Bailo

Good post. Thing is, I'm not sure we're going to be able to afford that final push. I can't see us having enough money to ever buy similar quality to them.

Sigh. Really, really poor. Most, if not all the team look like they've hit a brick wall, our passing and movement is off and the Reina incident will only detract from what was the most anaemic performance of the season I think. I think the season is catching up with a few now, it seems a long time ago Momo was ruling the pitch and Xabi's radar is all over the place now. It's all one-paced and at the end it was embarassingly long-ball to Crouch. His presence helped us at the start of the season, it's hindering us now. I'm not going to even get into the Reina stuff, ridiculous but what do you expect from the classless Chav c***s? Odious jumped up pricks, but you can't deny they've bought quality all over the pitch. Jobs for Rafa this week: 1) Set pieces. Nothing else. Just get some invention again and get us marking properly. 2) Terminate Warnock's contract. Horrible positioning everytime I'm afraid. Great tackler but just has no clue where he is. 3) Screw Crouchy's bird. Do anything, just make him f***ing angry. About as angry as I am now. Make him want goals. 4) In between set pieces, introduce Sissoko, Xabi, Gerrard, Kewell and Crouch to each other. They've obviously forgotten who each another is. And then have them pass to each other again.

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No, but Harry did it expertly that day. I was sooo desparate to sign him after that game, he looked as good as any player I've ever seen that game.

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I must have missed Bowyer masterminding The Final Solution He has one other incident on his record, the McDonalds in Charlton where again he wasn't convicted of a racist attack. But you feel free to call him that anyway, what are courts and juries for anyway? My logic is I don't know everything about a player before they join and at the time what I did know didn't put me off us signing him. He was absolute top class that season and the one before, if he could have kept that up he'd be a England regular now.

What exactly was Bowyer convicted of? I've seen plenty of people advocating signing Woodgate, who was actually convicted of something in that trial. And the trial judge was very explicit in his orders that it wasn't a racist attack. He's a horrid little s***, but it's what we needed at the time. And your comparison of Bowyer to Hitler is laughable.

I wanted Bowyer to join, purely because he was utter class the last 2 seasons. And as we've seen recently, not all footballers are angels. Glad we didn't succeed mind!

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As Sammya's said, I think the fact that Cisse is a GH buy and Nando is a Rafa buy makes a big difference in levels of criticism. People don't want to acknowledge that Rafa has made a few mistakes in the transfer market but it's easy to slag a player bought by someone not here anymore.

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Thats a bit OTT. He's played and is playing at a higher level than any of us ever have/will. He clearly is rated by some in the game, some who have won a lot of trophys.

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