golden era darraghmac vendettas

Robinson was outstanding in his first season for Spurs, not quite as great in his second but still competent, from 2006 onwards was when it started to go wrong. I think something just went in his head. Even when he was good for us his shot stopping was always a lot better than his distribution and command of a penalty area.

Arse-nal Wronger more like !

Signs a second rate balding frog Pascal Cygan - sells younger england defender Matthew Upson for less to Brum City

Seaman goes - has the choice of say Sorenson, or Paul Robinson - decides to sign an older 2nd rate german with a perm - Jens Lehmann.

i tell this arse-nal wenger got it wronger !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:29 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

none of that is edited i assure you....

Drop Heskey, play Rooney alongside Owen. Never, ever allow Gerrard to be injured again. Teach Paul Scholes how to pass or drop him - replace with Jenas. Wait 18 months for Carlo Cudicini to become British, or install Paul Robinson and keep him there. Vassell has never been good enough - Beattie should replace him on the bench.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, April 1, 2003 8:39 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'd've underlined the assertion of Gerrard's importance to the team tbh

Did Scholes go to Euro 2004? (yes) Did Jenas? (no) Did England win it? (yes)

when i arrived kicking and screaming at ile i was considered clueless and brattish. History, i trust, will prove i wasn't totally clueless.

But, alas, it'll be too late for us to get ziegler or tainio back ;_;

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tough sell

didnae vote

couldn't decide

think it should be rafa, but after that passionate plea for robinson i had to abstain

given that you weren't round for jol out that's not an unfair position

i used to read ilx back in those days but very seldom posted and never on ile

occasionally i find the odd post spread across several logins, usually about some marginal noise lp i have forgotten

don't ffs you'll have lj scrabbling for the scrapbook

typed thst post on a fuckin nokia 5230 fyi

next poll gary doherty, gardner, ghaly and atouba imo

did nobody pull a tribute display name first time round?

i must've been more depressed than i thought

if the cunt were a surgeon he'd be up on murder charges the cunt is the one i'd parade around ilx with tbh, i'm in combative form

negligent manslaughter doesn't have the same ring to it

there's yer gradgrind there nv

how do u feel about juande ramos these days?

never juanwé or the other about him tbh

ppl said they should have got sevilla's talented sporting director monchi instead, but then he ended up signing zokora for more than tottenham paid for him

as a come-hither, perhaps

Ramos is doing pretty well at Dnipro Dniepropetrovsk at the moment. Could see a return to one of Europe's big ten leagues on the cards.

kalinic has nearly 1 in 2 for them

kalinic is rightly going to obtain the patronage of a hoy hoy as THE NEXT ZLATAN sometime next season after a backheel thru the legs of kieran gibbs, followed by a £16m january move to juventus and a bidone d'oro

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:16

it's just taking a bit longer

he's just the less-fetishised zlatan

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_02/jolDM1608_468x772.jpg

amazing

Trying to think on last year's squad, only adebayor, naughton and gallas worthy of thought i think, and they're all recognised as problems by avb it seems.

Life's good

Kyle Naughton (born 11 November 1988) is an English footballer who plays full back for Tottenham Hotspur. He is a product of Sheffield United's centre of excellence and academy.

Hes a little cunt who clearly has two ears for praise and none for criticism

jenas is a kind of pure evil, i'm starting to fully realise

"k3vin k in on MRF/IMP" missing from the poll options

He is an innocent vessel for the worst flaws of mankind, it is fucking miltonesque the process that occurs

Still maintain that physically/skillwise he could have matched yr gerrards et al

xp hearty lol

list of yr gerrards

1 yr steven gerard

2 yr scott parker

yr barry, yr milner

hes going to be playing next to scotty p next season

Lower level than yr hudds yr lamps obv

Give me yr poor, yr weak, yr thudded passes

I feel like Jenas ought to match up to a schoolkid archetype, but who? I've a hazy recollection of a couple of kids who were perfectly smart and athletic and on the face of it fairly cool, but never hung out much or actually joined bands or played sport or anything. They were just kind of nebulous presences at school and eventually left to take over their dad's shop or something. They never even went in for bullying. I guess they were never going to be memorable types, if they even existed.

i remember one of those kids, assume he's a PE teacher somewhere now

He comes across well in interviews, blandly friendly, like a young oil exec on the weekend

I saw him giving a tour of his mansion on a kids' version of football focus (may have been one of LG's?). He had a great big, dark office with a massive desk: "this is where I download my music"

is jenas an epl player any more

https://twitter.com/Blaugra_Nah/status/650775852179849216

Harsh on the fat lad

still didnt write that 2005 girl

cant believe i never posted itt about the time i was strolling the south quays at temple bar and passed an italian restaurant window and who was in there alone at a table and it fuckin heavin with grub enough for six but fatty robinson how i didnt go and check behind the cistern for a fuciin revolver ill never know

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDjh8j8XgAQeR1q.jpg

if i may make a case for the ahem defence

trippier has been limited but ok til this season, with a brilliant right foot and a neat line in getting his cross in from most angles and situations

his attacking form has certainly dipped but his defensive performance is only slightly beneath what we're used to (not far off walker at his best, rly)

given there's no better alternative at the club its kind of on poch not to have set out the required baseline rules and i was more than half serious when i suggested that one of our two defensive leaders (more likely one per full back) should be kicking arse on the pitch regarding offside trap and getting caught wrong side of his man (the two likeliest and most damaging sins)

add this to the pretty enormous workload poch puts on his fullbacks (central defensive players get away with murder imo) and outside of the heat of the game i can take a measured view that trippier looks awful in a system that has continued to ensure he gets hammered with his own flaws every week.

the fucking cunt

Trippier signed, surely the end for Walker/Naughton, just need to sort out left-back now

― imago, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:40 (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brilliant

this is not an incorrect position, taking into account that the alternatives were walker and trippier

walker was improved by poch removing him from certain *situations*, walker (like most players post first england cap) has never improved in himself tactically or mentally. he is still the likeliest weak link of any team in which he plays.

naughton is well let me say rather that kyle walker-peters is an upgrade

the great unmentioned is aurier, whose capacity for reckless fuckups dwarves auriers, whose positional awareness makes a baresi of trippier, whose inconsistency of delivery in attack makes sissoko look (even more) like xavi

trippier's damage to this team is something poch can contain but not remove, and hes already done it once with a stupider player

i can take a measured view that trippier looks awful in a system that has continued to ensure he gets hammered with his own flaws every week.

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 1, 2019 7:37 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trippier is bad at his main job and has gotten bad at the secondary bit that used to make him being bad at his man job acceptable i hope he dies

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 30, 2019 10:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just sayin', like.

deems vaudeville

theyre both valid angles and i can take both as required

trippier has no inherent limiter on not playing the opposition onside or being the wrong side of his man. nothing and nobody makes him cross the ball as stupidly and poorly as he did last night and many times this season his lazy execution or planning of a pass has cost us or almost cost us. hes a professional footballer and absurdly easy on himself about not cleaning up his own sloppiness. no pass from me for that.

all of these things have been observable from day one this season and no alternative has been realistically available, save for aurier or kwp stepping up (neither has consistently done so so as to be an actual replacement). we have tried each and have played sissoko either there or in an alternate role or in a niche babysitting role at times. we are now playing a young centre half there at times. its safe to say a problem is recognised.

being unwilling to relax the demands on the position in order to perhaps safeguard or refocus on the positional/defensive area of the game seems not to be a valid consideration- blind spot from the manager here imo but the squad is in bits and what can you do. so in knowing the cunt will fuck us again and again, youd allow that a manager might attempt whatever is in his power to ameliorate or mitigate, so poch out an all

ask me about serge aurier, go on

kepa is the new paul robinson, but cost 60 times more

this is like the 20th time i've clicked on this thread forgetting it's on ILF