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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 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

Ne5 isn't registered on toontastic Dave, just here and howaythetoon. Shame people still think we are better off losing at home to Birmingham than winning in the Nou Camp though. Are you implying that we'd not have lost 5-1 against Birmingham had Bellamy been in the team then? Exactly. Just like Liverpool wouldn't have been bum-raped by Arsenal reserves in the Carling Cup if Bellamy had played. What? He did? Oh. he's right you know,had bellamy stayed we'd be in the nou camp tonight,we weren't going backwards even when nhe was here. my twopenneth,gary speed leaving was more detrimental than bellamy leaving. wow

he has shut a lot of people up tonight, scoring a goal at the camp nou and setting up the guy he had a fight with to score another is the way to do it. again his on field antics over shadow his off field imo. however, i think people have fixed opinions on the lad and everyone is entitled to one, so lets put this one to bed eh! (as well as the awful puns!)

interesting to hear the scousers on north west legends tonight, none of them seem to be too bothered about his off field antics as he has been doing the business on the pitch and apparently hasnt even been booked this season (havnt checked to see if this is accurate). the general consensus is that they are only bothered about what happens on the pitch. and this is coming from fans of a club who win things

i have to say, although he has let himself down and proved that he is as thick as fuck AGAIN! i would take him back here in a flash, fromt page headlines wouldnt matter to me if we were winning games every week, and he would help us to do that. he showed last week at sjp in the first half how good he is, an di would love to see him back in black and white, because what it boils down to is that i pay my seaosn ticket money every year to watch what goes on on the pitch, which is why i would be delighted if he came back.

quality

ashton would be a great signing imo. i agree with gejon though, would much prefer sidwell and distin on free's than reo coker and ferdinand

he is fucking shite. he doesnt even do the basics that well, his distribution is awful (yet still better than shays), his decision making is awful and he is a 'liner', the only thing i could compliment him on is his reaction shot stopping, which is an absoloute minimum for a pro keeper anyway. i say sell him and promote krul to number 2 after this season

just watched the viedo on world, im nee expert like but he doesnt seem to be taking things easy, twisting, turning, sprinting. i reckon he could be back in around 4 weeks, as i say though, im no expert, just expected him to be jogging when i heard the news, not sprinting etc!

duff is thick, plain and simple, he puts his head down and runs (into people). i would take someones hand off for £7m, i really would.

it doesnt say 'thick as fuck' so i wouldnt say it was a totally fair assessment tbh.

on ssn he says he will decide at the end of the season. im fully expecting thanks but no thanks, and one if the big boys to be in

good luck to him, the lad is different class. it is worth noting that he hasnt agreed a deal yet...........

i would love them to take over, just for the 'MAKTOON' headline if nowt else seriously though, these guys would take us onto the next level

thank christ