Scudamore

He's in there somewhere...

They've got a cracking couple of young players coming through the ranks... One's called Leon Best and the other is David McGoldrick...oh...

He's a purest clubber man...

Salary cap? Tell me more...

In what world is he actually going to honour that five year contract by playing consistently? http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11750_5513107,00.html

Did they take the sign with them?

Playing centre backs of any quality (Lancashire) is part of the problem...we need centre backs with good quality...

Pretty sure Pardew has acknowledged on a number of occasions that the squad isn't fit enough... Problem is how to remedy this. If you thrash the players during non playing periods when we're playing two games a week where do they get the recovery time? And without recovery time they're not gonna be in tip top condition for the games themselves... A balancing act which i'm sure Pards is working on... Mind you players dropping deep and acting like candy asses in the last third of a game is more of a mental issue if you ask me...

There are hair puns on this thread?

You had a desire to make yourself very tired at work as well?

Stayed up watching Alpha Dog last night. Still not entirely sure why...

More importantly Bizzle...what were you wearing?

Grimly hanging onto the whole "happy clappy" label aren't you mongchops? Give it up ffs.

MTV is soooo last year anyway. We've moved onto the download generation now. iTunes generation if you will.

A Brentford fan bellend threw the ball onto the pitch when we had another ball by the corner flag ready to take as well if i remember correctly...

pwoper nawtee...

Compared to Lancashire it was like having John Terry at the back. Will serve us well i reckon.

Who is that centre back? He's so dominant...

Got a photo of my old man stood with Terry Paine...now either my dad is about three inches shorter than i realised, Terry was standing on a Yellow Pages or (dare i say it?) Wikipedia is talking wrong...

So's the Batmobile...doesn't mean i want it playing centre back for Saints...

Yeah i'd need something to go with it though...maybe nachos.

To be fair Ponty is ALWAYS right...

Maybe Pinnacle would be interested in sponsoring one...

It's a forum. We discuss things. Sadly this one is such a bad idea it's not even worth discussing. What's that old Clough quote? "If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right." Players play. Managers manage. I'm sure Pardew talks to all his players and i'm sure he has an idea of who Lambert would like to play alongside ideally (and i suspect it's Rasiak) but ultimately canvassing player's opinions for team selection is a very slippery slope towards player unrest... Player power is one of many things wrong with the modern game. Alongside agents and message boards