madras

10 years ago weekend gone we beat barnsley in the 6th round on our run to the cup final. barnsley had knocked out man utd in the previous round. moral of the story....get your money on barnsley should they draw a big name in 2018's fa cup.

he was a beast in that one.. one of the best defensive performances i've ever witnessed and also one of the dirtiest performance by his oppo in that game,concecao (sp?)

wow spooky, i went but was iffy till the last minute due to my wifes pregnancy (just had a threatened miscarriage). bernards performance,horrid gamesmanship,cowardly italian fans and police. oh and thanks fat fred for being there,acknowladging the flare thrown into the NUFC fans but refusing to bring it up officially.

even if he says the right things you'd say "all talk,just words, he needs to do it on the pitch" quite bitter about him aren't you ?

He was probably asked "Do you fear England ommission?" And he probably rightly replied "yes" Should have had the balls to say "No comment!" twaddle

slugsy & skirge. the point of the reserves is to give the players a step up. the list of players who look good at that level but fail the step up is endless (especially at NUFC). the good manager will see through this and promote those who can cut it. first team football in the championship is a better guide than reserve team football and by all accounts (I only saw one preston game) carroll couldn't cut it there. maybe his time has come,maybe he needs more time,maybe he'll not cut it regardless. i'm pretty sure the people who watch him day in and out have a better idea.

the good of the club ? Avoiding relegation ? Hoping they will match the best positions of the old board, as a minimum ? Take your pick How will blindly sticking up for the old board's shortcomings achieve those things? Can't wait until we qualify for the Champions League again, just like the good old days. Remember them, instead of buying average johnny foreigners and looking at the balance sheet and declaring such acquisitions to be "good business" Do you think that the old board, if still in charge would of matched the CL qualifications that they'd previously achieved? Im struggling to debate with you becasue every question i ask you fail to answer. Its like nailing diarreah to a wall. Do you fancy humouring me. In fact if you fancy exaplining to me why Keegan said there was money to spend yet we didntbuy and who's fault that is, feel free to as well. It hard for me to see what the board has done that directly relates to the situation we are in now, we had a better squad then at least 50% of the teams in the prem. SA recieved a decent amount of cash and it was in his hands to prove that he was capable of spending more of Ashleys money, but he failed. I've humoured you enough, and I'm trying not to draw comparisons to be honest. All I see is a s*** chairman who has put prudency before the quality of footballer [which you supported] so those who advocated this approach, despite us having one of the biggest fanbases in the country, have nothing to complain about, while you still whittle on about clubs with vastly different circumstances to ours when asked about how much debt we should carry ? you mean clubs with smaller fanbases than us ? Nice to see you ignore the FACT that this club was nearer to administration than it ever was in 1992, when the Halls and Shepherd saved it. Why do I have to keep telling you this, can't you read ? smaller fanbases yes and completely different situations (blackburn=jack wlaker trust....boro=steve gibson...nufc= errr who put their hand in their pocket ?) yes the club were closer to administration.for which i'm thankful to them for saving us. does that mean i can't say it's time to go when we go backwards on and off the pitch for 3 years ? If there is no major rebuilding done in the summer you'll have a point,you'll be vindicated....however you'll look a mug if the manager is backed well.

the good of the club ? Avoiding relegation ? Hoping they will match the best positions of the old board, as a minimum ? Take your pick How will blindly sticking up for the old board's shortcomings achieve those things? Can't wait until we qualify for the Champions League again, just like the good old days. Remember them, instead of buying average johnny foreigners and looking at the balance sheet and declaring such acquisitions to be "good business" Do you think that the old board, if still in charge would of matched the CL qualifications that they'd previously achieved? Im struggling to debate with you becasue every question i ask you fail to answer. Its like nailing diarreah to a wall. Do you fancy humouring me. In fact if you fancy exaplining to me why Keegan said there was money to spend yet we didntbuy and who's fault that is, feel free to as well. It hard for me to see what the board has done that directly relates to the situation we are in now, we had a better squad then at least 50% of the teams in the prem. SA recieved a decent amount of cash and it was in his hands to prove that he was capable of spending more of Ashleys money, but he failed. I've humoured you enough, and I'm trying not to draw comparisons to be honest. All I see is a s*** chairman who has put prudency before the quality of footballer [which you supported] so those who advocated this approach, despite us having one of the biggest fanbases in the country, have nothing to complain about, while you still whittle on about clubs with vastly different circumstances to ours when asked about how much debt we should carry ?

has Mort popped his cherry. Who gives a s*** what the chairman does when you are playing in an FA Cup Final. Did you give your ticket up and stand by your principles ? I bet you didn't. me....cup finals are nice but prove fuck all.

the good of the club ? Avoiding relegation ? Hoping they will match the best positions of the old board, as a minimum ? Take your pick How will blindly sticking up for the old board's shortcomings achieve those things? Can't wait until we qualify for the Champions League again, just like the good old days. Remember them, instead of buying average johnny foreigners and looking at the balance sheet and declaring such acquisitions to be "good business" not a foreigner but lee bowyer fits the bill well (charvet,dumas,andersson,bassedas,ketsbaia,georgardis all fit the bill aswell)

in a way i'd like cardiff to win it. there'd be a certain irony in it for us.

wonder if yorkie will be kind enough to fill us in on the remaining games ?

i can see us getting the next 6 points.

derby,fulham and sunderland sunderland based on their remaining fixtures.

so you think we'd have beat bolton because they wouldn't have been so defensive......logic says bolton would have won under those circumstances.

is this a whoosh ?

don't the team that win the league only win it because all the other teams are worse ?

Calf, aparently he's very concerned about turkish incursions into northern iraq and the turkish governments recent repealing of secular mandates.

nigel walker

for centre halves i'm going to mainly go on the defensive issues. had the game been at home i may well have gone cacapa

. harper geremi beye taylor enrique milner faye n'zogbia duff owen martins

hopeful. opposite of wullie in that i think the brum game could be massive for us, a game where we could get a point or 3 then on to fulham at home in a lot more positive mood.

Can you honestly say you've seen enough of Zamblera, Tozer, Kadar etc to justify this "team" of yours. And the fact you've got Tozer and Kadar's positions wrong says it all tbh. Tozer is a CB and Kadar is a LB, in fairness to him. Martins as a right midfielder, however... I thought Kadar was a CB and Tozer LB? far too early in their careers to say either is a full back or centre half. defensive players fair enough but to pigeon hole kids that early can prove detrimental to the player.

i thought it was all the same thing...ie players who are very effective without having ball skill in abundance. those that have both often are the best.

You don't think it means anything? fundamentally yeah, football moves too fast for intelligence to be a factor if you ask me - there's simply a level of natural reaction to a situation, an ability to see what's around you faster than the opposition or your peers that is not intelligence, it's instinct Rubbish, tbh. aye? rush and lineker, two of the best goalscorers in the 1980's were considered poachers, instinctive goalscorers, not intelligent players...were they or were they not? zindane was considered an intelligent player, when i watched him i always thought of how much he improvised in situations rather than planned, so to speak...that's instinct not intelligence lets call it "nouse" then eh ?