pre season thread

They were the best team at Priestfield last year - absolutely killed us for 90 mins yet we were still mugged for a 1-1 as they got a 97th (!!!) minute equaliser!

Everton will probably struggle there as well later in the week

I'll take it david, Newcastle will finish within 20 points of Everton.

Finish above Sunderland as well.

Don't be silly Matty

saha wont stay fit because he's saha, and isnt *that* important thankfully since we get a lot of goals from midfield,

just been down PVR, what a day, SMASHED arsenal 4-1, made them look like cunts
www.wellingunited.com/tpl/matchdetails.php?id=87

Loui Fazakerley, Loui Fazakerley. Loui Fazakerley... Loui Fazakerley

automatic promotion this year for sure, probably do everton in round 3 of the cup as well!!

Get in Welling!!

Pugh and Cumbers in amongst the goals?

Cumbers got one, up front together we refer to them as pugh-cumbers

GILLS YOUTH DESTROY ARSENAL YOUTH

Men against boys, pughcumbers lol come on brad, it's genius how could you gills never think of this partnership

Haha as our fans are shite

To be fair neither ever made it into the squad

there was a rumour going around that Arteta was going back to Spain this year because his kid is ill or something, what was that all about?

the rumour was that his kid was a bit deaf, though i'm not sure he'd hear any better in spain, there are stories about him going though and it may happen, sevilla is the lastest one, though the stated fee of €14m seems a little low really. we;d be fucked without him.

yeh i was thinking that myself, if he was off Moyes would seriously have to spend clever to replace him. Even though he spends a lot of time injured he's still your best player (sort of like us with Torres i suppose).

we couldnt replace him full stop, theres no way you're going to find a player who can keep possesion like he does, maybe rodwell would be able to do that job but thats a few years away yet. he doesnt really spend a lot of time injured he just got one really bad one, its not like torres who last season seemed to be injured, play a few games then get injured again - probably through lack of any rest over the last few summers and your season being in a mess so rafa bringing him back to quick.

Sensible discussion between dirty scousers?

Man the forum must have gone downhill

tbh i'm worried the same shit's gonna happen this year if we don't get another striker in, it's the same as what happened with Kewell, as soon as the injury heals he's in the team without any break.

I'm sure i read somewhere that Arteta's never played more than 40 games in a season, in fact just looked on wiki and the most is 39 and in the last 3 years he's missed at least 10 league games. Maybe some of that is down to him being rested as he's the main player.

Torres is still injured from the World cup so yet again he won't get a proper pre-season, it's the same every year. This year's the first time in a long time that Gerrard's had a proper break and that's only because England were shit.

he had some sort of operation on his stomach a couple of seasons ago and then that cruciate thing, but he's not a michael owen/saha/torres type that is just out then back then out, if he's still here its fine, once fellaini is back we should have an excellent midfield, the only concern is wether bily turns out to be able to play 90 mins week in week out. he's a skillful player but without stamina he may as well be carlton palmer. anichebe can do well out wide instead of him but he's always injured.
torres wasnt helped last season by rafa playing him when not fit. a lot. but then you see spain did it too so the temptation must be massive, despite the fact that no player ever is any use if they arent fucking fit...

and dont worry brad, normal service will resume when the season starts, which is on thursday for them.