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Benny The Noon wrote:

Redman in wales wrote:

OneHotRed wrote:Remember the flak masch got for being sent off and dirty challenges and mouthing off? This guy is an animal....refs in the prem aint going to like him one bit

Rugby!!!

Yet dispite all the stories about Poulson here are some facts:

2009/10 (all competitions)

Poulson: 39 appearances - 5 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Masherano: 39 appearances -11 yellow cards - 2 red cards


2008/09  (all competitions)

Poulson: 24 appearances - 3 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Masherano: 38 appearances -9 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Has masher ever had a game called off because of punching a player

Soft lad should of got back up and played on   
Id hate to see this guy, masch and the Greek all playing in the merseyside derby!

jacdaniel wrote:Id hate to see this guy, masch and the Greek all playing in the merseyside derby!

I'd love it!!   

Redman in wales wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:

Redman in wales wrote:

OneHotRed wrote:Remember the flak masch got for being sent off and dirty challenges and mouthing off? This guy is an animal....refs in the prem aint going to like him one bit

Rugby!!!

Yet dispite all the stories about Poulson here are some facts:

2009/10 (all competitions)

Poulson: 39 appearances - 5 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Masherano: 39 appearances -11 yellow cards - 2 red cards


2008/09  (all competitions)

Poulson: 24 appearances - 3 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Masherano: 38 appearances -9 yellow cards - 0 red cards

Has masher ever had a game called off because of punching a player

neither has poulson.

a fan ran onto the pitch and tried to attack the referee - that was why the game was called off. Poulson's challenge only resulted in a read card in the game in 2007 - which was the last time he was sent off.

Benny The Noon wrote:It was the sending off that triggered the fan running onto the pitch - sent off for punching a Swedish player - his actions indirecting resulted in game getting abandoned

sorry you can not attribute a fan attacking a referee and casueing the game to be abanded to a punch thrown on the pitch by a player. There's been much worse on a football field with no fans running onto pitches.

Its the fan's fault, the stadiums fault, but you can't say that he was at fault for the game being called off. If anything I'd say the ref did - the fan was attacking the ref, not the player. The fan was off at the ref. Yes the ref sent poulson off for the punch, but the punch was a supposedly a result of Rosenburgs provatations. So i blame rosenberg!!   

Punching a player is wrong and stupid, but he didn't casue the game to be stopped. a fan did.


besides it was one moment of madness.


Poulson hasn't been sent off for his club for over 6 years

Redman in wales wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:It was the sending off that triggered the fan running onto the pitch - sent off for punching a Swedish player - his actions indirecting resulted in game getting abandoned

sorry you can not attribute a fan attacking a referee and casueing the game to be abanded to a punch thrown on the pitch by a player. There's been much worse on a football field with no fans running onto pitches.

Its the fan's fault, the stadiums fault, but you can't say that he was at fault for the game being called off. If anything I'd say the ref did - the fan was attacking the ref, not the player. The fan was off at the ref. Yes the ref sent poulson off for the punch, but the punch was a supposedly a result of Rosenburgs provatations. So i blame rosenberg!!   

Punching a player is wrong and stupid, but he didn't casue the game to be stopped. a fan did.


besides it was one moment of madness.


Poulson hasn't been sent off for his club for over 6 years

Bad Bob wrote:Well said.  It would be the equivalent of dismissing Masch on the basis of his rush of blood moment at Old Trafford.

I don't know all that much about Poulson but the amount of criticism he's been getting for so-called goonish behaviour strikes me as a bit narrow.  I'm sure there's a lot more to the player than that and your stats have shown that to be the case.  From our last match I kind of suspect that Hodgson has the idea of sitting Gerrard in CM with Cole in the hole ahead of him.  If Poulson can come in and do a Didi-esque job of minding the shop when Stevie ventures forward, I'll be pleased.  As many have said, we could use some steel in our midfield as well, so I don't mind the fact that the lad likes a tackle.  He's a veteran campaigner, as well, so he should be pretty savvy about when to stick the foot in and when not to.

Redman in wales wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:It was the sending off that triggered the fan running onto the pitch - sent off for punching a Swedish player - his actions indirecting resulted in game getting abandoned

sorry you can not attribute a fan attacking a referee and casueing the game to be abanded to a punch thrown on the pitch by a player. There's been much worse on a football field with no fans running onto pitches.

Its the fan's fault, the stadiums fault, but you can't say that he was at fault for the game being called off. If anything I'd say the ref did - the fan was attacking the ref, not the player. The fan was off at the ref. Yes the ref sent poulson off for the punch, but the punch was a supposedly a result of Rosenburgs provatations. So i blame rosenberg!!   

Punching a player is wrong and stupid, but he didn't casue the game to be stopped. a fan did.


besides it was one moment of madness.


Poulson hasn't been sent off for his club for over 6 years

good, and well balanced post    blaming Poulson for the fan's misbehavior is clutching at straws.

Benny The Noon wrote:Well lets see what happens when he arrives - if people think he is the next step up for us in improvement then lets hope your right .