themanupstairs

Absolute champ. Fuck the media and fuck the PL and fuck fickle fans. Well done Louis.

He is a prick of the biggest magnitude. Absolutely hates us and always takes supreme pleasure in watching us lose. He's right on this account obviously but he's a c*** all the same. I He is a prick of the biggest magnitude. Absolutely hates us and always takes supreme pleasure in watching us lose. He's right on this account obviously but he's a c*** all the same. Been having a look at some of your previous posts, strike me as sorta angry and full of uncalled for language. Just wondered if you had any anger mangement issues? Or maybe you're just a keyboard hard case. Look at this touchy motherfucker right here

Got to be a paltry sum now. We shouldn't be spending anywhere near 10m.

Wrong captain yet again. Had Mahrez, Ighalo, Lukaku and Barkley who saved my bacon, with Ozil left to play.

This. Allen, Skrtel, Mignolet etc... All over-rated garbage.

While I agree an an ideal world Anita doesn't offer quite enough to be a starter he has been man of the match contender on at least 3 or 4 seperate occasions this season and has put Colback to shame in almost all of them, hes been far improved this season while still not being quite good enough. Nowhere near as bad as Colback. I'd have to agree. While TCD likes to try and put Anita and Colback in the same bracket, the truth is Anita is far more effective at pressing and closing down the opposition regardless of how you manipulate the stats. Neither are really good enough, but of the two only Anita is really doing his job. TCD seemed to take massive umbrage at the role Anita was asked to perform at the beginning of the season where he was dropping between the CBs and looking for the ball but doing little else. He blamed Anita for it and steadfastly ignored posts that pointed out Anita had never played that way in his entire NUFC career, and had always looked a better option in a more advanced or pressing role, therefore he was clearly being told to play that way. You're trying to rewrite history here. For YEARS i've heard people say our hoof style of play doesn't suit Anita, that he spent his Ajax career as a deep midfielder picking up the ball and distributing. He could only flourish in a side that passed it out of the back and that he was being asked to perform roles he's never done before. Which is a great excuse for a player who has been at the club over 3 years and you could count his good games in one hand. I don't even think he's ever been a regular man in one of Pardew's winning streaks or good form runs, ever. We start the season in that passing style and it's ineffective as owt. He contributed f*** all except passing it to Chancel. This is what i've been waiting to see for 3 years? It was awful. He hadn't performed in any of his other CM roles and he finally played in a fashion he was used to and it contributed diddly squat. 1 central midfielder doesn't have a pressing role, you press as a team of which we have been better at recently (especially Anita). Anita's been s*** for us at CM for 3 years, prior to this season he's had a maximum of 3 good performances at CM - if that. The difference in the last two games is that he's actually influencing the game. Closing players down quickly and winning the ball and attempting forward passes. He's managing to impose himself on games, making other midfielders look lethargic and on their heels. He hasn't done this for the majority of his NUFC career. IN the last 3 years he's been largely anonymous, letting games drift by him, passing sideways and generally just hiding from responsibility. Not too dissimilar to the Ginger lad. But props to the lad he's shown that WHU game wasn't a fluke and has shown a couple performances of real influence. Yep, there's some truth in there I suppose but you're also ignoring the fact that loads of us always said he could come good in the right system when the rest of the team functions and that is proving to be the case, at least in the last couple of matches. More actually, since McClaren stopped him playing so deep he's not had a shocker afaik, unlike others in the squad. Referring to the Pardew years and his utilisation of Anita is a f***ing joke and you know it, Anita was never suited to play his long ball horseshit and we all know it, he was never in one of Pardew's streaky runs for this reason. Pardew wanted his static formation belting the ball up to the strikers and that's not his game so he was a convenient scapegoat that Pardew is so fond of. Call it excuses if you want but once again Colback has never once, that I've seen, put in a performance as good as Vurns best, not even close to it, and that's what we're on about here comparing Colback and Anita. The main difference in performance isn't tactical. It's Anita, who has personally picked his game up. For years people have talked about Anita needing to play in a real passing team. We tried that and failed. This system is pretty direct and similar to Pardew's formations and style. It was said ANita suited a possession based game but he didn't influence that well. We've gone counter attack and more direct and his performances have been much better, the same way we've had any decent runs of form over the last 3 years. His main priority is still to protect the defence and he doesn't have a great deal of attacking responsibility. The team presses a bit more but the main difference is Anita has bucked his own game up and is stamping authority on it. A player can't be s*** for 3 years and it be everyone else's fault ffs. We are still talking about maybe 4 good CM performances in 3 years. Aye, Colback probably has 0. But in general, they've both been s***. Why does it have to be so black and white? We tried this passing game for what? a few matches this season? Why are you not taking into account that he's now had time to adjust to England, the club, and the league? Why are you not taking into account that he now plays in a team that's trying to shed the defeatist mentality he got used to under good old al pards? Yes he's under performed, and is now looking better, but it doesn't have to be one thing or another. As with every player, it's a combination of factors that bring them to be what they are today. Look at Vardy for example, would he, or anyone else have thought a few years ago when he was in the lower leagues that he would be the one to break RVN's record? Circumstances have conspired to bring him to this very moment now where internal and external factors have allowed him to make a mark on PL history.

And these are?

We play at Villa Park on the 7th of May. Relegating them by winning 1-0 with a deflected shot off Agbonlahor would be magnificent. Hopefully they'll be down by then anyway and the away fans will be sure to return the favor tenfold from 09. Sorry brummie, but I'm sure you can understand the sentiments.

GIVE BOSMAN BOSMAN WAGES

This could really be a huge weekend in our season. Sunderland are away at relegation rivals Chelsea, and Norwich are away to Man Utd. If we beat Villa and the other results go for us, it would give us some much needed breathing space.

Remy actually made them more dangerous. Costa is playing like a castrated donkey at the moment and does nothing apart from try to pick fights with everyone.

I'm not sure how you judge this 'massive influence,' but in both the games he started, we scored when he went off. He's been decent at best, but no way should be in the team in place of Perez or Mitro. He's still slow, laboured and completely useless as a creative #10. That shot that Cisse block is the only creativity we've seen from him. Maybe he will link up better with Mitro and Perez, and Cisse has been the issue, which is why I'd be okay with continuing to have him get a run in the team and get more used to the league, but then he would have to play alongside Perez and Mitro. I think his presence has helped Cisse and Anita tbh. Wijnaldum has also been slightly more involved in the general play than usual. This has led to us functioning better as a unit. His vision to play some of the simpler passes to help the team move up the pitch has been the main asset he's brought to the team. Ayoze tends to turn with the ball and drive forward but it doesn't allow the other to join in the build-up. That's no criticism of Ayoze, as they are different players with different strengths and styles. De Jong has a captain's calmness about him that has made us look more like a team while he's been on the pitch.

The title? Absolutely. I can't stand Vardy, but Ranieri and Mahrez are so likeable, and Lineker's twitter would be priceless. For that alone I hope they win it. them getting a CL spot would be f***ing incredible tbf, you get the impression that if they went and spent a load of money in january though it would end up upsetting the balance they've got, while on the other hand not spending they're likely to fall off the pace at some stage Their main problem is obviously their over-reliance on Vardy and Mahrez. An injury to one or both of them would see them tumble big time IMO.

I see he's blaming the ball boys again. Desperate. Not really. He gave what was probably his most honest assessment that he's given this season. He praised Leicester to the max, and openly admitted his side weren't good enough.

The title? Absolutely. I can't stand Vardy, but Ranieri and Mahrez are so likeable, and Lineker's twitter would be priceless. For that alone I hope they win it.

Massive hinderence. We can't progress and develop as a side with him in it but he's no way near being forced out. 3 yellows suggest he's closer than we think Pretty sure had he not got injured, he'd have served his 2 game suspension by now.

And get Matip on top of that and Realistically what would getting those 3 cost? 40 million? Would improve us markedly for the price Liverpool paid for Carroll. Crazy how close we get to having a decent competitive squad but never push the boat out to make sure we make it happen. The way Ashley celebrated Ayoze's winner the other day, and I do believe it was genuine, you'd think he would loosen up the purse strings a little to give the entire club a massive lift. Just do it you crash-dieting c***.

One dude was rattled "Don't take me home, please don't take me home". Followed by "Wanna go home, wanna go home, Tottenham's a shithole, I wanna go home" Wish I'd a been there ffs

Aye, although Krul has been s**** I'm baffled as to why Elliott is being praised to the hilt by some for making saves than any keeper in the top flight make. Krul rightly gets slaughtered for not getting a strong hand to their goal. I thought he would be worse than he's showing though. Expectations are low, and he's defying them. All you can ask of your keeper is to make as few mistakes as possible, and pull off something spectacular once in a while. Elliot has done exactly that.

It only takes a moment to change your mind profoundly forever about some things in life. It could take a few words from SMC, Steve Black, maybe Deschamps, maybe a teammate, and he would become a much better player for it. I'm hoping he's still here when it does eventually click because we'd have a much improved Sissoko on our books (for a short while at least).

is my biggest beef with Sissoko. Yup, he switches off, lazy and weak tackles etc. But on the flip side when he's in his beast mode matches, he's out there muscling and standing people up and getting his body in front of his opponent and then he's nearly impossible to beat. This guy has one of the best shoulder barges I've seen in some time (was it Ridgewell?) Think it might have been against Liverpool where he tracked his man to the RB area and made what was probably his first sliding tackle of the season. He won the ball and knocked it out for a throw. He then turned back to his defence with a look on his face as if to say "was that alright lads?" Beast Mode Sissoko is a joy to behold. Fanny Mode Sissoko is just a waste of time.

is my biggest beef with Sissoko.

I don't think Colback adds to any balance of our team. He's a warm body who gets a yellow card. He's definitely the surplus player in the side, the only questions would be if De Jong replaced him would he put in the defensive work to replace Colback, and if not, can Anita cope with the extra work he would have to put in? He already does

I remember shouting for him to bring Kane down and take the red for the team.

Could it be that our new GK coach (I wanna say Simon Smith but not sure?) has had a good influence on salad dodge?