Tomaszk

Want to see some of these PM's!

Tim Cahill is back so they'll play well for the majority of games get up around 4th/5th/6th then he'll get injured and their form will dip. What a player he is.

Much more confident than I've ever been, and that can't be a good thing.

oh Marlon

Funny little error on 2 player the keepers seem to be crap, even on stats. Cech and Buffon have 1/99 keeper positioning..

randy is amazing

Took this about 10 months ago when drunk thinking it was funny it looked like a face

Now now...

No way Friedel should be ahead of James for me. James was very strong for us, and for one or two errors he saved us loads of goals by coming out and catching the bloody ball, something other keepers find impossible.

Benitez will probably start this. He's looked very good so far, very mobile and strong, have to look after him, had a monster record in Mexico.

Woooooooaahhh woah woah. As recently as a few years ago...Aaron Hughes, man I despised him playing for us, at least a mistake a game, so bad. Could cross, had nothing else going for him.

bang on. Young is the best winger in the league on his day. And in the top 5 when he is having an average time of it.

I blame the Labour party!

These players MON's been tracking are going to be amazing. To make us wait this long he must have some real beauties lined up. You watch they won't all be overpriced, overated English jokes.

This is a joke. We've needed a top centre half all summer, ideally 2, but we NEEDED one for the team, and one for the squad. We have none so far. Liverpool have now needed one for about 3 days and have agreed a fee for a 30 year old experienced international for a fairly small £2m. Why does O'Neill insist on buying English!? They are more expensive and much harder to get because all the English players good enough for us are first choice elsewhere and cost about 5 times as much as their foreign counterparts. I don't care where players are from, but it is clear as day that English players are harder to get. This is pissing me off a lot now. Get some players in Martin! No one cares what country they are from, only how good they are!

Badge is shit. Need to leave it now.

Exactly, what's the point of even trying to get anywhere when we know when it comes to the crunch, after we've suffered injuries and fatigue picked up in Europa League, we'll effectively 'pull out' when the time comes. Best to just get out of it now. I'd love to be able to compete too but the manager has failed spectacularly in creating anything even resembling a squad.

I'll say it again, send some kids and get out of it as quick as we can. All this will do is tire out our stupidly small squad.

So you'd wait until any new manager that comes in is stuck with someone else's players?

Our best centre half. Would shine next to a better player, Davies doesn't help.

NRC has shown he can't play football. Yesterday's performance is the only thing that might give him a game. We were so bad, NRC has that knack of fouling people that might just get him into the side. It'll stop teams just passing it smoothly around us. So gutted by the performance.

Do you think MON knew who that Benitez was? Of course he didn't he came from a league outside of Britain. He looked bloody good when he came on, nearly got them a draw on his own. Looks like he'll have fun against our "defence".

He needs to tell the players to lose the fear. Don't be scared to go and get the ball and turn and pass it forwards then move again, even into a highly populated area of the pitch and be happy to receive it again. Barry was a master at it. Not many Wigan players would get into our side, but they all wanted the ball and it showed. It looked so easy as they rolled it round our team. Then when we got it, it was PANIC quick get it forward, either bang it to Heskey or smash it out to young and hope he creates something. Route works occasionally if it's a surprise/alternative or you are very good at it like Bolton were a few years ago. We have to be calm and composed in possession and get the ball up in their half. Yesterday any time we did pass the ball it was outside our own box, if we just keep the ball on the edge of theirs it's good pressure, as soon as someone loses their man we can slip them in and have an effort on goal. Of course, every single fan in the country knew losing Barry would hurt us. Every single fan knew Villa would have to buy one hell of a player to replace him. And as some predicted Martin is utterly garbage in the transfer market and has failed miserably to find anyone. No way we were in for Sneijder, I doubt MON knows any of his qualities or has ever thought, we could do with him in our team. Mentioning him was purely MON playing games because we'd been linked with him in the press. We've got 2 weeks to find someone, and by all accounts from people who seem to know what they are talking about (Mysterman) this is it for our midfield until January. To top it all off, if we do sign anyone, due to MONs complete lack of awareness of anything outside of the SPL, should we sign a midfielder, it's bound to be another carbon copy of something we've already got. Overpriced, English, and not very good. Someone like Jenas for about £13m. So a change of tactic is in order. I hope MON tells the players to do some passing in training. Get in little boxes and get used to having the ball under pressure. MON to stay for this season, but it very well could be over by November.

I don't think it gave the team any confidence that as we were lining up kick off Carew's name was being belted out. Probably lifted Wigan if anything.