Sandman

hopefully manny will be here for the 2nd leg, we're really lacking any creativity in midfield without ossie and pienaar. at least arteta will be back. anyone know if ossie will be fit?

agree 100% i think he's been brilliant of late, especially against bolton. i saw the tackle you mentioned close up, and it was outstanding.

few things i disagree with here mate you could say moyes cost us the game, it was a poor team to start with, anichebe should never be paired with yakubu. what did osman do to deserve a recall over pienaar? and i know we probably did well to hold out for as long as we did with 10 men but only an idiot would pick hibbert for the derby. and he should have brought on pienaar to add a bit of creativity, he seems incapable of making a bold move. why did mcfadden have to wait until 75 mins+ until he came on? getting sick of moyes' lack of substitutions. totally agree about kuyt, carragher and gerrard, dirty cheating bastards all of them. add finnan to that list too. agree that lescott was MOM too, though he did let gerrard go for the first pen (although he couldnt be blamed for thinking that hibbert was going to head it away). jagielka was total shite today, seems totally fucked after half time, if not before. but when hibbert played you cant say he was the only one. there was one incident when benayoun beat him easily about 3 times, that was about 2 mins in. he should never wear the shirt again, he has been disgrace all season.

it will be but hoofball is worse when played down the middle, especially as neville wont be able to defend against liverpool's CM. he's better than hibbo at RB too, it'll be a nightmare for hibbo if he has to face babel

wouldnt start anichebe, he isnt creative enough

anyone going? what sort of team can we expect then?

as if moyes will ever drop neville for the derby. he'll play him simply because the liverpool fans hate him so much. i'd play neville RB and stubbs instead of yobo CB, he's safer atm imo, yobo has been playing poorly. yakubu might work well up front on his own, but anichebe and yak would never work.

hoping i think would be closer to the truth

yakubu isnt scoring because he is being used in the wrong way. moyes simply isnt using him in the way he was used at middlesbrough

tim cahill's brother chris is captain of the samoan national team

osman is just dire, i cant believe moyes even brings him on unless its an emergency. i only listened to the commentry too but it did sound like pienaar was lively and creative, and osman is neither, he doesnt even have any pace to speak of. and it was his poor header that emre scored off (good finish ino but got to blame someone). btw what was moyes on about when he said that we deserved more? no, we didnt. we didnt play that bad but they were by far the better team, he always makes these pointless and untrue comments after the game, it is so annoying, if it wasnt for his poor substitutions then we may have got something from it. what is the point in bringing yakubu on with 91 mins played?

moyes would never play that team, there isnt a proper 'ball winner' in CM ffs... i know most teams would go for the attacking edge at home but this is moyes we're talking about... and i thought vaughan wasnt gonna be back until november?

so what team do we want out? i'd like to see: Howard Neville Stubbs Lescott Baines Arteta Gravesen Carsley Pienaar Yak Faddy anichebe is most definately a sub for now, best when brought on for the last 20 mins or so, dont think he's up to starting big games yet. obv our line up would look a lot different if we had cahill, vaughan and aj fit but its unlikely we'll have any of them so i reckon the above is our best bet. thoughts?

yeah we are looking way too primitive this year, arent creating enough and our defence is looking so week, i thought it was gonna be better this year but its got way worse somehow. and moyes will probably buy another defensive midfielder as cover for neville or some shit like that. tbh theres only a couple of players at the moment who i wouldnt want replacing.

fuck off we are so fucking shit. we cant defend to save our lives, whats happened to last season's defence?

the only way you can be a sucess as a defender with no passing ability is if you're a centre half. if you play at RB you need to be able to pass. sorry hibbert isnt good enough, he can tackle but cant do anything else. we need a new right back really, neville is the best we have there but its not saying much

god we're playing shit, whole defence cant defend to save their lives. plus we have 2 defensive midfielders who are shit, and 2 strikers bothe having stinkers. and our wingers sound like theyre having off days too, particularly arteta. hmm thats just about the whole team i think

official team howard hibbo yobo lescott baines arteta neville carsley arteta anichebe mcfadden subs: wessels, yakubu, johnson, jags, osman

hibberts a good defender he just cant pass to save his life and his positioning sometimes goes to pot

does he actually look like him on yours? what console do you have it for?

http://talkingsoccer.blogspot.com/2007/10/...for-keeper.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brezovan swindon goalie... been on trial with us and moyes is gonna bid apparently... dont really see why we need another keeper, wessels look good to me and ruddy might be ready as back up soon too. still, the more the merrier

i cant believe this. if we lose tonight we should seriously consider moyes' position at the club. i have stood by him for a long time now but i am seriously fed up with the mediocre performances.

omg we are so shite its untrue

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2183088,00.html moyes hopes osman and johnson will be fit to play. obviously playing well isnt enough for mcfadden and pienaar if those 2 amazing individuals are fit.

i can actually get AJ to score on it, he's fookin class, yakubu is alrite too. yesterday i beat sligo rovers 8-1 and scored 4 with AJ and a magnificent solo run and finish from yobo. yes yobo! how great am i.