Being Honest!

[Howmanheyman 34188]

I understand, fully, where you are coming from - much to my shame!

 

I'm 61 and in the last 47 years (since I "latched on") there have not been that many, that I would have wanted.

 

However, your lot have, in that time, taken away a few "dead beats" - Anderson, Clarke etc. But, I think that you could say the same of us - Guthrie, Young (I used to go to school with his brother, thank god, never in the same class, he invented the need for the word thick!).

 

The players I mentioned I wouldn't have wanted them as they're not top top class like we've had. The only one I would've said I was especially pleased about would've been Sewpa Kev in 2000, to supplement Shearer and Bellamy. We probably should've thrown in a cheeky £4m bid at the time. When you think about it they've never had a desirable player really in my life time other than him.

 

OOPS!

 

Please forgive my sarcasm!

 

Bellamy, "top class"?

 

It seems, though, that you have ignored my question about SNQ!

 

Would you still prefer FFS?

 

A few other names (apart from KP) to throw into the melting pot would be Charlie Hurley, Brian Clough, Dave Watson, Dennis Tueart, Ritchie Pitt etc., and then coming (a little more up to date) Paul Bracewell (forgot that you thought he was a Mag), Marco (remember what he did to you?) etc.!

 

I will admit, then my memory becomes a little hazey.

 

Maybe, trying to "blot out" the thought of "Xisco" etc. ever playing for us - or ever wishing that they could, which I did not!

 

 

I'd honest to god easily put Bellamy in the top 10 players I've seen in a toon shirt and believe me that is a bold statement, he was better than Tino, certainly more consistent, when he's fit he's without question one of the best players in the Premiership. 18 league goals as second striker in one season in a run of the mill Blackburn side. Average players don't win Young Player of The Year awards neither (if your initials aren't JJ). Craig Bellamy is a better player than Sunderland have had since the 70's at least, and that is a fact. If you understand football you understand Craig Bellamy, I said in 2002 when Bellamy was in our side that I'd much rather have him than the current European Player of The Year at the time Michael Owen, and I meant it. No one did more the latter part of Shearer's career than CB, and as I say he is probably the best player Sunderland could ever sign, although I think the only reason he'd sign is because there is a bitterness towards NUFC from him, and the ultimate sick satisfaction for him would be scoring against us in a Sunderland shirt.

 

 

I was talking about Bellamy today, I think he'd have been a great signing for us in our current position. However, there's no way Shearer would have him any where near the ground, a sizeable portion of the crowd have a hatred towards him that I just don't get and I doubt he'd take the step down in competition.

 

Without a doubt the pace and endeavour he showed week in, week out was the major factor in Robson's Entertainers winning the hearts of the Geordie crowd and the respect of the country.

 

Unfortunately, Bobster was the only man who could have managed Craig and when he was unceremoniously left out in the cold, the writing was on the wall for the firebrand.

He was a little cunt, but he was a little cunt in a way that was good for NUFC, only a knacker like Souness would have got rid of a playing asset like Bellamy the way he did. David Speedie was loathed by Mags for years, even as a young'un I'd have had him here in a shot when CFC decided to sell him, sometimes you need a worky bastard like that to get the team/fans going. I might be in a minority but there you go.

The worky bastards we've had directed the anger at the toon fans though that's the trouble, Billy Whitehurst giving the V's, Barton slagging us in the paper etc...

Though Bellamy didn't. Barton had a bit of a nerve, Whitehurst was just plain shit and took the huff one night, he couldn't take fans comparing him to the likes of Beardsley.

[ewerk 31322]

Can one of you fuckers change your sig, it's getting confusing.

[Howmanheyman 34188]

Can one of you fuckers change your sig, it's getting confusing.

Look at the name on the top left of the post, that'll help you to tell the difference. Other than that, you'll have to ask Stevie.

[Guest alex]

Bellamy was a brilliant player for us. And, along with Robert, he totally transformed the side.

[Barney 0]

I was thinking about Bellamy recently too, what with his current City situation.

 

I was watching him in a pre-season game against Rangers at SJP, and he was dropping off the striker and playing in the hole, he was so natural there, looking for the runs, running at defenders. Brilliant.

 

Also, a game at SJP springs to mind a few seasons back, we had a free kick on the left touchline and him and Bernard were standing over it. As our players made their runs in the box, Bellamy just screamed at Bernard "NOW, NEAR POST" and Bernard fired in at an onrushing Bramble who bundled in to score.

 

Only a couple of small points about him, but I thought he was different class. His finishing could be messy, but he was a one man team at Blackburn too, and when I was in Glascow, I watched him for Celtic, and he was phenomenal, he was on a different wavelength to the rest of the team.