Gribz

Back to league business on Wed and originally I fancied the games in hand in preference to points on the board but the last few games has knocked a wee bit of confidence in me although all that can still change with 1 result. Our 2 games in hand still puts us a point clear but we need to move up a gear or two. The team is in need of freshened up. Id play Weiss, Ness, hutton and Naismith in the middle against Hearts with Healy and Jelavic upfront. Hopefully Aberdeen get their finger out on Wed and get something off Celtic, but we have to beat Hearts.

How many strikers do WH need, its defenders thats required. Just signed the guy Ba on a 3 year deal and Robbie Keane is undergoing a medical today. 2 good signings but we still have Carlton Cole, Piquionne, Benni McCarthy (albeit been poor) and Obinnia (on loan). Grant doesnt have time to mess about and try out who will be his best pairing.

I wasnt Kevin Thomsons biggest fan but was disappointed he left only for the lack of central midfielders. If edu goes its 1 less again. Ness and Hutton have impressed but cant carry the midfield on their own.

I thought Healy was a bit of poor mans Kenny Miller TBH. He cant be any worse than Beattie though and would put in an honest shift but I still think we should be looking at more cover in midfield or defence.

Exactly, like Novo said no thanks. Commons seems a bit of a arrogant twat, pity Broadfoot wasnt going to be fit for the Cup match and clamp him like he did pretty well with Mcgeady.

I still dont recognise most of their players and they have junk like Mulgrew but their form and goalscoring has to be a bit of a concern. They were nicking 1-0 late wins but recently have beein a bit more convincing. Is it next week we play them in the Scottish Cup? Need to get them back down to earth a wee bit by getting stuck right into them.

Bit of a kick in the teeth for liverpool, they sign a 24m player and then Torres hands in transfer request. But if Chelsea come back with that mental rumoured fee of 60 million they should bite the hand off then go use that on the squad. Its rumoured Drogba is on his way out of Chelsea, they should do a deal that involves swap plus cash.

1 more step backwards for the SPL...we're surely losing steps to fall back onto. Would there be a huge demand to watch Hamilton v St Mirren or Kilmarnock v St johnstone??

Would be a disgrace of a signing. WS enjoyed the old dabble of SPL players during the 90s to make up squad numbers but at the same time he had an open cheque book to sign good players to compliement the team. Signing SPL's run of the mill players without the multimillion signings will set us back further. Give Fleck, Naismith and Lafferty a run upfront rather than this guy. Naismith could move into a centre forward role permanently and play Weiss and Kerkar on the wings. Has anyone seen Kerkar play BTW?? He doesnt seem to get on at all. Where is Gary O Connor these days? He was more of a decent striker for Hibs.

I hope Holloway and Blackpool stick to their guns and challenge this all the way. They made it clear that they didnt field a weakend team whereas Wolves did make it clear they were chaging things around for their Man Utd game. Plus the rules have changed this season...each club now has a squad of 25 players and can pick whoever they want. Where do you draw the line in weakening a team? everyone obviously has a strongest / best XI so if you make ONE change is that fielding a weaker team?? Man Utd played Gibson against Blackpool this week and left Giggs out...thats weakening their team but will that be mentioned. More fat cats making rules up. As totti says if its delibarate to throw a game then its different but Blackpool deserved a draw in that game against Villa.

The only benefit of dount Velicka gets is his goalscorer record was pre-injury and he hasnt looked like a player since.

Yip agree with Juff the scouting network is awful, and the development side hasnt been great overall either. Ok recently a few promising players have came through like Hutton, Fleck (yet to prove himself after 3 years), K Hutton, Wilson (6 months honeymoon period) and Ness but how long has murray park been on the go? I dont even think we have to go to South America to land such quality, only a handful of clubs have in the UK have done well with South Americans as they prefer Spain etc. But to not even start looking at the likes of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech along with Scandanvian countries is terrible. Id say SOME of the top teams in those countries are technically better than us in general yet Im sure a few of them would fancy a move. But to an extent the management role should have more of a say on scouting, Im sure Arsene Wenger is 100% in control of this at Arsenal so I wouldnt fully blame Murray on this topic unless he refused to employ the scouts in the first place. But Im sure ex Pro's of the clubs would easily watch a few games in their own countries for no fee if it was to recommend a player. A huge crime of Murrays was selling off the ticket office then the Albion Car park. To move the ticket office into a portacabin for a team that plays Champions league football with 50000 was embarrassing.

Very close...I was toying with Bougherra rather than Davis too. Yet the one game I dont have a flutter on correct score.

I like him and would be 1 of the first names on my team sheet but loan deals are always short term. Cant seeing him signing permanently hence why I said long term having Commons on a 3-4 year deal is safer for the club. Weiss is the better player but is the number of Scottish players rule not kicking in again?? Again Commons being Scottish helps that if it is. Ideally we'd have them both on the wings.

So the answer to this thread would be a No then! They didnt show up.

Bassa's. West Ham had that in the bag at half time then didnt defend at all. Jerome and Ferguson were dirty with 1 stamping (Tomkins) and the other kicking (Dyer). Im looking forward to seeing Arsenal absolutely stuff Brum in the final.

We did have them for a while but cant remember if the reason for scrapping them was the eyesore or the bandwidth. Zappas idea of switching them off from ones profile is a good suggestion if possible.

Dont mind text signatures but the graphics ones are a distraction on the eye, its like having another big banner below every post

An option for the getting Commons would be to give him the 20k/week then let Weiss return to Man City in the summer and use whatever share of Weiss wage we are paying towards Commons.

2-0 Rangers for me. Davis and Jelavic

The way WS was talking in his interview Novo is also a target but he has purely ruled out a return for Boyd - thank goodness. If we got Commons and Novo its 2 more attack minded players so i woudl love to see how he fits them in with his reluctance to drop Davis and McCulloch when they arent performing well. But perhaps the plan is to move McCulloch into the defence permanently!

28 points out of 30 is certainly put them on the road to be in it but the season is from Aug to May yet their run has been from around Oct to Jan. So they would need to prove they can keep it up for the rest of the season and yes they will be contenders. Tonight will say a lot, Im sure they would take a draw at Parkhead but they are probably capable of winning. They have always flurrted with a chance of challenging in 1998 and 2006 but seemed to get stage fright so I expect them to drop points at places like Kilmarnock and Hamilton.

He's obviously been set up due to this News of the World case else how else would 3 clips of him in the space of a month surface. Wrong decision to sack him, I dont think he was joking with his comments but a slap on the wrist and off the telly for a week would have been enough. 20 years of service should surely have played its part in keeping him. Isnt there a deal between ESPN and Sky? The premier League has its own broadcast channel now live to many countries round the world and they share pundits and commentators. With not a lot of people knowing about it in these countries he may end up there.

Giggs turned that game and proved his is probably the best player in Premiership history. His take down for the 2nd goal was immense then he pinged a ball inch perfect for Hernandez. Blackpool were great in the first half and Adams passing was quality but what went uncommented was when he tries the little skillful flicks here and there he buggars up. Good game though. Man Utds title to lose although they still have to go to Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool and the latter 2 are inside 6 days of each other.

I hope they were swapping shirts at full time!