Isn't he a bit slow? You do know why they want to sign him, yeah? Replacement for Jamie Carragher. The slowest defender around. Martin Skrtel was hardly rapid either. Pearce makes up for his lack of pace with his reading of the game. Lovely use of the patronising 'yeah' there. I enjoyed the virtual...

Isn't he a bit slow? You do know why they want to sign him, yeah? Replacement for Jamie Carragher. The slowest defender around. Martin Skrtel was hardly rapid either. Pearce makes up for his lack of pace with his reading of the game. lol. hes been pretty terrible, in a terrible defence this season....

He really is not that good. Very error prone and I think if he wasn't the son of a great, there would be no hype surrounding him what so ever Agreed - and he's had his PL chance, for Man City, and hardly covered himself in glory. Remind us all again how old he was and experienced he was when he was...

Perhaps it shows how much effort he makes for us even if unfortunately those shots don't equal goals?..........Just a thought but carry on bashing him all the same. I will be fcuked off if he leaves but I wouldn't blame him with the amount of stick he gets on here. He is the new John Oster it seems...

Will McCarthy even be the most sought after goalkeeper this summer? There must be others out there like Kasper Schmeichel (and Leicester are financially similar to us?) Schmeichel's not actually that good though, unless he's made some serious improvements over the last year or so I haven't noticed....

Terminal Boardom To compare the Pearce situation to Sidwell's is laughable. Sidders was immense in his last season for us and gave everything on the pitch. Can the same be said for Pearce?

In short, yes.

Mills was not as good as Pearce, by quite some way. As demonstrated by Mills career going nowhere very fast after he's left us and Pearce being voted PotS and playing in the top flight. This statement is absolute nonsense. I think most of it is demonstrably true. Mills was just an older version of ...

We seem to have a really high number of players around who were born in England but have/do play for another nation (Karacan, Pearce, Marriapa, Legs, McAnuff, McCleary, Tabb, HRK, Cummings, Roberts). Seems odd. Wonder how many of these players grew up dreaming of playing for England but snatched at...

£1m is ridiculous when Doyle and Kitson went for £5m plus and had a similar return at this level (and from more minutes per goal as well). I can't see us selling him anyway. Not now Hunt, Church, Pogrebnyak and Roberts are likely to be gone come August. Doyle and Kitson had long records of scoring ...

Done. I actually put Kebe first on the wings - just a shame he hasn't played more as when he has he's been electric at times. More starts than McCleary or HRK. But I agree, we'd have had a much better chance of staying up with him playing every week- McCleary and HRK just aren't Premier League qual...

Fulham would win if they were allowed to play an overage Tottenham player.

Pearce isn't even that good, and he's being a massive helmet. I'd rather have Morrison and Mariapppa. He wasn't good enough before last season. I would respectfully disagree. Pearce is a step ahead of Morrison, he's a much more intelligent defender and doesn't make as many mistakes. Pearce has pret...

Clyde1998 GK - Taylor, S
RB - Cummings
LB - Harte
CB - Gorkss
CB - Pearce
RM - Edwards
LM - Obita
CM - Leigertwood
CM - Tabb
AM - Taylor, J
ST - Samuel

Subs: Henly, Shorey, Hector, D'Ath, Taylor, Pogrebnyak, Le Fondre

How many Taylors do we have?

Agreed. Thought Harper deserved it in 07/08, couldn't believe it when Hunt was voted ahead of him. Hahnemann should have won, with Harper and Kitson rounding off the top 3. Hunt scored a few tap ins (and one spectacular goal) but as the season wore on he became less and less effective in open play....

maffff Ah yeah, hadn't seen that yet. Thanks.

Wonder if we'll get someone from Saints in?

Les Reed please. Won't happen though, he's very high up in the club.

Thinking recruiting from Fulham is just as likely with Steve Head's connections.

so since they left us, who of the 106 team has done well elsewhere? its not a good record. its a wonder anyone buys any of our players, ever Doyle, Hahnemann, Sidwell, Shorey, Hunt and Long. Sidwell and Shorey had some issues with being benched at Aston Villa (and Chelsea in Sidwell's case), but bo...

Troy Deeney and Jose Baxter are both great shouts. I dont think we have any young players ready to fill that position, maybe Lawson D'Ath or Jake Taylor but it seems to be a bit late for them. Clean slate under Adkins though so who knows. D'Ath is more of a central midfielder, he's good going forwa...

Hart is more or less nailed on for first choice despite his iffy form. Foster is probably nailed on for the second spot, primarily on reputation. Depends how Hodgson views Foster's rejection of past call ups. That leaves one spot. I imagine McCarthy is competing for it with Forster and Butland (and...

Hart is more or less nailed on for first choice despite his iffy form. Foster is probably nailed on for the second spot, primarily on reputation. Depends how Hodgson views Foster's rejection of past call ups. That leaves one spot. I imagine McCarthy is competing for it with Forster and Butland (and ...

Assuming that Guthrie and Gunter will start the next two games (seems very likely), the 'you must have started at least half the games' rule would leave a shortlist for player of the season of: Guthrie (likely 19 starts) (average first 3/4 of the season, hated by many fans for refusing to travel, p...