Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:36 pm 0

Well, them's the breaks.

Steve Bennett should be knocked off the Premier League list for a mistake of that magnitude though, not least for pulling out the red card despite having been unsighted, and not even considering consulting his linesman. Shocking behaviour.

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:40 pm 0

Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 143512.stm

GET IT RIGHT UP YE, DIRTY HUNS!

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Rangers' hopes of taking all three points were dented, though, when Ricksen, who had been booked in the first half for a series of fouls, was ordered off for blocking the run of Kevin McNaughton.

Why would someone in their right mind use Fernando Ricksen? In holland we laughed when he was sold to the rangers....

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:03 pm 0

Spurs beat Chelsea, cool!...Oh it's just the reserves. As you were...

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:34 am 0

"It is probably not the cleverest thing he has done."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 154724.stm

For Smith, that's probably saying something.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:22 pm 0

aureole wrote:"It is probably not the cleverest thing he has done."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 154724.stm

For Smith, that's probably saying something.

Smith should be used to having a run out with the ManUre reserves by now...

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:05 pm 0

So Kanoute leaves Spurs for Sevilla for 4.4 million quid. Wonder who Spurs have lined up. Could the rumours about that Dutch guy, Kuyt or something, be true?

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:12 pm 0

cyric100 wrote:So Kanoute leaves Spurs for Sevilla for 4.4 million quid. Wonder who Spurs have lined up. Could the rumours about that Dutch guy, Kuyt or something, be true?

Apparently we're now trying to hijack that. Rumours were that we were after Kuyt for a while, although nothing ever came of it. It seems to me like we're at the "must make a desperate panic buy" stage now.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:29 pm 0

cyric100 wrote:So Kanoute leaves Spurs for Sevilla for 4.4 million quid. Wonder who Spurs have lined up.

Exactly what a Spurs buddy here, said, too.

Could the rumours about that Dutch guy, Kuyt or something, be true?

LFC were after him, too but Feyenoord didn't appear to want to budge from a Â£10 mil valuation. I think they're looking for that again. He's supposed to be quite handy, like.

Paul: were Toon not in for KanoutÃ© at one stage, too??

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:32 pm 0

KevG wrote:Paul: were Toon not in for KanoutÃ© at one stage, too??

He was on the speculated list of targets, definitely. I think we went after others instead, and are now panicking because we haven't bought anybody. We need him or somebody like him and A.N. Other if we're to have any chance of scoring a reasonable number of goals this season.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:35 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote: We need him or somebody like him and A.N. Other if we're to have any chance of scoring a reasonable number of goals this season.

Gah. As a neutral, I've got to have sympathy for the Bar Codes: dunno what to make of it all, really. Is it bad club PR, Souness, Shepherd?? You're having a really bad run of luck on several fronts. Can only get better, surely? What a difference a reasonable signing or two would make.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:38 pm 0

Personally I doubt if we'll get anyone - which is a pity, because I'm starting to like the look of this team.

They're actually playing together well, and there seems some more creativity there beyond the "let Dyer/Bellamy chase it" and "Shearer header" plans for scoring that have dominated our play for the last 18 months.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:54 pm 0

KevG wrote:Gah. As a neutral, I've got to have sympathy for the Bar Codes: dunno what to make of it all, really. Is it bad club PR, Souness, Shepherd?? You're having a really bad run of luck on several fronts. Can only get better, surely? What a difference a reasonable signing or two would make.

Hard to say what's wrong. Shepherd is good at releasing money for players, but the general feeling is that he has too much input into who the money is spent on. There's also the feeling that he's biding his time until he sacks Souness and so won't let him buy anyone else. Neither of those are exactly ideal. We MUST buy a top class striker if we want to be truly competitive, because we all know Shearer can't play every minute of every game, Ameobi is decent but not a 20+ goals a season striker, and Chopra is young and unproven. And that's all we've got. It could be a struggle this season, but with even one more striker it needn't be.

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:22 pm 0

Well, this is a big muscular hunk of a performance from Scotland in the Arnold Schwarzenegger stadium tonight. 2-0 up on Austria at half-time and good value for it. Can we somehow manage to screw it up in the second 45? Let's find out!

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:29 pm 0

I shall use my 3000th post to say: I'm sure you can't screw it up as much as England appear to be doing.

Tetra Elemental · Post by **Tetra Elemental** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:30 pm 0

David James.

Year after year he's frigging shit and still he gets to put the england shirt on. He's turned this game.

Christ, 3-0 now.

In a week the papers will all be saying we'll win the world cup.
Nothing ever changes.