Chris_R

Said he takes full responsibility for a shit first half because the team he put out was too young and inexperienced.

Any sane, professional manager would.

Seems remarkably 2-footed, which is always nice to see. Scored some real crackers from outside the box with his left peg. Will probably end up at Southampton.

Sounds like a perfect centre forward for us then!

If?

This, entirely. Willo is an extremely limited player, but is mostly solid provided he's not asked to do anything outside of his narrow skillset. Ie don't ask him to turn quickly or play a killer through ball. Or score from a set penis. Colo seems to be either on the wane or playing with his head up his arse. He's still young enough that he shouldn't really be on the decline as a defender, but different players peak at different times. Next year is crucial for him IMO. Taylor is just a glass version of Titus Bramble. On meth. Has all the physical attributes of a top defender, but has a brain the size of a pea and runs around like a lunatic waving his arms everywhere. MYM made many mistakes in his first season, but he's a good ball-playing DC with many great attributes and we shouldn't be giving up on him so easily. It's shocking that we are, becuase he's mroe than good enough to get into our side.

It's the same motto as his tatty chav clothes shops. Anything you find in there you could get something that's 100% better for 20% more money. But the stuff in SD is there because it is the very cheapest that will actually do the job. Compare with Newcastle, and our job is to finish 10th. So we spend the very least we have to in order to achieve it. There's no concept of spending 20% more on a player who is 100% better if the cheaper one will get the job done. And the job is to be mediocre, to survive. Because that enables him to advertise his horrid tat around the globe for another year, which is all he gives a shit about. I know I'm preaching to the converted. But I'm just having a rant really.

I'd love to get this lad, but i think i read in one of the Chronicle stories that he was scrubbed of the list because we signed De Jong. Shame as this lad is a proper gold plated superstar in the making imo. Yeah but De Jong was probably £5 cheaper so we went with him instead.

He'll have no choice in 12 months time.

How have Arsenal managed to do this so quickly? I mean, how come they've missed out all the monitoring and preparing bid stages? So rash, they'll end up like Leedsmouth.

To be fair he's probably right.

Chill out lads, we're making a profit on this one.

Lineker raised the point of Low dropping big players for big games and asked Gullit if he never did the same. Gullit replied that he did with Shearer and Shearer said 'Yes, and look what happened' To be fair they did seem to genuinely enjoy the banter with each other and looked like there were no hard feelings on either side. Was very funny really.

Gullitt and Shearer.

They're a bigger club than us.

I'm not sure it's possible for him to not score.

They know his hip has gone, so they're sensibly saving him for the Argentina match.

Played often as a lone striker for Hamburg in those matches I've seen with VdV behind him. Ah bugger. I see where our scouting has broken down. Carr will have passed this onto Ashley by telephone and the fat man will have just heard Lasogga is a "loan striker". No wonder we're interested.

"Defensive Contribution: Weak". http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Clubs/Club_Home/2013/8/23/1377269166385/Newcastle-Uniteds-manager-008.jpg

Just change the name and the date.

Mackems seem already riled: http://www.safc.com/news/team-news/2014/june/colback-statement

He's just not a left back. Should be converted to right back. His career is being destroyed by trying to play him at left back. He just becomes Jonas as soon as he gets in the opposition half. Wide players should be played on their natural sides, with the sole exception of auxiliary forwards supporting a lone striker. Right back for Santon, but he started as a right winger so maybe he could play there too. Not suggesting he'd immediately start pulling up trees at right back because he needs time to settle into it and re-learn that role, but we simply cannot play him on the left as he'll never improve one bit there and offers nothing at all going forward, which is half of a modern fullback's game.

He's simply not a left back. I don't care how often he plays there. he'll never be good at it and it's stifling the opportunity he has to become good at another position, ie right tback. At left back he can't get forward with any 'fret'. All he can do is cut inside and have a shit shot or try a useless inswinging cross that 99/100 times is easy to clear or for the goalie to gather. I'm not suggesting that at DR he'd be an instant success, but at least with time and coaching (Haha, I know!) he'd have an infinitely better chance than at a position where he's fundamentally unsuited. Why we persist with him there is utterly beyond me.

Intelligence helps. As does charisma. As does a knowledge of the game. Shearer demonstrates none of those. If he was sat there oozing passion and tactical astuteness, I wouldn't care if he was thick as mince. But when he seems to have none of those attributes I'm struggling to see why he'd be a good manager. Because he played for England? Because he's our top scorer? Totally irrelevant. On the relevant managerial points, he's sadly lacking. (Still be better than Pardew though)

Really underlines what an utter imbecile Pardew is. Not that it needs underlining, as it's already written in letters large enough to be seen from space.