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Post by smallthorner on Jan 19, 2023 20:23:42 GMT
Jonny Rep What a cluckin player. Cool as fook. Great night at the Vic. Yes indeed. Denis Smith bundled in an equaliser but the Ajax team looked like they were from another planet! As for 'great night at the Vic' I think it may have been the best night ever, bar none. Hudson said at an after dinner do one night that if he could have played with two players from his era it would have been Rep and Neeskens. Can you imagine that.!!
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Post by owdestokie2 on Jan 19, 2023 20:25:58 GMT
Pulis did well at finding value in players that nobody else looked at (both loans and permanent). Fuller, Shawcross, Akinbiyi, Taggart, Etherington, Faye, Beattie, etc. What did he describe us as? Battersea Dogs home? 😂 Ironically, his performance in the transfer market got worse the more money he had available to spend! I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi. If correct it conflicts with your last point
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Post by Gods on Jan 19, 2023 20:26:26 GMT
Yes indeed. Denis Smith bundled in an equaliser but the Ajax team looked like they were from another planet! As for 'great night at the Vic' I think it may have been the best night ever, bar none. Hudson said at an after dinner do one night that if he could have played with two players from his era it would have been Rep and Neeskens. Can you imagine that.!! Hudson would not have been out of place in the Ajax team, that's how good he was!
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Post by smallthorner on Jan 19, 2023 20:39:39 GMT
Hudson said at an after dinner do one night that if he could have played with two players from his era it would have been Rep and Neeskens. Can you imagine that.!! Hudson would not have been out of place in the Ajax team, that's how good he was! Can't disagree with that. He probably said as much in the boozer on Friday lunchtime which me and my work colleagues used to frequent in Etruria.(name escapes me..) I've been to a couple of his after dinner talks but the best one, bar none, was Frank Worthington.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2023 20:56:54 GMT
Pulis did well at finding value in players that nobody else looked at (both loans and permanent). Fuller, Shawcross, Akinbiyi, Taggart, Etherington, Faye, Beattie, etc. What did he describe us as? Battersea Dogs home? 😂 Ironically, his performance in the transfer market got worse the more money he had available to spend! I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi. If correct it conflicts with your last point Hughes turned Adam into a good signing. TP didn’t have a scooby what to do with him.
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Post by smallthorner on Jan 19, 2023 21:11:21 GMT
Pulis did well at finding value in players that nobody else looked at (both loans and permanent). Fuller, Shawcross, Akinbiyi, Taggart, Etherington, Faye, Beattie, etc. What did he describe us as? Battersea Dogs home? 😂 Ironically, his performance in the transfer market got worse the more money he had available to spend! I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi.  If correct it conflicts with your last point Good signings for the Club weren't they.
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 19, 2023 21:47:21 GMT
I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi. If correct it conflicts with your last point Hughes turned Adam into a good signing. TP didn’t have a scooby what to do with him. He did! Play him behind Crouch in a 4411, excruciating.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 19, 2023 21:52:00 GMT
Hughes turned Adam into a good signing. TP didn’t have a scooby what to do with him. He did! Play him behind Crouch in a 4411, excruciating. Yep. The last season had shown we were desperate for pace and he doubled down with an even slower front two.
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 20, 2023 10:14:06 GMT
Pulis did well at finding value in players that nobody else looked at (both loans and permanent). Fuller, Shawcross, Akinbiyi, Taggart, Etherington, Faye, Beattie, etc. What did he describe us as? Battersea Dogs home? 😂 Ironically, his performance in the transfer market got worse the more money he had available to spend! I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi. If correct it conflicts with your last point Only..... What would be the equivalent today? £50million?
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 20, 2023 10:50:35 GMT
I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi.  If correct it conflicts with your last point Only..... What would be the equivalent today? £50million? And let’s not forget he bought Charlie Adam then insisted on playing him as an AM.
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Post by owdestokie2 on Jan 20, 2023 11:11:56 GMT
I think he spent only about £15m in the summer of 2012 ready for the new season which was to be his last. If memory serves right two of the deals were for Adam and N’Zonzi. If correct it conflicts with your last point Only..... What would be the equivalent today? £50million? and your point is Pugs? I was replying to the last of a post that was incorrect.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 20, 2023 11:20:35 GMT
Only..... What would be the equivalent today? £50million? and your point is Pugs? I was replying to the last of a post that was incorrect. It wasn't incorrect. Of the seven signings made that summer only two at an absolute push did well that season, Nzonzi and Cameron. Kightly was a bust. Adam he didn't know what to do with. Owen, Edu, Ness barely featured.
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Post by owdestokie2 on Jan 20, 2023 11:36:14 GMT
and your point is Pugs? I was replying to the last of a post that was incorrect. It wasn't incorrect. Of the seven signings made that summer only two at an absolute push did well that season, Nzonzi and Cameron. Kightly was a bust. Adam he didn't know what to do with. Owen, Edu, Ness barely featured. Kightly was a cheap punt at replacing Etherington, Edu and Ness were highly rated and were probably signed for their potential. Was that wrong Did he actually sign Owen? Overall he signed N’Zonzi who repaid his fee both on the pitch and re-sale, both Adam and Cameron justified their purchases. Fundamentally the original posters last line was incorrect.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 20, 2023 11:40:41 GMT
It wasn't incorrect. Of the seven signings made that summer only two at an absolute push did well that season, Nzonzi and Cameron. Kightly was a bust. Adam he didn't know what to do with. Owen, Edu, Ness barely featured. Kightly was a cheap punt at replacing Etherington, Edu and Ness were highly rated and were probably signed for their potential. Was that wrong Did he actually sign Owen? Overall he signed N’Zonzi who repaid his fee both on the pitch and re-sale, both Adam and Cameron justified their purchases. Fundamentally the original posters last line was incorrect. 1) Why are we trying to replace our most influential creative player on the cheap? 2) Maurice Edu was about 26 when we signed him and not especially highly rated. 3) Yes, he signed Owen. 4) Adam and Cameron eventually justified their purposes after he'd left and they were used better by Hughes.
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Post by owdestokie2 on Jan 20, 2023 11:55:50 GMT
Kightly was a cheap punt at replacing Etherington, Edu and Ness were highly rated and were probably signed for their potential. Was that wrong Did he actually sign Owen? Overall he signed N’Zonzi who repaid his fee both on the pitch and re-sale, both Adam and Cameron justified their purchases. Fundamentally the original posters last line was incorrect. 1) Why are we trying to replace our most influential creative player on the cheap? 2) Maurice Edu was about 26 when we signed him and not especially highly rated. 3) Yes, he signed Owen. 4) Adam and Cameron eventually justified their purposes after he'd left and they were used better by Hughes. Fucking incredible. You can’t even allow yourself to comment constructively on anything Pulis did or didn’t do. Open and fair minded, absolutely not. Closed book!!!
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 20, 2023 12:08:20 GMT
1) Why are we trying to replace our most influential creative player on the cheap? 2) Maurice Edu was about 26 when we signed him and not especially highly rated. 3) Yes, he signed Owen. 4) Adam and Cameron eventually justified their purposes after he'd left and they were used better by Hughes. Fucking incredible. You can’t even allow yourself to comment constructively on anything Pulis did or didn’t do. Open and fair minded, absolutely not. Closed book!!! I literally comment very positively about him on this very thread. Of the two of us, one of us is entirely blinkered when it comes to Tony Pulis and it isn't me. I can see the amazing job he did and that he'd lost the plot and it was time to go. You explain away every negative thing during his time here as someone else's fault.
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 20, 2023 13:49:29 GMT
Only..... What would be the equivalent today? £50million? and your point is Pugs? I was replying to the last of a post that was incorrect. My point is that he had a lot more money to spend than people like to imagine. There is a myth he did it on a shoestring, all for the love of the club. Total nonsense.
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Post by fortressbritannia on Jan 20, 2023 14:03:28 GMT
I've missed a good old PHW and rimmers thread
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