S-Clarke

Good for them, not sure who will want him though. He is the definition of average.

and why would a player substitute regular games, most weeks, to the odd fleeting sub appearance for a couple of years? I wouldn't. It's not like he'd be making the move to play ''PL football'' - he's already playing it, with us.

Chelsea rejected him as a kid IIRC, so they can sod off. At the end of the day we're not in a position where we have a youngster playing Championship football, and PL clubs want him. We have a young kid who is a regular in our Premier League first 11, at this stage moving Chelsea would benift no one. He wouldn't play, there's no way he would become a regular there for a couple of years. It would be a backwards move. If he does leave, and if he carries on as he is - he probably will, then it needs to be when he's fully established himself after a couple of seasons, and where he's in a position to go straight into that Chelsea team. At the moment he'd be killing years of his career.

If he showed any sort of ability for us in L1, we wouldn't have ruined his career! Every time i saw him, he was complete and utter dog**** - he probably did have some good moments, notably Plymouth away, but on the whole was a poor buy. He's a mid-table L1 player at best, who prior to us getting him, played out of his skin at Brentford - but that's his level if we're honest. I don't believe he's even registered in the PL squad, so there's not even a possibility of it happening, and if it did we'd have admitted defeat!

Nice one, they can test it all they want, but if they want to waste time then so be it.

Will be a dull day today, but I can see QPR getting a win today - pretty comfortably too IMO.

Why are you on a constant wind-up these days?

I'll be ambitious and say....Benedict Tremoulinas Window Cleaner might be able to offer more of an insight.

Would be a bit silly buying him now, if we really did want him i'd be inclined to wait until the summer to make sure he's had no re occurrence and then give him a full pre-season with us.

I'd hope so. I think we're now showing everyone is adapting, and even though this season will probably still be a struggle to the end - everyone is making a fight of it.

With the way this season has panned out, of course you'd have to be delighted with 17th. Allows us to kick on in the summer and make sure we're not in this situation again..! I genuinely believe that NC wouldn't have been happy with 17th at the start after a £30m + spend, but I would assume he's in the same place as us now due to our start - just accept it, and get over the line. It'll be a success now.

There was one thing you could always gaurentee with Bernard, he'd never actually be at left back when required. Usually somewhere in the middle of the pitch, completely randomly. He had the positional sense of a blind giraffe.

peter crouch you idiot! But christ on a bike, what horrific defending by Davenport. What a donkey that guy was.

Who's that? any good? Can they play CB?

More mental management from Liverpool. Rather than getting him to sign a long-term deal 2 years ago and then send him out on loan, they let him leave on a free. I therefore expect them to pay upwards of £10m for him, which would be the norm for them. They love overpaying for British players.

Sunderland lead. No surprise seeing that horrific Reading lineup. They've got no chance of staying up. Will finish bottom IMO.

Couple of reds for Sunderland, a couple of injuries, and a morale-draining 0-0 draw.

Now you've done it!

Those comments were made before he had any sort of scan or check, it was straight after the match IIRC. Typical positive NA comments! I doubt we'll ever get official word from the club as to when he'll be back, NA will just be asked every week to which he'll reply ''Who knows?''

Probably right on the 2nd half team. I'd potentially stick Davis in there, keep Gaston out on the left and put Davis in an AMC role.

Ah I remember Viafara, always liked him. ''Sorry I spoil the party'' is one of my all time fav goal celebrations...!

Just a couple of people I speak to who have their ears close to the ground. They may be wrong, but they've been pretty reliable on most of the stuff they've told me in the past. I hope to god they're wrong on this one though.

Apparently a season-ending one. That's whats come from a few reliable voices at the mo.

Chaplow isn't that good. He had a spell of about 7 or 8 games last year where he was unplayable at times, but that's it. He was rubbish for the rest of the season. Doubt we'll see much of him this year, he's not up to the grade if we're honest.