Guest Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Aye, seem to remember Alan Oliver (yes, I know) banging on for months about how Allardyce had the option of buying Elano but went with Smith instead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Shearer's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Aye, seem to remember Alan Oliver (yes, I know) banging on for months about how Allardyce had the option of buying Elano but went with Smith instead. Seem to remember quotes from BFS about replacing Dyer the day before Smudger arrived. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quayside Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Smith replaced Dyer. Geremi replace Solano. F*cking tragic really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Aye, seem to remember Alan Oliver (yes, I know) banging on for months about how Allardyce had the option of buying Elano but went with Smith instead. Seem to remember quotes from BFS about replacing Dyer the day before Smudger arrived. do we have to have "replacements" ? could we not just buy players we think are good and can do a job for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quayside Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Aye, seem to remember Alan Oliver (yes, I know) banging on for months about how Allardyce had the option of buying Elano but went with Smith instead. Seem to remember quotes from BFS about replacing Dyer the day before Smudger arrived. do we have to have "replacements" ? could we not just buy players we think are good and can do a job for us. No but it seems to be what was going on at that time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Still no pictures of him flashing the 5-1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Still no pictures of him flashing the 5-1? Probably a good thing. He'd have only got banned for it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Flashing the 5-1? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Alan Smith was Parker's replacement. Dyer's replacement wasn't he? Aye, seem to remember Alan Oliver (yes, I know) banging on for months about how Allardyce had the option of buying Elano but went with Smith instead. Seem to remember quotes from BFS about replacing Dyer the day before Smudger arrived. do we have to have "replacements" ? could we not just buy players we think are good and can do a job for us. No but BSA did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Flashing the 5-1? Scum fans were riling him up after the match so he flashed them "5-1" with his fingers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Flashing the 5-1? Scum fans were riling him up after the match so he flashed them "5-1" with his fingers. :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest je85 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Just spotted a blog post about Joey on Run Of Play From: @runofplay New on RoP: On the strange calm of Joey Barton, by @ayjay: http://runofplay.com/s/16689. Whenever I get to watch Newcastle United, my eyes aren’t on Andy Carroll, emerging young star that he is, but on Joey Barton—always on Joey Barton. What’s especially fascinating about Barton is the disjunct between his repeatedly bizarre, boorish, and criminal behavior and his typical on-pitch demeanor. In the recent draw with Sunderland, for instance, Barton was the still heart of his side for the whole match. He kept the team steady throughout: when his teammates struggled to keep possession, he would drop back, receive the ball, and distribute it smartly. He took all, or nearly all, the team’s free kicks during the game, and used them to put his teammates in good attacking positions. His defense was intelligently disruptive. Clearly his teammates looked to him to provide stability; he was supremely calm throughout, a Geordie Xavi. (It was particularly important for him to play that role with the propulsively dangerous Carroll on the bench with an injury.) Watching him play, not just in this match but in most matches, I find it almost impossible to believe that this is the guy who crashes his car into pedestrians, pummels teammates on the training field, curses his managers, makes two-footed lunges into opponents’ shins. It’s useful in this context to compare Barton to another famously combustible player, Craig Bellamy. Bellamy would wear his temper on his sleeve except that he keeps his sleeves short to show off his tats. He flings himself madly but purposefully around the pitch for as long as his worn-out knees hold up; when he’s making one of his brilliant bandy-legged runs you think he’s going to launch himself into a defender rather than avoid him, and when he flies into a tackle you’re surprised whenever it’s not two-footed and studs-up. You could have no idea who Craig Bellamy is but watch him play for ten minutes and have his temperament fully pegged.11 Not his character, though: off the pitch Bellamy is a remarkable guy. But if you had no idea who Joey Barton was and watched him play as he played on Sunday, as he plays most games, you’d probably assume that he’s a pillar of the community and the kind of guy his teammates seek out for wise counsel. At the end of the Sunderland match, after Newcastle had led throughout only to give up a stoppage-time equalizing tap-in by Asamoah Gyan, the television camera found Barton. As players shook hands and exchanged shirts and walked off the pitch, Barton just squatted on his haunches, squinting into the distance, breathing heavily, not talking to anyone. His look was that of a man who had worked hard and didn’t have much to show for it—not as much as he had hoped for, anyway. Or maybe that was the look of someone trying very hard to master his emotions, and, as far as I could tell, succeeding. [/Quote] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 How's Bellamy remarkable off the pitch. He's a little bastard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 How's Bellamy remarkable off the pitch. He's a little bastard. does a load of charity work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 A geordie Xavi? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 His defense was intelligently disruptive. Clearly his teammates looked to him to provide stability; he was supremely calm throughout, a Geordie Xavi. I like that. It didn't go down too well with Wullie in the other thread but I still feel a Tiote/Barton midfield combination could work very well. They already have a good understanding with Barton playing wide but if you could get a Bentley type on the right and a mobile forward in front, I think Barton could provide plenty of ammunition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliGupter Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 A geordie Xavi? Adopted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 How's Bellamy remarkable off the pitch. He's a little b******. does a load of charity work He does his own charity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I know it's an attempted compliment, but fucking hell, that blog post is dreadful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 His defense was intelligently disruptive. Clearly his teammates looked to him to provide stability; he was supremely calm throughout, a Geordie Xavi. I like that. It didn't go down too well with Wullie in the other thread but I still feel a Tiote/Barton midfield combination could work very well. They already have a good understanding with Barton playing wide but if you could get a Bentley type on the right and a mobile forward in front, I think Barton could provide plenty of ammunition. But that would mean shafting Nolan, and cutting our nose off to spite our face. The Tiote/Nolan/Barton thing works an absolute treat and it's needless changing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 His defense was intelligently disruptive. Clearly his teammates looked to him to provide stability; he was supremely calm throughout, a Geordie Xavi. I like that. It didn't go down too well with Wullie in the other thread but I still feel a Tiote/Barton midfield combination could work very well. They already have a good understanding with Barton playing wide but if you could get a Bentley type on the right and a mobile forward in front, I think Barton could provide plenty of ammunition. But that would mean shafting Nolan, and cutting our nose off to spite our face. The Tiote/Nolan/Barton thing works an absolute treat and it's needless changing it. It works but it will be interesting to see how that midfield matches up against Spurs this weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Except Tiote's not playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Forgot about that. Shame because I think the midfield trio is better than a lot of teams in the premier but the top 3 or 4 will still be a bit too good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 When HBA gets back we will have a good 4 instead of a good 3 plus 1 average Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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