Player Watch: Emerson Royal

[Gassin's finest]

Have we ever not complained about RB?? Maybe Steve Carr was the last I dont remember us complaining about. Even Walker used to get plenty of stick.

Doherty - "All round poor"
Aurier - "Extra brain fart prone"
Trippier - "Cant defend & slow"
Walker - "Brain fart prone"
Hutton - "Generally awful"
Corluka - "Too slow"
Chimbonda - "Poor attitude"
Stalteri - "Slow & error prone"
Pamarot - "Worst RB we've ever had"
S.Kelly - "Not strong enough"
Taricco - "Error prone"

Even the top rated RBs at the moment like Trent-Alexander are not great at everything.

I'd be delighted if Emerson is just relatively solid and is able to deliver some decent crosses in the games that he is able to get forward in.

Corluka was class. His pace wasn't an issue as he was a proper full back.

 

[Marty]

Corluka was class. His pace wasn't an issue as he was a proper full back.

Charlie was also the perfect man to put behind Lennon on that right hand side, he was so good Lennon had the freedom to do whatever he wanted and it's absolutely no coincidence that Lennon's two best seasons for us were with Corluka behind him and that his form tailed off as soon as Walker became first choice.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Charlie was also the perfect man to put behind Lennon on that right hand side, he was so good Lennon had the freedom to do whatever he wanted and it's absolutely no coincidence that Lennon's two best seasons for us were with Corluka behind him and that his form tailed off as soon as Walker became first choice.

He was a baller as well.

 

[Timberwolf]

He was a baller as well.

We've had better full backs (i.e. peak Rose and Walker) but I think the Corluka/BAE pairing was my favourite. Just such unique, contrasting styles and generally very likeable players.

 

[spurmin]

Have we ever not complained about RB?? Maybe Steve Carr was the last I dont remember us complaining about. Even Walker used to get plenty of stick.

Doherty - "All round poor"
Aurier - "Extra brain fart prone"
Trippier - "Cant defend & slow"
Walker - "Brain fart prone"
Hutton - "Generally awful"
Corluka - "Too slow"
Chimbonda - "Poor attitude"
Stalteri - "Slow & error prone"
Pamarot - "Worst RB we've ever had"
S.Kelly - "Not strong enough"
Taricco - "Error prone"

Even the top rated RBs at the moment like Trent-Alexander are not great at everything.

I'd be delighted if Emerson is just relatively solid and is able to deliver some decent crosses in the games that he is able to get forward in.

It’s amazing the players that I just forget about even though I never used to miss a home game.
Pamarot! Lol, not very good but his legs were the size of my body.

 

[Yorkville Spur]

Hutton was MOTM at my first trip to the Lane. I think it was his finest moment as a pro! Corluka was great but my god was he slow. It was fascinating how he slow he was and could still be a professional footballer.

 

[fridgemagnet]

Corluka was class. His pace wasn't an issue as he was a proper full back.

IIRC he wasn't actually slow slow (he was positively Usain Bolt when compared with Fazio) he just had a strange gait/running style, don't get me wrong he was no Kyle Walker but he could get a wriggle on when he had to.

He was very good always liked the fella.

 

[Gspurs11]

Yeah old Charlie was class. Definitely sold him a bit too early - he's still playing!

 

[SuperLuka]

Yeah old Charlie was class. Definitely sold him a bit too early - he's still playing!

Looks like he retired this summer and is a coach at Lokomotiv Moscow.

Loved Corluka. Very good player but he did always look like he was running in sand to me.

 

[fridgemagnet]

Yeah old Charlie was class. Definitely sold him a bit too early - he's still playing!

Did we not play against him recently? My memory is he was on the bench for a europa game? I've definitely seen him recently unless he's part of the Croatia setup or player coach or something.

 

[fridgemagnet]

Looks like he retired this summer and is a coach at Lokomotiv Moscow.

Loved Corluka. Very good player but he did always look like he was running in sand to me.

I always thought he ran as if he'd had too much confidence in a fart!

 

[SuperLuka]

Did we not play against him recently? My memory is he was on the bench for a europa game? I've definitely seen him recently unless he's part of the Croatia setup or player coach or something.

He was assistant for Croatia at the euros

 

[spurmin]

Looks like he retired this summer and is a coach at Lokomotiv Moscow.

Loved Corluka. Very good player but he did always look like he was running in sand to me.

Good defender! Turning circle of a barge.

 

[fridgemagnet]

Good defender! Turning circle of a barge.

How dare you, that was the classic example of the crab defence strategy...

Your challenge is to now get the phrase "crab defensive strategies" into a work email/telephone correspondence preferably with someone senior to your position. You get a bonus point for getting it to go viral around internal memos you get another bonus point if it's repeated verbally back to you without prompting at a later date!

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

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Damn I really feel for the guy and see that the initial reluctance wasn't a slight on our club but something borne of a great love from childhood of Barca.

I hope we can welcome him into our family.

Lovely post.

Guy needs a new camera though.

 

[AtoubaToothpaste]

unsure how that applies to what I said.

Quite simply that if he was that injured, the manager wouldn't have selected him.

 

[usspur]

Quite simply that if he was that injured, the manager wouldn't have selected him.

Every now and again I hear reports of player X not telling anyone he is injured so that he will continue play. In turn, this leads to mistakes on the field.

 

[Bulletspur]

Taricco - "Error prone"

Of course Tarricco would be error prone at RB, because as I recall he was a LB

 

[philll]

"I thought the club wanted me to stay. I played on Sunday as a starter, the next day I woke up and went to train quietly. There I already began to see that a lot of things were coming out; that Tottenham was talking to Barcelona, they had it almost done"

"I didn't understand anything about what was happening because I didn't know anything. In the afternoon the club called me to go to the Sports City because they wanted to talk to me and there I already found out that they wanted to sell me."

"I'm smart and there came a time when I realized that they were telling me to leave yes or yes. How did your family take it when they told you? They were stunned, as I was when they told me".

 

[carpediem991]

Interesting quotes. Confirms Para likes to talk detailed to clubs before the players. Think thats a bit weird?