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Good luck with tha mate. Villa will be 50/50 West Ham will win I looked at Charlton but Colchester are playing well with Teddy Sheringham still scoring. I looked at Leicester - they will win Preston are dodgy but are favourites West Brom and Killie should be a bankers and Hibs should win I dont have a clue about Queens though

YOur not kidding after that first half at Tynecastle!! I just had a sneaky feeling for Everton this morning and they havent been bad at all in the game. Man U lack a striker big time at the moment EDIT - Plus i really fancy Arsenal today. Its started high tempo.

Time to bankroll Ladbrokes again Im going for a treble in the early K/offs: Everton to beat Man U 7/2 Draw with Portsmouth and Liverpool 9/4 Rangers to beat Hearts 8/11 Tener repays 250 quid! I fancy throwing Arsenal to beat Spurs in on that aswell at 6/4 to make it 630 quid from the tenner. At 3pm: Draw between Birmingham and Bolton 11/5 Sunderland to beat Reading 6/4 West Ham to beat Boro Evs Fulham to win at Wigan 12/5 544 quid from a tenner! C'mon!

Just testing the lads who have to do them to make sure they get it in there diaries

Im still hoping NI can pull through aswell. They have slipped up with those 2 defeats but they can still get through. Sweden getting 3 pts from that abandoned game in denmark was a bit of a blow, but its not over for NI yet.

Superb, that should be sent globally

Of course il be watching the West Ham game!! The Gers k/o is earlier than i thought.

Im on my travels next week so will miss 2 games but here is Sept's rota Sept 15th - SPL - Hearts (away) - Alan Sept 19th - CL - Stuttgart (home) - Super_Ally Sun 23rd - SPL - Aberdeen (home) - Ascender Wed 26th - LC - East Fife (away) - Fraser Sat 29th - SPL - Motherwell (away) - Me I'll do this monthly then those participating just need to take note of there dates for the preview. Lets keep the previews to a high standard to get them on Newsnow. Frankie will get them on the main site.

Just checked my TV Guide for the games on live here this weekend. On Sat Im spoiled for choice: Everton v Man Utd - 7pm Portsmouth v Liverpool - 7:45pm Tottenham v Arsenal - 8:30pm Wigan v Fulham - 10pm (Cant see that getting viewed) West Ham v Middlesboro - 10pm Hearts v Rangers - 7:30pm Chelsea v Blackburn - 1:15am Pizza and Beers i reckon!!

Should we call up Le Guen once McLeish calls it a day

Nothing I can add about Hutton, he has made the mark up to be Rangers and Scotlands RB for the next 10 years if he wants and has set himself high standards with his last 12 months performances. Its all his to throw away. I dont actually think he is far off the finished article. I dont mind his odd rash decision, its sometimes good to have this in a player as long as it doesnt get silly. Long may he be in the team.

Just shows the importance of the next match against Ukraine. If we win that then a point away to Georgia would be good enough if we beat Italy at Hampden in a cup final type match. First and foremost - 3 pts against Ukraine then we can start talking about going to the Euro's. You have to assume France will take at least 7 pts from there last 3 games and Italy will get 6 from there 2 homes games. Exciting stuff

Aye fraser thats a shocker, looks more like a rugby shirt!! Chelsea away is tidy Chris

Absolutely unbelievable!!! Amazin result to win in Paris. A draw would have been a fine result but a win is superb. Im smiling like a cheshire cat all morning even though I only had 2 hours sleep after the game here. One thing has pissed me off is the lack of coverage on the BBC websites etc. We have just beaten the French on there own patch FFS - something almost any team in the world cant do - yet there is only reports and opinions about England beating a poor Russia team. Alan Hansen should be allowed back into Scotland, he only talks about England. He had his preview the other day which had one sentance about Scotland. But this is a big middle finger up to the adopted Scots down south There wasnt a player who put a foot wrong, and I thought Stevie Pearson did very well when he came on - I was actually surprised it was him coming on. McFadden has proved he has to be our first player on the team sheet. He offers something extra and is a class player. I wish Rangers got him. I wanted a Italy win on saturday against the French as I fancied us to nick a point in Paris which would have meant we had a better head to head against them anyway and would set them further back. But if it comes down to head to head against Italy we have to beat them at hampden now (which we are capable of). Georgia away will be tricky and a totally different type of game but we can get a draw there, and we can beat Ukraine at Hampden. The table looks great but we still have 3 games to go but I am very confident we wont blow it! Credit to McLeish and the team - We have had some credable games in the last few years against Italy, Holland, France (at home) and Germany and back to the win at Wembley but last night is up there on terms of a result.

Read it wrong, plus I heard yesterday Caldwell was due to come in, thats where Im getting the 5-4-1.

I need all names soon so I can draw it up. So far thats: Me Alan Fraser (Reserves games ) Super_Ally (Assuming) Ascender (Assuming) Frankie are you wanting the odd game?

It sounded more to me like a 5-3-1-1 __________________Gordon__________________ Hutton____Weir____Caldwell___McManus___McEvely _________Brown___Ferguson___Fletcher_________ _________________McFadden__________________ _________________O Connor___________________

McLeish reveals tactics: Not sure if this is a good idea telling the French how we are going to play. They would have assumed we were playing 4-5-1 but now they will know its a 5-4-1. I would have preferred the 4-5-1 and played the 3 central midfielders deep and let the 2 wide men get forward a support.

Mmm, I wonder if SDM put out some refreshments

I wonder what time the first people started to que at! They would have needed a good picnic and a few beers to keep them warm and pass the time

Yeah and he makes huge annoucements during the game like a normal commentator does for goals but its only a throw in on the half way line or something

Thought id start a new thread on this. Henry is out for France but Anelka will play with Trezequet upfront which is still a handful. Id rather be playing against Henry than Anelka right now. For us, according to the beeb Ferguson will come back into the midfield in place of a striker. This is likely to be Boyd and either O Connor or Beattie will start upfront to offer a more running game. But id go with McFadden upfront. There is also the rumour Caldwell will fit into the midfield in a defensive sitting role. I hope this isnt true as we should go with Ferguson, Fletcher and Brown in the centre with Maloney and McCulloch wider. Id go: Gordon Hutton Weir McManus Mcevely McCulloch (right) Brown Fletcher Ferguson Maloney McFadden

My dad once flew to Lisbon via Dublin and Ryanair and it took him something silly like about 12 hours. Ive flew into Gerona a couple of times, its an hours train ride from Barca. My trip might be complicated if I get a ticket. Ive found cheap flights from here to Frankfurt then onto either Stuttgart or Barca (depending on what game) for 450 quid. Definatly thinking about it if I can get my hands on a ticket.

You cant beat Archie. One of my fave commentators. I get him out here on the Setanta feed channel and he is 20 times better than Ian Crocker. He has been like that with pronounciations since I can remember starting hearing him in the 80s. OOommph and theres a ball and its.... He does call him Darkville though

Thats quite high!! I remember not so long ago when I bought a 3 match package it was 50 quid!!