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« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2021, 14:29:44 pm » |
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Who would you appoint as manager?
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« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2021, 15:48:11 pm » |
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I always think 'favourite aircraft' reveals a lot about the character. I have always had a soft spot for the Vought F4U Corsair, mainly for the inverted gull wing shape.
I like a black box.
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Deepcut Cobbler
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2021, 17:44:04 pm » |
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2021, 18:13:46 pm » |
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'out of everyone right now, he [Hoskins] is our most natural finisher.' John Brady.
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Melbourne Cobbler
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« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2021, 18:27:27 pm » |
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'out of everyone right now, he [Hoskins] is our most natural finisher.' John Brady.
When I read that I was afflicted with the old “thousand yard stare”. Her indoors actually asked if I was ok?
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« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2021, 19:08:19 pm » |
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'out of everyone right now, he [Hoskins] is our most natural finisher.' John Brady.
Hoskins reminds me of me playing trying to play six a side, in my head what I'm going to do is take on the other team leaving them all in my wake, round the keeper and tap it in the empty net before lapping up the adulation of my team mates, but in reality the ball is easily taken off me and I end up running back in an ultimately failed attempt to win it back to the chorus of "for f*** sake St Eds" from the other lads. I'm sure he works hard in training, I think he does on the pitch but whatever they're seeing in training isn't being replicated on matchday and not enough to justify being the first name on the team sheet week in week out. I've never really known what his best position is and I didn't realise he's classed as a striker.
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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2021, 19:14:02 pm » |
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To clarify, I’m not particularly anti Hoskins. As documented, he has a great engine and is probably the hardest working player in the squad. I think he has a bigger affect on games than he is given credit for and is capable of pulling the opposition’s players all over the shop. He also has a propensity to produce rare moments of genius that wouldn’t be out of place at the Nou Camp. However, as we all know his final ball is generally poor and he coughs up possession entirely too often for my liking. But leaving all that to one side our new manager in charge till the end of the season thinks he is the most natural finisher we have? For about 3 months or so I have been clinging by my finger nails to the sheer rock face of hope. I read the comment from Brady, lost my grip and was sent hurtling into the abyss.
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Manwork04
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2021, 20:13:42 pm » |
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The first line of that Chronic article says it all, “Hoskins epitomises this club” and he does as I commented on Satdy. Unfortunately it’s for all the wrong reasons, tries hard but L2 is his glass ceiling, has little or no quality in the final third. As for Brady saying he’s our most natural goal scorer......wow just wow, absolutely clueless, we are down.
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« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2021, 09:07:46 am » |
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Brady must think getting your shot off equates to natural goalscorer. Either that or his refreshing honesty has quickly waned now he has the permanency of an end of season contract.
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Manwork04
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« Reply #29 on: March 23, 2021, 12:00:02 pm » |
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From the five minutes I’ve seen of him Alex Jones maybe a natural goal scorer. How the fcuk can’t he be fit, he’s not injured and has been training with us for months?
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« Reply #30 on: March 23, 2021, 13:17:59 pm » |
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From the five minutes I’ve seen of him Alex Jones maybe a natural goal scorer. How the fcuk can’t he be fit, he’s not injured and has been training with us for months?
My thoughts entirely. I think the way the team plays (or tries to play) tonight is really important.
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« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2021, 12:36:08 pm » |
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2021, 13:19:45 pm » |
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You'd hope that most players don't read social media and what gets said. Unless they have seriously large ego's, the average person wouldn't draw the curtains if they read half of the abuse that gets written. That's why so many famous people don't read anything, it would send you crazy. Everything is just too polarised and the one thing for sure is that Sammy is definitely 'a Cobbler', who has the attributes that several managers have liked. He's never likely to be our 20 goal striker but we've not had one of those for donkey's years. He attracts far too much negative attention compared to some of the other dross we have fielded....and probably current field! He becomes the victim for our other strikers inadequacies. Maybe it's because he's a good looking bloke who is popular with the girlies?! It'll always be the way though. Dave Savage was a really good (and often exciting) player but had his share of boo boys. Cornell was a perfectly good keeper and consistently received OTT criticism. We don't give any keepers much slack at all....since Peter Gleasure To demonstrate my own bias, I thought David Seal was massively overrated but the common fan used to idolise him as though he was Messi. JJOT demonstrated how you can have both views.
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« Reply #33 on: March 25, 2021, 16:46:06 pm » |
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You'd hope that most players don't read social media and what gets said. Unless they have seriously large ego's, the average person wouldn't draw the curtains if they read half of the abuse that gets written. That's why so many famous people don't read anything, it would send you crazy. Everything is just too polarised and the one thing for sure is that Sammy is definitely 'a Cobbler', who has the attributes that several managers have liked. He's never likely to be our 20 goal striker but we've not had one of those for donkey's years. He attracts far too much negative attention compared to some of the other dross we have fielded....and probably current field! He becomes the victim for our other strikers inadequacies. Maybe it's because he's a good looking bloke who is popular with the girlies?! It'll always be the way though. Dave Savage was a really good (and often exciting) player but had his share of boo boys. Cornell was a perfectly good keeper and consistently received OTT criticism. We don't give any keepers much slack at all....since Peter Gleasure To demonstrate my own bias, I thought David Seal was massively overrated but the common fan used to idolise him as though he was Messi. JJOT demonstrated how you can have both views. Was with you on all of that Tone until you mentioned Cornell! You are correct, all goalies get stick because their mistakes are so amplified but I disagree with you about Dai - he always seemed to me like he struggled with crosses and positioning - good shot stopper though! As to Sammy, for all his faults he would have always been in my starting line up over the last couple of years. I think a lot of folks overlook his defensive qualities too.
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« Reply #34 on: March 25, 2021, 17:06:45 pm » |
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Was with you on all of that Tone until you mentioned Cornell! You are correct, all goalies get stick because their mistakes are so amplified but I disagree with you about Dai - he always seemed to me like he struggled with crosses and positioning - good shot stopper though!
As to Sammy, for all his faults he would have always been in my starting line up over the last couple of years. I think a lot of folks overlook his defensive qualities too.
Keepers on crosses seems to be a recurring theme for us, either flapping or not coming out. Going way back to Gleasure, he was always nailed to his line and we've had many more since. Mitchell needs someone to tell him he's not playing as a sweeper. We also seem to hammer a keeper if his kicking isn't 100%. I always think a keeper being a good shot stopper should be a given, although some will be better than others. It's the 'fundamental' of being a keeper, any Keith will tell you that. There aren't too many top draw keepers around, not at our level anyway and like you said all mistakes get amplified.
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« Reply #35 on: March 25, 2021, 18:13:11 pm » |
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He certainly divides opinion, can be infuriating and can also provide the odd moment of magic, but no one can deny that he never fails to give his all, covers more ground than most players and can be found up front trying his best to score and occasionally succeeding, in our penalty area blocking shots and getting it away and out wide getting the odd cross in. He's been here 7 years and played 230 odd games under a plethora of managers so who's the best judge? I must admit I haven't been his biggest fan over the years but he's definately committed to the cause and if you look at other teams forums after games, if they ever have anything positive to say about us, he is frequently cited as our best player.
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