mikey Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 After all these years, Mike Dean's still a fucking homer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted March 11, 2012 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 11, 2012 Wilfried Zaha has been named as the Young Player of the Year at the Football League Awards. Â Other people won other awards, too. But not Darren Ambrose. Fuckheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 The full list of award winners is as follows:  npower Player of the Year - Championship (voted for by Football League club managers) Peter Whittingham - Cardiff City Rickie Lambert - Southampton Adam Lallana - Southampton  npower Player of the Year - League 1 (voted for by Football League club managers) Johnnie Jackson - Charlton Athletic Jordan Rhodes - Huddersfield Town Ched Evans - Sheffield United  npower Player of the Year - League 2 (voted for by Football League club managers) Marlon Pack - Cheltenham Town Tyrone Barnett - Crawley Town (now on loan at Peterborough United) Matt Ritchie - Swindon Town  npower Football League Young Player of the Year Matt Phillips - Blackpool Lewis Dunk - Brighton & Hove Albion Wilfried Zaha - Crystal Palace  Contribution to League Football Graham Turner - Shrewsbury Town  Mitre Goal of the Year Peter Whittingham (v Barnsley) Cardiff City - For . Darren Ambrose (v Manchester United) Crystal Palace Peter Leven (v Port Vale) Oxford United K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 14, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 14, 2012 Just got back from Cardiff. Cracking night for the Tigers. Absolutely brilliant. Gotta be up for work in 5 hours! Worth it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C/WMark Please! Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Just got back from Cardiff. Cracking night for the Tigers. Absolutely brilliant. Gotta be up for work in 5 hours! Worth it though. Â Well played! Â Kenny Miller had a shocker tonight, he was unlucky with hitting the post though, the Hull defence was solid throughout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Everybody is so inconsistent in this division and it's so tight that one solid win can change the complexion of your season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted March 14, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 14, 2012 npower Fan of the Year (decided by a panel of industry experts) Paddy Cronesberry - Middlesbrough Sue Pollard - Plymouth Argyle Lynn Noon - Preston North End Sue Pollard as in.. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 14, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 14, 2012 Everybody is so inconsistent in this division and it's so tight that one solid win can change the complexion of your season. Agree. We're consistently tough to beat though, last night made it 10 unbeaten and 8 clean sheets in 10 games. Â We finally got a bit of luck though. McNaughton's own goal meant they came onto us and we killed them on the break. Might have got lucky with the disallowed goal but I've honesty no idea what the linesman saw. I did think the goalie was blocked but that happens every week. Â I'm off to Palace on Saturday. Need a good result before the home game with Southampton on Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Hull are one of the form teams but that's almost damning the run with faint praise. It's like how Palace are now eight unbeaten but it was a run that originally extended a winless run to six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 And what the fuck did Derby chant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BionicRedneck Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 "Where has your chairman gone?" apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Reading are flying now. When does it all come off the rails? This run is getting ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleischmark Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 How you feeling about Allardyce, mikey? I think he's a tit and has played it too safe. Watching us against Leeds we had the quality to bury that game, if only we had their desire. We just weren't throwing enough forward, but any time we stringing an attack together ON THE FUCKING FLOOR we looked very dangerous. Â In terms of stats, we are unbeaten in 8, but four of those were draws. I know we've got something weird going on at home but seriously; Doncaster, Watford and Palace?? We should be finishing these games, and I don't buy any of that 'they park the bus' or 'its like a cup final for them' bollocks. Â I'm really worried now, if saturday had been a play off semi or final, Leeds would have taken it. We need automatic promotion and we've got Middlesborough, Reading, Birmingham, Hull, Leicester and Brighton in our last ten games, ie all in the top half of the table. Im definitely worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Hello, old boy. How the devil are you? Â I think there has been a failure in strategy across the whole season, in fact from the moment we were relegated last season. Is Allardyce inherently terrible? Not necessarily. Especially with the away form, I feel at times he's dragged us kicking and screaming to promotion. He's had some crappy luck with injuries. We can take three or four injuries but not in the same position and this is the issue in which we've found ourselves. A couple of games ago, we had two injuries which meant we couldn't lay our hand on a right back. Earlier in the season, all bar one of our centre backs were injured and we were forced to play the clearly-not-ready Dan Potts at left back and McCartney in the middle. Luck hasn't been on our side. Â However, as I said, there's been a failure in strategy. Transfer policy has been wacky as fuck in particular. Rather than look at the division and see what works, we've gone out and bought a bunch of obvious, known quantity signings. Some have worked, like Faye, some have not, like Carew. We bought in Sam Baldock, who I thought looked a can't-miss prospect, and then decided he can't play in the formation he's played in at MK Dons for the last season-and-a-half. Then he's effectively replaced mid-season with Maynard, who looks like he'll never recapture his top game and who hasn't been in amazing form this season. Meanwhile we let Spector go, a vital cog in our squad, and ignored guys like Chris Burke. Both were picked up by Birmingham and the latter is fucking brilliant. Â As such, we are playing this weird 4-3-3 with an anchorman and it's not adaptive enough. We have this one passing option for the defenders and teams just put a man on him - Wardrobe before, Tomkins now - and as such the defence are forced into lumping it. Either that or the wide men drop deep to link up with the full backs, we get bogged down out wide and cough it up cheaply. Given we don't switch play effectively, we end up losing the ball in a way that allows Allardyce to say the opposition are stonewalling. It's all too predictable. My view is we need to play a double pivot, maybe Noble alongside Tomkins and then allow Nolan to roam with Vaz Te on the left and get somebody to fill in on the right, as Faubert is still not up to the job. If we can do this, maybe we'll be able to give the ball into Maynard's feet because he has neither the stature, the ability nor the inclination to play as a targetman. Â Let's remember though, this is still in the main a squad that was relegated in embarrassing fashion last year and those players aren't much better this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2012 Beaten tonight by the best team in the league. Not well beaten, 2-0 flattered them in the end though they might've run away with it early on. We're a good side but there's an obvious difference between our forward line and there's which has power, pace, energy and invention. Lallana's running from deep and Lambert's hold-up play are second to none. Saints are better than Norwich were last year. Better individuals and more mobile. Wonder if that will translate when they go up? It's not an if by the way, they are going up. Â We're still on the fringe of the play-off's. Not too many games left against top sides now. West Ham away on the final day, Boro at home and Leicester away on Saturday. Otherwise, all games against bottom half teams. We've got a chance. It's a slim one though. We don't score enough goals, it's no coincidence. Â LOLeeds!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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