By that logic, 90 minutes of Dack almost guarantees you three goals and/or assists. Which is obviously horseshit.

The alternative explanation here is that JDT does, in fact, have his favourites, and that Morton is one of them.

I don't care what the manager sees in training. I've seen Morton play lots of times and he isn't good enough. He has cost us games. Wharton has done almost nothing but impress when I watch him. He should be playing.

Sorry but no, you're completely incorrect to call that backheel flukey. You can see on the replay that he's looking out the corner for the runner, he didn't just back heel and hope. It was a moment of class. I don't know where he pulled it from and why it's so rare from him, but it was. Might be the best assist we've produced all season. Dack does that and you'd praise it to the heavens. It doesn't change his weaknesses to admit he had a moment of excellence.

Remaining league fixtures are 4th placed Palace (twice - home and away!), 1st placed Man City (at home), and fellow relegation strugglers Tottenham (at home). Think we know which game looks most winnable and crucial! Spurs also have two games in hand on us, and are 3 points behind. Wolves 2 behind us with 1 game in hand.

Of course it's bloody Khadra.

Plus Mercer backed us to win by 2. It's almost the full set.

Didn't you know? We're not fans, we're slaves, morally obliged to attend all away games regardless of personal cost, finances or circumstances.

The love-in from quite a few on this thread and the 60-odd England caps says otherwise.

He was very overrated.

Shearer was unstoppable for us from day one. With all respect to Kenny, I think Big Al was going to the top no matter what. I don't know how much of a player-moulder Dalglish was, it was Harford always talked about as the brains on the training ground.

Funny, Heskey did. That 40 for Liverpool amounts to less than 10 a season btw. Playing for a top side. One season there he scored 6 in 32. Not fit to lace Shearer's boots.

Don't really get the Heskey love-in here. Always thought he was pretty shit. Admittedly he was a beast on his day, but there were never enough of those. I don't recall him when he started out, I was a bit young. But Jim describing him as 'a top class, ready-made replacement' for Shearer makes me wonder if Jim has started smoking crack in the mornings. What an insult to Shearer! Heskey was more of a slightly better Jason Roberts. Muscle and hustle but a pretty shite finisher. Granted we bought a load of crap up front after Shearer, but the magical answer would in no way have been Emile fucking Heskey. Better than what we bought, granted. Every time he was linked with us later in his career, I got very nervous it would actually happen, and glad when it didn't. All of this is in spite of the fact that I saw him menace us numerous times, it was almost like he hated us. But I also saw Ostenstadt score against us regularly...probably more goals against us than for us when his career was done! Maybe some of you are basing it more off those games against us. There have probably been less deserved 60+ cap hauls for England, but it's a short list. Also, the story above, if true, is a sickener. We were willing to pay 1 million for a 16 yr old Heskey in 94, but not willing to pay slightly more (think it was meant to be 1.5 mill?) to sign a young Zidane? Fuck me we got that wrong!

More needed for the highly paid players who can afford to take the hit and still have millions (unless they're morons with their money, in which case that's their fault), rather than these lads, many of whom aren't being paid anything special.

He'd need one after that!

If you look at the post of mine you replied to, I was talking about if we get promoted this season. So was the poster I was replying to.

No chance in hell we could get 3 or 4 Premier league level players for 60k per week.

U21s losing 1-0 to Arsenal, about 30 minutes left. Goal scored after 10 minutes.

Or you'd let him go for free 😉

Even if he didn't make an immediate impact up there (some of his international appearances suggest otherwise) he'd still be an asset. We've been complaining all season about him going for free, there's no way I'd let it happen given the choice (within reasonable wages of course). Let's say we offer him 60k p/w to stay, and let's call that a 4 million cost over one season once you factor in national insurance, bonuses etc, do you think we wouldn't be able to find a Championship club who would pay say at least £5 million for him next summer? A recently relegated side would be able to cover those wages. Even if we took a small loss instead (let's say it costs 6 or 7 million to keep him a season, due to loyalty bonuses which I think have to be paid in full if a player moves without requesting to leave), it's certainly worth the gamble for me that he might cope with the level. Even if he is just a fairly average Prem level striker he'd be worth upwards of 20 million fully contracted.

Rhodes was reported as around 8 mill, I don't know which of the two actually cost a bit more.

This was his best strike for us, albeit not his most important:

I think the early release during a run of good form, combined with a slight decrease whilst everything else gets more expensive, and the possibility that these may be Premiership season tickets (along with uncertainty over whether prices will jump up in the Prem) should result in more sales though. Maybe not thousands, but it should sell better than last year. They're still a bit high for this area of the country and a demoralised fanbase, but it's a positive step for a change.

1. The Worthington Cup win. 2. The '95 title win at Anfield. I watched it on TV while my parents went to the match, I was gutted but they were lucky to get the two tickets they got. It was still an amazing moment for me but not the same as being there, and I'll never have that chance again. I'm not attached enough to our history before my time to pick any other moment, probably because I haven't lived in those times. Would have been lovely to see Douglas play though as I've heard so much about him, and I'd have loved to see the matches in the very early days of Suter et al, partly because it's so historic but also because it would be fascinating to see how different the football was.

The posts above say, we beat Preston 2-0.