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Let’s hope he doesn’t crumble in attack ![/quote]

Now that I wont be able to digest if he does ;)[/quote]

That was a Nice gesture and the best way to digest things is by having a morning coffee.

Antonio Nocerino, being touted as Jordies’replacement?

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDIQuAIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGCYwE0YwCiM&ei=yDO0U6nTBaGb0QXLloCgCw&usg=AFQjCNGj06Tb0JlrnYHBkQBnrXmsxLDqnA&sig2=f-Xpqh0MB5wDfRZo0cE5XA&bvm=bv.70138588,d.b2U

Looks like him, plays like him and been there done that and got the T-shirt. :cheer:

I like those choccy bars to, a hazel nut in every bite! :cheer:

I hope this doesn’t mean that our interest in Terrence Boyd is over. I was quite excited about this guys presence and goal scoring record. It’s a long time since we had a player who scores his fair share of headed goals. :cheer:

I agree but you wouldn’t be saying that if you were Mr and Mrs Shaw. :woohoo:

I’ll look at his scoring record after I’ve Dun loping the hedges in my back garden.

Mr Burns should never have got the job in the first place. He has the charisma and character of a water hog’s testicle.

Yes he did take a load of kids along to Brazil and yes he didn’t play them, apart from the love of his life Liverpool players.

The players and FA are coming out in support of Hodgeson, but what else are they supposed to do?.

After the Italy game Barkley, Lalana, Wiltshire, Shaw should have started and Oxlade-Chamberlain even if he was only half fit.

I’m sick of hearing Gerrard, Rooney and Hodgeson harp on about the future looking good with these lads having the experience of being at a world cup. Unless you play, you get no experience whatsoever. They must be absolutely gutted about not getting any serious game time, what a waste.

He played a bluff card by adding these novices to his squad, knowing full well taht the usual shyte would be playing.
Joe hart is total pants, out of the back four I quite like Cahill, Baines when going forward is Ok, but Jagielka, Johnson are all over the place when needed defensively, Baines as well at times.

Gerrad is a top class player for Liverpool, but a mediocre player for England, Jordan Henderson’s the same.

Rooney gives 100% but only shows world class in patches. Sturridge and Welbeck did OK, but is OK good enough?

In my opinion we had the squad out there to easily make the knock out stages from that group. Who’s fault is it that we didn’t? :huh:

I sit at the side of the tunnel in the West and believe me I have not made up any of those negative things about Martinez. They are 100% FACTS and not just what I see.

The one about the subs waiting to get on happened in more than 50% of all games. Where are you sat during a match, in the Moon Under the Water?

The one about Martinez standing there motionless with arms folded then clapping the likes of McCarthy for kicking a ten yard pass directly into touch, happened 4 or 5 times in every game.

Some will say there are different management styles and some players don’t react well to a good bollocking, well I’ve been in management for longer than I care to remember and know full well that the occasional bollocking is well and truly needed at times. The Mr Nice guys get trampled all over by those who work for them and are not frightened of making mistakes because guess what, they get applauded for it. Then what happens,James McCarthy kicks a 10 yard pass directly in to touch the next game and the one after that and the one after that…..

By the way when I wrote that I had not bothered to read your 3 on the bounce threads, I hadn’t. When I posted later that I had read your 3 on the bounce thread’s I had. That’s not changing my mind that’s telling the facts as they were at that time.
For someone who contributes some intelligent posts on here, you totally miss the obvious and theme of threads at times. :blink:[/quote]

Martinez doesn’t applaud the bad passes. Yes he claps when they happen, but it’s in encouragement to the player who’s made the error – ie. ‘Never mind, keep it going, hard lines, well intended’ etc. It’s a bit difficult to get words of encouragement across over the noise of the crowd and when the player is thirty yards away.

And no, he’s not the only football manager who does this.

The players clearly know they have made a cock-up when they hoof it into touch, so why have a go at them? The second you start bollocking them for every mistake they make, they’ll stop trying things and will just play it safe.

You may have been a manager for a long time, but you’ve never had to manage whilst 20,000 people are sitting around you shouting a jeering.

And as for bollocking players: do you bollock your staff in public – in front of your competitors and customers? And are your members of staff on million pound salaries, represented by agents, and surrounded by the nation press?

You can’t get away with berating players in the public eye these days. Harry Redknapp even said as much on Talk Sport a couple of weeks ago.

By all accounts Martinez did lose his temper, but it was behind closed doors.

But you’re right. Now Martinez has gone to Everton, he’s a crap manager.[/quote]

At last you have finally admitted I’m right.