The College Dropout

So long as you're not rating an equal finish, as some kind of better achievement than Harry I have no problem. I hate double standards. There's people who have said AVB's been fantastic, yet didn't give Redknapp his due when they where up there last season.

Was it f***ing fantastic for Harry? Who did it twice in 3 years. IMO the first time yes. The second good. Overall he done a great job. If AVB does 4th, it's a good job, target reached. 3rd? Great.

4th would still be a good achievement fro AVB. Like it was for 'Arry.

Dembele's been great. Sell Modric for 30 and getting Dembele for 10 was great business. They got Caulker and Naughton back from loan ready to push on. Signed a world class keeper. Dempsey, the Scouse german lad & Sigurdsson to boot. Vertoghnen has the potential to be immense imo. Stronger squad this year than last. They basically added 3 first team defenders to the fold. A truck load of central and attacking midfielders. Last year, they struggled for options when players form went. This year they have great cover in defence particularly.

Has Williamson cost us as many goals as Colo this season (in your opinion)? Probably. Williamson's problems run deep so it's a futile comparison. As a partnership there's been times where once could've bailed out the other and failed to do so. Stoke away the obvious one. Colo has the power to WIN us points. I'm certain had he not got injured at S'land we would have won. That's the potential of Colo. With Williamson it's more of a story of not dropping points.

I've already said Colo's far better than Williamson. But he hasn't been Colocinni good. In fact, he's been below standard all season for him. That's called under-performing.

Wait, haven't you been telling us the last couple of days that he's been s**** this season? No! CD has merely pointed out that he's been sh*t in the air, sh*t decision making, sh*t positionally, doesn't want to be here, shadow of his former self, had his head turned, lack of heart. Apart from those minor flaws for a CB he's alright. First name on the team sheet for CD ! Well he's better than Williamson and was vital for Saylor's revival. For the last couple of season's has been among the best in the league. This year he's been poor. If he's poor he shouldn't be playing. It's not that simple. Until Mbiwa came along we definitely did not have the quality in reserve. If you have a Rolls-Royce that is not performing to its level do you pack it in for a Focus? No, you work to improve the Rolls current performance. That's the last resort. He's in bad form, let's recognise that and help him improve. Not ignore it. I wouldn't drop Cisse for Shola unless we where desperate and I think Cisse has been terrible. Shola just doesn't have the quality. Although Pardew was right to start Shola against Metalist.

Wait, haven't you been telling us the last couple of days that he's been s**** this season? No! CD has merely pointed out that he's been sh*t in the air, sh*t decision making, sh*t positionally, doesn't want to be here, shadow of his former self, had his head turned, lack of heart. Apart from those minor flaws for a CB he's alright. First name on the team sheet for CD ! Well he's better than Williamson and was vital for Saylor's revival. For the last couple of season's has been among the best in the league. This year he's been poor.

Wait, haven't you been telling us the last couple of days that he's been s**** this season? He needs to do better. I'm not a knee-jerk fan. Colo has tremendous talent but he has to do better. He won't do so from the sidelines. Haven't seen enough of the new lad to want Colo dropped. IMO Krul Colo Cabaye HBA Cisse (formerly Ba) If they play well, we win a lot of football matches.

Williamson's problems are more than a lack of pace.

The season's not over. If they finished 3rd, then aye they improved. At the moment, they're in the same spot as last year at this time. I think the England stuff and the court case stuff had an effect too tbh, as well as Redknapp running out of ideas. My point is, the best people say about Redknapp is that he's "decent" here, "alright" there when he did a FANTASTIC job at Spurs. Almost Sir Bobby-esque turnaround. Won at the San Siro iirc. But the team does the same thing more or less and AVB's the man? Don't buy it. FWIW, I think Spurs may win a trophy due to AVB rotating the squad more. Agree on the last point. Levy didn't like Harry's style in the transfer market and AVB will definitely be better in that regard because he prefers youngsters.

Williamson's a machine. Rarely injured. Remember he was out for something like 3 months, came straight into the team as well. Really hope he doesn't have to play.

Damn. He and Krul are so crucial to our success. Step up, Yanga-Mbiwa.

Ridiculous? Name 10 PL players who have fallen off worse compared to last season? Or the season before? Name just 5.

Changed your mind then? But beinf supportive of your players works for the club 9 out of 10 times. So why do you do nothing but criticise and put down our players all the time? I don't. I've loved Cabaye since his return. Siss, Gouff in particular. I always give Simpson credit when it's due, often the only person doing so. Gave Debuchy massive plaudits after S'hampton etc. I've never said anything negative about HBA, he's just over-rated in some sectors. I even defend Pardew when it's due. I don't make scapegoats out of our lesser players. They're reliant on our better performers. But i'll call out fan favourites who deserve it. The biggest under performers of our side have been Colo and Cisse. They've had the biggest drop in form of all our players. People act like it's all Willo's fault or Saylors, greedy-Demba, Pardew etc. rarely look at the player's themselves letting US down.

Changed your mind then? How genuinely pathetic. Liverpool fans have their strengths and weaknesses. They support their team to the hill which is great. The RAWK admin took it too far with the censorship and it was pathetic. The way they handled the Suarez racism thing was too far and also pathetic. Everyone realised that was a horrendous mistake. But beinf supportive of your players works for the club 9 out of 10 times. We as NUFC are too impatient. We happily sold Milner and Parker when they had plenty to offer.

Not a big fan of his. His write ups are OK, but rarely covers both aspects, only ever seems to write what fits in with his opinion (basically no critical analysis). The Coloccini bit is interesting. Mentions the faults, but does he at any point mention the good things? Kompany won't be in the team of the year either, but doesn't mention that. Used to enjoy reading Zonal Marking, but I think it's somewhat weak now. No. The article is about under-performers. I agree Kompany could also be on this list too but I don't care about him. Nasri, Sagna, Jelavic, torres (bad choice), Jarvis, Adams, Borini, Bosingwa made the rest of the list.

Spurs of this year have played no better than the Spurs of last year, pre-slump. At their best they had a very good Bale/Lennon wide, Modric spraying passes to them. Adebayor linking it upfront and VDV causing havoc in the whole. They did this for 9-10 games in a row. This side, as a whole, hasn't hit those heights consistently but are 3rd. scary really. Harry put togetehr an excellent counter-attacking team at Pompey.

I#m actually delivering my points with facts. RAWK-tastic on here in recent times

An article written by Simon Cox/Zonal Marking

Well he's the worst in the league in his position at them so... aye he's piss poor in the year. Why was he 5 yards behind Taylor for that goal anyway?

Fucking Cristaldo.

Wish he was just on the bench at S'hampton at the very least.

A couple of months ago, statistics website WhoScored.com revealed that Coloccini had the worst aerial success rate for any Premier League centre-back this season – a surprising revelation. The personal problems that prompted Newcastle’s captain to request a transfer shouldn’t be ignored, of course, but they seem to be affecting his performance on the pitch. As well as the aerial weakness, his positional play has been poor – witness his odd positioning for Bale’s second goal in Newcastle’s 2-1 defeat at Tottenham earlier this month. Coloccini was alongside Vincent Kompany in last year’s PFA Team of the Year – he won’t be elected for a second consecutive season. Good summation of him this season as a whole.

Simpson is decent. Debuchy is good. I'm happy. Could play in the higher echelons of the league year-in year-out.