nufcjmc

He did aye. Looked worrying... would possibly mean buying him injured if all this were true I would be keen to find out how much we recon we would get for charlie boy and how much you recon we would need to buy giles ??

put it this way we have not had much to shout about this season except the run in the uefa, I for one would say its a good thing to give the team a "pat on the back" when we play well and they deserve being boo'ed when we play poorly. I know what your trying to say when it comes to reacting over the top, but i feel the side need a boost and the way we played followed by the reaction of the fans can only help the side

it was the performance more than the result. I for one had us down for a hammering due to the awful performances of late but to keep the title contenders at bay and possibly win shows how much our fans appreciate some good football.

yes you right... but no insurance is on 100% replacing the loss. in any kind of way NUFC still suffer. Well every club with international players suffers from time to time. Just because in this case, we're suffering more than others doesn't mean the rules should change retrospectively to suit us. no but we aren't wanting a one off rule just for us the reason we are getting any support at all is because that most teams see the international scene as a chance to raise players profile but one big risk.

i remember seeing the entire spanish under 21 side at the metro centre a few year ago was funny to see them walking and pointing at all the lovely lasses

shola at church dyer in the metro centre signing a few autographs near nando's bowyer in primark in newcastle shearer at the chippy in in chester le street

cause they have tried their best to get him to sign a contract and he wouldnt as he wants to move on. Simple really if he was being let go for no reason, or being sold off then i would join you I think Dan is implying he is a mercenary b****** basically, aye. He should fit right in. so every player who doesnt stick by the club his whole carear is a mercenary- I cant be bothered as I'm at work to look into this but how many times has sidwell moved and for what sort of money?

cause they have tried their best to get him to sign a contract and he wouldnt as he wants to move on. Simple really if he was being let go for no reason, or being sold off then i would join you

owen -shola shola-owen. Id guess both those partnerships would be pritty much the same nope one is playing on the left and the other on the right and vice versa .... ok its the best i have sinse ive made myself look stupid

Taking Owen into consideration we've bought the wrong striker. I'm assuming that means you think them as a pair would not work? Even though we have not seen them play together? Just like an owen anelka partnership may not have worked, while i feel martins link up play is bad he is still young and to be on his own or with the very slow sibbers I don't feel it is right to be making these big leaps in judgement till we see them both play together till say xmas (that's if we hang on to both of them) I'm guessing Shola and Owen will be a better partnership. parky what i mean is that none of these partnerships that your talking about have been tried and tested. owen -shola owen- martins owen- carroll martins-shola shola-owen. I just dont see why we need look at anelka as a missed signing as he has as many bad things going for him as good. I see the perferred strike partnership again guessing everyone stays and no big trophy striker comes in then it will be owen - martins will it be the next sir les and shearer partnership only time will tell.

That is beacause he was substitute in half the games. Due to the emergance of Emile Heskey and Robbie Fowler. That is beacause he was substitute in half the games. Due to the emergance of Emile Heskey and Robbie Fowler. we are still talking about a very young injury free on fire owen and then none drame queen hungry anelka, both players have changed and even if it did on some level work "back in the day" they are like different players now and I still think a partnership may or may not work.

season over or not if owen is fit i think FS will want to keep him away from any mins on the pitch as we all know what will happen 20 mins for us = another cap for england, and although you cant keep him in cotton wool i would hope if he was to get injured it would be playing for us than for england

Taking Owen into consideration we've bought the wrong striker. I'm assuming that means you think them as a pair would not work? Even though we have not seen them play together? Just like an owen anelka partnership may not have worked, while i feel martins link up play is bad he is still young and to be on his own or with the very slow sibbers I don't feel it is right to be making these big leaps in judgement till we see them both play together till say xmas (that's if we hang on to both of them)

martins is younger new to the league (anelka has had 3 stints in the prem now) and I can only see Anelka's valuation going down where as martins i can see at going up seen as he has not reached his peak. I feel that although martins needs to improve i would rather have him then the stroppy frenchman anyday

Martins being the type of player that will score us goals when owen is injured so even if we sign no strikers (god please say we will), were not a one striker team. Also Given making noises to say he is staying at the toon, top keeper has his weaknesses but has kept us in so many matches. Also agreeing with the Janitor here, I'm so glad this season is comming to an end, although it hasn't been a nothing season in the sense that we have had cup runs, it still has for a few different reasons a season to brush under the carpet.

I know this may seem very random but I knew Liam Atkin a regular from the reserves who never managed to break into the first team, I remember him telling me he was on something like 2,000 a week (again he could of been boasting as he is that sort of lad) but he said that the goal for every lad was to get into the first team not for pride, personal glory or achievement but cause it was the pay day of a lifetime. It just seems to make me worry how we are bringing up the fringe/reserve and acadamy players to be like. They see the luque's of this world going the training sessions drive off in the bentleys and jags to there multi million pound pad, why do these lads wanna then play for the club. The glory or the money?

in an ideal world any sort of cheating would be punished but the sad fact is there is an element of it in everyside i feel be it a certain player or a particular tactic. I for one would rather fight fire with fire until the day comes of a system to stop it. If we got into the uefa cup final and were drawing then with 10 mins to go the other side buy a penalty, an then we go and get one ourselves does that make us just as bad as the other side or smart no one would remember us as the poor souls who missed out on the cup just the loosing side.

very true i think there is a fine line between any descision thats why it needs someone to descide rather than it being black and white. Teams are dirty, teams cheat, teams create chances with obvious dives, and making mountains out of mole hills. BUT and here is the key, they may get a bad rap but they get the glory and after a few seasons no one remembers how it was won just that it was.

dont want to start the whole is kuyt similar to anyone else or better than anyone else but I see Kuyt much like the bellamy we had when we were in champs league etc. He is a play maker and was never going to set the league alight. When i saw the world cup and him consistantly being played on the wing in the midfield i knew he was a play maker. Not that i want to make a giant leap here but if martins stays fit this lad will out score kuyt and yea i agree with you menace if i can think of where to put my 10 millon now the younger, keener, quicker martins does it for me everytime.

smart money would be on emre due to the whole racist thing, butt isnt safe either as he is 31 now? 32/33 next season so we need to think about replacements. As for parker I agree he hasn't been the player we had last season but he is only 27 so would be a better one for the future than butt plus roeder made him the captain so unless parker wanted to leave nothing is going to change.

more likely if liverpool were wanting to show off their new found wealth then it would be david villa they will go for seen as they were linked to heavily in the summer. Also rememebering back to the whole thing surrounding the transfer rafa let him go on to pastures new owen always said that he was a liverpool for life man and he went anyway. I have to think that rafa would feel mega red faced if he put in a 12million bid for a striker he didnt want to hold onto. Also have to agree pundits the world over would be giving owen a hard time for comming to a team playing under 1000 mins and leaving,

i wouldnt say he has good judgement then, if i was picking a game to play in why the hell would you pick a game against i side wanting to push for second in the prem. I'm not saying that he doesn't have a tendancy to disappear to the treatment room for long periods of time but like taylor27 made he was a low cost signing. I think it was more like 1.8 than 1 million though but still if we really want to stop complaining about the back 4 we need to invest into it. 9 million for one off woodgate isn't good enough when you want europe.

i think we have went from one extreme to another, when GS was in charge he bullish got rid of the "rot" and then filled it with the talent he felt the club deserved and 99.9% of the time the guy was plain wrong. FFS really wanted to make the fans happy on making quite a few hiccups and he descided the best was was to throw money at it. It is pritty much the opposite now we have no money we have been touted for a take over a few times and he has become restless he doesnt want to make the same mistake and bank on bankrupcy aka leeds to get where he feels we should never have moved away from. So in some respects roeder is in the shit, he doesnt have a lavish transfer budget and he doesnt want to waste the clubs small pot, so he went out in jan with no cash and lied or was lied too, the youngen's have done the club and themselves proud by comming in and doing a job, ok they dont have the flair and skill as some but we have never had a solid defence and two or three of these lads edgar, huntington and taylor really could have a long term future being young and egar they have probably saved the culb from buying another two or three boumsongs and getting us no further forward. Now injuries are all gone we should now be working really hard to fine "the back four" there are alot of different combinations but now we are out of two cups and gooch is cup tied in the uefa why dont we stick to a league side and dont ship out unless injured. In my opinion it should be solano- taylor-gooch-edgar two youngens and two more experienced players makes a balance and then once we play in the uefa drop gooch for bramble or moore i dont know why he wants to stay playing while we are still fighting not to be dragged back into the bottom third of the table.

I have to agree its hard to say that had bramble and carr had of not been in the team we would have won, I predicted a draw from this game as we really arent that good normally down there. But I like you was left tugging my hair and scratching my head wondering why on earth a suspended nobby through the week would justify carr's stay in the team. As for bramble i think roeder was trying to use "the heavies" two big lads trying to dominate play from set pieces but it just didnt work, taylor has proved to be a starter in the back 4 and i just wish he would have stayed to being in the middle as for huntington I dunno now we know the result i would have preferred him being in the side and keeping gooch on the bench, the lad had only had one practice session and roeder in the past has shown he doesnt rush a player back well i think he maybe should have done the same thing with gooch to settle in, see more practice matches and see which pair would work. I really think at times someone else is telling him what to pick and do as this team selection had me baffled.

i dont think any player earning thousands of pounds per week will ever care about what fans think he still gets paid but if thats gonna be the response then there is no point in talking about any player.