[Archived] Nickos Thread

[Parsonblue]

Tell you what, go to the game, write a report your way and see if it makes a paper.

I was at the game and the truth is that Robinson had to pick the ball out of the net before making any sort of save. It was a wicked deflection and there was not a great deal that he could do about it having committed himself to going in the direction of the initial shot. However, conceding a goal before you even make a save might well be described as a disastrous start to his career at his new club. He then made a superb save. The point that Nicko made in his article was that the bad luck that has plagued Robinson in recent times was evident in the manner in which he conceded the goal. To me that seems an entirely fair point to make. I really don't see why anyone should take offence at that.

Far more worrying, in my opinion, was the performance of Fowler who looks far too slow in both movement and thought. One or two neat touches when the ball came to him but he was unable to influence a game against non-League opposition. The prospect of Ince wasting limited resources on his former Liverpool buddy would be disastrous.

[andrew92]

"Northwich 1-2 Blackburn: Bad start for Paul Robinson

By Alan Nixon 31/07/2008

Paul Robinson had a disastrous start to his new career at Blackburn following his £3.5million switch from Tottenham.

On 29 minutes a deflected free-kick from Joe Byrom sent the keeper the wrong way.

But Paul Gallagher levelled to spare Rovers' red faces - and Matt Bailey scored an own goal after pressure from Robbie Fowler."

i cant say i agree that it was a disaster!! petr cech wouldent of saved it as would no keeper in the world!

[Silencio]

Nicko any news on the player's response to the new regime's training methods?

[dinglebasher]

A few thoughts:

Nicko is employed to help sell newspapers, not to defend our players to the rest of the media / readership. Everyone who watches the PL is waiting for Robinson to make a mistake, just as Rovers fans will be with Scott Carson, just as Rovers fans expected Roy Keane to get sent off, and just as Rovers fans expect Drogba to dive. This is why the papers report things in a certain way, because they know what people want to read. Nicko is an excellent contributor to this site but his actual job is to find the stories that people want to read and to write them in a way that they want to read them. That's it.

Can we get back to discussing more important things now? Like can we sign some decent bar staff in the Blackburn End for half time?

[Florida Rover]

Nicko,we all know money talks and the more money you offer the louder it speaks.Here is the question :is there any affordable sum Rovers could offer to take Schwansteiger(sp) from Bayern AND Alonso from Liverpool?Would either, do you think, consider dropping Champions league football for a bigger payday here?This would necessitate sticking with RB by committee and Bert out on the RW as all our possible kitty would go to secure these type players.Do we have enough dosh to offer?

I know this seems like a fantasy football question and ,in a sense, it is.How loud does money speak?

[Tom 1]

Of course it's a disastrous start. It's not necessarily suggesting that it was Robinsons fault, just that it was a disastrous way to kick things off....surely an unlucky deflected goal like that before you've had a chance to get your hands on the ball is exactly that? It's not necessarily a big attack on Robinsons ability, it's what happened, and you word it the way which makes the best report and people can take it as they will. That's what papers do to sell.

[The Prof.]

Yep. The article states that Annan will have a one week's trial starting on Monday.

For those of you who are not familiar with the guy - Annan is an exciting midfielder currently playing in the Norwegian Premiership for top outfit Stabæk, and he partners Michael Essien in Ghana's central midfield.

This is cheering me up a lot!

[nicko]

I was at the game and the truth is that Robinson had to pick the ball out of the net before making any sort of save. It was a wicked deflection and there was not a great deal that he could do about it having committed himself to going in the direction of the initial shot. However, conceding a goal before you even make a save might well be described as a disastrous start to his career at his new club. He then made a superb save. The point that Nicko made in his article was that the bad luck that has plagued Robinson in recent times was evident in the manner in which he conceded the goal. To me that seems an entirely fair point to make. I really don't see why anyone should take offence at that.

Far more worrying, in my opinion, was the performance of Fowler who looks far too slow in both movement and thought. One or two neat touches when the ball came to him but he was unable to influence a game against non-League opposition. The prospect of Ince wasting limited resources on his former Liverpool buddy would be disastrous.

Careful now, the Thought Police will be after you.

Someone who went to the game and took the trouble to read the report in full.

[novella]

Lets get over a reserve game now!

back onto more pressing matters....

is there any more on villanueva?

what about an 11 o clocker tonight.... are there expected to be any significant developments tonight?

[BB9]

Quit with the match report thing - its getting very boring.

[The Prof.]

"Northwich 1-2 Blackburn: Bad start for Paul Robinson

By Alan Nixon 31/07/2008

Paul Robinson had a disastrous start to his new career at Blackburn following his £3.5million switch from Tottenham.

On 29 minutes a deflected free-kick from Joe Byrom sent the keeper the wrong way.

But Paul Gallagher levelled to spare Rovers' red faces - and Matt Bailey scored an own goal after pressure from Robbie Fowler."

i cant say i agree that it was a disaster!! petr cech wouldent of saved it as would no keeper in the world!

I think 'Paul Robinson has a nice game on his Blackburn Debut' wouldn't get a freelancer a story ever published. As all publicity is good and Nicko is a supporter we should accept it as he gets us and keeps us in the news. Or would you rather have stoke boy type non reporting.

[Bazrakats]

Tribalfootball have an article saying that villanueva hasd recieved his work permit.

[hawkiiz]

enough with the reserve match! rovers.co.uk also says almost in the first line that robinson had to pick the ball out of the net before doing anything else. its what happened. get over it. he is class, and a conceded freak-kick does not change that. brad and the others didnt look all that super in pre-season either.

ANNAN. He play in the norwegian league, which is not by any means the best. its slow, and a lot based on luck. the team winning this year may well struggle for survival next year. That said, he DO play for the club currently no. 1 or 2. the other club had Tarik Elyounoussi. he is gone to Heerenveen, and that will probably ruin their chances of winning the title. however if Annan leaves his club, they will also struggle a lot. he, along with Alanzinho and another player is the base of that club. so he is pretty good yes. would i want him to rovers? i want him as much as i wanted Gamst, which was not very much. I fear he will be the new Martin Andresen for us, if anyone remember him coming on loan a few years back.

the PROBLEM with annan is he is a hot-head. he have had fairly big problems with his temper, and have not played to much lately because of cards. He recently slapped one of his opponents, and during the afican nations cup i think he poked someone in the eye. he could very well save our bully-boy tag.

bottom line. for me, if we should get anyone from the norwegian league it should have been Tarik Elyounoussi or Alanzinho. Tarik are gone and Alazinho have commited his future to Stabæk. look elsewhere.

[Sparky Marky]

It looked to me that Robinson hadn't actually set himself for the shot. He took longer than he should to set up the wall...maybe a few teething probs communicating with the defence.....I'd rather this happen now against Northwitch than in 2 weeks ....

Lay off Robbo Nicko....You're the disaster!!

[Derby Blue]

Nicko can you tell me what B works out as (clue it aint £6m)

(15 - 3)/2 = A

15 - A = B

nice how Arsenal begins with a and Blackburn begins with b aint it?

The answer is £9m

We buy him for £3m, sell him for £15m leaving a £12m profit.

Arsenal take 50% (or close) leaving us £6m clear. Just as Nicko said - unless I'm missing something pretty basic?

[CrazyIvan]

Nicko, is the Andrews thing definitely dead or still going on? Does he still think he'll sign for us?

[Antgrad]

We buy him for £3m, sell him for £15m leaving a £12m profit.

Arsenal take 50% (or close) leaving us £6m clear. Just as Nicko said - unless I'm missing something pretty basic?

Where are you hiding the other £3m then?

Its £6m profit but £9m cash.

[hawkiiz]

i think the last he said was earlier today. Andrews is still on, but they are waiting for the timing to be right. remember they want to "sneak" him in

[Al]

Again, trying to turn the argument onto me achieves nothing. I know full well that Robinson being beaten by a deflected shot, does not equate to 'disastrous' or a 'gaffe'. The article I read smacks of nothing more than bandwagon propaganda against our resident goalkeeper.

Absolutely my feelings too. Join the crowd and kick the feet from under the current victim. It sells papers.

[hawkiiz]

just had a look at the vids on roversworld.

most of it is written on the site, but one interresting/funny thing i noticed. Villanueva is amazing, and will excite both the fans an the board - ince. also "i pin-point the players i want, and the chairman do the business and get them for me." sounds good to me.

[ace]

i think the last he said was earlier today. Andrews is still on, but they are waiting for the timing to be right. remember they want to "sneak" him in

Think it would be a "disaster" if Andrews were to join Rovers..let's hope the earlier BBC report that he is staying at Bedford or wherever , turns out to be true.

[Derby Blue]

Where are you hiding the other £3m then?

Its £6m profit but £9m cash.

Isn't Arsenals share 50% of any profit?

If so then there is a £12m profit on the player (£15m - £3m) which leave £6m for them and £6m for us.

The £9m doesn't take into account what we bought him from.

[hawkiiz]

oh. Annan is rated highly (a year ago). http://www.sportingo.com/football/a6989_mo...g-young-talents (page 2)

[LeChuck]

If so then there is a £12m profit on the player (£15m - £3m) which leave £6m for them and £6m for us.

That doesn't make sense.

If it's £6 million for them and £6 million for us, who is getting the other £3 million?

[j166429]

That doesn't make sense.

If it's £6 million for them and £6 million for us, who is getting the other £3 million?

Us cos that's what we initially paid for him.