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Congratulations to Kevin Keens under -18 squad he defeated Jack Wilsheres young Gooners 2-0 at Rush Green on Saturday Morning to claim the Southern Premier League Title! 51pts from 17 wins , 3 defeats 69 goals for and 29 against seals the regional title.
Some great prospects including Mubama, Orford, Scarles and Marshall, the future (with the right man in charge) is looking very bright indeed.

Couldn't sleep last night so i got up and watched the Ghent game and whilst Moyes is the biggest cause of our turgid dull season the players are just as culpable and need digging out not on yesterdays performance but throughout the season......while i agree some are rightly peed off at the things Moyes does there just seems to be know professional pride in there work they are just ambling around waving there arms about whinging and the result is what we have seen...these are meant to be grown men so fess up and confront the problem but to a man they dont which shows what total lack of leadership there is at our club on and off the pitch...

Last night case in point we started alright for 5/10 mins then just stopped and let the opposition gain a modicum of control but when we upped it the gap in class was clear and the game could of been over if the players could be bothered and they were not.....and Rice just not bothered tracking his man let him go thinking ahh the defender will come out and cover it well they did not a decent exchange and Ghent got the goal they deserved and limited as they were they got on with the tools they have and could but for the bar won the game.

So the Malaise that is running through our side carries on to Sunday and the Gooners oh joy....unbeatable no they are not Everton showed that and Bournemouth but for injury time should of at least drawn but hey we are not capable of any kind of performances other than dire dour lethargic football and if the Gooners have a mind to it could be worse than the barcode debacle.

Moyes has had enough written about him and what he needs to do but the players well its well passed the time to pull there fingers out and prove they are worth supporting because for me Rice Antonio Bowen Pac Soucek and the rest do not deserve any backing after the rubbish they have been playing all season

Tempting fate a little i know but if we stay up i would like to know what as a fan your transfer strategy would be? do you go splurge obscene amounts of money on the exotic overseas players with exciting names or are you more pragmatic and stick to what you know?

I ask this because like any fan of any club you always look and notice when certain "names" get linked with your club and then the mind goes into overdrive.....so as it would seem at our club they like to grab a headline about a transfer than seemingly have any thought or research gone into the player so is it to say look at us we can pay £££££'s for players....Ego for from the owners? looking to appease fans? or just hit n hope as long as they sell shirts?

So like Rice gets linked here there and everywhere the same goes with that guy at Palace Zaha...yes i know as ever he's available on a free so of course we are linked so do Managers think hey he's a freebie so why not but everyone knows a free transfer is never that....do they look at his age his injury record will he fit in will he be a team player etc because all those factors surely have to come in to that and is the player worth thecost/risk.

As an example if and take away your own prejudices about the player if he was available he wants to stay in London would you say take Zaha on a free or say no and bid for the Lad Jack Clarke at Sunderland who is raw but has a lot of potential and will be 23 this year will not demand big wages and will be chomping at the bit to prove himself in the prem.

For me it is a know brainer you steer clear of Zaha and the Walcotts of this world and go looking for up and coming exciting talent.....now not having a dig at Scamacca here because given the chance he will come good but we are going to need a change of manager(may be several threads about that subject)if he is to thrive.

so looking at our strikers...Ings not getting any younger....Antonio not a striker....Cornet not a striker....Scamacca injured out of form and clearly pissed off with the manager what would you do? go exotic overseas or do proper research and look at that proving ground that is the championship?

Ings/Antonio for me should be let go in the summer regardless of the loss we will take on Ings forget the French market and promote from within and again for that to happen the current manager has to go.....but proper research has to be done...

So what would your policy be? West Ham are massive 60thousand crowds so have to throw huge money at the market or more conservative and not go for the easy options?