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Frankly speaking Samuel Kalu has been the player that has benefited the most from Rohr's era as coach, he has had career guidance, help in moving to Bordeaux, personal trainers, personal relations with the coach and sometimes underserved call ups to the national team but his career has been on the decline and his attitude has not helped him at picking up off field obstacles here and there

He should take a serious look at himself

Subzero047:
Frankly speaking Samuel Kalu has been the player that has benefited the most from Rohr's era as coach, he has had career guidance, help in moving to Bordeaux, personal trainers, personal relations with the coach and sometimes underserved call ups to the national team but his career has been on the decline and his attitude has not helped him at picking up off field obstacles here and there

He should take a serious look at himself

A host of clubs wanted his signature at that time including Bordeaux. Rohr probably advised him to choose them ahead of the others.

Subzero047:
Frankly speaking Samuel Kalu has been the player that has benefited the most from Rohr's era as coach, he has had career guidance, help in moving to Bordeaux, personal trainers, personal relations with the coach and sometimes underserved call ups to the national team but his career has been on the decline and his attitude has not helped him at picking up off field obstacles here and there

He should take a serious look at himself

You arent wrong..
Rigjt now,he isn't in form... but there is still time for improvement..
I don't think going to Turkey will help him in that regard..

TheLoneCitizen:
Emmanuel Dennis now being linked to Napoli, Leeds and Bayer Levrkusen(to replace Havertz).

He has been linked to so many teams, I wouldn't be surprised if he moves to Spezia Calcio.

Since June, he has been linked to every damn club without going to any.....Make he rest biko, I'm sure he's even tired.

Subzero047:
Frankly speaking Samuel Kalu has been the player that has benefited the most from Rohr's era as coach, he has had career guidance, help in moving to Bordeaux, personal trainers, personal relations with the coach and sometimes underserved call ups to the national team but his career has been on the decline and his attitude has not helped him at picking up off field obstacles here and there

He should take a serious look at himself

I couldn't agree more. If he doesn't improve this season. He'll most likely lose his place

With Sevilla winning the Europa, does it mean Villarreal will automatically qualify for the UCL as per taking Sevilla 4th position

nelszx:
With Sevilla winning the Europa, does it mean Villarreal will automatically qualify for the UCL as per taking Sevilla 4th position

No..
Villarreal will still play Europa league..

Interview: We are building a Super Eagles for the future – Gernot Rohr


By Oma Akatugba

Daily Times caught up with Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr and he spoke about Bukayo Saka, the Super Eagles and the future of the team.

The Franco-German has been a subject of division amongst Nigerian football fans with some groups of people calling for his head at every given opportunity, while others have staunchly defended him.

In this interview with Oma Akatugba, Rohr reveals how he feels being the Super Eagles coach at the moment and revealed some of the players the team is looking at.

Daily Times: You’ve been the Super Eagles coach for four years now, how will you rate your last four years with the Super Eagles?

Gernot Rohr: Four very interesting years for me because my challenge was to build a new team with young players to qualify for the World Cup as that was the condition to continue my contract.

I had to go to the World Cup and fortunately we did it, so I could continue. Second challenge was to go to the AFCON which we haven’t qualified for twice before and it was important we did, and we did it also and we have a good team.



I think in these four years, is a good, young football playing team with a good future. In these interesting four years, we built something, spirit. We built a team technically, tactically and also mentally and this is very important for the future.



Daily Times: We’ve been more consistent since you joined the Super Eagles as coach, but there have been criticisms that you’ve not won anything, do you think these criticisms are just, or they are expecting too much?

Rohr: We won the qualification in our group. We were first and it’s such a big victory to be first in such a group with Cameroon, Zambia and Algeria who are the number 1 in Africa now. For the World Cup, we needed experience to win it, it’s not easy to win. For the AFCON, we were very close, we were at the Semifinal, we conceded in the last minute.

We were very close and we have the level now for us to want the next edition but everything needs time. We don’t play so much. We’ve not played since November so it’s difficult for the team to work and progress. Our target now is qualification for the next AFCON and also for the next World Cup. When I see what’s happening with this team and how we are moving in the right direction, we can be very optimistic.

Daily Times: COVID-19 has shut down football, how have you been working from home, have you been monitoring players?

Rohr: Yes I had my office because there was no possibility to travel but I make phone and video calls and by monitoring the games. They played in May in Germany so I saw some of the players. I could even travel to Germany to meet some new players.



We are working and searching to make the team better. Two new players want to camp with us now. And this is very important news for us. I travelled to meet them in March. I met one of them but didn’t meet the other until three weeks ago.

We try to do a good job, work for the future, monitor a lot of games in the present, speak a lot with the players, and draw a provisional list for the possible September camping. I hope we can do something in September. We need to work and see everybody playing. Unfortunately it’s not easy. These strict terms for travelling and coronavirus.

Daily Times: Can you tell us the names of the two new players?

Rohr: No I cannot mention their names. We will mention the names when we do our next list.

Daily Times: Nigeria has a good number of players with dual nationalities all over Europe. A good example is Bukayo Saka doing well at Arsenal, have you been in touch with him because he talked about his Nigerian heritage as well?

Rohr: Personally, no, but I think the NFF President has been in touch with him and I let him do his work. Me, I never beg the player to play for Nigeria. I go, watch, say hello and if they are interested, they can call me.

The desire must come from them. You cannot Force anybody to play for us. But of course, he is a wonderful player that will give us more quality and we are watching.

Daily Times: How about Ebere Orji and Josh Onomah?

Rohr: They are in our scouting list. We have a great scouting list. My team, assistants and I have been working on them. I have three assistants and everybody has to monitor every weekend. We’ve been working to see them on weekends. We monitor the players. Tonight, we can monitor Lookman (Ademola).

With Leipzig in the quarterfinal and we never stopped monitoring the games. Fortunately the league started 11th of May but unfortunately in Nigeria, the league hasn’t started yet. I hope they can start very soon.

Daily Times: You gave Maduka Okoye a chance to play in the Super Eagles when he was at a low level in club football and a lot of people criticised that. Now he’s moved to Sparta Rotterdam, does this mean that your decision has been justified?

Rohr: We saw him in the training and in the second team games of Fortuna Düsseldorf. He was good and young, and he wanted to come with us, so we invited him and he couldn’t feature in the first match against Ukraine but in the second friendly against Brazil.



He entered in such a great game without any complaints and he’s a good quality. I was sure he could do well for us and this is a confirmation of what we thought of him which means he’s very good for the future.



Daily Times: Francis Uzoho has also recovered from injury and joined the biggest club in Cyprus. We’ve had a goalkeeping problem, how important do you think these moves are to the Super Eagles?

Rohr: Francis (Uzoho) had a big injury in the Brazil game in Singapore and so he needed a long time to come back. Now an opportunity to play in the best league in Cyprus is a wonderful one for him and for the Super Eagles. It’s wonderful to see that he’s back again after the operation and he’s still very young. We want to see him playing as that’s the next step.

Daily Times: You’ve worked in Africa for over a decade, from Niger to Gabon to Nigeria, what is the difference with Nigeria?

Rohr: First difference is the language. Before I spoke only French with everybody but now I’ve switched to English. Fortunately I have a good school and I was not bad with English so it wasn’t easy for me. And then for the Germans, German language is not difficult. You speak very good German.

Daily Times: Thank you sir.

Rohr: Another difference is the environment. Much bigger country, 195m people. The difference is the big number of players I have in Nigeria to watch, choose and a different mentality.

I think Francophone countries have to learn more discipline. I had very good collaboration, and souvenirs with Niger, Burkina Faso, Gabon. Now we have other targets and the ambition is much bigger in Nigeria. Even if we don’t have big stars like Jayjay Okocha, we still have to play. There’s Osimhen now but he has to prove. I hope he will succeed in Napoli.

Before he went there, he wanted to speak with me about it and he wanted my advice. And I advised him to see the coach, speak with Gattuso and get his guarantees that he will play and not sit on the bench.

He did it and I’m happy about this transfer because it’s a big club and it’s a good opportunity in Italy to progress against strong defenders and I hope he will score so many goals like he did in France.

Daily Times: Do you think having many players to work with in Nigeria is a blessing for you?

Rohr: Yes and No because the work is more difficult to make a good choice. Sometimes some players deserve to come because I cannot take them because I have only 23 in my list. It’s difficult to make a choice but it’s easier to have quality in the team.

The individual quality of the players is to play together and play a quality sense of football and then the solidarity shown in so many games.

Daily Times: Before now, players have complained about managers asking them for money to play for the Super Eagles. How do you deal with agents that want to pay you to pick their players?

Rohr: Of course, with the experience I have, I don’t have any problem. They all know I have nothing to do with money and all of that means there’s no influence possible, no pressure. I only take the best ones.

I speak with my staff, picking players causes a lot of arguments, I speak with my assistant coaches, medical staff and I make my choice. Agents don’t influence my choice.

Daily Times: What does a Nigerian (NPFL) player need to get the attention of Gernot Rohr?

Rohr: They need to play, be in the CHAN team which is at first the A-team of Nigerian players. They need to show quality. Coach of the CHAN team is my assistant and together we take players. We’ve taken more than 22 or 23 from CHAN but immediately after they sign in Europe.

That’s why there’s a big pressure. Everybody wants to make money, bring them to the Super Eagles because professional clubs in Europe and Asia will see them. First, you have to play well. I still have Ezenwa in my list, he did well in the country and in the CHAN team and so many others who are everywhere in the world.



There are so many others who have done well. Problem is they aren’t playing for a long time to find the rhythm and the infrastructures are very bad. There are no good playing conditions. It’s not easy for the players on synthetic pitches and with long travels.



I look at the U-20 all the time and I have the best ones from them with me to give them motivation, the chance. I have the U-17 captain now in Salzburg, Samson Tijani. He’s going to Hartberg on loan and they are in Europe.

I’ll also follow what he’s doing. We are in touch with these young players. This is the future. The right thing is to choose best and of course help the future by giving a chance to the young.

Daily Times: Samson Tijani reminds me of Kelechi Nwakali. He’s a fantastic midfielder but he’s faced some problems with his career but he’s settled now with Huesca in Spain. Are you looking to invite him?

Rohr: I saw him in Egypt for the U-23 qualifiers for Olympics. He’s a good player but his club career is not easy. He deserves to play more and I hope he will get more game time.

Daily Times: You just renewed your contract and there are conditions attached like earning in naira, inviting NPFL players and others. First of all, are these true?

Rohr: I can’t speak about my contract. It’s forbidden to speak about my contract, but I see others talk about my contract.

I love this country, I like this job, I made some sacrifices to continue but I want us to keep playing well, play good football and win. Most important for me is the quality of work and the players.

I spoke with Yobo already, he’s a good guy, speaks French and I know he can bring his experience as a player and learn on the job because I know he’s just starting. I think it will help him like we want to help all the coaches in Nigeria do a good job. We will be together for the next AFCON and I hope for the World Cup. Everybody has to go in the same direction.

Daily Times: Are you happy?

Rohr: Yes! I am happy.

Daily Times: Ighalo joined Manchester United and it seems his retirement wasn’t at the right time? There are talks that the Super Eagles want him back? What’s the situation with Ighalo?

Rohr: At first I must say we are in touch all the time with Ighalo. We are very close. I understood that he wanted to stop because after the World Cup it wasn’t easy for him and I was even criticised for inviting him again.

Lots of people didn’t want to see him again but now many want to see him again. We will see. He’s a wonderful player. We have Dessers now and he’s playing a good role in Genk, scoring again with Onuachu. Ighalo is experienced and his influence to the team could be very important.

He can play together with a young one in a 4-4-2. All is possible. When you have great players you have to adapt your system to the quality of your opponent and quality of the players. We can have two wonderful goal scorers.

The moment has not come yet to go into details but I know he loves his country, he’s a wonderful goal scorer, playing good games at Man Utd but all is possible with him.

Daily Times: Leon Balogun has joined Rangers in a good move that seems to have revived his career. He had a tough AFCON and didn’t play well. Do you think the move will help him get back in the Super Eagles?

Rohr: Absolutely, because even yesterday he played well and Aribo scored. He’s finding his rhythm again and is showing quality.

And I think he can come back to the Super Eagles with his form and we have Leon Balogun in good fitness. He had some problems in his last club but now I think he’s made a good choice playing together with Aribo and that’s a good change for him. It’ll be good to see him again.

Daily Times: You invited Simy Nwankwo who was at the Italian Serie B. He was top scorer at the Serie B. Are there hopes of having him back in the Super Eagles?

Rohr: We can have him and he’s doing so well. We monitored him like the others and what he did was great. He was a little bit down in the World Cup and didn’t have time to come in and be competitive with his partners but now I think he deserves a chance if he continues playing like this.

Daily Times: You have done a good job in the last four years. Your win ratio is better and is impressive. You have good players, do you think it’s time to win a trophy with Nigeria now?


Rohr: My opinion is that we have the chance. We have to progress since we came third the last time. We have to progress even if Algeria is very strong. We are able to do something very interesting in Cameroon.

Of course now, there’s the ambition to win the AFCON but let’s stay humble and not think because we have a player in Napoli, Villareal, we think we are there.

No pressure, let’s play good football, let’s play better in the defence, have no goalkeeping problems and it will be very interesting for us. We can have the ambition to win it. It can’t be easy but we have to be very humble all the time. And we have to fight never underrate opponents. It’s not our kind of job.

Daily Times: The Villareal player (Chukwueze), do you think he should make a move?

He’s good in Villareal. If he can play anywhere he’s going, he has to speak with the coach of the new team at first but he has the talent to play in a big club.

Daily Times: What do you hope to achieve as Super Eagles coach before you leave?

Rohr: I want to win a trophy and leave a team with a great future for Nigeria. We want to do very well at the AFCON, possibly win it, go to the World Cup again because this team deserves something. This team is working very hard.


Source : Daily times

Subzero047:
Frankly speaking Samuel Kalu has been the player that has benefited the most from Rohr's era as coach, he has had career guidance, help in moving to Bordeaux, personal trainers, personal relations with the coach and sometimes underserved call ups to the national team but his career has been on the decline and his attitude has not helped him at picking up off field obstacles here and there

He should take a serious look at himself

Spot on

mostob:
I have never downplay Moses' contributions to the AFCON we won. Saying he SINGLEHANDEDLY won the cup for us is just laughable. The AFCON sef was won 7 years ago.
If moses reverses his retirement decision and there is space for him then he will be welcomed. But begging or persuading him to come back is a no no.
He paid his dues already...we should move on.

I'm not on the single handedly table. But he was a major contributor. I'm highly against the downgrade with the comparism on the national front. Its wack.

mostob:
Bro..talking of recent matches, where was vicmo against Croatia? The whole team didn't turn up agreed. The little ball we got at the final third ,wetin vicmo use am do? That match vex me no be small. Vicmo,after his impressive showings at the qualifiers was our team's star going to the WC. Tournament start finish, dude was just falling over the place...playing big boy football.

Don't get me wrong. As i defend VicMo, i also wrote about his annoying side. It is what it is. Well as you said, the wholllle team didn't turn up.

ChrisKels:
The waste man is at it again. This time, the fraud was caught fighting while drunk outside of a bar, assaulting police, resisting arrest in Greece. I just can’t help but imagine the reactions from English media if it was some black player.


Is this not worse than Isaac Success's case? Imagine assaulting a policeman in a foreign country

Where is that joke of a Britico wannabe that always comes here to talk in the nonsense as though bad behavior had to do with race?

And Greece has this i don't care attitude to foreigners both high and low.... They want full bail or nothing... Man Utd wants installments...

Edopesin:
Messi has a release clause of €700 million


mad o

He is going nowhere

Arsene Wenger don tok this thing that year. This rule now will ruin his remaining years. Barca can't be the same again... He will die for a move, but see clause, and in coro times again!!

Edopesin:
This doesn't even prove anything
The award was given to him out of discretion and not because he was exceptional. What is exceptional about scoring 2 goals both from the penalty spot for Nigeria and 1 League goal the whole season?

What stats did he have in 2013 to make him deserve the award?

You're just going in circles and at the end of the day his stats only show how piss poor he is as a winger

Thought you said you're not downplaying?! I rest my case.

chrisooblog:
musa did well in russia and holland yes saudi league is low level but won't use that to say (yet) he has lost it. happy you used the gnabry example flopping in EPL is not the end of the world.

still insist it's premature to call KC a flop in the EPL.

Kayode struggled in Spain and Ukraine but is finding his feet in Turkey. he was given good game time in the SE still needs to prove himself.

Umar yes struggled in scotland but how much game time was he given coupled with the fact that gerrard totally didn't rate him. again like the gnabry example you cited just because a coach doesn't rate you doesn't mean you can't turn the corner.

the bold is the reason I argue with you sometimes because of the fluid nature of football i can't declare someone as a categorical flop. Solanke could wake up on the right side of the bed tomorrow start bagging goals in the EPL. you can criticize a player when he's obviously not performing to expectations but when he starts doing better and turning the corner it would be unfair to the player to start doubting him based on passed performances. it will be like insisting thierry henry is a seria a when he later turned out to be one of the greatest players of his generation. so if people are happy and see encouragement in Iheanacho and nwakali's recent games let them be.

football is a funny game you can be a late boomer like drogba, vardy etc or progress naturally. it's all about improving your game.

lovely take...

daveP:
I'm not on the single handedly table. But he was a major contributor. I'm highly against the downgrade with the comparism on the national front. Its wack.

ok man

daveP:
Don't get me wrong. As i defend VicMo, i also wrote about his annoying side. It is what it is. Well as you said, the wholllle team didn't turn up.

OK it's alright

Clementoke:
Interview: We are building a Super Eagles for the future – Gernot Rohr

I look at the U-20 all the time and I have the best ones from them with me to give them motivation, the chance. I have the U-17 captain now in Salzburg, Samson Tijani. He’s going to Hartberg on loan and they are in Europe.



Daily Times: Samson Tijani reminds me of Kelechi Nwakali. He’s a fantastic midfielder but he’s faced some problems with his career but he’s settled now with Huesca in Spain. Are you looking to invite him?

Rohr: I saw him in Egypt for the U-23 qualifiers for Olympics. He’s a good player but his club career is not easy. He deserves to play more and I hope he will get more game time.

Daily Times: Ighalo joined Manchester United and it seems his retirement wasn’t at the right time? There are talks that the Super Eagles want him back? What’s the situation with Ighalo?

Rohr: At first I must say we are in touch all the time with Ighalo. We are very close. I understood that he wanted to stop because after the World Cup it wasn’t easy for him and I was even criticised for inviting him again.

Lots of people didn’t want to see him again but now many want to see him again. We will see. He’s a wonderful player. We have Dessers now and he’s playing a good role in Genk, scoring again with Onuachu. Ighalo is experienced and his influence to the team could be very important.

He can play together with a young one in a 4-4-2. All is possible. When you have great players you have to adapt your system to the quality of your opponent and quality of the players. We can have two wonderful goal scorers.

The moment has not come yet to go into details but I know he loves his country, he’s a wonderful goal scorer, playing good games at Man Utd but all is possible with him.

Coach wey sabi

daveP:
Thought you said you're not downplaying?! I rest my case.

I told you there's nothing to downplay, he didn't do anything that can be downplayed

daveP:
Arsene Wenger don tok this thing that year. This rule now will ruin his remaining years. Barca can't be the same again... He will die for a move, but see clause, and in coro times again!!

It's just terrible, 700M is just stupid

jihday:
Works hard, Rhor likes a hard worker

Could this be one of the effects of the long break from International football?

As I saw it me too come dey wonder: "izzit Rhor or Rohr"

Mr Jihday how you dey bro?

Going by Rohr words we should be expecting Samson Tijani in the team anytime soon ?

ChrisKels:
The waste man is at it again. This time, the fraud was caught fighting while drunk outside of a bar, assaulting police, resisting arrest in Greece. I just can’t help but imagine the reactions from English media if it was some black player.


Is this not worse than Isaac Success's case? Imagine assaulting a policeman in a foreign country

Where is that joke of a Britico wannabe that always comes here to talk in the nonsense as though bad behavior had to do with race?

It is not a case of bad behaviour been associated with race, even though he was harsh and never forgave the poor boy...maybe he had so much high hopes for the guy and success fall en hand heavily.
If you are a foreigner, you won't be given the same liberty like a native, so you have to be extra good and extra careful, if you don't, you will fall into their hands.
My son can misbehave in my house and he would be punished but he would still remain my son( except when the thing don pass be careful) but if a stranger should come an misbehave in my house he may not not get a second chance,..

DABIGATRAN:
Don't mind the pessimists. I have read tons of biased reports here about the same Kalu that has been one of our most productive players post-Russia 2018. That he's having a rough patch recently doesn't obviate the talent that made him one of the most sought-after wingers in Europe at a time.
For those comparing Kalu with Saka, they should wait for Saka to don our national colours first.

Sought after wingers in Europe would make him among the top 10 in Europe, which he is certainly not.

A good decent winger yes but top 10 in Europe sorry that's not my view.

Is he even in the top 10 of French league one ❓

Kai! I've really missed International football.

There are some days that I would just sit and be remembering some of those our Recent WCQ games: notably, Nigeria vs Algeria, Nigeria vs Cameroon and Nigeria vs Zambia. And then the heated up arguments before games and also the days that follow the games.

The various actors involved:

1. Rohr's critiques: This group criticized Rohr all day long. "Rohr is not a good coach". "He is too conservative". ".He employes negative tactics"....Bla-bla-bla.

2. The Attorneys: Defenders of their favorite players. To them certain players can do no wrong even if they score an own goal against Nigeria. They would rather shift the blame to another player they don't like.

3. The "haters": For this group, there are certain players that no matter how they performed their "Haters" (even though they will always deny being haters) will always rate them low.

4. The Chameleons: These ones will not come out and support the team openly. They are just pretenders so that if the team wins they celebrate if they team loses they come here and Rubbish the team and call for Rohr's sack. They can hail Rohr to high heavens today and call for his sack tomorrow.

5. The "I said it" crew: These ones are always negative going into a game. They would rather chose to dwell on the team's weaknesses rather than on their strength. And then they predict all forms of doom. If the team wins some of them varnish for days or weeks.

6. The conspiracy theorists: There is a group that whenever a team list is released they come here to shout about Nepotism, Sentiments, emotive biase etc. They have never given kudos to Rohr after each release of team list because their favorite players never make the squad.

7. The Patriots: They are always direct rivals to the "I said it" crew because they always chose to see the strength of the team rather than the weaknesses. They are the ones that will take over the thread after every win, while the "I said it" crew go into hiding. They also stay on the thread to defend the team's poor performance if they should lose.

8. Pro and Anti-Iheanacho: I had to bring this group out separate because for many years, a very large percentage of our arguments here were Iheanacho related. There are certain people that they are experts in defending Iheanacho all day long, even if he did nothing in a game. And the Anti-Iheanachos would even go as far as celebrating, if he developed an injury. This thread usually goes on fire each time "Nacho" scored both at club and SE.

9. The "awa brad-es": They come here to mock Nigeria each time we crash out of a tournament. They know nothing but insults, and would digress from football completely to start insulting even our president.

At each point in time, every member here belongs to a particular group. There was always a burning issue that if you leave the thread and come back after 2hrs you can meat up to 3-4pages of comments.

For me there is nothing compared to National team football. I can't wait for it to return.

DABIGATRAN:
A host of clubs wanted his signature at that time including Bordeaux. Rohr probably advised him to choose them ahead of the others.

Yea Rohr wanted to keep a close eye on him

TheLoneCitizen:
BREAKING: Arsenal have signed Gabriel Magalhaes from under Napoli's nose.
I thought Osimhen's transfer will be saga of the window, but this was...

I read that it isn't final yet.

chrisooblog:
so playing for 19 minutes isn't a chance? That cameroonian that came on for PSG against Atlanta and scored didn't he take his chance? ogbeni please shift with your propaganda

You lied. Just admit and move on.

Icon4s:
Kai! I've really missed International football.

There are some days that I would just sit and be remembering some of those our Recent WCQ games: notably, Nigeria vs Algeria, Nigeria vs Cameroon and Nigeria vs Zambia. And then the heated up arguments before games and also the days that follow the games.

The various actors involved:

1. Rohr's critiques: This group criticized Rohr all day long. "Rohr is not a good coach". "He is too conservative". ".He employes negative tactics"....Bla-bla-bla.

2. The Attorneys: Defenders of their favorite players. To them certain players can do no wrong even if they score an own goal against Nigeria. They would rather shift the blame to another player they don't like.

3. The "haters": For this group, there are certain players that no matter how they performed their "Haters" (even though they will always deny being haters) will always rate them low.

4. The Chameleons: These ones will not come out and support the team openly. They are just pretenders so that if the team wins they celebrate if they team loses they come here and Rubbish the team and call for Rohr's sack. They can hail Rohr to high heavens today and call for his sack tomorrow.

5. The "I said it" crew: These ones are always negative going into a game. They would rather chose to dwell on the team's weaknesses rather than on their strength. And then they predict all forms of doom. If the team wins some of them varnish for days or weeks.

6. The conspiracy theorists: There is a group that whenever a team list is released they come here to shout about Nepotism, Sentiments, emotive biase etc. They have never given kudos to Rohr after each release of team list because their favorite players never make the squad.

7. The Patriots: They are always direct rivals to the "I said it" crew because they always chose to see the strength of the team rather than the weaknesses. They are the ones that will take over the thread after every win, while the "I said it" crew go into hiding. They also stay on the thread to defend the team's poor performance if they should lose.

8. Pro and Anti-Iheanacho: I had to bring this group out separate because for many years, a very large percentage of our arguments here were Iheanacho related. There are certain people that they are experts in defending Iheanacho all day long, even if he did nothing in a game. And the Anti-Iheanachos would even go as far as celebrating, if he developed an injury. This thread usually goes on fire each time "Nacho" scored both at club and SE.

9. The "awa brad-es": They come here to mock Nigeria each time we crash out of a tournament. They know nothing but insults, and would digress from football completely to start insulting even our president.

At each point in time, every member here belongs to a particular group. There was always a burning issues that if you leave the thread and come back after 2hrs you can meat up to 3-4pages of comments.

For me there is nothing compared to National team football. I can't wait for it to return.

Where do you belong to in these groups?

forgiveness:
You lied. Just admit and move on.

I didn't lie accept that and move on