kuyt bashers

[MrMichael]

imo opinion, he worked well got into good positions and was unlucky not to score earlier, there were two ocassions, one were Voronin could have passed to him, and one where riise could have passed, which could well have got him two goals, his cut back for riise shot that he ****ed over the bar into row z was a good piece of play also - considering he wasn't getting the service I think he did well

Is the correct answer imo.

Well i thought he played well, put one on a plate for Riise, scored 2 pens under immense pressure, forced another good save from Howard, ran the line well all day with zero service from midfield, also he never hid and always wanted the ball.

As is that

[AFII]

played well in midfield

enough said

and he should play as a striker or not play at all. If Rafa want a player to make the job Kuyt do then he should play Gerrard in that position.

I think I can promise that he would do a better job than Kuyt in that position because it's his best position and he is a much better player than Kuyt.

[Armchairkopite]

He and Torres will form the perfect partnership in time.

[redblood]

He and Torres will form the perfect partnership in time.

I concur, plus I think Kuyt did well enough yesterday battled like **** all the way through the game.

[mchaggis]

he was offside most of the time. Scored 3 goals

[Johnny]

Kuyt will be sold at the end of the season if we have the money to compete for class strikers or Babel get`s a promotion.


A hard working striker counts for nothing if he can`t score from open play.


I`ve slowly gone from being a Kuyt fan to wandering how he plays in the same position as Owen,Fowler,Rush,Aldridge etc.

[MrMichael]

He and Torres will form the perfect partnership in time.

I'd agree with that too, they really could be very good together imo.

[Abro100]

Kuyt was crap yesterday IMO, his running was awful apart from the one chancel, his positioning, offside 4 times in one game. His control let him down again, Voronin was better,

[kopdan]

Kuyt is a great player. Works hard and seems to care

But a goal poacher? No...support forward at best.

Clear to see the gap between the Dutch and English league

[AFII]

Kuyt is a great player. Works hard and seems to care

But a goal poacher? No...support forward at best.

Clear to see the gap between the Dutch and English league

Kuyt is our best option if you look at it from Rafa's point of view.

He want a hard working second striker to play in that position.

Morientes did that, and failed.
Bellamy did that, and failed.
Baros did that, and failed.
Kuyt has failed so far.

I can see a pattern there.....

[keniget]

Pity we couldn't get Tevez...

[bazza76]

Kuyt is our best option if you look at it from Rafa's point of view.

He want a hard working second striker to play in that position.

Morientes did that, and failed.
Bellamy did that, and failed.
Baros did that, and failed.
Kuyt has failed so far.

I can see a pattern there.....

Kuyt has not failed, he may not to be up to much on the prolific scoring rate, but he is far from being a failure.

[AFII]

Kuyt has not failed, he may not to be up to much on the prolific scoring rate, but he is far from being a failure.

He has failed to deliver enough goals but not what Rafa want him to do, work his socks off in every game.

Sorry if I didn't made that clear.

[kopdan]

he's not the goalscoring hero we thought he'd be. However I think thats more Rafa's use of Dirk rather than Dirk's ability.

But I dont believe he will score 20 goals a year in England

[AFII]

The point is that it's more Rafa's fault that our second striker don't score more goals than the player himself.

If Kuyt would play as a striker then he would score more goals but we would also let in more goals.

Rafa has almost always played it safe and I doubt that he will change.