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According to his Tweets he can't be the sharpest knife among the kitchen accessories at STFC...

...surely he's out of the game now and we WON'T miss him!

As Ann Robinson would say:

...Michael... you're the weakest link... goodbye!

am I missing some context to this or something? I don't get it.

NR being a bit "special"?

NorwayRed doesn't like Michael Rose.

I hope he's deliberately being a bit retarded because if it's accidental and he really does have some special problems I'll feel bad when I get pissed off enough to ban him.

Of course! Who would you slate if I got banned, by the way ?!  :hmmm:

shady

Fuck off NR! How can you have a personal vendetta against a STFC player when you havn't seen them play!  I think the abuse that Rose gets is well over the top from many on here, but you really do take it to another level.

Join the Oxford forum if you want to slag the team off!

agree

I found Norway red on twiiter :)

why?

Sorry to join the Twitterati copy and pasters, but this amused me:

Funny how things turn out!! Question is will u miss me when I'm gone??!! Be careful with wot u wish for!!

I'm not quite on the same scale of Rose hate as many, but I'm good to give a solid "No" to this one...

Rose does sound like a prize cunt.

edit: I'll retract that upon reflection, some of the comments aimed at him are a bit harsh!

Unless they introduce a new rule where you can bring players on just to take set pieces then I hope to god he isnt a Town player next season.

I've wanted him to be good but his best game at the CG is still the one he played for Norwich last season.

Mmm, he's easily the best freekick taker/striker of the ball I've seen here in a while. Just a shame the rest of his game isn't always up to scratch. He'll have little bursts but that's about it.

Well having read his tweets it just seems that he has taken offence to people getting personal with him. Fair enough if he gives it back, won't do him any favours though.

He really needs to protect his tweets & be more selective about who follows him?? I don't understand why they allow themselves to be open to it??

Yep but I don't think he has any interest in hanging around at Swindon so he's just letting rip.

I think your right. It would be suicide to say what he said if he were planning to stay. I think he's off in the summer, I actually think he/his agent have already agreed in principle to join another club.

Yeah true. The fans want him to leave and he does too, everyone is a winner I guess.

My annoyance is why Sheehan hasn't been able to establish himself as our number 1 left back (injuries aside).

The problem is that he's shit. Positionally, he's shit. He doesn't have any physical presence whatsoever. He can also be very easily beaten for pace or for skill. But I'm struggling to think of a better free kick taker in the 40 years I've supported Town - McHale, Walters??
I'd put him behind Sheehan, LJF and Kennedy at left back.
I do think he could cut it as a left midfielder but not here.

He's not really been happy here from the moment he arrived has he?  Threre was all that crap at the start of the season when he got dropped and he never settled in. He has a great feee kick, but thats not enough.

I actually thought he did well when he came on yesterday, and put in a superb cross that Benyon should have scored from.

I'd still have preferred O'Brien to come on for Grella as I think his pace would have caused real problems in the Daggers defence.

Berniman, Berniman...

You and a bunch of others keep having a personal vendetta about NorwayRed aswell, without any first hand source material.

25% football, 80% bollocks

Of course I can have a personal vendetta against anyone I want without fucking them up their arse, wether it's Adolf Hitler, George Bush Jr., Michael Rose og Berniman

Congrats!

Maybe he should take up American Football then!

Its an absolute farce that he is getting drawn into slanging matches with fans on twitter. The club should sort it out.

Spot on Spencer.

 Suspect this applies to quite a few.

 The new manager after Hart, will have to get a grip on the disruptive elements, and those just plain not good enough for Div 4 and weed them out.  After about November, there has been little fight from this squad....spirit isn't something you can just turn on or off at will.

If Rose gets a contract from a League 1 team then they are absolute mugs.

It was an absolute embaressment in the Crawley FAC 1st tie that they figured out he was the man to target so early in the game. Literally a weak link.

I notice Marvin Morgan was playing for the Daggers yesterday. Didnt he get kicked out of Aldershot for offering some fans out on twitter?

These players need to realise they are not the bee all and end all, if you cant take the criticism you shouldnt be doing the job

Personal criticism is out of order. But as you say, criticism about a players performance is 100% part of the job.

Yes they hear more of it nowadays with the internet, but they get paid a lot more too.

I love the way at the end of his ranty tweet he put something about praying for Japan - trying to make himself not look a total arrogant knob head

He's gone out for a Carvery with his family today bless him

Norway Red is the best thing thats happened to TEF since Spacey in his heyday.

i like ralphy's albeit paraphrased:
"you don't like taking criticism but you don't respond to us who say nice things to you"

Link to his twitter? Thanks.

@michaelrose3

Can someone cut and paste what his tweet actually said where he is having a go at the fans or post a link at least then those of us not on twitter will know what he's said ?

He also said that to be fair. I think the witch hunt is pathetic.

He also said this:

Funny how things turn out!! Question is will u miss me when I'm gone??!! Be careful with wot u wish for!!

Tbf would anyone miss him?

Nope. I'm just judging him on his footaballing ability but he does seem to a grade A cock as well. 

I guess I'm the only one who finds it a touch ironic how Ralphy points out Rose is only being negative on Twitter but then 90% of people who have read his comments are slagging him off and ignoring the ones which say thanks to all the fans which have messaged him.

He's only responding to the witch hunt and it's fucking sad from both sides. Many people moan on here when certain people get picked on by the majority and it's exactly what's happening to Rose. He really needs to delete his twitter account or make it private.

Clearly he isn't the sharpest tool in the box and I don't think he is a very good player - but you could say that about our entire team this season. In fact the more people single him out the more I want him to do well aka Pericard syndrome.

Norway Red, Norway Red......

If you can show me another post where I have personally attacked you (i.e. shown that I have a personal vendetta against you) then I will appologise.

If not, then my one dig at you with regards to having a personal vendetta agianst Rose is justified as you slag him off so much you may as well just be his personal stalker, and you don't even know what the bloke looks like apart from looking at his photos on the internet!

As for wanting to fuck me up the arse, if this means that you are gay, I can only say that I can't blame you as you are only human.  Does this mean that you are stalking me too?

As much as I too am quite amused (at times) when you come out with your random shit, my opinion hasn't changed about your vendettas against certain players when the closest you have been to watching them in recent years is the internet.

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How long was the contract he signed in the summer? Just the 1 year ?

Hopefully

Two years with option of a third.

Can't see anyone buying him, he'll be here next year then.

The thing is, I think he commutes from Manchester. Trek.

True,but why because someone is paid more warrants them getting abuse baffles me.

Would have Rose over Sheehan any day....the run and shot that hit the bar v Walsall was our only bit of class in that game....for me Sheehan was pants yesterday.....Rose for Sheehan was the move to be made...not Rose for Grella.
The cross Rose put in for Benyon was brilliant,alas the finish was shite.
Not saying he is a great defender...but he is better than Sheehan at the present time in my opinion.

I bet he walks it too.

No wonder he's got plenty of time to Tweet

Criticism, not abuse. You changed the word.

The players get paid the salaries of company executives, they should react to criticism in a proper manner.

Fair point.....though i doubt he is a robot..............good on him if people are getting personal and he is dishing it back...........getting stick on the pitch is fair game...if people diss him on twitter then he has every right to give it back.......whether he is a millionaire or on the dole.

About booing and heckling players of your own team.

When your having a bad time of things, how does being booed and being told ''you're shit'' help? It doesn't, it hinders if anything.

I'm all for constructed criticism but the way certain fans think just because they've paid for a ticket, they can act how the hell they want even if it goes against what's best for the team and the individual players. It's utterly baffling.

I'm guessing, much like the way Rose/Cuthbert reacted, that things get said in the heat of the moment with little constructive thought given. It happens when your club is in the shit.

It's different when the fans and players take it onto something like Twitter. That's premeditated by both sides.

Yeah Sonic, the pressure's getting to him I think. He should just have ignored them. By doing what he did on twitter has just made the situation worse. I realise that the majority of the fans who boo/ heckle etc. are just fustrated and just act on the spare of the moment, we're all really pissed off at the minute but shouting at the players doesn't help, it really doesn't. But what I don't get is if a player reacts back, the fans get all defensive and pissed off. It's wrong either way in my opinion but if a fan wants dish it out on the spare of the moment they have to expect the player to aswell.

In Benyons defence it did take a flick of a Dagenham toe on it's way across goal.

When protecting a 1 goal lead, throwing our worst defender into the backline would not be the brightest idea. At least he can't cause us too much damage defensively from left midfield.

Finished for the day! Decision been made, altho not by me!! Oh well we get on with it, hopin everythin went well today for @Pilkington_11

I think he might be going out on loan??

I'd let both Rose & Sheehan go on loan!. If you added them both together they would only make one decent fullback. I'd have LJF in next year.

I'd play kennedy...

LJF has never impressed at left-back has he?

Frampton was POTY for Millwall playing in that position unless I'm mistaken.

He's just tweeted thats he's staying at Swindon.

bring back drysdale

Yes he has.

Yeah he had a fantastic game there earlier in the year.

However he isn't a left back, he was exposed a number of times playing LB in previous games.

Also second guessing the Rose tweets:



[speculation]
I wonder if he had an offer of going on loan to somewhere to home. Wouldn't blame him but with Sheehan carrying a slight hamstring injury I guess it was blocked.
[/speculation]

Pure speclation, made up by me - but Ronnie Moore was saying we had been deciding whether or not Kennedy could stay at Rotherham - perhaps we wanted Kennedy back and Rose to be sent up there. 

I still think Sheehan is our best left back - and a very good one, who like most of our squad have been under par.

Kennedy - none of us have a clue about, but he's always looked tidy enough.

Rose - if football had a rule where you could bring someone on to take your set pieces (Remember that bloke at Barcelona '92 who did it for the hockey) he'd be playing at the Nou Camp every week, but he's barely good enough as a rounded player for scout camp.

I like your ill-informed yet fabulously plausible speculation.

I am amazed in a way to see the string of positive messages Rose has got from our fans on Twitter given the impending doom heading our way. We're so nice.

Oh I know he is much better at CB but he has impressed me on more than one occasion at LB since he's been here. Both Leeds games last season, I also remember him being good vs Huddersfield at home last season.

Fortunately for him he has the pace to get himself out of a few sticky situations at the moment!

Difference of opinion here. I though Leeds away was a prime example of why he isn't a left back. He got skinned on every attack in the first half.

If Rotherham, a promotion chasing League 2 team want to keep Kennedy then surely he's worth keeping for next season? Should he want to stay of course.

Rose is a League 2 defender - Kennedy can stay where he is unless of course he has improved a great deal since I last saw him - he was worse than Rose and had no free kick.

I think Michael Rose is in love with Anthony Pilkington.

@michaelrose3

A tweet that seems to clear it up, and doesn't mention Pilkington..

who's Anthony Pilkington?

His mate who plays for Huddersfield.

i don't think Rose has been too good for us, but whoever @MelvinLutherKin is has really gone on the offensive with the personal insults there!

Well Rose finds himself in another relegation battle two seasons on the bounce says it all really. Can't see why Kennedy is taking stick i would say he had a few good games for us this season and looks a fairly good prospect at this level. As for Francois playing left back it's a no from me, He has had a few good games at left back but he has also has alot of bad ones.

shall we make him captain next season :D

Not that I'm trying to defend him, but wasn't Rose on loan to Norwich for the second half of last season?

Not sure will have to check that out you could be right.

He was, and even Norwich fans didn't rate him.

That he did just checked it out on Wikipedia said he made 12 appearance for Norwich and :-


So we could be stuck with him for longer.