thread needs pete w right now - lampard's short passing game is pretty good tbpfh
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
he just hasn't had people to short-pass to
perhaps lee cattermole will become the english essien
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
pf, daswo i'm tawkinbaaaht
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno, even based on chelsea i don't think pass and move is his thing. he got mad defence-unlocking passes, no doubt, but not sure he's really a give-and-go type
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a kinda deep-lying give-and-go initiator maybe
hmm
scholes plz be 25 again
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
hargreaves/rodwell/cattermole axis of short-passing splendour
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it's easy to snipe from the sidelines
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean look at rafa............
nothing against hargreavres and rodwell btw
cattermole is just a cunt
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hargreaves snapped in half trying to pick up his injury file, let's be real
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
tragic story of english football is the first red card of season book....first half dozen names are usually all english
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
is a possibility, ideally we'd have a good long-term replacement for hargreaves (rodwell? cattermole? lol)
dude i provided the lol caveat
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
rodwell is proper player
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol applied only to cattermole, do the rhetorical math
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
well then the brackets shouldn't have been around both of em iirc
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i understood
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(nakhchivan + darraghmac) / (cattermole - rodwell) = scorchedearth.jpg
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
(Rodwell, Cattermole)lol = lol rodwell, lol cattermole
what you wanted is
rodwell, (cattermole, lol)
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit beaten to the xp by my tardy factorisation, mrs quigley had me well spotted for a dunce in second year i fear
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
no, (rodwell + cattermole x lol) = rodwell + catterlol (soz for the a hoy hoy)
(rodwell + cattermole) x lol = england for the next 6 years
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the serial question mark suggests the following clause would refer to last item only, otherwise x, x? would be used
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
this henderson kid tho
proper player or new gareth barry/?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(henderson + cattermole) x (chelsea - lampard) = ?!
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
henderson's assist for gyan when he tricked his way down the wing and put in a brilliant cross is a surefire sign for me that using him as anything but a roaming attacking midfielder would be a terrible waste, he is nothing like Barry for he has close control, pace and lampardian burst boxwards
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
most of all, his mentality is to create goalscoring chances and not 'contain' - horribly misused vs france
against chelsea he defended by using possession positively and forcing chelsea out of shape
'dynamism'
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
'lampardian burst' surely a stomach wall malady
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i reckon henderson's gonna be better than barry but that's not saying much
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
england the natural home of roaming attacking midfielders iirc
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
what could possibly go wrong there
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the trick is turning them into roaming space-filling diffusions of mercury - when an englishman roams, it tends to be with rhinocerine charges
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah le tiss of the 18 caps was a fucking lumpfoot of the highest order it's troo it's troo
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
you and your kin all know that he is a whopping great silken-toed anomaly
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
first dropped points and it would be off with the luxury player's head, and barry would be grafted back in. cos he grafts, the boy. making basic shit look difficult = grafting in england international midfieldery parlance.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
le tiss, gazza (ok, utilised correctly for a change, but then remember that when this was the case ye were actually pretty fukn good), scholes, ????
who's gonna line up for that 'stick him on the left, e's a good ployer e'll work it out' role?
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
you make a good point, but barry is not an attacking mf so you have strayed off-topic like a gerrard punt
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
prob add j cole, maybe lampard to the end of that list actually. criminally undervalued in successive england teams that needed more honest effort and a little less ball control.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also, jason wilcox obv
haha am now wondering whether paul merson could have been all that
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's true i'm all sermon and no instruction manual tonight.
tho tbh this is all stemming from your contention that j henderson should be a floating attacking midfielder, so tbh it's all net mfer
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
merse, absolutely.
that is what j henderson was v chelsea, albeit with positional discipline when not in possession
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but what i'm sayin is when have england ever shown beagán píosa grá for such a role, regardless of the availability of suitable candidates
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hence 'when an englishman roams, it tends' - i speak of a tendency and one that jack wilshere and his merrie men will hopefully challenge. if arsenal's youth setup turns england good i will stop mocking a hoy hoy forever, maybe
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
none of the players i have listed have tended towards rhinocerine- they just weren't picked because of their meandering grazing patterns.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
well, you said they were exceptions!
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link