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Yeah but just checking though

It was 5 defender, 2 midfielders and 3 attackers if you include Lovenkrands. MUTV showed this as the formation. ________________Klos______________ Zurab_____Berg_______Moore_____Ball Arteta____Hughes____Arveladze____Vanoli ___________Mols_____Lovenkrands_______ No way it was that coz Arteta would have been in the middle.

So if Hutton doesnt make it, is everyone confident about Whittaker taking his place? I think he will be better at RB than RM but not in Huttons league.

Yeah the 6 million price tag doesnt do him any favours but IMO he the right player at the wrong time. He wasnt near Numans quality but to think how many LB's we went through over the years after that!! If Ball never got his injury im sure he would have been better.

But looking at that starting line up and putting players in their proper positions it would mean it was a 5-2-3. No wonder we go royaliy humped.

I always rated Ball. He was unlucky with an injury but he wasnt a bad player. Had he had a better run in a better side we would have seen a lot better from him.

Just put MUTV on and they are showing a re-run of the CL game against us back in 2003. Our line up that night was: I was surprised to see McGregor was on the bench, but talk about a light weight midfield!! Only Hughes and Arteta, and Hughes can be blown over with a sneeze. Out of that team who would people take now for our squad? Id take Klos, Ball, Arteta, and Lovenkrands. If they were still young and fit then Mols and Shota but thats it.

YEssssssssssss!! Normal coupon this weekend!! Early Kick offs Im going go have a Rangers 11/8 and Everton 11/5 double to win there derby's. Although I am thinking Everton v Liverpool could be a banker draw!!

TBH im not sure if its the other 3 id have preferred to have been fit!!

Anyone not getting the original homepage when the log on?

Yeah I think it has coz the sheep play there UEFA game on the thursday before. A sunday 2 days from Xmas may help me get a ticket.

He's a big girls blouse. This really pisses me off. He is on about 50k a week, plays for a great team in a great place yet his favourite teacher isnt about to look after him so he throws the toys out - grow up you pleb or let someone who will play for fuck all take your place.

I quite like O Connor but he does have an attitude problem - that showed in Russia and his previous stunt with Scotland which meant Smith leaving him out. You can bet if we qualify he will want to go.

I see England qualifiying through the back door. I think Russia will slip up in Israel.

Seen as there is no longer rooms for tickets il stick this in here. Im looking for a Gers ticket for Aberdeen away on Dec 22nd. This will be the 2nd year in a row Ive paid the SPL a fiver to make sure the Gers play there at Xmas for me being home, it might be too much asking it for next year aswell. But if anyone has a brief for this game that they dont want please let me know.

Anyway Bolton are shite and play Arsenal away on saturday Im looking forward to watching that game after the OF. Arsenal seem to be at home every week at the moment though.

Aye the Czechs are another Spain. They have only had 1 really good run in Euro 96.

And S bragia? Didnt have a clue Knox was at Bolton!

But the problem now is the whole country got excited and thought we were pretty much going to the finals. Even if we dont qualify id take another campaign like that over a piss poor boring one which is finished after 6 games. UEFA really need to look at the qualification structure. The likes of San Marino, Faroes, Luxemborg, Malta, Wales etc should play a pre-qualifying round. If these teams are out earlier then the amount of games can be reduced in the proper groups. The seeding structure is all wrong aswell - in one group you have turkey, greece and norway - none of who are world beaters (although greece nicked the last Euro's) - but then you get France and Italy paired together.

I havent seen the game but I think McLeish got the team very wrong. I also think his squad picks were wrong - Murty shouldnt be near the squad and i dont rate Alexander. That 2 along with playing Fletcher was wrong. IMO Dailly should have started or even Barry Robson - whats he in the squad for? Had Dailly played it could release the likes of Maloney a lot more. We needed a strong solid performance and we were too light weight in the personnel. But its not over - we have to beat Italy

So this is where is kinda collapsed. It was a game too far with the players being brought in and those not being fit. I was annoyed when I heard the score this morning. Its easy where to start to point some needless blame but Im wondering why Dailly didnt get the nod to play a more holding role because Fletcher was NEVER going to be match fit. We missed McCulloch and Browns pressance and strength whereas we missed Hutton and Naysmiths quality compared to Murty and Alexander. WTF is Murty even in the squad for - McNamara is still a better option there. What makes things worse was the French were jammy, only scoring both there goals in the last 12 mins. So now its a massive cup final against Italy. Its going to be hard and we will need one helluva performance from our strongest XI but we can win it.

Early reports of the line up: Gordon Murty McManus Weir Alexander Maloney Fletcher Ferguson Pearson McFadden Miller Not bad!!

Its good to be wrong sometimes 2 goals in 4 mins from Russia 2-1

Russia are getting to edge of the box a lot but there final ball is shocking plus they have 2 men in there against 8 england players - they could try all night and they wont score. England are going to Austria and Switzerland - but Portugal will be there to put them out on pens for a change

There hasnt been much light shed on him recently regarding his injury. He seems determined enough that he will come back. Hopefully gets to see those specialists sooner rather than later. I dint think he should rush but Im looking forward to him hopefully getting back to fitness.