Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:36 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

Amazing how KKK has no blame for Liverpools flops, but Hodgson was rightly slated for his signings.

No blame? I'll leave you to value your ability to judge, but I've been hugely critical of the purchases, the decision to sign the players we did and the people/person behind the transfers. If you want me to completely blame Dalglish when he has a DoF above him, then you can carry on wanting. I've said, I think they're both responsible, so I've criticised Dalglish for it.

As for Meireles. I said at the time I didn't want us to get rid of him, the club were hugely reluctant to give him the rise that was previously agreed under the old ownership. I'm unsure how much difference he would have made, he's clearly better than Henderson and Adam, but out midfield has lacked balance for long parts, something he wouldn't really bring.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:43 pm  

That Aquilani lad's a decent player.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:58 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

That Aquilani lad's a decent player.

He is. His entire time at Liverpool made little sense, from the initial injury, to the desperation in trying to offload him. I can only imagine he has a heavily bonus-based contract, either that or he's desperate not to play for us (probably the latter). He's a top player, easily better than anything in our midfield, it's just crazy to believe he's out on loan with an agreed fee of around £5m, I think, or something close to pathetic.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:02 am  

flipper wrote:

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:57 am  

Flipper, take a bow lad.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:13 pm  

That is perfect!

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:58 pm  

andym1988 wrote:

Thinking about going to see Newcastle when they play at Wigan, what is the away end like at the DW?

Unless you have a season ticket, you'll be struggling to get a ticket for this one.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:56 pm  

ash4hullfc wrote:

Unless you have a season ticket, you'll be struggling to get a ticket for this one.

He could just go in the side stands? There will be a good 8,000 spare tickets there.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:11 pm  

Terrible lino decision for the Ivanovic goal. Two of the worst offside decisions against us was Ravenelli's goal for Derby and Van Persie for Arsenal where you have to question just what game the linesman was watching, and today's was a similar one in our favour.

But they did even it out by not giving us a pen for the just-as-blatant handball.

Terrible display from Chelsea. We'd have got what we deserved if they buried their chance at the death, but instead we break and take the 3 points.

And lastly, I absolutely ****ing hate Chelsea fans. They fall over themselves to back Torres but Sturridge gets abused all the time. This season Sturridge has probably been a 7/10, compared to Torres's 4/10,even though Sturridge has been shoved out to the wing for the misfiring Torres and Drogba. Yet Torres still gets support when falling over inside the box when he should be burying it but Sturridge gets booed. Our support is ****ing ****.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:31 pm  

Looking forward to the 1st time in years Fulham running Chelsea ragged on Monday after that display