Lotus

Balanced viewpoints ftw. I despise Ashley and everything he stands for but don't think we are 'actively not competing'. I don't think we're throwing games purposely but we've came out and said the cups will be used for team building, I would constitute that as actively not competing tbh. If we were remotely competitve in the league you could easily excuse using the cups for that. As we're not bothered about competing in anything it's somewhat galling.

It's great to be as small minded as them isn't it? When only 2 games a season are worth bothering about.

And that buying to compete worked ever so well didn't it (short period with SBR aside - and he fell into Shepherd's lap). We are built to improve steadily, we won't spunk cash on an instant hit, because whatever we did spunk would be trumped times 10 by the City's and Chelsea's etc. I knew ToonPap would be in here. Telling us that, although he doesn't know Ashley, he knows men like him. Strong, powerful, alluring, success driven types, who never accept second best. Who shoot for the very top and never fall short. How we're so lucky so sit within the quivering folds of his obesity. How selling your best performers without replacing them is how every great sporting endevour should be run. Mug.

That's where everyone would like to be but how many clubs have the middle ground? I'd have thought every club in the Prem. None of them that i know of are in liquidation due to over spending and all of them have bought players. Am i wrong?

I wasn't.

Gosh, you're convincing

As per normal, i'm no wiser for reading your posts. They don't contain much.

Reminds me of this post: It's true though, I've associated smug, non-sensical tedium with that poor kid's face now and there's no going back. :lol:

Yeah, you need the other players to something with the ball though. That's my issue! So your issue isn't with him? Probs need to read my longer post on the page before, soz.

Yeah, you need the other players to something with the ball though. That's my issue!

What is it that has you unconvinced? He does what he does very well imo. I feel like i must be missing something, i really do! Is he a defensive hard nut, like Roy Keane? No. Is he like Makalele then, clever postioning, always winning the ball back with great interceptions or brilliantly timed tackles, the sort of guy that you KNOW the oppostion won't get past? No. Is he a deep lying playmaker then with a great range of passes, like, say...Carrick? No. Is he like Dyer then, brings the ball out at speed, running it upfield? No. Can you think of any other player you'd be confident playing him with in just a 2 man midfield? That last question is the crux for me. Anita seems like a facilitator, someone with a good 1st touch which allows him to move the ball on quickly but without the range of passes to be effective as an attacking force, a good engine but without attributes to impose himself defensively. I wanna be wrong like but i think, if we sign a midfielder then he will be the one dropped.

Wish i could be sold on this guy, but i'm not....

Surprise surprise, looked better in the middle....

Personally, i'm not doubting his attitude, although others might be, but i think his application has been off and his decision making last night was quite poor at times. He could do with some competition.

We will need him for front post flick on's if Santon continues to take corners...... :lol:

As said, he was unlucky not to score but given the opportunities he had to play a much better ball, he made some poor choices yesterday (apart from getting involved with that knacker )

Thought he wasn't very good today anyway. Shame our options are pants.

You might be joking here, but it's a decent point. How about we buy a player that's f***ing in form? Just looking to make money again. Because no one who is actually in charge has any sporting ambition at all.

You, his mum, dad, useless brother and nobody else would be my guess. Looks like he surprised quite a few people other than the ones you mentioned. Might even have surprised you a little in the first half particularly, but even if he did, you wouldn't come out and admit it, would you? He did OK at times. It's still beyond an embarrassment that he's starting games for us in the PL. Tbf, he did better than 'ok' at times. He had some very good moments indeed. Very good. There's a Prem player in there if he can get the experience.

Can't throw him in against the mackems.

:lol: Tbh, i'm not sure what else he could have done. We never retreated to our own 18 yard line, we never stopped trying. We just didn't have the quality to score.

I think Ron's been doing the same thing but without the latter realisation

Tired. But i expected that. Would have been subbed earlier if we had a squad to speak of.

Couldn't fault the subs, wasn't like he had options!!! Not his fault Remy was having a bad day in the box.

He could pass it occasionally when he's in the box. Sometimes there's players in better positions who aren't being closed down by 3 men.