Leazes1986

Huntington more than any of our other youngsters needs to be loaned out imo. He could well turn out to be a very good defender but he just strikes me as someone who needs a good kicking in a league or two below. If we can get him toughened up then we might have a very good defender on our hands. I wouldn't be sad to see Bramble, Ramage and Moore all go though. They are liability's. Get a new left back in and hopefully Gooch turns out to be good enough to sign. Don't think he will cost a fortune either. If we can do that plus get another centre back in as well (Woodgate in an ideal world although i very much doubt it will happen) then we won't miss the 3 donkeys thats for sure plus we'd have a left back who is reliable which means we won't need Huntington next season.

I would like to see Carroll at some point but i think we should start with Martins and Dyer. Not many people get past Woodgate, and i don't think Sibierski or Carroll would get any change of him. At least with Martins and Dyer they have pace which is always a danger. Woody has plenty of pace himself of course.

Not until the game after Boro.

I'd go along with that team but only if N'Zogbia is definitely ready to start.

Its Parkers fault that we blew the 12 point lead in 96 tbh.

his £40k bonus for every one of 'his' academy plsyers making first team wouldnt have anything to do with this owuld it...... he seems to prefer playing 'his' academy players rather than those who are not. pattinson ahead of o'brien the obvious example Ramage and Taylor aren't his academy players yet he plays them ahead of Huntington and Edgar. (rightly so in Taylors case). I haven't got a clue about any bonuses Roeder gets for players making the first team, but your argument of him playing Pattison ahead of O'Brien because of any bonuses he might get are wrong because surely it would have only been a one of bonus.

Theres no chance of Owen going anywhere this summer.

Charlton cos the West Ham fans are cunts.

Ah reet. Well i agree then Duff has been the biggest dissapoinment. Most of the time eh has been very ordinary or poor. On form he's a class act. We shouldn't give up on him though. Give him next season. Look at the turnaround Nicky Butt has made. Luque has been awful and won't come good cos he doesn't even put the effort in. Duff may well still come good and its worth giving him more time cos if he does his the form he is capable of he will be one hell of a player for us.

This is gonna turn into a first choice line up thread if we're not careful.

Can't believe some of the stick he gets. He would be one of the first names on the team sheet for me now. He's earned it. IMO anyway.

People are being too harsh on Duff the neet imo. He was one of our more lively players. I think a few people are almost willing him to play bad now. He's been a big disappointment so far, but tonight he wasn't our worst player. I don't know why people are trying to look for negatives here. It wasn't a very good performance by any means but just look at the thread title. We're through and thats what amtters at the end of the day.

If Luque scored a hat-trick tonight it wouldn't prove anything really as far as i'm concerned. He's still done fuck all against anyone decent he's came up against. He's a lazy waster.

Well if Luque doesn't bother his arse then at least we should get to see Carroll for a good half an hour. Would be nice to see Carroll knock a goal in.

Would be the last player i would sell.

What a load of fuckin shit tbh.

Agree with him. Think Roeder has done a very good job with what he has worked with. Tin hat on when all the Roeder critics read it.

He's been brilliant since moving to right back. I'd have no worries in giving him a 2 year contract extension.

It could go either way really. It could make him work his bollocks off or it could inflate his ego making him think he's some sort of wonderkid and set him back in terms of progress. Getting compared to Gazza when he's 16 years old then getting 10 minutes in Europe might have the negative effect on him. If he's got anything about him he will work his bollocks off regardless and we should see a bit of him in the next season or two.

There is absolutely no reason to play a 16 year old lad. We all hope he can be even 25% as good as Gazza or whatever comparisons people want to make of him, but lets not get carried away. As nice as it would be for him to get a run out and impress, i think we should let him develop more. If he is good enough his quality should shine through and he will get a run out next season.

I think Nobby will take them when he's on the pitch most of the time still. Look at it in a positive way. Just scoring a penalty after his miss against Everton might be a big psychological boost for Martins when it comes to taking penaltys, so hopefully Nobby will take them all from now on while he's on the pitch, and if Nobby is injured then Martins can take them with that miss at Everton well out of his head now. Thats trying to be positive anyway.

Well we've obviously got two penalty takers. I couldn't give a fuck as long as they score, and thankfully we have scored all but one penalty this season as far as i can remember.

Spurs fans are deluded. They are possibly as bad as Everton fans for talking shite.

Silverware or not, he is the clubs all time greatest goalscorer, and arguably the clubs greatest ever player. He deserves it. The timing might be wrong like but he deserves it no matter what.

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