Northern Monkey
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What a goal from Kanu.
We'll definitely finish ahead of Arsenal like, they're useless.
Aye, we're bound to. Nailed on.
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1. Chelsea
2. Man U.
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Man City
6. Everton
7. Spurs
8. Newcastle
9. A Villa
10. Portsmouth
11. Blackburn
12. West Ham
13. Bolton
14. Reading
15. Beasts
16. Mackems
17. Wigan
18. Birmingham
19. Fulham
20. Derby
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Nopt going to happen this season, but to get 4th, as a minimum:
the new players to be good enough
quality defensive cover
a new cental midfield
quality cover for both wings
2 top class strikers
not playing the likes of Smith/Viduka/Shola.
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all of this 'we have a very good team' stuff is a bit optimistic. i wouldn't rate more than one of our forwards as very good. another could be very good, and thats it. and if cacapa and the other new defenders don't come good we have taylor and rozenhal, and nothing else.
we've been burned too often for me. i'm cautiously optimistic, but starting to wank ourselves off over stuff just yet is a bit premature.
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oh yes. presents, match, then a week away. being away for the end of the transfer window has been ace.
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bramble or faye. we KNOW they are shit.
How do you feel about Shola not being allowed to go to Boro, mate?
disappointed that we have at least one more season of fans latching onto a couple of passable games, whilst ignoring the majority of his performances and play, which are shocking. but not suprised. as a club we've long had a blind spot for this big tall heap of donkey shite, so its all a bit 'meh' now.
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bramble or faye. we KNOW they are shit.
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hahahaha.
couldn't happen to a denser, skankier, scumbag wanker.
hope its a long, drawn out recovery, you dirty little tramp.
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martins coming off, ridiculous that viduka is still on.
agreed.
Been at the centre of good moves, holding it up bringing people into the game and now scoring a goal. Doing his job properly all game.
balls. he'd done absolutely nothing till he scored. if this is how he plays against his old club, i may need to retract my 'he will get few more than 10, because he's show nothing that points towards him being capable of that.
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far be it from me to question the best manager we've ever had, bound to lead us to 4th, etc, but has he shown once so far that he has any clue how to change a game ? like for like subs? just the ticket.
oh, and yet another example of viduka showing he's not actualy that good.
i'm sat watching this shit, and before any cretins watching on tv start, we DO have a better view of the flow of the game.
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he shoudl get double figures, but i doubt he'll do much more than that.I never thought we'd get excuses made for him that he needed time to get used to the Premiership. He's been here for f****** years!
I didnt meant he needed time to get used to the Premiership.Im trying to say he might be a bit rusty and tired from all the games he played with Australia.Other than that,hes a proveng goalscorer.
he's not going to be troubling the top scorer charts, in fairness.
He'll probably score a few good goals in fairness.
Only double figures? I see your point then. To rectify the situation we should buy Drogba for £32m without further ado. That's the top goalscorer problem fixed then.
so i am totally in the wrong wanting a first choice striker capable of getting 1 goal ever other game? How very stupid of me. Imagine me actually thinking we should get a good goalscorer.
Yes, Viduka is "class", and great, and just what we need.
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he shoudl get double figures, but i doubt he'll do much more than that.I never thought we'd get excuses made for him that he needed time to get used to the Premiership. He's been here for f****** years!
I didnt meant he needed time to get used to the Premiership.Im trying to say he might be a bit rusty and tired from all the games he played with Australia.Other than that,hes a proveng goalscorer.
he's not going to be troubling the top scorer charts, in fairness.
He'll probably score a few good goals in fairness.
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So based on one bad
To be fair NM, you can be a bit of a hypocrite at times. You talk a lot of sense at times too but you have a pop at people as being totally unrealistic for wanting player x, y or z, then you demand we sign a RB (and any RB) just to replace Carr. It's not that easy to attract quality players here, as you well know, and if the right-back we sign is just marginally better than what we have then it's a waste of time imo.
Yes, yes i can. Can't we all, as football fans?
As for Carr, an AVERAGE right back would be far better. If you are saying that is a difficult task for a competent manager to find, and buy, a better right back than Stephen Carr, you are either as mad as a particularly crazed scotsman, or Stephen Carrs mam.
I see buying an AVERAGE right-back as a pointless waste of money though.
i don't. We're an average club, so average players should be our minimum. We currenly have a s**** right back. That, simply put, cannot continue.
Weren't you whining in another thread about Geremi playing in the middle? If you are happy with an average RB, what was your problem with Geremi assuming you don't think he's utter s***?
i thought he was utter s*** on Saturday. I don't think he is actually a s*** player, Geremi, he has yet to prove either way whether he is good enough or not.
Yet based on one performance which wasn't to your liking, you shouted he should never start in midfield again. If you haven't made your mind up yet, then why make such daft comments?
no i didn't say that. But carry on.
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I never thought we'd get excuses made for him that he needed time to get used to the Premiership. He's been here for f****** years!
I didnt meant he needed time to get used to the Premiership.Im trying to say he might be a bit rusty and tired from all the games he played with Australia.Other than that,hes a proveng goalscorer.
he's not going to be troubling the top scorer charts, in fairness.
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I never thought we'd get excuses made for him that he needed time to get used to the Premiership. He's been here for fucking years!
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I reckon he might switch Geremi & Taylor to right-back depending on the style of opposition.
2 right backs. We'll never get away with that, someone'll notice.
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That's a body blow. Chelsea have been have been chasing our coat-tails right through the close season. If it's not players it's Sam's backroom staff.
yup, they want to be us.
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To be fair NM, you can be a bit of a hypocrite at times. You talk a lot of sense at times too but you have a pop at people as being totally unrealistic for wanting player x, y or z, then you demand we sign a RB (and any RB) just to replace Carr. It's not that easy to attract quality players here, as you well know, and if the right-back we sign is just marginally better than what we have then it's a waste of time imo.
Yes, yes i can. Can't we all, as football fans?
As for Carr, an AVERAGE right back would be far better. If you are saying that is a difficult task for a competent manager to find, and buy, a better right back than Stephen Carr, you are either as mad as a particularly crazed scotsman, or Stephen Carrs mam.
I see buying an AVERAGE right-back as a pointless waste of money though.
i don't. We're an average club, so average players should be our minimum. We currenly have a s**** right back. That, simply put, cannot continue.
Weren't you whining in another thread about Geremi playing in the middle? If you are happy with an average RB, what was your problem with Geremi assuming you don't think he's utter shit?
i thought he was utter shit on Saturday. I don't think he is actually a shit player, Geremi, he has yet to prove either way whether he is good enough or not.
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I'd persoanlly have owen up front as our striker as I think defenders are more scared of pace and cunning rather than a "skillfull big man" i.e. viduka, shola.
Not saying that viduka isn't good but that owen is better therefore....
Erm.....
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Viduka is still a class player, just because we had a hard time breaking down Villa's defence last week doesn't mean we have to start writing everyone off. I think we'll score a couple of goals against boro and win come Sunday, hopefully that will quieten down the panic merchants for another week.
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To be fair NM, you can be a bit of a hypocrite at times. You talk a lot of sense at times too but you have a pop at people as being totally unrealistic for wanting player x, y or z, then you demand we sign a RB (and any RB) just to replace Carr. It's not that easy to attract quality players here, as you well know, and if the right-back we sign is just marginally better than what we have then it's a waste of time imo.
Yes, yes i can. Can't we all, as football fans?
As for Carr, an AVERAGE right back would be far better. If you are saying that is a difficult task for a competent manager to find, and buy, a better right back than Stephen Carr, you are either as mad as a particularly crazed scotsman, or Stephen Carrs mam.
I see buying an AVERAGE right-back as a pointless waste of money though.
i don't. We're an average club, so average players should be our minimum. We currenly have a shite right back. That, simply put, cannot continue.
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Sam said he is happy with our squad
im not
If he's happy, then he's an idiot. If he's just saying it to keep players happy until he finds better,fair enough.
The fact that he looks to have been attempting to sign Beletti and Faye would suggest he knows it needs improvement.
we don't know how seriously he's chased anyone, of course.
Hardly much point in discussing anything to do with proposed transfers if you take that view though. Howay man mate, I think it's fairly likely he's looked at the RB spot. I think it's fair enough he's played Carr there too. Other options are available to him but he probably he conceivably thinks we need Taylor in the middle and Geremi is required there too. Solano is an option too but I think that leaving out a player who has expressed a desire to leave the club sends out the right message to the squad as a whole. And while Solano did well there at times last season (and I like Solano a lot), he wasn't the revelation there some would have you believe. Just my two-penneth and I'm not for a moment saying playing Carr at right-back is anything like ideal.
in fairness, if he plays liek did on Saturday again, i'd not let Geremi anywhere near the centre of midfield again.
Who did play well on Saturday, other than Harper. One bad game? Get a grip man.
Get a grip? He's had one ok game, and one shit one. I KNOW it's too early to say he's no good, but its equally too early to say he's great.
Milner played ok on Saturday, compared to the rest of them. Rozenhal also did well. And Butt did well at working hard ot fix Geremi's fuckups.
I'm not saying he's great, I'm having a go at you for saying he's one bad game away from never playing in central midfield for us again.
What i meant was that if he plays that badly again, i'd have other players ahead of him in central midfueld, and play him at right back.
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To be fair NM, you can be a bit of a hypocrite at times. You talk a lot of sense at times too but you have a pop at people as being totally unrealistic for wanting player x, y or z, then you demand we sign a RB (and any RB) just to replace Carr. It's not that easy to attract quality players here, as you well know, and if the right-back we sign is just marginally better than what we have then it's a waste of time imo.
Yes, yes i can. Can't we all, as football fans?
As for Carr, an AVERAGE right back would be far better. If you are saying that is a difficult task for a competent manager to find, and buy, a better right back than Stephen Carr, you are either as mad as a particularly crazed scotsman, or Stephen Carrs mam.
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can we link these threads together?
No, "we" can't.
Premiership Predictions 2007-08- Final Table
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so what is your actual prediction.