madras

after he came on wasn't bramble probably our best palyer that night ? not that it wasn't right to let him go but maybe he took more stick than was deserved

shearers shadow lurks over the club because the press tells you it does....in no other way does it.

wrong teams forum to whinge about injuries after our last couple of seasons...even now allardyce's bolton had the fewest games missed through injury...can anyone think of someone who hasn't been out injured this season for us ?

We didn't seem to get motivated at all against the most succesful team this country has ever produced. and it was a milners flukey cross that went in to rescue us

happy new year macca 888 from the southern hemisphere......if thats the truculent oldish git from nufc.nu about 5 years ago. if not then...go on you can have that happy new year nayway

It may not matter but they're the reasons I don't want him to bottle it. Fair enough. Personally I can't see why he would want to bottle it at this point tbh. He has a large ego, we know that. And the current pressure is f*** all in reality. The current pressure which basically boils down to massive over expectations from idiotic fans. I know a fella on another message board who has told me he wont back any manager and consider him a success if he doesnt deliever silverware in his first season. Thats the type of w****** and wanking expectations that put the club in this mess. Complete bollocks, nobody is that stupid, show me the post please... Either way people do not feel that way and people do not expect big things, so please stop with the s***. All people want is a manager with some sense and a pair of balls. All they want is to not start and end every single match with a sense of complete and utter hopelessness at the absoluter horror show that is a team managed by Sam Allardyce. bet theres a woman or two that would do it and they wouldn't need the balls. what i mean is it doesn't take balls for allardyce to look and see whats happening....maybe he's let it go too long and to change now would be to be seen to give in to pressure,which would help no-one.

It may not matter but they're the reasons I don't want him to bottle it. Fair enough. Personally I can't see why he would want to bottle it at this point tbh. He has a large ego, we know that. And the current pressure is f*** all in reality. The current pressure which basically boils down to massive over expectations from idiotic fans. I know a fella on another message board who has told me he wont back any manager and consider him a success if he doesnt deliever silverware in his first season. Thats the type of w****** and wanking expectations that put the club in this mess. massive over expectations.....read....some improvement (or some hope of) that "fella" is a stupid t*** mind.t

thats one way of looking at it,another is "is the team playing (or has the team at any point under his management played)any better than it was 12 or 24 month ago ?"

you will get time if it looks like you are improving things,when it looks like terminal decline you're out.

my feeling that allardyce is on trial has not changed and he is only there as summer will be a better time to get a new manager.

The thing with Taarabt is that he's done the business on the little opportunities he's been given. Will not be shocked if he starts either against Villa or the fa cup game on saturday. d'you remember the name shaun murray ? at one time the mosrt sought after school boy footy baller in britain who spuds signed aged 15 (be about 1986-7ish)

Shame we didn't get Anelka and Boa Morte tbh, could of got both for what we paid for Owen. Souness wanted both, or so the story goes. even more intriguing

Shame we didn't get Anelka and Boa Morte tbh, could of got both for what we paid for Owen. thats "hindsight" for those folks looking in

for truth that happened in roy of the rovers,created a riot and was always a plausable scenario...life imitates comic

Where he f***** up was replacing him with Luque. He replaced Bellamy with Owen tbf. so he didn''t replace shearer ? (knowing shearer needed replacing)

Where he f***** up was replacing him with Luque. thats right,any other decent forward and we'd have been ok

Hope not - we'll all be dead by 2011 (or two years earlier if I'm in charge) shit..that's all we need,another doomsdayite fundamentalist. shit language that puts "fun" in "fundamentalism" (almost gets off with it by putting "mentalism" in there)

Pavarotti dies and goes up to heaven. When he gets there, the first person he bumps into is Princess Diana. He goes over to her, and says "Hi, Di, you're looking like a healthy spirit....oh, and jesus that's a hell of a big halo you have! I hope I've led a good enough life to have a halo as big as yours!" Then, there's an awkward pause. Diana looks f****** fuming with Pavarotti. Finally, she opens her mouth, and says, "f*** off you fat f****** piece of s***, it's not a f****** halo, its a steering wheel". Will that do you? Off-topic, but.... old old old....it was originally about the queen mother dying and meeting the postponer of the liverpool game

souness was right to kick out bellamy

Yes, that's a good spot. ssshhhhhh ! we should have maybe pm'd these thoughts in light of whom we are talking about

to be fair yesterday was his worst defensivly and he doesnt normally get caught out that much but he is no defender Not to that extent, but he's had some bad lapses in a number of matches this season. aye i think his defensive lapses could be worked on enough as a midfielder but he hasn't enough defensive nouse about him to make a (dare i say iy) "proper" defender

barton

to be fair yesterday was his worst defensivly and he doesnt normally get caught out that much but he is no defender

That is precisely the reason why Sam has decided to use him as a left back. Just because he does well attacking from defence does not mean that he'd be even more effective if pushed further forward. Zoggy's assets are his pace, his acceleration and his change of direction. If given time and space, he can use those assets. Unfortunately his touch on the ball is not great, and if he receives the ball under pressure in a tight area, as wingers usually have to do, he more often than not loses it. This becomes even more obvious on the occasions when he gets shifted into the centre, when he looks completely lost and unable to retain or use the ball constructively. are we forgetting that he's not very good defensivly (even in midfield his defensive capabilities are poor...i hope they come with experience) which is a bit of a bugger for a player playing in a defensive position. now i like an attacking full back, brought up watching alan kennedy and irving nattrass me was,but they could defend aswell and the attacking bit was a bonus.

against nurses though yeah, nurses that happen to play for Jarra Roofing they "happen" to play for jarra roofing...not just "play" for jarra roofing. trying to convince me with your tricky word play eh ? well i'm having none of it. it's well known the nurses play rugby