Ronaldo

It was Euro 96. Did Shearer even play in the game at Roker Park though?

I don't think SWP ever really wanted it badly enough. He went to Chelsea and had his chances, he just never really impressed as he should have.

You should probably check out the pre-match QPR thread, in which a fair few also wanted to start Harewood. Are all those posters 'truly ridiculous' btw?

The mere fact you thought it was a good idea says it all. It doesn't matter that he scored, it's a terrible idea. Why not start a 16 year old lad in the academy in our next figure.. or Colo up front.. he might score Ok.

It was 'truly ridiculous' that I wanted a striker to start a game in which he ended up scoring? A striker who'd notched 20 goals in a previous championship campaign btw.

I've never come across anybody with worse judgement on strikers. His senior career started about 12 years ago. 6 years into that career the team about to win the premiership paid £25m to sign him. Explain to me how that equates to him being 'w*** for the majority of his pro career'. Mm i remember after harewood come on as a substitute in his debut here and you immediately started posting 'he has got to start our next league game' ignoring his match fitness and just about everything else. your knowledge is kinda shocking, so that's kinda cheeky. Do you remember who scored in our 'next league game'? You wanted to start a striker with 15 minutes of football under his belt that entire season? Ahead of Carroll and Ranger, yes. And in hindsight, it would have won us the game.

I've never come across anybody with worse judgement on strikers. His senior career started about 12 years ago. 6 years into that career the team about to win the premiership paid £25m to sign him. Explain to me how that equates to him being 'w*** for the majority of his pro career'. w*** 50% then. Shut up. Were you calling him w*** in 2004 when he almost single-handedly put us and Liverpool out of the Uefa Cup? The point was that he was a late developer. The exact percentage of his career that could be described as 'w***' isn't that important. He may well have been a late developer. Doesn't make the comment 'w*** for majority of his career' any less of an ignorant comment. As pointed out, 6 years into his career Mourinho paid £25m for this 'wank' player.

I've never come across anybody with worse judgement on strikers. His senior career started about 12 years ago. 6 years into that career the team about to win the premiership paid £25m to sign him. Explain to me how that equates to him being 'w*** for the majority of his pro career'. Mm i remember after harewood come on as a substitute in his debut here and you immediately started posting 'he has got to start our next league game' ignoring his match fitness and just about everything else. your knowledge is kinda shocking, so that's kinda cheeky. Do you remember who scored in our 'next league game'?

I've never come across anybody with worse judgement on strikers. His senior career started about 12 years ago. 6 years into that career the team about to win the premiership paid £25m to sign him. Explain to me how that equates to him being 'w*** for the majority of his pro career'. w*** 50% then. Shut up. Were you calling him w*** in 2004 when he almost single-handedly put us and Liverpool out of the Uefa Cup?

I've never come across anybody with worse judgement on strikers. His senior career started about 12 years ago. 6 years into that career the team about to win the premiership paid £25m to sign him. Explain to me how that equates to him being 'wank for the majority of his pro career'.

If you read up on his career, even for 2 minutes, which isnt the hardest thing to do with the powers of the internet .. it would all say the same.. Drogba was w*** for the majority of his pro career. Words fail me. This comment arrives in a conversation in arguement about Andy Carroll btw from a bloke with a Michael Owen avatar. Take away the last 5 years and his career was amazing was it? At 21 he wasnt even getting regular football at Le Mans. 5 years? 5 1/2 years ago Mourinho paid £25m for him. I dread to think how bad he must have been in the years preceding that.

I only wish I could reciprocate the originality of Blef's last 2 posts.

If you read up on his career, even for 2 minutes, which isnt the hardest thing to do with the powers of the internet .. it would all say the same.. Drogba was w*** for the majority of his pro career. Words fail me. This comment arrives in a conversation in arguement about Andy Carroll btw from a bloke with a Michael Owen avatar.

You saw him at 21 then.

So what?

Bags of potential? Not many strikers with bags of potential can't shoot or control a football at 21.

Shame he can't do it in the championship against all those great defenders.

because you have seen him in a team trying to play football? Seen the ball played to his feet a fair bit, same thing seems to happen 19 times out of 20.

Don't think England Under 21's are a long ball team and Carroll has fitted in well with them, been excellent, scored goals and had good reviews from the likes of Pearce. but then you know best ;-) He's got 2 goals for them, lets not pretend it means more than it does.

Serious question: I know you have your reservations about Carroll. But what did you think of both his goals against WBA in the cup? Both good goals, shame it seems to happen very, very rarely.

Right, but Carroll was in that team. There's no way he'd fit into any team trying to play football.

Long ball with those players? Well since these players would be better at playing it on the deck it's hardly relevant. Erm, that's why it's relevant.

Long ball with those players?

That striker being, of course, Carroll.

I'd personally drop Hughton off in the north sea and carry Avram up the A1 for him to be our next manager.