Kiwivillan

Let's be fair. It all started to go downhill when he got rid of the highlights.

:shock: Hope to god you aren't a talent scout. Who else has there been then? And dont throw out the NRC comment because he can't pass and hasn't been able to pass for years. Petrov played a role for us and played it very well. It was no coincidence that when he came back into the team at the end of last season that we started picking results up again. That we perform better with Petrov in the team is a complete myth and there are stats to prove it.

:shock: Hope to god you aren't a talent scout.

I doubt any Premier League team would be interested in Petrov on the wages he is on, or if you significantly lowered them

Gosh. It's so far of the mark. I should change it to Mortimer thinks Petrov is great. That would be far more accurate.

Petrov is detrimental to the team as a whole. Slows everything down and cant make a forward pass for toffee. Takes half hour fannying about with the ball then passes back to the CB's. Would be more suited to playing in Italy where you get more time on the ball I have been saying this for several seasons now. Sometimes I think a lot of supporters are on crazy pills they way they go on about Petrov.

Nice guy, very average footballer. Not bashing, don't want him the the starting line up.

I totally agree and would have put this in the 100+ page Petrov thread but it is locked. Short link EDIT by BOF : I've shortened the link and reproduced the article as the guidelines suggest. I've also removed the post on poster despite the explicit reason for locking the Petrov thread being given in ... the Petrov thread. It had gone way off topic. Carry on. EDIT by Bicks: Poll Added

ffs you are hilarious. The season starts in 2 weeks and we look a shambles against Chelsea B in 1st gear. This isn't Chelsea B, they were about 3 players short of their best team. Also pre-season results really mean **** all. Surely you've followed football long enough to know this. I have but thanks for the dig. Zhirkov and Bosingwa will not hold down a starin spot this season unless the new coach has plans for them and I know Chelsea are blessed with this depth of talent but friendly or not, I had hoped we would have a go instead of this complete limp dicked approach with a negative approach with the piss poorest of players hanging onto there former glory. I hope AMc learns from this and I don't read anymore of those BS articles online about how Petrov has a part to play. He's **** pants. He has been for years. Gabby has become a poor excuse for a premiership footballer. Darius Vassel anyone?

ffs you are hilarious. The season starts in 2 weeks and we look a shambles against Chelsea B in 1st gear.

Haven't you heard bro? McLeish is going to wave a magic wand and turn shit into gold!

We have a knack of reviving players in the doldrums career. Shevchenko got that hattrick in the cup match when he was getting loads of stick at Chelsea. I am so looking forward to another season of Petrov as captain, guaranted starter. We are going to do awesome!!!! Yeah, he is so good!

**** yes. Gabby is a waste of space alone up front.

Yes! Gabby is an absolute no mark leading the line. He has been absolutely shit and for me this has been the case since he bulked up but what do I know. We look **** desperate out there now but **** it hey everything will sort itself out for the league right? AMc won't have us playing toothless 4-5-1 like he is now, like he did with BCFC all the **** time.

Of course! Because Petrov is shit and NRC was the most consistent player we had last season, but if people on here want to big up Petrov till the cows come home because it floats their boat while we continue to lose matches and AVFC want to let a player like NRC go to Bolton as a free agent and not replace him because they think Petrov is an awesome dude and can totally do a job of breaking up play then what the **** can I do about it other than bitch and moan every game it happens and hear people bullshit on about how awesome a player Petrov is.

Cheers bro but all credit to il_serpente. When I saw it I could'nt resist.

Holy shit right there. When Fonz had the ball just shows you how shit Gabby is as a lead man. Just standing there with his finger up his bum. Not even thinking about making a run, practically huggung the defender.

I missed about 3 of those Ireland chances at footie today but then I don't get paid +50k a week

Given amazing. Our stupid line up deserves to be behind. Sorry lads but I think were going to get a rude awakening in the league and I'd rather it happened now.

Gabby alone up front (facepalm)

When is the match kicking off? Like 25mins from now? It's 1207AM here

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True that! 10PM here few colds ones. Nice

Some nice interchanges between him and Bannan. I think they both realise like a lot of us that if you pass to Petrov he will pass it back to Dunne or Collins and we have to build from the back again or it will get hoofed.

WTF? Bannan was the centre of every thing we created in attack in the first half and put in a pinpoint cross for Bent's goal. Petrov had a mare. Always passing backwards and slowing up play to our detriment. Made one decent long pass through the middel and fired straight into the keepers bread basket when it would have been easier to score. Gabby ran around alot like a headless chicken. Failed to anticipate passes ahead of him often and got disposed every time he tried to run at defence. Delfouneso did stepovers and got past his man into the box and should of shot but passed back but next time ran it defence let loose a powerful shot that the keeper had to parry and should of been converted in the follow up. He got a shot on target in the 30 mins he was on, 1 more than Gabby in 90 IIRC. Give me lazy that shoots than dumb that runs around liek headless chicken and achieves nothing.