themanupstairs

we heard you the first 300 times

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The 'on paper' quality of our players could well play a part in our downfall, ironically. As I said in another thread, these players know they can get a transfer to a decent club. They've no massive incentive to fight, so why bother? FML

Surely our main strength is that we have a more than decent playing roster on paper. Our squad is full of internationals (or past internationals) who have the experience of playing top level football. We're just not applying ourselves as well as we should be, which is down to mis-management.

I'm hoping that the return to fitness of Guthrie and Barton will be key

Roy of the magpies surely!?? The man has worked everywhere, and has one of the most impressive CV's in the league. Worked for Inter, so must be familiar with the whole DOF system. His knowledge of football and tactics is absolutely immense, and he has Fulham playing with spirit, pride and most importantly his players play for him and each other. He's made some inspired signings in AJ and Etuhu, and he's even got Bobby Zamora playing well!! Obviously the result against Man Utd. has been a sweet cherry on top, but looking at their stats.....well, they've done pretty damn well this season, and can build on this. What I'd give to have in charge an intelligent and experienced manager with guts! Never seen the fucker smile. I like managers who never smile, and on that basis alone I'd give him the job. Forget Bruce, Hodgson's our man

What? No Haris Vukcic? No James Tavernier? Two of the more promising fellas by all accounts? I dunno I expected more from Jonny Godsmark for some reason. His name is fucking cool. I voted for Tim Krul personally, and would like to see him, Kadar, LuaLua and Ranger come through. Inman's a bit young for now, but hopefully he'll develop into a cracking little player.

always thought it referred to a snatch tbh

Aye, on a par with Beye's best this season. I'd say he's been slightly more valuable than Habib simply because of his crucial goals. Yeah, but Beye's season has been stop-start in terms of both short and long term injuries. Agree with Ronaldo that our best back 4 is Beye Coloccini Bassong Enrique No arguments there at all. Just giving Taylor the credit for his decent run at RB

Aye, on a par with Beye's best this season. I'd say he's been slightly more valuable than Habib simply because of his crucial goals.

Yup. Had a decent chat with him all those yrs ago when he played for Rangers. Absolutely loves NUFC (not). Good craic. Pinched my arse though! the cheeky git

Nonsense he has been consistently dreadful all season I've heard people continuously excuse him despite him costing our team what is a quite staggering amount of goals. Surely his performance against Liverpool still sticks in people's minds no...? that 1 v 5 lost was unbearable I've been disgusted by performances at St James Park before but never have I been more disgusted at such a gutless and dismal performance in a Black and White shirt before as Coloccini put in that day at fault for the 2nd goal, 3rd and for the 4th he should of been hurled off for alone. Quite staggering really the amount of goals he has cost us this season here just few off of that long list - - Stoke Home 1st goal at fault turned and out paced by Ricardo Fuller... Bolton Away at fault for the only goal failed to spot the danger and come across to defend the ball in left Gardner completely free... Sunderland Home 1st goal far to deep then decided to try and play Cisse offside clueless idiot... West Brom Home at fault for 1st goal pulled to pieces by Ismeal Miller... Everton Away failed to mark his zone on the areal ball to let Falliani free to score... Fulham Away at fault for the second goal his reckless lunging tackle on Johnson gave away a easily preventable penalty... West Ham Away 1st goal at fault completely lost Craig Bellamy run I'll let him off the 2nd although arguably his fault also.. Blackburn Home dreadful marking on Santa Cruz for the second headed goal... Hull City Home at fault second goal turned by Marlon bloody King... Manchester United Home at fault for 1st goal far too tight on Wayne Rooney... West Ham Away at fault for third goal cowardly turned his back on Di Michele shot... and that isn't even all of them.................. For me his performances away at Chelsea, Boro and Manchester United were possible his only decent or good (if your kind) performances all season and at £10 million that's not good enough. Quite rightly ousted from the Argentinian National Squad in recent months... Cannot stand the bloke.. What a load of nonsensical bollocks. By that token, it's every player on the pitch who does not produce a magnificent individual effort that you should single out. How about singling out every one of our strikers for not going on solo runs to smash home 5 or 6 goals per game? It's a f***ing team game in case you haven't noticed. I could also say Given is useless for not saving those chances that "Coloccini cost us". Bullshit. But when you have an agenda, I suppose you would go to great lengths to type out every incident (in this case goals conceded) to make a point.

Hull manager Phil Brown has been fined £2,500 and warned as to his future conduct by the Football Association. The charge relates to a touchline confrontation at Newcastle on January 14. t*** edit: source - BBC

The bear did eventually admit to wiping his ass with the rabbit though

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What the f***? Yep, I can't stand him anymore. I tryed to defend him after the first match (even because of the 11 millions we paid for him...), but now it's more than enough. He's a disaster, and he's contributing pretty much to our poor displaying. I'd rather like to see an Academy kid in his place, hoping that someone's going to take him off our squad next summer. Alright Vic?

A man amongst boys

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Well done Jose son Nailed on to score against Arsenal

Agreed

what a wonderful post full of (man) love

And the fact he can't pass, run or header makes him an even bigger c*** in my eyes. Total waste of time, he should have stayed at Brum, that was his standard at the time and he has only got worse since! That's a load of bollocks tbh Spot on. Were "Taff" or "Kryten" at Hull, where Butt held things together single-handed? Were they even at the Everton home game, when he was outstanding? Did they watch the last dozen or so games of last season, when he performed well week in, week out? Yes, he's nowhere near the player he was, but the abuse he gets on here says far more about this board than him. My advice to him is to get a hair transplant and grow a bubble perm or pony-tail. Then he might get the same easy ride as Colo and Jonas (both vv poor recently) on here. Then maybe we should drop Colo and Jonas and see if that makes us play better football? It didn't seem to have much effect last season when Keegan had great lads like, Duff, Smith and Milner to call on as well as Butt and Geremi, but because Butt is saying all the right things it must be someoene else's fault that our midfield is s*** and SLOW. tbf mate no one's saying Butt should play because he talks sense or is a good lad. When he's fresh and not over-played, he plays quite well tbh. He just can't play week in week out, and can't play 2 games a week. Sorry like but if you watch the Hull game for example you'll see that Butt contributed far more positives to the team than Jonas did all game.

And the fact he can't pass, run or header makes him an even bigger c*** in my eyes. Total waste of time, he should have stayed at Brum, that was his standard at the time and he has only got worse since! That's a load of bollocks tbh

I fucking hate birmingham city though tbh. It's an unjustified hatred really....but I just think of really bad curry poo when I think of or read the name of the club