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pace, strength and work rate, that front 3 has it all.

That's the misty eyed fans view of it and i dont diagree with your sentiments, but if we got offered £6m for him i would put money on Cortese accepting it. There are strong rumours we were prepared to sell in the summer for the right price, i bet that price wasn't as high as £6m.

he's not priceless then is he.

well two of them have gone onto prove themselves adequate in the premier league since they left and one is now a world class player so they were clearly good enough for the championship at least were they not?

Short memory. Bale, Baird and Jones got big money premier league moves after that season, must have done something right, not quite the promising youngsters and okay for that level player you are making them out to be. Craine was highly rated at the time and also got a premier league move, he was kept out the side by the quite brilliant Pedro Pele, a £1m burnley signing last seen at Hayes and Yeading, not really sure why his career never took off. Rasiak scored 17 goals by January and was then bizarrely dropped, 17 goals in about 30 games, hardly a struggling player. Best was 4th choice striker then but also went to the premier league. I also forgot about Claus who played much of that season who had played for us in the premier league for almost 10 years add to that the £7m he spent on other players and you have a side that should be doing much better than scraping into 6th.

Spending massively on 11 new players to scrape into 6th with a squad that already contained Gareth Bale, Kenwyne Jones, Baird, Craine, Rasiak, Surman & Best. All of which would go on or already had played premier league football you mean? manager of the year one year doesn't guarentee success.

I think we should go 4-2-4 against that opposition, this would be my team, I reckon our pace out wide will trouble them and these two young full backs have done well recently, be good to see them start. Although I do worry we are missing Tommy Widdringtons bite in midfield. Flowers Dodd Benali Ruddock Osman Case Cockerill Rod Wallace Shearer Rideout Le Tiss I think we'll win this one 4-1.

Geroge Burley was manager of the year ahead of Ferguson and Wenger once.

Not a bad idea that, a team full of marathon runner, they could run and hassle and close all day. They be massive fans favourites for their work rate and if they took pot shots everytime they got within 40 yards of goal we'd have more shots than we do now so olallana will think we are an amazing team.

I am breaking my rules down into categories for ease of acceptance Clothes Acceptable Casual gear Retro shirts Retro bar scarves Current shirt, if that us your thing and you aren't a fat f*cker Not acceptable Wigs, face paints, jester hats, fancy dress. Tight fitting jeans/chinos worn with espadrilles or high top mong shoes Football shirts if your body fat is over 30% Football shirts worn over hooded tops Fake designer clobber, specifically stone island which was blatantly bought on eBay Slip on trainers, like the Lonsdale ones you see in Sports direct On that note, anything bought in sports direct Songs Do not sing 'Liverpool' at Man united fans "You're just a small town in xxxxxx"when Villa was inserted during the Birmingham game it was the greatest display of mongness I've ever seen inside a Soccerball stadium. "You'll never win f*ck all" big clubs emabrassing coming from a club with only one major trophy to our name Looks like a wotsit at ginger players Red and white barmy army Do sing "We've won it one time, we've won it one time, the Johnstones paint trophy, we've won it one time" at big clubs gloating about how much they've won- self depreciating humour is unanswerable OWTSGMI at the proper speed Matchday etiquette Do not Stuff your face with as much food and drink as you can get through as soon as you get into th stadium Constantly shout out 'funny' comments during the game thinking you're hilarious, you aren't. Constantly scream 'get it foooooorwaaaaaard' when we are clearly playing possession football Give players sh*te nicknames eg 'Hoover' for Holivled and 'Spider-Man' for Schniderlin Copy other clubs sh*te songs. Such as the Villa "sh*t support my lord" song a few tried to earlier in the season Offer opposing fans out during the game from the safety of your seat, you know you won't follow it up outside. These rules a re not difficult to adhere to, in fact for most normal people they might need little to no adjustment to their matchday behaviour. For some of you lot though it might prove impossible not to dress and act like a helmet,

Yet again another big match is decided by a controversial refereeing decision, never a sending off. Roy Keane being the Dalek of live Champions league Soccerball and trolling Dixon and Southgate.

So QPR absolutely did not set up to make it difficult for us to break them down and didn't set up to defend and play on the break, it's just an absolutely coincidence that we couldn't weave our way through the gaping holes in their defence because we couldn't pass the ball 10 yards to each other so resorted to pumping it 50 yards instead. They abolutely didn't do their homework and realise we were vunerable from long diagonal balls between to full back and centre back. It was just coincidence that they attempted to do that. We are the only club in the world with a manager who plays any form of tactics whatsoever. Glad we cleared that up. Oh and BTW i'd take a win against Sunderland, Reading and Norwich however it means setting up, even if it means doing away with our wonderful free flowing, unstoppable Saints to grind out a few wins which we need to make the champions league, oh no wait, to keep us up.

Andy, you're barley old enough to drink FFS!

That would be a real statement of intent.

10th? Such a Dell sized mentality. We finished 8th under Lowe and this was when we had no investment, we should be aiming for a top 6 finish. We only need to go on a run a bit better than Wigan did last season to acheive this as well. FFS

As you're renting if there is a problem the landlord should sort this out. Ring the agency or landlord directly. Although they might advise you stick a few bin liners on in the heat of summer and use it to help you lose weight.

Prehaps, but they did it much better than us. Didn't see City resorting to long balls, playing into the hands of our giant centre half or have their left back head the ball straight to their striker inside the penalty area.

See the key that is on the handle, what you need to do is turn it so the window is unlocked, then hold it down, gently pushing the window until it opens. The window should remain open until you pull it towards you, again turning the key to make sure it is again "stuck"

If i was just using shots i would simply quote the 24 in the stats and say we were absolutely brilliant based on this.

Not really, for one we lost and were in someways author of our own misfortune and could easily have condeded more, secondly how many saves did their keeper make? I can only recall one or two decent ones, in truth despite having lots of the ball we threatened little.

I didn't say it was a football lesson, it was a great away performance from a struggling team. Certainly if we'd defended like they did people would be hailing the performance for our game plan and resiliance and dominante display from the centre halves.

I didn't say it we got a football lesson, i said it was a good away performance. Do you not agree then? They defended well, ensured that they were difficult to break down, never let us settle into a passing game really so we were resorted to playing into their hands by humping it long to Lambert who was dominated by Samba who is very good in the air. They were then ruthless and efficent on the counter attack and scored 2 goals. They played to their strengths and forced us to play to our weaknesses and into their hands. I dont see what else you can expect from an away performance by a struggling team.

Some might call it a great away performance, soaked up the pressure, minismised our threat causing us to resort to long humps forward which were mopped up by Samba and caught us on the break twice.

Category 759 - the posters that despite living thousands of miles away have had a beer/cocktail/bottle of wine with every ex player and everyone ever linked with buying the club and been told lots of intimate secrets.

We need him to add some bite in the midfield.