Robert Green 6.96
James Tomkins 6.69
Scott Parker 6.27
Junior Stanislas 6.27
Radoslav Kovac 6.13
Lucas Neill 6.02
Matthew Upson 5.78
Jonathan Spector 5.17
Freddie Sears 5.14
Herita Ilunga 4.91
Savio 4.88
Mark Noble 4.50
David Di Michele 4.27
Please please please let’s see the former blunt players and Weeds United’s Master Bates sue Sh**field United I would absolutely laugh so hard that I think I would just go kaboooom! Eveybody in the room say Aye
Ken Bates is a dick.
Can someone please tell me!!!!
Regarding The tevez saga.
Was Terry brown and his Board in charge at the time.
I have been quite the optimist all through the years but the fact still remains. We have lost some of the most vital part of our successful machine, Our midfield has collapsed due to injuries.
With a superior midfield we can be a winning team even with DMM on top. But we don’t at this point.
Stats from Monday, showed semi-success in passes…Most of the those passes went backwards!! How many did Green receive?? I don’t think we have to worry about relegation this year..but neither not too many 3-pointers. And by the way, send Warnock over to LA, I’ll show him a friendly place called Compton..and leave his ass there!!
chris – no is your answer !
I thought it was still the Terry Brown regime in place when we signed Tevez and Mascherano. Surely the Eggman arrived after them. Or is my senility catching up on me.
One thing for sure is that Paul Aldridge was CEO and Duxberry was the Legal Director.
I can only guess what Compton is SwedeHammer? A inner city ghetto or correctional institution maybe?
Yeah, Brown was in charged when Tevez and Mascherano were signed. GB and Eggy inherited the situation from the tail end of his regime. They can only be held responsible for the club’s conduct after the sale, which includes the first Tribunal and complying with the PL instruction to rip up the third party agreements.
I wonder, do any new owners have to continue to abid by the Icelandic consortium’s agreement with Brown (i.e. free match seats, etc) or can they discontinue the arrangement once they take over? If a certain ex-player is involved in the new consortium I bet he will check that one out! That would surely be a case of what goes around, comes around!
yes it was BROWN in charge at the time … defo 1!!
SJ Chandos -
Listen to an NWA record, it will give you a delightful insight into Compton
I think that we all need to be patient with Nsereko. He needs a lot more work before he is going to be anywhere near the finish article. He showed on Monday that those U-tube clips of tremedous skill on the ball, applied to very poor finishing were not mis-leading.
However, I think that eventually he will play as a striker, using his skill and pace to destroy defences. However, before that happens he needs to learn the skills of a striker (i.e. positional play, creating space, running off the ball, etc) and, in particular finishing.
In fact, he will be perfect playing as one of three strikers in a 4-3-3, particularly because of his ability to go out wide and give the system some width. Alternately, perhaps he could play in the hole or as the point of a midfield diamond?
I have always been a fan of Stanislaus and I think he proved his ability on Monday. His potency at dead ball situations his fanastic and that will give a whole new dimesion to the team. Some other prospects to keep an eye on are Balint Banijer, Bondz Ngala, Daniel Kerns and Oliver Lee. But a potential superstar in the making is a young striker called Hall. He is only 15 or 16 and he has featured for the U18s already. Apparently he is some prospect. As E1 would say, happy days!
Ok IronMick, NWA it is! That should be a new experience, I am more of an Elton John fan myself! lol.
Monday’s game was awful. However, we do seem to play better away from UP, so I for one am hopeful that we will get a result at Blackburn this Saturday. However, I can’t believe I am going to say this, I would start with Tristan up front, with Savio playing behind him. We also need a little width on the right, Noble is obviously not the right choice for this role, so how about Lopez? I thought he did ok when he come on against Wigan. Europe? I doubt it, but relegation, no way.
Oh, and I forgot to mentioned a 17 year old Spanish central defender called Sanchez. Apparently he was a Barcalona trainee before we got him and he looks a real top class prospect as well.
the disputed part of the contract was drawn up under eggy !!
I’m hearing that the burger stall outside Sheff Utd’s ground wants to sue WHU for loss of earnings.
He figures that if Bates can figure that if Sheff are due compo, then so is he….then so is he – if you catch my drift
Maybe the offal company that supplied the burger stall can sue too…
I think I am going to take some time out I can’t be bothered with the teves shit anymore or the bad perfomance against WBA.
All to negative for me this has been a great season and I am sure we all would have taken a top 1/2 finish when the season started so why all the moaning? AND someone mentioned sicknote no hope Ashton !!! He will save us NOT.
SJ Keep the posative vibes going HAPPY DAYS!!!!
Graybo, over here in the USofA we don’t need steaks, but bangers are worth their weight in gold. I was drooling at the thought!!
I would urge anyone to take a look at the brilliant article on “Just Like My Dreams” called Sham 46.
http://jlmd.blogspot.com/ is what the budgie is referring to folks.
It’s great stuff, not that any of the press hacks will gve it credance!
make a cup of tea before you start to read it tho – brief it aint!
A good read. I must admit that the thought of all the vultures aiming their claims in the direction of Bramell Lane makes me smile a little. I’d like to see McCabe’s face if writs land at his door from all and sundry wanting a slice of their new found wealth.
I actually feel sorry for Sheff Utd fans though. Much as I dislike what Duxbury put us through, I’ll be forever grateful they’re not as deplorable as the Sheff Utd owner…and ex-manager…and players. Imagine trying to support that lot.
Come on, cheer up E1. You will be buzzing again after Saturday when we do Blackburn Rovers at their place!
By the way, I forgot to ask you how the new grandchild’s doing? Chip off the old E1 block?
It looks like its Tristan leading the line at Ewood Park. Its a case of TINA I am afraid, but its got to be better than continuing with the Sear-Di Michele mis-match. I reckon Stanislaus has got a good chance of retaining his place wide left. At the back, a lot depends whether Upson is fit? If not, then Neill will probably move to centre-half, with Spector coming in at right-back.
It is a disgrace that Olssen got away with the elbowing of Green. What authority or respect has the FA really got? How come years ago Julian Dicks was tried retrospectively by the FA over the John Spence incident, which was nowhere as deliberate as this. Yet, now they do not want to know. Probably because Sky and Andy Gray were not stirring the shit over the incident.
The best bits of the article on Just Like My Dreams are Warnock saying that he would still be a Premiership manager if West Ham hadn’t played Tevez – no,matey, you resigned and, if you were any good another top side would have taken you on by now. There’s been enough managerial changes since then – and Curbishley’s quotes:
“It’s fundamentally flawed, I think, the argument that Carlos Tevez kept West Ham up,” he said. “When you think about what goes on in a whole season for the judgment to say that Tevez kept us up, or was the main reason we stayed up, is wrong. Cast your mind back, Tevez didn’t score for 20 games. In the run in in the last nine games we used 13 players which we never had the opportunity to do before because of injuries. People forget we scored a winning goal at Blackburn that didn’t cross the line – so are they going to sue the linesman and the referee?
We kept a lot of clean sheets. I don’t think any West Ham fans will ever forget the game at Arsenal when Rob Green made about a dozen saves. Bobby Zamora scored two winning goals at home to Everton and away to Arsenal. Bobby Zamora had been out injured and came in for the run-in and was nice and fresh. James Collins came in and was nice and fresh. We brought Mark Noble in and suddenly we had a different team. We managed to keep it together in terms of consistent team selection. It was a fantastic run-in and I always felt the side were good enough to stay up. It was a great escape and it wasn’t down to just one person.”
This is spot on.
SJ Chandos, I believe you are referring to Sergio Sanchez, who currently isn’t even 16 and 6 months. Just looked up the stat he was born Sep 1992. And yes he was ex barcelona
Chandos I like your take on Savio.
He needs to learn positioning,finishing,movement,etc…
Anything else!!!!!
Guess we will see the best of him around 2013,
Thats about 4 years worth of money before any return.
not bad!
with all due respect.
The most comprehensive report I’ve read on “The Tevez Affair.” It was great to get a better understanding of the decision process behind Lord Griffiths’ decision and Trilby makes some excellent comments about Page 46 of Lord Griffiths’ summary as well as the “Chitty on Contracts (29th ed), Vol 1, paragraph 26-038 under the heading ‘Two Causes’” that Lord Griffiths applied to his decision.
Gotta say, Chris, that’s a bit of a cynical take. He’s already made a massive contribution to the 3 points we gained from Man City. I’m sure he will help us put many more points on the board before 2013.
Gav he did contribute at man city, but for 9m I was hoping for more of a finished product to be honest,considering our lack of Goals up front.
I agree with chandos thou,I also think he will end up somewhere up front.
Ok guys, i take back comments re Carlton Cole. What i should have said is that i don’t believe he is good enough to take us forward to the next level, which a fit Ashton probably could. We did miss Cole monday, but we were not actually creating chances either, which is what Cole thrives on. I’ll think more next time i write, sorry guys.
I think Cole is as good as anyone we’ve seen in the last 4-5 seasons? Possibly a fit Ashton and Zamora were the two other targetmen strikers we had, and I don’t see them winning headers, closing defenders down, using their upper body strength as well as Cole… I’ll be the first to admit that I always thought Cole was championship material… but his performances now show real progress.
More work on his finishing perhaps? Cole and Savio could maybe get some extra personal tutoring from Zola regarding ball placement and first touch. (Tap on the legend’s skills efore he loses touch!!!)
And Savio looked good everytime he came on… Think the WBA performance was a one-off… seriously, give it to WBA… they pressed really well in my opinion. The commentators were mentioning that if Cole had been around, we could bypass that tight pressing midfield by lofting balls up to him. So actually, Cole is an a source of chances too!
I agree, Per3z, Cole is as much a source of chances as he is a goalscorer. He holds the ball up and brings others into play. If he had a real “poacher” playing up front with him – someone in the Tony Cottee mould – we would really see how good he is.
For me Ashton and Cole are our first choice strike pairing – I am a big fan of Ashton once he’s fully fit – he started off this season tremendously well and looked like he’d finally got back to his old self. Cole for me has had a good season and Zola has definitely got the best out of him; I still think he can develop further but do worry that he is a ‘confidence player’.
As for Savio, there’s no doubt there is potential there. You don’t get voted player of a tournament for no reason. Don’t forget he’s firstly very young and inexperienced, secondly acclimatising to a new country and style of play, and thirdly making a step up from second division football in Italy to the Premier League. The price tag isn’t his fault.
I personally wouldn’t start him up front as he’s too lightweight like Sears, and I think he needs a season or two really. But, I’d still rather have spent 5(+4) million on him than – well, who else? Darren Bent? Another bit part player from a Premiership club? Let’s face it, if we wanted top notch strikers we’d have to cough up well in excess of 10, 15 million.
I’m still extremely optimistic about the future. If we lose all our games and finish 4th from bottom, I’ll still be optimistic. Simply because we are a young squad on the up with a young manager and not ageing and on the way down!
Yeah, we’re down to ‘the bare bones’ and the next few games will be a bit of a struggle, but come on lads, let’s see the bigger picture!
COYI!
Has anyone got any updates on the fitness of Collins, Dyer or Terry Dixon.
Likewise SJ, I have always been a fan of Stanislas, especially when Collison described him as the new guy to watch out for.
And once again i’m also a fan of this Hall fellow. Robert Hall i think it is. When i heard he scored a great goal to give the U/18s a win I thought that was a great achievement. If only i could get a video of this goal, i would really like to see it.
Completely off-topic, but check out this story in the Daily Fail, and tell me the pic is not Mark Lawrenson…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163141/Sacked-City-lawyer-launches-5million-sex-abuse-case-Jesuit-Catholic-school.html
Oh ha-ha… whoops silly me!! It IS Mark Lawrenson… Red-faced I retire to the kitchen for a cuppa.
Hockley Hammer -
The Physio Room website has return dates for Collins and Dyer as 21stMarch.
However I would doubt we would see either player start this weekend. We have Tompkins at the back whi I’m my opinion has done great, to the extent that I havn’t really missed ginge. For this reason I doubt he would be risked. Dyer has been out forever so I last 10 minute sub is prob the best we could wish for.
As for Dixon, I can’t find anysort of date but I know he is progressing well and hopes to make an appearance this season, so I presume he is still a little bit away.
I think that Dixon is a fair way off yet. Only a couple of weeks ago Zola was saying that he had yet to see him play! I don’t think he’s played a competitive game at all yet so it’s next season at the earliest I would think.
1 month ago I took a £200 bet with my spurs inlaw that we would finish above them.
Should I worry?
Help!!!!!
Agree with others here stansilas looks a real player!!!
He should start next,No excuses!!!!
Ashton Cole/dixon
stanislas parker collinson Dyer
ilunga upson collins ?
Green
Am I dreaming?
I think your £200 is just about safe mate. We will have Cole back after this weekend which will be vital.
Not sure what that team is supposed to be – best starting 11 barring injuries I guess but where is Behrami?
I’m a real fan of Stanislas but lets not forget he has only played a few games and is bound to have a few off days, as we saw the other night with Savio.
I also hope he takes over from Noble in the free kick/corner department becuase I think that is one of the weakest parts of our game.
I agree with most of the posters on here (Per3z, Roymondo, D McCailey, IronMick) about Cole. He’s grown in stature massively and contributes: -
~as a release when we’re under pressure
~as a hold up player & in posession retention
~chips in with goals (more lately)
~Physical Presence from Set Pieces
~Bringing other players in
~For his knock downs/ons for his strike partner
~Spinning his defender with his back to goal
I could go on. Added to that he’s shown his quality vs some of the best defences in the country. eg. Man Utd (gave Ferdinand and Vidic a hell of a time) & Liverpool.
He’s growing in stature and confidence all the time. Not only Zola and SC have noticed – Fabio Capello clearly rated him too.
So if all of our strikers were fit I’d have Ashton and Cole up front all day long.
Ironmick I think Behrami could be our future right back.
Hes a workhorse type player,I dont think hes that classey on the ball to be first choice in our future midfield.
I know Stan only played 20 mins against WBA,but he had that quality touch,it was evident.
Gav….Agreed cole is improving.
Yes mate. Never thought I’d hear myself saying it. He’s proved me wrong….. bigtime!