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Gareth Bale is slightly different, we are talking about one of the best left sided players in the world FFS!! Baird was 21 when he played in the cup final and then hardly played again until we were relegated, so 24 and in the championship before a regular. Like 70's Mike says, really not that young at all and certainly a couple of years at least older than both of our current young full backs.

That is absolutely not the thing to do!!! No way should a young player be brought into a struggling team. You cant be relying on kids to help you out of a mess and it's not fair to expect them to. If we go up they should be loaned out to championship clubs or play in cup games or brought on when a game is won to give them a taste for it. It's then down to them to prove they are ready and for the manager to see how they react. Arent they both still only 17 & 18? In reality both could probably benefit from a season out on loan anyway to get games under their belts.

I've been told there is a decent real ale pub near/on a barge close to the ground. If this a FACT?

To be honest mate you'll probably only need it for the Coventry game as by August it'll be so 11/12 season. I'll have the "Premier League, we're having a laff" ones ready by then for the new season. I'm also considering doing a discounted bundle offering of a foam hand + a "cortese, Wooo wooo" season ticket holder and lanyard. The cool way to carry your new bar code scanner readable season ticket for the fashion concious supporter.

Good timing, got a job lot of foam hands with "going up" written on the index finger coming in in time for the Coventry game, it's my dream to turn SMS into a sea of foam hands. Drop me a PM if you want to preorder them.

I agree, no way should anyone have signed England international and footballer of the year Scott Parker. I bet NEwcastle are also regretting signing Ba. Shocking business.

So actually not out of his depth at all and more than good enough against most of the division, but not quite up to it against the best team in the division. What more can you expect from a Championship side squad player?

Shall we do a sweepstake on the first person to post that we are taking too long making signings during the summer? I reackon it'll be within two weeks of the season finishing.

Utter sh*te. How can we be trying to sign a player without knowing which division we or his current club are going to be in ffs.

Ipswich won the UEFA cup when it was worth winning, Villa won the old Europan cup. Sunderland are one of the best supported teams in the country, none of them are boring FFS. Sheffield United, now that is a dull club. Crystal Palace, a bit of a nothing club.

If we can't get 6 points from a badly out of form Peterborough who have nothing to play for and Coventry who have only won once away all season we deserve to be in the play offs.

As I said in another post, it's easy to be a great defender when your team dominates possession and you're comfortably winning At times this season he's struggled and seems to suffer from lapses In concentration. Our defence is great when we are being flat track bullies and dominating teams at home but when put under pressure we often concede. I genuinely cannot remember us grinding out a win this Due to an outstanding defensive display like Reading have done. Most of our clean sheets have come in games where we've won 2 or 3 nil, not many 1-0 wins. Which suggests as individuals and as a unit our defence isn't as good as some seem to believe it is.

Dont think so? Isn't the whole thing about it that he was a one club man as player, manager and director? I stand to be corrected though.

Nick Holmes and Ted Bates would be 2. Benali and Dodd both had loan spells which would rule them out.

It wouldnt be that either.

I think you need to check your history fella.

OMG OMG OMG!! I was just in a shop and what song should come on but Yazz, the only Way is UP!!

I was waiting for a lift in West Quay yesterday and a women stood next to me dressed in a red jacket and skirt and a white blouse. We both got into the lift. The lift was GOING UP. Surely this is a sign?

/\ what exactly is genuine pace? Although I agree with a lot of what you say, I just don't think he's very good.

On another note I've just seen West Hams goals. Absolutely comedy defending from the gay boys. That bubble machine Weat Ham have is embarrassing.

I love all our players Ade, you know that!! They were both crap on Friday though.

You forgot Fox and Hammond.

Maybe you should. Over 3 pages there have been some very good posts, some of the best I've seen on here for a while. So clearly not everyone seems to think its a "mong thread"