Northern Monkey

Roeders immense scouting netowrk and player selection skills will see us through. I agree,i've heard he's already started scouting Dirk Kuyt. ^-^ Hey, he "had Gooch watched a couple of times", and he seemed like a good fella. What more can we ask for?

I would like to see us swap Roeder for a competent manager. Keane hasn't proven he'd be a good Premiership manager yet, but Roeder has certainly proven he ISN'T, so why not swap.

Can't imagine why anyone would think Zog is our best midfielder right now. He's had one good season and has potential but that's it. I WAS referrign to the Zog, yes. He may not have reached his full potential yet, but he has still shown that he has more than any of the others. For me, anyway.

So do we feel he is a genuine top player still?

Hack his head off and replace it with that of a player who gives a toss.

Thats a fear i have (always negative, yadda yadda) with Lil' Mikey: if he doesn't coem back as fast as he was before the injury (which was in turn slower than he was a few years before), i don't know if he is the type of player who can adapt his game to use other things. Like Shearer did when he slowed down and lost the burst of pace he had, and he used his power and strength to hold the ball up more.

Roeders immense scouting netowrk and player selection skills will see us through.

I'd sell him. His off-field issues aside, he is an average player paid the wage of an very very good one. That disparity means he is not worth what he costs us. His performances this season have been a microcosm of his career for us - occasional flashes of greatness, but average overall. Put simply, he doesn't offer us value for money, and if we want to have fantastic player,s we need to buy them, not pretend players who had "potential" but never fulfilled it, are actually brilliant.

Then your comment about that piece of crap Ameobi is valid.

Firstly, Bellamy wasn't the cancer of the club, that was Souness' role, 100%. Secondly, Bellamy on the pitch was at least as useful in his role as Parker has been in his. No doubt, Parker is a nicer person, but both come across as dedicated players on the pitch, just with different skills and ways of portraying themsleves. Parkers attitude, personality and application have never really been in doubt, but his performances and style of playing have - rightly - been at various points this season. The manager shoudl take a lot of responsibility for this, because we KNOW Parker is a better footballer than that. but the player himself must too.

You are ignoring our best midfielder in that formation.

His passing may be good - arguable point in actuality - but the time he needs, anjd the incessant twsiting and turning, is terrible. I don't think he's TERRIBLE, but he's not exactly going to be pushing for a proper England call-up is he.

Thats very rarely a genuine comment. Unless you WANT us to fail.

They did fall out, about the Lille thing, and a swearing incident, but he'll be back for the next game. Nevilel is not a great RB, he never has been. He's solid enough, but nothing special. I wouldn't particularly want him here at this point in his career.

Gooch looks liek he coudl be a decent player, but he has yet to have an entire good game.

Gary Nevilel makes England squads. PHIL Neville has been known to. AN average, and you know it! I think he's as useful to us as any other central midfielder we have, no more, but over the years, his contribution has been weak, even when he HAS played. I think he's a much better footballer than he is a person, but thats not saying a lot.

Damned right - if Paker isnt good enough thn neither are Solano (at RB), Carr, Bramble, Babayaro, Emre, Butt, Dyer, Duff and Ameobi. Almost all of whom are preferred starters for that idiot Roeder, and almost all of whom offer less than Parker can. If that post wasn't by you I'd have been surprised to see Dyer included in that list. He makes a massive difference to our team when he plays imo. He's ab average player. Not a brilliant one, by any means. He doesn't offer that much, his stats prove that. But you kepe believing he's an international class player, if it makes you feel ay better.

Wrong.

Damned right - if Paker isnt good enough thn neither are Solano (at RB), Carr, Bramble, Babayaro, Emre, Butt, Dyer, Duff and Ameobi. Almost all of whom are preferred starters for that idiot Roeder, and almost all of whom offer less than Parker can.

Its not far off now. PS - those initial values for selling "first teamers".....hahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha!

So RAcismd

We've played badly a LOT more than we've played well sonce the start of December. In fact all of this season. But hey, we have a "strong squad" apparently, so we are BOUND to start playing really well soon (European games against part-timers notwithstanding

He donned a beret and a string of onions, and started miming searching for The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies. CLEARLY therefore a racist.

"A blip at Wigan"....get to fuck, you absolute cretin. We were incredibly lucky in a number of games over the past month or two, and that papered over the fucking massive cracks in our first team, squad, and so-called manager. Anyone who thinks we just had a blip wants their heads read.

If we are honest, none of our central midfielders are world class. None of them are even England class (i.e. a very average International team). Butt, Parker, Emre, Dyer. All much of a muchness. Different players, but not of them are great. I'd take bloody LOADS of players above these lot, any day.