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Against Villa we scored twice through Kluivert and O'brien, Bellamy played well that day iirc

The defence is good, the rest of the team is pathetic and I hope this post is a wind-up

Similar thing happened before with Kluivert and Bellamy looking a pretty promising partnership, only for a legless Shearer to walk straight back into the team and ensure that partnership never saw daylight. Keep finding myself looking back and shaking my head in disbelief at just what we've done here in the past half decade or so. Players long past their best not only not being moved on, but actually gauranteed a first team spot with the team even being built around them in some cases. "Inferior" teammates not being given a fair run in the team even when they've earnt it, how pathetic is that? "Troublemakers" treated like garbage, pissed off, dropped or played out of position for the aforementioned has-beens, then sold without any hesitation when they've lashed out - even though these players were our only source of creativity, or pace, or flair. don't fall for it folks...the bellamy kluivert partnership looked good on paper. never worked on the pitch.. as for troublemakers etc i can name plenty who have played out of position when needed and it's strange that that troublemaker didn't whinge when played out of position at his previous clubs, his international club or at liverpool.....strange that ? never worked on the pitch? Everton at home, Palace away, to give 2 examples. We looked a far better team with Kluivert and Bellamy up front. Bellamy had 10 goals by December, Kluivert finished on 13 despite only starting about 25. Had they played together all season we'd have finished top 6 imo

As a side note, I always find it funny that the pundits who call Owen 'a world class goalscorer' these days are the same ones who in 2004 were calling a 34 year old Alan Shearer the best english striker by a mile

same story for Butt really. Souness didn't rate him, Roeder brought him back, Allardyce brough in replacments but then lost his job, Keegan tried to get replacments, but failed, then in came Joe 'fucking best of 1998' Kinnear who rated him as our best midfielder

5 chances to get a goal? That most certainly wasn't the Andy goal i watched on the gallowgate terraces when did Cole play in front of a Gallowgate terrace? from february 93 - may 94 a terrace? sober up man, what the hell are you going on about

5 chances to get a goal? That most certainly wasn't the Andy goal i watched on the gallowgate terraces when did Cole play in front of a Gallowgate terrace? from february 93 - may 94

5 chances to get a goal? That most certainly wasn't the Andy goal i watched on the gallowgate terraces

well that was obvious

They were all in a flurry though, that one at Sheffield United at the end of the season was his first in something like 11 games. it was his first in 4 games, and 8 in the premiership

a couple perhaps. But 11 goals in the premiership hardly represents poor performance either - how many strikes managed that this season? not many

Live in the Meadowell by any chance? People got tattoos 50 years ago, just like they do now

If you were calling him s*** after his first season then you need your head read Am I the only person who can remember long periods, usually as much as five or six matches at a time, where you'd forget he was on the pitch before he'd decide to put a shift in and then revert back to being anonymous? how many strikers have managed 17 goals in their first season in english football? pretty good return if you ask me, even if general play was erratic

my granda is 78 and his forearm tattoos looks pretty damn good tbh, they're 50 years old like

ridiculous figure to ask for IF true

if we HAVE to lose one out of Bassong, Beye, Taylor and Enrqiue i'd rather it was Tayls tbh. Not that i've haven't gained a lot of respect for the lad recently

christ, that's how you do business Less than 48 hours after their final game of the season is played they appoint their new manager. Wonder how long it would take us, 3 months perhaps?

Honestly man, he was brilliant up until his injury in December, 6 goals in 12 in our shitebag of a team

If you were calling him shit after his first season then you need your head read

Martins at least got the chances, the rest didn't. He was our only chance, and yes, he blew it. But had we ditched him after Arsenal we would have been relegated well before the last day

The alternatives were Owen, Carroll, Viduka and Shola Not one single combination from any of them would have got us out of the shite, all have horrible mobility. Which is the last thing we needed more of.

Even though he was our best player in that game and got our only goal later on? don't be daft man Played through the pain barrier for us, and looked our only striker likely to score under Shearer, despite performing poorly.

attack, midfield and defence were all equally s****. that's absolute rubbish. Midfield was by far the weakest aspect of the team, didn't do its job in any way, shape or form

if we keep Taylor, Enrique, Bassong and Beye (we'll keep at least 3 of those imo) then that's half the battle won. Guthrie could absolutely shine in the championship, same goes for Carroll, Xisco and possibly Jonas. We'll need to buy 4 attacking players but with the funds from the sale of Oba, Colo etc but this shouldn't prove too much of a problem. Straight back up

people forget that before his injury he had a 1 in 2 goal record this season