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He was played as a right midfielder only during the brief time we tried out 442. Other times it was like you said or as DM when Essien or Mikel weren't available.

Cech and the Reserves.

Will he be played, though? That's the real question.

Happy birthday to our favourite alien!

So I'm the official forum noob now? Congratulations everyone, all the 3000+ members make TC what it is, not just the names mentioned above.

No brainwaves from you then? Thought so.

Ah yes, remember it being an away fa cup game. Then I guess southend was when we beat them 3-0 with two freekicks from lamps and bally and another lamps long ranger.No, that was ipswich I seem to remember now. :/

But Ray only took charge of a single FA Cup match vs Southend. Anelka scored a hattrick in the last 15 mins, if I remember correctly and we won 3-1.

Of course.

I've been bored shitless watching Chelsea play this past season. If it weren't for my love for us, I really wouldn't sit through that. And I really don't want more of the same over the next few years. To each his own, I guess.

In the hunt for what? Dead rats in the local Merseyside garbage bin?

Roman is looking to Barcelona, not Arsenal ... and Barca don't piss about with it trying to reach the 100 pass milestone before walking it in. Football's changing,teams have figured out how to play us, so we must show some initiative and alter our playing style. It's important to have skillful, deft, creative ball players and combine it with intelligent off the ball movement and urgency in pressing when out of possession. Though like G_Z said, a plan B is always handy to freshen things up if it isn't going well.

Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba. Both are on the wane sadly and while we don't have a replacement for Lamps, Lukaku is too young to be handed that responsibility.

Doesn't Ferrer work as manager of Vitesse?

It was predominantly that, even Torres was thrown long balls to chase down. It was comical and painful at the same time. DM gets ball, passes it back, defenders muck about with it for a while, try a cross field pass for the rushing wing back, doesn't work, ball comes back, lump it up. While that is true, why spend 20 million for an untested teenager?

Si senor, correctomundo!

If we're bringing Lukaku, get ready for more 'lump it up and hope for the best'. In other words, get ready for more of the same.

I was being serious ....

Welcome!

God bless Football Manager.

LDN, congratulations on 5 awards. Well deserved mate, you're an awesome addition to the forum

Friedel, Neville, Carvalho, Terry, Cole, Ronaldo, Lampard, Vieria, Giggs, Henry, Nistelrooy.

He wouldn't have been sacked if we'd won the CL. Or another double, something big like that. They said it themselves, ''results are not upto the mark'' which means even if we'd played poorly but got results, he'd still be in charge. That's not a fact, it's your opinion.

This means Premier League managers don't know their football. Any such list not featuring Frank Lampard is worthy of being posted in the joke thread.

But with a 3 year contract in which like you say there's pressure of winning trophies, you can't take wholesale chances with kids.