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Author Topic: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season  (Read 14382 times)

Offline olaftab

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #60 on: December 30, 2012, 11:47:28 PM »
Best: Guzan - never been confident in a keeper to deal with corsses until he came along.

Worst: Albrighton, what a waste.
I will go with this.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #61 on: December 31, 2012, 12:33:53 AM »
Best -    no such thing
worst  -   KEA

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #62 on: December 31, 2012, 12:16:38 PM »
Best- Has to be Guzan.
Worst- Ireland, we should just get rid of him.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #63 on: December 31, 2012, 12:21:06 PM »
Another vote for;
Best: Guzan
Worst: Ireland. Although a bit more controversial is that I have never been a fan of Bennett.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #64 on: December 31, 2012, 12:24:17 PM »
If our first team squad walked past me in Sainsbury's I probably wouldn't be able to place names to faces for at least half of them.

Offline Yossarian

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #65 on: December 31, 2012, 12:29:01 PM »
If our first team squad walked past me in Sainsbury's I probably wouldn't be able to place names to faces for at least half of them.

They'd be the lost ones who a kind old lady would find wondering up and down the cereal aisle before passing them over to staff who would make an announcement for their parents to collect them from customer services.

Offline Irish villain

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #66 on: December 31, 2012, 12:37:31 PM »
Best: Weimann. Underrated, scored some great goals and works his socks off. Seems intelligent and crafty too. Of all the home produced products he's the one I have most faith in. Lowton, Baker, Guzan and Benteke are also in the mix but have made some shaky performances lately. Clark has really disappointed me over Christmas. I have been giving him the benefit of the doubt all season but he needs to man up soon. He's not all that young and inexperienced any more.

No hoper: N'Zogbia. What an investment he's been.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #67 on: December 31, 2012, 01:12:56 PM »
1/2 POTS - Guzan, Lowton, Westwood, Weimann & Benteke

Hopeless - Delph, CNZ, KEA & Ireland

Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #68 on: December 31, 2012, 01:27:21 PM »
Best- Has to be Guzan.
Worst- Ireland, we should just get rid of him.

This for me. No brainer on both although you N'Zogbia runs Ireland a close second on levels of absolute crapness relative to outlay/wages.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #69 on: December 31, 2012, 01:32:52 PM »
If our first team squad walked past me in Sainsbury's I probably wouldn't be able to place names to faces for at least half of them.

They'd be the lost ones who a kind old lady would find wondering up and down the cereal aisle before passing them over to staff who would make an announcement for their parents to collect them from customer services.

They'd probably push their trollies around aimlessly, up and down the central aisle, and never actually get to the checkout.

Offline midnite

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #70 on: December 31, 2012, 01:41:53 PM »
Guzan for me is by far the best we have in the pitch

Worst is a toss up between KEA and Herd. KEa doesn't add anything as far as I've seen. Herd is completely out of his depth. Positionaly he's gone wondering and cost us a few goals over the last few matches. KEA just edges it for me as herd was good last season and I've seen glimpses of a good player in him this season.

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #71 on: December 31, 2012, 03:04:38 PM »
Herd is also being played out of position which is tough for any player let alone one with probably 20 games under his belt.

Offline dekko

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #72 on: December 31, 2012, 03:33:36 PM »
Herd has been really poor, but as people have said, he's being played out of position, and hes still young.  To his credit, he works hard and isn't shy about getting stuck in.  I still don't think he's ever going to be good enough to be more than a squad/reserve player, but when you have people with more natural talent on 4 or 5 times the wages (like Ireland) playing even worse......

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #73 on: December 31, 2012, 04:22:49 PM »
Best: Guzan, no contest. Westwood and Benteke have been good too.

No Hoper: Hmmm... This might be quite difficult. Lets say Ireland. But honestly, you could name any of four or five.

Offline MoetVillan

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Re: Half season player of season and no hoper of half season
« Reply #74 on: January 02, 2013, 11:47:59 AM »
Best.  Westwood, closely followed by Wiemann, Guzan and Benteke

Worst.  Ireland.  Bannan would be second worst for me

 


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