Saint Without a Halo

I love all the pundits who keep saying the premiership is better than la liga Celta look more composed tidy and far more potent up front on about a third of the pay our guys are on!

I think the he Russians are behind All the fake news! They are trying to help Chelsea win the premiership!

Italy results Lost 2-0 Bologna Draw 1-1 NK Bravo Win 5-0 Real Vicenza South Shields Tournament Win 3-0 South shields Win 2-0 Marseille

There are many good young strikers who did not make an impression in the Championship it is a much more physical league that toughens you up however if you are more intelligent, skilful and quick thinking for example and make good runs as a striker you want good players around you to play you in! There are plenty of examples of strikers ripping the championship apart and failing at the top level and vice versa this alone is not how you judge potential to be a good prem player. There are many key performance issues to look for in a potential premier striker not just ripping up the championship! The club like what they see so give him a chance

What about it ? I was just making the point that you never know with a 22 year old as there is still plenty of development opportunity left and we should not get rid because at 22 he is not yet Harry Kane! I am not saying make him our main striker just give him a chance.

So the conclusion is we need a better defence better defensive and creative midfielders and a more potent attack apart from that we are good to go!

Probably as underwhelmed as we were when we sold top scorer Kevin Davies to Blackburn and got a young James Beattie in return? Would rather that than when we sold a young Alan Shearer and got the established internationals Kerry Dixon and David speedie in return! Give the lad a chance

I always wodered why we never get someone in return when we sell to Liverpool like we got James Beattie as A makeweight when we sold Kevin Davies to Blackburn Surely if we want Ings on the cheap we just need to wait till the scousers come calling again

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Very good analysis (last but not one above)

Surely all Brazillians are forwards or attacking midfielders?

Maybe he can lift and encourage our other Morrocan born player too

Yup Shaqs second half not sure we can have both Can we have a Serb and Bosnian in the same team!

So far Tadic is looking the much better player than Shaq

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The trouble is even when two up we have contrived to let it slip i cite watford and chelsea as examples!

Actually a win against everton would still mean we had to win at swansea as I think Huddersfield will win their last game against an arsenal side with nothing to play for So despite the major disappointment a draw is not that different for us and means we have to fully focus on the win that keeps us up

Or even to fill in as a fullback whenever asked with no complaints

no heart no effort no commitment we have spent two years trying to protect draws and have forgotten how to win

Exactly this Long must be in he is our only outlet when we are under pressure and plays with heart something missing from so many others

Agree ONLY seven points but our problem is we have gone from getting one point a game to zero a game whilst conceding three goals in each the last four games Seven points is an Everest to climb for us at present! Every year a club labelled wrongly “ too good to go down” does This year it looks pretty sure its us

When i think back to the fight commitment and soul some of our much less talented relegation saving teams put in compared to this bunch of overpaid gutless players Most of them know they will move and still get paid mega bucks so why care?

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This is so true and what makes it worse is how gutless and uncommitted we are Better to play the youngsters than these overpaid so called stars id rather watch us go down with some fight than this!