[DevilsDuck]

Plymouth went top for a couple of hours which was nice and the red devils dicked Chelsea.....which was also nice

[DevilsDuck]

chelsea or southampton?

[Yudster]

I thought it was great.

[catherine]

Oh Martin O'Neill. What a sad day, shame wanker players and wanker owners ruin everything for great managers.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Great managers? By that definition I have a great body.

[catherine]

I knew you would pipe up. He has done good things for Villa.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Hes spent a lot of money on some shite players - Reo-Coker and Sidwell anyone?

[chrysostom]

wasn't sidwell free?

my mistake - £5m.

still, Ashley Young much outweighs those.

[catherine]

Heskey was his worst buy but the team did well in the season, finishing above Everton and Liverpool. If that is what a shit manager is capable of achieving then some clubs must have serious manager problems.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Stiliyan Petrov Celtic £6.5m - ok
Didier Agathe Celtic Free - crap
Chris Sutton Celtic Free - crap
Phil Bardsley Manchester United Loan - crap
Gabor Kiraly Crystal Palace Loan - Crap
John Carew Lyon Swap - ok
Ashley Young Watford £9.65m - Good
Shaun Maloney Celtic £1.1m - Crap
Wayne Routledge Tottenham £1.5m - Crap
Moustapha Salifou FC Wil Undisc. Crap
Curtis Davies West Brom Loan - ok when fit
Zat Knight Fulham £3.5m - Crap
Scott Carson Liverpool Loan - Crap
Harry Forrester Watford £250 000 initial fee rising on appearances - ???
Eric Lichaj Unattached Free - ???
Marlon Harewood West Ham Undisc (region of £3.5m?) - Crap
Nigel Reo-Coker West Ham £8.5m - Crap
Curtis Davies (WBA undisclosed but around £7.5million?) - ok but never fit
Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5million) - Crap
Brad Friedel (Blackburn, undisclosed but in the region of £2 - £2.5million) - Excellent
Brad Guzan (Chivas US, undisclosed, starts at around £800k up to £2m on appearances etc?) - ok
Nicky Shorey (Reading, around £4m?) - Crap
Luke Young (Middlesbrough, around £5m?) - ok but overpriced
Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8million) - ok but overpriced
James Milner (Newcastle, around £12million?) - good
Arsenio Halfhuid from Excelsior (undisclosed) - ???
Emile Heskey from Wigan Athletic (£3.5m) - Crap
Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough around £10m + add ons) - ok but overpriced
Fabian Delph (Leeds United - undisclosed fee - around £6m including add ons?) - ok?
Habib Beye (Newcastle, undisclosed but around £3m?) - Crap
Andy Marshall (free agent) - ???
Stephen Warnock (Blackburn Rovers - around £6m + add ons?) - ok
James Collins (West Ham United - around £5m) - Crap
Richard Dunne (Manchester City - around £6m) - Excellent

Hardly a great record...

[chrysostom]

milner and young are good, but dunne is classed as excellent?

questionable.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Yes for the money paid Dunne was probably Villa's best player last season. I think Milner has had one decent season which was last year and Ashley Young doesn't do enough for me.

[catherine]

What do you want him to do for you, a lap dance?

I didn't say he hasn't bought some crap players in the past but the team still did better than most of the other teams last season.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/index.p ... -2010.html

Third highest spending club in that period. All I am saying is Lerner spent the kind of money he felt he needed to get one of the Champions League spots - O'Neill failed.

[Yudster]

I've never bought into the Martin O'Neil Is Wonderful chorus, although it has died down somewhat in the last three years anyway. There was a time when he was being hailed as the saviour of any club he deigned to turn his hand to, but I never understood why. At that point he'd made a difference at a couple of clubs which had been in some kind of trouble, but never really won anything significant, and as soon as the questions started he'd be up and away, usually complaining about his board and/or players. I vaguely remember a semi-retirement on health grounds, which, given that he leapt back into the game at the first decent offer seemed a bit spurious to me. He's one of those nearly-men who talks a good game I think.

Mind you, as Cat will no doubt justifiably point out, what the * do I know about the Premiership?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

It wasn't his health - his wife had cancer when he left Celtic.

Great story on Five Live last night of him ringing Leicester fans who had written to him criticising him. Apparantly after they won the League Cup that night he rang them all asking whether he was a good manager now.

[Yudster]

It wasn't his health - his wife had cancer when he left Celtic.

That was it - it was a vague memory at best.

Great story on Five Live last night of him ringing Leicester fans who had written to him criticising him. Apparantly after they won the League Cup that night he rang them all asking whether he was a good manager now.

What did they say?

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I dunno presumably they thought it was a wind up or asked him if he was a bit mental.

[kendra k]

Colchester v. Weds this weekend. I'm ready for it.

[Yudster]

I just hope we are.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5yA-Mx ... re=related

Ace!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Aye isn't it great football is back.

If only I had been there to shout "just * off Howard"

[kendra k]

Paul Scholes reminded me why I love him so tonight. Why did I take him off my fantasy team? He's so angry.

[Yudster]

Darren Fletcher is in my fantasy team.

[Jill]

We got a jammy draw on Saturday. 2 nil down until 88th minute when we got a goal and then a pen in the 90th.