Ben Nugent

The kid is very very raw. Woeful tonight.

Nugent didnt have a good night thats for sure, but you lot slating him is just a disgrace we are all disapointed we didnt win but hey ho we have taken 4 points of leicester, who were well tipped to win this league in the summer. Get real we are not the only team thats trying to go up. I seem to remember you lot saying what a waste of money hudson was now we cant play without him. I think the bottom 4 clubs would all swap places with us tonight they all think we have a better chance of prem football than them next year

I remember that too. 'Hudson the donkey'.

Nugent didnt have a good night thats for sure, but you lot slating him is just a disgrace we are all disapointed we didnt win but hey ho we have taken 4 points of leicester, who were well tipped to win this league in the summer. Get real we are not the only team thats trying to go up. I seem to remember you lot saying what a waste of money hudson was now we cant play without him. I think the bottom 4 clubs would all swap places with us tonight they all think we have a better chance of prem football than them next year

Please show me where I said Hudson was a waste of money?

Spare us the bottom 4 crap weve spent crazy money on wages and should be at the top not the bottom.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

How about looking at games lost with him in the team if hes that shit...

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

Glad I'm not the only one who's not expecting a young apprentice to play like john terry every game

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

Glad I'm not the only one who's not expecting a young apprentice to play like john terry every game

Im not expecting him to play like Steven Hawking either...

Its ridiculous slamming a 19 year old cb when it would have been a good performace all round if wed one 2-1.. Not many players can be blamed tonight, didnt think we were necessarily outplayed it was just substandard not helped by the fact that we played one of the top 4 squads in the league. NP got his tactics right, they defended well and we were bullied a bit physically. TS, whits and gunnar were below their best. Rudy was great and what was needed and I hope he gets his start with campbell, bells and conway on the wings

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Ouch

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Boro should have scored 5 that day and a sub appearance for 45 mins against Hudds. Well done.
Every game hes started weve conceded and the last 2 games hes been shocking.
I take no pleasure flagging this but its pressure time and hes not the answer.
Im off to bed now before his agent / friend / brother gets out of his pram again.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

Glad I'm not the only one who's not expecting a young apprentice to play like john terry every game

Im not expecting him to play like Steven Hawking either...

A better comparison would have been Stevie wonder.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Times like this i wish there was a 'like' button. Thats 2 clean sheets, ok a mistake cost him an otherwise great performance and clean sheet vs bristol, tonight defensively prevented goals and im not sure about his other 2 appearences but ill bet they werent losses. Your right polo 'stats dont lie'

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Boro should have scored 5 that day and a sub appearance for 45 mins against Hudds. Well done.
Every game hes started weve conceded and the last 2 games hes been shocking.
I take no pleasure flagging this but its pressure time and hes not the answer.
Im off to bed now before his agent / friend / brother gets out of his pram again.

Hey i'm on your side, it's just for arguments sake. Nugent should not be where hes at right now and the blame is squarely on Malky for not seeing this problem coming.

Its ridiculous slamming a 19 year old cb when it would have been a good performace all round if wed one 2-1.. Not many players can be blamed tonight, didnt think we were necessarily outplayed it was just substandard not helped by the fact that we played one of the top 4 squads in the league. NP got his tactics right, they defended well and we were bullied a bit physically. TS, whits and gunnar were below their best. Rudy was great and what was needed and I hope he gets his start with campbell, bells and conway on the wings

We didnt win 2-1 and the whole team and the performance was shit.

I am pointing out Nugent as he was the worst of a bad lot, and tonight and last week says hes not the answer at this moment in time.

f**k his age. If your good enough your old enough.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

Glad I'm not the only one who's not expecting a young apprentice to play like john terry every game

The manager shouldn't be putting all this much pressure on a young apprentice in the first place.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Times like this i wish there was a 'like' button. Thats 2 clean sheets, ok a mistake cost him an otherwise great performance and clean sheet vs bristol, tonight defensively prevented goals and im not sure about his other 2 appearences but ill bet they werent losses. Your right polo 'stats dont lie'

conceded against barnsley, brizzle, derby, leicester, off top of my head yet you claim we "concede f**k all"
4-2 in my favour

as you were

Don't think he deserves all this criticism. Thought first half he was decent when Hudson was alongside him. Second half however he seemed to lack confidence playing alongside Conolly and was poor at times. I was sitting in the Ninian right alongside the offside line and he was playing their last man onside all the time. Very young, very raw but a hot prospect and I feel he would have had a far better second half if Hudson had stayed on. People are having a pop left right and centre at his and a few others' distribution tonight but they had no options to aim at. I like Tommy Smith but I don't think he did his job tonight. He seemed to be playing the furthest forward of a middle 3 linking the midfield and attack but his movement was poor and vary rarely offered himself as an offensive option. Gunnarson and Wittingham often had the ball at their feet facing the Leicester defence but had 4 statues in front of them. Some on here don't like him but I feel that Helguson was a massive part of our good form earlier in the season with the way he brought others into play in the final 3rd. There doesn't seem to be that link between mid and attack atm.

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way[/quote]

Are you denying this?

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

Are you denying this?[/quote]
No because I was reffering to starting appearances
and it was in the context of baloo claiming we dont concede when he plays.

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

We havent kept a clean sheet when hes played but dont let the facts get in the way

To be fair.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311579
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278411

Times like this i wish there was a 'like' button. Thats 2 clean sheets, ok a mistake cost him an otherwise great performance and clean sheet vs bristol, tonight defensively prevented goals and im not sure about his other 2 appearences but ill bet they werent losses. Your right polo 'stats dont lie'

conceded against barnsley, brizzle, derby, leicester, off top of my head yet you claim we "concede f**k all"
4-2 in my favour


as you were

Oh christ, i didnt say he was our talisman. Maybe it is a bit too much too soon
We got 8 points out of the 12 and lost none of them right? the ones we drew would not have been turned to wins without him. Its failure to penetrate by attacking players which cost us those points. Please go to bed. Your not wrong he strggles to pick a pass but hes pretty solid regardless of age

In nugent you get a solid centre back. We concede f**k all when he plays. Distribution will come with experience as will ironing out mistakes like own goal vs wurzels. Absolute bellends imo judging his whole career on tonight. He was solid. Cant blame our poor scoring form on his bad passing

Glad I'm not the only one who's not expecting a young apprentice to play like john terry every game

The manager shouldn't be putting all this much pressure on a young apprentice in the first place.

Well if he thinks he's ready then it's his decision isn't it? it goes for any player in the team. Noone has been poor lately in my opinion, so has Whittingham. I just don't understand the Criticism. He's done alright, his distribution isn't brilliant but is turners that good when he plays? He just plays that long diagonal ball doesn't he. The blame does fall on malky if his choice is wrong but we're top of the league. His judgement can't be that bad

Catch 22. Give the ball away like he does and we havent got the ball to set up the attacks.

Catch 22. Give the ball away like he does and we havent got the ball to set up the attacks.

Well in that case gunnarsson, whitingham, noone, smith, Conway and Marshall need to be dropped as from what I recall, they all gave the ball away at some point tonight

Catch 22. Give the ball away like he does and we havent got the ball to set up the attacks.

Your not wrong. Im not saying what I think is important in the scheme of things but I think hes had a fantastic season and people are just looking for a scapegoat in our bad run of form. Lucky to have him as a reserve CB. Due to youth he doesnt mind sitting on the bench and more.often than not does a job

Catch 22. Give the ball away like he does and we havent got the ball to set up the attacks.

Well in that case gunnarsson, whitingham, noone, smith, Conway and Marshall need to be dropped as from what I recall, they all gave the ball away at some point tonight

Not at the rate he did.