Kevin Nolan

[James]

With the friendly atmosphere at the club, Nolan should really be man enough to go to the manager and say that he can't play 90 minutes at a high level.

[tmonkey]

This thread title should be "Kevin Nolan: Untouchable?" until Hughton drops him or has the balls to actually sub him off in a game where he's clearly being useless and/or is gassed out. It's exactly what we had when Allardyce was being a dick and was refusing to drop or subsitute Alan Smith (something like 28 consecutive Premiership starts iirc, with no goals, before Keegan came in and dropped him).

[Colocho]

We need him to buckle under the weight of his fat mass and get an ACL injury or something.

[Decky]

Cant believe he is only 28 too. He should be full of energy. Instead hes knackered like a 35 year old. All this talk of him not being fit enough to play 90 minutes is utterly ridiculous for a player of his age.

[Shayno]

[Disco]

He's playing far too far forward at home. He is at his best running from a deep lying midfield role not this 1 of the striker. Its plain as day, hence his performance at Everton opposed to the last 2 home games where he has been less influential.

[Colocho]

Overweight, slow and a terrible team player. Can't stand the man.

[ponsaelius]

Ffs man. He was very good on Saturday, people gave him credit for it. However for large parts of last season and this he's been poor, and the criticism is fully justified when it is given. Players get criticised when they play poorly and praised when they play well, it's a simple as that.

 

He's obviously not 'useless' but he's not exactly brilliant either. I think Tiote really helped on Saturday, and now we might have the legs in midfield to allow us to carry Nolan in the team. However we'll see, I'm not gonna forget the multitude of substandard performances and declare him an excellent player in one go, but if he keeps up his form from Saturday I'm happy to see him in the team.

 

Back to standard.

 

Poor today.

[Geordie Ahmed]

He was awful today - scored the pen and missed a chance at the end, other than that did now - fat, waste of space

[olliemort]

In fairness hes a good squad player to have,he will get us goals but no way he should be on the first 11 or play the full 90 mins.He was fucked at the end he could barely catch his breath...but yet we take fuckn Ben Arfa and Tiote off

[KaKa]

Cant believe this guy is our captain. We need someone who gets the players motivated and puts in a cracking performance to be an example to the other players. If Nolan cant do that at home against Stoke then we have absolutely no hope.

 

Yup, instead he spends his time on the pitch clowning around and being goofy. A silly, fat mess of a player.

[The Prophet]

Thought he was the least of our problems today. That's coming from a critic. How Barton has avoided stick for that disgrace of a second half performance I'll never know.

[Wullie]

Thought he was the least of our problems today. That's coming from a critic. How Barton has avoided stick for that disgrace of a second half performance I'll never know.

 

[Jayson]

Barton can thread a ball through thats why, just didnt have many options. Stoke defended pretty well.

 

Nolan did well last week, did little today & should have been brought off. Simple really.

[The Prophet]

Barton can thread a ball through thats why, just didnt have many options. Stoke defended pretty well.

 

Nolan did well last week, did little today & should have been brought off. Simple really.

 

We all know he can, but he constantly misplaced it or got caugh in possession. While Nolan didn't set the world alight he got involved and contibuted to a lot of our attacks.

[Tachikoma]

Barton can thread a ball through thats why, just didnt have many options. Stoke defended pretty well.

 

Nolan did well last week, did little today & should have been brought off. Simple really.

 

We all know he can, but he constantly misplaced it or got caugh in possession. While Nolan didn't set the world alight he got involved and contibuted to a lot of our attacks.

 

"Attacks"? I can only remember him touching the ball on two occasions in the last half an hour or so.

[Big Geordie]

Nolan wasn't 'involved' at all today, bar taking the pen and missing that good chance at the end. Not good enough.

[ponsaelius]

Everton was an exception to the rule. It was back to the norm for him today, anonymous for lengthy periods of the game.

[Dokko]

We'll improve no end if we ever sell Smith & Nolan.

 

£5m a year these two cost. 

[Anderson]

Can we change the thread title please. Definitely useless.

[Tooj]

Thought he was the least of our problems today. That's coming from a critic. How Barton has avoided stick for that disgrace of a second half performance I'll never know.

 

At least Barton doesn't hide.

[Ronaldo]

True story.

[The Prophet]

Like I say. I'd drop Nolan, see previous posts but today I felt he contributed a great deal more than Barton did over the ninety minutes.

[joeyt]

Painfully slow

[Guest BooBoo]

If we're hammering players offering nothing to the side at the moment, it's time to invite Wayne Routledge along to the headmasters officer for a caning.

 

The lads offered bog all, all season so far.