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amccarten313
Davey Langan Joined: 29 Mar 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 982 |
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I stand corrected. Hope he can return from the injury and make an impact in the playoffs
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MacMathuna
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4th most premier league substitute appearances I just saw on match of the day stat. 148 appearances as sub. Milner, crouch, defoe others I remember from list
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Sinne Fianna Fáil atá fé gheall ag Éirinn.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
Jack Charlton Joined: 04 Aug 2020 Status: Offline Points: 6615 |
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I've always maintained that that distorts his goalscoring figures.
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t_rAndy
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Long getting 20 minutes here
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You Tell Me
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Good to see him still playing the odd EPL game, it's more than 15 years now since he made his Premier League debut - I can't imagine there have been too many Irish players who have made Premier League appearances more than 15 years apart.
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Bandwagon
Ray Houghton Joined: 07 Feb 2021 Location: Dublin Status: Online Points: 3275 |
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Yeah hes done well for an average enough player. I mean that in the sense that only Given, Dunne, O'Shea and Duff have played across more seasons in the Premier League. Roy and Robbie didnt even play that many. Hes still very quick for pushing 35 too.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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Was close to starting against Liverpool.
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9963 |
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Get in.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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"Y'all fell into the booby trap
I set the trap just to see dude react" Jay-Z
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzz.ie/sport/shane-long-weirdest-premier-league-25825019.amp
Has started in as many PL campaigns as Robbie.
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You Tell Me
Jack Charlton Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Status: Offline Points: 6773 |
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If he makes an appearance for Southampton in 2022 he will have played in the Premier League in 15 different calendar years, which would be one more than Robbie Keane.
Still looks about 25 as well.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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He looks younger now than Robbie did when he was breaking through.
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That one whopper of a "but".
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Shane Long has some absolutely fantastic attributes. If the guy just had any knack in front of goal he would have been an unreal striker. And I think we would have been talking about him in the same way as we talk about Robbie Keane. I also think that if Shane Long had the ability to score goals, he would have potentially played for a higher level champions League club.
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geansaÃ
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His ability and willingness to run into corners and chase things down was one of his biggest attributes and also the reason he has lasted so long.
At the same time that willingness was to the detriment of goalscoring, all the teams he played for used him primarily as a pair of legs for someone else's benefit or the teams benefit. His last season at Reading in the championship he was scoring for fun, would have been interesting to see him at a team slightly higher in the premiership to see if he could have been a goalscorer
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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He averaged about 1 in 3 starts until the season after he reached double figures in PL, at which point his goalscoring form drastically diminished.
It's important to note that when he signed for Southampton, Koeman took ages to start playing him regularly and he was shunted all over; LW, RW, AM, behind Pelle. He never complained and always put in a shift. After the 15/16 season, he probably averaged <15 starts a season. He was already very much a squad player. In spite of this, he'll still come away from his spell at the club with memories of the goal against Liverpool that guaranteed them a cup final appearance and a record fastest PL goal. He's not a great finisher but, in context, I don't think he's ever been as bad as some people determine.
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Hotlips_Hoolahan
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Nice assist to give Southampton an immediate equaliser against Swansea.
Obafemi got 90 minutes.
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Bandwagon
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Scores to them 3-2 up
Edited by Bandwagon - 08 Jan 2022 at 7:40pm |
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