The Round Ball Game - II

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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25190

    Tried three different beers in the second half/ET, all to no avail.

    Thing that finally did for us

    1. Not enough truly world class players.
    2 . A basically inexperienced defence with one player learning a new role.
    3. A team reliant on energy needs to manage that energy, and score while it holds out. We didnt.
    4. Not streetwise enough.

    Kane, wonderful player though he is, doesnt have that moment of genius in him, which I think may stop him from ever getting to the Real Madrid kind of level. I would love to be wrong about this.

    If we had really gone for it , and had the legs, we could have won this in the second half. But the tank was empty.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25190

      Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
      You've put it very succinctly what I've been trying to say throughout this thread. If we'd have played tall white English players who weren't born in places like Jamaica, we'd have won the tournament.
      Crouchie ?
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
        Fair enough but it's theoretical - I had one in my interpretation.
        But you know more about football than me, so I bow to greater knowledge. By the way, what position were you in your playing days?

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        • eighthobstruction
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 6425

          ....sleep well ALL....back to a good solid routine....all this hope is no good really....
          bong ching

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          • Lat-Literal
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            • Aug 2015
            • 6983

            Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
            But you know more about football than me, so I bow to greater knowledge. By the way, what position were you in your playing days?
            I went straight to manager.

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            • Zucchini
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              • Nov 2010
              • 917

              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
              If we'd have played tall white English players who weren't born in places like Jamaica, we'd have won the tournament.
              Unless we had to play the Japanese who'd keep running through our legs and score 15 or 20

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              • Beef Oven!
                Ex-member
                • Sep 2013
                • 18147

                Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                ....sleep well ALL....back to a good solid routine....all this hope is no good really....

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                • Beef Oven!
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                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                  I went straight to manager.


                  With all that statistics nonsense, you must've been a forerunner of Big Sam

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                  • Lat-Literal
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                    • Aug 2015
                    • 6983

                    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post


                    With all that statistics nonsense, you must've been a forerunner of Big Sam
                    There was a bit of Subbuteo and also Goal where you pinged their heads off on a spring until they broke off.

                    But what the heck.....I had a subscription to Shoot and read Gerry Francis avidly,

                    I was never a car but for many years I was a driver.

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                    • Beef Oven!
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                      • Sep 2013
                      • 18147

                      Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                      Unless we had to play the Japanese who'd keep running through our legs and score 15 or 20
                      Seriously, that's one of the things that makes football the most amazing human invention - it's the greatest leveller. Anyone can be undone by anyone. The two standout players in tonight's game were Trippier and Modric - two guys who are short but superior to any of the other athletes out there, imho.

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                      • teamsaint
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25190

                        I think I can regain some work focus now........
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • Beef Oven!
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                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147

                          Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                          There was a bit of Subbuteo and also Goal where you pinged their heads off on a spring until they broke off.
                          You mean 'Striker'. The well-off kids in the neighbouring borough had games like that.

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                          • Lat-Literal
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                            • Aug 2015
                            • 6983

                            Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                            You mean 'Striker'. The well-off kids in the neighbouring borough had games like that.
                            In that case, no....I'm pretty sure I mean "Goal".

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                            • teamsaint
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25190

                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              You mean 'Striker'. The well of kids in the neighbouring buourough had games like that.
                              Pinging a head in Subbuteo was a red card offence.
                              I just discovered thatt Subbuteo isnt on predictive text.
                              Shocking.
                              Imagine a Subbuteo Crouchie. You’d be for ever repairing him.
                              Last edited by teamsaint; 11-07-18, 21:51.
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • Beef Oven!
                                Ex-member
                                • Sep 2013
                                • 18147

                                Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                                In that case, no....I'm pretty sure I mean "Goal".
                                And don't forget 'Big League' where you pulled the leg back and let go so it would ping the ball. I think they came unpainted.

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