normannomates
11:44 Mon Sep 19
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I still can't believe we finished the previous season.
Floating around 10/11 th all season.
Got some some heavy spankings away.
But very solid at home.
I was at geordies away first game of following season.got a tonking and we were dogshit.
Set the tone for the rest of the season.
One player that always comes into my bonce over both seasons is Tomas Repka
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ATBOG
10:18 Mon Sep 19
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Collins out Oxford in.
Kouyate out obiang in.
Zaza back to Italy, fletcher in.
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Alex Bunbury
9:46 Mon Sep 19
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'Big' summer signings before 2002/03 were Eduard Cisse and Gary Breen. I think Roeder was after Marcus Stewart but the board wouldn't sanction the move and we were left with a young Jermain Defoe upfront and occasionally Ian Pearce.
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boleyn8420
4:54 Mon Sep 19
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Collins gets dropped, Collins, the player who has cost us goals against, well everyone, Collins, that's who gets dropped, oh and Noble and a few others as well. Thank fuck we are not playing anyone who really needs a result anytime soon like, or a striker who is either shit out of luck or has just hit a rich vein of form, like Austin, bugger.
Mind you the fixtures could have been kinder, some real nightmare fixtures coming up Southampton, 'Boro, Palace and Sunderland, can't see many points out of that tough run of top teams, but we have just played two of the best teams in the division in Watford and West Brom so lets hope we can turn it round against these lesser teams.
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icwhs
3:52 Mon Sep 19
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Alex Bunbury 7:43 Mon Sep 19
Re: Shades of 2002/03 season
The single biggest factor in that relegation was lack of cover upfront. Kanoute got injured early on and we had nobody to lead the line.
Correct, Di Canio and Kanoute we're out injured from September, we played Ian Pearce up front, which obviously didn't work..
We didn't win at home until Forest in the 3rd round of the cup..
No way comparable to now.., but I remember a few things
We got tanked opening dat to Newcastle, next we were 0-2 up at Arsenal when Henry got a worldy to make it 1-2, Kanoute missed a penalty for 1-3... so obviously it ended 2-2, a couple of weeks later we'd lost at home to Charlton and WBA... knew it was gonna be a bad one...
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bishbosh
3:03 Mon Sep 19
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in 02/03 it was a whole lot worse we played terrible hardly creating an y chances didn't score hardly any goals up till Christmas and lost most games 1-0. at this stage we had got 2 points and scored only 2 goals
The difference this season is we have shown in long spells in matches we are a good team and we are scoring goals we are just making stupid errors on another day we would have beat west brom easily the handball was the killer at the start.
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Eric Hitchmoe
2:34 Mon Sep 19
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Lauren Courtois anyone? *Shudders*
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Russ of the BML
10:44 Mon Sep 19
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"We finished 7th in 01/02 and the tight-arse board failed to improve significantly enough on the squad the following summer."
So it's nothing like the fucking 02/03 season then is it?
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CR
10:28 Mon Sep 19
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More like the post FA cup final season, where there was lots going on off the pitch, and it took us a long time to get going.
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The Ghost of Braderz
10:07 Mon Sep 19
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Didn't Ian Pearce play up front once in 2003? I may be inaccurate because I would've been young but, if so, I'd say we're miles away from that state.
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Pub Bigot
9:35 Mon Sep 19
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I've been saying this myself. Not so much a like for like comparison of players, more so the belief that we're too good to go down and our precarious position early on leaves us having to claw back points meaning that equalling or bettering last season is highly unlikely.
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BubblesCyprus
9:10 Mon Sep 19
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Kanoute had a ''Ramadan Back'' injury that year where is Sakho ?
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Alex Bunbury
7:43 Mon Sep 19
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The single biggest factor in that relegation was lack of cover upfront. Kanoute got injured early on and we had nobody to lead the line.
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Darby_
7:36 Mon Sep 19
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Too much squad depth to compare it to 2002/03.
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jimbo2.
2:37 Mon Sep 19
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There are a lot if differences too! We have a far better Manager. We have several far more experienced players, so are not relying on lots of promising youngsters. We have a far more in depth squad. Hopefully we don't lose an entire front line to injury for a long time, as we did then! Our star player, Payet, isn't as crazy as PDC was & is unlikely to go AWOL! Other than this, it is the same!
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Tomshardware
2:27 Mon Sep 19
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50 shades of Christian Dailly's hair.
50 shades of Roeders faux leather jacket.
50 shades of Gary breen.
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Son of Anarchy
2:16 Mon Sep 19
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I said during the summer when everyone was wanking themselves stupid 'remember glenn roeders second season'
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dicksie3
10:39 Sun Sep 18
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Paolo Di Canio (although he was injured a lot (or exiled by Roeder)), Freddie Kanouté, Jermain Defoe, Joey Cole, Trevor Sinclair... Plenty of flair and goals there.
In any case, we should never have gone down with the squad that we had.
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Sniper
10:36 Sun Sep 18
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We did not have an abundance of attacking talent in 02/03. We played Ian Pearce u front out of desperation as we went into the season with 3 forwards. Though I'll never get why Sinclair wasn't given a run up front.
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dicksie3
2:46 Sun Sep 18
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Of course Bilic is no Roeder.
He has a brain and a personality, for a start.
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stewie griffin
1:25 Sun Sep 18
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the other parallel of course is that the support and the club were at loggerheads
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