Dave

Calm down t´Dave. 'The Dave'? That doesn't even make sense. :wullie: :wink:

According to http://www.javierzanetti.net/forums/showthread.php?t=128&page=17 he took a penalty with his right foot for Nigeria, seems strange. This game: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/4679218.stm

Is Martins left-footed?

There are a few people who are in line for it, believe me. Repeat offenders. :wink:

What part of 'links to highlights/goals/full games are not allowed' doesn't seem to sink in?

Longest link in the world?

I'm not against Duff's signing on the face of it, but considering that it was a third of what we ended up spending (on two players) his fee really should have gone on the defence IMO.

Duff was a luxury we didn't necessarily need. We've desperately needed competent defenders for a good while.

Certainly agree there. For whatever reason it's not worked out - we should have got the best we could and moved on.

I disagree. People were pleasantly surprised by his arrival, especially for £5m, but I think many people can still see the gaping holes that have existed in our backline for years; if we'd spent £5m addressing that I think most would be much more satisfied right about now. If Martins is a success, then he and Duff will do for me. The main thing is getting your signings right. Building a team takes time, it also therefore means we can address the defence next time. Heard that for years now, most specifically when Shepherd said we'd be pleased with the replacement for Woodgate...

By the way, Roeder went on to sign Rossi on loan for four months, to me that clearly states that he doesn't see Duff as a forward.

I disagree. People were pleasantly surprised by his arrival, especially for £5m, but I think many people can still see the gaping holes that have existed in our backline for years; if we'd spent £5m addressing that I think most would be much more satisfied right about now.

In my opinion, yes. Why do you think we don't ? We needed forward players, seriously badly. The deal was too good to turn down. If we hadn't signed him, in my opinion the same people who do nowt other than whinge on and criticise the club whatever they do, would be whinging on that we didn't. ..... and I didn't see many people at the time criticising it .... very odd don't you think. U-turn syndrome ? Or unable to stay true to your convictions ? A shit-load of people questioned it when we already had N'Zogbia, including me. It turned out to be a third of our budget on a player we didn't need, and yet again nothing at all went on our woeful defence. He's a great player, but that's irrelevent - it would be like spending £5m on Buffon. Great deal, but pretty pointless when other areas need more work.

Did we need Damian Duff?

One decent defender would be nice.

Also, Utter nonsense - Zoggy had a reet shocker IMO.

Aye, his cage is better left unrattled.

Nice one, I knew you'd bite eventually.

Time will tell. The juveniles were appeased by the club spending more money last summer than this summer, but it didn't work then, did it? Although some still claim that transfer dealings such as signing Luque were good. bluebiggrin.gif Could one not use the same argument you use for defending Shepherd's method of identifying and employing managers to defend the signing of those players? Many people (only juveniles though, not wise old owls) thought the transfers would work out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5305034.stm Everyone knows it.

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Thought you might.

Last year the squad was too thin, and we weren't in Europe. We've lost numbers and we are in Europe. Should be fun.

Apologies, that does seem pretty offensive of me.