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fletch82

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"I mean that. If he cuts out the diving, overacting, snide digs and bad tackles then, in this team, he'll be one of the best LB's in the world. :stop:
I'd prefer any of Bernat, Gaya, Sidibé and Henrichs though among others. And not because I think they're better."

^^ this wound me up a lot more than it should've. It's like saying if Titus Bramble added strength, the ability to tackle, reading of the game and 3 extra inches on his height, he'd be one of the best in the game. Or if Messi didn't score goals, dribble or take a good free kick, he'd be shit. That's part of why I'm wound up, I mean, Rose barely does any of those things anyway but the worst thing about that post was that he added 'in this team'. What a ****. He's already in the team with the best defensive record in the league for the last 2 seasons. But nooooo, in that team he'll be a decent left back. And then he picks 4 random names from football manager who he's obviously never seen play because he seemingly doesn't even watch English football judging by the Rose comments, the know-nothing twatting thunder****.

Dont know why but.....
I got the mild impression that post may have upset you a tad :whistle:
 

StartingPrice

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I have a pathological hatred of Coventry







Not because of the football mind, because my wife comes from there and I associate the City with my loss of freedom :banghead::p

Nowt wrong with Cov...along with Norf Lahndahn igt were t'home of Ska/2 Tone in late 70's and early 80's (y)
 

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Even I who knows football to an expert degree didn't expect Danny Rose to be this good 3 years ago, if you said to me hes top 5 in the world for his position I wouldn't disagree.
 

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I have a pathological hatred of Coventry







Not because of the football mind, because my wife comes from there and I associate the City with my loss of freedom :banghead::p

My mums family are all from Coventry

We watched that game at my nans house, half the family in Spurs scarves, half in Coventry

Fucking Houchen
 

Shea

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My mums family are all from Coventry

We watched that game at my nans house, half the family in Spurs scarves, half in Coventry

Fucking Houchen
Which part of Coventry?

My wife grew up in Hillfields which is basically where the old Coventry stadium used to be, a year or so ago they had the open top bus from their 1987 cup final win on display in the town centre and their official fanzine is still called Gary Mabbut's knee or something to that effect

Thankfully that final was one season before I was old enough to be able to watch football properly so I don't carry scars

It's funny though, the few Cov fans I actually meet up there still live off that win (although I guess we as a fan group can't talk about living off former glories and our history)
Nowt wrong with Cov...along with Norf Lahndahn igt were t'home of Ska/2 Tone in late 70's and early 80's (y)

I think your written accent is more Yorkshire than West Midlands but I appreciate the effect ;), Weren't the Specials from Coventry? ( I don't actually know anything about them, or their music, or Ska music in general really but I'm sure I heard they were from Cov)

There's a big Jamaican community up there and has been for decades what with the jobs offered to the people who came over in them times in the car factories etc, so it makes sense that Reggae had it's influence on the area (isn't ska a fusion of reggae and rock n roll?)
 

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Even I who knows football to an expert degree didn't expect Danny Rose to be this good 3 years ago, if you said to me hes top 5 in the world for his position I wouldn't disagree.

Which is something I found strange, even at the time. I said (and any smart-arse who wants to, can go back and check my posts of the time) that he was a feisty beggar, full of commitment, relentless and with some obvious attacking flair, as a erstwhile winger, which would stand him in good stead as a wing-back. It was obvious, as everyone was keen to point out, that he had issues with positioning, and the art of defending that just wasn't natural to him. But he just need to learn that, and/or (more appropriately) have some one teach/educate him on it.

In fairness, while he was so conspicuously floundering defensively the other aspects that I was pointing to - his feisty, relentless commitment - was probably not endearing him very much with most. Even so, the amount of vitriol he attracted was ridiculous. One teflon member actually threatened to stab him if he ever appeared in a Spurs shirt again :eek::eek::eek:
 

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I think your written accent is more Yorkshire than West Midlands but I appreciate the effect ;), Weren't the Specials from Coventry? ( I don't actually know anything about them, or their music, or Ska music in general really but I'm sure I heard they were from Cov)

There's a big Jamaican community up there and has been for decades what with the jobs offered to the people who came over in them times in the car factories etc, so it makes sense that Reggae had it's influence on the area (isn't ska a fusion of reggae and rock n roll?)

Yeah, the accent was deliberate - if you look closely you will see more than one in there. I have an endless fashion with accents, dialects, etc., (probably to do with environment) - which begets a component part of my sense of humour - slipping in the Yorkshire along with some North London, as a faux Cov accent was a joke. If I really wanted to do more of a Cov accent I would probably slip sumtin' like - yer slack arsed bugger - into the sentence. For I, too, have connections to the area - Rugby, to be exact. My Mum was from Rugby (a small village called Hill Morton, to be exact, to be even more exact a hamlet about a mile from Hill called The Locks) where I have numerous cousins* (many of whom spend a lot of their time in Cov, and support Cov City. My personal favourite in the accent was going on the lash one night, sitting in a taxi, with my uncle sitting in front of us, and one of my cousins said "Ere, look, me Dad, he aint got no neck". I p*ssed myself laughing...and still do. It's like a family catch-phrase now. One of my uncles was a shop-steward in one of the big car factories. BTW, Cov is more East than West Midlands.

Anyway, enough of that. Ska was more of a precursor to Reggae in Jamaica, than a later amalgam of it with R&R. The Specials were from Cov, as were The Selecter. The core of Madness, who had many of the same musical influences, were originally called The North London Invaders (I believe) hence that section of my post. 2 Tone, which was also called Ska, was Ska from late 70's, early 80's, with a racially diverse membership with a strong Ska/Raggae influence, but the diversity bringing in other influences - which is probably what you are thinking of more. Madness's 1st single was 'The Prince' - a reference to Prince Buster, one of the early Jamaican Ska performers. I always lover Desmond Decker and the Aces, another early Jamaican Ska group - but did manage to spectacularly miss seeing them perform :(

*It should be pointed out that I have cousins everywhere...thousands of them :eek::eek::eek:
 

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Which is something I found strange, even at the time. I said (and any smart-arse who wants to, can go back and check my posts of the time) that he was a feisty beggar, full of commitment, relentless and with some obvious attacking flair, as a erstwhile winger, which would stand him in good stead as a wing-back. It was obvious, as everyone was keen to point out, that he had issues with positioning, and the art of defending that just wasn't natural to him. But he just need to learn that, and/or (more appropriately) have some one teach/educate him on it.

In fairness, while he was so conspicuously floundering defensively the other aspects that I was pointing to - his feisty, relentless commitment - was probably not endearing him very much with most. Even so, the amount of vitriol he attracted was ridiculous. One teflon member actually threatened to stab him if he ever appeared in a Spurs shirt again :eek::eek::eek:

Yes I agree he had some good raw attributes in that sense now he is really good at everything, positioning, tackling, reading of the game, good in tight areas, good passing ability, he is improving rapidly. We've got a player on our hands here.
 

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BTW, Cov is more East than West Midlands.
Cov is East of Birmingham and moving out towards the East Midlands i.e. Leicester and Nottingham but officially it's still in the West Midlands (and on the very cusp of Warwickshire)

*sorry to derail the thread into a discussion about a pretty boring City*
 

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Cov is East of Birmingham and moving out towards the East Midlands i.e. Leicester and Nottingham but officially it's still in the West Midlands (and on the very cusp of Warwickshire)

*sorry to derail the thread into a discussion about a pretty boring City*


Officially :) Fair enough, just seems more natural to think of the West starting with Brum. No biggie... :(

/derail
 

scat1620

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Cov is East of Birmingham and moving out towards the East Midlands i.e. Leicester and Nottingham but officially it's still in the West Midlands (and on the very cusp of Warwickshire)

*sorry to derail the thread into a discussion about a pretty boring City*
Why the fuck are you spamming this thread with discussions about a town that isn't Wells, Somerset? Fucksake.
 

TottenhamLegend

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It's not strictly about us, but it's lot nearer on topic than bloody Midlands geography, so I'll share this post from the Arsenal vs Man City match thread of Arsenal Mania. I love to see them depressed like this.

Im sorry but I can't take any more of this f*cking international break, reading the Alli vs Özil thread broke something in me I didn't even know existed.
So let's look to Sunday and speculate endlessly on what XI Arsene will pick to bring more misery and sadness into our already terrible lives.
We shuffle from home to work and back again wondering why three years ago Ramsey was outperforming the likes of Vidal and Modric but now looks incapable of controlling a football. Or why every member of our back four can't defend. Or how our goalkeeper is so poor in the air an opposition corner seems to have a 50/50 chance of being a goal. Or why Özil has decided to check out of our season in February. Or how after five years we've all come down with Stockholm syndrome and are actually excited to see Giroud start.
So get ready for another thrilling conclusion to an Arsenal season with lots of new exciting questions to be answered like...
Will we manage to somehow finish below Everton?
Will Wenger decide to stay for the good of AFTV so they can rake in more subscribers?
Which out of form City player will kick start their season against us?
And so on into the warm embrace of insanity...
 

archiewasking

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It's not strictly about us, but it's lot nearer on topic than bloody Midlands geography, so I'll share this post from the Arsenal vs Man City match thread of Arsenal Mania. I love to see them depressed like this.

And yet I still wouldn't bet against them finishing above us..........
 

Zammo

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I have a pathological hatred of Coventry







Not because of the football mind, because my wife comes from there and I associate the City with my loss of freedom :banghead::p
Mine too. And I had to work there for a while. God that A45 is a nightmare.
 

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somebody got to beak these horrible puns, i just want to apologize that's just bad
Blue Moon on the Danny Rose links, most of them don't deserve Danny and one poster thinks he'd be better if the nastiness was removed from him. What an absolute tosser, the edge danny plays with is what makes him so good.

-If we do sign Rose then we need Zaba to sit him down on his first day and say "Stop being an insufferable little shit and you're gonna be great here". :sick:

I mean that. If he cuts out the diving, overacting, snide digs and bad tackles then, in this team, he'll be one of the best LB's in the world. :stop:
I'd prefer any of Bernat, Gaya, Sidibé and Henrichs though among others. And not because I think they're better.

-Would hope we don't splash that sort of fee for rose. Must be a younger, foreign equivalent for a third of that price available.:poop:

-It's just the Mirror putting two and two together. There's absolutely nothing in their article that backs up their claim about Rose. It's just 'Pep wants...' like they know what he wants.

-Rose one good season and its 50m worth a punt for 25m but hey not our money and Rose in our side is a major improvement, my motto is forget how much if a club can afford the fee and a player improves a team its a no brainer of a buy. :facepalm:

-Definitely a major improvement. I would value him at 30m tops. But then add his English-ness and the fact that by buying him we are weakening one of our main rivals, he also just signed a new contract a few months ago. Rose is probably the best left back in the league, would love him here. Imagine Rose, Sane and Silva combing on the left side!!!

-50m I've seen. i can't see spurs selling one of their best players tbh.id much rather we buy bertrand.

-Danny Rose is a fantastic left back, proven Prem experience, fast, decent going forward, shown he can do it in a top side. He'd be an amazing signing and exactly what we need.

Would show the media and their sheeplike followers that we are a bigger club than Spurs as well. :finger: this guy needs to fuck off

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Rose is 27 in the summer , no way we pay £50m on a 27 year old full back

Would rather we buy shaw !(y) this guy I like a lot more

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Not since his(shaw) injury. Not been the same player. Glad to hear we have two full backs sorted(Rose and Walker). Been a couple of seasons since we had an overlapping fullback. Cripples the attack if you have a fullback who doesn't have the pace to overlap and of course a killer defensively as well A lot of us (myself included) are all guilty of talking about of other clubs players with a lot of authority and arrogance like we know anything about what is going to happen but this guy just so carelessly throws it out there that it really does my head in

-£50m for Rose would be criminal.

-Walker is overated, hope we avoid him and Rose is a ****, I'd hope we don't spend £50m on him.

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I hate the "is it your money?" argument, it lacks any logic; fans spend money and generate the viewing figures that allow the club to make the additional revenue it does. It's the equivalent of being unable to moan about the Chancellors budget because it's no longer your money, though you probably feel that it is, because you contribute tax.

He would improve us, but you're comparing him to Gael Clichy. 9/10 left-backs win that comparison now because his best days are behind him. That reason doesn't justify spending £50m.

Equally the club can afford it, but you could afford to wear a new pair of socks everyday. Another reason that doesn't justify spending £50m.

Can you come up with a genuine reason to justify spending £50m on Danny Rose? I really can't see one.

-Best left back in the league this season and Premiership proven!

Also buy someone from Europe with no premier experience is always a gamble, just look at the amount of money we have thrown at new centre backs. Sorry people who throw the Money argument for not buying someone is utter nonsense, I pay £300 for me season ticket and wont the club spent billions if they can afford it! The scum have thrown billions on players for over 30 years and it aint there money its borrowed on there history of the last 25 years. this one guy is too smart for his own good, making city fans look better than what they are

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Yes, Rose is the best left back in the league, but let's look at his competition, Shaw from Rags, Snake from Dippers, Monreal from Arse and our very own Clichy.
No doubt he is a solid player, but 50 million for a 27 y/o just because he's English doesn't sound smart to me.

Plus I don't the find Premiership experience argument to be that compelling either. We have had players like Bony, Rodwell, Johnson, Sinclair and now Delph that were all premiership proven. Sane was bought from BuLi and he is on par with Raheem if not better even though he has no prior experience of the league. Our best players in the recent past have had no prior experience in premiership either.

So, I think we'll be better off buying two quality fullbacks who understand and fit Pep's system (Bernat, Grimaldo, Henrichs, Gaya etc.)

Having said all that, I am not taking anything away from Rose, he is quality and will definitely improve our defense tenfolds, but at the price quoted, it's a no from me. lol they call milner a snake :LOL:

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Spot on, £50m for Rose is a piss take . He's a decent premier league fullback who stands out because of all the dross Left backs in the league:banghead:

-50 million for Rose? I'd rather spend that on Alex Sandro who's the same age and a better player overall.
Hell, I think we can bring 2 quality fullbacks for that price ( Fabinho 30m, Henrichs 20m.....)

HG won't be an issue to Pep, he'll look to bring versatile players as he likes smaller squads.

Your welcome every:smug:one

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not_tenth-again

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Which is something I found strange, even at the time. I said (and any smart-arse who wants to, can go back and check my posts of the time) that he was a feisty beggar, full of commitment, relentless and with some obvious attacking flair, as a erstwhile winger, which would stand him in good stead as a wing-back. It was obvious, as everyone was keen to point out, that he had issues with positioning, and the art of defending that just wasn't natural to him. But he just need to learn that, and/or (more appropriately) have some one teach/educate him on it.

In fairness, while he was so conspicuously floundering defensively the other aspects that I was pointing to - his feisty, relentless commitment - was probably not endearing him very much with most. Even so, the amount of vitriol he attracted was ridiculous. One teflon member actually threatened to stab him if he ever appeared in a Spurs shirt again :eek::eek::eek:

I do remember there was one poster (can't think of their name at the moment) who said at the time of one of the earlier loans (Bristol I think) that he should be brought back, re contracted and given a couple of years development time to turn into a fullback...... basically said he was wasting his career trying to be a midfielder. Most people thought he was crazy.... me being one of them. Not sure it was you SP but it always stuck in my mind as being well ahead of the curve and the general consensus
 
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