Northern Monkey

bluelaugh.gif This forum is great. They say laughing keeps you young. Keep 'em coming...... i really hated the F***IN t*t but to be honest,even he couldn't do worse then roeder,wasn't he the one who brought emre,parker,owen to our club,he was planning to play a 4-3-3 with owen-shearer-luque but he never really got the chance to do so,sacking him was a good decsion,but we couldve at least hired hitzfield or o'niel,a guy who at least know what he is doing .... i mean here with roeder,we will be more then lucky if we finish 10th-15th in the league,and trust me,those easy games he wasted vs sheff united,charlton and others will soon be regreted,hopefully not.. Luque, Boumsong, Moore, Faye. Souness. Worst. Manager. Eve*. Oh, and we won't win the UEFA Cup. * Not really, but he was absolutely fucking shite.

hahahahahaahahahahahahahaaha. our best midfield: Duff Emre Butt Milner.

Roeder is not a good enough manager, but he's not as bad as Souness, in fairness.

I'd be pretty amazed if we get 2.

If you were at the game you would have seen that Dyer was actually outstanding tonight as a man marker. Wherever Bridge went, Dyer went. Meant he had no attacking threat, but did the job he looked to have been ordered to do superbly. Oh aye, and Scott Parker is f***ing GASH. Dyer was pretty shite, tbh. Did he spill your drink? I doubt it, he was playing football (although not very well, granted). I don't think i've ever had a drink spilt by a footballer. Not a professional one, anyway. Thanks for asking though. Its nice that people care about my drink)

Eh?? Typical Northern Monkey post. Instead of "EH" can you not ask a question like "Why is Dyer getting a b-?" which is what i assume you would like to know. Typical Northern Monkey post, i like it. I think i made my confusion over his grade quite clear. If i didn't make it clear enough, i CAN spell it out for you, but i thought even you had the cpaacity to work it out without crying like a smacked bitch.

We lost 1-0 to a lucky goal agaibst a strong Premiership champion's line-up. I don't think we (Roeder as manager takes the blame for the team as a collective in this case IMO) were THAT bad. The players who started did themsleves no harm in the first half. Roeder as a manager is unable to make decisions to change games.

Eh??

If you were at the game you would have seen that Dyer was actually outstanding tonight as a man marker. Wherever Bridge went, Dyer went. Meant he had no attacking threat, but did the job he looked to have been ordered to do superbly. Oh aye, and Scott Parker is f***ing GASH. Dyer was pretty shite, tbh.

Already a better player than babayaro, Shambles, Moore or Carr.

Given - 5. Should have done better with the goal. His distribution is shite. Solano - 6. Not too bad at all. Not fast enough for the likes of Chelsea though. Taylor - 7. Played well. Every game widens the gap between him and all the rest of our defenders Ramage - 6. Ok, did his job. Huntington - 5. Did alright in a testing game. Dyer - 3. Once again, no end product. Lightweight player, not even average last night. Disappeared. Parker - 4. Poor. Undeniably a good player, but needs too much time, and distribution is shocking. Butt - 5. Was alright, passing needs work. Milner - 6. Played pretty well, starting to becoem a good player i reckon. Emre - 6. Better than some recent games. SOem nice touches. Martins - 5. Needs support - he's not a target man. Roeder - 1. Poor manager, poor tactics, poor substitutions policy. Go now, please.

People might want to have a look at how many games Parker has played this season and how many of those games we have lost. The bloke is a superb tackler but unfortunately his passing range seems to be that of a crab/Lee Clark. His passing isn't worse than Butts. And tbh, the reason we've been better is NOT because Parker's been injured. More likely that Ameobi isn't playing, if we're going to pinpoint it to one man. I disagree. I think the preceeding 3 games have shown that Butt can be a very good passer of the ball. Siting Ameobi's absence as a reason why we're playing better is complete and utter bollocks tbh. I don't think I even need to justify that with an explanation. Ameobi not playing IMMEDIATELY improves us. Butts passing in the past 2 or 3 games has been poor.

Eh? How can you support two teams? Genuine question.

Nothing. The Intertoto clearly doesn't count, does it.

left back, centre back, striker, right back. In that order. We have NO left back worthy of a premiership place. We only have ONE CB of note. We have one fit striker who is good enough, and only one unfit one who is. And our best right back is a rapidly-slowing winger. Other than him, we have NO right back fit for the Premiership, and the excuse of Taylor is a shite one, as he is the only good centre back we have. So that 'rse Roeder will probably buy a central midfielder and a left winger.

Back page of the Times today, that George Caulkin (one of The Times' worst sports journos) did a piece on Shepherd and the takeover talk etc, following from the AGM. Shepherd appeared to be questioning the validity of some of the interest recently. And, staggeringly, he seemed to be inferrig he was a better, more serious businessman than some of the 'big players' who have expressed an interest. Amazing.

Well, you're half right.

Seen the squad, and i'm sticking with that. Fantastic that Nobby has returned so quickly from injury... we can save him for Spurs now. I'd probably have him on the bench and start Huntington, just to protect Nobby. Who will be on Spurs' left wing? Because he's going to have a field day, whoever it is, the amount of time Dire will be out of position.

taken from ggchat.................if that is their line up i'm more confident than before.i'd think butt can tie up lennon and they'd push him back wide to get him some ball.we can dominate midfield and they have a lack of pace from huddlestone through to dawson and king.we can stop the supply to their forwards but be wary of defoe dropping off the centre halves with malbranque and ghaly both keen to push on. hope emre's fit,that midfield is made for him to play against. Yeah, and Lennon, Defoe and Berbatov are going to HATE the idea of playing against Babayaro and Ramage, aren't they. thats lennon in the middle,he'll be up against our midfield first and spurs problem all season away has been creating chances,i think our midfield is good enough to stop theirs. And we KNOW thats the formaiton they'll play? Even if they do, it's still going to cause us problems. We were lucky against Watfird that they weren't good enough to exploit the massive gaps Dire was leaving by wandering around, and we didn't need Martins to be linking up particularly well with the midfield for most of the game. Spurs will be different. My prediction: 0-2. Same result as last year aye? Or not? Oh we beat them 3-1 didn't we! We'll definatly get beat 0-2 this year then! I don't get it. What does last years result have to do with this years?

Grammar must not be important to the upper classes, then?

So we need a decent manager as well?

taken from ggchat.................if that is their line up i'm more confident than before.i'd think butt can tie up lennon and they'd push him back wide to get him some ball.we can dominate midfield and they have a lack of pace from huddlestone through to dawson and king.we can stop the supply to their forwards but be wary of defoe dropping off the centre halves with malbranque and ghaly both keen to push on. hope emre's fit,that midfield is made for him to play against. Yeah, and Lennon, Defoe and Berbatov are going to HATE the idea of playing against Babayaro and Ramage, aren't they. thats lennon in the middle,he'll be up against our midfield first and spurs problem all season away has been creating chances,i think our midfield is good enough to stop theirs. And we KNOW thats the formaiton they'll play? Even if they do, it's still going to cause us problems. We were lucky against Watfird that they weren't good enough to exploit the massive gaps Dire was leaving by wandering around, and we didn't need Martins to be linking up particularly well with the midfield for most of the game. Spurs will be different. My prediction: 0-2.

taken from ggchat.................if that is their line up i'm more confident than before.i'd think butt can tie up lennon and they'd push him back wide to get him some ball.we can dominate midfield and they have a lack of pace from huddlestone through to dawson and king.we can stop the supply to their forwards but be wary of defoe dropping off the centre halves with malbranque and ghaly both keen to push on. hope emre's fit,that midfield is made for him to play against. Yeah, and Lennon, Defoe and Berbatov are going to HATE the idea of playing against Babayaro and Ramage, aren't they.

Lose.

Given: 6 - Not bad, needs to communicate with his defence better. Huntington: 5 - Predominantly acceptable, but occasionally caught out. Taylor: 7 - Fine performance, remains our best defender. Ramage: 5 - Average game - some good, some bad. Babayano: 3 - Out of position umpteen times, not watcing the bal OR his man repeatedly. A disgrace to the side. Milner: 6 - Struggled to get into the game at times, but he's a grafter once he does. Butt: 7 - should never be allowed to pass the ball over 5 yards ever again. Good defensive work though. Emre: 7 - good game, doesn't always react well to being tackled. Dyer: 4 - clearly not match fit. Bursts of pace, but little end product. Out of position an incredible amount of the game. Martins: 7 - Nicley taken goals, but lost the ball a lot. Very poor response to being tackled, nearly every time. Sibiersky: 4 - Poor. More than the journeyman pro many felt at first, but not much more.