Charlie Wayman

Who'd have thought that a squad list was worth debating... maybe we could try hot dog suppliers next or brand of hot choc?

You blokes never learn do you, Arsenal are not interested anymore. They are too busy hanging on to what they've got and finding a new manager to move Wenger upstairs. It's experience they want now not snotty nose, pimply kids with "p-o-t-e-n-t-i-a-l"

Wow! Red & White Stripes. Good to see that Umbro have come up with something imaginatively different. Now where did I put that 1974 shirt...

Around 12th. There are some very good teams in this division; many with considerable NPL experience. Although we can look good in spells, can we really keep up over 46 games? maybe next year but not this.

No doubt angling for a job if he screws up at Leicester or Nige screws up here?

Which is the obvious choice for you if you object. The answer to your second comment is probably "Yes". they probably see it as an irritation to have to sacrifice part of the SMS real estate to low rent working class supporters when they could open yet another luxury 'prawn sandwich' super lounge for duckers & divers of international big business

Don't panic. As usual it is all down to Nigel's idiosyncratic use of the English Language. Who else on this planet would use a non-word like "togetherness"? Of course it sparks of concerns as to what may be hidden underneath.. Time for some media training Nige in order to avoid stepping on land mines every time you step into a Press Conference. The main reason they are in Switzerland is to get ****ed up every night for free at the Chairman's expense.

If he's good, good, if he's bad, bad!

My choice too - Guly IS the fast man

Say after me three times "I am not prejudiced"

Yeah but we can play Guly off Lambert before Connors comes on later especially if Barnard misses a few...

The best news ever. Great signing. I guess what swayed it for him is the proximity to London, he doesn't need to move house an can still enjoy the West End Scene. Let's keep them all fit and we'll knock a few off their perches. Where 'though does Mr Hammond fit in now?

You were warned about this on Tuesday after my visit to but ST. You get 30 mins free so you should have gone later when queue had reduced a bit. Anyway as you had just spent 400 quid +/_ what's a £1 to moan about? Do you want a solvent club or a Lowe style bankrupt club. Stop grumbling over trivia.

They certainly won't be winning anything here for a few years and that's all most of them have got at the top.

One cannot help but agree with you... Yawn!

Fear not sir as The Gooners are about to implode and Wenger will soon be gone; the last thing on their minds will be youngsters. That era is over so's been whispered!

Don't over rate the NPC just because we've been away for a couple of years. Some of the Academy kids did quite well at this level before and will do so again. it was just a pity that Jan Poortvliet had few options other than to chuck them all in at the deep end together. Don't forget that pre-season match against PL West Ham when we went 3-0 up early on with a dazzling display of pass and move from our kids.

Surely we are not allowed by law to carry brand sponsorship for beer on our shirts? The Irish connection ensures we'll be in orange & white stripes and green shorts. If nothing else it'll show Coor's that the designer we used at Umbro was downing plenty of their amber juice.

Bloody crocodile tears from Adders if you ask me, when he had him he obviously didn't rate him highly enough to start him no wonder the lad got so ****ed off that he wanted out so badly that he settled for a lower division. Self confidence shot away. Good luck lad!

Simple, he was younger. Everyone posts their favourite pictures from the past and usually much more than 3/4 years ago. Obviously Corkie is no exception.

So ;ets work this out, you'd prefer a forum in which the literary skills of the writer are sufficient to construct sentences with no verb and at least four dissimilar expletives e.g. " You moronic ******* ****** **** the ***** off"?

Me too but they've stopped surface mailing renewal forms so looks like a scrummage up there on Friday. Why people panic and have to be first in line is anybody's guess but panic they do and no bets taken on how long the queue will be at 8.00 am

The main criticism I have is that too few people on here keep to topic and reply to the first posting. As a result almost all topics descend into the usual circular arguments and eventually a slanging match between people who obviously know each other beyond this forum. The moderators do have a responsibility to make sure this does not happen and have to a certain extent failed in their duties. Otherwise, this is a football web site not Mensa so you get the level of debate you should expect from a bunch of looney-tunes thicko football fans, if you expectlphilosophical and literary masterpieces go elsewhere

Bridge could never defend properly. He catches the eye easily with his powerful surging runs and great crosses and of course that got hm noticed here and we made a good pile of dosh as a result. But we all know how often he was caught out of position up field when the oppo made a quick break and i recall many goals against coming in from that side of the field. That was obvious here and good forwards soon sussed him out. He was never first choice at Chelsea, which is telling and soon got moved on down to Man City and then on down to West Ham - more or less a steady decline. OK, he's probably a bit of an emotionally weak character as well which doesn't help when mates start bonking your ex but hell Bridgey she was your ex and you don't own any rights to an ex once she'd gone. (If he's better at it than you that's the risk you take but what's to worry about in that anyway). Being that way probably means that he might suffer fragile self confidence as well so a bad game plays on his mind and begets another bad game and so on. On balance he's good not great, never in the class of Bale and has a few flaws in his playing style that he sees unable to correct. But, hey! who hasn't?

Don't expect to be flavour of the month with this analysis but of course you are right! The first priority is to establish ourselves in the Division and the first dozen games will test our competitiveness e.g. W4-D4-L4 would be a good set of results on which to build confidence and a sound foundation. By then it would become clearer who's hot (enough) and who's not from the present squad. Any defender regularly getting skinned would quickly be dropped whilst others might actually blossom under the higher challenge and kick on. We all have an opinion on this now but fair-do's , we need to let the lads have their heads under fire before condemning them out of hand. In fact none of us lot have a clue who'll respond well and who can't. It's possible that we might surprise ourselves in the way that Norwich surprised the whole league last year but it is extremely unlikely that it will happen again anytime soon if the Division structure and pecking order means anything at all. Even the most cynical of us lot surely does not believe that there are zero differences between mid-table PL clubs and mid-table L1 clubs? In my view, we'd do well to use this season to establish & consolidate and think about the PL in two years time. If we don't rush into spending this summer taht may not be a bad thing - let this squad have a go , beef it up in Jan 2012 if necessary to keep us up and then by next summer we'll know who to keep, better know who we want to bring in and prepare to kick on. We should not risk buying too many apparently very sprightly spring chickens from lower leagues right now, who could turn out to be even bigger turkeys than some of our present squad in the NPL. As for Adders, I'm confident Mr Cortese has a touch of the Russian Oligarch about him. He's smarter 'though and is never seen with designer stubble in public.