madras

yet he was there when we were a top 6 side go figure. Your point being? It was despite him, not because of him. He's not good enough to be in a team that achieves and maintains that level. you're a WUM,getting some good bites on this mind aren't you.

Is that the same AZ Alkmaar we beat 4-2 last inght and outplayed them virtually the whole game. well you got the score right.

yet he was there when we were a top 6 side go figure.

a different view.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxqkoexPfg

AZ were the worst team defensivly I've seen in the past 10yrs at SJP. would have prefered 2-0 to 4-2,but we can score over there. they reminded me of liverpool with macmaneman....."we can keep the ball for hours without creating much and when you have it you can create a chance a minute"

it diddlydiddly is

how to get the buzz back...i think it is with us,the fans. there was more of a buzz under previous regimes,but since souness there has been nothing but cynicism to the point of spite. in the past all of the "bigger" clubs have gone through shite times,the fans have still backed them at the turnstiles and vocally,we have dropped off vocally. being honest when i say "bigger clubs" i mean man utd and liverpool (arsenal at the time without wenger ? chelsea without abramovic)

your spelling is crap,you spelled "terry" with an "f" an "e"..............................sure you get my drift.

have you lot not worked out northern monkey yet ? he's made me chomp at the bait too many times on this subject,then i realised what he was doing.

So you thought Zog was better than Parker?? Whilst i dont always agree with my fellow Gallowgate ender NSG, today i agree that Parker was fecking tripe. As per. Blimey! Agreed. I think Parker is probably the biggest single problem in the team. He's absolutely gash, whenever he plays there is just no creativity at all. It's been obvious for ages he can't combine well with Emre, a creative player. People are now also seeing he can't combine well with Butt, a defensive player. Who the hell can Parker combine well with? People are now suggesting Dyer. What I can't get my head around is why on earth are people intent on suggesting option after option to combine with Parker? Just get shot of the usesless t***. would you agree that parker started very, very well at SJP but has fallen away from the standard he set himself? remember his first season when he was played in a PURELY defensive midfield role and he was immense - a large, large part of keeping us up that season and pushing us up to 7th....he played like hargreaves when he's at his best...kept it simple, sat deep, chopped people up, ran himself into the ground (everton game!!), won tackles, moved the ball to someone else and didn't worry about getting forward or being creative now something has changed - be it from his side or the coaching side telling him to do something different, but it's changed suppose the argument is can we get him back to doing what i consider him to be good at? or more to the point, do we want to? No. I wouldn't agree. What he was doing was putting in 100% graft, throwing himself around and spilling blood for the cause. All very commendable stuff but it doesn't make him a good enough footballer. His reading of the game, anticipation and distribution of the ball are all poor and these are his major failings. He had one good season at Charlton and that's it as far as I'm concerned. However, as I don't watch Charlton a lot and certainly go to their matches so it's entirely possible that for that one season I was taken in by the media hype that ended with Chelsea spending millions on him before shifting him on to us. I don't agree about hsi reading of the game, i think thats nottoo bad, but the rest is spot on. He TRIES, but he isn't up to the standard people expect of him because of a couple of good seasons at Charlton. Its endemic with our fans, though.... Parker is a great player, just not being played right, because of peoples memories and his twistign and turning. Babayro can do a job for us, because we have no-one else. Bramble has potential and can become a great player, because he's strong. Emre is a brilliant midfielder, because he plays alongside dross. Dyer can play a big part on the wing/up front, because he's fast. Ameobi is a premiership striker, because he is tall. Luque is world class because he looked good in a few games on telly in Spain. All the kinds of things that get spouted, and all ignoring fundamental, fatal flaws in the players themselves. that sort of thinking could be ascribed to many other teams,some man u fans i know are as critical towards gary neville,darran fletcher,saha doesn't score enough,get shot of rooney while he still has value,carrick never dominatesa a game,ferdinand is good on the ball but an average defender. there is the critical and the ultra critical,those who regularly claim a player is "shit" because he isn't world class..let's face it with an injury ravaged season we're 11th,how much better we'd be with a fit squad is open to debate. while it is understandable to want the best in evry position,it isn't understandable to get so boiled when it doesn't happen.

i often think a money man is the best person to run a business.

chris basham came on as a sub for them,i know his dad,was a decent keeper in his day for hebburn. i'm sure chris was attached to newcastle for some time aswell.

i'm going...direct debit,we all said after last season we'd stop the debit none of us did....weak willed!

and yet nicky butt has been our best central midfielder this season but last year........

tim "i cna pull and kick and punch and bitch slap everyone else but as soon as anyone looks at me i'm gonna squeal like a twat" cahill

gary speed

Most managers would have recovered the mess Souness made, because all that needed to be done was playing players in their real positions and playing a basic 4-4-2. aye whatever,real positions like keegan playing howey up front and keeping venison at right back and rob lee wide right ??

Completely agree. Gormless Glen is way ,way ,way out of his depth. Today we kept hoisting high balls up to 2 midgets and when Sibs came on we mainly played through the middle. Roeder does not know his a**e from a hole in the ground. I have gone many times as to his lack of strengths and he has now added being utterly boring to his list of inabilities. unfotunatly thats not just poor tactics but the players not having a clue either.

wrong...the answer is shearer. regardless of wether you want him or not.

Never though I would but I agree with Douga. to be fair fabregas has the luxury of the option of passing to someone who has made a move into space.

calm down,he's a kinnock,done very well at a necessary job bu t who should be next

as a lad near us said "a mid season friendly",dull,boring,insipid. scott parker invisible,at no point did either wide man attempt to put a ball in behind their back four,dyer scared the shit out of pogatetz yet plays most the game in midfield,scott parker invisible,first clean sheet in 8 years. oh and scott parker was invisible.

lots and lots of them

£100 anderlecht and gent with blue square...£75 profit if it comes in.

has he ever scored a header? i want nik dabizas as the half time hero to stamp on viduka in the style of the nasty spiteful cowardly vicious stamp that viduka carried out on dabizas in our 4-3 win at leeds.