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I didnt realise Wilson was still only 17, I thought he was 19. But we have played Queen of the South already this season and we have Dundee coming up, this is ideal for Shinnie, Ness, Fleck, Wilson and Little to at least get on at some point. I felt for Little in the OF game, talk about being thrown into the lion's den!! And he made 2 errors before picking up the injury which would have had his head in a daze.

Disagree with his comments here. There is certain games where you play with one upfront but at home to a small unknown team would have been unthinkable to play one upfront for most fans. Ok if its Barca or Man U then yes we understand the tactic of packing the midfield - it worked well 2 years ago when we drew with barca at Ibrox. But sometimes flooding the midfield works the opposite way and players dont get the space or time on the ball they want. I think the 1 obvious thing about Hibs today is we will play with at least 2 upfront. But he has to as anything other than a win today is unacceptable and would have the fans calling for changes (not that some arent doing that already).

And not to mention he would be well out of his depth at Rangers.

That has probably improved the defence as Papac will move to the centre and S Smith will come in at LB. Then McCulloch will start centre with Davis. But any one of the centre midfielders or defeders gets a knock during the game then we are stretching things to the youngsters. This is an example of why WS should be giving the younger ones more game time in some games.

Was going to post a 3-5-2 but Bougherra is out so that would mean putting McCulloch there. Id have Beasley in for Naismith and Lafferty for Boyd then go with that.

Rooney and Giggs both a doubt for Man U but thats not as bad for them if Torres and Gerrard dont make it. Weekends EPL Predictions: Saturday Birmingham 1-1 Sunderland Burnley 1-0 Wigan Chelsea 3-0 Blackburn Hull 2-2 Portsmouth Tottenham 2-0 Stoke Wolverhampton 1-2 Aston Villa Sunday Bolton 1-1 Everton Liverpool 1-1 Man Utd Man City 1-0 Fulham West Ham 0-2 Arsenal

Arsenal v Spurs next Saturday lunchtime mate West Ham are due a win but cant see them beating Arsenal the way they are playing. I hate when Chelsea have an easy home game (Blackburn) and the others have tough ones, just dont want to see Chelsea win the league for some reason. But then again Spurs or Man city would be worse!!!

Should be a cracker on Sunday. Liverpool on their worst run in 22 years (4 defeats in all comps), yet Man U arent exactly firing on all cylinders yet are still top of the league. I can see Rafa getting the sack if he loses this game, and Sir Alex would love to put Liverpool out the title race in October. Massive game, Liverpool would get themselves 4 poits behind Utd if they win so all of a sudden they are back in it. It all depends on Torres and Gerrard but Im going for a draw though. Cant see Utd losing the game.

7000 Everton fans went aswell :devil:

Exactly, so why does the statement read No Boyd = No title! ludicrious suggestion if people think we rely on someone who cant trap a ball to win us a title on his own.

Cant see anything other than a top 6 finish, whether thats enough to get promotion via the auto spots or playoffs remains to be seen. Would like to see teams like Bristol city and Blackpool go up somehow, but Ive a soft spot for Forest and would like to see them return to the top flight.

Ive never understood this saying, its utter tosh. Are you saying Boyd is the only scoring for Rangers? So that means he must single handly won us 52 titles?

Gav cant draw worth a feck! And he is likely to have sticky fingers on a day off!!

2 Reasons. 1) Boyd is far from a world beater and doesnt create chances or goals. 2) The service Boyd gets is crap.

I thought Southgate would get them into at least the play offs but the chairman wants auto promotion. Tough task for Strachan!!!

Just wondering if the banner with Barry Ferguson is going to be taking off?

With Mendes and Bougherra out we are in a bit of a pickle. Surely Papac has to be moved back into the centre half and davis centre midfield with Novo starting right.

They normally get it right. Thats Bougherra and Mendes missing for Hibs. What sort of team can we put out!!!

This takes the only tad of creativity in the team we have away. If we stick with 4-4-2 then its Davis and Thomson for me with Novo and beasley getting a try in the wide areas. If we switch to 3 in the middle the Thomson, Davis and Fleck could be tried.

Pretty much my thoughts aswell that something isnt right here although didnt think Edu was being silly.

I didnt win the bet though, Bayern cost me!

He scored again on Tuesday night as they beat Sheff U 3-0. It was actually 0-0 when he came off the bench.

Strachan!! :fish: - Actually he isnt a bad manager at all. Best / realistic shout so far is Billy Davies, he has really turned a poor Forest team around. If we were in a position were we could get a big name then he wouldnt be on my list but in these times he is a realistic choice. He is far from exciting but he gets the job done with all clubs he has been with. There is some good managers in the Championship like Ian Holloway and Nigel Pearson. I just look at the Motherwell guy who came from Stockport and has got them playing some good stuff so dipping down a league in England isnt near as bad as some of the SPL jokers like Levein and McGhee. Pete's shout of Steve McLaren is a good one also, he is a good coach and Id be happy with that. Mikhailichenko would be interesting. Would still have always liked to see George Graham or Venebles in charge. An outsider for me would be Keegan - he'd get us playing a 2-2-6 formation which would be good to watch.

I took AC Milan last night at 6/1 and they beat Madrid, so Hibs 7/1 arent a bad shout TBH. I bet the draw is around 5/2 which is still decent.

I was far from a Adam fan but the way he is banging them in for Blackpool says something about his fitness while at Ibrox for me.