he gained stoke city and lost our hearts
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
jimmy bullard pulled a similar move
whereas i could never begrudge tom a move to real/milan.
maybe liverpool- i'd begrudge him that, even though he'd be IMMENSE there
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh the thought is hateful- benitez in charge of our beautiful innocent and carefree tom. he'd have him playing sideways passes to lucas the whole time.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Big Thudd aka THE UNIT
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
thudd lyfe
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I <3 THUDD.
― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lucky that thudd and alex song are completely different styles of DM or you'd have to choose between them.
three man central midfields, in a perfect world they'd work.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTY8zsFd29w
― liverpolol da don (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
atm think i'd pick thudd over song tbh.
in a highlights package thudd, but watching song over 90 mins against liege, i was seriously impressed. guys moves the ball like a player in his 30's
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
tell me what is happening with the kyle you didn't loan straight back to us.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
jeremy?
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this one went to my school. we sold him to you then loaned him back for the season: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Walker
this one we sold to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Naughton. but not much sign of him in the team yet.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Walker in particular is hilarious.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
good touch for a lad who runs the 100m in about 10.5.
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
naughton has had a few appearances, i think he's got a good choice of being the backup right back next season (hutton rubbish) if the whispered micah richards move doesn't materialise.
think he's got a sub appearance or two at right mid as well, so looks like he's at least going to get first team exposure while we see how he develops.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if he is friends with thudd
― caek, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
We need a new footballing mascot every season really Kitson -> Bullard -> Thudd.
I tried to do it with qualified chemical engineer Lolofinjana last season but it didn't quite work :(
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, only player to start every single game this season. I feel bad for not having paid enough attention to him but maybe its because he hasn't played as many of the 40-yard wonderpasses.
Where's that picture of Huddlestone and Lennon wearing pink shorts and playing in the sea? It needs to be here.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
there's the one with his overhang gut in pink shorts on the other thread.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, only player to start every single game this season.
palacios/thudd such a *huge* improvement on zokora/jenas. 90% of our improvement on last few seasons right there.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Best thing about this is that Modric is still to come.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
could spell trouble for thudd, that, even though i'm assuming it's krancjar that'll make way.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
but either way
^ |modric ----> Lennon Thudd <--------- Palacios ---------->
Thudd
<--------- Palacios ---------->
compares pretty well to last season's starting midfield, or any midfield going back to carrick, david et al
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Krancjar Out?
― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes tbh, just showing his movement doesn't do him full justice i feel)
krancjar isn't likely to start ahead of modric, but the question might well be determined by form, fitness and the opposition. i don't think he'll lack games, given that he can play behind the striker or on either wing.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a full convert to Kranjcar after his performance last week - not sure you can work him and Modric into the same team but he's way better than Robbie Keane or for that matter Lennon either out on the left or in the hole.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes
Maybe a cross between an elephant and a flamingo?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, using only the /code/ tags, that'd be pretty good work
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
krancjar is great, but he is essentially a not-quite-as-good modric, so fitting them both in poses questions.
they play together for croatia, right? might be worth looking into. could be our own xavi-iniesta axis right there, BUT WITH THUDD. my god, it's a monster.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
.-. (-`)) ( // // ((_.="""=. '. ,. \ '-._,)__\ |\ ` __|_\ ((` | THUDD | __ "- __ / \~~~/ \ ,----( .. ) / \__ __/ /| (\ |( ^ \ /___\ /\ | |__| |__|-"
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
new club crest imo
― MPx4A, Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
great work here today.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
This is a banner day for ILX football threads.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
we need to get more of the mainstream traffic on to the thudd thread, i firmly believe, as stated, that he could be the player to get the yanks behind soccerball once and for all.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that LJ's mod request managed to get Thudd's picture in the admin log, twice!
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Friday, 27 November 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
It should come up on the 'confirm ban' page.
Are you sure you want to ban this poster? I mean, look at Thudd, a few short months ago people suggest banishing him to the reserves for being fat and rubbish and yet here he is now: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpgthe very definition of the beautiful game
I mean, look at Thudd, a few short months ago people suggest banishing him to the reserves for being fat and rubbish and yet here he is now:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpg
the very definition of the beautiful game
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Friday, 27 November 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
he is quite fat
― caek, Friday, 27 November 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
who dared suggest ban thudd? he's always been the heir apparent to pirlo as the world's best quarterpounder
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, but not rubbishxp
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Friday, 27 November 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
pirlo is half the man thudd is
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Friday, 27 November 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
takes better set pieces, though. i'll give him that.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
He also has swooshy hair
― The nation's most valiant right back (Suedey 2), Friday, 27 November 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Apps Gls Ass231 11 22
231 11 22
231 appearances? Guy isn't 23 until December.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Ass 22
I think he's fiddling his vital statistics
― nearly 50 in vagina years (onimo), Friday, 27 November 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
22 kilos, imo
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the affection for this guy is one of the most boring ilx memes imaginable...plus the moniker.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 28 November 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol u jealous even lucas's girlfriend thinks of long tom thudda when it's time to put out
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Saturday, 28 November 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ASCB1kSpU
p special
― r|t|c, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Half-time: Hull 0-3 Arsenal
Hull seemed to have got themselves into this game, and missed a great chance through Aluko, but now they’re well out of it. Even if the first two goals owed a lot to deflections, sloppy play – twice by Tom Huddlestone – was part of their undoing and you have to praise Arsenal too.
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Thudd has had a nigh-appalling season
― another understated post from (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 May 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
the line about huddlestone that he was a 16st xabi alonso cast before the swine of english fitba is about as accurate as those sentiments usually are
his notable skill is being able to drop well weighted passes over 20-60 yards with minimal backlift and a lowish trajectory but with a slight backspin so it sits at the feet of the recipient
it's a neat trick to have but it's also the most common such talent for an english midfielder or pseudo midfielder to have, gerrard, carrick, twp &c
his control and short passing are not especially good
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 16 August 2013 00:43 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
1 month passes...
He's made a perfect career move. Midfields have to be built around him, and at Spurs this was not the case. He's looking absolutely imperious at Hull. Obviously an England recall would be out of the question as Wilshere is his more-mobile equivalent, although I think Thudd's deep-lying style is more suited to controlled possession football - perhaps Wilshere will develop in this regard. Thudd's a better passer and dead-ball striker. Let the love-in continue!
― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Saturday, 21 September 2013 21:18 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
the fuck
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 4 May 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
Huddlestone's main virtue relies on having very fast attacking players around him to capitalise on those long balls, he was never going to work well for long in a side as slow as Hull, and that's before you get into his own lack of mobility. Elmohamady is probably their best player and he is no Bale/Lennon.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like he's covering himself in glory today if Twitter is anything to go by.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link