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Ok I know he wasn't setting the league on fire but he has shown a few glimpse what he could do with a few fine performances this season.

But after the game at fulham, it seemed that everyone just gave up on him and condemned him to the reserves.

I couldn't catch the fulham game so can anyone tell me what he did to [oops] everyone off?

He did his usual job, running around like a heedless chicken and when presented with an opportunituy in the 6 yard box, he flufs his lines. Same old story really, nothing new.

In fairness Carroll isn't good enough and I don't think he ever will be, however when he plays Downing also has to start as he will put in crosses for Caroll to attack. Playing Carroll without Downing and vice versa just baffles me to be honest....

The team lost. This is the true reason for the extent of the personal backlash towards Carroll. That's a fact.

I think it's more a case of "the team lost and Carroll didn't do much to prevent that, as usual". I like the guy, I really do, and I do feel he's improved, but the system isn't working. While that isn't necessarily his fault, the system only exists to suit him because of the price we paid for him. The system has to change in order for us to improve our performances as a team, and that means he has to be cut until we can find a way (on the training ground anyway) to win regularly with him in the starting line-up.

He had a few nice touches here and there, held the ball up well at times but throughout the whole 90 minutes he just wasn't a threat, didn't pose any problems to the Fullham defenders and never looked like scoring

This is in contrast to Suarez and Bellamy who played either side of him. They did take players on, beat them and provided ammunition.

I contrast Carroll struggled to even get into the game and given he was our big striker playing through the middle it just wasn't good enough

Maybe but on current form neither should be starting

It's Bellamy and Maxi everytime for me at the moment

It's quite a shame how we wasted 35m just like that.

When we didn't have money, we bought crap. When we had the money, we bought bigger crap. Sigh.

Not true. Even if we're going to consign Carroll to the crap pile, it's only true to say "When we had the money we bought the crap that was available." He's not proven to be worse than Dossena, Degen, etc.

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/7357711/Drop-Carroll-Or-Drop-Top-Four-Dreams...

harsh but true