Samba Up Front 21:35 - Feb 23 with 6493 views | EalingRanger | 'Arry sent big Chris Samba up top for the last 15 minutes. 12 million quid of defensive talent lumped up front. I pretty much lost the will to live at the moment. 'Arry crossed my own personal rubicon. What an earth was that about. How many strikers have we bought/sold in the last 18 months? And here we are in a crucial match putting our 'star' defender up f*cking front?! Christ. It's just desperate right now, it really is. We are a punchline of a football club. Long-suffering doesn't even begin to describe it. I mean really 'Arry. Is that it. Our big plan B is hitting it to Samba. Words fail me. | ![](/images/avatars/2477.gif) | | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:38 - Feb 23 with 5163 views | Landofoz89 | It nearly worked when he went up for that header! | ![](/images/avatars/8606.gif) |
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Samba Up Front on 21:39 - Feb 23 with 5152 views | wittle | more likely to score than any of our other players | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:41 - Feb 23 with 5142 views | EalingRanger |
Samba Up Front on 21:39 - Feb 23 by wittle | more likely to score than any of our other players |
Something that depresses me. Really, really depresses me. | ![](/images/avatars/2477.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:43 - Feb 23 with 5131 views | Petros |
Samba Up Front on 21:41 - Feb 23 by EalingRanger | Something that depresses me. Really, really depresses me. |
Don't be so melodramatic. It is standard practice. Barcelona did it with Piquet the other day. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:44 - Feb 23 with 5122 views | QPR1882 |
Samba Up Front on 21:39 - Feb 23 by wittle | more likely to score than any of our other players |
How sad is that statement !! | ![](/images/avatars/1497.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:45 - Feb 23 with 5117 views | wittle |
Samba Up Front on 21:44 - Feb 23 by QPR1882 | How sad is that statement !! |
sad but true im afraid | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:47 - Feb 23 with 5102 views | EalingRanger |
Samba Up Front on 21:43 - Feb 23 by Petros | Don't be so melodramatic. It is standard practice. Barcelona did it with Piquet the other day. |
It's melodramatic. It's a sign of how badly managed this club has been the last two years. Crossed the line for me today. | ![](/images/avatars/2477.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 21:58 - Feb 23 with 5077 views | Petros |
Samba Up Front on 21:47 - Feb 23 by EalingRanger | It's melodramatic. It's a sign of how badly managed this club has been the last two years. Crossed the line for me today. |
Come on, chin up, it was Man U, one of the best sides in the world. It could have been worse. The next six games will write our story. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) | Login to get fewer ads
Samba Up Front on 22:00 - Feb 23 with 5069 views | wittle |
Samba Up Front on 21:58 - Feb 23 by Petros | Come on, chin up, it was Man U, one of the best sides in the world. It could have been worse. The next six games will write our story. |
problem is we make every team we play look like man utd. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 22:25 - Feb 23 with 5028 views | HollowayRanger | HEY whats the proplem we finished with a £20 million strike force up front today! like i said we should have bought a target man we were so much better with zamorras linking up the play once he went off we just died | ![](/images/avatars/1268.gif) |
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Samba Up Front on 22:30 - Feb 23 with 5011 views | TW_R |
Samba Up Front on 22:25 - Feb 23 by HollowayRanger | HEY whats the proplem we finished with a £20 million strike force up front today! like i said we should have bought a target man we were so much better with zamorras linking up the play once he went off we just died |
So which one of Graham or Odenwingie would you class as a target man? | ![](/images/avatars/2186.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 22:49 - Feb 23 with 4978 views | CanadaRanger |
Samba Up Front on 21:38 - Feb 23 by Landofoz89 | It nearly worked when he went up for that header! |
Big Dan Mk. II... | ![](/images/avatars/1254.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 23:31 - Feb 23 with 4918 views | Ranger78 | I agree with the OP but I'm sure it will probably be Mark Hughes fault! | ![](/images/avatars/6611.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 23:34 - Feb 23 with 4910 views | EalingRanger |
Samba Up Front on 23:31 - Feb 23 by Ranger78 | I agree with the OP but I'm sure it will probably be Mark Hughes fault! |
Yeah, Hughes should be blamed for the fact we spent all out money on two players we didn't need instead of 5 we do need from the championship. Ha. | ![](/images/avatars/2477.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 23:47 - Feb 23 with 4885 views | HollowayRanger |
Samba Up Front on 22:30 - Feb 23 by TW_R | So which one of Graham or Odenwingie would you class as a target man? |
graham he knows how to head a ball and is physically strong and we could have had him and odenwingie for the price of remy | ![](/images/avatars/1268.gif) |
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Samba Up Front on 23:58 - Feb 23 with 4873 views | TW_R |
Samba Up Front on 23:47 - Feb 23 by HollowayRanger | graham he knows how to head a ball and is physically strong and we could have had him and odenwingie for the price of remy |
Graham looks far more dangerous running at the defence as opposed to his back to goal. Very good finisher, but we would be having exactly the same problem as we do now. No one creating goal-scoring chances. We can go over the Odenwingie thing again if you like, but as you know we couldn't get him. We tried, it didn't work out. | ![](/images/avatars/2186.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 00:00 - Feb 24 with 4867 views | DesertBoot | Why do some think we could have snared Graham. He wanted a move to the North East and duly signed for the Mackems. We were never an option. | ![](/images/avatars/2009.gif) |
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Samba Up Front on 07:08 - Feb 24 with 4821 views | smegma | My biggest concern was playing Townsend on the right when he clearly cannot kick with his right foot, then not taking Mackie off when all he did all day was run about and usually lose the ball. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 08:36 - Feb 24 with 4754 views | CheshireR | Our attacking options are so limited that I wouldn't rule out bringing Green into the starting eleven, to enable Cesar to play up front. | ![](/images/avatars/3445.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 08:38 - Feb 24 with 4752 views | CanadaRanger | I reckon Cesar could get a pretty good shot on goal from the halfway line! | ![](/images/avatars/1254.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 08:41 - Feb 24 with 4745 views | Rs_Holy |
Samba Up Front on 22:49 - Feb 23 by CanadaRanger | Big Dan Mk. II... |
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Samba Up Front on 11:33 - Feb 24 with 4649 views | Neil_SI | I saw this a little differently. On one hand, given the way we played and the lack of urgency and effort to attack, it seemed a bit strange. On the other, the game had gone and it gave Redknapp an opportunity to try him out up there in case he is needed in a more serious manner for the games that are about to come. It's likely there will be matches that we are in need of a goal near the end, so will have to put him up there to cause a nuisance of himself. He actually didn't do too badly with the ball at his feet in attacking areas either. | ![](/images/avatars/1804.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 11:40 - Feb 24 with 4630 views | bosh67 | They put Mbia in at CB for the last 10 mins when Samba went up front and he looked ten times more comfortable at CB for me than he ever does as a defensive midfielder. | ![](/images/avatars/1510.gif) |
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Samba Up Front on 12:36 - Feb 24 with 4600 views | TW_R |
Samba Up Front on 00:00 - Feb 24 by DesertBoot | Why do some think we could have snared Graham. He wanted a move to the North East and duly signed for the Mackems. We were never an option. |
It's a Holloway thing. He thinks that if you list 5 players you want to sign they will just turn up at the end of the transfer window and start playing for us. He doesn't think the players or their clubs actually get the option to decide what they want to do. | ![](/images/avatars/2186.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Samba Up Front on 12:37 - Feb 24 with 4597 views | TW_R |
Samba Up Front on 11:40 - Feb 24 by bosh67 | They put Mbia in at CB for the last 10 mins when Samba went up front and he looked ten times more comfortable at CB for me than he ever does as a defensive midfielder. |
I was thinking exactly the same thing Bosh. I wouldn't mind seeing him and Samba at the back with Diakite playing the defensive midfielder role. | ![](/images/avatars/2186.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
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