He could very easily stop playing for New Zealand but i doubt he would do that. I notice Benni has retired from international football. Although with most teams from down south playing their friendlies in london it does make things slightly better. Still the issue of pointless friendlies exists. Ryan has been getting back to normal and better each game. I hope he can come back soon and get that partnership with Samba back up and running.

There is a reason for that, he is crap! Plus Jase has a good goal scoring past and given a run he will score, you give Jeffers a run you are not given the same assurances. See how Franny goes in the Championship and then who knows he could prove alot of people wrong.

The Hughes Legacy - Jeffers Well maybe not, His stats until he joined us were very good.

I wish he'd done it already, the guys a loon. Saying that Warnock is rubbish and his highlight so far is a bad challange in the FA Cup?

Free Board on a Free Site No expense spared Good to see rover the moon....west sussex rover expanding his horizons

If you can't convince anybody else, start up your own forum and talk to yourself for hours! edit: Nope Stu, he is an invention of the admins to keep everyone hooked to the board

Also just to add in to the West Ham are going down debate. Arsenal 0-1 Wigan, and a great strike to get the lead as well. I hope they can hold on. Edit: Bugger, Henry & now Rosicky

First thing that has made me laugh all day Unlucky Lucas

Steve McClaren has been told he will be sacked if England fail to qualify for Euro 2008. (Daily Express) Can't we just cut to the chase and sack him now?

Any further injuries and we may have to recall him! Good to see Joe getting in the goals and who knows he might make the same impact derbs made upon his introduction to the first team!

The way to solve that is to have a proper man manager who won't take any rubbish, whether that be from the fans, media, players, managers or the FA. A rebel if you will but someone who commands respect and isn't afraid of making the big decisions, such as dropping lampard. Compare that to McClaren who has no back bone and follows the media at every turn. He may be a good coach, but considering the resources available to him at boro he really didn't do that well. Also according to ex-players, be it they may hold grudges, but his coaching techniques are outdated but what do you expect working under fergie. As for Butcher he doesn't strike me as the type of person you would want managing a club and he hasn't really lasted in his recent adventures. My Solution: Mike Newell, England Manager

The guy is a joke, his decisions are worse than sven's were and it proves that you shouldn't appoint a manager simply because of his nationality. The FA weren't prepared to wait for Big Phil and it's costing us.

I didn't see the match tonight as i saw the enemy...you will hear of them!(starring my mate andy) Steve Mc should never have got the job and should be sacked. Too close to the old guard and a proper yes man.

Shoot Henchoz, having said that he did make 1 very good tackle last night. Boo Hiss Boo! At least Todd is stable at the back, until he punches or kicks someone.

Liverpool don't offer high wages to many players. Bellamy for example was offered a very high wage here and picked to move to liverpool at £35k. Liverpool Clearly defined their position to Neill and he picked the extra money over playing for a bigger club. There isn't anything wrong with that if that is the type of person you are. You can't blame a club for trying to get a cheap deal on the player either, not that i actually like liverpool as a club.

Unless i have missed a statement from Lucash then i don't think he has thrown the captaincy back at hughes nor said anything out of turn about the fans. The fans boo'ed him for not signing a deal which is fair enough, but he said it brings down the rest of the team so don't. Hughes tried to get him to stay and giving him the captaincy was never going to do that, so maybe a mistake by hughes there. His intentions had always been made clear after we wouldn't give him £45k a week. Personally i would have liked him to stay but only had he signed a new deal and he wasn't going to do that, so best of luck with West Ham in the championship and it's a good deal for us.

Don't you get 3 changes. With Lucas going we can add in Dunn as Warnock is Cup Tied. I think the deadline for that is early feb.

Severly doubt it, he hasn't played much for brum over the past few months and says he needs a bit of match time to get back to full fitness. Bench at most i would think, get a few reserve/closed door matches under his belt then into the thick of it.

How is matt jansen, after he moved to a big club with notlob?

I think its the same one in which Birmingham have won the european cup! Have you won The Premier League, The Premier League, The Premier League? Pie Boy for Ginsters

Whats with them calling us the dingles? and some of them are so dense, they make Jade Goody look like brain of britain.

I couldn't care less if that is his reason, but he should have the balls to come out in the press and say that. Rather than rolling out all this 'New Challenge' crap. Not that we'd give him any credit for coming out and saying he wanted the money.... Money Grabber!

I thought i had a curse on players, the summer after i got their names on my shirt they left. Guess thats what happens with big name players. Only Friedel and MGP have broken that so far. I will be getting Tugay on my shirt next season and may also get Dunn on the other.

His challenge is trying to spend all his newly earned wages. He is really annoying me now, if he wanted to move to a bigger club then fair enough, but if he is playing liverpool for extra wages then that is a stupid career move. He would have fitted well on their bench.