He's a good player, but... ...he's 30, that's going to be another £1 million we can write off in a few years time. Having said that we could do a lot worse, I'd rather we went for someone younger who could learn of Short and Amo though.

This is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the other one, it's basically a Euro 2004 version of the other one we all did. Could one of the mods not pin this at the top for a while before the tournament starts? Would be good to get a few people in. Anyway, my team: Barthez G. Neville Andrade Silvestre Rui Jorge Rosicky Gerrard Lampard Kuranyi Pauleta Baros Subs: Zuberbühler, Gravesen, Štolcers, Stepanovs

We're gonna win, I can feel it...

To be fair this is the story they printed in today's Mirror.

Who are the nutters who are voting the first option? Leicester City - 97 games 37 goals Manchester City - 182 games 41 goals Brighton & Hove Albion - 8 games 5 goals Luton Town - 15 games 1 goal Arsenal - 26 games 7 goals That's a scoring ratio of a goal every four games (near enough). A lot of those were in lower divisions too. There is nothing to suggest that last season wasn't a fluke, to label him a goalscorer after one good season out of 13 or so is insane. He was playing in a team that suited his style, an ugly style that involved playing alongside a big striker. If he's anything more than 4th choice then we've just taken a step backwards.

I think it's great, I bought the album off the back of that song and it's...well, utter rubbish. Great song though.

£3 million? He's not worth that right now, I'd expect someone more proven for that amount of money. Back to Lovenkrands maybe...

I agree...he only looked good because he managed to refrain from making Tiny and (early) Amo like mistakes. He's barely Premiership quality, we're better off without him and his ego.

Yeah I gotta agree...or at least move it with the main forums, surely this is more important than Championship Manager?

Hopefully he doesn't have too good a game. We don't want more clubs coming in for him. Maybe he was listening to you, he was rubbish. Poor crossing (the one that hit the post was an attempted cross), poor passing, didn't supply any width, never took his man on... But, it was an extremely poor game and he was no worse than any other of the 21 players on the pitch.

Yeah I figured that bit...I was thinking more of messageboard names.

There's the final league table. I've proudly finished 4th . Who's the winner then?!

The new Morrissey album is great, especially the opening line of the first song: " America your head's too big, because America, your belly's too big" Now if that doesn't make you want to buy it, I don't know what will.

Not sure about the prediciton...but that team is perfect, I wouldn't change a single bit.

Exactly. I think the fact that he is looking to go abroad so it would make it easier to return to Leeds should they go up says something about him. It's very easy to be cynical about the situation...which is why a lot of people are criticising him.

Todd is nothing more than an average defender anyway, he has only looked good this season because he has had s***e around him for most of it. I'm thankful that he isn't part of our long term plans.

The anti-Smith brigade are conviniently ignoring one fact - Leeds will sell Smith whether he wants to stay or not. All Smith has said is that relegation means he will have to leave the club, both for his own career and because Leeds need the money.

If you're going to wind them up then expect retaliation. I'm glad he did that, he probably got enough stick without nobodies throwing their two pennies worth in

Yes he is a Leeds player, but he's also a Leeds fan. He is feeling just as upset as the people in the crowd were. Maybe an extra part of the upset for him was that he knew that relegation was going to force a choice on him, leave his hometown club or sacrifice his international ambitions. Grrrrrrrr...so angry at that!

Andy Reid wouldn't have cost anywhere near that at the start of the season. There were still other players available though: McFadden, Etherington, Gray, Berger...all well within our budget. I think he was quite naive to think that a right footed player on the left would work, there are very few players who can do it succesfully in the top leagues and those that can are usually world class players. If you could guarantee that Souey would buy a left winger in the summer then I would be behind him too...however I think he will be too stubborn and will try people out of position again.

That just makes it even worse. If Nissa had been playing all season we might not have been where we are. Sounds like Amo only made 2 mistakes today, not bad for the big useless sack of crap. Drop Stead? For who? Cole? Yorke? Amoruso? Just listening to the interview on Sky now. Don't worry lads, we should have had a penalty, not our fault we lost. Souey also just said Short and Amoruso handled their strikers as well as any team he has seen??????? What the hell?!?! It's Leeds for f***s sake, almost every team in the league has handled them better than we did today. He doesn't even look the slightest bit angry or ashamed. We're screwed, well and truly screwed.

Not only have we not got the bottle, we haven't got a bleeding clue. I thought we would stay up on the basis that there are three teams worse than us. Well there aren't. Wolves and Leicester maybe. Portsmouth and Leeds look likely to finish above us now. I find it almost impossible to imagine us picking up more points than Porsmouth, Leeds and Man City.

Fair enough. The Darkness' album isn't great, I think I've listened to a grand total of 3 times. They are brilliant live though, the best band I've seen for entertainment.