Danny
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Barry Ferguson Birmingham City Player Of The Year 2010
Danny replied to ian1964's topic in General Football Chat
A compromise then is that he was capable of producing world class performances at times. Fair? -
Jadams on RM had him as his avatar for long enough. Loved him beyond words.
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Barry Ferguson Birmingham City Player Of The Year 2010
Danny replied to ian1964's topic in General Football Chat
Disagree. He was world class - some of his displays against Porto, Bayer Leverkusen, Parma, Borussia Dortmund etc plus that show he put on at Hamdpen against France showed just how superb he could be. -
Ha, possibly. But, to give him credit, and it's not often I say that, he praised our spirit and togetherness and said he wanted that at timmy. So perhaps he will have a bit more dignity as manager than he did as player.
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Lennon played for them for long enough, surely that's time enough
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McCulloch played in that December period m8. He was there for the Utd game especially. Not the worst idea tbh.
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Correct. He isn't quite good enough for the EPL, but I think he'd be fine in the SPL. I'd definitely take him.
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I'm sure like any footballer he's capable of being professional if he stays and giving us his all. His commitment is poor in that he clearly wants away, but if he stays then here's hoping he will perform as he has.
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If it works, sadly yes. We'd all love the December period every match, but that appears to have been a total freak. We don't have the players to do that now. Therefore not the ideal formation. Though I have suggested a 4-3-3 with Davis Thomson and Edu in the middle and Lafferty Naismith and Miller up top which might inspire decent football.
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Barry Ferguson Birmingham City Player Of The Year 2010
Danny replied to ian1964's topic in General Football Chat
Because psychologically he wasn't in it anymore. After the PLG saga then Boozegate, his days at Ibrox were numbered and he wasn't in any sort of form for us. He needed a new environment and challenge - he was still the same class player but only a new team was going to get that back out of him. -
By hell I'd take Benjani.
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And yet I don't hate him as much as I hate John Reid.
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I think it will. He's shown plenty of sign of being able to score and create as a striker, and the only time he struggled in that position was January February when Boyd's injury gave him a baited chance. Because no matter how well he was going to do, Boyd would get his place back. But when towards the end of the season he started being used on his own merits, he started scoring and looking good. Now with Boyd almost gone, he has far less pressure and more chance to impress.
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But it's the system we've used since we signed Davis, save a few matches - and our results have been generally decent with it. 2 leagues, should have been 3. Pretty or not, it's been effective and us winning the last 2 leagues surely are due to the system as much as you think it's despite it?
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Brian Laudrup says his biggest regret during his time here was our failure in the CL. For all the talent that we had, that we utterly underperformed in that tournament was for him his saddest memory. Personally I believe Walter's management was to blame - unlike our superb run in the 92/93 season where we worked as a team, when we had Gazza and Laudrup we pretty much expected them to run the show for us without having any tactics to counter them being marked out of many games. Where Ferguson was able to run the show for us in Europe for us many times, he wasn't regarded as a star player in the way those two were - our European naivety was extremely poor and we got slaughtered by lesser teams with better tactics. And it's why with an all round decent team with a good 4 or 5 strong players, we were able to have such a great run to Manchester - it was a team and not reliant on individuals. And Walter had also learned from his Scotland period.
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Nacho left because he wanted more first team football. As time went on in his period at Ibrox, he got less and less of that and obviously wanted more - plenty as subs but not too many starts. He's given us everything and the time was right for him to move on, and he got an absolutely fantastic move and good luck to him.
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Not been on for a while. I see we still don't have a deal then...
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Wilson is as committed to us as Bougherra is, but for football reasons I'd be overjoyed to keep both.
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I think his dire form might have done that. He played like an absolute maestro at the Gerland against Lyon, absolutely world class display that night, but for God knows what reason it was all downhill after that and I began to resent his name on the team sheet such were his atrocious performances. Possibly a loss of form led to a loss of appetite, plus the fact he'd been on astronomical wages with us (at least �£25k I believe) so any lesser club wouldn't be able compete with that.
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I think, despite the hard time Velicka gets from many on here and elsewhere, that he is more than capable of sufficing for SPL standards. In the run in the season before last he got 4 goals in 8 appearances, and his record for Hearts, an inferior team to us, was none too shabby either. I'm not saying he's good enough for the CL, but hey, neither was Boyd. We do need a quality signing for that level, although as I've said before a front 3 of Naismith, Lafferty and Miller wouldn't be the worst solution there.
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Well, we have potential in a box striker in Lafferty, a definite one in Velicka, so technically the only outside box striker we really have is Miller. Add Fleck and Naismith to that and it's a reasonable mix.
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We need a LB to replace Smith. We have only one now. And perhaps Walter is thinking of pairing Papac with Webster in the middle? Actually, that's the only slot in the whole team we have just one player for. Unless you count Whittaker.
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Obviously Lafferty was going to win it - Thomson was far worse but is a lot more popular than Kyle will ever be. Naismith is too low key to win such an ignomous award.
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Only 32 - never going to happen in a million years but he'd be a stupendous signing and one I'd take in a heartbeat. A former Inter, Lyon and Juve defender? Hell yeah.
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Wouldn't go as far as 'fine' or 'excellent' but I agree otherwise.