Can't see anything other than Nani, Evra and Rooney ripping us a new arsehole as it were and destroying whichever hapless soul is chosen to play at RB, be it Perch or R Taylor.

Team:

----------------- Harper -----------------

R Taylor - Williamson - Colo - Enrique

Routledge - Guthrie - Barton - Jonas

------------- Nolan ---------------------

------------------ Carroll --------------

Bench: Krul, Perch, Tavernier, Smith, Lovenkrands, Vuckic, Ameobi


I went for 4-1 to Man Utd in the predictor thread so I'll stick with that and Carroll to get his first of the season for us. Could be Perch as RB and maybe Campbell on the bench. Doubt we'll play 2 up front in this one, though.

I would expect Smith to play if he is fit maybe at the expense of one of the wingers with Barton or Guthrie playing wide.

Id possibly go Taylor ahead of Perch pure and simply because the only chance we probably have of scoring is from a set piece which is one of the few things that Taylor is good at.

Personally I would go with what you said but would have Taylor at RB and Smith in instead of Guthrie.

One of those games where the likelihood is we will get thumped but if we can not concede an early goal and keep it nice and tight and frustrate them then you never know.

Replace Ryan Taylor with Perch and I think thats pretty much what we're going in with.

Hopefully Campbell will be match fit in time for Villa next week but my guess is we'll probably see him for the first time at Accy Stanley

I'm not convinced Smith is up to the job after seeing him in pre-season. Hopefully he was still getting fitness back but he's a worry for me. Not sure how Hughton sees it.

Gonna get raped! Doesn't matter what side we put out nor does the formation matter, we could play 7-3-0 and we'd still get hammered.

I'm going for defeat that reflects the poor standard of investment that has gone into the club over the summer 5-0 and in all honesty i think it could be more.

A very hard start to a very hard season sadly.

You're a miserable sod you Whitley

Personally I think we'll thrash them 6-0.

Well i can't really see much to be positive about, i think our signing have been average at best, nobody can be getting carried away over Sol Cambpell, Perch or Gosling.

If we get Ben Arfa and dare i say Bellamy then it would be a different kettle of fish but there is no way we are getting either.

Anyway, i'd go :

-------------------------Harper-------------------------------


Perch--Taylor-Collocini--Williamson-Campbell-Kadar-Jose

------------Barton----Guthrie-----Nolan----------------------


------------------------------------------------------------------

And hope to hold out for a 0-0

Ben arfa will join, Doubt Bellamy will though..

Little challenge on Sky's website

http://www.skysports.com/fun_games/missing...6305667,00.html

@ Whitley's lineup.

In all seriousness, I think Smith will start at the expense of Guthrie but I agree we'll play only one up front.

1m42.

:)

We will lose, but we might aswell give it a go with nothing to play for at the start of the season. If enrique can handle valenica and barton/smith/nolan can be physical in the middle we would be able to stop them, remember burnley last year?

Saturdays games

Joe Hart starts in goal ahead of Shay today for Man City at Spurs. Expect Shay to hand in a transfer request soon

Ha ha, fuck off Shay knew that was a shite move when you made it

Nolan offically handed the captaincy with Smith vice captain

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20100814/no...2240137_2121924

WTF is Ben Shepherd doing presenting Premier League football on Sky?

Can't help but laugh The way he fucked off when we were in the shit annoyed me.

Yep he's presenting the Spurs v Man City game.

Did anyone see Football Focus, the amound of player Man city have is just ridiculous,

1st team

------------------------Hart
------Richards--- Toure--- Kompany--- Kolarov,
Wright-Phillips-- Toure Yaya-- De Jong-- Barry-- Silva
------------------------Tevez


2nd Team

---------------Given
Bridge ------Boateng----Lescott---Zabaleta
A.Johnson --Viera----Ireland -----Robinho
------------Balotelli---Adebayor

3rd team?

--------------S.Taylor
---------Onohua-- Vidal---?????
Weiss ----M.Johnson----Etuhu---Caiceido
-----Santa Cruz-----Bellamy----Jo

surely there are a few for the picking in there somewhere?
Michael Johnson, Bellamy, Ohohua, Weiss?

Shay should leave ASAP. Too good a keeper to have on the bench.

Hope he goes to Arsenal, it would be a great move for him and for aresnal, and he's 4 years younger than Schwarzer.

Good game this, end to end.

Am I the only one who thinks Yaya Toure is vastly overrated?

No, there will be a few others that haven't got a clue about football

But seriously, whenever I watched him play for Barca he looked distinctly average, and he was absolute dog shit in the CL against Inter.

Based on this game then no you aren't the only one, he looks big and clumsy and to have the control of Shola. I'm sure he is better than that though, probably just having a bad game so far.

Here we go then, 3pm kickoffs underway

10 minutes and Stoke's new £8million striker Kenwyne Jones is already being stretchered off with a knee injury

Aston Villa 1-0 West Ham (Downing)
Blackburn 1-0 Everton (Kallinic)

Wigan 0-1 Blackpool (Taylor-Fletcher)

And they've dominated as well, should be at least 3-0 up apparently

Blackpool just had another goal disallowed for offside, they're destroying Wigan at the moment

EDIT: Taylor-Fletcher was clearly onside, should be 2-0

Mackems 1-0 Birmingham (Bent, Penalty)

Wolves 1-0 Stoke (David Jones)

Wigan 0-2 Blackpool (Harewood)

Aston Villa 2-0 West Ham (S.Petrov)

Wolves 2-0 Stoke (Fletcher)

Wigan 0-3 Blackpool (Harewood, 2nd goal), Unbelieveable

And Lee Cattermole sent off for the mackems

marlon harewood?

<runsofftobookiestoputtenneronwigantogodownsmiley>

'Yeah, he's no where near good enough for the Championship, no point signing him up for the Premier League'

I wasn't the only one.

join the club

Goals according to the BBC

1-0: Harewood plays a peach of a ball to the far post for Taylor-Fletcher to tap in
2-0: Harewood hold off Alcaraz before unleashing an unstoppable shot on the turn from about 20 yards
3-0: Harewood taps in a rebound from Grandin's shot after keepr Chris Kirkland has a howler

Man of the match performance so far

Wolves 2-1 Stoke (Abdoulaye Faye)

Mackems 2-0 Birmingham (Carr, OG)

Away from the PL, Hull getting thumped 4-0 at Millwall

Aston Villa 3-0 West Ham (Milner)

Who is the Hull manager?

Wigan 0-4 Blackpool (Baptiste)

And Hull's Manager, Nigel Pearson

Cheers mate.....hoping they go on a Wimbledon/Man City esque downward spiral

Mackems 2-1 Birmingham (Dann)

Mackems 2-2 Birmingham (Ridgewell)

From 2-0 up as well

HALLEFUCKINGLUYLA

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