Exiled_Rover
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An interesting decision by Sven, and one I fully support.
Darren Bent isn't good enough - sorry. Whilst a few posters on here are saying he should be in the England squad, I can't find anyone who wants him to partner Bellamy next season for Rovers. We can do far better than that - and so can England.
You're joking right? He'd be at the top of my list - quick, strong, good in the air, good with the ball at his feet, knows where the back of the net is, English, young, still developing as a player.
The last three factors are the reason nobody has mentioned him as a possible import, he'd cost an absolute bomb. However, finances aside, he'd be up there on everybody's wish list.
Silly statement really Tris.
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Why should Ericsson give a toss? He's been fired rem?
As far as the squad he must be nuts not to take Bent before Andy Johnston. If Crouch gets hurt early doors or suffers a loss of form we have no 'back to goal' replacement should certain tactics require it. One proper target men and a load of midgets is farcical! Crikey everybody and their mother knows BRFC need a big feller up front and the England situation is just the same.
Crouch is utter @#/? at the target man role; he has no strength, athleticism or size (he's a flimsy beanpole!). He can't even jump to win a header for ######'s sake! Beattie is clearly the man for that job, but then again he doesn't play for one of the glitzy clubs does he
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I think that Walcott has been taken to give England the surprise element. I don't think he is going to be in the first team if Owen and Rooney aren't fit - I think the back up players will still be ahead of him.
He will be sat on the bench - and be introduced late on to help swing matches.
Though he hasn't played many matches this season - and none in the Premiership - lets not forget the last 17 yr old to break into the England team - Owen didn't turn out too bad (if I remember he hadn't played that many matches for Liverpool either).
What it shows - is that beyond Owen and Rooney we are struggling for anything special up front. It is a huge shame - we actually have one of the best midfields in the world - one of the better defences, a goal keeper who I would rate in the top five in the world - but struggle for genuine top quality strikers.
Beattie, Bent, Ashton, Defoe, even Harewood would go in place of Walcott in my book. Having said that I'm not smart enough to wrangle a £4-5m a year contract for one of the easiest jobs in the world
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Give me an obscure one if there are any - I like a challenge
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Messres Beattie and Bent, come on down. It's a blow, but if Gerrard and Lampard perform we can overcome it.
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Premier League, you're having a laugh
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Ferguson's a tw@t.
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That is it in perspective. We are doing decently out of Pedersen as the only side around us that has a substantially better left winger is Arsenal.
Would you swap Ped for
Andy Reid, N'Zobia,Luqueand be confident that it was an upgrade? In fact I would only swap him for Ronaldo, Pires, Duff or Robben. Anybody else and I would worry that I was giving goals away a season.Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. He's going to be a great player.
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A smart move from Hughes, he wants to see if the lad can cut it in the Prem after a decent season in the Championship. He's not going to get a better chance than this.
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We got £10m for a very average player in Sutton, one who had been a tw@t for a few months at least....
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I'm proud to say I've never applauded the bloke whilst he has been wearing a Barcodes shirt.
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Not really - most on this board agree that Todd, Zura, Friedel and Neill are quality players (and Gray can be on his day), so it's a matter of defensive mistakes and poor communication that have led to the goals conceded this year.
Bellamy on the other hand is upfront on his own with little support from the midfield - Reid and Savage couldn't hit a defence splitting pass if their lives depended on it, they also don't score any goals (3 between them is it?). Ped has weighed in with a few pearlers, but otherwise he's been non-existant. I also think few would argue Dickov and Kuqi are utter sh!te in terms of quality - their workrate is good, but that doesn't really help Bellamy besides allowing him to rest a little whilst they defend from the front.
Not that I'm arguing Nelsen isn't a quality player, because he quite clearly is. However, our best player this season has clearly been Bellamy. I just don't see how you can argue that fact.
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I'd have chosen Nelsen, but our defence has been pretty @#/? this season.
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I don't actually think we've been that bad lately -
POMPEY away - draw - Harry Redknapp says it was their 'best performance of the season'
LIVERPOOL home - bad decision by linesman ruined the game, we had all the possession, but couldnt break them down - liverpool are one of the best in europe at holding a lead.
BIRMINGHAM - we had all the possession again, their keeper's made some amazing saves. They had two breaks and score both.
Maybe we're just due a bit of a break in front of goal
Which translates as:
Pompey away: poor team performance saved by two pieces of sheer quality by Bellamy
Liverpool home: very fortunate goal for Liverpool, followed by 60 minutes of the scousers not breaking a sweat in defence.
Birmingham away: haven't seen the game, but it sounded like they took their chances whilst we struggled to create many.
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Just heard about this incident in full. Surely his last game in a Rovers shirt. He's a pretty good Premiership defender, but this isn't a one off incident now is it?
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We weren't getting luck at the start of the season, but the last five games or so have been very fortunate. I think part of it is that the team is tired and the lack of quality in the squad is showing up, and the other part is we've been found out. Stop Bellamy and you stop Rovers. Hopefully Hughes will rectify that next season with a right winger and a striker of quality.
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It's not even close, Bellamy has been the best player of this season.
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Like I said, we've been @#/? and extremely lucky for the past five games or so. It was eventually going to come back and bite us, especially as we've not picked up our form again. 6th place is going to be a struggle, we're so out of sorts it's laughable.
On a more positive note, hand Peter the #11 shirt already, a much better player than Pedersen.
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End of Todd for the season then?
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A point was always going to be good considering our form. We're going to struggle now though.
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We've been pants since the Spuds game, unfortunately. 4th place was well within our grasp, but we're firing on 1 cylinder
[Archived] Theo Walcott
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That's the key word. It's a ridiculous gamble, especially when your starting front two probably aren't going to be fit enough. Logic would dictate that Bent, Ashton, Beattie, and Defoe would go ahead of him. If you're going to take the kid, make him the fifth striker so he can soak up the experience and all that jazz, right now we're relying on him to start/make a significant impact from the bench. That's utterly absurd, the kid is 17 and hasn't even played a game of Premiership football yet! You can't expect him to do anything on the biggest stage in the world.