Gamst Pedersen

[American]

To the Norwegian fans out there. Anyone watch Rosenborg on a regular basis? If so, how does Robbie Russell, the American defender look? I've been reading good reports on him, but most of the stuff is 3rd hand.

[Rainmaker]

Well.....

He seems to look OK in Tippeligaen.

However, in Rosenborgs latest Champions Leauge match he was a disaster.... along with other RBK defenders.

[herbergeehh]

Russell was doing well for Sogndal, but has not impressed me at all since joining Rosenborg. Terrible tactical choices in the CL especially, and even though he's both quick and strong he's not much of a defender IMO..

[LDRover]

######. ban me. hughes is an idiot.

mgp will show you idiots how this game is played, once he gets the chance.

i hope he goes to newcastle, and i hope he'll make the goals that sends your ###### average club down to where you belong with your 1 div players (reid, flitty, amoruso, gray, neill, dickov, stead, bothroyd ++)

how can you actually reckon that you will survive in the PL with only 4 real PL-players? MGP, fergy, emerton and friedel is the only pl-players.

burn in hell for ruining the greatest talent ive ever seen. i will laugh straight in your faces when morten ###### your club up, fools.

######-club fc.

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Get off here you total moron.

Just because MGP is different class playing 'sixty seconds' in the streets of the salubrious surroundings of the Arctic circle does not mean he will cut it in the prem.

Get over it clown, he is not and never will be good enough to play at this level. The day when your pathetic little opinion is valued over that of a legend who has played for 4 of the biggest clubs in Europe will be the day you get the booker prize.

[broadsword]

Time to lock the thread?

[herbergeehh]

Well, that's a bit harsh LDRover.. Gamst can make it at this level, but he needs more time. Agree with the rest of the post though..

[1864roverite]

perhaps the chappie (or lady or even ladyboy) can get to the next away game and vent his spleened anger at the idiots who defy the rest of us fans and stand up !!!

[Arcturus]

To the Norwegian fans out there. Anyone watch Rosenborg on a regular basis? If so, how does Robbie Russell, the American defender look? I've been reading good reports on him, but most of the stuff is 3rd hand.

Russell have been pretty disappointing for Rosenborg, but was very good for Sogndal. He probably needs time to adjust to Rosenborg's style of play.

There is another American who has done pretty well though. Brian West who plays for Fredrikstad has been very good this season, and although i've only seen him on a couple of occasions, he has impressed me whenever i've seen him play.

[American]

West used to play for the Columbus Crew (teammate of McBride), good player, had heard he was doing well.

Interesting reports on Russell, as all you read over here says he's pretty solid. Nice to hear the other side of things. Definitely interested to see how he progresses.

[herbergeehh]

Even more impressed by Olivier Occean btw, he's Canadian methinks?

Strong, quick striker with good finishing..

[emerton]

We've had a number of posters who favour one particular player,but I don't remember anyone showing such venom.Let us all hope MGP makes it with us, and that the poster returns!

I honestly hope Morten will change club... I have seen so many people being negative about him, and a manager who also don't like him? It's no fun - and therefore I hope he'll change club to.. newcastle or something

if he cant get a game here at rovers, whats the point of moving to a different team with competition like laurent robert and co?

Morten should just put his head down and work hard, and his oppurtunity will eventually come

[Hughesy]

Pedersen has done nothing so far to show that he should get a start. As soon as he does then he will get a chance. Then he can prove his 'talent'!

At the moment im sure Hughes will be happy with Redi and Emerton on the wings

[Maverick]

MGP in today's Dagbladet. In Norwegian.

He spoke to Hughes after the Man City game. He asked Hughes why he didn't get to play and Hughes answer was that he should be patient and that he has big plans for him this season.

Looks like things might change for MGP, or is it just talk. Time will tell.

Edited November 15, 2004 by Maverick

[S15]

Not arsed anymore.

[92er]

As I don't speak Norwegian the link wasn't much good for me.

However, it will be interesting to see if Hughes' words turn out to be true.

[giraffen]

i think it’s funny that when a big shot player is joining a new club, and he doesn’t deliver right away, he often get support from his manager and supporters with messages like “he needs more time to adapt” or “he needs to adjust to the way of playing”. the player then gets his chance to improve in many games.

but when a unknown player like mgp joins a new club, he has to deliver right away, or else he’s crap. i mean, how many games has mgp played, three?

[American]

None of us think/hope that MGP fails (at least we didn't until Cuidado). We just want him to be brought along slowly and given time to adapt to a new country, new situation, new club, new style of play, etc. I think if we were safely mid-table more people would want to see him at least used as a sub.

[Hasta]

but when a unknown player like mgp joins a new club, he has to deliver right away, or else he’s crap. i mean, how many games has mgp played, three?

I think Rovers fans are some of the most patient fans in the league. Despite being a £7million unknown Grabbi was given tremendous support by the Rovers fans every time he was on the pitch considering his actual contributions. Unfortunately for us after 18 months and several 'fresh starts' he still proved to be pants.

I've only read the last few pages on this thread (since our new Norwegian friend threw his toys out of the pram) but IMO Pedersen will have to wait his turn. At the moment I dont feel we are in a position to be risking players who may well turn out to not cut the mustard at PL level. We need to scrap our way out of the bottom 3 and lift confidence any way we can and if that means forsaking flair and fancy football for sheer graft then Reid / Douglas / Thommo are probably better bets than MGP. However I'm sure if things go to plan and Pedersen keeps working hard behind the scenes he'll get a chance to show us theres more to his game than a fancy overhead clearance and a goal against Bournemouth.

[Ewood Dream]

We need to scrap our way out of the bottom 3 and lift confidence any way we can and if that means forsaking flair and fancy football for sheer graft then Reid / Douglas / Thommo are probably better bets than MGP.

Sometimes though quality can be enough. After all football is football and if you have the skill and ability (plus application) you will do well.

I'd choose Morten Gamst over Douglas on the left 1,000,000 times...

[92er]

Is he going to be good enough to play for Norway against ....?

[neekoy]

I thought the young man played very well against Australia, even he can produce one bit of magic to have a hand in a goal it is better then what we are achieving now

[tchocky]

Don't know if it has been mentioned, but good old Stig Inge Bjørnebye (Asst.manager for Norway) is travelling to Blackburn this week to meet with Hughes to discuss Hughes' plans for Morten. Because as you will have figured by now MGP is very important to the national team now and most certainly for the future. Be interesting to see what happens.

[Bobby G]

Goal and assist against Australia.MGP was impressive from what i heard.

Will he get a chance in the 16 against Brum?

[daheri]

Well, at least he thinks so himself.

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=254828

In this report he says he should play instead of Reid this weekend against brum. He is also saying his critics should shut up.

[bob fleming]

If he could just sort out his low self esteem he'd probably get a game.

daheri - who are his critics? Does he mention any BRFCS members by name?