Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

how bad were newcastle as well. i know the media are gonna be like they did a job on us and resisted the tide of good vibes or whatever but that's pure bollocks, we were shakey at times and they were just woeful

yes, he's like a normalised terry or something, can't even admire his dedication to public cuntishness.

Faurlin taraabt and swp will provide chances though, can't ask them to gel all at once rly

otoh i do feel a little conflicted abt newcastle, like there were all these magpies in the pub spouting off about how nolan ran the team and ashley should have ceded to giving him a 60k contract til he's 34 - well no, on paper getting rid of these clunking totems of british bullshit for french quality on frees should be how you do it really. all turning out gash tho unfortunately

Bit early for that kind of talk, no?

they'll be ok i think. Not on tonight's evidence, admittedly

i think taylor's more a grotesqueified terry if anything, like a proper village idiot woodcut rendering of the game's snide arts

can't get his gurning face right in front of kenny at the free kick out of my head tbh

i think they are probably waiting for CTOBB king rakey pardew himself to revert to the mean so they can get a manager and maybe they can buy a forward too

Bit early for that kind of talk, no?

― Number None, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 01:01 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yah probably. noodles did say i'd be surprised at how shit prem teams were and i guess i'm still coming to terms w/ it

I didn't see any of the game tonight mind

lol magpies in the pub were adamant that neither hughton or pardew ran/run the team at all and it was all down to a mysterious nolan/barton/some other noble english bloke cabal

the tearful misty eyes when talking abt kev nolan had to be seen to be believed, honestly

lol

I like nolan, but ffs

oh shit son and it's title chasing wolves away next

's a must-win for us, true

looking forward to the revival of "won't somebody think of the Joeys?" even tho Barton was having a laugh with Big Mick after that last Newcastle match.

It seemed to me that, while obv the R's were the better side, they didn't really look like scoring. Suspect the front line just needs to play together a bit more before the goals come and I really hope SWP has found his club. Only paid scant attention to the second half so forgive me if I've misread the game.

A LIVERPOOL star sparked outrage on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 by claiming the terrorist attacks were "an accident".

Striker Nathan Eccleston, 20, tweeted that he believed the "Illuminati secret society" was behind the atrocity.

He ended his message with the initials OTIS, for Only The Illuminati Succeed.

He wrote: "I aint going to say attack don't let the media make u believe that was terrorist that did it.. #O.T.I.S."

Fans were furious. One said: "How massively disrespectful."

Another called him "offensive and ignorant".

The US-owned club said they were investigating.

it wd seem grossly unfair if a dick was punished for saying something dickish in public, unrelated to his job, when thousands of dicks are saying the same dickish thing every day, on internet messageboards for example

public dick vs private dick

well as i say if the dickery cast doubts on yr ability to perform yr job properly but

like if Nathan Eccleston, 20, was responsible for bringing those responsible for 9/11 to justice

you're thinkin of daquiri shurely

I can only assume that Dan Brown has written a book about 9/11 that Nathan Ecclestone, 20, read on holiday?

movie trailer imo

what is this illuminary thing?

don't think 9/11 could be

a) accident
b) caused by a secret society

i like the idea of it being an accident. like a bunch of pilots just got mad wasted that morning and forgot they had the lives of 100s in their hands, also fell asleep at the plane equiv. of the wheel while these buildings came closer

Airplane 3: Why you don't tint yr windows, pimp

It is possible the pilots were distracted by listening to an audiobook about the Illuminati, which caused them to stray catastrophically off course. Making the tragedy both an accident and the fault of the Illuminati.

xpost UptoEleven ... the Rs did have two cleared off the line, one sitter missed and one cross narrowly missed. So "didn't really look like scoring" seems a little bit harsh.

As I said I only caught the second half and wasn't giving it my full attention but it mostly seemed that the Newcastle defence wasn't having to do too much to keep them out. I wasn't saying that a win for them would have been the wrong result, just that they weren't exactly robbed of it.

i think Upt0eleven has a point in so far as we didnt look particularly patient and methodical about our attacking work, but then that was to be expected really. can't deny krul barely had a save to make however.

quite a few pundits seem to have concluded we just need a finisher which seems more than little simplistic not to mention negligent of bothroyd's pretty decent hold up play. we suffered fairly classic symptoms of playing 4231/433 without a lethal £30m powerhouse striker up top; will be interesting to see how often warnock will be tempted/deny the urge to sacrifice foundational solidity and switch to a 442. (in my opinion he should have rolled the dice yesterday.)

actually another thing warnock could have done - which i'm more surprised he didnt - is take derry off, move barton back alongside faurlin and have dj campbell in the centre of the three behind bothroyd.

not quite sure i see what barton's role will be tbh.

Got to say, Derry had a blinder yesterday. Wouldn't have taken him off. Not sure Barton really quite knew what his role was yesterday. I'd say his was the weakest of the new signings' performances - too many passes went astray, too many moves broke down when they reached him, but I didn't see it as a cause for worry. Very impressed by both full backs: pace, defending and crossing all in evidence last night.

I can see Bothroyd and Campbell acting as a classic big man/little man partnership, but a strict four-man midfield causes problems: with two out of Derry, Faurlin and Barton in the middle, and Taarabt and SWP on the wings, you'd have the problem of Taarabt losing his influence on games stuck out on the left, or exposing the full backs if he cuts inside and gets caught out of position. I think the 4-2-3-1 is predicated on SWP and Taarabt probably outscoring Bothroyd over the course of the season.

Upt0eleven ... Second half was no great shakes, but first half was a very good performance by QPR.

agree with all of that. thought game passed barton by while qpr had possession

Wolves ‘Superman’ Stephen Ward could be thrown up front if Steven Fletcher misses Saturday’s clash against Queens Park Rangers.

Fletcher is a doubt with a groin injury picked up in the 2-0 weekend defeat against Tottenham.

Manager Mick McCarthy said: “I’ve always got ‘Superman’ – Stephen Ward, who can play up there.

“The team comes before anyone’s personal gain and what’s lovely about ‘Wardy’ is he takes that view.

“I’ve got another good left-back in George Elokobi and, if I can put another good left-back in and have the other playing up front, that’s got to be the way."

got to be

the glamour

Can't help but feel the more "versatile" a team sports player is the more likely he is actually shit. In this case ward, a not very good left back, can play up front, presumably at an even worse level. You start to think he has no actual position at all.

wish stephen ward didn't exist and the elements that comprise him ould be used to form a small fruit tree instead

i think it's more or less universally true that every utility player should be played at fullback

especially owen hargreaves, john o'shea and steven gerrard

xxp

almost. Wardy started out as a forward, couldn't cut it and was reinvented by McCarthy as a Championship-quality LB who plays left mid sometimes. his LB performances for us have been improved this season, tbf, along with a general improvement across the back four since Roger Johnson arrived and presumably asked them politely to pull their fucking fingers out.

of course if we had more than 3 first team strikers we wouldn't be in this situation would we Mick YOU FUCKING GRINNING EEJIT??

lassana diarra and mathieu flamini too

also MAYBE YOU SHD GIVE SAM VOKES A GAME AFTER ALL HE IS TECHNICALLY A CENTRE FUCKING FORWARD oops sorry gotta shoe-horn Ward in there somewhere

essien was also great as a nominal fullback

easy rooney joke

am staggered nakh hadn't already made it tbh

that was just sitting invitingly 30 yards from goal before u arrived to nick it from the feet of a certain onrushing irish thudd apologist

on a lighter note tho, this sudden "oh shit Ward's playing up front" is a direct knock-on off of our lack of signings during the summer. you'd think somebody might've guessed that Fletcher, Doyle and Seb mightn't be enough on their own for a season, like.

Travelling up to Wolverhampton on Sat to see the game. Sold it to my wife as "Why don't you visit your stroke-ridden aunt near Wolverhampton? I'll find something to do with the boy while you do that. Oh, look - QPR are there that day!"

wish stephen ward didn't exist and the elements that comprise him ould be used to form a small fruit tree instead

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:12 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

a splendid post