Quote from: Chris Smith on May 08, 2011, 02:59:03 PMQuote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 02:42:20 PMQuote from: gregnash on May 08, 2011, 02:29:53 PMbut i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.Gregory, this is 2011, things have changed, have you been sleeping for the last 12 months?. You're in for a great surprise, who'll never guess which centre forward we bought for £18mHe can't pass. Or at least not to the standard required for a team with aspirations to compete at the business end of the table. He needs three touches and time just to pass it square ten yard. He's got plenty of good qualities and was probably our best player yesterday but a central midfield with him in it just too slow and predictable.By the same logic we may as well fuck Downing off now as he can't cross a ball so he's no good on the wing and he can't tackle, so no good in central midfield. The fact that Downing and NRC have been our best and most consistant performers says so much about this season.
Quote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 02:42:20 PMQuote from: gregnash on May 08, 2011, 02:29:53 PMbut i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.Gregory, this is 2011, things have changed, have you been sleeping for the last 12 months?. You're in for a great surprise, who'll never guess which centre forward we bought for £18mHe can't pass. Or at least not to the standard required for a team with aspirations to compete at the business end of the table. He needs three touches and time just to pass it square ten yard. He's got plenty of good qualities and was probably our best player yesterday but a central midfield with him in it just too slow and predictable.
Quote from: gregnash on May 08, 2011, 02:29:53 PMbut i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.Gregory, this is 2011, things have changed, have you been sleeping for the last 12 months?. You're in for a great surprise, who'll never guess which centre forward we bought for £18m
but i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.
Quote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 03:26:26 PMQuote from: Chris Smith on May 08, 2011, 02:59:03 PMQuote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 02:42:20 PMQuote from: gregnash on May 08, 2011, 02:29:53 PMbut i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.Gregory, this is 2011, things have changed, have you been sleeping for the last 12 months?. You're in for a great surprise, who'll never guess which centre forward we bought for £18mHe can't pass. Or at least not to the standard required for a team with aspirations to compete at the business end of the table. He needs three touches and time just to pass it square ten yard. He's got plenty of good qualities and was probably our best player yesterday but a central midfield with him in it just too slow and predictable.By the same logic we may as well fuck Downing off now as he can't cross a ball so he's no good on the wing and he can't tackle, so no good in central midfield. The fact that Downing and NRC have been our best and most consistant performers says so much about this season.Mark you really think Downing can't cross?
Quote from: Phil from the upper holte on May 08, 2011, 06:18:05 PMQuote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 03:26:26 PMQuote from: Chris Smith on May 08, 2011, 02:59:03 PMQuote from: Mark Kelly on May 08, 2011, 02:42:20 PMQuote from: gregnash on May 08, 2011, 02:29:53 PMbut i'd want someone better than coker in there. Someone who can pass for a start.Gregory, this is 2011, things have changed, have you been sleeping for the last 12 months?. You're in for a great surprise, who'll never guess which centre forward we bought for £18mHe can't pass. Or at least not to the standard required for a team with aspirations to compete at the business end of the table. He needs three touches and time just to pass it square ten yard. He's got plenty of good qualities and was probably our best player yesterday but a central midfield with him in it just too slow and predictable.By the same logic we may as well fuck Downing off now as he can't cross a ball so he's no good on the wing and he can't tackle, so no good in central midfield. The fact that Downing and NRC have been our best and most consistant performers says so much about this season.Mark you really think Downing can't cross?Clampy just answered for me. Of course he can cross, at Middlesborough he constantly delivered. Yesterday he got a cross in. A cross. He contributes enormously but it's that final ball into Bent that's missing. When he gets that right, he'll be the best all round winger (apart from Giggs) in the country. I'd also like to see him moving in on the far post when the ball is on the other wing. He scored a few like that in the first half of the season but seems to have been forgotten.Downing is potentially a much better player than most think he could be, especially his biggest fans on here.
Milner moved from the wing to play in a central role and thrived, who's to say Downing couldn't have a similar impact? I'm still not sure why he get's so much stick from a minority of fans, he's been our most consistent performer this year and is now starting to get picked for the England squad more regularly.
Downing is a left winger. Fuck Ash off & play Downing Left, Albrighton (or a new right winger) on the right.
Quote from: manic-road on May 09, 2011, 04:58:19 PMMilner moved from the wing to play in a central role and thrived, who's to say Downing couldn't have a similar impact? I'm still not sure why he get's so much stick from a minority of fans, he's been our most consistent performer this year and is now starting to get picked for the England squad more regularly. Milner has bottle and takes chances. The reason I don't like Downing is not because he does anything wrong, because he doesn't but that we do not seem to be as good a side when he's playing. Some players add something intangible and some - Downing and NRC - take something away.