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Post by RAF on Nov 18, 2019 9:28:19 GMT
That's just drama queening though isn't it? Whelan - Probably one of TP's best buys and for 500 grand. Walters - Absolute trooper, the bloke you would want in the trenches with you. Cresswell - He was fine played in his natural forward position as we saw away at Palace. TP ruined him on the wing. Higgy- Another good player for us and scored some important goals. He gets more stick for jumping ship on us and talking shit as a pundit Whitehead - Dog with a balloon. Yeah he ran around in the cage for 90 minutes but with no obvious game plan apart from to harry the opposition which invariably led to breaking up our own play. Positionally naive, poor ball control, poor timing and couldn't pass a ball to feet in regularity over 6 foot without giving it to the opposition. I can't comment on etc and etc. Were they the lads that the board brought in over TP's head like Triggy and Ziggy? H Why bring TP into the debate? The list of players I put forward were examples of players who had at one time or another been slaughtered on this message board. Yet their value and contribution to the club/squad/teams has now been accepted and properly recognised. In the case of Whitehead you can’t have a career where you play over 400 games at EPL and EFL standard and not be proficient or value adding to the club/squad/team, nor finish with about 600 professional appearances to your name. If you read entire thread TP was in the debate very early. I only mentioned him in the reply to you as to offer my thoughts on those players you mentioned which funnily enough are all TP players and he had an impact on their playing careers. Some good some bad. Many players make a good career being poor. Case in point Carlton Palmer. I can't think of one player over the last 10 years who has played for us and not been slaughtered on here at one time or another. Opinions hey? H
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Nov 18, 2019 9:30:10 GMT
Why bring TP into the debate? The list of players I put forward were examples of players who had at one time or another been slaughtered on this message board. Yet their value and contribution to the club/squad/teams has now been accepted and properly recognised. In the case of Whitehead you can’t have a career where you play over 400 games at EPL and EFL standard and not be proficient or value adding to the club/squad/team, nor finish with about 600 professional appearances to your name. If you read entire thread TP was in the debate very early. I only mentioned him in the reply to you as to offer my thoughts on those players you mentioned which funnily enough are all TP players and he had an impact on their playing careers. Some good some bad. Many players make a good career being poor. Case in point Carlton Palmer. I can't think of one player over the last 10 years who has played for us and not been slaughtered on here at one time or another. Opinions hey? H Yep. He was a squad player at best. We paid what at the time wasn't a million miles away from our record fee for him.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 18, 2019 18:08:28 GMT
That's just drama queening though isn't it? Whelan - Probably one of TP's best buys and for 500 grand. Walters - Absolute trooper, the bloke you would want in the trenches with you. Cresswell - He was fine played in his natural forward position as we saw away at Palace. TP ruined him on the wing. Higgy- Another good player for us and scored some important goals. He gets more stick for jumping ship on us and talking shit as a pundit Whitehead - Dog with a balloon. Yeah he ran around in the cage for 90 minutes but with no obvious game plan apart from to harry the opposition which invariably led to breaking up our own play. Positionally naive, poor ball control, poor timing and couldn't pass a ball to feet in regularity over 6 foot without giving it to the opposition. I can't comment on etc and etc. Were they the lads that the board brought in over TP's head like Triggy and Ziggy? H Why bring TP into the debate? The list of players I put forward were examples of players who had at one time or another been slaughtered on this message board. Yet their value and contribution to the club/squad/teams has now been accepted and properly recognised. In the case of Whitehead you can’t have a career where you play over 400 games at EPL and EFL standard and not be proficient or value adding to the club/squad/team, nor finish with about 600 professional appearances to your name. Danny Collins did.
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Post by owdestokie2 on Nov 18, 2019 20:55:06 GMT
Why bring TP into the debate? The list of players I put forward were examples of players who had at one time or another been slaughtered on this message board. Yet their value and contribution to the club/squad/teams has now been accepted and properly recognised. In the case of Whitehead you can’t have a career where you play over 400 games at EPL and EFL standard and not be proficient or value adding to the club/squad/team, nor finish with about 600 professional appearances to your name. Danny Collins did. And? Sorry don’t understand your point
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 18, 2019 23:11:06 GMT
And? Sorry don’t understand your point Sarcasm. Danny Collins was fucking awful....
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 19, 2019 0:15:56 GMT
That’s my abiding memory of Deano. He actually mistimed his jump, watching it now Good mental that.
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Post by onionman on Nov 19, 2019 0:59:54 GMT
That’s my abiding memory of Deano. He actually mistimed his jump, watching it now Good mental that. He did that on purpose so he could hang in the air like Les Ferdinand.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Nov 25, 2020 11:59:50 GMT
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 25, 2020 12:57:57 GMT
Get him in Stoke 😂😂
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Post by flea79 on Nov 25, 2020 13:05:34 GMT
Because Pulis signed them mutts? Three of my all time favourite Stoke players were Fuller ( probably my out and out favourite ) Shawcross and Whelan Go on mate have a guess Not so much Huth but Whitehead and Walters (and Whelan for that matter) were chronically under appreciated. People just didn’t seem to appreciate what it takes to make a successful team - for a period everyone seemed to be only willing to go weak at the knees for a bit of trickery with the ball and those players were given dogs abuse with some of the most ridiculous criticism - ‘worst footballer ever’ , ‘puppy with a balloon’ etc etc . Whelan was massively overlooked until he had gone then we realised what we had lost Walters was a cult hero towards the end, some mutterings when he signed but he scored on his debut as i remember, right at the start of the second half, i missed it, what i wouldnt give for a young super jon alongside campbell or fletcher! i might look up the old diary of mark arnautovic thread that was killer, Super Jon tweaked himself on the training pitch, have never seen a grown man hit the floor the way Pulis did in grief (or words to that effect)
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Nov 25, 2020 13:36:58 GMT
Whitehead was overrated if anything. At no point did our best team include him.
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Post by thevoid on Nov 25, 2020 13:48:23 GMT
Paul Cook? They probably regret missing out on Nigel Clough.
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Nov 25, 2020 14:00:32 GMT
Dean Whitehead Yellow Card Bingo
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 20:33:00 GMT
Whitehead was overrated if anything. At no point did our best team include him. Agreed. Decent squad player though. Managed to keep a good position, had a lot of energy, decent back up to Whelan.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 20:33:19 GMT
Watch him go to Wednesday.
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Post by kjpt140v on Nov 26, 2020 0:31:38 GMT
Whitehead was overrated if anything. At no point did our best team include him. I enjoyed having him at Stoke, I prefer hundred per centers than some super talent that puts the effort in when feels like it.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 26, 2020 0:33:13 GMT
Awful awful player for us.
Couldn’t do a thing with the ball.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Nov 26, 2020 8:56:31 GMT
Whitehead was overrated if anything. At no point did our best team include him. I enjoyed having him at Stoke, I prefer hundred per centers than some super talent that puts the effort in when feels like it. 100 per cent of nothing is still nothing. He was ok at best but for five million quid at that time he was an ok squad player and we could've got better for the money.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Nov 26, 2020 9:01:52 GMT
Shit but doesn't make the first two pages of our worst signings over the past 12 years.....and I'm using A3 paper.
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Post by scfc75 on Nov 26, 2020 9:14:53 GMT
Awful awful player for us. Couldn’t do a thing with the ball. I couldn’t even tell you what his role was??
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Post by sheikhmomo on Nov 26, 2020 9:22:16 GMT
Awful awful player for us. Couldn’t do a thing with the ball. I couldn’t even tell you what his role was??
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Post by nott1 on Nov 26, 2020 9:31:24 GMT
Awful awful player for us. Couldn’t do a thing with the ball. I couldn’t even tell you what his role was?? Making up the numbers?
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 26, 2020 10:05:13 GMT
Awful awful player for us. Couldn’t do a thing with the ball. I couldn’t even tell you what his role was?? He was your archetypal headless chicken. Run around, tackle, give the ball away, tackle etc. We wasted so many games playing him.
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Post by obhstokie on Nov 26, 2020 10:15:08 GMT
But this goal was worth it for Deano!!
Couldn't find a better quality video, but what a great day that was
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Post by lagwafis on Nov 26, 2020 10:26:14 GMT
Extremely limited at the top level but at his peak he'd walk into most teams in this league. He won three promotions and also made PFA Team of the Year for Sunderland when they went up as champions under Keane.
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Post by onionman on Nov 26, 2020 11:17:54 GMT
Admin, can you merge this thread with the “Top 5 footballers of all time” thread please.
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Post by neddy on Nov 26, 2020 12:47:39 GMT
Anybody still got the ghost buster video clip re Dean Whitehead in some pub at an away game? Always made me chuckle!
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Post by bayernoatcake on Nov 26, 2020 12:54:53 GMT
Admin, can you merge this thread with the “Top 5 footballers of all time” thread please. This made me laugh far more than it should, thank you!
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Post by obhstokie on Nov 26, 2020 16:19:18 GMT
Anybody still got the ghost buster video clip re Dean Whitehead in some pub at an away game? Always made me chuckle!
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Post by neddy on Nov 26, 2020 16:50:30 GMT
Brilliant!
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