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Decent Article from the Guardian re: Shearer


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I would probably settle for a player of Shearers quality up front at the moment.

 

 

But we've already got Mark Viduka.

 

Ouch!

 

 

But seriously, he may have been a bit too influential, he may have been played a bit too much and a bit longer than he should have, but anyone who thinks signing Shearer was a bad idea, or that Shearer was bad for NUFC is simply beyond the realms of ridicule.

 

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Fuck me... people seem to forget that Shearer was absolutely lethal in front of goal, right up until his final game!

The man may have been a touch slow & lacking in some mobility towards the end, but whenever he was given half a chance he would always put the ball in the back of the net!

You have to remember some of the quality (or lack of) that surrounded him during significant portions of his career with us!  It's absolutely astonishing that he managed to score as many goals as he did tbf!

 

I'd be over the moon if we were "carrying" a striker of his quality into this upcomming season !!

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When I look back at Shearer's career with us I still feel that somehow we were robbed after that injury at Everton.

 

We were mugged, raped, cut up into little pieces, half eaten, burnt to ashes and then pissed on with that injury.

 

If that injury had not happened, I think the minimum we would have finished in the Premiership in between 1997 and 2004 would have been 4th. We were robbed of one of the best strikers in the world after one season, someone who we clearly meant to build the team around. The resulting player was still a consistently good forward, but that extra bit of pace and mobility that meant he frequently got ahead of whoever was marking him had gone.

 

Its also annoying to think what might have been without that injury with respect to John Dahl Tomasson too. That injury effectively ended Tomasson's career with us, as he was neither ready nor suited to playing as our main striker that season. I think alot of our fans dont appreciate just how good a player he went on to be, granted he never set the world alight but he turned out to be a good playmaker, a very intelligent forward all round, and a real goal threat from deep at the top levels. Would have been an excellent foil for a Shearer in his prime, and although that combination might not have been as spectacular or gifted as for example Bergkamp/Henry, it would probably have been more effective in the Premiership imo. Both players would have been like slippery soap off the ball and lethal once on it.

 

But thats why its a squad game now. None of the top teams today are built around one player solely to the extent that if that player is out injured or suffers a permanent dip in form/class/etc then they wont turn into crap overnight. We should never have let the situation get to that, but for whatever reason, we did, and the fall has been painful to say the least.

 

This is a great post, and absolutely on the mark - Shearer was never as good as he had been after being injured at Everton, and as you say, the resulting loss of a CF ruined Tomasson's career with us ; if people think back to his performances alongside Shearer in the pre-season games, he looked a very good player, and went on to prove it both with AC Milan & Denmark over 10 years..

 

Shearer's injury was the REAL beginning of NUFC's decline as a major force in the Prem - I am sure we would have gone on to be successful had this not happened ; I do not lay the blame totally at Dalglish' feet for the club's performances after he took over - we finished 2nd after being 7th when he took over, then beat Barcelona in the CL ; he also signed some good players, Nobby, Given, Tomasson and Hamman

just to name 4 ; he fell out with Fletcher, and that was the end for him but had Shearer NOT sustained that injury, I reckon KD would have been manager for at least 5 years AND we would have won something.

Some will not agree, but that is my view.

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That injury effectively ended Tomasson's career with us, as he was neither ready nor suited to playing as our main striker that season

 

JDT was not suited to playing against English/British teams his career shows that.

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