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Anyway it's not exactly the same role, Viera was what I'd call a "milieu relayeur", Petit was the DM in that pairing both for Arsenal and France at that time. Petit won the ball, Viera was there to take it forward. That's one of our problems just now we seem to have 2 DMs and no relayeur, probably because Cork isn't strong enough in the tacke to take on the role 100% so we have to rely on Davis to take the ball forward. When Wanyama is 100% again perhaps we could go back to the 4-1-2-3 system that we seemed to use at the start of the season..

He didn't AS Cannes,AC Milan,Arsenal,Juventus,Inter,City. Think he won the PL title wth Arsenal when he was 22. Won the WC as well

depends on whether he's really considered to be a possible for the summer or not. At full international level Shaw is an unknown quantity so if they think he may have some part to play in the summer wouldn't they really want to see what he can do now ? Baines and Cole they know all about anyway.

conscripts are they ?

Whereas we spent what about 4 million on those players, the nucleus of our Championship side. It's not about how much you spend, it's about what you get for your money, doubt if one player from the current QPR side would be in our first XI, whereas we had 5 or 6 players capable of making the step up effortlessly. It is fairly well known in physical training circles that there is a type of athlete or player that no matter what you do you cannot ruin the talent that they possess. You may misuse it and not get the optimum amount out of it but nothing that you can do will destroy it short of kneecapping them or something.

Why would they do that, what good would that do, training must be pretty poor then.

If QPR had Schneiderlin,Lallana,Cork,Fonte and a fully functionning Lambert they'd be streets ahead as well.

I mean if Adkins and Crosby were such good coaches as some make them out to be it would be really hard to understand their actual position in the Championship wouldn't it. Adkins did reasonably well because the squad he had at his disposition was filled with exceptionally talented footballers, probably of the type that no matter how bad or good the coaches methods are the talent will always see them through. When you have lesser players you have to earn your salary a bit more.

Absolutely, which is why I said that he should have sent the U21s to Sunderland in the Cup. We're paying those lads (probably not much) but they are contributing nothing and probably for the most part will contribute nothing.....So let them have a game, we lost anyway, no point in going about it half-arsed. Why send knackered first teamers all the time, some of them are obviously running on empty anyway. You just have to ask yourself why lads like Stevens and Moore just haven't stepped up despite being built up as great white hopes for years now.

We didn't play enough of our reserves against Sunderland, I'd have sent the U21s up there, all of them, they have to get used to real football at some time or other and until we try the Turnbulls,Moores and Stevenses in a real game we have no idea what they're worth. Don't really understand our U21 policy, we cream off those who are obviously good at 18 and just let the others waste away with the "development squad" then we ship them out without ever knowing what they could do. Those that have been given a realistic chance haven't let us down and yet it's restricted to a few exceptional talents.

Doesn't like MP or Gaston, didn't like Osvaldo or Cortese. Bit of a trend showing up there don't you think. Probably loves Yorkshire Pudding, Haggis and the Daily Expresss though.

We should have sent the U21s to Sunderland, who knows they might even have won. We would certainly have seen what they're worth...if anything. .

I think we just need to accept that Lambert is finished as a PL striker and move on, exactly the same trajectory as Grant Holt really except that Norwich saw it coming and shipped him out when they had the chance, not that their recruits were any much better though. We don't need Lambert in midfield, we need him to be efficient at the point of the attack where he's supposed to be because if he isn't it just leaves our other front men outnumbered and overstretched all of the time.

So they did, still played Brighton on the Monday before getting mauled by Newcastle though, watched that game, Hull were abysmal, it was just one game to many for their players.

Whereas last year we got dumped out of the Cup in the 3rd round and used the free weekend after that for a nice jolly to Barcelona. Can't do well in all competitions when you have an effective squad the size of ours. Look at Hull on Saturday, literally got taken apart by Newcastle, no energy, no envy, probably because of the effort needed to travel to Brighton and back for the cup game on the previous monday.

don't really know, seems to be trying to get goals but nothing comes off, perhaps that's because of faulty execution though. The extra time shot on Saturday would have been a super goal because Mignolet was going the wrong way but it just happened to hit Agger (I think) and bounce away. Same thing with the volley in the first half, bit too high but when you watch a lot of football it's the same thing that you see in every game. We had 13 shots I think, scored no goals,only 3 of them blocked, which probably means that Liverpool were effective in closing us down, sort of thing we were doing when we were winning matches. I think we might get more goals from midfield if our "wide men" could get to the bye-line a bit more though and pull the ball back more accurately. Some of our crossing is a bit woeful.. Anyway the poll is now closed.

As you're an expert on our style care to cast your eye over Ramos from Hertha Berlin and let me know what you think ?

Let's see how he gets on (if at all) in the England game this week, got a feeling he's been sort of holding back, probably wants to go to Brazil desperately.

Well with Gerrard,Terry, Ferdinand and Beckham being no strangers to the odd red card it can't be all that long ago, probably Gerrard about 18 months ago.

Gas imports are measured in millions of cubic metres, oil imports are measured in barrils. I'd be surprised if UK gas imports from Russia are anywhere near as high as is being stated on this thread. Could be wrong though. I thought Norway and Qatar were the main suppliers of natural gas to the Uk which has some stocks of it's own still.

Where were Chelsea in the table when they beat us at home then ? Think they took 3 points for that. In fact against the teams currently above us that we've actually played at home this season we've taken 2 points from 5 games so far, lost to Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool, draws with Arsenal and City. Perhaps we'll fare better against the 3 sides above us that we haven't played at home yet.

Who needs poor people anyway, filthy russian lucre to pay 50 million for Torres (inc about 8 million VAT) now you're talking. Just can't think how much Abrahamovic money the treasury must have siphoned off over the years. Probably enough to buy the Crimea.

Well there was an incident at Swansea recently wasn't there ? Sunderland have had a few of late as well, As for the signing I don't know really wasn't there a Portuguese lad who was supposed to sign for us, might have even turned up at SMS but the deal didn't get done for some reason or other. One in...one out, Mauricio's words not mine. Turned into 2 out..none in.

Well we could stop them coming here and funding football clubs, that would do no end of wonders for our economy wouldn't it. In fact that's the solution, we should nationalise Chelsea, don't know if the UK economy would stand up to pouring millions into them though.

Weren't they the ones pretending to be gay though ? always gives you an advantage with the judges, they do seem to like a bit of gay cowboy. Want to win an Oscar ? Make a film about gay cowboys, never fails.