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Speed's short passing game was atrocious? What a load of nonsense.

Malandro doing his best to look ridiculous, as usual.

Never said it was 'bad' as such. But we can all agree that Shearer was rarely effective unless the players behind him were doing their bit. Best striker in the league by a mile for a good few years, don't get me wrong.

Have you ever considered that those Chelsea players look so good because of Drogba? Look at his assists.

Do you have Shearer's away goals stats (92-97) to hand? No? Your response was shit.

Neesy would get a sizeable grant if we sent all of his posts to his local council/authority.

It's an old arguement, but his 4 league goals from open play from 3O apps in 04-05 tell you everything you need to know about him going on too long. A season later I think he managed about 6. Anyway, that's all irrelevant in this thread.

Full marks for originality as always, Spence. Idiot.

The other thing, Shearer was a little too reliant on those around him, which is why he was often anonymous away from home.

What have I started? There's little between them, but today's Drogba guarentees goals and he get the best out of those around him, he creates an astonishing amount of chances/goals for others. He's the most complete striker I've ever seen in the prem. I'd be more tempted to take Henry out of my team.

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You must be insane, James.

Just proves that the journos are just as stupid and lazy as we give them credit for.

Based on?

The fact that some folk feel the need to accomodate a player who failed to shine even in the championship says it all. Hype has done wonders for his career.

There are a lot of people (at SJP) living in cloud cuckoo land as far as goals are concered, we have no firepower beyond Andy Carroll, which is disgraceful, frankly.

I'd be tempted to pick Campbell if fit and move Williamson to RB until Taylor or Simpson get fit. Perch may turn out to be an ok squad player, but he's just a liability atm.

He's about 27 and a poor footballer. This isn't going to change.

Lovenkrands ran onto Carroll's flick-ons about 3 times last season. Lovenkrands is neither a good partner for a Carroll nor a player who'll have an impact from the bench.

I've just read that Blackpool had more possession. Laughable. If that isn't acknowledged in Hughton's saturday teamsheet; he isn't our man.

I think we'll probably pay a few times this season for having one PL standard striker. It's embarrassing that Lovenkrands is still involved. No other PL squad would go near such a horribly limited player.

People are probably more pissed off that manager isn't learning from his mistakes than the fact we've thrown away 3 points.

Agree completely with GT. Nolan will grab the odd headline but will generally be a terrible hinderance to team play.

4-1 against Pompey most certainly wasn't a worse result than this one. Pompey were a good side at the time, Blackpool are shite.

Yet nobody has mentioned a worse result.