Jonnyboy Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Any player can pick 3 consecutive games where the stats look good but try averaging Gully over all his games this season and not just his last 3 games and it doesn't look quite so rosy. Also against Huddersfield he should of scored at least 3 goals and had Barnard been on I reckon he would of buried at least 2 of those chances. Please don't even mention him in the same breathe as MLT. he was v good at home to oldham a while back
aintforever Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 I didn't even know he had signed for Newcastle, and have to admit that when I saw the scorer I assumed it was someone else with the same name. I can't believe that useless overhead own goal kicking penalty missing **** is in the Premier league.
Turkish Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Any player can pick 3 consecutive games where the stats look good but try averaging Gully over all his games this season and not just his last 3 games and it doesn't look quite so rosy. Also against Huddersfield he should of scored at least 3 goals and had Barnard been on I reckon he would of buried at least 2 of those chances. Please don't even mention him in the same breathe as MLT. yet another one missing the point. As i said, for all his critics and there have been many, he has scored important goals or made an important contribution in the last 3 games, he might not have been great for 90 minutes but when it mattered he made the difference. As for your laughable speculation that Barnard would have buried 2 of Gullys chances, what about the one on one Barnard missed against Exeter, in that case Would Gully have buried that one since he scored a more difficult chance against Dagenham?
Lord Duckhunter Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 When I heard on talksport this morning his odds were 80-1 to score 3, I thought they meant all season. The same game should have been 3,000-1, no wonder the bookies make so much money.
Turkish Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Your point is a bit of a cliche really. You are saying there are a handful of players who have been unpopular with a section of the crowd and gone on to play at a higher level. I doubt there is a club in the world you couldn't say that about. Everyone has unpopular players, or "boo boys" as you call them. Plus we didn't get from the Premier League to administration in League 1 without having a few bad players along the way. It's inevitable that a few of them get booed, even if I don't agree with it. Go to a game at Liverpool, Chelsea, Preston, Swindon etc. and you'll probably see a few of their players getting slated by a small minority. You've contradicted yourself somewhat with the bits in bold. Saying it's not just a couple of isolated idiots, then going on to name "some bloke... some dinlows... some idiot" spread accross the ground. If you'd said, "The entire chapel was stood up, to a man, arms in the air, all singing 'Puncheon, you're a c**t we all hope you die'" Then you might have a point. Not sure what you're getting at with Guly. He's had three excellent games recently. Good, but not good enough to alter the past. Well i am not contradicting myself am i. YOu were going on about 40 drunks in the northam, well i am saying in two seperate parts of the ground and away on monday "fans" have barracked the usual players for very little, in fact on one occasions the supposedly slow, awful and over the hill Jaidi made the right decision rather than hoofing the ball out of play. so we have these ignorant dinlows all over the stadium. Or maybe i am just unluckily and have sat near the 1% at every game i have been at in the last 2weeks? It must just be me that sees the irony in the fact that so many of our "sh*t" former players are still playing at a higher level while we are in league one. Seem my comment above re Gully.
Turkish Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 he was v good at home to oldham a while back and Tranmere and away at Yeovil.
John B Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 I didn't even know he had signed for Newcastle, and have to admit that when I saw the scorer I assumed it was someone else with the same name. I can't believe that useless overhead own goal kicking penalty missing **** is in the Premier league. And an Irish International too
saintwarwick Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 and Tranmere and away at Yeovil. I wasn't at the Yeovil game so cannot comment and his game against Tranmere was pretty good unlike the Oldham game where he wasn't anything special. He had a shocker against Brentford but strange how you miss the bad games
Turkish Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 I wasn't at the Yeovil game so cannot comment and his game against Tranmere was pretty good unlike the Oldham game where he wasn't anything special. He had a shocker against Brentford but strange how you miss the bad games no i was at the Brentford game as well and yes he was awful, as was everybody else.
Charlie Wayman Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Time to sniff the seaweed guys, any old tosser could have scored three goals against West Ham last night. Best couldn't get out of the way. Next game... Leon who? Wasn't it Pardew that turfed him out of St Mary's. How ironic is that.
Turkish Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Time to sniff the seaweed guys, any old tosser could have scored three goals against West Ham last night. Best couldn't get out of the way. Next game... Leon who? Wasn't it Pardew that turfed him out of St Mary's. How ironic is that. no it wasn't, he went to Coventry after we failed to win promotion to the PL under Burley so no irony at all. Good luck to the lad. people on here seem to take delight in slating him for probably the unluckiest own goal you'll ever see.
Lighthouse Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 no it wasn't, he went to Coventry after we failed to win promotion to the PL under Burley so no irony at all. Good luck to the lad. people on here seem to take delight in slating him for probably the unluckiest own goal you'll ever see. That we can agree on. That o.g. was a one in a million. We were just plain unlucky there. Penalty was inexcusable though.
sandwichsaint Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 Pretty avarage player all round, certainly nothing to suggest he is better than our current three strikers, a PL hat trick against a **** poor west ham not withstanding. His sixth season as a pro and he has played 172 games and scored 44 goals which is roughly 30 games and 7 goals a season - hardly prolific for a striker (he has also scored none in seven for the Republic of Ireland). Maybe he will turn out to be another one 'more suited to the higher levels of football' but I'd be surprised if he scores any more than another 2 or 3 in the remainder of the season.
sandwichsaint Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 was it leon who went in goal live on Sky? It was Blackstock away at Newcastle.
hamster Posted 6 January, 2011 Posted 6 January, 2011 ah yes sandwich, cheers. was it best that scored a hat-trick in a league cup match the?
The9 Posted 7 January, 2011 Posted 7 January, 2011 He was playing against West Ham. Reading the match reports their defence seemed about as focused as an Aussie batsman. Best scored 3 goals - well done to the lad. The reports also say that he was "completely unmarked" for all 3 of them. So either he developed a superhuman talent to shrug off markers in the box or he had a good day at the office. Likewise with AP. He's gone, good luck to him. Other managers have left/been fired don't see so many debates about Dave Jones, 'Arry and others. AP is a PL manager. If he lasts longer than 18 months he will have done a good job up there. But he isn't going to win the title, and Cashlessly doesn't have the funds to take them into the CL. For AP in their first season back up, staying up and keeping hold of Carroll would be a success. Next year the muppet fans up there will be demanding his sacking beacuase they aren't challenging for 4th place. And Best will be back on the bench having had his moment and being a Squad player, which is IMHO all he ever will be at that level Having seen the three goals, he fouled the jumping defender to get the space to be in on goal for the first, was (just) offside for the third, and the second was a half-decent left foot strike from about 6 yards from broken play following a corner. One decent goal, three decent finishes but pretty lucky two of them stood. On other occasions the West Ham defence did appear to be attempting to mimick the Red Sea.
The9 Posted 7 January, 2011 Posted 7 January, 2011 in that case roughly 50% of these players we release should do shyte but the nearly all do better! It would be difficult for an established player OR a young, promising pro who was at the club in the Prem not to outperform Saints when we managed to drop two divisions in 4 seasons. Most of the non-Prem standard players like Dyer, Blackstock and McGoldrick are hanging around near enough the level they were playing for Saints with their new clubs. Best has barely had a look in for Newcastle and prior to that had 3 years doing nothing of note at Coventry. He was a top-half Championship squad player in 2007 and he was third choice behind Ameobi and Carroll even last season, it's not like there have been any massive improvement in them. Fuller was a lower half Prem player when we bought him, he still is. Stats show Delap has had more throws than passes in some matches for Stoke and like Higginbotham, they're pretty much at the same level now as they were with Saints and Derby before we relegated them.
The Majestic Channon Posted 7 January, 2011 Posted 7 January, 2011 # don't be silly where has "i told you so been mentioned". you only read what you want to read.. you will no doubt say "I told you so IF anyone dares mentions pardew when he is doing badly" Says you getting defensive because some are praising pardew,the AP..NA comparisons were not mentioned until you posted. And know i won´t be saying i told you so, not my style moooosh
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