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Shocked that Micah hasn't made it, esp. with Kyle Walker out..................who else have we got at RB other than Glen J? unless Neville is coming as player coach

Wouldn't surprise me, he had his best years under Roy at Fulham iirc.

[h=1]Euro 2012: Rio Ferdinand to be left out of England squad [/h] England manager Roy Hodgson is set to omit defender Rio Ferdinand from his squad for Euro 2012 while Kyle Walker misses out through injury. Ferdinand, 33, has not played for the national side since the 2-2 draw with Switzerland in June last year. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson recently raised doubts about the centre-back's ability to play tournament football. Tottenham right-back Walker, 21, is absent with a toe injury. The Spurs defender, who won his two England caps in November last year, sustained the problem in the 2-0 victory over Fulham at the weekend. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp had initially suggested that Walker's injury was minor and that he would be fit to link up with Hodgson's squad.

Forgot about Lescott! Yep, he should go. Always good to have ''winners'' in the squad, so Barry, Lescott and Adam Johnson for me too. I wouldn't be surprised to see a certain Scholes get a call though...

Would you choose Holt over Crouch or Carroll? I kind of feel sorry for Carroll as he's been made to look **** because of the transfer fee, but he still has some decent attributes which make him a threat. Just doesn't score anywhere near enough for me. I'd expect to see Walker go, and Richards for RB. Rio, Terry, Cahill and Jones for CB. LB will be Cole and Gibbs IMO. Would have loved to have been able to take Wiltshire for CM, as I think he's a class above. Not sure who else we really have in there who is 'young'. Oxo and Theo will go IMO, and Lennon possibly....

Has anyone got any specific preferences as to who they'd like to see called up? Apparently, according to some well placed twitter rumours, Woy has 'made his mark' with the 23 and there will be numerous surprises.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2144445/Matt-Jarvis-Southampton-target-Wolves-winger.html?ITO=1490 Maybe just rehashed, but the Mail have got alot right about us recently. Any more news from your end VFTP?

He's made Andy gray look like a fool! You kind of sit up and take notice of what he says and you think ''Oh, good point...''. He fair as well, I mean as a ManU guy...how hard must it have been to see Man City do what they did, but he was full of praise and gracious. A lot of quality's there and you can see why his popularity has shot through the roof. I also loved his commentary in the Chelsea Barca game...''goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal''...lol

And in a way you can see why they'd gamble....! £6m on a top striker, and potentially 90m in return. Of course if you fail after spending £6m then you're in the ****, but you can see why some take the gamble - it's an incredible revenue increase if you make it.

I wouldn't want to know to be honest, but we wasted a fortune on foreigners. The whole setup as you said was wrong, there was no real team-ethic about it. from the outside it felt as if the players were in school for the summer, and Capello was their headmaster.....the performances looked so restricted and suffocated, the players never really relaxed under Capello. There's no doubt he's a good manager as he's won shed loads, but he tried to create a 'club' environment from what I could tell.

Let's not get into this again! They're Man Utd though, we're not. They'll generate interest wherever they go, we won't. I doubt people over there really know where Southampton is...let's be honest!

That's pretty insane really, look at what Wigan received...! and Norwich, more than we've had in revenue for years!

Good job for him. I must say he's gone way up in my estimations in his short sky career (I guess that'll still continue...?). He's shown he knows what he's talking about for a start, and has a real tactical awareness of teams and players.....He's the sort of guy you want in and around the England squad if we're honest, not Italians who can't speak full English and just speak with Capello....you want coaches who can interact with the players at a similar level. We kind of have that with Andy Crosby and that link between the players and the manager is pretty crucial. I don't think we ever had that under Capello.

Ok, well there's very little differnce between them. They did finish higher under Roy though, I'm sure of that. And isn't their current points total their lowest for 2 decades? May be wrong on that. Their home for is their worst for a long time though... The biggest criticism that can be labelled at him...was that he was given around £70m+. He bought Andy Caroll, Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing with that. That's a sackable offense on it's own!! He's had a serious amount of money to spend, and OK - he's reinvested the Torres cash, but surely you'd expect your manager to invest it better than he has? He's blown it away.

I can't believe this is still rumbling on.

I have no idea, but I believe this was cut when Lowe came back the 2nd time. It didn't really benefit us an inch at the time. No one really gives a **** about us out there!

If anything, our slowness in getting season ticket sales up and running is a real positive. Clubs thrive on season ticket sales during the close season, but we seem content with not getting this revenue until sometimes in July - so that's got to be a positive way of looking at it and our potential finance position.

I must admit, I was surprised he featured so little in the run-in (although he was so poor against Leeds). He could have been an option on the bench...but the largely ineffective Steve De Ridder got in front of him all the time, so he's obviously not pulling his weight 100%. Somethings not right anyway, but we're going to struggle to move him on as clubs will not pay the fee we want. We may be stuck with him running down his contract.

In the championship Kris Commons would be a decent shout, but I think we can do better now if I'm honest. I think we're actively after Hooper and Jay Rodriguez, that's just a hunch. But now we've been promoted we have the pull to get these players, especially Jay Rodriguez. The only thing that will stop these happening is if the chairman put stupid prices on the players heads. I'm sure we work to an acceptable maximum price, as all transfers we do are discussed by a committee as such. If the club want over what we feel is acceptable then I can't see us paying over the odds, we've never done under this management and I doubt we'll start doing it at this level either. Some will say you need to do that (and in some cases, for a special player that will make all the difference, you may need to) but it is leading to a road that's a bit of a mess if you do it a lot...especially if you want to be self sustainable! To be honest, I wouldn't pay over £6m for Jay Rod. I wouldn't pay over 6m for Hooper either. £6m could get you a much more complete player from Europe if the scouts were on the ball, which I believe ours are.

I don't think that's as a negative slant on the player in particular. They tried to work a game plan whereby Lambert would be isolated against Clyne. If anything it was a bit of naivety on their managers part in allowing it to happen. It wasn't really his job to mark Lambert. I'm sure Lambert would have the beating of Evra at the far post too...if he was isolated against him.

Would agree. If he was a 16 or 17 year old that had done that well, I'd say keep him...but what is he, 23/24? Never going to make it above L1 IMO.

It would be the right thing to do. He's done worse in the league than Roy did for them, yet the scousers are crying for him to be given more time. It's all to do with his past history and association, and nothing to do with the fact that he's actually a pretty useless manager. He'll hold them back if he stays. Look at the amount of money he's wasted on crap ffs!

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Jelavic has done ok.

Livermore and Frimpong would be good additions, but Livermore in particular is - IMO - similar to what we already have. We need a totally different CM in there, someone forward thinking and goal hungry...