KaKa

Meh ... Williamson and Colo will do!

Swap him for a combo of DiSanto and Van Aanholt.

That Lee looks like a nice little player like.

 

Yeah, great find for Bolton. Where did they get him from again?

 

Some Korean team for about 70 pence. Great signing by Megson.

So satisfying when you pull one out of the blue like that. He's been really impressive all season.

Excellent play by Elmander that time. Really expect him to begin to look better under Coyle, who will encourage better football.

Tottenham have been so average without Lennon. Matter of fact they have been poor.

That Lee looks like a nice little player like.

Yeah, great find for Bolton. Where did they get him from again?

Elmander's confidence needs to come back as it's letting him down in his finishing. I like his movementthough and he's a good athlete.

Carroll isn't the main problem FFS. We could have any one of our strikers up front and they'd struggle.

 

Centre mid consisting of any combination of Nolan, Smith and Guthrie is piss poor, slow as f*** and clueless.

 

Curious that Nolan/Guthrie dominated Cardiff, yet throw Smith in behind them and it falls to s***.

They didn't do too well against Derby though.

 

Most of our team are inconstant. Good one game and terrible the next.

 

Of Smith, Nolan and Butt, I think it's a mistake to play more than one in the central midfield as they are all knackered. I would go for Smith and Guthrie if I had to pick two.

Amen my friend!

Waaaah waaah waaaaaah Carrol is the worst player we have! 

 

 

Yeeeeah yeeeeah yeeeeeah Carrol we love you! 

 

Carroll is still f***ing s***, it's only statistics that with all the headers he f***s up one or two will sometimes be good.

 

That's 5 goals in 6.

 

So? If our target man was any decent it'd be more than that with our long ball tactics tbh.

 

If your being serious that is even funnier!

 

Of course I'm serious, anyone not wearing "He's a local lad, he's teh best since Shearahhhh lolz!!!11!1one!!1" glasses sees that.

 

Our target man should be getting a goal every game   Your funny.

 

 

Where was Carroll prior to his scoring run? If we had a target man that could actually steer his headers towards other players, and use his feet as well, we'd easily be a much better side. I'm not saying a target man needs to score, but Carroll offers nothing besides being lucky a few times in recent games. Ranger for instance, whilst still being very raw, shows sign of being a decent target man in that he can hold up the ball and actually aim headers. It's a shame he can't put them away. Carroll is just a young Tore Andre Flo tbh.

 

You should look at how many assists Carroll has, it might just surprise you.

 

I don't need to look, as I'm well aware. He's still not good enough to be first choice striker for us, I'd be concerned if he was our 4th choice striker, even. He'll never make it at the top level, and while he'll be good enough until we (hopefully) get promoted, we need rid of him in the summer and bring in someone that's actually a footballer.

 

Well it's not 'offering nothing' than is it, when he is scoring and assisting.  How about you put some logic into your next argument.

 

Andy Carroll has 7 in 24 apps and 5 assists. We have 48 goals, which means he's been involved in 12 of them, which in itself doesn't sound bad. Though, when you look at all the chances he's had to set people up and to put more away, it starts to get more shocking. You can't waste that many chances, if we'd not have Nolan around fluking one in here and there earlier in the season, those errors would be much more apparent and could single-handedly be a reason for us being around mid-table rather than at the top of the table. He has 65 shots (headers included), whearas 20 have been on goal.  We're s*** at getting the balls to him though, but you'd imagine a player like the one you're describing would be able to produce more than statistically 2.7 shots a match, wouldn't you? I mean, after all, he has "5 in 6". But wait, 5 in 6? What happened before those 6? Oh, yeah, he did almost nothing. I can't find his completed pass percentage, but I'm fairly certain that when and if I do find it, it will be less than 30%. He's not a good striker, we're not a good team. It's not a good match when we need ability up front to make up for the shitness of the rest of the team, especially in midfield. If he can only get 56 shots fired in the Championship, what would he do in the Premiership?

 

He's not good, the numbers speak for themselves. What he does on the pitch speaks for itself. I'm not blinded by one lucky scoring run. Basically, he offers us pretty much nothing. I'm fairly certain even Ameobi would be banging some of the headers Carroll has missed straight in.

 

Unbelieveable.

 

What? The actual statistics of Andy Carroll this season? I know.

 

That's funny, your funny.

 

You're.

 

If you don't want to have an actual debate about something to defend your opinion, I'll resort to childlike petty replies as well. 

 

Actually, i dissected your massive post - just up above.  Where you contradicted yourself more than once

 

It's also been pointed out that other strikers offer goals too, except a lot of the others offer more than that. Shola, Lovenkrands, even Ranger offer more than just goals. And before you say 'just goals!?' think about Nolan.

 

Shola doesn't offer anything except goals, in fact Carroll offers more than him, Ameobi is a better goalscorer - that i would agree on. 

 

So then surely your point is moot if you're basing your argument to have Carroll in the team is based around goals? Carroll is easily the most one dimensional striker we have.

 

Not at all, Shola is the most one dimensional striker we have.  Carroll actually lays on goals for his team-mates.

 

Carrolls link up play was on display for everyone to see today after all. How wonderfully he dove-tailed with Lovenkrands to lead the Swansea defenders a merry dance. 

I've seen little of Best but so far he look slike the best at holding the ball up and linking play amongst all our strikers.

Caroll falls over too much and gets involved in silly scraps, Shola is always fouling defenders, Loven looks to get in behind and doesn't drop deep. Ranger is the other who holds up play and links well, but he is seemingly being brought along slowly.

Forest down 1 - 0.

Considering how bad things looked a few hours ago, today might turn out alrightish in the end.

For god's sake guys. Lovenkrands offered f*** all in that much. Shola is forever injured. Jury's out on Best. We have a 21 year old striker who is scoring goals consistently. He may be lacking things from his game but he's still learning.

 

Enough of the f***ing knee-jerking!

He has to play alongside someone who can hold the ball up, because despite his size the ball never sticks with him. Best has to start upfront.

Anyone else surprised by Fitz Hall's play?

One of those guys that has just been passed on from one average team to another, but looks a lot better than I thought he would. Very surprising.

At least Best was physically present when he came on. Don't want to see Loven out there from the start again, just to weak physically.

 

Are you having a laugh or what? We had 25% possession when he was on the pitch. How on earth can we expect a player like Lovenkrands to perform under long ball, hit and hope conditions.

I know, I know. I have explained this further since.

It's not Loven's fault. I'm saying we are so bad at taking advantage of the way he plays that it hurts us having him out there.

I can't see us changing or improving the way we play and so ... it's just terribly frustrating.

At least Best was physically present when he came on. Don't want to see Loven out there from the start again, just to weak physically.

 

Looked alright to me, got involved at least. Due in part to us actually starting to try like.

The thing about Loven is he doesn't drop off to pick up the ball and then look to link our play. Ever.

He is constantly looking to get in behind, and to be fair he does make some lovely runs, however we are so incapable of spotting them never mind actually playing a decent ball to him that it is all pointless.

On  a team like West Brom or Cardiff Loven would score 50 in this league. Oddly enough he is a liability to us unless he is coming on late.

Most undeserved point ever.

In the history of football's very existence. Definitely.

I still feel like it was a loss.

Awful stuff 

At least Best was physically present when he came on. Don't want to see Loven out there from the start again, just to weak physically.

ALL CREDIT TO LEON BEST FOR THE CROSS.

NONE TO CARROLL!!!

Nolan is actually retarded ...

We'll be lucky to make the playoffs at this rate. Why do we try this horrific brand of anti-football away from home?

KaKa reckons its because Hughton is a tactical genius

 

If we had just stuck with the 4-5-1 away we wouldn't be on the way to two consecutive losses.

 

Stuck with the 4-4-2 again today and hey presto.

 

There is absolutely no way in the world that the formation has been the problem today. 4-5-1 and they still would have put zero effort in.

My argument is we are so bad at actually playing football that we might as well accept it and commit to being an anti-football team completely and go 4-5-1. We'll be even more solid defensively, and then we can just try to nick goals from set pieces. We just have to get out of this league by any mean possible.

We'll be lucky to make the playoffs at this rate. Why do we try this horrific brand of anti-football away from home?

KaKa reckons its because Hughton is a tactical genius

If we had just stuck with the 4-5-1 away we wouldn't be on the way to two consecutive losses.

Stuck with the 4-4-2 again today and hey presto.

Nolan is just disgusting.

Guthrie and Smith in the middle is our only hope in hell.

Carroll stinks.

Loven is very weak physically. Definitely should be used as an impact sub. Awful game today.

Andy Carroll is the worst ever ...

Lovenkrands has been completely worthless ...