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Football / NUFC / Re: NOTW: Ljungberg to leave Arsenal
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on: Today at 02:39:42 PM
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| Been shite for a couple of years now. Hardly scores now Bergkamp isn't there, and he's lost that burst of pace that got him an extra yard in the box when he was at his most dangerous. Doesn't do much other than whinge these days. Got to wonder, if he can't be an effective attacking player in a team like that, what the fook is he going to be like in an ordinary one. Wouldn't go near him, even on a Bosman - He's finished. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: Isaksson
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on: Today at 02:22:43 PM
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| I don't understand it myself. Weaver, while he looked top class (most of the time) in his younger days, has looked pretty ordinary to me since he has come back from 3 or 4 years of constant knee surgery. He is not making any mistakes but he is hardly saving anything other than simple shots (For example, I think most goalies would have kept out the Tom Huddlestone goal). Isaksson was injured at the start of the season but got a chance in the derby when Weaver took a knock and looked absolutely top drawer...I thought that would be the end of it and Isaksson would take over then - He certainly would have if it were up to me. But Weaver was straight back in for the next game - I think Pearce is just showing a bit of loyalty and sentimentality for now. We're not doing that badly so he probably sees no reason to change it - Probably just waiting for a mistake. Personally I think we should be fielding our best 11 to get as high up the table as possible and Isaksson is a much better keeper than Weaver. Give it time, he'll be our #1 by the end of the season I think. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: Today's FA Cup Games
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on: Yesterday at 06:13:40 PM
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Great fun with the commentary. Alonso takes a dive and the first thing they do is find another name for it. Rosicky scores a great 2nd and you could hear a pin drop. No mention of the superb accuracy of the shot, no mention even of Finnan and Gerrard's shite attempts to stop it. Just shirts back, not sure about the goalie. Poor old Lawro. I hope they get done 10 so I can listen to the T*** cry into his bovril for the next 45 mins 
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Football / NUFC / Re: 'Worst football clubs to follow' named and shamed in new report
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on: January 05, 2007, 10:38:47 PM
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2nd worst team in the Premiership to follow? Humbug. Not sure what criteria they used? I don't understand what is so bad about us looking at their little snippet. We've been relegated a few times? Yeah, but we've had some great times going back up again. We've had a few managers? So what - at least we've got rid of the shite ones. Worst thing about following City in recent times has been losing to Stockport a couple of times. But we had Ali Benarbia. #92 to me.  come on,you must have been close to throwing yourselves on the fire when you lost the mighty sibierski ?
No. He's shite. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: 'Worst football clubs to follow' named and shamed in new report
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on: January 05, 2007, 10:24:18 PM
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| 2nd worst team in the Premiership to follow? Humbug. Not sure what criteria they used? I don't understand what is so bad about us looking at their little snippet. We've been relegated a few times? Yeah, but we've had some great times going back up again. We've had a few managers? So what - at least we've got rid of the shite ones. Worst thing about following City in recent times has been losing to Stockport a couple of times. But we had Ali Benarbia. #92 to me. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: The worst transfers of 2006
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on: January 05, 2007, 10:04:51 PM
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Paul Dickov. Paid nowt - I want our money back.
Deitmar Hamann - Totally shot and totally shite. And we paid to nick him off Bolton.
At least these other shysters are (occasionally) worth a place in the team. |
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General / Chat / Re: ***The Official Ashes 2006/07 Thread - Australia 5 - 0 England (bummed)***
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on: January 05, 2007, 04:09:00 PM
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My player ratings:
Strauss: Looked in decent touch but did not make the bowlers work hard enough to take his wicket. Too dependent on scoring square of the wicket, didn't have the balls to find an answer when they made it hard for him. Some stupid shots. To think some people wanted him as captain? He's fooking thick! I'd kick him out of the side for a year and make him appreciate what it is to be a Test Cricketer (A la Michael Clarke). 2/10
Cook: Showed balls, but shown up technically. Plays too far in front of his eyes. Potential, shouldn't be a guaranteed starter, needs to play a lot more county cricket and make a lot more runs before the Central Contract brigade keeps him from ever breaking a sweat. 4/10
Bell: Good reponse to 2005. Looked very comfortable at times but did not cash in on starts nearly well enough. Bit to go yet 5/10
Collingwood: Balls of steel but shown up on the bouncy wickets. Great effort in Adelaide but poor afterwards. Could have done more in the 2nd innings to give them something to chase and was stupid to wake up Warne. 6/10
Pietersen: Best batsman by a mile when the series was alive. Could have worked the tail better but provided the best entertainment of the series when he was waltzing down the pitch to Glenda and forcing Warne to bowl like Ashley Giles against Tendulkar. 7/10
Flintoff: Not great but understandable. Bowling, not fit (Still having injections  ). Batting, not got the technique to live with good Aussie bowling. Captaincy, most bowlers couldn't execute plans, but some joy at times (Such as Ponting dropping one down Giles' throat, or spooning one to Cook on the day the plans were leaked). Could have done more to stem the flow of negativaty at Adelaide. 4/10
GoJo: Should not have been selected. Utter shite - nothing more than regualtion with the gloves, missed the tough chances. Pathetic with the bat. 2/10
Read: Better with the gloves but still hopeless with the bat. Won't be aroudn long. 3/10
Giles: Had no right to be selected - Bowled shite, batting was hardly classic and that drop...could have been a major turning point. Poor. 2/10
Saj: Don't know why he was selected - Hardly ever thrown the ball, was expensive but looked lively. Not really a Test bowler, pretty ordinary with the bat too for a #8. 3/10
Jimmy: Inneffective in first 2 tests but I thought he did alright in Sydney. Shouldn't have been selected, only played one game for Lancashire last season, needed more games as improvement over the series showed. 4/10
Hoggard: Best seam bowler by miles. Extra cudos considering they weren't really his conditions. 7/10
Harmison: Let the side down. Shocking start set the tone, never recovered any form until it was too late. 2/10
Monty: Beggars belief that he wasn't selected. Pretty good every time he was thrown the ball, aside from the Gilchrist assault. Good heart with the bat and didn't let us down in the field. 6/10
Fletcher/ECB/Management etc : Got it wrong with the preperation - We should have gone straight to Oz after the Champions Trophy. Selection - Jimmy, Giles, GoJo, Trescothick(!) should not have been selected. Balance of the side was wrong - Why play Saj if he was hardly going to bowl? Should have gone with an extra batsmen and thrown the ball to Bell/Colly/Pietersen to give the front line bowlers a rest. 1/10
Bottom line: Australia clearly the better side and probably would have won even if we had played to our best. But we could have done so much more to make a game of it. If the chance Ponting had offered up to Giles in the 2nd test had been taken we could have won that test. Perth test, Symonds was there for the taking when he first came in and if he had gone cheaply, Gilchrist would not have had a license to slog and we could have made a game of it. Throughly outplayed in the others but those 2 tests there for the taking but we weren't good enough to do it. Worrying thing for me, I don't think the retiring players made that much difference to the series as opposed to some of the new ones, Clark(Player of the series for me)and Hussey, could mean we'll struggle next time too if the replacements are competent. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: If you could have any starting left-back from outside of the top four...
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on: January 04, 2007, 04:52:14 PM
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I don't rate Konchesky at all. Very poor user of the ball, he is extremely over-ambitious with his passing and crossing for such a technically limited player. Got lucky with a shite cross in the cup final but he has had a shocking time this year - one of the many West Ham players to have been found out this season. Couldn't pass wind.  |
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Football / NUFC / Re: Tevez and Mascherano
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on: January 04, 2007, 04:40:09 PM
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Curbishley said he wasn't picking Tevez because he hasn't scored.
The mind boggles. I think he's been excellent whenever I've seen him. Either Curbishley is an idiot (Which I wouldn't rule out, he signed Marcus Bent) or their management is stopping him from playing them in case they get injured before they cash in. |
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Football / NUFC / Re: If you could have any starting left-back from outside of the top four...
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on: January 04, 2007, 04:34:02 PM
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Trabelsi is playing on the right hand side of midfield and is ace. Our left back is either Ben Thatcher or Stephen Jordan. Both shite really.
I can't help but feel some players are being overblown becuase of a few goals or assists - Taylor, Barry, Shorey...a good left foot does not a good left back make (See Harte, Ian).
Not much between most but I always liked Ricardo Gardner and have wanted City to go for him in the past. Decent athlete and wouldn't have cost an arm and a leg but he's got a gimpy knee now so question mark.
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Football / NUFC / Re: Who Will Become Our Next Great Home Produced Defender
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on: January 04, 2007, 04:27:14 PM
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I don't get the Taylor hype myself. As far as I'm concerned, the thing with young, inexperienced players is that you put them in the team, they make mistakes, the learn from their mistakes, and become better players. If they don't learn from their mistakes, and keep on making them it makes me think that their learning curve is going to be pretty short. And Taylor, keeps on giving away stupid fouls and picking up stupid bookings. The 2nd yellow he got for the U21s against Germany was absolutely criminal - Diving in from behind 40 or 50 yards from goal when he's already on a yellow? Good grief. He's been around a little while now, and if he hasn't got it in his head that making a decision like that is probably not the thing to do I can't see him picking up much nous in his career and fulfulling his potential.
As for Ramage, not sure why so many people seem to have such a downer on him. I think he has looked pretty comfortable in the european games at centre back.
PS: Steve Howey!
So you're saying that Taylor makes as many mistakes now as when he first got into the Newcastle side? Clearly he doesn't, he's improved considerably in that area. Citing one stupid mistake that happened four months ago four England really doesn't prove much. The likes of Tony Adams got sent off for stupid fouls now and then throughout there carears but I don't think you'd claim that Adams was a poor defender. Yes Ramage has looked comfortable during our European games, but then so has the entire side (currently sitting 14th in the league), Titus Bramble has looked great in our European games FFS! I think the problem a lot of people have with Ramage is that he rarely seems to do anything above average. I'm not one to judge a player long term when the majority of his games have been out of position though so I'll give him a chance. But still, if you want to talk about criminal lets talk about his own goal against Bolton "Pavs running towards me.. crap he's almost past me and I'm 5 yards from an open goal... *panic*... I know, I'll head the ball towards goal".
I posted that on December 15. On December 13th, you played Chelsea. I seem to remember reading that Taylor gave away a silly free kick near the end of that game, that Ramage got booked for?
The own goal was clearly Srnicek's fault. Ramage had an arm in his back, the ball was coming over his shoulder and the goalie had taken up a woeful position without shouting. Srnicek was under no pressure, could see everything - he made the wrong desicion.
PS: I'm not trying to make out Ramage is better than Taylor - he isn't. I just think one ain't as good as some would claim and one ain't as bad. |
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General / Chat / Re: ***The Official Ashes 2006/07 Thread - Australia 4 - 0 England***
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on: January 04, 2007, 02:17:57 AM
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Stuart Clark is better than a stop-gap and won't be losing his place to any whipper-snapper soon, certainly not before Brett Lee. Tait can come in now for McGrath no worries. Spinner is an issue tho - Stuart MacGill is almost 36 now, almost 37 by the next time Australia play a Test. I wouldn't be suprised if he never plays a test match again, if the selectors are looking to the future and want to give a genuine sucessor to Warne a chance to play before the next Ashes series. Simon Katich is a pretty ordinary player, I doubt he'll be getting a recall anytime soon. Jaques must be ahead of him in the pecking order? Surely he will replace Langer. Clark has already filled Martyn's boots. Only issue of these retirements is the spinner, who is frankly irreplaceable but someone needs to fill the role. As an aside, that was a shocking shot from Symonds, and it wasn't the first. Ton-fifty or no, I don't think he has much of a future at this level. I'd expect Watson to come in for him too.
Nasser Hussein is one of my favourite English cricketers ever but I'm not always inclined to agree with him. He is stubborn to a fault....one of the few not to have a dig at Ashley Giles (former teammate). However he has no history with KP so he's willing to speak his mind and he's probably right. Pietersen certainly does come across as Arrogant. Selfish? Well he was certainly willing to expose the tailenders...maybe. Aloof? Who cares - I just think he's a bit thick. I doubt he's that popular in the dressing room as a bloke rather than a batsman but it didn't do us much harm in 2005 or in the summer.
PS: Jimmy Anderson is fooking great. Langer, Hussey, Gilchrist, and the runout of Ponting. And Fred top scores and has just taken a wicket. England needs more Lancashire players
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Football / NUFC / Re: "United"...
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on: January 04, 2007, 01:28:59 AM
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That clip is beyond legendary. Added to my favourite eons ago. Makes me proud to be a bitter blue.
Yes, it is Jim Broadbent. The programme was called "The Street".
As for the United vs United thing, it might seem like some media conspiracy but really I don't think so. I just think that teams will almost always be referred to in shorthand in an against-the-clock broadcast. They wouldn't refer to yous as United when you play Sheffield United because to most the shorthand for Newcastle United is Newcastle (To yous it might be "the Toon" but while the rest of the country might know that means, its not something thats said a lot and it might not work with Sky's main target audience of Far Eastern internet gamblers). |
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Football / NUFC / Re: "United"...
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on: January 04, 2007, 01:09:58 AM
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It probably is local. Its just that these days its pretty easy to discover these things. If I went out tomorrow and asked 100 people who "Blues" were, our servey will probably say...Manchester City, just by assumption. But with the Internet and Talk Radio and whatnot i'm aware of who calls themselves "Blues", and it ain't us.
PS: Don't worry, we don't share a City with them. Old Trafford is in Trafford, which is in Greater Manchester, not Manchester, like the mighty City. One team in Manchester mate |
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Football / NUFC / Re: "United"...
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on: January 04, 2007, 12:48:16 AM
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| Its all about the "The" or lack of it. Its rare for anyone here refers to City as anything other than City. "The Blues" maybe, if they were trying to differentiate themselves from "The Reds" (boo). But I've heard countless phone-ins, read countless forums, and Birmingham fans all seem to refer to themselves as "Blues" (no "the"). So to me "Blues" means Birmingham City. My point was...Do they refer to themselves as "City" too? If they don't, I don't see how any of them would be annoyed about us being referred to as "City". If they do, I'd hope they would understand that as there is no Birmingham United FC, people are only doing the natural thing and mean no disrespect. Deep down everyone knows they are called Birmingham City Football Club just as everyone knows Newcastle are called Newcastle United Football Club. Its just easier. |
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