hypochondriac

Nope. After a period in March some time they come off next season.

...Is the correct answer. People who bring up threads from four years ago are incredibly sad.

How many Japanese players centre backs have been a hit in the Prem? Same principle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAOCVwLrXo

I got this too. Amazing telly.

Cant fifa or whoever look at it and then decide to impose sanctions. If they don't like it then they can't play?

Not something you hear very often. Maybe spot on in this case but it's hardly a regular occurrence.

Thanks for the serious replies! Megabus looks to be a viable option. It takes 6 hours but may be the least objectionable option.

Have about four to six mates and we are planning to go to Wigan away and stay in Liverpool for the weekend. What would be the cheapest and quickest way to get down there?

Kermits fingers.

Still don't understand why we have bought a keeper with potential but who needs developing for a few years. He may or may not develop into a decent keeper but you can't mess around with buying a keeper. I mean look at Bart. IMO we should have bought better.

It's absolutely crazy. If true I have serious concerns about our transfer policy and if we get relegated then we will look back at this decision as a pivotal moment.

My favourite bit was: So that's 13 players saying that they believe some players take performance enhancers with the rest either not sure or disagreeing.

On POL after the article from Swindon about their fans: FAF.

Best article I have read on the matter.

I completely agree with this. My suspicion is we were expecting Jay Rod to adapt to the Premiership better than he has. I reckon we were hoping he would be first choice and then perhaps we would have quietly got rid of Rickie and replaced him with the younger model (hence where these rumours of him leaving have come from in the summer and now.) Hasn't quite worked out like that though which is OK because at least we gave it a go.

Good point Turkish, but then in other areas we barely strengthened when we needed to like getting a decent experienced keeper in and further strengthening at CB and cover for Adam. Did we have first choices for those positions?

Both have made little impact for a lot of money this season. This season is the important one because it is about staying up and then developing a team to go forward with for the long term. Both Mayuka and Jay Rod have potential but are evidently not the answer for the here and now.

Indeed. Whilst I know spending money does not necessarily equal success, it does seem odd that we successfully brought in these strikers for a shed load of cash yet where the need was greater we were unable to strengthen sufficiently. I don't think Jay Rod or Mayuka were particularly important signings.

Eh? I was replying to your comment that 'it seems we were trying hard then.' I was replying to that singular post and didn't ignore anything.

The product of our endeavour is evidenced by the players we signed. In some areas that was clearly very good but in others we didn't do so well. I maintain that we should have signed some more in other areas as other teams had done.

I think we should have tried harder. I think we should have had contingency plans in place if we did not get our first or second choices. Our failure to strengthen in the summer in certain areas could mean we get relegated and all our good work in the last season or two will be wasted.

Does he sound like the right sort of attitude to have here?

I didn't say we were idle.

I think we could have done more to address certain areas where the need was greater. It would almost certainly given us a few more points and meant that we weren't so precariously close to the relegation zone and everyone was crossing their fingers hoping we didn't get too many injuries until we could get to January and strengthen.