Katie Borkins
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[quote user="Thumbelina"]Please tell us, what does Zaha give us that we don''t already have, apart from the possibility of being an overpriced flop? I doubt very much whether Palace would let him go on the cheap. No better than what we already have here in my opinion.
[/quote]I reckon Sunderland already signed him and he played for them yesterday.
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[quote user="morty"]What do you want them to say?
Do you need an actual board member to come round your house and cuddle you?
[/quote]To be honest with you, I think that would be a helpful move and perhaps Archant could work with the club to make things seem better this week by having a series of photo opportunities.
David McNally cutting a piece of cake for an old lady at a hospice
Delia Smith launching a series of "I can stand the heat" apron designs with John Ruddy modelling the matching oven gloves,
Michael Foulger giving chickens a last minute reprieve in front of some cheering lefties
Alan Bowkett volunteering in a Samaritans call centre
Bor would be a happy old Bor alright.
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[quote user="Herman "]Suggs walking uo your driveway.That''s the first sign of madness.[/quote]
Now that, young man, did give old Bor a much needed chuckle on this grim morning after.
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We shouldn''t fire him but we should certainly read him the riot act; and drop Tierney, Pilkington, Turner and Snodgrass along with fining them a week''s wages each for such a disgraceful performance. -
My point has always been that a manager needs to be respected and even feared by his players, and Lambert had both qualities plus was a proven winner at the highest level. Hughton''s softly softly arm round the shoulder, "do your best lads" approach is simply not going to work in the era of spoiled millionaires with every material possession on tap and an agent ready to parachute them into another club if relegation happens. I recall a few years ago talk of the "Costa Del Colney" where it was a nice old life, you could jog around every morning, try a few free kicks and then spend the afternoon playing on your X-Box or sleeping with other player''s wives. It looks to me that under Hughton, we''re heading back to the nice cosy "don''t try too hard lads, you might get injured" mentality.
As my old American buddy used to say, "nice guys finish last". We need a Ron Saunders, an Archie McCauley, a Dave Stringer to hammer the players into mental and physical shape. The iron fist in the velvet glove, not some papier maché nice guy who''ll have all the excuses under the sun but no positive contribution on the training ground.
McNally will sort this out as Hughton is as much his appointment as Lambert was. With McNally''s Fulham history he will be hurting and seething today and Bor believes you may see a very different game on Saturday as a result.
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[quote user="Mister Chops"]
Was it a complete disaster? Yes, frankly.
[/quote]This is what old Bor was trying to say with regard to the friendly games, Mister. A palpable lack of cohesion and cutting edge, and players who didn''t look like they''d learned their lines ready for opening night. And like all amateur dramatic societies, the sense that "it will be alright on the night!" was quickly dispelled as Fulham clicked and we flopped. Our Canaries yesterday looked underprepared, underplanned. And as my old Georgraphy teacher at King Ed used to say:
"fail to prepare? - prepare to fail!"
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Now I thought that sort of rabble rousing (usually via the local rag) went out when Gary Doherty left the club. It did seem to Bor that every Thursday and Friday evening the headline would be "Doherty: We''ll do it for the fans" or "Doherty: We''re focused and ready". He was better with a typewriter than a football, clearly.
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[quote user="Bor Bor Bor"]I really think we''re going to get beaten badly in our first game of the season. Fulham have sharpened up and bought in some quality players like Rodallega who''s caused us problems before, whereas on the strength of today''s performance we are one-paced, one-dimensional and lack any kind of cutting edge. I fear our home form is going to be critical to our survival chances this season as we won''t get much from our away games if this is the system, formation and performance levels we can expect. We''ll need Carrow Road to be a fortress more than ever.
From today''s performance, the players need to wake up (Snodgrass and Howson aside) and the negativity of one up front (home or away) needs to be challenged. It can work if you have quality on the wings and pushing forward as Swansea proved last season, but without a player like Sigurdsson it''s easy to just end up running round in circles with no cutting edge.
Despondently yours,
BBB
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Oh, the amount of stick old Bor got for this post!
"It''s only a friendly, Bor, that don''t mean nothing."
"Shut up you silly old duffer."
"Get behind the team, Bor."
Shame on you all. Bor will continue to say what he likes and if it upsets you, too bad. There is a difference between loyalty and blind support and I would respectfully suggest some of you open your eyes a little wider and see what''s happening at our football club. It gives me no pleasure that I was right about yesterday. I come here not to gloat but to advise you all.
The Norwich Puppetman isn''t outside Primark any longer - he is in the City boardroom.
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[quote user="BroadstairsR"]Bad tactics, strange team selection, lacklustre and spiritless performance, no overall pattern, questions about fitness, a clumsy debut by the manager''s new central defender crowning an overall dreadful performance at the back, Snodgrass looking lost. Should I go on? I can. It was awful and I can think of no positives whatsoever. Not one.
I''m not ashamed of myself for questioning the ability of a highly paid individual, who arrived with acclaim, when he failed to get one single thing right in his debut game for NCFC.
Defeat? OK. Performance? Dire.
There would not be one Fulham supporter on the terraces today who would not now tip us as certs for relegation. They have been accustomed to Premiership teams there for a few seasons now and Hughton''s heroes must surely have been the worst that they have seen.
Get your thinking together Mr. Hughton, or piss off.
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Well said, sir, well said. The gulf between expectation and reality yesterday was not measured in inches or feet - it was measured in miles, and ultimately we looked leagues short of where Bor expected us to be from all the praise and reassurance issued by McNally and the mouthpieces.
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[quote user="Bor Bor Bor"]Worried, oh I''m worried alright. A lack of goals, obvious gaps in the full back positions and more average quality midfielders than we can shake a stick at but the only striker scoring goals is one who is being linked with a loan move away. Holt''s carrying weight, Ruddy has no credible backup in case he gets injured (as with Euro 2012, it can easily happen in training), and we''ve played a few uninspiring friendly matches where we''ve looked good at the back but short of attacking threat.
Unimpressed, worried and seriously concerned about a swift return to the Championship,
Bor Bor Bor.
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Well now, old Bor has to put his hand up here and admit he got it wrong in his original post.
A lack of goals - true
obvious gaps in the full back positions - true
and more average quality midfielders than we can shake a stick at - true
but the only striker scoring goals is one who is being linked with a loan move away - true
Holt''s carrying weight - true
Ruddy has no credible backup in case he gets injured (as with Euro 2012, it can easily happen in training) - possibly unfair though I note Hughton is looking at "Bunn" suggesting he agrees with me. On the strength of yesterday, I don''t want that nincompoop agreeing with me.
we''ve played a few uninspiring friendly matches where we''ve looked good at the back but short of attacking threat - wrong, and I apologise. We don''t look good at the back at all. Turner is a less mobile Michael Nelson and Ryan Bennett looks out of his depth. Tierney and Martin were exposed by the lack of effort in the wide positions and old Bor watched most of the second half with his cap over his eyes to shield himself not from the sun, but from the "football".
If I was Hughton I would think twice before leaving the house this morning. Dear oh dear, have we seen anything worse from a feted "best man dof the job" signing since the last days of Roeder? Bor will forgive Gunn the Colchester game as Gunn was a club legend trying and failing to do a job he wasn''t suited for and should never have been given. Hughton was signed as the best man for the job and now has some serious work to do to restore any credibility to that statement
If Hughton does not sort this shambles out soon then Bor predicts severe pressure on McNally and the majority shareholders and another long cold winter of our discontent. We saw a Championship side yesterday in all but name, and not a very good one at that. I wouldn''t break the wage cap for any of that shower we saw yesterday.
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[quote user="Mr Brownstone"]Do you suffer from short term memory loss or are you just a little dim? You know full well we have no choice but to pay the debt back so stop trying to stir up a s**t storm like a stroppy little child and deal with it like the rest of the grown ups have, because you are wasting your time and ruining every thread you post on with you incessant blubbering.[/quote]
Because we''re the only club in debt, are we?
I''m wasting my time because none of you want to see the truth for what it is. I''m "ruining every thread" because you all want to talk about how pink the world looks from behind your glasses. Last time I checked, this was a discussion board and you don''t get to decide who does and doesn''t post. Suck it up, sunshine.
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[quote user="Mr Brownstone"]Jesus H Christ! Give it a bleedin rest! We all know exactly why we''re not spending £11m on transfer fees and £60k a week on wages and we''re all absolutely fine with it. We still want a club to support in 5 years. Just leave it now, it''s getting really boring.[/quote]
Think small, get smaller. And nice to see you speak for "everyone". Check your ego, there''s a good lad. I appreciate your fondness for Guns ''n'' Roses, though to my mind it is more than slightly at odds with your small minded lack of ambition when it comes to your football club. I suppose you would have settled for "G''n''R Lies" as the definitive follow-up as there was no point the band trying too hard to stretch themselves. That means no November Rain. Shame on you.
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2-2 if we turn up, 2-0 if we don''t. It depends on the motivation and tactical aptitude displayed by our manager.
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[quote user="Gingerpele"][quote user="Bor Bor Bor"][quote user="Gingerpele"]You really think Hughton and/or the board, or the players are going to publicly say what their targets are? If you do, then I''m afraid you know very little of football. Of course the target is to do better. But they are realistic enough to know that going to be even harder than what we did last year, Why should Hughton publicly set himself and the club up for a fall?[/quote]
Don''t be so ridiculous. Last season we said our target was survival. This season, we can''t even say that. It''s pathetic. Still, enjoy watching our target free, ambition-free, fancy-free team. Don''t forget to clap, whatever the outcome.
[/quote] Because that''s what EVERY promoted team says. For goodness sake. Go support another team, you clearly can''t enjoy supporting this one, what''s the point you miserable sod.[/quote]
We''re not promoted, Junior. We''re in our second season. Run along and come back when you know our history (and the basic rules of punctuation).
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McCarthy''s a class act but I hope that Redknapp''s told his accountant as the BBC tend to make payments through official channels.
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[quote user="Gingerpele"]You really think Hughton and/or the board, or the players are going to publicly say what their targets are? If you do, then I''m afraid you know very little of football. Of course the target is to do better. But they are realistic enough to know that going to be even harder than what we did last year, Why should Hughton publicly set himself and the club up for a fall?[/quote]
Don''t be so ridiculous. Last season we said our target was survival. This season, we can''t even say that. It''s pathetic. Still, enjoy watching our target free, ambition-free, fancy-free team. Don''t forget to clap, whatever the outcome.
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[quote user="corporateyesman"]Who cares what other clubs are doing?
History says smaller clubs spending big and outside their budget usually ends in disaster.
[/quote]Jesus H Christ. Of course they are spending within their budget, otherwise they wouldn''t be spending. Do you really think premier league clubs are run on "back of a fag packet" economic and financial plans?
You SHOULD be asking "why aren''t we, in our second season with another lump of TV money, competing with the likes of minnows Southampton?" But that would require taking the blinkers off and asking some difficult questions that nobody has the cojones to raise. Get me, small fry?
You''ll all wake up one day and realise you''ve been screwed in every hole going.
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[quote user="Mr Brownstone"]I genuinely feel a bit sorry for Bor. It must be a pretty pathetic existence he leads if the highlight of his day is trolling on an Internet message board. Pop outside and get some fresh air fella, it''ll make you feel better.[/quote]
Sorry for caring.
Did we go dancing once?
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“It is quite obvious that to say an improvement on our league position would be an outstanding achievement. We have made absolutely no targets here. The only requirements we have is that the players give all they can. That is what the football club saw from them last season.”
Unbelievable nonsense to not set targets. I''ll tell you what the target is - it''s measured in share price and value to the majority shareholders who want their money back. I have no problem with that, but I would respect them all the more if they came right out and said it. Instead we get this smokescreen, this veneer, this pretence of competitiveness - on a day when even Southampton will put their money where their Premier League mouths are. Dear oh dear. Time to wake up and see what''s really going on here, why Paul Lambert really left, and why we''ll be watching second division football next season.
Feel free to drag this thread up when we stay up, but you won''t for one very good reason. And I will be too busy choking on my own tears to say "I told you so!"
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Very good news if Dempsey is not playing. Let''s hope Rodallega doesn''t go out with something to prove having been starved of opportunities at Wigan. We have little to fear tomorrow if our team play to their potential and are motivated to withstand the first twenty minutes of pressure.
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39, staying up on goal difference.
This assumes we sign a proven striker in January, otherwise 34 and relegated in 18th place with 1 week to go.
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[quote user="super canary"]I agree splashing big cash can be risky, but for a newly promoted team this is quite a big statement of intent. Granted it hasnt said if the lad actually wants to go to Soton. Have Southampton had any recent investment?[/quote]
Exactly. It''s a statement of intent. What was our statement of intent? Holding out on our captain and modern day hero over one extra year on his contract, and picking up injury prone lower league players on free transfers and haggled knock-down fees. One day the scales will fall from your eyes and you''ll see where the priorities of the board lie and why they need a sock puppet in the dugout. Before long they will be found out and cast adrift, floating alone on their ship of fools, adrift on their cruel sea of lies.
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[quote user="UkraineCanary"][quote user="Bor Bor Bor"][quote user="stoke canary"]QPR MIDD/BORO and BRUM interested according to Sky[/quote]
You could at least spell his name right - it''s Morison, not "Morro" -and MIDD/BORO are the same team. I hope Houghton doesn''t read these boards, they''re an embarrassment.
[/quote] Ok.....I rarely post and am ready and waiting for my resultant ban.... We all know that you are an ironic poster....a pastiche of previous trolls and posters. But your poor spelling, generally laughable attempt at humour and feeble attempts to entertain lead me to one conclusion..... You just have to be a sad, pathetic and very lonely CUNT...[/quote]
You know nothing and your language is disgraceful. I''ve seen your sort come and go before and there''s nothing you can throw at me that others haven''t already thrown - it''s water off a duck''s back as far as I''m concerned so bring it on, Comrade.
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[quote user="Yellows"][quote user="Bor Bor Bor"][quote user="Beauseant"][quote user="Ches right hand man "]has been said hughton wants one more big singing after this, wonder which player that will be may be a striker perhaps?
[/quote]Could I be the first to say that, whoever that signing is, he''s too slow, too old, hasn''t enough Prem experience and isn''t as good as what we''ve got and/or released? Oh, and his signing will provide incontrovertible proof that we''re going down and that the transfer buget has been hijacked.
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The negativity on this site disgusts me sometimes.[/quote]
F *ck off.
Must be terrible being a jealous s cummer...
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I wouldn''t know, junior. Now jog along, the adults are discussing things above your intellectual level.
QPR tactics - High pressing and Simeon Jackson.
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[quote user="Thumbelina"]Please tell us, what does Zaha give us that we don''t already have, apart from the possibility of being an overpriced flop? I doubt very much whether Palace would let him go on the cheap. No better than what we already have here in my opinion.
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I reckon Sunderland already signed him and he played for them yesterday.
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Poor Sunderland, how much did they spend on him?
I think Zaha would struggle to hold down a place in the first team at the Stadium of Light too.
[/quote] Zaha won a penalty for Crystal Palace yesterday so unless he''s signed overnight I assume it''s a different player[/quote]
Oh dear. Old Bor got in a muddle. It''s Saha who Sunderland have signed, not Zaha. Wait until you get to my age, that''ll come to you too.