James

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Bastid, you kicked me out of the top 5 for the first time.

Who is Have a Miss Piggy? - you're up against me (Jimbo's XI) It's a bit of a tricky draw for both of us in my opinion.

HTT aka Knightrider aka Howaythetoon aka Grassroots is the joint-owner of Newcastle-Online.

Actually, if you read all my posts, in this thread, I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at BOTH of you.

Look at me, my names HTT, no fucker reads my posts because they're so fucking long. I like to think that my posts are GREAT, and think everyones bumfucks me for writing something meaningful, but I ignore the fact that I'm really being bumfucked because I have the power. I'm a little bit like Alan Oliver and like to force my own ideas onto others. That is why I bummed Ottmar Hitzfeld so much and campaigned on the main site. Anyone who didn't want him was a fucking idiot. I also want to force my preconceived "perfect" forum ideas onto everybody now. 85% disagree but FUCK THEM, I'M NEVER WRONG AS BEING BUMFUCKED FOR MY UBERPOSTS SO MUCH HAS INFLATED MY EGO!

Look at me, my names Gemmill, no fucker reads my posts because they're so filled with sarcasm and implications of others being tools. I like to think that my posts are GREAT, and think everyone from Toontastic bumfucks me for writing something meaningful, but I ignore the fact that I'm really being bumfucked because I have alex. I'm a little bit like a ginger Stalin and like to force my own ideas onto others. That is why I hate Martins so much and campaigned on Toontastic. Anyone who wants him was a fucking idiot. I also want to force my preconceived "perfect" forum ideas onto everybody now. 15% disagree but FUCK THEM, I'M NEVER WRONG AS BEING BUMFUCKED FOR MY PUT-DOWNS SO MUCH HAS INFLATED MY EGO!

still at it. In a minute, Gemmill as going to tell HTT to 'have a word'

see, you are both doing it.

Classic HTT and Gemmill argument actually. HTT: Long essay on something disagrees with Gemmill: Mini-essay telling HTT that he knows nothing. HTT: Medium essay telling Gemmill that he is wrong, while at the same time reiterating the same points. Gemmill: Nit-picks at bits and pieces HTT has written, calling HTT stupid to write such nonsense. HTT: Tells Gemmill to respect others opinions and not be cuntish when he's wrong and knows it. Gemmill: Responds with a one word comment such as "clueless" HTT: Replies with one word comment such as "narked" - suggesting the fact that the above comment means that Gemmill has lost and HTT was right all along Gemmill: Then claims that it is in fact the above comment from HTT which is an admission of defeat Cue posts and posts of I'm right, no I'm right, no I'm right, and then alex turning up to tell HTT that Gemmill is right.

No matter how deep the defence sits, that doesn't absolve the forward from responsibility of moving off the ball and creating space. I'm not talking about him running in behind their defenders, I'm talking about lateral movement when others have the ball for instance - giving the defenders something to think about as in "shit, do I track the fast bloke or the bloke with the ball". Instead he remained fairly static as if he was on the starting blocks waiting for the killer through ball, and made the defenders' jobs fairly easy in the process. No good only coming to life when you have the ball. Which brings us onto the topic of him with the ball. He is supposed to be lightning fast, yet when he gets the ball and the defenders drop off him to give themselves a chance to handle him if he tears off, he doesn't bother committing them by running at them. He should be steaming at them, hoping to either get past them or at worst draw a foul. He doesn't though. My whole argument is that he's supposed to have this incredible pace, but until he starts to use it to his advantage, he may as well be as slow as fuck. Pace is nothing if you don't use it effectively. It's for him and Roeder to work out between the two of them. His pace should be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams, and not something that just allows him to win the race for a misplaced pass. He did the lateral movement thing though... Once or twice. Not often enough. We've been lacking movement up front for an age, so we bought a pacey bloke to put it right. We still lack movement up front. Ask any of our midfielders when they're looking for an option, they'll tell you. The thing about movement up front is that you need two players to move. Martins did the movements expected from a second striker, and for the first twenty minutes, Shola was moving around well as the striker up top and was complemented perfectly by Martins I thought. Shola comes off and is replaced by a midfielder cum striker who prefers to play deep when up front. Suddenly Martins is expected to make the runs of a number 9 striker, something he is not suited for. I didn't see Sibierski make any strikers, runs although his general play was ok. Basically, we've bought a second striker for £10m, and with Ameobi and Owen injured, we are left up shit creek without a paddle because Martins is not the player to adopt their role.

No matter how deep the defence sits, that doesn't absolve the forward from responsibility of moving off the ball and creating space. I'm not talking about him running in behind their defenders, I'm talking about lateral movement when others have the ball for instance - giving the defenders something to think about as in "shit, do I track the fast bloke or the bloke with the ball". Instead he remained fairly static as if he was on the starting blocks waiting for the killer through ball, and made the defenders' jobs fairly easy in the process. No good only coming to life when you have the ball. Which brings us onto the topic of him with the ball. He is supposed to be lightning fast, yet when he gets the ball and the defenders drop off him to give themselves a chance to handle him if he tears off, he doesn't bother committing them by running at them. He should be steaming at them, hoping to either get past them or at worst draw a foul. He doesn't though. My whole argument is that he's supposed to have this incredible pace, but until he starts to use it to his advantage, he may as well be as slow as fuck. Pace is nothing if you don't use it effectively. It's for him and Roeder to work out between the two of them. His pace should be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams, and not something that just allows him to win the race for a misplaced pass. He did the lateral movement thing though...

Gemmill, I think you are being unfair on Martins, the Everton defence sat so deeply and played such a disciplined offside trap that it was going to be very difficult for Martins to breach the gap. To be honest, Roeder should have bought on Rossi very early on, as his style was more likely to penetrate Everton's defence that day. In that sense, I think Roeder must burden the responsibility of playing the wrong player in the wrong match, and then for keeping him on the pitch for longer than he should have done.

We dont want our players to be gold, we want them to be footballers because bars of gold aren't good enough to play at this level.

For me, he is a 15 goal a season kind of guy, who can bring more than just goals to the team, but create goals, and create space for us to operate. We'll need to get another player matching his goal tally I think if we want to succeed, some are expecting him to score too many goals, and I hope he isn't criticised when he doesn't do so. He is not a No. 9, out-and-out-striker, but that type of player is very rare these days, I actually think that Andy Johnson is the only player of this type that exists in the Premiership right now.

I think the most important thing is that because we are arguing as to what his best foot is and whether he could have hit a shot he missed with his right or left after just four games, he must be quite good.

To be honest I think the chance he maybe should have scored in the first half would have been more suited to his right foot as that would have curled it towards goal whereas unless he hit it with the outside of his left and done a ood job of it he would have missed which ultimately he did. But i still agree he is two footed I disagree, due to his slightly sluggish first touch, the ball arrived at his left foot, he had to choose between shooting on his left, or moving it onto his right and risk being closed down. Therefore shooting with his left was the best choice, only he spooned it.

With the two footed argument, people are saying he only shot with his left yesterday - well thats because his left foot was the most sensible to use in the positions he was in. People seem to forget the perfectly weighted right footed pass while running at pace to Duff which set up our first goal, or the decent right footed effort from 20-yards that only just skyed the bar against Levadia Talinn.

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He is, but he is not going to be what many fans are hoping for/expecting, and therefore many will be dissappointed.

You have again missed the point - the fact that we could have four or five defenders (All of them, not one of them) for less than the £5m Aston Villa were prepared to pay for Milner. 1) eeerrrr......and please tell me how much quality you think we could get for 5m quid ? 2)Would you then complain about short term buys ? 3)Would you then complain about not addressing the lack of forwards ? 4) I have read many of your posts mate, you are also one of those who think the club can afford to buy half a team every summer, with a shit board of course ........ I have numbered your points in the quoted post, and here are my resultant responses: 1) £5m could have bought us all of Trabelsi, Woodgate, Campbell, Sorin, Scaloni, Ooijer, Quinton Fortune, Meite and Henchoz. Obviously, we wouldn't go for all of these players, but all would improve the squad and the first team considerably. 2) I have never complained about short term buys - there is nothing wrong with them if plans are underway to resolve positional issues in the long term. 3) I feel that due to our lack of funds and transfer activity, it was impossible for the board to provide funds for the other decent striker Roeder wanted. It is a consequence of Souness wasting money last summer. I have no gripes at the current regime failing to get this other striker. 4) I dont ever remember saying that we can afford half a team every season. Can you provide any evidence of this?

I'm not so sure - we would be dissapointed at first, but if we had instead invested well in the defence by the close of the transfer window, we would have probably regarded Duff as a luxury we couldn't afford and wouldn't really need.

You have again missed the point - the fact that we could have four or five defenders (All of them, not one of them) for less than the £5m Aston Villa were prepared to pay for Milner.

Martins looks a good player, but I think we have signed yet another 'second striker' and are as usual expecting to play them up top. I can't see him reaching the goalscoring expectations many will have of him. Wont stop him being good for us, but we needed to bring him in to complement a number 9 striker.

In my opinion, we should have gone for Andy Cole if we were desperate. The only silver lining I can see is that he offers us some height and physique. Perhaps he could do what Pedersen does at Bolton? Anyone know the fee/wages?