Keane may be lacking confidence right now but he is reliable from the spot.He has scored some pressure pens over the years. Defoe is not a reliable penalty taker- would it not have made sense for Keane to have come on ?
Why does Harry choose games against the big 3 to make such poor team selections ?.
Manure ( League ) . Played Keane at LM , Kranjcar on bench
Chelsea- Switch to 3 man MF of Jenas- Hudd- Palacios
Arsenal - repeated the same mistake despite our hammering at Chelsea
Manure Cup - Switched...
Lots of best of, worst of threads today so here's another.
Rory Allen
Neale Fenn
Andy Booth
Gregor Raziak
Ian Moores
David Jenkins
Les Ferdinand ( let's face it he was crap for us )
Colin Lee
Steve Slade
Lee Barnard
Gary Doherty
Paul Stewart ( woeful up front )
Helder Postiga
Bobby Zamora...
There has to at least be a possibility that all the police activity will make it impossible for HR to continue. Remember how Pleat suddenly resigned when he was arrested ? How Hoddle left England suddenly ? How Venables did the same to focus on his court case ? There might come a point ( and...
Looking at the scoring records of our strikers over the years I was reminded about John Duncan . 118 games, 62 goals. A scoring ratio only bettered since then by Lineker and Allen ( not by much ) and equal to Klinsmann. Better than Chivers, Archibald, Crooks, Falco, Sheringham, Armstrong...
This is my order ( sure I must have forgotten 1 or 2 )
Burkinshaw, Venables, Pleat 1 , Jol, Shreeves, Clemence- Livermore, Hoddle , Redknapp, Ramos, Graham , Francis, Ardiles, Neill, Pleat 2 , Santini, Gross,
There is no guarantee that new signings will keep us up. We are already facing huge losses if most of our squad have to be sold off cut price if we go down. There used to be parachute payments for clubs going down which meant that clubs going down would be ok for at least 1 year if they go down...
We all remember one match away from CL , our qualification in our own hands and then... LASAGNAGATE
We would have qualified for CL and that would have meant Carrick would almost certainly have stayed and no doubt our fortunes early in 2006-7 would have been hugely different and we could have...
Any remaining minute possibility of Kanoute ever rejoining us disappeaared when he displayed a support Palestinians T- shirt under his shirt after scoring for Sevilla. I can only imagine the reception he would have got if he had done that at the Lane. Daniel Levy would now I am sure block any...
Can't believe this is true but according to Fox Soccer Channel ( not exactly BBC ) the deal is far from done because:
1. Spurs Pompey and JD still have not sorted out the 500k " loyalty bonus " being demanded by JD
2. Defoe has not agreed personal terms with us
3. Waiving the 12 month rule...
I am still confused about the 12 month rule. I seem to remember Pompey originally signed JD on loan which converted to a permanent deal after the deadline. Does that mean we would have to sign him on loan first ? Also since he was signed on the last day of the deadline does that mean we cant...
Lots of threads about 4-4-2 but I dont think Modric should be withdrawn from an attacking role. How about this for MF and up front ?
Corluka
RM Lennon LM Bale or Ohara
Modric
Bent Pav
OR
Corluka
RM Lennon LM Bale or Ohara
Jenas or Hudd or Bentley
Modric Pav
When Boro were struggling against relegation they had one outstanding player - Juninho. He was brilliant. Too good for the rest of their team and they went down.
Is Modric too good for his team mates ?
In spite of massive improvement under Harry we have still scored only 7 goals in 8 games at home. This is really indicative of the flaws in our 4-4-1-1 system. Our midfielders dont get forward enough in support of our lone striker and Modric does not look like scoring enough to justify building...
We are creating nothing. Ramos automatic choices Zokora and Jenas fail week after week after week. Everyone says Hudd is too slow. He is too slow for a DM position. But play him in an advanced position - that would be his strength as he is the only one who can do anything unpreditable, possibly...
We already have a DM who has performed excellently there for his country - our very own oft- injured Ledley King. He also did the job pretty well for us in the past. Since it is being put forward by many that Woody and Corluka should be given a run of games together , then when Ledley is fit why...
Wigan , Hull, Stoke, Bolton - these are 4 of our next 5 games. If we are still in the bottom 3 after those games then we will be in serious trouble. These really could be considered to be 6 pointers
I just don't see how we are going to get any blend following our ridiculous summer transfer dealings.
What we needed-
2 keepers
2 CD's to allow for King 's arthritis
A top DM
A good LM
3 new strikers to replace Bent, Berbs and Keane.
What we got :
2 keepers
1 utility...
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