Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Rich6by7 on May 21, 2013, 12:39:09 PM
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At least Garth sees what we see. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22574993)
Hopefully we'll have some defenders competing for places in that line-up next season.
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I've always liked Garth Crooks. ;D
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Guzan claimed more catches than any other keeper in the league. I figured as much. I like Brad. He's old school. He'd rather claim a ball than punch, and he's not glued to his line like a lot of keepers now.
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Guzan claimed more catches than any other keeper in the league. I figured as much. I like Brad. He's old school. He'd rather claim a ball than punch, and he's not glued to his line like a lot of keepers now.
He's just in total control of his box. He's like a Mother Superior.
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Good old Pingu, never had a bad word to say about him, honest.
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He ruins his credibility a bit though by saying we avoided relegation thanks to the presence of Ron Vlaar.
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He ruins his credibility a bit though by saying we avoided relegation thanks to the presence of Ron Vlaar though.
Yeah, I did an eyebrow raise at that as well.
Does Crooks actually watch much football, I wonder?
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He ruins his credibility a bit though by saying we avoided relegation thanks to the presence of Ron Vlaar though.
Yeah, I did an eyebrow raise at that as well.
Does Crooks actually watch much football, I wonder?
I really don't think he does. As I don't have Sky I watch Final Score, he talks absolute crap most of the time. Staggeringly clueless.
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His attention to detail is shocking though, he says we have relied on the defensive capabilities of Ron Vlaar & Sebastion Bassong?-grade A bellend
scrap that-I misread that part :-[
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Our improvement did coincide with Vlaar's return.
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Our improvement did coincide with Vlaar's return.
I agree. Its his presence and leadership that makes him useful. I'm sure he knows as well as we do that he's no McGrath.
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Guzan claimed more catches than any other keeper in the league. I figured as much. I like Brad. He's old school. He'd rather claim a ball than punch, and he's not glued to his line like a lot of keepers now.
He's just in total control of his box. He's like a Mother Superior.
This is clearly the part of his game that has developed in the past year, because before then he was very unsure of when to stay and when to come. The 4 goals conceded against Blackburn in the semi final are proof of this. He looks to be very confident in his game and it's a real shame the clean sheet record is so poor which may reflect badly on him to outsiders.
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He ruins his credibility a bit though by saying we avoided relegation thanks to the presence of Ron Vlaar though.
Yeah, I did an eyebrow raise at that as well.
Does Crooks actually watch much football, I wonder?
I doubt it. The morning after we beat Sunderland 6-1 he picked his team of the week and overlooked Lowton who had turned in one of the best full back performances I'd seen in years in favour of some Albion right back. He'd obviously not bothered to see our game.
Apparently his choice of centre half for his all time Man Utd Fergie XI was interesting too - Bryan Robson.
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I'm convinced there is a lot more to come from Ron Vlaar. He needs a strong player next to him so he can concentrate on his game as opposed to baby sitting a CB and LB that are mistake prone. I think it has affected his game. He's a good leader and you can see he commands respect but he's not good enough on his own to make up for his own deficiencies as well as those around him.
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Robbie "Wanker" Savage was scoffing at this on Football Focus on Sunday saying the two players were on a team nearly relegated and Garth responded by saying that Savage had predicted 100% we would be relegated. It was a getting a bit tasty before the presenter stepped into intervene and change topics. Good old Garth.
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Robbie Savage and Attention Seeking Penis work well together in the same sentence
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Our improvement did coincide with Vlaar's return.
Actually it coincided with us changing from 3-5-2 back to 4-3-3. Your argument would only carry weight if our upturn was down to our defensive record. Which it obviously wasn't.
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He ruins his credibility a bit though by saying we avoided relegation thanks to the presence of Ron Vlaar though.
Yeah, I did an eyebrow raise at that as well.
Does Crooks actually watch much football, I wonder?
Yes bit of a surpise that, although it should be noted for all his frailties the awful run we went through over the Christmas period was when Vlaar was out of the team.
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I'm convinced there is a lot more to come from Ron Vlaar. He needs a strong player next to him so he can concentrate on his game as opposed to baby sitting a CB and LB that are mistake prone. I think it has affected his game. He's a good leader and you can see he commands respect but he's not good enough on his own to make up for his own deficiencies as well as those around him.
I agree.
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I find Crooks most amusing on Final Score. He's so intense. Plus one day, his shirt is going to collapse under the strain, and his gut will spring out and envelop that desk between him and Gabby Logan.
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I actually get the point about Vlaar, I think he's a big part of the reason that, since the new year, we've developed a bit more steel and stopped looking like a goal against us was going to lead to a complete collapse. Yes we've conceded more than we'd like, a lot from errors, but we've been battle hardened since Vlaar has come back, I think he's done a good job as captain in a difficult season.
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I like the fact that you can generally rely on Guzan to come and claim crosses although he almost gifted Norwich an equalizer recently when misjudging one. I've started having some doubts about his shot stopping though - there's been one or two where I've thought his reflexes were a bit on the slow side and that maybe Given would have stopped them. But he's a better all round keeper than Given.
As for Joe Hart, he must be the most overrated keeper since Shilton turned 35. Lacks agility, not the best reflexes, fumbles plenty of crosses, and prone to needless errors. Ben Foster should walk into the England team ahead of him.
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On a related note, if Lawros predictions had been correct we would have finished 19th with 27 points.
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On a related note, if Lawros predictions had been correct we would have finished 19th with 27 points.
And QPR 8th on 56 points.Did it not ever click with him that QPR were utter crap
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Robbie "Wanker" Savage was scoffing at this on Football Focus on Sunday saying the two players were on a team nearly relegated and Garth responded by saying that Savage had predicted 100% we would be relegated. It was a getting a bit tasty before the presenter stepped into intervene and change topics. Good old Garth.
Yeah I saw that too. As we've seen elsewhere Savage just loves having digs at us. It was only two season ago after all West Ham were relegated and Scott Parker won player of the year!
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I like the fact that you can generally rely on Guzan to come and claim crosses although he almost gifted Norwich an equalizer recently when misjudging one. I've started having some doubts about his shot stopping though - there's been one or two where I've thought his reflexes were a bit on the slow side and that maybe Given would have stopped them. But he's a better all round keeper than Given.
As for Joe Hart, he must be the most overrated keeper since Shilton turned 35. Lacks agility, not the best reflexes, fumbles plenty of crosses, and prone to needless errors. Ben Foster should walk into the England team ahead of him.
Agree - a string of good games and Hart as he is English he must be World Class. Load of hyped up bollards.
Shilts was passed his best by about 1984-5 so agree there.
Seaman other than Euro 96 was not great for England probably because the defence was not as good as Arse's
Don't think Foster is any better than Hart if truth be told
Guzan better than both
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He's just in total control of his box. He's like a Mother Superior.
But she has never ever caught anything ;)
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Not sure if Yaya Toure should be in that team but can't think who else could replace him other than Delph!
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Not sure if Yaya Toure should be in that team but can't think who else could replace him other than Delph!
Maybe they could if it were team of the last 2 months.