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Post by Simon Drainrod on Oct 2, 2017 11:24:34 GMT
Garth - please fuck off.
Defender - Maya Yoshida (Southampton)
Maya Yoshida
Maya Yoshida scored the Saints' goal and made 75 passes, with only Oriol Romeu (108) making more in their defeat at Stoke
There may be some of my readers who feel a defender whose team loses is fortunate to be in my side, and they would be right. However Maya Yoshida's equaliser for Southampton against Stoke was so brilliantly taken it deserved selection all by itself. There are very few centre-backs who can execute a volley like Yoshida did. It was the sort of finish that should have earned the Saints a point, and but for some abject defending in the final minutes it would have done.
Stoke, on the other hand, stuck to their task after making the awful decision to allow Saido Berahino to take a penalty manufactured by himself. Granted Southampton's Virgil van Dijk, who still looks ring rusty to me, didn't make an awful fuss about the verdict, which tells you something.
Nevertheless, Berahino never looked confident as he waited to take the spot-kick. It is hardly surprising Berahino was nervous given he hasn't scored for 30 Premier League games. So why did he, or anyone else for that matter, think converting this penalty was going to be easy? Taking penalties has never been easy and anyone who tells you otherwise has never taken one. Stoke were lucky to come away with this win but I refuse to let Yoshida's brilliant volley be swallowed up by Berahino's penalty miss or Stoke's victory.
Defend
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Post by jbstokie on Oct 2, 2017 11:25:49 GMT
It was a great finish but he was absolutely awful the rest of the game.
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Post by marwood on Oct 2, 2017 11:31:03 GMT
to be fair it was a well struck effort
Garth is paid to talk and write about football His teacher sets him a minimum word limit
If he had crayoned "defender scores good goal", and handed it in, he probably wouldn't have gotten this weeks pocket money
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 11:33:19 GMT
Oh Garth, what have you gone and done this time?
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Post by leoncort on Oct 2, 2017 11:42:34 GMT
All he did was pass it sideways, same as VVD and all the other southampton players. They have been doing this for a few seasons now, dominating posession on the half way line, so easy to defend against.
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Post by Boothen on Oct 2, 2017 11:45:52 GMT
If you're going to lambast the guy, then at least have the common decency to spell his name correctly.
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Post by butlerstbob on Oct 2, 2017 11:46:15 GMT
Is this the very same defender that passed the ball out of play on several occasions on Saturday?
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Post by cooper67 on Oct 2, 2017 11:47:59 GMT
If you're going to lambast the guy, then at least have the common decency to spell his name correctly. Was just about to post the same.
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Post by pez75 on Oct 2, 2017 11:55:34 GMT
Is this the very same defender that passed the ball out of play on several occasions on Saturday? no - that was Wimmer...
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Post by salopstick on Oct 2, 2017 12:08:26 GMT
Sometimes I think Garth Brooks would make more sense
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Post by passtheoatcakes on Oct 2, 2017 12:18:09 GMT
Garth - please fuck off. Defender - Maya Yoshida (Southampton) Maya Yoshida Maya Yoshida scored the Saints' goal and made 75 passes, with only Oriol Romeu (108) making more in their defeat at Stoke There may be some of my readers who feel a defender whose team loses is fortunate to be in my side, and they would be right. However Maya Yoshida's equaliser for Southampton against Stoke was so brilliantly taken it deserved selection all by itself. There are very few centre-backs who can execute a volley like Yoshida did. It was the sort of finish that should have earned the Saints a point, and but for some abject defending in the final minutes it would have done. Stoke, on the other hand, stuck to their task after making the awful decision to allow Saido Berahino to take a penalty manufactured by himself. Granted Southampton's Virgil van Dijk, who still looks ring rusty to me, didn't make an awful fuss about the verdict, which tells you something. Nevertheless, Berahino never looked confident as he waited to take the spot-kick. It is hardly surprising Berahino was nervous given he hasn't scored for 30 Premier League games. So why did he, or anyone else for that matter, think converting this penalty was going to be easy? Taking penalties has never been easy and anyone who tells you otherwise has never taken one. Stoke were lucky to come away with this win but I refuse to let Yoshida's brilliant volley be swallowed up by Berahino's penalty miss or Stoke's victory.
Defend Agreed haughton, what a tosser old Garth is. So Berahino manufactured the penalty by allowing Virgil to pull him back by his arm? We were lucky? Despite the fact that we should have been out of sight at half time? He really is stealing a living, total joke.
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Post by Mendicant on Oct 2, 2017 14:14:14 GMT
He's orate Garth is. There must be some superficial sorts doing well in the media, but Garth comes across as authentic and decent. Yet he gets lambasted on here for moderating his accent and somehow betraying his origins. Of all the pretence and deceptions on tv, Garth's accent must be one of the more trivial on a par with Rod Hull's Emu and Mr T actually being scared of flying.
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 2, 2017 14:16:23 GMT
He's orate Garth is. There must be some superficial sorts doing well in the media, but Garth comes across as authentic and decent. Yet he gets lambasted on here for moderating his accent and somehow betraying his origins. Of all the pretence and deceptions on tv, Garth's accent must be one of the more trivial on a par with Rod Hull's Emu and Mr T actually being scared of flying. I never get the accent thing anyway, he sounds lark a rate Steokey to may anyroad!
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Post by leicspotter on Oct 2, 2017 18:29:07 GMT
I've got no problems with Crooksy, but I don't agree with his view on Yoshida...and Saints conceded twice (centrally) with him as part of that central defence...
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Post by waffles on Oct 2, 2017 18:40:16 GMT
Garth will do whatever the media want him to do, I believe he is a stokie but he would literally sell his grandmother to get a gig/payment.no,having thought about it,he's a total tool.
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Oct 2, 2017 21:39:28 GMT
Garth will do whatever the media want him to do, I believe he is a stokie but he would literally sell his grandmother to get a gig/payment.no,having thought about it,he's a total tool. Actually I think Garth is often at odds with other pundits and has some idiosyncratic views which he isn't afraid to express. Btw - Why would "The Media" want him to include Yoshida in his team of the week ?
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Post by Simon Drainrod on Oct 2, 2017 21:49:14 GMT
If you're going to lambast the guy, then at least have the common decency to spell his name correctly. I apologise for miss-spelling Gareth's name.
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Post by rawli on Oct 2, 2017 21:54:15 GMT
I thought we were a bit lucky. They could easily have scored 2 goals at the end.
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 2, 2017 22:39:32 GMT
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Post by castleblack on Oct 2, 2017 22:51:53 GMT
its a shame about garth crooks,he was a good honest and talented home grown player who was shipped off to London @ the wave of a flimsy cq book,where he did have a good career , but I don't think he had any other skills other than footballing. I believe he had electrocution lessons but it dunner work with folks born close to the Victoria ground....his ramblings as a pundit are lamentable and how he is employed to keep on presenting them on tv is baffeling !!!but after our recent attacking performances ,if he were still playing,,,, he would probably be a good option. I am sure I have seen him in morrisons @ milehouse recently!!,and that's not out of order,i had a good chat with pej in morrisons in leek .once,hehe.
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Post by heworksardtho on Oct 2, 2017 23:05:06 GMT
Garth crooks = Stoke City legend
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Post by spitthedog on Oct 2, 2017 23:35:40 GMT
Oh I look forward to our weekly thread on Garth!!!........him and his opinions Brings the usual suspects out the woodwork too.
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Post by roylandstoke on Oct 2, 2017 23:55:53 GMT
Garth has done well for himself and should be applauded rather than ridiculed.
At his peak he would have scored a hatfull in our current team.
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Oct 3, 2017 8:39:23 GMT
its a shame about garth crooks,he was a good honest and talented home grown player who was shipped off to London @ the wave of a flimsy cq book,where he did have a good career , but I don't think he had any other skills other than footballing. I believe he had electrocution lessons but it dunner work with folks born close to the Victoria ground....his ramblings as a pundit are lamentable and how he is employed to keep on presenting them on tv is baffeling !!!but after our recent attacking performances ,if he were still playing,,,, he would probably be a good option. I am sure I have seen him in morrisons @ milehouse recently!!,and that's not out of order,i had a good chat with pej in morrisons in leek .once,hehe. So did I and everyone else at Longton High in the 50's - anyone else remember Ken Lowe ?
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 3, 2017 14:52:25 GMT
its a shame about garth crooks,he was a good honest and talented home grown player who was shipped off to London @ the wave of a flimsy cq book,where he did have a good career , but I don't think he had any other skills other than footballing. I believe he had electrocution lessons but it dunner work with folks born close to the Victoria ground....his ramblings as a pundit are lamentable and how he is employed to keep on presenting them on tv is baffeling !!!but after our recent attacking performances ,if he were still playing,,,, he would probably be a good option. I am sure I have seen him in morrisons @ milehouse recently!!,and that's not out of order,i had a good chat with pej in morrisons in leek .once,hehe. So did I and everyone else at Longton High in the 50's - anyone else remember Ken Lowe ? My head at Trentham in the early 90s. He was a good man. Did a quick google and found an obit from the Guardian and a warm thread about him on here from when he died.
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Post by fca47 on Oct 3, 2017 15:01:09 GMT
its a shame about garth crooks,he was a good honest and talented home grown player who was shipped off to London @ the wave of a flimsy cq book,where he did have a good career , but I don't think he had any other skills other than footballing. I believe he had electrocution lessons but it dunner work with folks born close to the Victoria ground....his ramblings as a pundit are lamentable and how he is employed to keep on presenting them on tv is baffeling !!!but after our recent attacking performances ,if he were still playing,,,, he would probably be a good option. I am sure I have seen him in morrisons @ milehouse recently!!,and that's not out of order,i had a good chat with pej in morrisons in leek .once,hehe. So did I and everyone else at Longton High in the 50's - anyone else remember Ken Lowe ? From the 60's, had elocution lessons from him in general studies.He was always involved in school plays,walked round the school with dyed hair, when they were on, people always wondered whether he batted for the other side, totally without any evidence.
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Oct 3, 2017 15:11:52 GMT
Thanks for that Potterlog hadn't seen that before. Have mixed feelings about the elocution really - it wasn't nice to be made fun of for the way you spoke (especially book, cook etc) but he did it in an entertaining way I suppose. I think regional accents are far more acceptable today but in those days it was hard to be successful outside of Stoke if you talked like Jabez.
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 3, 2017 15:34:16 GMT
Thanks for that Potterlog hadn't seen that before. Have mixed feelings about the elocution really - it wasn't nice to be made fun of for the way you spoke (especially book, cook etc) but he did it in an entertaining way I suppose. I think regional accents are far more acceptable today but in those days it was hard to be successful outside of Stoke if you talked like Jabez. Quite possible he softened a bit with age too...!
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Oct 3, 2017 15:53:27 GMT
its a shame about garth crooks,he was a good honest and talented home grown player who was shipped off to London @ the wave of a flimsy cq book,where he did have a good career , but I don't think he had any other skills other than footballing. I believe he had electrocution lessons but it dunner work with folks born close to the Victoria ground....his ramblings as a pundit are lamentable and how he is employed to keep on presenting them on tv is baffeling !!!but after our recent attacking performances ,if he were still playing,,,, he would probably be a good option. I am sure I have seen him in morrisons @ milehouse recently!!,and that's not out of order,i had a good chat with pej in morrisons in leek .once,hehe. So did I and everyone else at Longton High in the 50's - anyone else remember Ken Lowe ? Would explain why he seems so 'wired' in his TV appearances......
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Post by rawli on Oct 3, 2017 17:00:48 GMT
Why are you throwing stats in then?
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