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Good point Damned early morning posts

how may does he have to read for that?

Neither is Cisse who has had plenty of chances. And with respect I am not sure your own ability to play better any training than in matches in any way disproves the point, that Rafa works with them every day and knows what he sees.

What's Reina?

Why is Cisse the answer all of a sudden. Hes crap. There's little or no more probability of goals with him in the team.

We've rarely got anything there recently, and they'll be very confident. They've not been good this season away from home, but still look good at home for the most part. Happy with a draw on Sunday. I'd be tempted to go with Gerrard on the right as hes more likely to stop Henry's left wing runs. I'd give Kewell a try up with Crouch, but that might not be possible with Riise being out.

Crouch is a fine player, but really he needs someone to work off him, and as you say he needs wingers that get behind the opposition more. Baros was decent enough, and probably would have come in handy this season, but he wasn't a long term answer. Short term pain for long term gain I think.

They were both poor so don't think it made much difference.

Simao was definately getting booed.

after arsenal we have fulham at home, not newcastle away

you cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear (every year)

3...0 Gerrard, Crouch x2

good luck to the lad. Be surprised if he gets on, but just going with the team and being on the bench will help him in the long term. Suppose this means he must be getting close to the 1st team now.

If Rafa goes to Madrid in the short term one of 2 things is true:- 1) Our senior management (i.e. Parry) is as f***ed up as some on various message boards would have you believe 2) Everything I have read about Rafa being a thoughtful, intelligent, unemotional man is a lie. He is a fool.

I see. You want to express yourself. Go for it.

I am confident that over the course of the next few seasons whether we finish 2nd or 3rd this season will not matter. I can swallow my pride - i'd rather win trophies.

why do you press enter instead of letting the cursor go to the end of the line?

Beyond the satisfaction of getting ahead of the mancs I really don't care if we finish 2nd or 3rd now (assuming that is going to be the lowest we finish). We're not going to win it, and the only benefit of getting 2nd is automatic qualification for the CL. We'll end up playing Dynamo Dogs**** of Uzbekistan if we finish 3rd anyway, so that's largely irrelevant. Any idiot can see we're closer to Chelsea than the Mancs at the minute, and unless things go t*** up in the summer, that gap is only going to widen. Especially since the drunkard in charge of the Mancs is hellbent on bringing in krap players and alienating the better ones. Lets win number 6, or the FA Cup, they mean more than the difference between 2nd and third.

irrelevant.

Kuntkrap played really well tonight. Looks like we have one position where bringing in the back up doesn't degrade the team.

Was suprised he wasn't on the bench at least. Maybe Rafa thinks he can afford to lose Luis at the end of the season given he would still command a reasonable fee? get some money for Luis to put toward a top class striker?

no

Had they done so, he probably wouldn't have left - it was down to Valencia. He was obviously upset at having to leave. Hopefully, we'd do/are doing a hell of a lot more to keep him happy, and make him want to stay.

i thought it was quite dull actually. but I guess you probably had to be there. If anyone wants a copy, you can have mine for a fiver including postage!

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