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Tommasson scores yet again. Is linked with Barcelona etc. Still rate him personally. If we had played him in his natural position in MIDFIELD, we might have realised his potential. Instead, we played him up front mostly on his own for a while. Crushed his confidence. Bad bad man management there.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

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-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

Players were played out of position as a deliberate policy by TSM. We had the utter farce of 7 stone Tino being played as a lone target man, wasting his sublime talents completely. And when I say "lone target man", I mean "lone" as in a 9-0-1 formation with high clearances played to him by a defence which assumed Sir Les was still there. Speed who played in central midfield for Everton and expressed this as his best position was played wide left. He was excrutiatingly bad in the position when he first played for us.

There were a few others whose best position, as far as we were concerned, was at their previous clubs!



-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

I watched the two Scottish League semis this week, talk about chalk and cheese. Rangers-Celtic was fantastic traditional British football at its best, committed, skillful, just great. Two players stood out. For Celtic it was the returning Agathe, a fantastic athlete and a superb player, this is what Hughes should be aiming to be. The other was Lovenkrands for Rangers, the lad who went there rather then joining us. He was so fast, and pretty skillful with it. Having seen him, and seen Gudjonsen who Robson missed out on last year, and taking into account Bellamy and Robert, it seems pretty obvious that Robson is motivated by pace in his players/targets.

The second semi was Hibs - Ayr, which was 0-0 at full time, but wasn't as exciting as the scoreline suggests. Awful stuff betwen a striggling SPL side and an work hard 1st division side. Gary Caldwell played okay, played the bossy defensive leader a few times but didn't really stand out. He spent the second half of extra time as an extra centre forward and looked to be trying to perfect his own Bellamyesque whinge.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002


Some would argue that if Big Al hadn't got injured and the board hadn't sold Sir Les behind Dalglish's back then perhaps things wouldn't have been so desperate.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

That doesn't excuse 6 months of searching for another forward in a time when half the strikers in Europe changed clubs pre-World Cup only to select Andreas Andersson.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002


Aye but you've got to bide your time and be patient if you want to land top talent like Andrea.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

i could have coped with waiting even longer

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

You're right of course, I loved the cunning way we caught them off guard. We enquired about Kluivert and AC Milan kept quibbling over the price. We went back 3 times and then "suckered" them into thinking that they'd get nothing at all to show for all the time wasted and then threw in as a parting-shot that we'd settle for Andy Pandy at 4mil. This can work really well when buying Persian carpets and the like, but it is traditional to actually look at a footballer before signing him (except for Honduran strikers of course). You'd have thought that the speed at which the contracts were drawn up and the way that the Italians kept roaring with laughter every time they left the room would have been a bit of a giveaway.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

I suspect even Andersson was played out of position - certainly when he played for Sweden against England back when he was a Toon player he played out wide. And scored, of course. And looked great.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2002

Watched him score 4 goals in the reserves one night. Still looked sh*te :-D

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2002


Didn't Al fly out with Dalglish in order to meet Andrea? It was supposed to show how committed we were in signing a 'quality' player of his undoubted ability.

Still, he must have single handedly raised Bold washing powder sales with the amount of grass stains accumulated on his shorts. Whenever I think of Andersson I think of him falling on his arse.

Is anyone out there ready to admit to having his name printed on a shirt?

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2002


Couldn't afford it Bobby!

-- Anonymous, February 08, 2002

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