We've lost our last 5 visits to London Also, Charlton's last 9 home games haven't seen any defeats. The skysports preview reckons 1-0 to us though. Where did you see the Charlie Nicholas prediction? We seem to get the wrong results most of the time when we're on Sky...

Fair enough, just figured you'd post it say, Saturday. And do the Chelsea one first (Unless you have and I missed it)

Good, lengthy, and er...bloody early review!

I think we're a bit spoilt here, because we had Duff. There's absolutely no need to compare Pedersen to Duff, it's irrelevant because we'll never get Duff again. These people who want to sell Pedersen ought to think about getting an equal quality or superior player for the same or preferably less money than what we would get for Pedersen. If that isn't a possibility, then there's absolutely no point. As much as Peter might be as good or better (I don't feed into what people say about him just not being ready just cos he's young and inexperienced...if he never plays he'll never be experienced, and look at what Rooney did when he burst on the scene), we have no way to tell right now, and definitely should be aiming to give it one more season where we play Ped and Pet intermittently. Pedersen is clearly suffering from fatigue (If you think that being paid lots of money makes the human body less susceptible to wear and tear, you're an idiot), and it would be good to rest him now and again for Sergio next year.

What's best is I'm partly responsible for their demise, having insulted Ferguson constantly in the press and piled the pressure on him. He got sacked, and replaced by Jewell. I like Jewell, so I'm having a tough time deciding whether to insult him purely for being Man U manager. Oh and I just beat United 4-0 away in my first season in the Prem

Thanks Tango, I checked those players out, though I found only one or two of them- a couple of wingers- to be worth paying any attention to. Except Makoun, of course, who I'd already spotted (good player, but on my version he's now somewhere from 28-30, would cost me about 5 mill, and I've already got about 4 or 5 players in his position that are at least as good). Faty is at United, and won European Defender of the Year or something. Despite having ATROCIOUS technical stats. On my game, Man United are now playing at Maine Road!

I long for the day that United collapse completely. Imagine if it got so bad they got relegated- Heaven!!! On the Football Manager game I'm playing now, United are starting to go into freefall in 2012. They're about 10th in the league, and they're playing at Maine Road

That hardly matters. I'm talking about things like belting Dugarry up the arse. Though admittedly, there was the headbutt on Reid earlier in the season...but that pillock had just injured him a second before.

Actually, I dare say it depends equally as much on what Rovers team shows up. Maybe more. With both teams on their best form, we're better.

You answered your own question. We need it to attract those players. It'll earn a touch more cash too, provided we don't throw our league form away to challenge. And, who knows, maybe even some silverware! Look how far Boro got, and we're better than them.

There was nothing unfortunate about it, it was bloody hilarious. Todd is an excellent professional defender. He always was a fair but rough tackler, and now he's stamped the random temper tantrums out of his game too.

I don't reckon Chelsea care anymore now. They're more likely to hammer us than Newcastle, as we might be where they need to secure the title. Newcastle can take them at St James'.

Point taken Colin. It's hardly of major importance- I'm just pleased we're no longer doing short corners! I'll give it a rest, especially since nobody seems to remotely agree with me on it The difference between Reid struggling to get in there and Keane is that Keane was competing with Jermain Defoe, a very highly rated striker, and Mido, another highly rated striker who has been in particularly effective form. Besides, Keane actually won his battle for a place, despite that competition. Reid has managed 8 starts all year, although this is partly due to injury, with no naturally left footed competition.

Surely, 80 is an exaggeration? Suppose for argument's sake that half of MGP's corners are shots. Nelsen hasn't scored all season. If MGP used all his corners to put it in, mathematically speaking he still wouldn't score, but let's assume he got 1 goal as a result. Pedersen, with a bit of chance, could've scored one this season, maybe two, from corners. Do you disagree?

Ok. Do you think ANY team scores every dozen corners? Except maybe Chelsea, with that bugger Terry blasting them in. It's not like he shoots EVERY corner he takes. Yet you're saying we've bagged two from normal corners, one from this. Hardly seems like it's cost us too dearly. Can't contribute to the stats for corner goals mind, perhaps someone else can. Obviously no, he wouldn't be shooting if he didn't think he could score. If he doesn't for much longer, he's bound to give it up. The point is though, Hughes wouldn't be letting him shoot from them if he didn't think he could score them. I reckon he's come pretty close a couple of times, and we could conceivably get one anyway if the keeper doesn't handle the pressure well if it drops into the box after a poor tip (That makes it a must against David James!).

Not sure you're listening mate. He's displayed a talent at it from an early age, and one imagines he must still be doing it in training. The problem, as Bellamy11 pointed out, is the keepers are better at dealing with it at this level. We've never been a team that prolifically scores from corners anyway. You think we score every dozen corners do you? Cos we don't.

I think it'll be Newell who we get next. Done a great job at lowly Luton so far. Interestingly, on my game of Football Manager, Mark Bowen was the man the board appointed after they sacked Hughes. A Brum fan claimed to me recently that Bowen is the brains behind Hughesy. Reckon we'll get Newell though.

No, I'm explaining WHY he has tried it. It clearly hasn't paid any dividends this season, but at least it's not as bad as players who take short corners!! All I'm saying really is he's been trying to score from corners because he's actually bizarrely good at it. I imagine he's been knocking a few of them in in training against Big Brad, or Sparky would have told him to knock it on the head by now. Perhaps it's time for him to knock it on the head, or perhaps he's just been a bit unlucky. Sometimes players who are great at scoring from free kicks have a season where very few or perhaps none go in. I admit to being a little perplexed as to why MGP can't usually whip especially good corners into the box considering how good his placement of the ball is in general. Though, one explanation might be that we lack a bit of height in the team, so perhaps he just can't spot midgets like Bellers and Dickov!

You know why he takes those 'silly shots from corners'? He once scored (I can't remember the exact number) 4 or 5 goals DIRECT FROM CORNERS in one youth game. You won't be annoyed if he puts one in, and realistically how often do we score from corners? I'd say he's come close to bagging goals from them on a number of occasions. In fact, I'd say throwing Kuqi right up near the goalie for those corners would probably be distracting enough to enhance Gamst's chances of scoring. Or Shefki might even nudge it in himself. Of course, the problem is that requires us to play Kuqi!

Bizarrely enough, it's not an entirely impossible scenario. Spurs' last two games are perfectly loseable (Bolton at home, then West Ham away). Arsenal have Sunderland away (That'd be their win), City away is tricky, Wigan could potentially upset them at home. Of our remaining games, we should take City, and if we suddenly regain our form we can do Charlton easily enough even at their place. Then sure, there's Chelsea, but they'll have won the league by then. Course, I wouldn't place any bets on it, but I like the optimism!!! However, I'm very worried we could let it all slip and get zip. I hate the anxiety this part of the season brings!

I concur. Every man and his dog might have predicted us to finish in the bottom half, but I never thought that would be our fate. I was always expecting top half, so if we continue playing this crap for the last three games, we'll have met my pre-season expectations- nothing more nothing less. As for my recent expectations...grr..

Utter ballcocks. Why hasn't anybody else just come out and said this yet? I don't think there's any need to go into detail about it, but if we sold Pedersen for 1.5 million this summer, I'd want Williams to be sacked, instantly. I'm not saying cashing in on him is necessarily a bad idea, but if we flogged Pedersen for that, the whole Premiership would take us for mugs forevermore. That's less than we bloody paid. His form is faltering lately- so what? Do you think that suddenly makes him useless? No, he's just off the boil, it happens to all professional players. He was toss when we got him, but Hughes changed his game around. Pedersen has played almost every game this year, and lets not forget his physical prowess was one of the reasons he played poorly at the beginning. So many games have taken it out of him. For somebody whose board name is 'blind devotion', you're very very fickle. No offence.

Let's not put anyone through the torment of seeing a Rovers fan say Shearer should have gone to Man U please.

Campbell broke his nose. He'll be out for at least a week, anything up to 3. Nice setback for the Gunners.

You're funny.