Carra on SKY

[the_khl]

I think Enrique is criminally underrated on here.

 

[Modo]

Who's to say that Carra is right about the fullbacks?

He mentions Enrique but I don't remember him making any significant mistakes defensively last season.

To be honest, Neville comes off as the intelligent one who can back up his claims.

 

[Modo]

I think Enrique is criminally underrated on here.

Another defender is criminally overrated here.

 

[gkmacca]

Well, I don't know him, and only seen him in glimpses mainly from clips on here, so I shouldn't say what he's really like.

He just doesn't seem 1/16 as irritating or stupid as back when he was a player. To me.

Well, I agree he's not as irritating. But that doesn't mean I like him. He's a good pundit, but again that doesn't make me like him. Now he's put on a bit of weight he seems a bit vulnerable, like Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy, but still not likeable IMHO!

 

[gkmacca]

I think it is fair to say that Carra has had a fractious relationship with our FBs since the departure of Finnan. I think he instinctively disapproves of the fact that they have other stuff to do apart from defending. He talks about the back 4 as a team within a team, but the FB is also part of an offensive team with in a team with the winger and midfielder on their side of the park.

That's a very interesting observation. It certainly makes sense, and could explain quite a bit!

 

[Judge Jules]

It would certainly fit with how Carra himself approached the fullback's job when he was playing there.

That said, I don't entirely agree with the Doc on this. Every player in every position has a responsibility to do whatever the team needs from them at any given time, but within that they have their respective priorities, and for me a fullback's no.1 priority is still to lock his wing down defensively as far as poss.

 

[Modo]

That's a very interesting observation. It certainly makes sense, and could explain quite a bit!

Would explain the Arbeloa incident.

 

[Woland]

Carra was mad wrong on Pique... But they were both just randomly chucking every name that they could think of out there. Baresi, Koeman, Lucio, Carvalho....

Mostly bullshit. Neville comparing Luis to Carvalho was fucking stupid too.

 

[kingjulian]

Who's to say that Carra is right about the fullbacks?

He mentions Enrique but I don't remember him making any significant mistakes defensively last season.

To be honest, Neville comes off as the intelligent one who can back up his claims.

It's a different view point, and that's what you want.....you don't want them all agreeing on the same thing.

 

[Whirly]

Defensively Enrique is probably one of the top LB's in the league, only reason to permanently replace him is if we find a player who can contribute more to the attack without being detrimental to the back.

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

Fair fucks to Neville.
Carra is decent too. Good show all round really.

 

[Gary25]

I think Enrique is criminally underrated on here.

So do i.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Enrique is my favourite LFc left back since Stig!

 

[gkmacca]

Oh what boots to fill!

 

[ILD]

Enrique is my favourite LFc left back since Stig!

Cue Ryan unleashing hell @ Stig.

 

[gkmacca]

Bloke from Game of Thrones ,,,,,,,,,,,,............................. Bloke from countless games of shite

 

[red_maradona]

I think it is fair to say that Carra has had a fractious relationship with our FBs since the departure of Finnan. I think he instinctively disapproves of the fact that they have other stuff to do apart from defending. He talks about the back 4 as a team within a team, but the FB is also part of an offensive team with in a team with the winger and midfielder on their side of the park.

really good point. I liked Neville challenging the assumption that defenders had to be ONLY defenders and adding more to the team.

 

[doctor_mac]

Bloke from Game of Thrones ,,,,,,,,,,,,............................. Bloke from countless games of shite

Wow.

 

[Modo]

 

[RedZeppelin III]

he's implying that Rodgers isn't playing this because Johnson is injured or because he wants to but rather that he's looked at what he's got and decided this might be best. Fair enough but he's built this team through 3 windows and stocked up on centre backs so what he has is down to him , this isn't his first few months in charge , this is his squad .

 

[Shadey]

 

[Mystic]

I think Enrique is criminally underrated on here.

Yep, funny because I was one of his harshest critics in the first season, but he's come on a lot, and defensively he's solid as a rock, he's just a bit clueless going forward.

 

[King Binny]

On a sidenote Steve Bruce on Carra:
[article=http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/04/steve-bruce-hull-city]While Bruce accepts he is unlikely to ever get the chance to manage the club he led to three Premier League titles, he says the desire to succeed in football management "will always burn inside me". The frustration is that fewer former players seem to feel the same way these days. Bruce is one of only four Englishmen managing in the Premier League – all of whom are in their 50s – and he is concerned where the next generation will come from.

"I give you Jamie Carragher on Monday night, pontificating on television. I was offered a deal to go with Sky when I finished. I wanted to stay in football. Let's be fair, Jamie Carragher has got something to offer, certainly on a training ground, working with young players on how to be a proper footballer. It saddens me that he has gone down the media route. Good for the media – all of a sudden he's a little bit different. But I hope we haven't lost somebody like him."

For Bruce, who has clocked up 322 matches as a Premier League manager to sit eighth on the all-time list, there is no let up. [/article]

 

[Gary25]

He has a point tbf

 

[gkmacca]

He should write novels, like Steve 'Proust' Bruce. And I make no apology for reproducing a couple of belting passages from Proust Bruce's Sweeper:

I prepared and ate breakfast. My mother always impressed on me as a lad the importance of a good breakfast. I don’t go the full Monty: I can manage without a pork chop and black pudding. But I like cereals, followed by bacon and eggs. And toast with marmalade. All washed down with tea. That’s the kind of breakfast a man such as me needs.​

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Then my mobile telephone rang. I did not curse the interruption. A mobile phone is a necessary instrument of modern business. And better still: It is a building more than one hundred years old. Built in the Italian style, someone told me. I wouldn’t have known. Architecture, like much else, is a closed book to me.​

The gun was level with my belly. So this was what it was like to die. There was no doubt I was going to die. And not even in Newcastle. Not even Premier League. In Halifax, of all places, with a club in the third division.​

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[WhyAlwaysMe?]

Great thread, looking forward to hearing more of Carra's views/opinions on our squad throughout the season

 

[WhyAlwaysMe?]

Analysis of Aaron Ramsey's recent rise

"At the moment he's the best player in the league"

 

[gkmacca]

Carra's city bars have gone bust. The main creditor is the Flanagan Group. Is that connected to our Flanno's family?

 

[Portly]

A bloke called Flanagan used to own the Newz Bar. I guess the Flanagan Group is him.

 

[gkmacca]

Paul, yes.