Tachikoma

Oh joy Wish I watched the match

Well, even the mackems managed to spend 45 mil this season (albeit on absolute pish), so I'll be surprised if we don't match them at least. Whats stopping wise et al from doing their jobs even if we did buy a few established players anyway?

Why?

Liverpoo and Manure. Can't stand their fans.

Heart says yes, head says... we'll draw one and win the rest

Did someone record the game or something? If you did, would you mind putting it on bittorrent? I missed out on most of the game, again because I was the only one interested in watching NUFC :/

Speaking of dreams, I dreamt of west ham beating arsenal 5-0. I only saw the scoreboard though.

We are a left winger short for the 4-4-2, I guess.

If we had to revert to a 4-5-1 to protect our lead, I wouldn't have anyone but Martins to play as our lone striker

Hold on a sec, Allardyce played pretty much the exact same formation and system with all three of those at home to Derby, and he got hammered for it. Martins played right-wing that day iirc. Sam might have used a similar formation, but the approach to the game was totally different. With KK we get 433 used to link up the attack and create more chances, with Sam it was to get more bodies in midefield and stifle the opposition. In fairness, thats what happened when we played at Bolton.

Hold on a sec, Allardyce played pretty much the exact same formation and system with all three of those at home to Derby, and he got hammered for it. Martins played right-wing that day iirc. The first half was like Allardyce all over again, with "percentage balls" being knocked around randomly to no one in particular.

Harper Beye Faye Cacapa Enrique Geremi Butt N'Zogbia Owen Viduka Martins That keeps the formation unchanged at least Martins and N'Zog given free roles could help, but will Milner be available for Fulham?

Have you been watching NUFC this season, at all? Eh? If we were a tad less lucky, it would have, and it has happened before (us losing momentum then conceding one shortly after). Except it'd be more like 4 points since we'd give up one and gave them 3 more.

Have you been watching NUFC this season, at all?

Well, besides that I agree with the rest of the post.

He was doing the work of both centerbacks, to be fair.

Geremi had a good game, he should never be allowed to take another corner though. Barton is so shite that I can't think of a word bad enough to sum his performance up. AlanSmith

Barton was definitely the most outstanding player we had out today. Outstanding the way a pile of dog poop would look when served on a table of gourmet food.

it would have been a close call if Martins had stayed on and won us the match though

Agreed, Owen was the easier ball and a probable goal, Viduka was poor tonight, he looked totally unfit. He was pretty good in the first half, but looked totally knackered by the second.

Geremi 7 ? we talking about the same player here ? he looked like he had a broken ankle the way he put those corners in. I'd still have him in the middle over Barton on any given day. Barton actually looked slower than 40 year old legs Geremi.

Fair enough, but they were a lot more scared of us going forward while Martins was still on the pitch. When I saw Zoggy warming up, I thought "take anyone except Martins off". That was nearly the equivalent of committing footballing suicide; had Birmingham gotten lucky (which _is_ typical NUFC) with their pot shots they might very well have taken all 3 points in the last 5 minutes or so. Overall the result is... alright but it could have been better if Keegan had any common sense.

Did anyone notice how much the team improved as soon as Smith was told to warm up? (We scored within 5 minutes of that, I think)

Aye, which makes taking him off even more bewildering, and we really should have brought Zoggy on for the second half much, much earlier than that, since we weren't really dominating the game until Keegan told Smith to warm up

The Martins substitution was absolutely appalling, robbed us of all attacking initiative and any chance of going on to win the game in one fell swoop. We had at least 3 players he could have taken off and not weaken us defensively/offensively (Barton Owen and Viduka, and perhaps Taylor who was completely invisible in defence anyway)