Superstar Tradesman

Deal. I'll frame it just to remind me how pointless betting on Aberdeen really is.

You're on. Candy - Baby.

I'm not a betting man but I'm willing to wager that won't happen.

Exactly. As R_Midlife said, last season he was putting the effort in and being rewarded because of it. Now he just seems to saunter through games trying to win free kicks. That's just not enough for a team such as ours.

You mean like goalkeepers? They’re in the team, are they there to score goals? To my recollection Rio Ferdinand has only scored one goal for all the games he’s played for England and only a handful for United. You think he gets picked each time for his goal scoring prowess? Miller (according to Redweb) is a striker and if he’s being picked for any other reason, first and foremost, to score goals then I’m not surprised we’re sitting at the arse end of the table. [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180] If he's on the pitch, he's a player who's there to do the job of a football player, and that job is to do all he can in helping his team win. Take note Lee Miller, your team needs you. [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180] And whilst we're on the subject, bar Ronaldo, United's midfielders don't score that many. What would this f*cking clown know though, eh? They don’t? You ask anyone to name 10 midfielders in the Premiership who regularly score goals and you’ll get 2 or 3 Man United players in that list everytime. In fact Fergies always filled his teams with them – Keane, Giggs, Beckham, Ronaldo, Scholes, Cantona, Strachan…… along with someone who can track back and break up play. [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180] How many have Rooney/Tevez scored this year between them? Maybe they offer more to the team than just goals. OK so that’s you now said the Man U midfield and strikers don’t score goals. Who’s scoring them for them then? [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180] Maybe, just f*cking maybe, on a day-to-day basis Jimmy Calderwood is seeing more of what Lee Miller has to offer than any of the other strikers at the club. Doesn’t make him right. eg. Richard Foster. He’s obviously not rolling around on the grass in training, flagging for free kicks or doing that cute little trick where out jumps everyone and lets the ball skiff off his head to the nearest defender’s boot. Perhaps he’s actually playing a bit of football in training which would be fucking nice to see once in a while when it actually counts. [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180] Have you actually looked at in-depth stats of what Lee Miller brings to the side, or are you just a typical muppet who looks at one statistic, the goals per game ratio? No I don’t read stats at all other than the one at 5:45. I prefer to watch the players and make my judgements based on those findings. For instance one of your amazing statistics is probably how many balls he wins in the air. Now that he does do well and I’m sure he ranks high on those miniskirt statistic charts of yours. But those balls are being mopped up by defenders and doing the square root of fuck all good. Therefore I leave the stats to the muppets in spectacles. Feel free to post them up though. [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180]I'm not suggesting they should ever be dropped on current form as they bring more than goals to the United side. Maybe, just f*cking maybe, Lee Miller does that in the Aberdeen side as well. Well maybe, but not from what I’ve seen, read, heard….. He’s 6 feet plus and fucking powder puff. Honestly, where is he during corners?! [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180]I was giving you an analogy based on two teams that are under-performing, and that both contain strikers not scoring as much as clueless fans reckon they should. If you can't see how this relates to what you're saying about Lee Miller, then you're clueless. Clueless like the other 2 or 3 people who also think your analogy is a poor one? [quote author= link=topic=977.msg90893#msg90893 date=1222904180]F*ck, what would I know, I'm just the Donstalk village idiot. Glad we sorted that out. So back on topic: Lee Miller – body double for the Platoon movie poster.

Darren Fletcher isn't in the team to score goals, he's a workhorse in the centre of the park who breaks up play and runs from box to box. They're lucky enough to have the luxury of Scholes, Giggs, Ronaldo, etc...... who can all find the net as well as shore up midfield. We don't have that in abundance and only from time to time do we have someone like Nicholson, Tosh or Seve(cough) who can pitch in with a few goals. If Tevez/Rooney had a scoring record anywhere near as pitiful as Miller’s and spent as much time washing grass stains out of their shorts rather than sticking the ball in the net then they’d easily find themselves making way for somebody else. To suggest they would ever get binned because Fletcher/Ronaldo has more goals than them after a handful of games really does show you up to be the Donstalk village idiot.

Rehab is for quitte........... As Big Al said, I harbour no ill feeling towards him and wish him the best of luck.

He's obviously happy enough with their performances and just thinks they've been unlucky with their chances. The bit that worries me is he's giving them 4 weeks to start knocking them in. What happens if Bebo or Wright starts banging them in for the Reserves?

I think what he meant was that just because we're 4th best sorted doesn't mean we'll always end up 4th. Just as the OF don't always lift tropheys or meet each other in the final of the cups each season.

Course I did. Two can play at silly buggers.

He asked "in the time he's been at Man United?". Well if it wasn't during his time there where did he mean? But as I said before, it's a ridiculous comparison to make and I'm sure he knows it deep down. Back on topic: Lee Miller is a fucking nancy boy who plays with his slippers on.

Are you telling me he dropped him when he was playing for Everton?

Yep. Although I'm not entirely enamoured with our current play or league position it doesn't detract from the fact that he has to rebuild his squad each season when his favourite players are punted or let walk. Two of our main players and first names on the team sheet each week (Hart & Clark) were punted when we were spitting distance of our first final in years. We should be building on something each season. Not building from scratch.

So he's only dropped him once?

That's it, keep guessing.

Yes that's a comparable example. Fucking clown.

Meh.

Four fucking weeks? Why four weeks?!

A compilation shown on a tv in the away changing rooms of their so called defending this season should do it.

I can tell you why. It's because there are players in the squad who could sit on the park reading the P&J and still be in the team next week. Folk need dropped regardless of who they think they are and made to fight to get into the first team.

A lot of sense being posted in here today. I suspect it'll be business as usual tomorrow when the bin rakers are back online.

Reasonable but not completely amazing we lost. They got there by beating everyone else they'd came up against so they had as much right to be there as we did. It was more the manner in which we conceded those games that upset me.

My biggest gripe is that we don’t seem to be building towards anything or building on what we’ve achieved the previous season. I doubt that would change no matter who was in the hot-seat.

Yeah I picked up on that. But that tag he seems to have picked up is a fallacy and must have been started by himself.

The best at what exactly? If he's the best striker at the club then why have a defender and half the midfield got more goals than him? He's believed the hype surrounding him in the UEFA games and done fuck all since.