[retired_lnspeer]

Reckon that rumour's crap tbh. Pleased if true but I must mention the fact we already have a left back who's better in midfield at the club already in Ross Wallace.

[YZFRydn]

I'm sorry lads but what you got from Richardson today is whats known as "the usual".

The lad does three things during a football match.

1) Runs down the wing and just keeps going until he runs it out of play. It doesnt matter how close he is to the byline he'll just keep on going if a man is at the side of him.

He also just relys on his pace for this because he cant beat a man with anything else.

2) Hes fond of having a crack from distance. Luckily a few do go in no matter how awful they are.

3) ****s everything up. He was surrounded by world class players at Old Trafford and even when we cruised games they couldnt drag a good performance out of him.

Hes a player who thinks hes something special when hes not even good.

Richardsons performances just dont get any better than what you saw today. Thankyou for £5.5m for a player the fans would have paid you to take.

[retired_kikiiscwazy]

Love how us slating him doesn't end even when he has gone

[retired_jabda]

Didn't I say McShane was awesome?

[bunor90]

Originally posted by finneys13:
Didn't I say McShane was awesome?

I think the other centre half was more impresive, I think he was signed from Gillingham.
Sunderland will be hard to break down but from what I saw yesterday you will struggle to score goals.

[retired_kcharles826]

Originally posted by Tony7:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by finneys13:
Didn't I say McShane was awesome?

I think the other centre half was more impresive, I think he was signed from Gillingham.
Sunderland will be hard to break down but from what I saw yesterday you will struggle to score goals. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I think we willbe slightly more creative once Whitehead returns to the middle. He's not that creative himself but he allows the wide men to be more creative.

Also we could do with another striker. Stokes just isn't up to it. I think if we get the ball into the box then Chopra will get a few anyway.

1-0's will do us fine thanks

[retired_workoutmom26]

How fb is this? After the match Etuhu was driving up Newcastle Road and stopped at the traffic lights beside The Grange. A load of fans started chanting his name and he called a lad over and gave him £60 to get the next round in! :thup:

Anyway, Brum on Wednesday. I reckon we can get something out of this, but we'll have to be well organised and keep our focus. Something we've come to expect from Keane's teams anyway. Obviously it's going to be imperative that we take points off teams that we consider to be our equal.

Hopefully Halford will be back and will enable Whitehead to move back into midfield, possibly in place of Yorke. Probably swap Chopra for Stokes too.

[retired_binghamfootball]

never been a fan of sunderland, but you've got a class manager and hope you do well under his stewardship!

[Willow85]

Originally posted by Anon!:

Hopefully Halford will be back and will enable Whitehead to move back into midfield, possibly in place of Yorke. Probably swap Chopra for Stokes too.

Not sure what I'd do on the left - think Collins would be a better bet for away games than Wallace, whom IMO looked better than Richardson going forward. Richardson did work really hard though, so Wallace coming on later and jinking his way down the left might not be a bad idea :-/

Love three points, ut I think this might be harder than the Spurs game, settle for one to keep unbeaten.

[Willow85]

Originally posted by Taz & The Devil:
I'm sorry lads but what you got from Richardson today is whats known as "the usual".

The lad does three things during a football match.

1) Runs down the wing and just keeps going until he runs it out of play. It doesnt matter how close he is to the byline he'll just keep on going if a man is at the side of him.

He also just relys on his pace for this because he cant beat a man with anything else.

2) Hes fond of having a crack from distance. Luckily a few do go in no matter how awful they are.

3) ****s everything up. He was surrounded by world class players at Old Trafford and even when we cruised games they couldnt drag a good performance out of him.

Hes a player who thinks hes something special when hes not even good.

Richardsons performances just dont get any better than what you saw today. Thankyou for £5.5m for a player the fans would have paid you to take.

I don't think he played very well on Saturday, but he wasn't as bad as you make out. He also grafted very very hard, which allowed the fullback behind him a bit of licence to get forward and he won lots of set pieces for us higher up the pitch.

Time will tell how he does here, but with a bit of confidence I think he'll do alright - so far he's shown to be a bit hit and miss, but at times he's looked to have a bit of quality. It's different playing for Sunderland, we don't have the quality of players around him to judge him by you do and we're not playing at or aiming for the same level, so his weakness' aren't shown up in the same way.

Ferguson just said yesterday he had to sell him for his Richardson's sake, because of the fans being on his back - once that happens then players are very rarely able to turn it round and he'd have been more nervous to make mistakes, grasping at opportunities more and not playing his natuiral game.

I think the fact some of you are here saying these things about him and not commenting on just how obvious it was Dwight Yorke is clearly finished as a top level footballer and how slow both his legs were and how he wanted an age on the ball, sums up for me, that you're going overboard about Richardson.