pete

Keys handed over to the FA so it seems it is now finished. great the fans can now use the jim Baxter bridge. They still need a safety certificate to hold the cup final.

PSV will beat liverpool. Put money on it!!!!

Ian i think you are missing the plot.(Sorry) We have on the starting team last night two players who have imagination. Fergie and Burke. If you have a defence kicking the ball up to a player who can't hold a ball for the life of him then they are frightened to move forward which makes the whole team stationary. If a team is stationary then they get pressed by three or four players and lose the ball. All these players can control a ball if they have the room and time but if you have 4 players round you kicking at your ankles then it is a different story.

Klos proved he is a fantastic line keeper, but he is a nightmare with high balls. A keeper should always defend the 6 metre box no matter how tall he is. He always has the length of his arms as an advantage. Klos stays rooted to the goal line even if the cross is 2 yards from the line. McGregor for me.

Agreed, i wish i could be there.

If you set up your team not to get out of there own half, then they won't. It has been well recorded Boyd cannot play as a lone striker as he can't hold a ball up. We have two centre halves that can only punt the ball so why the heck play 5 in midfield. Our good players never had a chance to play well yesterday as the ball was punted to Boyd who never had a chance to be honest and it let osasuna crowd our good players out of the game. This game was lost on Smith's shit tactics, nothing more , nothing less.

I agree with you fully but if you want to keep the ball away from the keeper you do not sit on your own 18 yard box you force the other team to defend in their own half. Smith fucked up big time as he has always done in Europe. Why? Because he is a shitebag and doesn't dare to have a go. There used to be a telly programme with words in the song text: It is better to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all. Walter should heed this.

I totally agree with all the youth part of what is said above but on last nights game there is one man responsible for the way we played and that is Walter Smith. One striker for a home game against mediocre opposition is an absolute disgrace. We started with our defence on our own 16 metre line and they stayed there for seventy minutes due to weir and hedgi-hog punting the ball up to Boyd who headed it to Mr Nobody, or him proving he couldn't hold a fish supper. Le Guen may have misjudged his signings and the high ball game we play but he understood tactics better than Smith ever will.

Hemdani is the best player we have, it would be a sin to let him go. Our big problem is movement off the ball. There is none. Why? The midfielders think the defence will punt the ball anyway. Boyd can't hold a ball up so i can better not waste my time going forward? Remember Elland Road yah bassas we had no chance there as well and we won. We are the People!!!!!

To be honest i can see us doing better without Fergie. We have to put two strikers on though,with Novo and Burke on the wings. -----------------Klos---------- Hutton------Svensson---------Weir-------Murray Novo---------Thomson-----Hemdani--------Burke---(Adam?????) ------------------Boyd-------Prso------------- Prso has to play and should have started tonight, he is still a handfull for any defender.

I agree Klos (sorry Stephan for my doubt in you) and Hemdani were the best players, but an 8 is far too high for anyone tonight. Hemdani ball watches and does not put any pressure on players to force any mistakes,as Osasuna did to us all night. Klos had three great saves but is still a nightmare with high balls he did prove to me that he is still a world class reaction keeper though. I give Walter Smith the most blame for our performance though, his tactics were crap and 15 years out of date. He chose once again the negative line with Boyd the lone wandering duck fighting against 4 defenders and heading the ball to, well, no one. Ehiogu was a nightmare and to be honest i would rather have Papac or Svensson or my first choice Hemdani next to Weir. In my eyes we don't want Fergie playing so far up front that he is a striker, we want him getting in an attacking position from the midfield. My opinion of Klos was shot to bits tonight but my opinion of Walter Smiths tactical ability was unfortunately strengthened.

To be honest i am dreading Klos being in goals. He has not kicked a ball in anger for 2 years and he didn't look that safe two weeks ago. I hope he proves me wrong. If the defence + Klos are good we will win 3-0. I hate to even think about the other option.

The guy that got punched suffered a broken nose. Then the little coward bastard in the grey tracksuit that done it ran away. I hope he gets banned for life to be honest. Cowardly little shit.

Arsenal v PSV - Home win:flipa: Gav you really should give up predicting scores.

Who was the number 44 for the tims? He would have backed off to Rome at the goal.He should have forced Kaka wide instead of backing off. Don't agree with the Nak the jap getting pulled down in the box,but they should have had a handball penalty in the first half. Nak the Jap showed again he can't handle big games, and as he has never played well against us, we have nothing to fear from him except maybe from a free kick. I don't agree they are miles in front of us, in fact i think we can beat them on Sunday.

I agree, i don't see how these guy's can't be first team players. Did Davy Cooper, Colin Stein etc not come from Scottish clubs? Alan Hansen played for Thistle before Liverpool. Scotland used to be a breeding ground for excellent players,why is it unthinkable we can get back to that level.

It depends on the EPL clubs chasing him. I would rather play for Rangers and CL football other than Sheffield united or Charlton etc.

I must admit i wasn't too happy about Weir coming in but he has certainly done a good job up until now. His experience will certainly help the young defenders settle in. I doubt if he will make Svensson head a ball any better though.

Can we not do what they do in American football and just bring on Adam for the free kicks.

Well done Frankie, Newspapers also have to have a straight line. They can't handle us with a hard hand for things we do and say, but if they do the same it falls under satire. No, they have made the borders they have to stick to them themselves.

------- Klos Hutton Weir Ehiogu Murray ---Hemdani Thomson Burke___Fergie____Prso -------Boyd ..............Klos.............. hutton..weir..Ugo...Murray .....Hemdani..Thomson..... Burke.....Feguson....Novo .............Boyd.............. I think at some point these two will be the team but i think i would start with the Prso version with Novo coming on later.

I don't think any will want to date him, Gribz.

Let's beat Osasuna first.

Is that out as in off.

Barcelona v Real Madrid, 21:00(saturday) SUNDAY: AZ v Feyenoord, 11:30 Wolverhampton v West Brom, 12:00 Celtic v Rangers, 12:30 Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 FC Twente v Ajax, 13:30 Bayern Munich v Werder Bremen, 16:00 Inter Milan v AC Milan, 19:30 Lyon v Marseille, 20:00 I wanted to do some work at the weekend, well that's that ckufed up. Pity so many games overlap each other. Well that means wall to wall football watching and no work.