Duppy Conqueror

up until i was 21 we had only won 1 FA cup in our history and that was 27 years before then. now 21 years later we are now up to 8 FA Cups in our history. gotta pinch yourself sometimes...despite the glory years.still have the old Carefree CFC running through my veins.every win to be celebrated,every loss to be dusted off.

honestly i`d rather us do that than Scumpool win another European cup.slither of a hope we can get in by finishing 4th but if it comes to us playing next year in the European minor cup or European cup with Liverpool as reigning champions i`ll take the former. giving our young players plenty of game time in Europa cup could make us better in the longterm by taking this step back.

i wish we played our semi first. if we was already in it i`d like to face Spurs in the final. if we lose though i don`t want a Spurs v Southampton final, they`d be too likely to win that. as a side note I've been working mostly in Southampton the last 3 years,so been an enjoyable week..hope it`s not ruined tomorrow when i`m back in my hometown.

we are not part of a we..they all hate us and we should hate them or atleast have fun at their expense..next week it will be their turn and you can trawl their forums to see if even one person would be anything less than jubilant if as expected Barcelona knock us out.

we don`t need to sell him,we have the money to compete..sure we need about 300m spent on 5 or 6 quality players to compete for the title we won less than a year ago.sort out the mess in midfield and add a top drawer striker and support upfield. it will be if he wants to leave..just hope Roman don`t pull a Cech.Matic and allow him to be sold to an English rival.

he`s at the age where he needs to be thinking of the move now..there is a time when bigger clubs will simply move on to younger players and he is close to that point..still only young by Italian standards..if he leaves Italy he can expect a transition period before he adjusts to wherever he goes if he does infact ever decide to leave the slow paced comfort of Italy.

This thread is turning into an episode of loose women..

much needed win. when Cahill came on,the comfort level dropped for me even at 3-0 up against the worst team in the division. ha

what a shitty penalty kick haha.. as a side note..i remember as a kid,cheering for Tottenham when they won the U.E.F.A cup in 1984 at an age when i cheered on all English teams in Europe..i also remember the beating my dad gave me to knock that shit out of me.. Forest should have played Tottenham that year but the Anderlecht owner bribed the ref in their semi..

he used to get unfairly treated by some on here but he has sunk to that level now..time to move on from him..shame the window is closed now..wouldn`t mind if we just released him tho. let him recover elsehere..can`t have a captain who drags the team down.

love Guus but think he would be better being in charge of transfer targets (of course i`d rather the actual head coach to do that but seems too wishful thinking) than whoever the fook in Romans army of back room yes men is pulling names out of a hat. Roman obviously respects Guus and i`d rather someone with that amount of football experience instead of anyone else behind the scenes.

would not be surprised if that was based on fact that there is not currently an official opening...most managers/coaches would not want to be the guy that took another coaches job when he currently is still in employment.

i wouldn`t write off Bakayoko yet though..still young,still worth having in the squad..just needs to be starting less until he`s good enough if he can manage it..give him atleast another year.maybe loan him out to another premiership team.for a season.

as i said at the time..i didn`t like that we let Matic go and put all our eggs in the `yoko basket..in a year where we had a lot more games that we had played in the previous season. he wasn`t healthy and needed time to transition..we banked our season on him both getting healthy and hitting the ground running. Roman needs to fook off with letting likes of Cech and Matic go..although Cech earned the goodwill gesture..Matic needed to be told to suck it up,we still needed him to compete.

just as we signed a new LB/LWB to made it two (plus others out on loan etc) we get linked to another. no direction at the club..just a grape shot approach at finding players and hoping they can somehow put together a team without backing the head coaches and turning them over so much we have no idea if any coach will want/be able to use him.

we won the league title (aswell as lower tier titles) and had a few runs at more.won several European trophies before Roman was here..but never is still never.

we need to break away from sacking coaches nearly every time we have a bad spell. it adds extra tension and puts us under more pressure than other teams have to face.also we don`t have any leaders in our team other than possibly Azpi and he`s more of a lead by example rather than a JT,Wise,Gullit,Desailly,Cech,Drogba,Ballack kind of leader.. having those types in the past made regular managerial changes not as bad as they could have been. but really..it`s like we building up to a divorce between Roman/the board of yes men v Conte..the team are the messed up kids trying to deal with the fact that mummy doesn`t love daddy any more. it seems inevitable now that there is going to be a break up soon..only positive is there are a few more capable coaches as free agents than there usually are..i believe Conte with the right support is a better coach than all of those but without he`s not and a lesser head coach with the right amount of support would probably be better than this situation we have. really we should be beating the likes of Watford,Burnley,Bournemouth without needing any input from our head coach,we should have enough in leadership,talent and drive to smack those teams about but we don`t.

you said we never had a player as bad as him but now switched it to in the Roman era..haha..you missed out 98 years of our history.

we need an influx of 3 or 4 good signings..that only seems to happen now in the summer when a new head coach arrives. it`s sad..but it is what it is. crazy how we have won the PL 5 times since Wenger last won it aswell as European trophies that he has never and he`s outlasted all of them combined. we sack way too early,they sack way too late..the club make it impossible for our head coaches to succeed once the novelty of one season has worn off. they make it impossible to grow from within because they want instant success and sack whenever a non-championship season occurs. they add too much tension for coaches and players to perform under.Fergies reign would have never happened for us or Cloughies with Forest..we won the league twice since any of the Manchester clubs have and yet less than a year from winning the league we have fallen behind them and it`s looking like it will be a few years until we get ahead of them again if we do atall. there`s a limit to how many great Head Coaches are out there and some may just not want to up root their lives for 18 months to 2 years with us.

it would be fine if we didn`t spend big in the future on lots of players, if we were more proactive in getting our world class youth players integrated into the first team squad more. then just splash on a few top draw players from elsewhere. the old Barcelona way of winning.

makes some sense as he appears to be ok with being a sub most of the time but can`t help but think would the other big clubs in Europe be worrying about having their 2nd striker being ok about being used as mostly a sub or would they go for 2 great strikers and make them fight it out for who gets the most playing time..our strike force is essentially made up with two subs from elsewhere now if we sign Giroud. i like Morata..just going through a rough patch but would like us to have somebody who will challenge him to play at his peak..Giroud isn`t bad but he`s not that. i expect us to be looking for a top striker in the summer..i think the club don`t want to spend big now because they may think Conte isn`t gonna be here in the summer..they seem only willing to really splash the cash during a new managers first summer in recent years.

i don`t know why those words came out in different colours..haha

if we are after a "target man"..Vokes would be better. but really Dzeko makes by far the most sense.

it`s quite common for men to go look at the tulips at night in Amsterdam..and pluck one or two..

glad the little cunt is alive atleast. so they throw the might of Jesus against us..