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Typical Shelvey performance really. On the whole pretty poor, did barely any running, some terrible challenges but the odd good ball that looks good on the highlights. The fact he was, as always, blowing out his arse after 30 mins made it nice and easy for our midfield to run rings round them.

 

No problem with his comments though, he clearly loves the club and the region and any negative comments were completely in jest.

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8 hours ago, NE28 said:

While getting £60,000 a week plus. Not that he doesn’t deserve a decent reception but let’s not pretend like he was here out of charity. We were paying him a wage that no one else would and now he’s playing for forest for the same reason. I don’t dislike him for it but it doesn’t make him worthy of legend status either.

 

 

 

He was on £80k/pw when he first joined.  I won’t say he stole a living - he didn’t take the piss - but he was thoroughly, thoroughly mediocre for the vast majority of his time in a B&W shirt.  

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8 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

No he wasn't man. Stop fabricating stuff.

 

He played hard tonight, and was clearly motivated going up against his former team mates, and probably wanted to get one over on them and show his commitment against his former team for the home fans.

 

No big deal. Good test that we passed with flying colours.

 

I disagree.

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61% of his 23 PL goals have been scored from outside the box. Of all players who have scored 20 or more PL goals only 2 have a higher ratio - Laurent Robert and David Ginola.

In the last 10 years no one has more than his 5 PL red cards.

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14 minutes ago, sempuki said:

Think he's a bit of a weirdo and was probably trying to be funny (it didn't work).

 

I wouldn’t say ‘weirdo’ just quite introverted. You could see him spark up when he talked about his time here.

 

His performance today showed you why his was sold, nowhere near what we need. 

 

Interesting he said he wanted to go into coaching, he’ll need to change a lot to do it

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3 hours ago, DahnSahf said:

61% of his 23 PL goals have been scored from outside the box. Of all players who have scored 20 or more PL goals only 2 have a higher ratio - Laurent Robert and David Ginola.

In the last 10 years no one has more than his 5 PL red cards.

Three players who should never be in the same sentence.

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He's just a nice, not very bright, emotionally unstable, introverted lad who loves football. There's really not much more to it than that. By his own admission. No need to get too upset or develop any grand theories about his motivations.

 

 

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:D

 

"I didn't think they [Newcastle] would whinge as much as they did on the pitch. But it is a game of football," he told Sky Sports.

"I represent this football club now. I will give it my all. But yeah, a lot of whingebags in their team. I will tell them that - only in a jokey way.

"I hope they get into Europe and I have just positive words about the club."

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No hard feelings. His performance may have been partly psyching himself out but let's be honest, we've seen enough matches from him in our own shirt with even more terrible challenges than he managed last night. It was nothing out of the ordinary for him. 

 

Didn't catch the post-match but I'm sure it was tongue in cheek. Anyone using 'whingebags' and it not being a joke is corny as fuck. :lol:

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2 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Mark of our progress that we didn’t just extend him for a body. He’s bottom 6 quality at best. 
 

Like the kid but he just doesn’t have the lungs or the body for elite football. 

 

He didn't have it 5 years ago. He's always been a mid-table player at best, he only stood out here because our standards were so low. Him and Colback would be run off the park now. In fact he was yesterday, he only stayed on the pitch because we had a ref from the 1990s in charge.

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7 minutes ago, wormy said:

No hard feelings. His performance may have been partly psyching himself out but let's be honest, we've seen enough matches from him in our own shirt with even more terrible challenges than he managed last night. It was nothing out of the ordinary for him.

He was basically Shelvey minus the Howe factor. I feel a bit sorry for him as his career would've probably finished better with another 18 months here, but it was his own choice to leave it turns out.

 

 

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Just reading a Forest forum and a lot of them calling him a liability, complaining about his lack of energy and running, his slowness, reluctance to track back and saying that his long range wafted passes are predictable and pointless.

 

We had near enough eight years of this shit so fair play to them for spotting it after about eight games :lol:

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He did well playing our support for fools by putting in good performances at the right time to keep us interested. That and a well placed preseason interview talking up his dedication to his fitness in the off season, shedding a few pounds. Finally taking his football seriously. 

 

I'll forever give him credit for the manner in which is left, but I had been cold on him for the past 4 years or so. 

 

He should have applied himself when he was a younger, more mobile player. 

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Mountain said:

 

God it was good, too cringe nowadays, I can't watch the modern ones.

 

 

Old Who is the best who <3

 

(albeit there are also a lot of rubbish ones lol been rewatching recently)

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He couldn't get near bruno all game that's how slow and labouring he is. Every challenge was from behind couldn't keep up with play he wouldn't look out of place in the five a side masters alongside bernie slaven et Al. 

 

 

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