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Post by Dave on Jul 14, 2008 19:36:20 GMT
Well at least you now have admitted, that small players can play a role in a team. I do see why you were never a coach, it sounds like to me a Merse team will have all the little ones marking each other, while the big ones, mark the other big ones. So if all the left footers were small and the right footers large, we would have the small ones on one side of the pitch, and the big ones on the other side.
People my size would need to change sides at the end of the first half, if not we would not see over the bigs ones, we would need to have the Little ones on the side we were watching from.
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Post by chrish on Jul 14, 2008 19:53:04 GMT
Would you like to explain that in more detail? are you on about the players physique only? We know you don't like the small short ones, but we have Danny Stevens, is he not small and was Buckle clutching at straws when he was signed.  So how many games did Stevens start, and how many of those did he play consistently well? You just don't see many players that small in pro football.............the best little ones I've ever seen - Jimmy Giles and Billy Bremner had the physique and strength to overcome their height issues................Lloyd and Stevens patently do not. It's as simple and as brutal as that! Physique, strength and pure ability. Diego Armando Maradona. Alain Giresse. Kenny Sansom. Salvatore Schillaci. Romario. Vava. Garrincha. Roberto Carlos. Javier Saviola. Lionel Messi. Joe Cole. Even the Germans produce short fellas who excel at football. For every blonde giant like a Guido Buchwald, Carsten Jancker or a Per Mertesacker there's a shorter fella like Pierre Littbarski, Olaf Thon, Thomas Haessler or David Odonkor. You could even argue that at 5 foot 9 and a bit , Fabio Cannavaro is short when you compare him to other centre halves. |
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Post by capitalgull on Jul 14, 2008 21:41:20 GMT
Another one of Merse's favourite ex-Gulls, Lee Canoville, is on trial with Aldershot.
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Post by Dave on Jul 14, 2008 21:56:10 GMT
Another one of Merse's favourite ex-Gulls, Lee Canoville, is on trial with Aldershot. We should try and find a way to put out a team against TUFC, of all Merses most disliked players, well maybe we should make that two teams at least. ;D ;D |
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 2:46:36 GMT
I do see why you were never a coach, it sounds like to me a Merse team will have all the little ones marking each other, while the big ones, mark the other big ones. So if all the left footers were small and the right footers large, we would have the small ones on one side of the pitch, and the big ones on the other side. So would you have all the little 'uns mark the big ones Dave? See you at the first corner then! As for "left footers" and "right footers", did I waste all my time getting my kids to play the ball with either foot from day one? Whoops, my two footed giant has just trod on your one footed midget; picked him up and dwarf chucked him off the field..............free kick to the little people - quick get another man forward because Lazy Lee Canoville pushed forward just now looking for his mum in the crowd and said he won't be back before next Wednesday. Mind you, your team could always push Ribero up to scare my big bad defenders by making ugly faces at them or utilise Maradona to slip 'em some coke so that he can "handle" them a bit easier now his speed has gone and he's up to eighteen stone. Hey, if we played at KGV we could put all the little people on the top wing and all the biggies on the lower one to even up the game..................we could also put in one of those car park thingies so that all those who couldn't walk under it could watch from one side of the pitch and all those who could (plus the Torbay Combination Limbo Dancing Team) would be on the other. Jim could bring along his giraffes to give the half time team talk to one side and his pygmy hippos to translate into Spanish for that "Hand of Dog" little dyslexic Mary Doughnut on the other. Don't get mad this time Dave..................... T H I S I S A J O K E ! ;D |
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 2:53:38 GMT
Physique, strength and pure ability. ................. Kenny Sansom. I saw Kenny walking down the Holloway Road the other day and called out: "Hey Kenny, would you like a lift" he replied "No thanks, I've already been hit by one!!!!" - I'll get me coat.  |
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Post by Dave on Jul 15, 2008 6:16:13 GMT
Get Mad Merse?  that gave me a laugh this morning, still think a team of good little ones, will beat a team of big ones any day, we will have our midget keeper in goal and you can have Rice, it will be a no contest. ;D ;D |
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Post by ealinggull on Jul 15, 2008 8:43:51 GMT
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 15:24:58 GMT
........................we will have our midget keeper in goal and you can have Rice, it will be a no contest. ;D ;D The way some people carry on you'd think Ricey WAS a midget! |
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Post by midlandstufc on Jul 15, 2008 15:32:29 GMT
Merse,
You're out of your normal sinc. Does this affect your postings being 12 hours too early?
As for Rice he's not that small for a footballer - but for a goalie...?
Who would be your all time worst team - 1 to 11?
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 15:49:37 GMT
Adam Murray, who one could see was a class act (even though it ended in tears for us), Class act my arse, rat leaving a sinking ship I'd call him. He only wanted to shove the ball on to someone in greater trouble than him anyway and the fact that he has dropped from where he was at Derby to where he is now says it all. |
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 16:25:14 GMT
Merse, You're out of your normal sinc. Does this affect your postings being 12 hours too early? Who would be your all time worst team - 1 to 11? Oi cheeky..............I've just got in from work and the house is peaceful before the kids come in from playing out. Try this Dreadful Xl.................. Paul Jarvie in goal Back four: Patrick Flynn (who lasted about an hour in his one and only game away to Grimsby) Alan Hay and Dudley Lewis with Richard Hancox at left back. Mark (F*ck) Hall, Stuart Boardley, Darryl MacMahon and Jean Pierre Simb accross the middle and.............. Jamie Nda and Ollie Wotsisname from (Sutton Utd) up front - and that's only in recent years! |
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Post by spagbol74 on Jul 15, 2008 18:25:13 GMT
Merse, You're out of your normal sinc. Does this affect your postings being 12 hours too early? Who would be your all time worst team - 1 to 11? Oi cheeky..............I've just got in from work and the house is peaceful before the kids come in from playing out. Try this Dreadful Xl.................. Paul Jarvie in goal Back four: Patrick Flynn (who lasted about an hour in his one and only game away to Grimsby) Alan Hay and Dudley Lewis with Richard Hancox at left back. Mark (F*ck) Hall, Stuart Boardley, Darryl MacMahon and Jean Pierre Simb accross the middle and.............. Jamie Nda and Ollie Wotsisname from (Sutton Utd) up front - and that's only in recent years! Morah was the surname I think Merse. Didn't he go awol or something? |
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Post by merse on Jul 15, 2008 18:41:07 GMT
I reckon "AWOL" would describe his performances adequately enough, and as for that "Bambi on Ice" Nda................ the only pro' striker I ever saw who closed his eyes when he headed the ball  The spoof letter in "Bambers" from Dudley Lewis' mum in which she thanked Mike Bateson for letting her son be his paper boy (the only proper job he'd ever got) was one of the funniest things I ever read! ;D
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Post by spagbol74 on Jul 15, 2008 20:06:48 GMT
I think we also had Ndah's brother Mickey on trial at the same time, but he chose to stay semi-pro with Molesey & continue working as an estate agent.
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So how many games did Stevens start, and how many of those did he play consistently well?
