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Shearer! Shearer! Shearer! I just remember reading Shearer's birthday in his profile in Match and Shoot Magazine in 1994...those were the days...

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Really happy we have a proper leftback....everyone has harped on about getting a LB since bernard left (the first time). Hope he lives up to his reputation...might help luque settle in more and vice-versa.

all sounds positive lads....can't wait till we get those "couple more signings" and we should have a strong squad for this season..can't wait COME ON LADS! FIRE UP!

Not only are his footballin skills good, he's also Best Dressed Serb of the Year 2001-2007! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivica_Dragutinovi%C4%87 Get him in!

I dunno...never liked Smith...probably more for personal reasons..but for 6mill! He's a good bike rider mind you

Why would I have my arguments mixed up?? Because they are different to yours??? Viduka is not a targetman, a targetman is someone who likes the ball hit long at them for them to knock it on to another. Ask Viduka if that's how he likes to play football? Ask him if that is his strength? Viduka is a skillful, ball playing forward not a targetman. He wants the ball played to him on the deck and to his feet or within a radius of four feet from him. Even as a bairn when I first saw him play for Melbourne Knights in 1993, when he was quicker than he is now, he always wanted the ball played into his feet. Please learn the difference. Again let me reiterate why is my interpretation any less correct than yours just because YOU disagree with it? (Actually I've just read your opinion on Cho Jae-Jin so I have no doubt that your opinion is skewed.) Look mate, it seems from your posts you haven't got your argument mixed up. It seems you really believe Viduka IS NOT a targetman. Fair enough. My qualm is that your interpretation of what is a "targetman", is very very narrow. In my opinion Viduka is often played as a targetman and therefore he can be classified as a targetman. I know that Viduka has great skills on the ball - more so, than McBride or Ferguson, but my interpretation of a targetman is a big forward who can hold the ball up and players play off. That doesn't necessarily mean balls hoofed up to them in the air and it certainly doesn't mean that's all they do. Most targetmen like the ball played to their feet and the truth is, the best targetmen score goals. Let me put it another way, Patrick Kluivert, Van Nistlerooy and even the great Van Basten can all be classified as targetmen - and they all had great ball skills. (fact they are all dutch is pure coincidence - off the top of my head..but they all did play in a 4-3-3 formation at some point... ) Now, in relation to Cho - played as a targetman for Korea in the Asian Cup. If you watched any of the matches you would have noticed Korea played a 4-3-3 formation with Cho in the middle and 2 wingers/forwards. The whole korean attack basically did 2 things: 1 either play the ball directly to cho (air or feet) and then the midfielders would make runs off him or 2 get the balls to the wings and look for cho in the middle. His role is that of a classic targetman. Whether he is a good one or a bad one is another issue. That's all I'm going to say about "targetmen" for a looooooong time.... unless it's in a military context of course...

Wow...are we playin that well or are Juve just crap now? anyway sounds very encouraging tho I guess friendlies have never been an accurate predictors for when the league starts. Very happy to hear Luque is playing well and I hope his confidence and fitness keeps increasing...

well done iraq! its almost surreal that Iraq won...very well played tho...respect

Why would I have my arguments mixed up?? Because they are different to yours??? Viduka is not a targetman, a targetman is someone who likes the ball hit long at them for them to knock it on to another. Ask Viduka if that's how he likes to play football? Ask him if that is his strength? Viduka is a skillful, ball playing forward not a targetman. He wants the ball played to him on the deck and to his feet or within a radius of four feet from him. Even as a bairn when I first saw him play for Melbourne Knights in 1993, when he was quicker than he is now, he always wanted the ball played into his feet. Please learn the difference. All I'll say about the targetman issue is that your interpretation is very very strict and narrow. IMO Viduka is mostly played as a targetman - whether he is a good one or not is another issue. anyway - i'm happy we won on penalties. The ref was appaling and totally stuffed up the game. First half I thought was normal and the game looked like it had promise but second half was a farce. Korea defended well although Japan had more chances to finish the game before penalties. Again the two korean fullbacks really impressed me.

I would be happy if we got Steve Bould. Experience, bald, i assume low wages, same name as Taylor. perfect. exactly what big sam is looking for.

And there in lies why Australia will never win against a well drilled team, Viduka isn't a target man. Duncan Ferguson is a target man, Brian McBride is a target man. Well done to Iraq, wouldn't mind seeing Haidar Abdul Amer, Iraq central defender get an opportunity to prove himself at a decent level, he looked very solid and comfortable on the ball. Dukes isn't a target man?? I think u have ur argument mixed up. You're saying that in your opinion, Viduka is NOT a good target man. In my humble opinion, I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Big Sam bought Viduka is to play him as a target man. Assuming Big Sam plays a similar 4-3-3 to what he played at Bolton, Dukes will play the position Kevin Davies was playing - as a target man with Martins and Owen playing off him. In relation to Australia, throughout the world cup last year and this year's asian cup with the exception of the Japan match, Viduka played as a targetman. Ferguson was a targetman, McBride is a targetman and Viduka is a targetman. btw I hope Iraq go on to win. beat both my teams Australia and Korea. good luck. Korea and Japan will be worth watching. apparently some japanese fans rocked up at the Adelaide casino when during the penalties and clapped when korea lost. same thing happened at the Rosemont with Korean clapping the japanese defeat. There's so much LOVE in the air....I would jus LUV it if we beat Japan! Jus LUV it!

gutted. I was really impressed with Kim Chi Woo and Oh Beum Seok (the two full backs) - infinitely better than Carr and Baba ...tho not suggesting we should get them. Cho Jae Jin would be a good buy tho. Good back up TARGET MAN to Dukes. and would bring in lots of popularity from asia...a ashley acquisition imo

YES! Korea is thru! Nice penalty by Kim Jung Woo. We should sign Kim Chi Woo and Oh Beum Suk. Really impressed with the two wing backs. Gutted with the roos yesterday...but at least korea is thru now... btw - I agree with Jaehyun on the fact Cho is a targetman...although i didn't think he won every ball against switzerland. That game we were stuffed from the start with crap tactics but that's another story. I don't know how cho will cope with more physical defenders if he moves to europe but he pretty much cleans up in Asia...absolute star this tournament imo

I'm pretty sure Verbeek will change the squad again with the experienced players...but tbh i think the team that played against bahrain was the worst. Much preferred the younger full backs...Song Chong Guk is past it. And Cho Jae Jin over Lee Dong Gook any day...

Why in the world would Martins go to Shimizu? He apparently wants to follow in the footsteps of his hero Choi Yong Soo

Come on Korea!!! We should buy Kim Jung Woo for the future O0

Carr 2?? he should be the one being phased out...

An insider source says we are signing David Carney for 2 mill and Mark Milligan for 5 mill pounds :wink: Korea needs to beat Indonesia...my sources tell me that we have signed an agreement to sign Cho Jae Jin with Martins heading the other way. This will be announced after the tournement. You heard it hear first!

agree that's the best way. seriously have some dirty players - remember sinsina mijailovijc? cracking freekicks but most racist and dirty player.

classic. Spurs must have the most timid negotiators... not that we haven't had our number of ridiculous deals....

talk about serendipity! I was thinking the exact same thing when I got up this morning....it's weird to be feeling so positive about our club in recent times....to have a manager you can trust and know he has things under control (or so we hope)...i would have been rife with worry that the Rozenhal deal hasn't been confirmed or taht we haven't signed any defenders yet...wow...it's almost an enlightening experience

http://soundsofthecinema.blogspirit.com/images/medium_bmplay05.jpg Would you say no to that? HAHAHA

george georgiadis

only one candidate for me - Given.