collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Dean Smith - Confirmed  (Read 1549327 times)

Offline adrenachrome

  • Member
  • Posts: 13467
  • Location: The Foundry
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3975 on: March 02, 2019, 11:07:09 PM »
Platt is one of the few players we had that consistently made us a far better side on his own. He was the reason we nearly won the league, he was the reason we didn't get relegated. Despite having the likes of McGrath and Cowans in the side, take Platt out that side and I reckon we'd have been mid-table at best in 1990 and relegated in 1991.

Agreed. The balloon-faced gastropest.

The Man Whose Head Expanded was a wonderfully technical player and could control a difficult ball on the move like no other English player at the time.
He did not control games games like Mortimer and Blanchflower, though.

Offline PeterWithesShin

  • Member
  • Posts: 68538
  • GM : 17.03.2015
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3976 on: March 02, 2019, 11:18:24 PM »
None of them starred in Button Moon though.

Online Sexual Ealing

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 19097
  • Location: Bulgaria
  • GM : PCM
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3977 on: March 02, 2019, 11:19:23 PM »
Platt is one of the few players we had that consistently made us a far better side on his own. He was the reason we nearly won the league, he was the reason we didn't get relegated. Despite having the likes of McGrath and Cowans in the side, take Platt out that side and I reckon we'd have been mid-table at best in 1990 and relegated in 1991.

Agreed. The balloon-faced gastropest.

The Man Whose Head Expanded was a wonderfully technical player and could control a difficult ball on the move like no other English player at the time.
He did not control games games like Mortimer and Blanchflower, though.

He was a great player. Better, in his way, than Gascoigne. The helium-bonced mammoth carcass.

Offline Rudy65

  • Member
  • Posts: 4427
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3978 on: March 03, 2019, 08:51:13 AM »
Platt is one of the few players we had that consistently made us a far better side on his own. He was the reason we nearly won the league, he was the reason we didn't get relegated. Despite having the likes of McGrath and Cowans in the side, take Platt out that side and I reckon we'd have been mid-table at best in 1990 and relegated in 1991.

Agreed. The balloon-faced gastropest.

The Man Whose Head Expanded was a wonderfully technical player and could control a difficult ball on the move like no other English player at the time.
He did not control games games like Mortimer and Blanchflower, though.

He was a great player. Better, in his way, than Gascoigne. The helium-bonced mammoth carcass.

Platt better than Gazza?😂

Offline Rudy65

  • Member
  • Posts: 4427
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3979 on: March 03, 2019, 08:55:31 AM »
John Peel on this for me. “Personalised number plate? Sure sign of a dickhead”

Having sex with underage girls? Sure sign of a paedophile.

Touché

Offline Damo70

  • Member
  • Posts: 30877
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3980 on: March 03, 2019, 08:56:50 AM »
Gazza 57 caps, 10 goals
Platt   62 caps, 27 goals

Offline john e

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 19278
  • GM : 28.06.2024
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3981 on: March 03, 2019, 09:00:48 AM »
Gazza 57 caps, 10 goals
Platt   62 caps, 27 goals


Ray Wilkins       - 84 caps

Dennis Mortimer  - 0 caps



your stat means nothing

Offline brian green

  • Member
  • Posts: 18357
  • Age: 86
  • Location: Nice France
  • GM : 19.06.2020
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3982 on: March 03, 2019, 09:03:56 AM »
Platty was one of those players you knew instantly you saw him play that he was very special.  First time I saw him was one Christmas game that was frozen off at VP and having driven up from that London carried on to take in the Crewe game at the Dogheads.  Platty was outstandingly good.  He danced through the lungeing and hacking - to steal the Guardian comment about Tony Daley going through the Gooners defence "like a harvest mouse in a threshing machine".

Offline Ads

  • Member
  • Posts: 39696
  • Location: The Breeze
  • GM : 17.04.2024
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3983 on: March 03, 2019, 09:06:09 AM »
I'm hoping Stuart isn't too upset. He's not been on following the devastating blow of us winning and I'm just worried something terrible has happened. I've not read of any bridges collapsing.


Online Clampy

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 28479
  • Location: warley
  • GM : PCM
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3984 on: March 03, 2019, 09:17:39 AM »
I'm hoping Stuart isn't too upset. He's not been on following the devastating blow of us winning and I'm just worried something terrible has happened. I've not read of any bridges collapsing.



He probably left at half time.

Offline Risso

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 85549
  • Location: Leics
  • GM : 04.03.2025
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3985 on: March 03, 2019, 09:20:25 AM »
I'm hoping Stuart isn't too upset. He's not been on following the devastating blow of us winning and I'm just worried something terrible has happened. I've not read of any bridges collapsing.



Somebody nip round to see if there's a backlog of milk bottles on the doorstep, and a pile of unopened post on the door mat.

Offline brian green

  • Member
  • Posts: 18357
  • Age: 86
  • Location: Nice France
  • GM : 19.06.2020
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3986 on: March 03, 2019, 09:21:38 AM »
There has been a swarm of earthquakes across England with large ground fissures.  Something is not right.  I hope Stuart is not somewhere too horrible to contemplate.

Offline Risso

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 85549
  • Location: Leics
  • GM : 04.03.2025
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3987 on: March 03, 2019, 09:23:04 AM »
Gazza 57 caps, 10 goals
Platt   62 caps, 27 goals


Completely different players so a bit unfair to judge them on that.  Gascoigne was an absolute genius though, the best England player I've ever seen.

Offline mr underhill

  • Member
  • Posts: 8493
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3988 on: March 03, 2019, 09:26:12 AM »
No way SJM should benched for Sunday, we need his energy and combativeness. Stories today of him being Rodger's Number 1 target for the summer!

Offline brian green

  • Member
  • Posts: 18357
  • Age: 86
  • Location: Nice France
  • GM : 19.06.2020
Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #3989 on: March 03, 2019, 09:26:23 AM »
Agree Martin.  Gazza was a gifted player.  Platty was an outstandingly good one.  Bit like the difference between Lennon and McCartney.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal