The College Dropout

I agree with the person that is worried that we are not keeping Bramble and Gooch but are keeping Ramage. All 3 are not good/consistant enough but the worst of the will be here next season. If Bramble was on Ramage wages I'd keep him and sell Peter. I don't trust Roeder's ability to sell all of our centrebacks (excluding Taylor) and replace them with players of the right quality.

Just sounded weird, nothing wrong per se it's just something I have never heard. It's like meeting a chinaman for teh first time at the age of 26.

Yeah Dyer put in a efficent defensive shift but he was poor overall. He hasn't had a decent game since AZ.

The reason why Bramble should'nt get a new contract is not because he lacks talent or is a bad defender, it's that he will always be a liability for Newcastle United. I wonder what he'll be like if someone like Big Sam picks him up.

I knew we'd turn in a decent performance but suprised by the result....Chelsea must have one eye on mid weel....looked shit.

Well he's fairly shit. As are Hunty and Ramage.

Where gunna beat Chelski anyway

Last year all you bastards wouldn't want him here......along with Big Sam look how you've all changed your minds.....stupid bastards.....

Because they have (some) good but unmotivated players.

I fully agree. We took a step forward by selling him then took another back by replacing him with someone of the same abilities any larger wages. difference being jenas can score and assist??? For us, they do the exact same thing for the team. Jenas will get a cheer for going on one of his runs, Parker will get a cheer for a crunching tackle. Jenas will get the ball look around alot and pass it square, Parker does the same added a few nice look pirrouettes. For what its worth Jenas square passes look abit better than Parker's. Both'll get the odd goal and assist. They both even manage to put a good performance in against the top sides.

Bollocks tbh. Roeder was PARTLY to blame for the defeat, but the players were equally to blame with their inability to string 3 passes together or close defend properly. There is so much bollocks being written in this thread that I'm sure Vic has been using a new account. Roeder decided to play Huntington at leftback....Huntington needed stitches in his arse at half-time he was so shit. Inside the first 10 minutes we all saw he was being targeted. Taylor played shit, should've got sent off and played and had a role in the first goal. Those 2 were worse on the night than Titus. Glen's tactics were atrocious.....we all know we can't defend, yet Glen insists on having a defensive mindstate when up against a team equally fragile at the back. And to top it all off, when we need a goal Roeder immediately removes all width. Glen was more to blame than any individual player on the pitch against AZ. BRAMBLE is pretty much Bramble at his worst in every game he plays. He only ever has 2 or 3 games a season where he doesn't make a c*** of himself and us. He's a laughing stock, and he makes us a laughing stock. Bramble needs to go but in all honesty he's put in many terrific performances for us... the above statement is tosh. Glen is a laughing stock, atleast Souness would stick to his guns once he had shot his dick off....Roeder is pathetic.

tbf I think FM says "generally", afterall they are scouting genuis'.

lol whatever! There's literallly dozens of players that end in Escu, give me a break!

I'll keep typing it. Parker=Jenas.......Average.

Dani Filipescu (the Chelsea one, canny little leftback)

Diadora? Fuck off!!!

Paulo Wanchope

That is the key but these players wont move. Ideally Dyer would be at the top of the list even though he's one of our better players but I doubt many teams will want to pay half of his wages let alone match it. We need to go back to the SBR system of buying young players for fairly high fees but modest wages. We've gone from the Jermaine Jenas' of the world to the Scott Parker's for much higher wages but very similar performances. We need a massive clear-out which should include the likes of Emre and Parker...unfortunately we don't have a Harry Redknapp or Big Sam who are capable of being the "clean-up man". Duff, Emre and Parker would make a start, that's probably £130k a week if not more. Could we even sell Carr or Babayaro?

Jenas=Parker

Alex Manninger wtf happened to him eh?

Wrong. There where only 3 Top clubs, Liverpool were not one. Liverpool, Newcastle and Villa all had a decent chance of finishing 4th. The performances where poor compared to the two seasons before but we where very efficient and very strong at home and we had a strong UEFA Cup run. But your right things where getting stale and we should of moved like Liverpool to ensure we got a man in soon after the season was over.

We got him to full fitness after 2 years of constant injuries, then farmed him out and sold him for no profit for him to go on to play the best footie of his life. Pat yourself on the back Fat Fred.

But we where consistant throughout. We didn't go on a really hot 10 or so game run when most teams where winding down.

That's the thing. We were so predictable but we got good results mostly. We'd see off most teams in the league bar a few miss-steps at home and draw alot of away games..we where all doom and gloom when we missed out on 4th by something like 5 points whilst we blew many leads away from home. Bellamy was out for a long period of that and when he came back he was marvellous..the start of the best period of his career imo. Didn't Robert get in double figures that season? These days we are drawing at home and losing away. *Reminisces about when 5th was a dissapointment**

was that when Freddy gave his Rolls Royce speech?