Revolution Number 9

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-chronicle-mags-were-offered-rodwell.950308/ This entire thread Wow.

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but good signing if they can keep him fit.

Beye was class in 07/08 like, the only player that season who seemed to play well every game.

Unless Poyet's transfer budget was £30m+ they're going to struggle to fill their squad with any kind of quality again this year. Loans ahoy. Also, if this goes through they'll have a £40m+ strike force of Borini, Fletcher, Wickham and Altidore

Not as much of a blow when we all knew it was coming and a replacement has come in already. Hope he does well

You know, somewhere out there, there's a French football forum using Google translate on everything we say and laughing their tits off.

True, though if they finally go down it would soften that particular blow quite a bit.

Wickham looks like he wants out, N'Diaye and Scocco look like they're on their way, about 7 players already gone, this lot aren't going to have enough players to field a fucking 5-a-side team if this keeps up. It's really looking like the only way they will be able to put a proper squad together is to loan about 7 players on top of a few cheap signings again.

They might even attempt to develop him as a player, too. Which will be a rather novel experience for him, I imagine.

Wickham turned down a new deal at from the Mackems, another departure this summer perhaps? Could see another team going in for him.

Give it 2 years and we'll be calling him Flabella. Give it 2 years, he'll have f***ed off and we'll be calling him Cabellend.

Why does it? Catching the ball ends all danger to your goal. Punching and parrying can easily go to an opponent. I would have said that it's exactly the other way around unless the 'keeper f***s up and the parry rebounds into the box instead of wide. Sorry im not seeing your point. If the ball is safely pouched in the keeper's hands; that's an end to the danger. If the keeper has punched or parried it it might not be. I don't see how anybody could argue otherwise. Okay, so if you try to catch the ball you have to use both hands, the angle that you can catch at is a bit more limited, if you spill it it's in the box, or of course you could miss it. If you punch it you can use one or two hands, you can get to more difficult angles, it's rare that you see a spilled punch that lands in the box, but of course you can miss those as well. Catching is great if it works, but it's riskier. Which would suggest that today's keepers are of poorer quality than the old ones, surely? Assuming that the aforementioned comparison in how keepers handled the ball is true, of course.

I started paying more attention to it after the conversation, and found myself getting genuinely annoyed when keepers weren't even trying to catch it and just punching it out at corners etc.

Interesting thought, because not long ago I was having this same conversation with my Grandad who used to play in goal professionally back in the day and he had the opposite opinion, saying he thought keepers had gotten worse. He said that keepers today try too hard to make everything look spectacular and cause themselves problems because of it, they dive when they easily could have moved into the path of the ball and caught it and most importantly they punch instead of trying to catch and hold it (of course there are exceptions). Granted, he might have been a bit biased.

Just google-imaged her, fucking hell Jonas, well played.

That's the one Unreal.

Think he's been their biggest attacking threat this match.

Fuck that, it's obviously Ben Arfa's fault.

The Dutch have less ball control than a man with a giant scrotum.

Shit, something exciting almost happened.

Disappointing crowd shots compared to the first half.

Hulk Hogan in the Dutch crowd?