Northern Monkey

Aye, I think Parker's own performance subdued Gerrard's although the Liverpool man himself was clearly having a poor game, but much of that was down to Parker shadowing him and snapping away. Parker excelled as defensive midfielder yesterday and stemmed the flow a number of times, while also having the energy to get up in support of the forwards. An all-action display. No doubt some fill still try and find fault with his game. He didn't score a 700-yard screamer, like Emre could if he wanted to. Sack the 50's hairdo-sporting cunt, tbh.

Christ. Nothing like putting heart before head. I thought it was a WUM, either that or we know that "scotty" posts on the forum. In case he does.......sod off in the summer. 8.5, 9 - he's either a WUM, or one of those who think that 7 OUT OF 10 is an average score. Maybe he scores matches for the Sun.

He played well - better than the defenders some people are pretending were great. "Stevie G" and Sissoko were poor, but i think they appeared that way because Parker himself played so well. The trademark 8-yard, telegraphed, hideous sliding tackles were missing, which was nice. He played like the kind of player we thought he was, before he appeared to become 3-dimensional.

Christ. Nothing like putting heart before head.

Salvage his toon career??? Having an okay game won't do that. He;s not fucking good enough, full stop.

Dyer is no good as a striker. He can fill in, but he's not going to do it medium/long term. Martins will hopefully show consistency. Owen is genuine class. Ameobi is utter, utter wank. Utter wank. If Owen stays, we need a striker asap. If he doesn't, we need 2.

Apologies, that wasn't constructive. But COME ON! Ashley Cole! The lad who put Given in was presumably taking the piss, but putting Cole in?? He isn't even the best LB in the Premiership.

Ashley Cole? hahahahahaha!!

You just described the EXACT opposite of Bramble. He hasn't looked good for an entire game yet, but he needs time. Hopefully he'll have games where he is not played beside Shambles, and soon, before that sucks the confidence out of him. He was ok today, but we didn't see much of that aerial prowess.

Sshh, we beat a better side, every one of the defence is now a god. Seriously, he fucked up a bit, but not as much as on his debut. he could turn out ok. Or shite, its too early to say.

He was today, but that is the first time i could have agreed with that comment so far. He's usually less use than a chocolate cock.

Spoil sport. Internet hard men are what makes the 'web great! Wana take this outside? Oh wait.. that would involve leaving my seat.. I'll pass. And its cold and wet. And FAR too far from my beer to be wanting to go out there. Let's end it! I win, good times. Now... Back to baba. Sorry to hear about his brother. It's quite bizzare, because he appeared to play better today than he usually does. He DID play better - i.e. not COMPLETELY s****, all of the time. There were even passages of time where he looked like a (admittedly lower-table) Premiership player. But lets face it, that doesn't make him any good. He's got his entire time with us to make up for, because he's been f****** shocking. Shame about his brother, clearly, losing someone isn't nice, and if he felt he was ok to play, fair enough. But the idea that this somehow makes him good enough to play for us is a scary one. Yeah, I assume he wanted to take his mind off it, which I can understand. And definitely, I think at times today he seemed like a decent player, one that may be worth the shirt on his back. But the odd glimpse of "talent" isn't gonna change the fact he's been diabolical for us since he's arrived. Exactly - one game where he was mainly ok does NOT suddenly make him good enough. The sooner we get a decent LB in - and Roeder had better sort it in summer, in the sad event he still has his job - the better.

You have a pub team then? Or are you Billy Davies? Cos i think he is definately good enough for the Chapmionship.

I'd like to see the Taylor/Onyewu partnership set up, with a left back who can actually play football. With Nobby/Taylor/Onyewu/New LB, we would have a chance of seeing what our new CB was like. Playing him alongside Shambles isn't the answer. Poor lad has done nothing to deserve that.

Spoil sport. Internet hard men are what makes the 'web great! Wana take this outside? Oh wait.. that would involve leaving my seat.. I'll pass. And its cold and wet. And FAR too far from my beer to be wanting to go out there. Let's end it! I win, good times. Now... Back to baba. Sorry to hear about his brother. It's quite bizzare, because he appeared to play better today than he usually does. He DID play better - i.e. not COMPLETELY SHITE, all of the time. There were even passages of time where he looked like a (admittedly lower-table) Premiership player. But lets face it, that doesn't make him any good. He's got his entire time with us to make up for, because he's been fucking shocking. Shame about his brother, clearly, losing someone isn't nice, and if he felt he was ok to play, fair enough. But the idea that this somehow makes him good enough to play for us is a scary one.

I don't know if he would, hsi consistency is, well, inconsistent, isn't it. We were lucky Bellamy didn't put more of his chances away. A different striker would have. He had our defence all ends up several times (no surprise given the lack of quality of half of them, i know)

Spoil sport. Internet hard men are what makes the 'web great! Wana take this outside? Oh wait.. that would involve leaving my seat.. I'll pass. And its cold and wet. And FAR too far from my beer to be wanting to go out there.

Bramble was shocking in the first half. The only reason this isnt being widely acknowledged is because Bellamy failed to convert his chances. onweyu (?) won all that came his way in the air,on the ground and organisationally he looked like a player coming in froma much lower league .bramble had to cover that,notice no-one is questioning butts quietist game for a while,how we failed to narrow the midfield,or questioning why sibs wasn't brought on earlier to hold the ball up and take pressuer off the defence. Butt was better than against Fulham, and as for Le Sib not coming on, that's because Roeder is an idiot. Bramble wasn't carrying anyone, either, he could barely cover for his own inadequacies. I thought the new boy did alriht for a lot of the game - more than his debut, when he had a stinking second half.

Spoil sport. Internet hard men are what makes the 'web great!

No other fucker bothers, why should they?

ah, i see. Nice that you think so, genius. Anyway, i don't need to say anything about the game, because people like you have already re-written history to make us good.

Bramble was shocking in the first half. The only reason this isnt being widely acknowledged is because Bellamy failed to convert his chances. Careful, you'll fall foul of the "we won so every player is like Pele" brigade.

Aye, but the point of that discussion/thread was that it was a tad silly to spend 5mill and 70k per week on a backup player for the left wing, when we already have 2-3 adequate ones, whilst having not a single fullback good enough for anywhere near where we want to be, as well as being in the need for a good centreback AND a good forward. Thats the measure of Roeders incredible stupidity, though. Anyway, i knew what the point of the thread was, i just wanted you and HTL to stop fighting, You were upsetting the kids.

hahahahaahahahahahahahahaaha!!! Internet hard man, classic. Where am i "hard behind a computer"?? And then to follow it up with pathetic little threats like that, brilliant. You're a genius. Babayaro played his normal game??? I don't think so - he was ok for large chunks of the game, so he played WAY above his normal fucking terrible game. As for me taking sick leave, you don't know me, or what i do, so wind your little neck in. Whatever issues you have (other than blindness of you think Babayarp played his normal game), keep them to yourself, because the internet hard man routine is fooling no-one. I'm guessing impotence or a really tiny 'Little Hagler', but i think you need more analysis than i can offer, fella.

ok then but whats the point,bramble played well today,you can't admit it.....while you're on admit babayaro played well......... something deep down inside you doesn't sit well cos we won today,you'll say your'e happy we won but week by week i'm guessing more and more on here on here aren't believing you,you see,i think deep down you'd rather we got beat so you could come on here gloating with an "i told you " attitude. Good response. ok then Good response. but whats the point...are you ready to say bramble and babyaro had good games.....deep down i think you're miffed we won(i know you'll deny this)cos you can't come on here with a big whinge Of course i'll deny thay, you 'tard. I thought Babayaro wasn't bad - possibly his best game for us that i can recall. Not great, not good, but not bad at all. I thought Bramble was on thin ice a number of times. He showed glimpses of why some (wrong) people think he is a Premiership player, and glimpses of why some others (including me) think he is a pile of s****. We were quite lucky today, and if we'd had GOOD players in place of these two, we might not have needed to be so much. do you have to call people when you disagree..(t'ard.wrong ) i wonder why you haven't posted about what we done well today ? ok then but whats the point,bramble played well today,you can't admit it.....while you're on admit babayaro played well......... something deep down inside you doesn't sit well cos we won today,you'll say your'e happy we won but week by week i'm guessing more and more on here on here aren't believing you,you see,i think deep down you'd rather we got beat so you could come on here gloating with an "i told you " attitude. Good response. ok then Good response. but whats the point...are you ready to say bramble and babyaro had good games.....deep down i think you're miffed we won(i know you'll deny this)cos you can't come on here with a big whinge Of course i'll deny thay, you 'tard. I thought Babayaro wasn't bad - possibly his best game for us that i can recall. Not great, not good, but not bad at all. I thought Bramble was on thin ice a number of times. He showed glimpses of why some (wrong) people think he is a Premiership player, and glimpses of why some others (including me) think he is a pile of s****. We were quite lucky today, and if we'd had GOOD players in place of these two, we might not have needed to be so much. i'm guessing,just guessing mind that apart from the above you have posted nothing positiove about todays performance. What are you, the Posting Police. I didn't write much about today because i haven't been on for long, and because i am struggling to be TOO positive, bearing in mind we were lucky. I'm terrified that idiots might think ROeder is suddenly good enough, or that Shambles and the other cretins are suddenly good players. Because once that shite starts, it gets a bit depressing.