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My mate was saying on Wednesday how George Graham went to Spurs in the middle of an injury crisis and told every player in the treatment room that they had to report for some form of training at not just 9am but also 5pm after an afternoon break. Even Darren Anderton made a miraculous recovery. It can't just be bad luck all these injuries.

But will undoubtedly lose more games

Utter rubbish in my opinion. I've seen managers changing the style of play within weeks even though with limited players or players with limited talent. Roeder has had 12 months including a whole pre-season. Except of the very young defenders coming in most players who started are either internationals or wannabe-internationals or still players of a higher calibre. I can expect those players to understand and realise instructions given to them from the managing staff. And regarding our awful build up of the game from the back it was significant that actually it were the likes of Huntingdon and Edgar who were rather looking for doing the right pass than just hoofing the ball up front. Latter is something I easily expect to get restricted, but it isn't. Look at Shevchenko at Chelsea. Is he shit? No. Is Mourinho shit? No. Even world class players need to settle into a team and get on the same wavelength. The fact that no-one in our team has had the opportunity to do that with each other means they aren't going to be marauding all over the opposition with exquisite one touch football. They have to grind out results until a settled team of quality can look to play more stylish football. I hate watching us hoof the ball all over the place, but needs must imo.

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th. Can I clarify this? Are you seriously drawing a comparison with Roeder and one of the greats of British football management? No. I'm saying even one of the greats of British football management couldn't have broken our squad (with all it's troubles) into the top 5 at this point of the season. Given that Roeder is an average manager at best, his performance has been excellent. I don't agree. If you gave a good manager (hypothetical or not) in excess of 15 million quid to spend as he pleased in the summer with the squad Roeder inherited, I would expect them to do a better job than Roeder. That means gaining points against Sheffield United at home, for instance, or not getting humped at home by Birmingham in the cup. And again, please enlighten me on which performances have been excellent, because I can't think of a single game where we were convincing. But that was £15million well spent wasn't it? Martins is in the running for our player of the season and although Duff hasn't done enough for us, we could easily recoup what we paid for him. If he'd went and spent £20million more on defenders that weren't good enough (like Souness) and we were still looking at relegation then I'd maybe understand questioning him on that score. We haven't been playing excellent, and I never said we had. But surely this is understandable given that only one player has played a significant number of games within this team over the last 2 years!

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th. Can I clarify this? Are you seriously drawing a comparison with Roeder and one of the greats of British football management? No. I'm saying even one of the greats of British football management couldn't have broken our squad (with all it's troubles) into the top 5 at this point of the season. Given that Roeder is an average manager at best, his performance has been excellent.

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th. And that does mean? That does mean that you expect too much too soon from an anhialated squad where you can barely name 5 core players from the season. Don't agree at all. Even considering our injuries and the annihilated squad Roeder took over, we have enough players in the squad who should be able to play a decent football. But our team isn't really working together and can hardly assemble a string of successful passes. The off the ball movement from a lot of players is shocking. And we still have the likes of Given and Bramble just cluelessly bumping the ball forward as if they were really playing in the times of Shankly. Yes, I do expect a manager addressing this rubbish immediately. We'll have to agree to disagree then. Out of 25 league games only 3 players have been involved in 20 of those games. Martins, Milner and Parker. Given that only one of those played more than 20 games for us last season, I'm not surprised few of the players have settled straight into a fluid passing game. You'd hope this could be sorted on the training field but our season has been such that tactical "planning" hasn't been easy.

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th. And that does mean? That does mean that you expect too much too soon from an anhialated squad where you can barely name 5 core players from the season.

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th. Isn't he dead though? Harsh on Roeder. tbf, he was more likely to take over than Hitzfeld.

If Bill Shankly himself had come in when Roeder did, I reckon we'd be about 7th.

Why Ya Buggin'?

5.5 years behind the bell and proud of it sir.

Trust Gobbolino

http://alternet.org/blogs/peek%20/47507/ The BBC reckons they're facing up to 5 years... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6322307.stm 'Jesus wept' doesn't convey the distress this would cause our lord and saviour.

Grifter

You're a fucking idiot Gemmill, you could of stop right there and it still would of made sense to all but one. Unlike your post where you should have used propper engish... true, to true. That's quite a range.

Is there any month of the season where we don't have to play any games? What the fuck is he on about?

Aye I saw that on the imdb yesterday, I think I'll add it onto my list. He's making the third part too I think. John Hurt's narration is excellent although it pissed off wor lass who was trying to go to sleep while I was watching it! Aye, Wasington it's called. Indefinately on the back burner for the moment though.

Within 60 seconds of my mate giving me the box I'd sucked down a bine like it was Coca Cola. I have no will power. I gave him hell for bringing them though.

David Kelly! Remember to rent Manderlay now, it's part two and is also class.

Excellent film. John Hurt's narration is tip top.

Yeah. XKCD I normally get the simple ones (like my avatar). But I need the supernerd ones explaining.

Aye mate. Piece of piss when I'm not drinking. A few preliminary cans without a bine the neet in preparation for the match tomorrow. One of the lads that comes to the match always sticks ten in my pocket because he doesn't like to smoke a full pack, but doesn't like to freeload. I'll have to tell him to smoke the lot, and watch. Which will be tough. Can't he just buy a pack of ten instead of twenty? He does, I hold them and he has 3 or 4 off me during the match.

Hey the Commitments is a class film. Loved it when I was little but haven't seen it for donkeys. Shit acting, but the soundtrack makes up for it.

Aye mate. Piece of piss when I'm not drinking. A few preliminary cans without a bine the neet in preparation for the match tomorrow. One of the lads that comes to the match always sticks ten in my pocket because he doesn't like to smoke a full pack, but doesn't like to freeload. I'll have to tell him to smoke the lot, and watch. Which will be tough.