Defoe to sign this week

[Ryan]

Yawn. With all due respect..... any chance of a record change guys?

Sure, no sweat.

CROUCHIE'S ACES!

I wouldn't sell him for £20M

Viva la Rafalution!

Better?

[Hamstrung]

I'd say even if we buy Kuyt or Defoe, the two "chuckle brothers" on this forum might be disappointed. I think Crouch will still start more games than he doesn't.

[Ryan]

I'd say even if we buy Kuyt or Defoe, the two "chuckle brothers" on this forum might be disappointed. I think Crouch will still start more games than he doesn't.

Is this not "goading"?

[red g]

I'd say even if we buy Kuyt or Defoe, the two "chuckle brothers" on this forum might be disappointed. I think Crouch will still start more games than he doesn't.

yeh crouch is an integral part of our team and long may it continue

[dww]

I actually think that Defoe and Keane at the end of the season showed that in the right situation two short, pacy forwards can make a good partnership. I know it took a long time for them to gel but I think that they were hampered by Jol's determination to play a big man little man front two.

So long as we have a different option (Crouch) and/or other players who are better in the air (I would class both Fowler and Garcia in this category) then I think that Defoe would be a good addition to the squad. I would however prefer a more physically imposing forward, such as Kuyt.

[MrMichael]

Sure, no sweat.

CROUCHIE'S ACES!

I wouldn't sell him for £20M

Viva la Rafalution!

Better?

Maybe we could do that, reverse posting... whatever you post the opposite is meant.


Or you could just try.....

"I don't rate Crouch at all

I think ultimately he's too dodgy infront of goal / too slow to ever be top quality etc

As we're stuck with him I think we need another option like xxxxxx, and this is why....

Defoe would/would not provide this because...."

[Ryan]

"I don't rate Crouch at all

I think ultimately he's too dodgy infront of goal / too slow to ever be top quality etc

As we're stuck with him I think we need another option like xxxxxx, and this is why....

Defoe would/would not provide this because...."

That's pretty much what I've done, only better obviously, in that other thread.

[MrMichael]

Good, then my original point about "changing the record" in this one was correct. Glad we cleared that up








Would it amuse you Ryan if I changed my "moderator" title to "Ryan's chaperone"? We must stop meeting in threads like this otherwise

[paulcooper4]

told you all rosco was a rafa hater. on kt all he ever done was slate rafa. Believe it or not theres many more there like him, one of the reasons i left, rather than waiting for my sub to run out

[Ryan]

Good, then my original point about "changing the record" in this one was correct. Glad we cleared that up








Would it amuse you Ryan if I changed my "moderator" title to "Ryan's chaperone"? We must stop meeting in threads like this otherwise

Ha!

I'd advise against it. You'd have to put up with any amount of people referring to you as "that ******'s chaperone"...

[Ryan]

told you all rosco was a rafa hater. on kt all he ever done was slate rafa. Believe it or not theres many more there like him, one of the reasons i left, rather than waiting for my sub to run out

You're wrong Paul.

He's out forward some excellent points in this thread mate.

Counter them, not your pre-conceived thoughts.

[paulcooper4]

You're wrong Paul.

He's out forward some excellent points in this thread mate.

Counter them, not your pre-conceived thoughts.

They are my thoughts mate. The fella makes it clear on a regular basis that he doesnt rate rafa.

[Ryan]

Good, then my original point about "changing the record" in this one was correct. Glad we cleared that up








Would it amuse you Ryan if I changed my "moderator" title to "Ryan's chaperone"? We must stop meeting in threads like this otherwise

Oh, and while you're here Michael. I posted one or two other things on the 'Selling Crouch' thread this morning that are "awaiting Moderator approval"... Approve them will ya?

Cheers.

[Howard_lfc]

Exactly, and this is the cusp of the arguement, people seem to think that the area's that they see as needing to be filled are the ones that should be. Rafa identified that we needed more pace and tenacity in the middle of the park, and we got that with Momo, we also desperately needed to replace the increasingly confidence shattered Dudek. These are two positions which helped us make up ground in the league, so who are we to argue? If we'd bought these two and not improved in anyway, then yeah, point the finger and suggest that the money would have been better spent elsewhere.

We had Gerrard for the right wing last season, I'd suggest that having him there and Momo, Alonso and Didi to cover the centre, was far more productive than having bought Simao/Pennant/whoever and NOT bought Momo. You only had to look at the spell where Momo was out with an eye injury to recognise how important he was to us.

Noone's suggesting Rafa doesnt make mistakes and we haven't suffered somewhat by eventually going for second best, but league wise, given Alonso is the only £10m+ player we've brought, I think we've boosted the squad with a fair amount of quality, and got rid of the majority of the deadwood over the two seasons/three summers. 'Rome wasn't built in a day' and all that.. We've now filled every position that needed filling, bar that fourth striker slot, which is looking like being sorted soon anyway.

If we'd have bought a right winger last season, we'd still be in the same position now, looking for a keeper and a central midfielder.

Top post - good sound reasoning.

H

[Ryan]

They are my thoughts mate. The fella makes it clear on a regular basis that he doesnt rate rafa.

Paul, he does rate Rafa.

I know this for a fact.

He, like some others too, doesn't believe he's infallible though. That doesn't mean to say he's a "Rafa hater" mate.