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  1. As I've said before, how many chemists are going to be happy stocking this stuff and having 20 smackheads queueing in their shop, probably helping themselves to various other items whilst they're there?

    And is the resident junkie going to nip down to Boots and pay £5 for a fix (complete with £3 tax) or is he going to ring up Dodgy Dave and get it illegally for half the price?

  2. Well I don't think Gerrard is a top international, more of a run all day, good PL player. You have taken my point completely the wrong way round. I said the TEAM, I even put it in big letters for the hard of hearing. There are some good, even international class players in the team, but it is a very poor TEAM and it's a team game.

    I absolutely agree.

    Gerrard has exceptional work rate and can strike the ball tremendously as witnessed at Newcastle. But in terms of making the play or being a pivotal central midfielder he falls way short. In the 2005 Champions League final, Gerrard scored an important goal but Dietmar Hamman was the player responsible for balancing Liverpool's ship and that's because Gerrard does not have the discipline or the intelligence to play effectively as one of two central midfielders.

    The pundits scream blue murder when Benitez shunts him to the right but he isn't actually as good a central midfielder as either Mascherano or Alonso. Mascherano and Alonso have the ability to retain possession in midfield with intelligence passing and movement, and also to screen their defence responsibly. Gerrard is a match-winner, but he's lacking as a footballer.

    He's exactly the same as Lampard. Neither have the skills to suit the international, or European, style and both have their best success when played alongside TWO midfielders with better understanding of the requirements in this regard.

  3. He's just come back from a long injury lay-off and will take time to get back up to speed. He's a top footballer and, if judged purely on footballing ability, would walk into our central midfield. He'd be a great signing for us, but I don't expect Big Sam to let him go anytime soon.

    I disagree. He stood out at City because he was a whole-hearted aggressive player in amongst a team of rubber dingy men. He's no more of player than a Michael Brown or Lee Carsley. David Dunn is a much more talented footballer and Barton wouldn't be an improvement on Reid or Savage.

  4. It wont happen of course but lets hope the mags sack him cos I'd wager Hughes would sign him in an instant ....... and imo he'd be exactly the player that we need. All he'd need would be a bit of astute management.

    And a bit of talent.

    Joey Barton isn't a very good footballer. He was absymal against Sunderland. His ball retention was awful.

  5. Decent showing tonight but Beckham's quality masks a total lack of imagination everywhere else in the team. He's set up 3 out of 4 of our goals this past week but I'm failing to remember any chances created via any other avenue.

    Nothing's changed from the Croatia, Israel and Macedonia games apart from Becks coming back to save the day.

  6. We produce athletes in this country who can run all day and hustle and bustle. Its why someone with guile and composure like Tugay can still dominate almost any midfield in the Premiership despite being 58. The touch and technique of even our supposed top players like Lampard is terrible. Someone like Carrick who is touted as some silky midfield ball-player is frankly ordinary and then in the ties against Milan progressing to "found out" and "awful".

  7. Absolutely ridiculous. Bentley could realistically be playing in Estonia on June 6th, joining up with the U-21s for their first game on the 11th and playing in the final on June 23rd and we have our first friendly at Wrexham on the 10th July.

    If he does join up with the U-21 squad, I can't see him featuring in any of our Intertoto matches.

  8. On another forum I visit, I know a Chelsea fan (who wouldn't bs me) and he was at the Nuts awards. He said to Benni that he'd love to see him at Chelsea and Benni was as non-committal as he could be but did say "we'll see by Friday". A guy Benni was with was a little less diplomatic and said that Benni and Peter Kenyon had had talks earlier in the day.

    On a lighter note, he brought up the story of the Tugay substitution/Stephen Hunt's antics I'd told him earlier in the week. When describing Stephen Hunt, Benni used quite a few expletives that I couldn't possibly reproduce here.

  9. Yes, because had it not been for his dedication to football Ferdinand would have been a prominent academic. I won't comment on Corbett as I've never heard him talk or know anything about him, but most footballers are pretty think and rather than sacrificing anything football offers them the opportunity to escape an otherwise pretty dull and unproductive lives. I'm not saying they don't have to work hard for it and take some risks in pursuing it, but no more so than anyone does with any profession.

    To be fair to Corbett, I was a little vague with my description of what he's up to. I understand that he is concentrating on training to be a pharmacist now rather than simply working as a shop assistant at Boots.

  10. Heard off two different people on different sites about some tension in the England ranks. Obviously unsubstantiated but I'd love it if it was true. Copy and paste job:

    Lampard is being a right tit about Barton being in the squad, won't talk to him, pass to him, all that stuff, and just got up to move to another table at breakfast when Barton sat at the same one. Apparently as soon as he stood up and moved, Barton called after him "Don't worry, I wasn't going to nick your breakfast you fat prick" and Lampard threw a hissy fit and stormed out.

    :D

  11. Season tickets are great value but due to work commitments I'm unable to commit to one. £27 should be the absolute limit for ticket prices and being stuck on the front row of the Riverside or down in the corner by the Darwen End for that price is simply not atttractive value.

    I readily admit that my interest is not what it once was. I highly doubt I'll be watching the game at all on Tuesday. The few home games I haven't attended this year, I've had better things to do than stand in the Hordens staring at a telly.

  12. But at the end of the day you've turned your back on the club.

    The club only have themselves to blame. John Williams as a businessman must surely know the implications of pursuing a premium pricing policy - by its very nature it means extracting the maximum revenue possible from a smaller number of customers. This is a man who has overseen what is effectively a 35% drop in sales numbers during his time in charge - if he didn't think that this season's walk-on price rises would see a further severe decline in our gates then his incompetence is staggering. In any other business he'd have been gone a long time ago and it's baffling how he's not hanging onto his job for dear life. Nothing will improve our attendances until we get someone new at the top with innovative ideas and a more sensible pricing strategy.

    I won't be going on Boxing Day - I simply cannot justify to myself paying the prices asked. 20 years ago I could never have envisaged missing a game through choice but no 90 minute game of football is worth 36 pounds to me. People can bang on that that is the price we have to pay for Premiership football, take it or leave it - well in that case I'll leave it. I can live without going to sit on a plastic toilet seat lid, in silence no less, to see Premiership 'superstars' who aren't even that good or that entertaining.

    When you're paying £50 a game and there's 6,000 on, you can carry on patting yourself on the back about how you've still not turned your back on the club. And JW will no doubt be chuffed at another season of rising gate receipts.

  13. Managers often cite cost as an issue but that is an absolute myth. It's really down to short-term attitudes and feeling that buying a foreigner is a safer bet. The Premiership has seen plenty of foreigners who are absolute garbage or very very mediocre at best - Mokoena, Amdy Faye, Benjani and Paul Stalteri are just a few who spring to mind.

    Managers need to have confidence in their judgement when signing a lower league player. Darren Bent cost Charlton £3m, Michael Dawson cost a similar figure from Forest. There's bargains to be had - Wigan paid a quarter of a million for Jimmy Bullard and Kevin Doyle came over from Ireland for £78,000.

    For what we will pay Nonda over the course of this one season, we could have purchased and paid a young striker such as Billy Sharp or Will Hoskins and had someone who could have been a great asset to the club for 5/6/7 years plus.

  14. Uefa cup is a nice distraction but at the end of the day who wants to play hull and plymouth?

    I wouldn't mind at all if it meant we could watch for sensible prices a team of hard-working local lads who loved playing for the club and for reasonable money with some decent football thrown in.

    The UEFA Cup IS a nice distraction. A nice distraction from a league packed with meaningless fixtures and players whom I feel no affinity towards whatsoever.

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