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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on April 02, 2017, 10:01:54 PM

Title: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: dave.woodhall on April 02, 2017, 10:01:54 PM
http://thebirminghampress.com/2017/04/two-nils-and-two-threes/
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: Ad@m on April 02, 2017, 10:12:48 PM
Psst...Hourihane hit the bar, not Baker.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: dave.woodhall on April 02, 2017, 10:16:35 PM
Psst...Hourihane hit the bar, not Baker.

That's what I said.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: Ad@m on April 02, 2017, 10:44:39 PM
Swift change!
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: dave.woodhall on April 02, 2017, 10:45:43 PM
Swift change!

I don't know what you mean.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: olaftab on April 02, 2017, 10:55:45 PM
It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on April 03, 2017, 12:29:13 AM
I love Kodjia. There are few pleasures in football as nice as having a striker on form and improving. Not as hard working as Benteke but I suggest, maybe even more skillful on the ball? And tekkers was no slouch.

It would be nice for our midfield to start chipping in more regularly though.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: Toronto Villa on April 03, 2017, 12:37:48 AM
The comment about Benteke is interesting. At the time I suggested his freekick was the goal of the season. Not because it was anything overly spectacular, although it was superbly executed, or that it was on the back of two other very good goals, but simply due to its significance during the game and what it meant at that point in the season. Kodjia isn't Benteke. But he's doing a damn good impression of auditioning to be the next top Villa forward and crowd favourite.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: chrisw1 on April 03, 2017, 09:49:41 AM
It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.
For me Platt was the one where I was always most convinced he would score when put through.  But not quite in the make it from nothing way being referred to in the above list.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: darren woolley on April 03, 2017, 11:25:13 AM
Spot on Dave.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: eamonn on April 03, 2017, 12:46:53 PM
It will be two years to the day minus two days since Benteke's exploits against QPR. Yorke's performance in the 4-3 up in Newcastle not far behind, surely.
Kodjia to emulate both of them as his hat-trick means we actually win 3-2 this time.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: brian green on April 03, 2017, 02:49:02 PM
Excellent piece.  Not the same thing but there was always the premonition of a goal when Stan Lynn placed  the ball for a free kick anywhere within thirty yards of the opposition goal.  The bloke who hung the score on the wall at the Witton End would have the new goals for number in his hand while the ref was still blowing for the free kick.
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: dave.woodhall on April 03, 2017, 09:04:46 PM
It says crossbar not bar.
Your point on Kojdia/Yorke/Benteke  is very valid however I would add Gray and for a short stint   McInally to that list.
For me Platt was the one where I was always most convinced he would score when put through.  But not quite in the make it from nothing way being referred to in the above list.

I thought about adding Gray but he was more the classic target man. From memory few of his goals were from outside the box or where he had to create something out of nothing, and very often the first time you knew he'd had the ball was when it was in the back of the net. 
Title: Re: Press-ing on, and on
Post by: olaftab on April 03, 2017, 09:16:05 PM
Yes agree with that on Gray but there were those moments when a high ball was floated in the area you knew Gray will get to that with a 10/20 yard run and head it into the net.
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