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the pressure its going to put on michael owen to perform when he is back. discuss

why on earth ANYONE would want andy reid or jonothan spector here is beyond me. i cant comment on shittu, i havnt seen enough of him. i would take : west ham -ashton, tevez, neill, reo-coker, anton ferdinand at a push charlton - bent watford - no-one

apparently he is back for selection on thursday. shit

i am just becoming insreasingly annoyed with the fact that he hasnt got any bollocks. we suffered last week at wigan because he couldnt make a decision on which centre half to drop, so he played 4, this week he didnt have the balls to sub charles because he would moan (as he apparently does) or sub parker or butt, who do the same job (play dyer centrally and sib and martins up top), so he pulled off milner, the easy option. funny thing is, i think teh injuries have saved him his jiob, as they have lowered expectation, but it eill be having everyone fit that gets him sacked, because he cant make a fucking decision, so the team suffers as a result.

don hutchinson...jesus what a cunt

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we will only play him this season if he is 100%, glenn isnt the type of guy to risk it imo

he is kicking a ball now, its on the chronicle webpage thats a huge step forward

anyone else reckon the keeper looks like skirge?

playing for a move maybe?

would rather have ashton

good post HTT. i do feel that roeder is very suspect tactically, but i also feel he is the person we needed to take over from souness, and i also believe he is the man we need to steady the ship as it were, at this moment in time. he knows all about the club and how it works, and i believe he wil have us top 8 while he is here. he gets my vote to carry on next season, simply because i believe he will not waste £ and he will have us in a stable position. i would like to think that we will be lookng to move him on after next season however and getting a top manager in to take us to the next level, which i do not beleive glenn is capable of doing.

you missed out the rest of the letters mate, i think you were supposed to put mong.

I feel gutted more for people like you who spent good money and time going to watch that today, I almost went but decided that my limited time at home was more important, it was a cracking decision. i have not been as disheartened as i was today in an awful long time (man city away last jan to be precise). I realy think we were that poor. whats most alarming for me, is that we dont appear to have a style of our own, its often if they go long and ugly, we go long and ugly, if they try to pass, we try to pass. today, was long and ugly, and we are fucking awful at it. the fact that we are resulting to getting excited when the gooch takes a bolton like throw in shows how far we have fallen.

his £40k bonus for every one of 'his' academy plsyers making first team wouldnt have anything to do with this owuld it...... he seems to prefer playing 'his' academy players rather than those who are not. pattinson ahead of o'brien the obvious example Ramage and Taylor aren't his academy players yet he plays them ahead of Huntington and Edgar. (rightly so in Taylors case). I haven't got a clue about any bonuses Roeder gets for players making the first team, but your argument of him playing Pattison ahead of O'Brien because of any bonuses he might get are wrong because surely it would have only been a one of bonus. correct. there would have only been one bonus, and he would have had that last year against west brom (i think). my point is that glenn's academy boys get in ahead of those who were not, hence o'brien. i dont think he has much of a choice but to play taylor ahead of the others you mentioned, does he. i would love to hear how you feel it is justified that a lad who cannot run is played out of position on the left ahead of a lad who has full international caps in that position.

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his £40k bonus for every one of 'his' academy plsyers making first team wouldnt have anything to do with this owuld it...... he seems to prefer playing 'his' academy players rather than those who are not. pattinson ahead of o'brien the obvious example

resting milner today was idiotic, as previously stated why not rest him on thursday? surely we had more chance of winning at hiome, against a part time team that we are 3-1 up against than away to a prem team fighting for their lives??? stupidity imo

The selection was pretty much correct for today's game. He couldn't have done a huge amount differently tbh. The thing he did wrong was start Milner the other night. And you know this how??? We're you in the dressing rooms? It's half the players' job to motivate themselves. Why should he have to do it all? selection was pretty much correct??? how about he sticks with the lad who has probably been our best performer this season on the right and puts nobby right back, where he has played his best games this season and has a pair of balls to either drop one of the centre halves (what has gooch done to justify getting straight back in??), or play taylor at left back, instead of the other centre half that he put there who has less experience than taylor?? big mistakes for me

we lacked a door opener in the middle today. parker and butt are too similar, and butt is better imo. parker seems to have been pigeon holed as a defensive mid, and he seems to agree with it, and thats all he is now. he offers absoloutely nothing going forward. with eme almost sure to be out of the door iun the summer, i hope we sign a 'door opener', as we dont have one at the moment

I think that today we played well at the back. We have seen alot worse performances from our defence granted, we didnt make an errors, but we looked far from comfortable and teh distribution from both centre halves was embarassing. wasnt happy with teh gooch today either, looked all over the place at times, it was like a hot potato

agreed. he should have had a pair of balls and dropped one of thE centre halves (gooch imo) instead of dropping milner (nobby should have been full back)

just got back from the game, absoloutely awful. shocking at the back and toothless up top, with nowt much in between. very disappointed

he was fucking awful today, i realise it isnt his position left back, but he even got all of the basics wrong.

http://www.nufc.com/ i have seen this lad play in the northern league a few times, clever player and has been at whitley for about 2 years doing the business, its a tough league to play at that age. he also done our reserves in this year. will be interesting to see what happens