post Keegan bandwagon jumpers", "Glory Hunters" and "want to join the Spuds fan club"... Through in a couple of references of Top 5 finishes and England internationals and we cannot be far off a Leazes Mag full house.