Des Walker and Franz Carr.
And possibly Tommy Gaynor.
Not a player but this thread will do…
Darragh Maloney. I thought he was very competent when he first came on the scene at RTE - composed, versatile, knowledgeable - but he’s really lost it in recent years.
[QUOTE=“Bandage, post: 1098103, member: 9”]Not a player but this thread will do…
Darragh Maloney. I thought he was very competent when he first came on the scene at RTE - composed, versatile, knowledgeable - but he’s really lost it in recent years.[/QUOTE]
Must be hanging around with Des Cahill.
[QUOTE=“Bandage, post: 1098103, member: 9”]Not a player but this thread will do…
Darragh Maloney. I thought he was very competent when he first came on the scene at RTE - composed, versatile, knowledgeable - but he’s really lost it in recent years.[/QUOTE]
He is very competent. But he’ll never fit into the studio clique. The chemistry has been disturbed.
I don’t even think he’s competent now. He largely asks shit questions and doesn’t appear to know much of the detail.
@thedancingbaby was an agrarian but highly effective poacher at under age level.
anyone who saw him play in the 7 a side competition that celebrated the opening of the Portmarnock Community School hall in the early 90s will testify to his cool headed confidence in front of goals and his pace over 2 metres. my recollection is that he came joint 1st for the golden boot despite being on a team of inbreds that didnt get out of their group.
he had it but then it mysteriously left him. around the same time abrakebabra opened up in the village if im not mistaken
Joe
[QUOTE=“croppy, post: 1098241, member: 230”]@thedancingbaby was an agrarian but highly effective poacher at under age level.
anyone who saw him play in the 7 a side competition that celebrated the opening of the Portmarnock Community School hall in the early 90s will testify to his cool headed confidence in front of goals and his pace over 2 metres. my recollection is that he came joint 1st for the golden boot despite being on a team of inbreds that didnt get out of their group.
he had it but then it mysteriously left him. around the same time abrakebabra opened up in the village if im not mistaken[/QUOTE]
must be something in the air out there …Mearnog in mid 90’s had some great underage teams and players that totally fell away by their twenties…shane ryan wouldn’t have been near their best player back then…
sorry scumpot but i dont follow bogball
i do know that many have compared what happened to @thedancingbaby to what happened george best. hugely talented but once he was introduced to alcohol he pissed it all away.
dancing baby had a similar fate when introduced to the kebab.
Daniele De Rossi.
Ibrahim Afellay. 4 years ago he signed for Barcelona. Played 50 games in 4 seasons for 3 clubs and now finds himself at Stoke.
I’m not sure he ever had it, but Stephen Kelly’s international career fairly petered out, we were talking about lads who used to play for us and I googled Leon Best to see where he’s at. Anyway he’s in Rotterham and who’s with him only Kelly.
When he first broke onto the Spurs team he seemed to have the world at his feet. Still only 32 
Mcillroy
Falcao. Absolutely unreal there for a three or four year period but the injury finished him.
Not really anything mysterious about it though. You might come back from a serious knee injury but you won’t be the same player you were previously. You’ll never have that same confidence in your knee again and you definitely lose that burst of pace. It’s finished many a great player.
When you think of what serious cruciate and tendon injuries have done to players then you have to admire the likes of Baggio and Ronaldo on the level they managed to maintain after those injuries, you have to be an all time great to do what they did after those injuries.
Van Nistelrooy was another who didn’t let a cruciate stop him. Always found it hard to warm to him but he was an excellent finisher
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Yeah, Van Nistelrooy was one whose main attribute was his mind, he wasn’t outrageously blessed with skill but he was a big lad with real instict inside the penalty area. It’s amazing how little of his goals occurred outside the box.
Brilliant player.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4CZgblO65o
You know what’s wrong with Arsenal now?
They don’t have any Martin Keowns
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Selfie taking wankers. Keano was right.
Arsene Wenger really is an odious creep