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Jelavic and Miller started to work well before Jelavic's injury so 2 up top can work but its a formation that is going a bit out of date unless its played direct with playes in their correct positions. Plus the 2 upfront MUST click with each other and know what each other is going to do. Over the years partnerships like Hateley and Mccoist, Yorke and Cole etc were almost telepathic. Id say our best option is a front 3 at the moment with Naismith and Weiss included in that as wide / creative players.

Cant remember trying to sign Tamudo. The one I remember who all but signed was Jardel. I remember seeing him in the Main Stand 1 game and we never saw him again.

Absolutely no thanks. Id rather get Velicka back than Boyd. Miller will be missed but we still have good numbers upfront with Jelavic, Lafferty, Naismith, Fleck and Beattie. If anything we still need a centre half unless Webster stays fit now, or a full back, but Broadfoot cant be far away from returning. I have enough trust in Ness and Hutton in the centre midfield to cover McCulloch, Edu and Davis. In the wide positions Weiss seems to be onto a game and the chap Kerkar could be done with a run. Wylde and Foster can also play advanced roles. Obviously things get ugly if we get a few injuries.

Good luck to him. Im a fan of his and thought he was a good player, did well to return to the club when a number of fans slated him and he did well for the few years. Not only is his 22 goals vital this season but he made a number of goals for the likes of Boyd last season. Agree with barry the personal reasons are a bit false coming from a millionnaire, I know first hand what its like to move abroad into the unknown with nothing yet he will walk into a luxury house etc with plenty zeros in the bank account. Someone is going to have to step up and get themselves double figures between now and May. Jelavic and Naismith are surely the new front pairing.

When the spot light is moved off Ferguson and he isnt the certain of attention nor the man who has to do everything then he is no doubt a good player. He has shone at Birmingham and I always thought he played better for Scotland than Rangers coz it wasnt all about him. He'd be silly to go to Turkey though.

Sunderland must be rubbing their hands at 24 million for an average striker. They are 6th in the league with an average team, if Bruce can spend that money wisely they will finish top 6. Villa will still be in a relegation fight.

He seems to do ok in cups but has a awful record in the league with Portsmouth and West Ham. But the organisation at the back has been the worst thing, its been non existant. The 8 pts picked up over Xmas was against poorer opposition who WH should be beating but to get a thumping from Newcastle like that was embarrassing. 2 pts from satefy but played more games than the others.

Avram Grant stays on! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/9364949.stm FFS West Ham. Make your mind up. Grant has held a bit of dignity in this saga and made Sullivan and Gold look twats (not difficult) but I still dont think he is near manager material and even if MON has turned down the job id rather see WH go for Martin Jol or bring Curbishley back. I dont want Allardyce but at least he'd probably avoid relegation.

But the option is there....as it currently stands games get called off in the winter and end up being played midweek in freezing Jan and Feb which results in a loss of attendance straight away. 10 team or 16 team league, 1 thing I think every agrees with is the season needs to start a lot earlier.

Yip, the money would have been better used by keeping Novo for 2 years rather than signing Beattie.

Yeah that was my first thought too, most clubs have come out against it and now its a big thumbs up. Calscot is probably right, give 14 a chance. Its slightly more attractive than 12 but doesnt remove the amount of games you can play against the bigger teams. The 10 team set up is far too reliant on the OF and Skys money and will do nothing to improve the product on offer - and i thought they standard is 1 thing they wanted to improve. We have to look at playing the game in better conditions and take a continental view for the set up. There is no point letting some bloke Doncaster come in ask the fans a survey then going completely against the majority with his own ideas which puts us back 20 years. If he thinks just because Aberdeen and Dundee Utd were successful in the 80s with a 10 team set up (this was quoted) and that they will be good again then he is from another planet. As much as the spilt is laughable with teams gaining home games and others losing a home match plus 7th place finishing with more points then 6th but not moving above them in the table, I agree with Calscot that it is more attractive to have a fixture card of Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and Utd coming up and that the bottom teams do go into a good battle for mid table but it wasnt thought through properly to make it fair and even. The whole situation is a mess and needs someone with common sense with fans views also to come in and make a decision rather than the money men who are thinking short term and rubbing their hands at a higher wage packet only for a 5 year plan to fall flat in its face and the leagues to be in a worse state while they move on out of the game.

Reading that I can see the arguments for a 10 team league a bit better but its all short term aims and too reliant on Rangers and Celtic and Sky's money. Its all for more income in the short term. The issue of summer football or play offs etc is all irrelvant and a different argument altogether as you can still have a 18 or 10 team league with play off structure any time of the year. They havent looked at a 16 team league with summer football - that would earn clubs more straight away as more fans would go to matches. All they have said is its a "non starter".

Who is this spud Doncaster? Why cant they at least try at 16-18 team league and if it doesnt work they go back to 10 or 12. Nonsense.

Robbie Keanes move to Birmingham fell through as he was being greedy with wages, as if he needs money with the amount of signing on fees he's got. Sunderland should sell Bent and use the money for Keane.

Its too true, nobody could turn away from a man like Mols, its one of those things you had to see. Awesome man and awesome player. I was at the Motherwell game where he bagged all 4 goals - still my best memory of him. I remember Advocaat saying Amato can leave as Mols was coming and I was wondering who Mols was and hoped Amato stayed as i thought Id never see such a skillful player as Amato but Mols was better. What a team we had in 1999! Seeing that line up before the PSV is unbelievable and if Mols didnt get injured against Munich I firmly believe we would have went a lot further in the comp that year. He was the final piece of the jigsaw.

Villa the new Middlesboro? McGregor could easily walk into a top 5 BPL team though.

Alright Jimbo....how you doing sir? Still cant believe you werent willing to give me a lift up to Aberdeen so I could attend that party in edinburgh with you's all those years back Eightball should be back on here soon, I was out with him for few beers about a month ago while he was over here during his year of travelling, but he has just got back to NI in the last week or so....I'll drop him a line to get back on.

Once again its showing up to be a really interesting league and any from 8 can go automatically up at the moment. i watched Norwich v Cardiff last night rather than any of the Premier League games that were on and enjoyed it. Fair play to Norwich and Leeds who only came up last summer and are doing well. Lambert looks like he is following in the brand of top scottish managers. Forest had a slow start but would be joint top if they win their games in hand. Team P PTS 1 QPR 26 49 2 Swansea 27 46 3 Cardiff 26 44 4 Norwich 26 44 5 Leeds 27 44 6 Watford 25 42 7 Reading 26 40 8 Nott'm Forest 24 40

Whanks. Ur right Dado...Hibs are fuckin awful. Worst hibs team in last 7-8 years...normally they would give Celtic a game but they dont look like getting a shot on against Celtics worst in 15 years.

That would be brilliant if true. Get rid of the dummy. I thought MON was tailor made for Liverpool and thought he was a banker to go there. Alan Curbishley was on TV last week saying he spoke to MON in Dec and that he was ready to step back into a job in January....so if this is true it could have been on the go for a while. Cant see MON getting on well with the owners as they interfere but woudl be good to see him get a crack at it. Stay up this season and top 8 next.

Celtic have been jammy in a load of away games. Hibs were a decent team last season but have struggled lately and havent won since November. I fancy Hibs to end that barron run today in the early kick off. They are probably a better footballing side than Hamilton etc so Im having a ten quid flutter on Hibs at 7/1.

Crikey I thought he would be signing up to finish his career. In that case I can well understand Miller looking at other options. If he signs a 1 year deal with us he may struggle to get something else next year.

Glad to hear he will be involved.

Good signing regardless of the length. If anything it is 1 monkey off the back for the management and he can be in the plans for next season. Papac has been in the consistant gang this season along with Weir, McGregor, Naismith and Miller. He showed he has quality in the Man Utd away match where I thought he was fantastic. Not sure if there is a policy for over 30s as Novo was only offered a 1 year deal but wanted 2 yet if Miller signs it would be a 2-3 year deal.

Agreed that the figures cant be compared but the fact that money was made available at open will says something. The other side of the coin without the money figure is to look at the quality of player we were capable of bringing in - now that does say something. What would Terry Butcher at his prime be worth today? So it shows that we could attract top notch players and now we are chasing Goodwillie from Dundee Utd - says it all really! But that also shows how much scottish football has went back, when we were signing Terry Butcher Dundee Utd had a terrific team and players like Sturrock, Hegarty etc were easily a higher standard than what Utd have now.