Northern Monkey

We've got players who can play out of position and do better than Babayaro, in fairness. Still, at least Roeder isn't going to rush into any short-term signings, thats not his style. (best not mention Bernard, a late, ill-thought out, short term signing).

Cover? No. We need actual first team defenders. preferably 3, at a minimum 2. The squad we have now is not a top 8 one.

He's very inconsistent. if you watched two games he plays he, you wouldn't know if he was brilliant or an absolute bag of shite. I personally think the truth is somewhere inbetween.

In their defence, some people thought Souness should get more time, that Faye was an acceptable player, and that Ameobi is good enough for a first team start. Care in the community has a lot to answer for.

he can't perform if motivated. This is mainly due to his absolutely hilarious lack of pace, requirement to foul persistently, and his lack of general defending ability.

Who are these? Dyer, Milner, Martins, uh.. Carrol, Sibierski 2 of them aren't strikers. There's a difference between a forward and a striker imo. Really? Possibly there is, but I wouldn't say they are both forwards, either.

You can't win if you don't score, and it's better to win 1 game and lose 2 than draw 2 games and lose only 1. Plus we're a long way off needing a good defence to win the league! The defence we have may not be great but it is easily good enough for a European place finish. Even this season where the defence has been absolutely decimated by injury, the reason we're in the lowly position we are now is because at the start of the season we weren't even looking like scoring in some games, much more than because of defensive frailties. Before December we only scored more than 1 goal in the league twice in 14 games. A number of our injured defenders are close to regaining fitness, but we only have 2 fit forwards for the next 3 months minimum (I'm not counting Luque, and Dyer is no more a forward than Nicky Butt is a central defender). Our priority has to be to get at least 1 more forward in (if only to give us an option on the bench to change a game). Personally I don't mind if it's only a loan, but we need someone. PS Where's the "We can't afford to spend anything, the club's hemorrhaging money, we're doomed" option for Macbeth and everyone who usually agrees with him? wrong.

Emre is not good enough to cover for Parkers ball-chasing. But Emre is not poor enough to put his midfield partner in that sort of position himself. All in all, Emre is probably a better player, but he DOES go missing. Neither of them is ideal - Emre's invisible man act vs parkers long range slidign "tackes" - different problems, but still problems. Ideally, i wouldn't have either in the side, but we don't have a lot else, other than Dyer, who is at least as bad as Parker for wandering around, and Roeders "genius" substitution Pattinson.

Who are these? Dyer, Milner, Martins, uh.. Carrol, Sibierski 2 of them aren't strikers.

one if the top 3 keepers in the league. and of the main reasons we are not a Championship side. His kciking may be shite, and his command of his box poor, but we would NOT get a better keeper to come here.

I tend to agree, but availability has to be taken into account. If he knows Emre is leaving then we do need a replacement, for example. If on the other hand this could be a swap for Parker I'd snap their bloody hands off. I'd be chuffed to bits if Parker wanted to move back to London, or somewhere. Anywhere really. Don't get me wrong, we need to look at the midfield (Parker is clearly good enough for US, but only because we are, at best, a mid table side). Its just that we need to prioritise. Roeder showed with Duff that this is not one of his strengths, but i can't stress enough how important it is that we don't start next season with the idea in our heads that Babayaro or Ameobi are first team players. I'd extend that beyond Babayaro and Ameobi. Very, very much so (i can only think of 6 or so existing players who, when fit, i'd CHOOSE to have in our side). It was just for explanatory purposes.

The answer will probably be "badly".

He's f***ing terrible you're being kind.

Sorry, but jumping on some comments made about Parker being to blame for a goal is too simplistic. When I talk about Parker I'm talking about his contribution over the entire time he's been at the club. During that time it's clear his passing isn't up to the role of anchorman, he is nowhere near as good as Butt in this role and never will be because he doesn't have the range of pass, he doesn't have the ability to read the game as well and see the pass before he's even received the ball. This is what really good anchormen do. Butt does this and also like really good anchormen he does it in an unspectacular style that goes largely unnoticed. Meanwhile, Parker dives into last ditch challenges, wonderful 100% blood and thunder stuff, but he twirls as though he's drilling for oil and passes the ball backwards 90% of the time, slowing down our attacks in a ridiculous fashion. All in my opinion of course. I can only think of one midfielder who could hold their head up high on that point, and evan THAT'S a tenuous one. Rob Lee, Ginola, Solano, Gary Speed... That took me barely 10 seconds to think of. You might also be able to add Robert and maybe some of the underrated ones such as Acuna in as well. 2 things: 1) I meant current players. 2) "Contribution", not "committment".

I tend to agree, but availability has to be taken into account. If he knows Emre is leaving then we do need a replacement, for example. If on the other hand this could be a swap for Parker I'd snap their bloody hands off. I'd be chuffed to bits if Parker wanted to move back to London, or somewhere. Anywhere really. Don't get me wrong, we need to look at the midfield (Parker is clearly good enough for US, but only because we are, at best, a mid table side). Its just that we need to prioritise. Roeder showed with Duff that this is not one of his strengths, but i can't stress enough how important it is that we don't start next season with the idea in our heads that Babayaro or Ameobi are first team players.

He does. As does Dyer. Neither of them have any f***ing clue about playing in position. That, for me, is why Emre and Parker never look good together (another lesser reason being Emre's obvious deficiencies). Parker wanders around, and Emre isn't disciplined enough to cover it. When Emre plays with Butt, a player who knows how to play in a position, Emre looks a lot better. To play as a DM you need discipline though. I don't mind Dyer running around because he is suppose to be 'floating around'. I also don't mind it when he's playing in the AM position because it shouldn't affect the way we defend that much if the rest of our midfielders are disciplined (which they clearly aren't btw - Emre can't even stay on the left when he's supposed to, Parker doesn't understand the word 'controlled aggression' etc.). Parker isn't REALLY a DM though, is he. As for Dyer, his inability to stay in the vague area he is supposed to is one of the reasons we commonly lose our shape when he plays. And neither he nor most of the rest of the team are good enough to react to that and change things - we just end up with Dyer and Parker chasing the ball like schoolkids, and the defence being left under pressure they are ill-equiped to cope with.

There's a reason why he'd be a minimal price. Roeder has a fullback problem. Short termism.

If Roeders moves for anyone before he moves for defenders and a striker, he's a bigger cunt than i thought.

Sorry, but jumping on some comments made about Parker being to blame for a goal is too simplistic. When I talk about Parker I'm talking about his contribution over the entire time he's been at the club. During that time it's clear his passing isn't up to the role of anchorman, he is nowhere near as good as Butt in this role and never will be because he doesn't have the range of pass, he doesn't have the ability to read the game as well and see the pass before he's even received the ball. This is what really good anchormen do. Butt does this and also like really good anchormen he does it in an unspectacular style that goes largely unnoticed. Meanwhile, Parker dives into last ditch challenges, wonderful 100% blood and thunder stuff, but he twirls as though he's drilling for oil and passes the ball backwards 90% of the time, slowing down our attacks in a ridiculous fashion. All in my opinion of course. I can only think of one midfielder who could hold their head up high on that point, and evan THAT'S a tenuous one.

He does. As does Dyer. Neither of them have any fucking clue about playing in position. That, for me, is why Emre and Parker never look good together (another lesser reason being Emre's obvious deficiencies). Parker wanders around, and Emre isn't disciplined enough to cover it. When Emre plays with Butt, a player who knows how to play in a position, Emre looks a lot better.

Cech VDS Given In that order.

Neither.

Doubt he feels guilty, he's probably just bored.

Well, he is at least half decent on the left. Unlike Dire, and even Milner, who is better on the right. If all were fit, The Zog would be my first pick. Our next best is Duff.

calm down mate we'll get some CL quality players soon enough HAhahahaahahahahahahaha. Yeah, they'll be queueing up to play for a shit manager like Roerder, in a bottom-half Premiership team.