Peter Crouch
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am_yisrael_chai
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- Feb 18, 2006
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if villa are willing to pay 10.5mil i'll drive him there myself
walworthyid
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- Oct 25, 2004
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Poor, poor player. I hope he is not a spurs player by feb.
Dharmabum
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- Aug 16, 2003
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I second that.
There's always next year
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Why keep him?. He offers us absolutely fuck all. How can you have him as a impact sub, if he has no impact, other than aimless flick on's to the opposition.
Spurs_Q8
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i do think we need new and better striker, and i don't think Crouch is the way forward if we want to keep top 4, but these words seem so harsh for me, at least don't forget his goal vs City, and more important goals since he came here ...
freeeki
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- Aug 5, 2008
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Hardly justification for keeping him, the fact he gets lucky sometimes on the end of his frightfully poor moves.
I'd expect a striker in a Champions League side like ourselves to be creating and scoring week in, week out - not occasionally getting lucky from aimless flick-ons.
Sack him off.
Dannyspur
I just don't know anymore!
- Aug 17, 2004
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if we spend whole games hitting the ball at him, occasionally the ball might find one of our players. you might as well put a lamp post on the edge of the penalty area - you'd get the occasional lucky rebound off that!
I think that defoe and lennon had a hand in the goal too!
Khilari
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I don't think PC's overall game contribution is particularly better than Pav's, but where he betters Pav is in his assists. If he could find the net occasionally, however that would make him the complete player and we should deffo keep him. At present though, I don't think his form merits anything other than a subs bench option.
Where do we get our goals from? I'd say play Pav & Rafa a few times together so they can build an understanding. HR isn't keen on Pav, clearly so it appears his time at the club is over.
He sort of hit some peak last season when he seemed destined to go, but having not found any consistency, I think HR will sell him and Keane if the money's right.
Where do we get our goals from? I'd say play Pav & Rafa a few times together so they can build an understanding. HR isn't keen on Pav, clearly so it appears his time at the club is over.
He sort of hit some peak last season when he seemed destined to go, but having not found any consistency, I think HR will sell him and Keane if the money's right.
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mattstev2000
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I suppose this 'different option' that Harry talks about is the ability to score 1 league goal in 20 odd games. That is different. Very different to what most people would consider a striker should do.
Disappointing, really would have liked to see him moved on.
AngerManagement
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He may never have a naturally good strength and power base but I find it hard to understand why a professional athlete with such obvious flaws has not sought out to address them in some way and at least try to close the gap on his peers and reach the potential of his power and strength levels?
To me he should be put on a power building program, strength training but with explosive dynamic lifts sports specific designed around his needs to make him more powerful it quick bursts i.e. when challenging for headers etc.
The is something very wrong to me that someone paid as much as he is to be as good/effect as he can has not at least made every attempt possible to addresses the weaknesses (quite literally in this case) in his game.
Furthermore, I will go as far as saying more important than his physical flaws are his lack of real mental desire. I recall his debut against Birmingham where he was either very fired up or Birmingham just weren't set up to deal with him and he looked awesome in the air.
He scored the opener and literally won every ball that came near him, Birmingham were totally unable to defend him (and they are a physical team)
The difference that day was he seemed to have a burning desire to win the ball, where as now (and for most of his career) he seems happy to stand his ground and wait for the ball to come to him in the hope of winning it because of his height alone.
You see him laughing and sticking his tongue out when he messes up or if something doesn't go his way, I would like to see him screaming and spitting bullets, fired up to think next time the ball is mine. I would want to see him with a real passion to win every header (like And Carroll has to be fair although I am not an AC fan by any means)
In fact the two issues probably go hand in hand, if he had the right mentality and drive to be the best he can be he probably would have looked to address the issues he has with strength and power.
As it is he seems happy to just rely on physical attributes, as a kid and even now he never really has to do much to win a header most defenders can't even jump as high as he stands so it has always come to easy for him and he never learnt to fight for a header the way others had to.
I used to play for the same kids/sunday league team as Crouch, West Middlesex Colts, although he was in the age group below me and even then he was head and shoulders taller than all the other kids and really didn't have to do a great deal to win every header and such.
Crouch is the kid face down on the manager's right hand side, this photo does not actually best illustrate how much taller he was than every other kid (it may have been a time where a few others had briefly shot up before another Crouchie growth spurt)
the player in the back row on the right actually went on to play for BRentford, I believe he was captain. (not quite as impressive as the Carlton Cole and JErmain Beckford outfit down the road at Brunswick or Sol Campbell and LEdley etc)
