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He’s had a slightly dodgy last 6 months, mainly caused by the pitiful excuse for a defence that he had to play behind.
Before that, all the evidence was that when he was fit to play, he was quality. I’d have taken him above the majority of the keepers in the Premier League 12 months ago.
But, his time may have come, and someone else will take his place, if not Al Habsi then A N Other journeyman mercenary foreign keeper.
And partly cos he’s fekin crap!!
Course he is. Thats why Liverpool paid £6m for him as a teenager, he’s played for England, and has won our player of the year award. You’re dead right.
Is that Tomas Ksusack? Or whatever he’s called… I’d have him at Latics like a shot.
I really like Kirkland, and he’s a hero to my young son, who would be gutted if he went, but it looks like the end of the road for him at Latics, partly because of injury, and also I don’t get the feeling Bobby rates him.
If he does go, he can go with his head held high as he’s more than played his part in keeping us in the division.
“Personal opinion but I would be interested to know how many tried & tested premier league managers there are available out there with a track record for progressing their club’s on a shoe string budget”
Apart from Allardyce, who I don’t want anywhere near our club, I can immediately think of two in that criteria who are ready and available
Curbishley – took a small club to a few top 10 finishes with little cash. Look where they are now.
O’Neill – did wonders on little cash at Leicester including a major trophy. May think he is too big for us now though.“Some of the biggest $h!te I’ve paid to watch at Latics has been served up under Bobby.
Slow, plodding, tepid, gutless, low scoring, high conceding & boring rubbish on the whole”I agree with a lot of that, but I wouldn’t want Allardyce anywhere near our club.
Martinez’s football – in the main, 2 touch with no running off the ball, no width and no purpose other than keeping the ball is the worst sort of pseudo intelligent football. There is no obvious intent to move forward and score
I personally think the best football played at our club in the top flight were in two periods:
1. The first half of 2005/6 under Jewell. Fast, purposeful, effective counterattacking football with two very mobile centre forwards in Camara and Roberts and two mobile full backs with Baines and Chimbonda providing the width. Kav, Bullard and others in midfield could play and looked forward, not sideways.2. The period under Bruce with Scharner/Bramble at the back, Valencia down the right, Palacios down middle and Heskey/Zaki up front. I watched that season review again recently and I had forgotten how effective that team was, playing pretty decent football.
Both those teams played way more effective and attractive football than Bobbys, because they had more forward intent.
Just keep Allardyce away.
The people who run that club must be absolutely off their rockers.
I’ve got a mate at work who’s a Newcastle season ticket holder, who is beyond p**sed off – he’s absolutely livid.
Sacking Hurghton was an unbelieveably poor decision, but I could sort of understand it if they had someone like O’Neill already lined up, but Pardew…its beyond a joke.
Still at least it should drag them down, hopefully below us.
“Yes, they are staying away in their droves aren’t they? There’s a waiting list for season tickets at both clubs.”
Not quite right there. Utd have got no waiting list. They used to go on about it and when the Glazers started making them buy cup tickets, quite a few thousand stopped going. Their famous waiting list disappeared quicker than a chocolate teapot.
In recent weeks they have been advertising match day tickets, and rarely sell out now.
Saying that, if these green and gold protesters showed some bottle and didn’t renew their season tickets, they’d soon get rid of the Glazers.
The earlier poster was right about Latics match day tickets. £50 for a casual fan and two kids vs WBA. Too much….Instead of running all these deals, why don’t they just have a basic, affordable match day price. £25 for an adult and two kids for a low category game, rising for the bigger games?
Seems obvious to me. There’s around 10,000 people taking advantage of the great season ticket offers. They can’t go any lower on ST prices. Therefore they need to try and bring in more casual on the day fans.
Dad and two kids is £300 for ST, that is £16 per game. No casual fan should ever pay less than that for any game. And to encourage season ticket buying, they should never pay even close to that. But I don’t see why they couldn’t do dad and two kids for say £25 for a lower category game. This deal was £50 for the WB game, and thats not going to attract anyone new.
And for casuals without kids make it £15 for lower cat games up to £25 for the biggies. It would still be a bargain, for them, and fair to ST holders.
Brown. I grew out of red about the age of 13.
Or Worcestershire sauce on eggs.
But thats brown as well
“If you increase the size of anything such as a supermarket or sports stadium, one of the things you always have to put in is how you propose to cope with the increased traffic both in terms of traffic flow & parking. At the JJB/DW they were able to put in new roads, foot bridges, car parks etc.. none of which would have been possible around Springfield Park without obtaining compulsory purhcase orders to hundreds of homes or paying above market value to persuade people in those homes to move. Either way it would have been too costly”
Its always amazed me the pigs ear they made on access for the DW. When you’re designing something from scratch surely you should be able to get a quicker exit than you get off the DW car parks.
Interesting article. I agreed with a lot, but not all of it. As a Springfield Park regular I enjoyed those days and in many ways it was more “honest”. But I wouldn’t give up what we’ve achieved, and what I enjoyed most was the ride up through the divisions, rather than necessarily what we’ve got once we’re there I’ve got two points that many would call naive, but I’m going to say them anyway.
1. I wish we could have stayed at Springfield Park, and developed it to the size we needed as we rose through the divisions. There was plenty of space to develop there. I know the DW was all part of the statement of intent, and there’s all sorts of reasons and incentives to build a new ground, but I’d rather be playing in a 15-20,000 developed Springfield Park than the DW. It’d be more honest, we could fill it, and it’d be a reminder of our heritage and roots. And anyone that throws access/traffic problems at this, have you tried getting out of the DW car parks?
2. I wish we could have developed some good local youngsters into the team. We’ve only done that with Bainsey in the whole ride up and our time at the top. I know again, people are going to point at Utd etc taking all the best local youngsters, but we used to develop plenty of top level players – its about having the intent. Newell, Quinn, Walsh, Atherton, Hinnigan, Parkinson and all the others. They’d all have got in our current team. The first two were centreforwards that knew where the goal was at the top level – what would we give for that now? We’ve now got a manager who says he believes in English players, and then plays the likes of Gomez and Diame ahead of the likes of Watson and Moses.