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Mr. Snrub
Liam Brady Joined: 12 Mar 2016 Location: Co. Dublin Status: Offline Points: 2081 |
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I'm not worried about what they say, I'm just backing up my point that our media completely overreact to everything, it is totally unhelpful. I'm not negative about Irish players, I've been criticised for being quite the opposite in the past! All I said was Ferguson was whipped on 60 and is in horrendous form but you are too deluded to accept that going 20 games without a goal isn't a worry. Keep on dreaming pal Now I'm off to listen to Radiohead and throw darts at my Evan Ferguson poster....... Edited by Mr. Snrub - 11 Mar 2024 at 11:02am |
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"Here's Robbie Keane...... yeeeessss! That is no more than Ireland deserve!"
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razzmatazaz
Davey Langan Joined: 15 Feb 2024 Status: Offline Points: 772 |
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People go on about rotation not helping Evan and froth at the mouth in an impotent rage about "De Spoofer" favouring "Joao Peno" yet Joao Pedro has scored more goals in less starts than Evan! Imagine that. De Zerbi literally gives Evan three consecutive starts [75, full 90, 60] and they still complain he's not giving him enough minutes. And if he kept playing him for the full ninety in every game you know fully well people would be saying he's playing him too much and needs to rest his young body. The concept that a manager should keep playing someone when they've been playing poorly for four months just to satisfy Irish fans is quantifiably absurd anyway. And he has been playing poorly. Even in the games he scored in against Fulham and Nottingham Forest, he was quiet in the former and poor apart from the goal in the latter. I'd know because I actually remember watching those games. I didn't just look at the ticker on BBC or watch a stream of his goal and decide he played well off that.
People absolutely seething every time Joao Pedro scores a goal and calling him selfish because he has the nerve to actually touch the ball more than 9 or 10 times a game and score goals consistently. Frothing at the mouth that they haven't had an opportunity in four months to make gloating comments about "Ferguson going on loan to Luton". Adebayo has 9 in 13 starts and Morris has 8 in 21 starts for them BTW so as much as people laugh at the supposed absurdity of that, there's no guarantee that Ferguson would start every week for them based on present form.
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15775 |
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Anyway how's Evan getting
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Mr. Snrub
Liam Brady Joined: 12 Mar 2016 Location: Co. Dublin Status: Offline Points: 2081 |
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Not good
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"Here's Robbie Keane...... yeeeessss! That is no more than Ireland deserve!"
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Razors left peg
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Being linked with a move to Port Vale
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Dont argue with stupid people, they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32853 |
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Or even worse Burnley.
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AKA pedantic kunt
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GaretFarellysNutSack
500 Club la la la Joined: 11 Mar 2020 Status: Offline Points: 558 |
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I think we're all worried he's going to end up like every other player we bigged up who turned out to be nothing special. We haven't had a top player in a long long time, we finally thought we had one and and now he hasn't scored for 20 games and isn't involved in matched at all. Even Northern Ireland have Bradley tearing it up for Liverpool and we still have no one.
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32853 |
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Should Ferguson start up front against Belgium.
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AKA pedantic kunt
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Badgersboys9
Ray Houghton Joined: 12 Oct 2019 Status: Offline Points: 3536 |
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Yes, regardless of his recent poor form, you can always see him being a threat and unlike Brighton, we should be basing our attack around him. We're not exactly flush in that department either.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9589 |
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Yes, Conor Bradley has done more in these last 6 weeks than Ferguson ever has - what silly Paddies we were to think we had a special striker, if only we were more like our loyal brethren to the north and waited for our saviour to come along in the form of a right-back who has played 6 league games for Liverpool.
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We're decent enough..
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TooOldForThis
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Nobody knows if Ferguson will return to form, or is headed on the same trajectory as Connolly et al. His confidence is shot, would have thought an extended rest would be better at the moment. Cue Evan to score in his next match and YBIG has him back at 150m rating!
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Godzilla
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Ferguson and Connolly are very different situations. Connolly scored 8 goals in total for Brighton. Most of them after turning 20. Ferguson has already scored 16 goals as a teenager. He's simply out of form. A bad spell. He'll likely return to a good level in the long term. Maybe he won't be the next Haaland like predicted a few months ago. But he should still become a PL level ST. |
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9589 |
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Funnily enough, Haaland went goalless in his first 16 games playing for Bryne in the Norwegian 2nd division. If he was Irish, there'd probably be posters still using this as a justification for him "not being as good as he's hyped up to be".
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We're decent enough..
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Godzilla
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Haaland was 15 years old for most of that season tbf.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9589 |
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He was 16/17 over the course of that season, but it's immaterial. I'm not arguing that it means Haaland is a bad player, I'm saying that if the best striker in the world can have a barren spell in the Norwegian 2nd division without it having a long term effect on him, then Ferguson can have a barren spell in the best league in the world without it meaning he's less of a player.
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We're decent enough..
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Godzilla
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He wasn't. He was 15 for 9 of those 16 games. And he only started 4 of those 16 games. Ferguson is 19 year old senior international with a reasonable amount of experience under his belt. There's no reason why he can't eventually regain his confidence and form. But I wouldn't compare it with Haaland at Byrne.
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Roberto Baggio
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Every player isn't the same O'Shea. For all these examples of "he's scored more than Haaland or Kane had at that age", there are also players who's career started in a blaze of goals and promise and they didn't fulfil this.
No-one knows what will happen. He's a great prospect in a poor bit of form recently, but overall his club aren't going well so i'm sure it'll only be temporary.
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Badgersboys9
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I'd be curious to know what are the expectations are here? He's scored 6 goals this season which would of made him Irelands top goal scorer in quite a few seasons in the PL and he's only 19. I know his age gets thrown about a lot, but it's still a hugely significant factor in all of this.
To put things into perspective, 16 goals is the most scored by any Irish player in the PL and that was Robbie Keane at his peak almost 20 years ago. On top of that, only a further 3 Irish players ever have managed double figures in the PL. Kevin Doyle with 13 in a freak season for him, Shane Long once with 10 goals and the other is Niall Quinn. So the last player to hit double figures was Long in 15/16 season and he scored 4 more than Ferguson has now. In fact, there's been may seasons were Ogbenes 3 goals, to date, would have him being close to the top Irish goal scorer in the PL. I'm not saying he hasn't been poor recently but all the pressure on him seems to be coming from an Irish perspective and not from Brighton fans. The hype and hypothetical price tags slapped on him has done him no favours but I think we need to curb our expectations a little.
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