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We have the same central midfielders who played for us last season, minus the mighty James and Gillett. We have three strikers, four if you include Lallana. We just need one player, a right back, to start the season. We will need more cover in some areas, but if we sign a RB we can put out easily the strongest XI in League 1. Keep taking the pills.

Children who force their parents to buy the shirts at gun point? This is fun.

By forcing them at gun point to buy the shirt?

That's hardly a PR exercise, they're just trying to wind up the Echo by releasign news too late to make the morning print (Not a policy I agree with at all). What else has the club done? The booking fees and lack of instalment plan are a bit of a pain, but again they aren't a PR exercise. They've done the important bits spot on. Got a decent manager, backed him with excellent signings, backed Pardew up after some stupid baseless rumours and cut over a dosen inadequate players from the squad. We've also got a really good new one off home shirt, and by all accounts the away shirt is a cracker too.

Green, Hart, Robinson, Kirkland, Foster and Carson are all Waaaaaaay ahead of Kelvin for the England #1. Probably a couple of dosen other Prem reserve and CCC 'keepers in between too. It's a romantic idea to think we have a bunch of wanabe England internationals in our side, but seriously? We're not even close. How you can say he is Prem quality based on THAT season at Sunderland, I don't know. You can point the finger at the defence all you want, it's hardly an endorsement though is it.

He played there at Leeds and was absolutely dreadful. Didn't he also play in the middle that game where he came on as a sub and got taken off after 20 minutes? Good luck to him, but he is an extremely average League 1 standard player and we wont go up with players like him in the team.

Shame. If he was going to leave the Foxes, I'd have hoped he'd get a better offer than watching Hull sell the family silver. Can't think where, but it's still a step backwards in terms of club size IMO.

Christ on a bike, you can't be serious?

Cashley may be a money grabbing, wife-cheating idiot, but he is one of the few world class players in our current squad. Johnson, meh but there are very few other options. Seriously, who else? Neville? Richards? Otsemobor? Jermaine Wright?

Signings to cheer us up after the WC exit? IMO that smacks of the stupid PR exercise from regimes of old. I think our current set up will announce signings professionally, as and when they are confirmed.

Baj, get a haircut FFS! I am going to nominate this subspecies of garter snake.

Hart Johnson - Dawson - Ferdinand - Cashley Milner - Gerrard - Barry - Cole Rooney - Crouch Other players there or there abouts: A. Johnson, Lennon, Theo, Wilshire, Lambert and Lallana ( ) Lampard can f**k off Terry can f**k off Upson can f**k off SWP can shoot Heskey... then f**k off James was alright, but will be 43 come the next WC so...

Which cave do you live in?

Can you gimps keep it to the PM function please.

Much as we all love to hate Redknapp, he has done a very good job at Spuds, Pompey (twice) and West Ham. There's the added bonus of the fact that he wont be the media darling he is at the moment if he gets the England job. Much more scrutiny and criticism as the press love to hate England. Having said that, Hodgson would be my first choice.

There were quite a few players we had in the CCC with egos too, as well as the ones in the Prem. There were some arrogant c**ks playing for Israel in the Flemming Park World Cup special. Yes there will be a few more in the PL but nothing close to what's going on with the England team.

Were MLT, Benali, CMFG, Ormerod, Lundekvam, Pahars et al?

Waaaaaay off the mark with that one Alpine. England faield because they are a bunch of egos playing for themselves and not for each other, combined with the fact that they only play together half a dosen times a year anyway. They were badly managed, under pressure, over rated, lacked belief... I could go on. Saints are a completely different bag of nuts and will always have an ambition, regardless of which League we're in.

I think giving penalties after the race is run, for an incident which occured after 1/4 distance is retarded anyway. Can you imagine in football the ref not giving a first half penalty, then after a 0-0 draw has played out giving it after the final whistle. Ridiculous, there should be a 10 minute limit on all penalties given by the stewards. If it takes longer than that to make a decision, surely the driver deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Vettel, Hamilton, Button. A handful of cars, including Button, under investigation for going to quickly under the safety car. Kobayashi overtook Alonso and Algae on the last lap too.

Webber must be the luckiest man alive at the moment. My blood ran cold when that car slammed into the floor on Webbers head. Also, Lolonso. Waaaahhh waaaaah! I want my dummy!!!!!

They have been pretty entertaining at times, but I wouldn't say they were anything that special. I'm glad Ghana went through, but more because I like Ghana than any anti-American feeling.

Can we start ignoring them now?

You'll never guess what. Sorry Mike.

Stupid French wotsits. I've just spent the night sleeping in a chair at Marseille airport because my flight was cancelled and all the hotels were fully booked. Checked out of the hotel at 9am yesterday morning and I've just got home an hour ago. Tired, p*ssed off and sat in a bag of testicle soup. Off for a shower now. Apparently the French are being made to work until they're 3 years younger than the rest of Europe. Diddums. That article went off the rails with the first sentence and the phrase, "stuck on the runway." Nobody goes and sits on the runway for 6 hours. I can't see how you can level any criticism at the crew either. They aren't allowed to open the bars on the ground so there was precious little they could do. By the looks of it they then called the handling agent who then arranged the refreshments. The pigs were probably just there as a precaution.