Ashley17

What a day Was really sceptical paying £20 after the first game but very happy to have done now! Atmosphere was class from start to finish, a real buzz about the place again and the players all looked like the shackles of long ball football had been released and they were allowed to play expressive football again. I was in SJH Middle Tier so couldn't really see the first goal, saw the good work from Viduka and it got bundled in, poachers goal I guess from Owen. The Emre red had everybody up in arms because from where we were it looked like a cheeky trip to stop a counter attack, so when it was red...well Uriah was even less popular. Having seen it again, it was a stupid thing to do with Rennie Henry as the ref so I'm not overly surprised it was red, there's certainly a case for it. I think everybody feared the worst following this but fair play to Pearson, he left the 2 up front and went to 3 narrow in midfield and it paid off. Getting the 2nd so quickly obviously helped. Duff, Milner and N'Zogbia, as Willow the Wisp said, could all have got MotM - all absolutely brilliant, basically played with the freedom of the pitch, and it always seemed to work. Stoke never seemed to overrun them either, which probably says more about them than it does about us. Milner's goal was well taken, and Duff's was a lovely counter attack, something we haven't done enough in recent times. He busted a gut to get there and took it so so well. Zog got Man of the match officially and I can't really argue with that. Owen looked better than he has but still looked a bit off the pace - he doesn't really seem sharp to flick ons, maybe it's the whole lost his pace argument but he just doesn't seem to see them coming anymore. Carr and Enrique did well as what effectively was wing backs, Carr is still fatter than holy hell but did a good job. Shame we didn't get the clean sheet but it's quite fitting really, and it had to be that tit Lawrence who scored... But of course the best part of my day was my 30 second grumpy conversation with PM about how much of a terrible match it would be. I've never been happier to be wrong (That was before we knew Keegan had been appointed!)

Cheers mate!

Houllier and Shearer could be like a good version of what Roeder and Shearer achieved. Thompson was good for Houllier because he knew what the club was about, Shearer could do a similar job here. I feel dirty for mentioning Shearer, Thompson and smiliar in the same paragraph but you get my gist. Obviously someone who isn't Shearer could work as well..

Just thought, maybe Edgar could play midfield? Hasn't he done it for Canada's youth teams or something? Also, has Rozenhal done it before, or is that a myth that is treat as reality because it's not the worst idea ever?

Emre. N'Zogbia or Rozenhal at a push. Other than that, not a lot.

It is completely mad and would never have thought about it until a week ago, then again a week ago I was all set for the Allardyce 5 year plan. Sense goes out the window at this club, may aswell go with the maddest option to date and see what happens.

Please.

Batty!?

But other than that his team's fine, aye

Haha I can't believe everyone of our possible holding midfield players is unavailable for one reason or another, only we could manage that. Barton, Butt, Smith, Faye, Geremi, fuck sake. Probably end up playing Rozenhal in there or something, can't see him going with Emre and Zog, but then I don't even know if we have 11 available players

Clear what the plan is tbh. Sound out Hughes, unsettle him so they lose at Bolton. Hughes appointed at us midweek, knows how to beat Bolton now, beat Bolton, fire him, get a new manager every week. Sorted.

Really inspiring pre-match music at the Reebok

Everyone knew we were going out to AZ when Roeder uttered the words "I don't see us having to score" or words to that effect. That and the dodgy pen at SJP.

It was bizaare, I grew up in the era of hating Man Utd a lot and thus have hated them since the days of Cantona and the 8 minutes of stoppage time at Sheff Wed and all that shite, obviously our form has dipped over recent years and we were no longer rivals to them so I stopped caring, then watching Ronaldo dive around today and Ferguson being a dick about it made me remember all the hatred, so when the first goal went in from the dodgy free kick following Owen's onside goal I was fuming. Then the 2nd went in after comedy...then the 3rd, and I stopped caring. How sad is that? Stopped caring about how heavy it would be, there's nobody to blame anymore, no shit board, no manager, not the amount of games we've played, just the fact that we played a much much better team. That and the fact we're shite.

Sibi!

He only scored the winner in the Champions League final, what a dick

I thought the second 'c' was pronounced as 's' but it could be 'sh'

I'm sick to fucking death of people saying there's only one way we can go, and that's "up." We're 11th for fuck sake, we're closer to 12th than 10th, sorry if it's pedantic but it annoys me.

Hartlepool level. Wullie's face lights up into a frown

That's funny to me

You off your tits son? You've posted half the latests in this thread and half in the other games thread

Yeah 5.15pm. I fear a Steve Clarke at Old Trafford performance tbh

Is that our Big Geordie from Washington getting his e-mail read out?

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7-8 threads on the same thing, usually nothing even to do with the club. Probably the worst thing about the place, i cannot see how that's possibly a good thing at all. And anything that hasn't been discussed for 15 minutes is about 3 pages away and lost forever. Like someone said earlier, there's no real discussion goes on, just a lot of bickering followed by 8 threads on Coronation Street and 62 reasons why NUFC are shit.