TheBrownBottle Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Just now, huss9 said: i reckon this team is better. SBR didnt have a great defence. other than a season of Woodgate, he had a squad of average defenders at best. This is definitely a better side - Robson’s centre halves weren’t great. Remember when he paid ten times as much for Bramble as Arsenal did for Toure in 2002? I do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Given, Dyer, Solano, Speed, Shearer were all already at the club and first teamers when Robson arrived. The transformational signings were Robert and Bellamy - they completely changed how we played, suddenly we could stretch teams on the flanks, and Bellamy and Dyer supplied pace almost as inside forwards, freeing up room from a massively slowed-down Shearer. With Speed in there too, we often had six players capable of scoring goals in attack - we steamrolled a lot of teams. We did though spend an awful lot of money on mediocre players, or at least players who were unlucky with injuries. Woodgate made our very average back line look temporarily good - he was an unbelievable centre half, still unmatched in B&W for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionOfGosforth Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said: Given, Dyer, Solano, Speed, Shearer were all already at the club and first teamers when Robson arrived. The transformational signings were Robert and Bellamy - they completely changed how we played, suddenly we could stretch teams on the flanks, and Bellamy and Dyer supplied pace almost as inside forwards, freeing up room from a massively slowed-down Shearer. With Speed in there too, we often had six players capable of scoring goals in attack - we steamrolled a lot of teams. We did though spend an awful lot of money on mediocre players, or at least players who were unlucky with injuries. Woodgate made our very average back line look temporarily good - he was an unbelievable centre half, still unmatched in B&W for me. I could swear our first choices in those positions that summer were Zenden and Jeffers, thank fuck we got those two instead Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 1 minute ago, LionOfGosforth said: I could swear our first choices in those positions that summer were Zenden and Jeffers, thank fuck we got those two instead Felt like we were linked with Zenden for what seemed like forever. Him and Boa Morte. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, LionOfGosforth said: I could swear our first choices in those positions that summer were Zenden and Jeffers, thank fuck we got those two instead They definitely were Zenden was a good footballer tbf - though not in Robert’s class for me. Franny Jeffers … not so much There’s a couple of those moments in our history. What happens if Keegan signs John Salako as planned in summer ‘95 - and isn’t forced to turn PSG’s left sided forward when he heads to Coventry instead? https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-salako-dismisses-newcastle-as-a-move-too-far-1587765.html Edited May 10, 2023 by TheBrownBottle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionOfGosforth Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Just now, TheBrownBottle said: They definitely were Zenden was a good footballer tbf - though not in Robert’s class for me. Franny Jeffers … not so much There’s a couple of those moments in our history. What happens if Keegan signs John Solako as planned in summer ‘95 - and isn’t forced to turn PSG’s left sided forward when he heads to Coventry instead? https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-salako-dismisses-newcastle-as-a-move-too-far-1587765.html Zenden was fairly decent for Chelsea if memory serves, though not in Robert's class. Jeffers was just shit and a right cunt to boot. The Solako thing, I had totally forgotten that happened, think he signed for Coventry instead and played against us opening day. Ginola was fucking incredible that day as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 11 minutes ago, LionOfGosforth said: Zenden was fairly decent for Chelsea if memory serves, though not in Robert's class. Jeffers was just shit and a right cunt to boot. The Solako thing, I had totally forgotten that happened, think he signed for Coventry instead and played against us opening day. Ginola was fucking incredible that day as well Haha yep, the fixture list is fun like that sometimes. Thirty-odd thousand collectively thinking ‘narrow miss that’ when Daveeed first picked up the ball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Some wonderful pronunciations of Joelinton, Schar and Botman. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack27 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 not sure what topic to put this in but I love it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Jack27 said: not sure what topic to put this in but I love it What's all this Tindall stuff? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack27 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Just now, Scoot said: What's all this Tindall stuff? Football Twitter saying he loves being centre of attention Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Because of this : Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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astraguy Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 what a load of bollocks,Tindall is mint Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 That is funny tbf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Love Eddie but he's going to have to win a trophy for me to put him above SBR. SBR spent money but we didn't have the "pull" we do now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggys First Goal Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 I love Tindall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Tindall is the manager of team Top Shagger, man. What’s not to love? It’s fucking mint having an assistant manager that is actually engaged and a big part of the day-to-day and that is clearly incredibly trusted by the guy at the top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 I love that we have a Clough-Taylor thing going. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Is that account in jest or not? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Cloth-Tailor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 I love that in The Athletic he's listed as just having a "feisty exchange" with the entire Wolves backroom staff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 32 minutes ago, wormy said: Is that account in jest or not? 21k followers since 2016. Suspect its a popular sunlun account that's rebranded itself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack27 Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Didn’t win manager of the month. Unai did. At least we don’t have to worry about that curse tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 We won 6 out of 7 including 3 away wins spurs and man u at home They won 5 out of 7 1 draw 1 loss to man u They beat forest bournemouth leicester chelsea( the piss poor version) Obviously that win at home against us won it for him🙄🙄🙄 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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