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Author Topic: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley  (Read 259472 times)

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1200 on: February 13, 2017, 06:09:30 AM »
I can't listen to Dyche. He's nearly as bad as Villas-Boas for having something stuck in his throat.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1201 on: February 13, 2017, 07:47:28 AM »
Can you imagine Dyche joining us....then making Westwood his first signing!
Only if he has a temporary lapse of reason - on both counts..

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1202 on: February 13, 2017, 10:38:12 AM »
Yes and that.

He's always been slow but as you said you can coach better positioning. I liked his technique and crossing, he certainly had something that suggested he could make a living as a top level footballer.

He was a reasonable footballer, his achilles heel was he got skinned regularly by any winger with a bit of pace. As you say a bit of coaching seems to have helped him cope with that.  Perhaps we should try that approach.

Funnily enough I think one of the biggest issues was just how big our pitch is....you always hear opposition players saying how big and wide VP is to play on so with Lambert wanting to play a high line and 4-3-3 the FBs would get regularly exposed.

At Turf Moor is much tighter and the formation Dyche plays is much more rigid so full backs will get helped out.

PL pitch sizes have been standardized at 105 x 68 m for several years now.

I'm not sure that is correct. I heard something on the radio talking about West Hams problems at home this season where they said that the pitch at the new stadium is bigger than at Upton Park, think they said 5 metres longer, not sure how much wider

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1203 on: February 13, 2017, 10:38:21 AM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1204 on: February 13, 2017, 10:50:20 AM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1205 on: February 13, 2017, 11:34:29 AM »


Funnily enough I think one of the biggest issues was just how big our pitch is....you always hear opposition players saying how big and wide VP is to play on so with Lambert wanting to play a high line and 4-3-3 the FBs would get regularly exposed.

At Turf Moor is much tighter and the formation Dyche plays is much more rigid so full backs will get helped out.

PL pitch sizes have been standardized at 105 x 68 m for several years now.

I'm not sure that is correct. I heard something on the radio talking about West Hams problems at home this season where they said that the pitch at the new stadium is bigger than at Upton Park, think they said 5 metres longer, not sure how much wider

Yes, that's true enough - the new stadium has the standard 105x68 m pitch, which wasn't possible at Upton Park. The PL board will only give permission to play on a smaller pitch if the standard pitch size is impossible to achieve due to the construction of the ground.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1206 on: February 13, 2017, 12:36:35 PM »
Couldn't help notice on MOTD that when Brady's free kick went in yesterday the furthest man forward to pick up any potential pieces was Westwood. When he was here he was more or less persona non grata in the opposition box.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1207 on: February 13, 2017, 12:52:06 PM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

I think its more to do with having a string of next to useless run of the mill managers who hav'nt got a clue how to get the best out of the players we have

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1208 on: February 13, 2017, 12:59:32 PM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

Uncalled for... that comment really says more about you than the player.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1209 on: February 13, 2017, 01:27:46 PM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

Uncalled for... that comment really says more about you than the player.

Seconded. No need really.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1210 on: February 13, 2017, 01:36:28 PM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

Uncalled for... that comment really says more about you than the player.

Christ, are you his dad or something? I curse the day a player as shit as he turned up at the club. Remember that, when we signed all those "young and hungry" gems who were gonna turn into stars. Loads fell for that dirty lie, and we packed out our squad with crap like him and we were slowly and surely dragged down and out of the PL, so forgive me for calling him a wanker because he certainly performed like one in his torturous 5 years here.

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1211 on: February 13, 2017, 01:40:40 PM »
Let's not pretend that he's anything other than utter horseshit. An absolute powderpuff and wet fart of a player.

Agreed. Sooner or later Burnley will be relegated with him in the team.

Thats rich coming from someone who supports a team languishing in the championship, fighting for their survival!

I know. It's thanks to having wankers like Westwood in the team that put us here in the first place!

Uncalled for... that comment really says more about you than the player.

Christ, are you his dad or something? I curse the day a player as shit as he turned up at the club. Remember that, when we signed all those "young and hungry" gems who were gonna turn into stars. Loads fell for that dirty lie, and we packed out our squad with crap like him and we were slowly and surely dragged down and out of the PL, so forgive me for calling him a wanker because he certainly performed like one in his torturous 5 years here.

Gabby is a wanker for taking the piss out of the club. Westwood is a player who wasn't good enough, but certainly wasn't as bad as some make out. He was half decent when he first came

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1212 on: February 13, 2017, 01:43:41 PM »
Bull. He was shit from day one. I remember scratching my head in disbelief when seeing him in a  pre-season game just after he signed wondering what the hell we were doing signing rubbish like him (and others). Even funnier was when the club PR machine tried to talk him up for an England place in his first few months here. The most ridiculous part was that so many fans fell for it. Now look at us!

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1213 on: February 13, 2017, 01:46:06 PM »
Bull. He was shit from day one. I remember scratching my head in disbelief when seeing him in a  pre-season game just after he signed wondering what the hell we were doing signing rubbish like him (and others). Even funnier was when the club PR machine tried to talk him up for an England place in his first few months here. The most ridiculous part was that so many fans fell for it. Now look at us!
You must love knowing so much more about football that Lambert, Garde, Sherwood, RDM, Bruce and Dyche.  How on earth haven't you been snapped up?

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Re: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley
« Reply #1214 on: February 13, 2017, 01:46:43 PM »
Bull. He was shit from day one. I remember scratching my head in disbelief when seeing him in a  pre-season game just after he signed wondering what the hell we were doing signing rubbish like him (and others). Even funnier was when the club PR machine tried to talk him up for an England place in his first few months here. The most ridiculous part was that so many fans fell for it. Now look at us!

Bull. When he was playing in the midfield with Delph alongside him he looked ok. Kept it simple, got the ball, moved it on to the more creative players in the team, did a job. When those better players moved on, he had more responsibility to affect games and be creative, his game isn't up to that which is why he has struggled badly for the last couple of seasons

 


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