FOOTBALL: Season 2006/07 Discussion Thread

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:30 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Bellamy might be a little shitpig, but he's going to be a valuable asset to Liverpool this season, if he can keep his trap shut.

I think Pennant is going to be the real star buy. Last season, he and Jarosik (who is now with Celtic) practically singlehandedly kept Birmingham in with a chance of staying up. Provided he stays out of trouble - and he does have a track record of hitting the self-destruct button - he's going to be magnificent for them.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:37 pm 0

Zen-Chan wrote:I think Pennant is going to be the real star buy. Last season, he and Jarosik (who is now with Celtic) practically singlehandedly kept Birmingham in with a chance of staying up. Provided he stays out of trouble - and he does have a track record of hitting the self-destruct button - he's going to be magnificent for them.

Yeah, he's looked very lively, too. Liverpool definitely have an extra dimension to them this season.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:25 am 0

It was a good match, friendly or not it's always nice to shut JM up

Specially after all the build up about us not being a threat etc, bloody shite mind games from the special one

I take everything back i have said about Sissoko, he was fantastic, great strength and skill shown by him. He looks like a better player since he came back from that terrible eye injury.
It was nice to see we were holding them albeit 1-1 without our first team selection on the pitch.Then bring on the big guns later on, we have a lot of depth and options open to us now, and with pretty much the Houllier hand me downs gone we can will really get to see Rafa's team in action this season.
Lets just hope we find the consistency we have been lacking in past season's then we may have a chance of challenging Chelsea.

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:07 am 0

yeah! we won the johan cruyff dish in a great match against PSV.. this is going to be our season (we did excactly the same last year, but then went on to a horrible season, but still, 3-1 against the champions with good gameplay)

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:15 pm 0

romanista wrote:johan cruyff dish

Is that like the George Foreman grill?

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:11 pm 0

I prefer George Formby Grills

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:29 pm 0

Guardian season preview.

Pompey now have 12 midfielders, including Tottenham's entire 2004-05 line-up.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:59 pm 0

And Newcastle's Chicken Balti Pie gets a mention. That's a star player of ours for a few seasons now. Perfect for those evenings when you didn't have time to grab any food before a European game.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:47 pm 0

That preview is good. Only got as far as Blackburn so far but

Poll could show three yellows to
Robbie Savage would probably get three yellows, two reds, an orange, seven purples and a green. Odd thing is, he's not even that dirty, let's be honest.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:40 pm 0

Dean Ashton's broken his ankle. Does anyone know if Newcastle bought him last week?

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:51 pm 0

Does any know how good (or bad!) Andreas Isaksson is? As we've just signed him!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 787101.stm

BLUE MOON

~g

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:18 pm 0

Dean Ashton's broken his ankle. Does anyone know if Newcastle bought him last week?

Snippet from BBC Sport - "The injury will also be a major setback to West Ham, with the Premiership starting on Saturday..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 794977.stm

~g

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:21 pm 0

So much for his first ever England cap then...

Comedy from the gossip page on the bbc sport page this morning:

West Ham striker Dean Ashton has vowed he will not become one of England's one-cap brigade after being picked for Wednesday's friendly with Greece.

Well, he was right there then. Strictly speaking.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:36 pm 0

Dio wrote:Dean Ashton's broken his ankle.

Guess he won't be the secret weapon of my fantasy team then (was hoping for something akin to Darren Bent last year). Had only just 'finalised' my starting squad too...

fog · Post by **fog** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:30 pm 0

Shame about Ashton. Really rate him.

Confirmed 3 match bans for both Scholes & Rooney. Shame