Eddie

Pretty sure they lost to Celtic earlier on

weekend of the 16/17

We didn't look like scoring much, though to be fair neither did they. Other than times when we let them dictate the pace of the game we kept the ball very well and had it under control. It's becoming our style of play, and we'll find a way to get that goal, could easily have had others really had little dickov half chances, pedersen's free kick or neill's chance gone in rather than getting a penalty, which by the way I thought was one for sure don't know what the BBC folk were on. One or two shakey moments, but perhaps that was the occasion getting to the players who knows, but really we did what we had to. What really annoys me is how we are attacked for the media for boring games, boring play and lacking any creativity. It's true we set our stall out to be solid and work from there, but had Arsenal done what we did today, which is exactly what they did against Sheffield United and even to some extent againt Bolton yesterday it would have been praised as the performance that was needed on the day, for us, we are just crap and boring. Oh well, as long as we keep winning I don't mind.

Only about a day late on the pickup there Rover6 Hoping for a win but never know in these cup ties, though we SHOULD go through.

JAL how on earth did you get all of that from us having blue shorts? We did beat burnley didn't we? We did take it seriously didn't we? What is your problem?

I wish I could

Baros gets liverpools third Henry puts Arsenal 1-0 C'mon Arsenal

I don't want Chelsea to win the competition, but people on the mainland are so up Barcelona that I would like an English team to knock them out. Have Chelsea go out in the next round.

i cant believe how high up Everton actually are i suspect next season will be a back to usual one for them Either that or the Champions League will allow them to attract a higher quality of players and we could see them start to sustain that sort of position. Or everything could go wrong, finishing fourth they would still have to go through qualifiers before making the real competition, if they are knocked out of that and don't improve their team over the summer, could really be from heros to zeros.

I will be chearing on all of the English teams tonight, certainly want at least two of them to go through, though I woudln't be that surprised if they all went out...

Yes but this is through a central role. His physical strength, tackling, passing and forward runs make him great in the middle, out wide though we don't take advantage of those skills as much and his crosses aren't that great.

Sure you were...

He looked at you and shat himself?

Does anybody know what the terms of the compensation package was that n'castle had to pay us? I believe it was somewhere around 300,000 pounds, but we then gave the Welsh FA basically the same package I think.

I don't think Neill was bad at all yesterday, and the right side was particularly strong for us going forward with some nice quick short passing and good movement. If you look hard enough at a players performance you will find faults, no matter who he is, and I think at the moment people are doing that with Neill. He was the scapegoat for out defensive failings of last year and the early part of this season, and it has carried over into a period when the defense has basically been as solid as anyone's in the Premiership outside of the top two or three.

I'd be surprised if we got 0 points. I'd expect at least a draw in one of those games, but who knows.

I would quite like to see the 4-5-1 again, with Stead starting and Savage in for Flitcroft if fit, I can't really decide if I'd want Thommo or Emerton so I'll leave that to Hughes. Stead made the 4-5-1 work really, made some good runs and held the ball up well. Dickov has been great for us this season, but he simply can't work as a lone striker.

Dickov was captain

Really could here the chants well, well done boys

Those 5-600 really made some good noise then, heard them well on TV.

Interesting to drag up that 4-5-1 thread and see what people say now

Interesting that Joey big nose hasn't come back since his comment about stead

Also important to mention we are now up to 14th, and only 1 point behind Birmingham who are on the decline, with us also having a game in hand on them and a couple of teams just below us.

Have to agree, great performance, and once that goal went in, which was very well taken, stead looked a different player. I thought this change was typified by when he had the ball in the corner of the area and turned his marker to shoot, instead of simply laying it back to the man which was the easy option. Confidence is so important, especially to strikers, and hopefully this will have given him his back, especially as it was a good one, and now he can hit some form in the final run in, which could make a huge difference to our season. Reid was excellent, as were the entire back four. Pedersen played well, got himself about, though his final delivery could have been better. Thompson did well, creative, fast, could be that spark that we need. Really just a great performance to see, I'm very pleased.

Yes but it's points not performances. That would be like saying the table is irrelevant as it is simply a statistic