Re: Scott Wootton signs from Man Utd
Posted: 22 Aug 2013, 08:12
McDermott is 6 foot 3 inch tal, so Wooton must be nearly 7 foot.SiMamu wrote:
Nic wrote:Just watched the Wootton press conference - he says the right things "big club" "heritage" "passionate fans"
"small club", "tinpot", "rubbish fans"?Barlow Boy wrote:Nic wrote:Just watched the Wootton press conference - he says the right things "big club" "heritage" "passionate fans"
Wouldn't it be nice for a new player to say something a bit different every now and then
Agree all that in spadesPecky10 wrote:There's a phrase (warning to children) that says you can't polish a turd. If a defender (whoever he is) can't track a striker and / or win a header then there's only do much you can do with coachingisrodger wrote:[Regardless of this signing I would like to see BMc bring in a specialist defensive coach in the meantime.
It's interesting that Stuart Pearce - who most would acknowledge knew a thing of two about defending - didn't play Mr Lees as a centre-half, preferring him in a midfield role not dissimilar to that occupied largely by Green and latterly by Austin.
I'm not sure what the answer is to our problems but my gut still says an experienced Centre-half who can organise the back line and set-pieces would be worth his weight in gold, even if he played for one season only, if the experience was passed onto our current crop and might rub off on those who need it most - developing the likes of Lees has to be worth the investment of an older, decent centre-half in itself?
If it was me, I would indeed give you all a different press conference. It would mostly consist of me hysterically laughing, making several 'kerrr-ching' noises and then answering any media questions with a rendition of 'January 3rd, remember the date....'Barlow Boy wrote:Nic wrote:Just watched the Wootton press conference - he says the right things "big club" "heritage" "passionate fans"
Wouldn't it be nice for a new player to say something a bit different every now and then
I suppose coming from such clubs he might appreciate it more. Being told he's not going to cut it at old trafford so he'll be moving on, he'd've been thinking, damn I'm gonna have to take a massive step down to a little Championship club, and then he gets lucky and actually gets to take a step up instead. But he probably does appreciate still being at a big club, not having to move to Yeovil or something. It'd be like living in a big city all your life and then having to move to a tiny provincial town where nowt happens.Bogdan wrote:"small club", "tinpot", "rubbish fans"?Barlow Boy wrote:Nic wrote:Just watched the Wootton press conference - he says the right things "big club" "heritage" "passionate fans"
Wouldn't it be nice for a new player to say something a bit different every now and then
I know what you mean though, and when someone coming from Liverpool and Manchester says it, you wonder how impressed is he really. If he plays like he means it though, we won't care.
There isn't even a need for analogy, that gets asked in football every single weekend, along the lines of "how big was that win"? On Soccer AM they had Ledley King last weekend and after an introduction of "you asked not to ask you about Bale's transfer", Chamberlain said "but we will ask you, how good is he?", with the kind of intonation that made it obviously rhetorical. Cheers for that, I can see how this is going to be insightful and gripping!SMorientes wrote:It's the equivalent to when they ask contestants on reality shows (sorry for the analogy) 'what would it mean to you to win?'