OldFart

Cisse - injury prone. Ashton - hasn't played for a year, injury. Great ideas I'm seeing.

Corradi? Forget the Valencia bit. He was only signed, along with the really seriously bad Fiore, as a way of allowing Lazio to pay off what they owed for Mendieta. I hope his career revives but see no earthly reason why Villa should ever take him, either paying money, on a free or them paying us money. Not worth the space these days.

Indeed he is. No thanks. Perhaps someone's confusing us with SHA.

I think there's a danger that people have made their minds up on Petrov and they now watch him already convinced that he will do well, and then convince themselves of it. He may be improving, I think you're right, but has he really played that well last 2 times out?

:shock: Isn't that a bit heavy?

Yes, wouldn't it be great if "Sicknote" Aimar finally triumphed in Europe!

I started on page 1 and it gave me a bit of a turn. Someone called Richard, someone else called Rantin Rob...

There's a club in Small Heath for people like Barton. And Bellamy.

We had a lad 34 years ago (just after Brown, the Little brothers, Giddy & Co won the FA Youth Cup) called Ally Cook or Cooke. He was about 5'2" or maybe less and a striker. A sensational little player. Was told he was too small and would never make it, and went back home to his parents' in Carlisle and found another job. I do hope young Bannan can be stretched. Will there be racks for this at Bodymoor Heath?

December 1968, Tommy Docherty was the Truth, the Hope and the Light, but in the event all he did was stave off relegation to the old 3rd Division for another year. August 2006, Martin O'Neill is seen by many in the same way. Hope comes back. We hadn't even been relegated and the hysteria wasn't quite as great. He has more between the ears than Tommy Doc, more of a footballing brain. But... I do see certain parallels.

You can say that again.

Is he?

How about a testimonial against Tamworth? At Tamworth?

I would prefer to see people like Barton and Bellamy go to clubs like SHA, memories of Julian Dicks and Gobby Cabbage. Much more their style. Doesn't mean we have to go for Boy Scouts. There's a happy medium.

Come on the nine men!

From Wikipedia. If you click you'll see the dates. I seem to have copied them down wrongly.

I'm confused, was he signed with Lierse at the age of 7 ? Read my sig :wink:

Like no doubt many of you I have been an admirer of Arouna Kone for very many years, have followed his trajectory with Lierse (1991-1994), Roda (1994-1998) and PSV (1998-). A regular viewer of Belgian and Dutch league matches on TV, I have to say however that 5 goals in 24 outings with the Ivory Coast national team isn't very impressive. The rest of you have no doubt seen more of him than me.

Nope, because no team has felt the need to push the boat out to get him like they did with Darren Bent and Dean Ashton, i wonder why?. Do you know for how many years Ashton and Bent were playing regular for Crewe and Ipswich respectively? Longer than Nugent has been at PNE. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: Especially for you mate seeing that all your posts have at least one :roll: ! Erm both Ashton and Bent were 16 when they made their debuts for their teams, Nugent was playing for Bury (who were two leagues lower) when he was 16 and moved to Preston in January 2005, so he's pretty much had 3 seasons with them and around 5 seasons of league football overall but yet still nobody from the premiership has taken a chance, Darren had four years at Ipswich before he left and Ashton had just about had 4 and a half years, but nice try though!!, man you're desperate to prove me wrong. A joker. Jan 05 to March 07 and he was heavily linked in Jan 07 so he could easily have gone after 2 years but PNE weren't willing sellers because of what the Premiership would be worth to them. Bury to PNE at the top-middle of the Championship is a big step and he succeeded, he is playing for U21s and has succeeded, that is a pretty good progression. Last time I checked 2 years 2 months was closer to 2 years that 3 years nice try though! If you can't do a good argument why reply as if you have won it hands down? Do you rate Tim Cahill? He spent nearly 7 seasons at Millwall and was around 25 when someone took a chance on him. Hindsight is a great thing but Nugent will be a big success in the top flight. Erm you're the one who tryed to include Ashton and Bent' stats into the debate and fell flat on your backside when i came up with the facts that he's spent more time playing in the league than both Ashton and Bent did before they moved to the big time, being "linked" don't mean shit, he's still in the championship because no-one has felt inclined to force Preston's hand (every player has a price) when it could be argued he's played better for Preston than he has this season as he he went around 10 games without scoring and has only just rediscovered his scoring touch, and what the hell does playing for the "u21's" prove?, Francies Jeffers did and he's a superstar ain't he? :roll: , and Tim Cahill plays in a different position so it's silly to compare them, it seems your cheerleading for Nugent has left you totally devoid of reality, HE'S NOT BETTER THAN LUKE OR GABBY BECAUSE HE'S NEVER PLAYED IN THE PREMIERSHIP, it's that simple, don't take it personally Jas just accept that you've been found out!!. Oh super.

Just look at all the Everton fans who've played for Liverpool in recent years.

Has Nugent had the opportunity to score against the best teams in the country though?

I'll have a pee.

I love chocolate. George Lazenby's claim to fame was that he was "Big Fry" on the ads, in his suit, bringing home big loads of Fry's chocolate. I can't even remember the film he was in. After about 20 minutes of film I had to leave the cinema and get a lot of chocolate. Accidental subliminal advertising perhaps, because it had to be Fry's Five Boys and Fry's Turkish Delight. Far more fun than watching some shit film about spies.

Spelling mistake alert. I think you'll find it's spelt Arseanal. Brilliant. BRILLIANT!

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