Northern Monkey

Ashton, Zamora and Bent are all better than anyone we have who can challenge Lil' Mikey and Martins for a first team spot. And Luke Young.

Someone should do something. I dunno. a campaign or something. Once he realises 5 or 6 toon fans from around the world think he will come here, he's BOUND to want to manage us. If the campaigners can make up some shit about hom much he reaspects NUFC or the fans, and how much he wants to manage in the Premiership (preferably at an average-sized club with pnly 3 or 4 top class players), that'd be good too. Cheers.

No, they aren't. They are representing themselves. What league they play in makes f*** all difference. By the same token, would you support Germany in the World Cup if they played Uraguay? Because they are "representing UEFA"? HOW THE FUCK are they not representing the Premiership, so Man Utd win tonight Serie A get the 2 points in the co-efficient system do they? Have a fuckin word. Thats not what they are there for. They are there to advance THEMSELVES, THEIR CLUB, in Europe. Thats all they care about. And thats all they are there to do. You show me where its shown they are there on behalf of you, me, or anyone else outside of their club and fanbase.

Him an dBoumworng together were ace. Nothing was ANYONE'S fault.

No it isnt, it was on Metro Radio before - I'll put up a link if I find one. An on-air raping? That's a bit brave.

He is one of our best defenders because we only have ONE good one, Taylor, and the rest are like him - shite. On form, he is passable, but not our best. And he is only on form against shite, and even thenm its touch and go at times. He NOWHERE NEAR offers us value for money, and should be peddled asap. IMO.

If this is a joke about the exposure he gives to the rest of the back 4 and Given on a regular basis, its not funny.

No, they aren't. They are representing themselves. What league they play in makes fuck all difference. By the same token, would you support Germany in the World Cup if they played Uraguay? Because they are "representing UEFA"?

Right, they are playing in the English Premiership tonight, are they? Fuck off are they. They are playing FOR THEMSELVES, in Europe. Didn't see LFC on an open-top bus ride around Norfolk after Istanbul, did you?

League Record only: [pre] mins GA goals per game Onyewu 2 360 4 1 Bramble 2 1244 15 1.085209003 Moore 2 1123 14 1.121994657 Babayaro 2 945 12 1.142857143 Carr 2 1335 19 1.280898876 Taylor 2 1755 25 1.282051282 Ramage 2 1595 24 1.354231975 *Solano 3 1354 22 1.462333826 Edgar 2 241 4 1.493775934 Huntington 2 901 16 1.598224195[/pre] *Solano wasn't playing as a defender for a lot of the games included in this No shock in seeing these stats for me, but I guess I'm just drawing attention my inherent stupidity there. League Record only: [pre] mins GA goals per game Onyewu 2 360 4 1 Bramble 2 1244 15 1.085209003 Moore 2 1123 14 1.121994657 Babayaro 2 945 12 1.142857143 Carr 2 1335 19 1.280898876 Taylor 2 1755 25 1.282051282 Ramage 2 1595 24 1.354231975 *Solano 3 1354 22 1.462333826 Edgar 2 241 4 1.493775934 Huntington 2 901 16 1.598224195[/pre] *Solano wasn't playing as a defender for a lot of the games included in this No shock in seeing these stats for me, but I guess I'm just drawing attention my inherent stupidity there. Shambles has played in 14 games this season. and we have had 3 clean sheets. Thats about the average clean sheet ratio he manages every season. He's a liability. He's the fucker who costs us many of those clean sheets, what with him being rubbish.

No, they aren't. They are representing their own club, no-one else.

Dunno, never listed to it (mainly cos of "Super"Mac. Gates is a cracking after dinner speaker, though. One of the best on the local circuit, and one of the better ones nationally.

Its against what many people believe in (supporting YOUR club, etc), though, to "suppport" another club. Especially when its clubs like Liverpool, Spurs etc. I'd rather WE had 11+ players and a managercapable of getting us to a European place, rather than rely on other clubs to progress and extend the entrance into European competition towards our level of mediocrity.

Erm, how about because NUFC are 7 or more players away from being good enough to get anywhere near a CL spot? Sevilla ain't that good either when he first time came... it's depend on NUFC management to give him challenge in one of the best league in this world... but i am a bit pessimistic with daft NUFC management could do that.. ;P nahh..... NUFC for take over campaign first tbh. Ahhh... maybe Ramos is just a day dreaming ;P Dreaming is good, but the point remaisn that if he wants CL football, he'd best steer clear of NUFC.

Yup, which ain't what we're after that. We got that when we got Gooch, who we'll no doubt sign on a permanent, presuming his performances continue at an average-to-decent level. We want a partner for Taylor. Bramble out, someone in. Ben Haim on a free is my preferred player anyway, although doubtful. Why go spending £5m on Anton Ferdinand or £7m on Curtis Davies, when we can have someone a lot more experienced and a lot more proven for nowt? Same goes for Distin aswell. Taylor --- Ben Haim Onyewu --- Ramage Would do me for next season tbh. Huntington and Edgar there aswell don't forget. Each of whom are far more worth keeping than Bramble, imo. Bramble is million times better than Ramage... At being a fat liability, yes. He's just as good as Ramage at meing a general liabilty. Ramage is better at looking like, but it being, a Scottish liability. They both havr their strengths, see? But they are both Championship. Ramage's mistakes are far worse than Bramble's...Brambles has actually played great in some occasions...Ramage is NOT a defender, hell no he isn't even a footballer to begin with... Brambel has almost entirely played well against utter s**** (ref our recent UEFA outings) and CRAP against real teams. And if you don't think Ramage has one at least that, then you haven't been watching. NEITHER of them are good enough. I really don't understand why newcastle fans insist on doing the "i hate X so Y must be good enough". Its a load of s****. They are both poor, and neither should be played if we can help it. real teams...like juve and inter? there are many on this board who waste no time in having a go at bramble,but even they would step back from placing ramage in front of him...the old norhtern monkey "hate glasses" again. Wondered how long you'd take. Bramble has never played WELL against the teams you mentioned, but well done for remembering teams we've played against. You think Bramble is good enough for: a) NUFC or b) The Premiership? Well, if you do, you are wrong, but no doubt you have a really good excuse for why he has been an absolute f****** disgrace for years. As for Ramage, he's no better overall, but has fewer problems against bigger clubs (and there are many of them). But NEITHER should be playing for us. My main conclusion is that i'd rather play Ramage in the Prem, as Bramble has let himself down more on a pro-rata basis than our wrong-faced Peter boy. But given a real choice, i'd play neither. They're boith f****** well below us, even the pathetic Roeder mid-table us. Man Utd-last season,back pass to Rooney who lead to a goal Liverpool-last season-At fault for the 1st two goals Chelsea-last season,FA cup-at fault for John Terry's goal This season- Bolton-own goal Ramage is utter shit,his last performances for the club were absolutely shocking and people are still not over him like they are on Titus because he is local and came through our academy Titus is liability too,im not denying that but i think he is better than Ramage and its better for the club to get rid of Ramage rather than Titus imo I said it before.When they are playing poor they are both shit When they are playing well Ramage is still worse than Titus You can tell if someone is good in the real games against the big teams Like madras said Titus has played against the big team under sir Bobby and he played well as far as i remember He has shown that he can play well and has abbility which he can still develop Im not saying that Titus has to be 1st choice,only backup of course but i prefer Titus rather than Peter Damage Bramble will not be developing. The major, serious flaws that are inhis game, adn his lack of actual ability, will see to that. Shambles shoudl never be a first team starter, and is paid too much to be a sub, really. Oh, and in the past 3 years he's been SHOCKING against big clubs.

He's not as bad as Alan "ooh, ooh, i love 'Rafa' and 'Momo' and 'Stevie' and 'Pepe'" Greene, the absolute cock.

He's better than Shola, but by default - so are bloody loads of players in this league.

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Erm, how about because NUFC are 7 or more players away from being good enough to get anywhere near a CL spot?

Well, you're half right. We need defenders.

by far the worst player we've had here in 10 years Wrong. But the worst RB in that time.

05/06 - 30 appearances, 8 goals, 2 assists, 25 offsides, 80 fouls. 06/07 - 9 appearances, 3 goals, 1 assist, 16 fouls. And his performances were poor. He can't trap a ball, and for a big lad, he's shit in the air. And on the ground.

Because by your definition, wanks like Ameobi, Dyer, Shambles, Emre etc, must be right up there on your hit list, to differing degrees. This coming from someone who rates Ramage! I rate him as what he is. A credible enoguh stopgap when required, and better than Bramble and Moore in central defence, or Babayaro at left back. Doesn't make my point change.

The Zog has genuine potential to be world class, i think. Not like Shambles, and Dire, and Shola, who will never be great players, i think this fella could go on to great things. But he needs to be playing with better players than those above, and others around him at NUFC, and for a better manager, or else he will become just as much of a waste of time as any of the above.

So you thought Zog was better than Parker?? Whilst i dont always agree with my fellow Gallowgate ender NSG, today i agree that Parker was fecking tripe. As per. Blimey! Agreed. I think Parker is probably the biggest single problem in the team. He's absolutely gash, whenever he plays there is just no creativity at all. It's been obvious for ages he can't combine well with Emre, a creative player. People are now also seeing he can't combine well with Butt, a defensive player. Who the hell can Parker combine well with? People are now suggesting Dyer. What I can't get my head around is why on earth are people intent on suggesting option after option to combine with Parker? Just get shot of the usesless t***. would you agree that parker started very, very well at SJP but has fallen away from the standard he set himself? remember his first season when he was played in a PURELY defensive midfield role and he was immense - a large, large part of keeping us up that season and pushing us up to 7th....he played like hargreaves when he's at his best...kept it simple, sat deep, chopped people up, ran himself into the ground (everton game!!), won tackles, moved the ball to someone else and didn't worry about getting forward or being creative now something has changed - be it from his side or the coaching side telling him to do something different, but it's changed suppose the argument is can we get him back to doing what i consider him to be good at? or more to the point, do we want to? No. I wouldn't agree. What he was doing was putting in 100% graft, throwing himself around and spilling blood for the cause. All very commendable stuff but it doesn't make him a good enough footballer. His reading of the game, anticipation and distribution of the ball are all poor and these are his major failings. He had one good season at Charlton and that's it as far as I'm concerned. However, as I don't watch Charlton a lot and certainly go to their matches so it's entirely possible that for that one season I was taken in by the media hype that ended with Chelsea spending millions on him before shifting him on to us. I don't agree about hsi reading of the game, i think thats nottoo bad, but the rest is spot on. He TRIES, but he isn't up to the standard people expect of him because of a couple of good seasons at Charlton. Its endemic with our fans, though.... Parker is a great player, just not being played right, because of peoples memories and his twistign and turning. Babayro can do a job for us, because we have no-one else. Bramble has potential and can become a great player, because he's strong. Emre is a brilliant midfielder, because he plays alongside dross. Dyer can play a big part on the wing/up front, because he's fast. Ameobi is a premiership striker, because he is tall. Luque is world class because he looked good in a few games on telly in Spain. All the kinds of things that get spouted, and all ignoring fundamental, fatal flaws in the players themselves.