Ex Player Watch (24 Viewers)

[steve82]

Nathan Cameron has joined the list of ccfc connections at Macclesfield today. Signed a short term deal till January


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[Nick]

Golden boy Madison sent off in the 28th minute. Second booking for diving

 

[lifeskyblue]

Golden boy Madison sent off in the 28th minute. Second booking for diving

I thought he had begun to cut this element out of his game...but clearly not.

Should Thomas have gone to ground when being pulled back last night? First was outside box then in box. Thomas berated ref afterwards but he stayed up and got ‘shot’ away. If he had hit the deck I think he might have got the decision.


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[Sky Blue Harry H]

Golden boy Madison sent off in the 28th minute. Second booking for diving

Doh - or is agent Maddison about to sabotage that club? we need the £££s from an England call up first.

 

[Nick]

Oh dear

 

[lifeskyblue]

Laughable


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[shmmeee]

Oh dear

Obligatory

 

[hill83]

Lovely. Wish him all the best but hated his diving and mincing about when he was with us. It’s an absolute embarrassment.

 

[Gazolba]

Should have been a straight red, not a second yellow.
Don't know if that would make any difference to the punishment.

 

[Adge]

Should have been a straight red, not a second yellow.
Don't know if that would make any difference to the punishment.

No straight red for a dive-yellow for “unsporting behaviour” only.

 

[Grendel]

Our best squad since relegation from Premiership.

Criminal what that so called manager Coleman did to that team and our club.





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It wasn’t as good as the squad in the first season in the championship

 

[fernandopartridge]

Golden boy Madison sent off in the 28th minute. Second booking for diving

Good, glad to see a referee do it

 

[Nick]

He's put a statement out saying he is sorry and he was expecting contact but it never happened.

Should extend the ban.

 

[chiefdave]

He's put a statement out saying he is sorry and he was expecting contact but it never happened.

Expecting contact is the problem. If the players are being coached anything like what the ex-pros say on commentary they are told to go down at any hint of contact to try and 'win' a penalty.

We need to get out of this thing where every little bit of contact is automatically a foul.

 

[sw88]

Golden boy Madison sent off in the 28th minute. Second booking for diving

The one part of his game he can’t seem to shift!

Couldn’t argue with that! Blatant attempt to con the ref!

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

Expecting contact is the problem. If the players are being coached anything like what the ex-pros say on commentary they are told to go down at any hint of contact to try and 'win' a penalty.

We need to get out of this thing where every little bit of contact is automatically a foul.

One of the most frustrating things about modern day football is players going over as soon as they are simply touched. It drives me mad! With regard to penalties and the pundits argument that “he was touched so is justified in going down”, that also drives me up the wall. If you are tripped, then falling over is an involuntary action, not something you choose to do.

 

[Grendel]

The one part of his game he can’t seem to shift!

Couldn’t argue with that! Blatant attempt to con the ref!

You have to give the ref credit for sending him off after half an hour which I suspect was why he thought he’d get away with it

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Leon Barnett retires because of a heart condition

 

[hill83]

Tyrone Barnett retires because of a heart condition

Leon

 

[ccfc_Tom]

Leon

Worst player ive ever seen play for city

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Leon

Oops yeah that one

 

[Gibbo]

Scunthorpe 3-3 Oxford: Hosts recover from a three-goal deficit to earn a point

The second Oxford goal is the kin d Chaplin should be coring

 

[SkyBlueThinking]

Ben Stevenson is on loan at a Spanish third division side from Wolves. Wierd.

he's one of 8 or 9, sort of a Chelsea/Vitesse Arnhem situation going on there I think

 

[steve82]

Marc Antoine Fortune, Zavon Hines and Kyle Reid have helped break two records at Chesterfield in the National league.

They are winless in 18 league games and sit in the drop zone. That has equalled the club record for the longest winless run.

Yet they are also on the best run for 12 years being undefeated, drawing 8 consecutive league games going unbeaten in all competitions for 11 games is the club’s best run for 12 years.

They won the opening 3 league games of the season prior to this run




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[Nick]

Christ, double relegation coming up!

 

[skybluegod]

Christ, double relegation coming up!

Double?? Isn't it triple? I thought they came down in the same season as us?

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Wasn't Zavon Hines one of those players that was supposed to be 'the next big thing'?

 

[Nick]

Double?? Isn't it triple? I thought they came down in the same season as us?

Did they? Jeez!

 

[Dimi_Konstantflapalot]

Wasn't Zavon Hines one of those players that was supposed to be 'the next big thing'?

Indeed he was - came through West Ham's youth system around the same time as the likes of Jack Collison, Junior Stanislas, Freddie Sears, James Tomkins etc. Careers have gone in different directions for that lot it's fair to say

 

[SkyBlueCRJ]

Indeed he was - came through West Ham's youth system around the same time as the likes of Jack Collison, Junior Stanislas, Freddie Sears, James Tomkins etc. Careers have gone in different directions for that lot it's fair to say

Interesting that Collison, Sears and Hines have all struggled with fitness/injury over their respective careers. I wonder if there's anything in that. Maybe being rushed to the first team too soon?

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Great memories in that clip!

One thing that surprised me was how many times Eastwood appears with a pass or a goal.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

On diving it made me laugh against Peterborough when the ball was in the air one of their players looked around for a nearby player so he could go over but there were none about and he didn’t know what to do and just gave it away.

 

[steve82]

Interesting that Collison, Sears and Hines have all struggled with fitness/injury over their respective careers. I wonder if there's anything in that. Maybe being rushed to the first team too soon?

It’s a case of burn out, too much football for me.
It’s the old if your good enough your old enough that gets you shorter miles on the longevity of a career.




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[SkyBlueCRJ]

It’s a case of burn out, too much football for me.
It’s the old if your good enough your old enough that gets you shorter miles on the longevity of a career.




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Agreed. It's the Michael Owen scenario. Realistically on average you've got about a 10-12 year window in football where you can play at full throttle. If you get thrown into football early you're going to tail off earlier than the average footballer who breaks through at around 21/22.

 

[skybluegod]

It’s a case of burn out, too much football for me.
It’s the old if your good enough your old enough that gets you shorter miles on the longevity of a career.




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Hmmm it's an interesting one, because there is evidence for both sides, you have the likes of Giggs, Neville, Gerrard, Lampard, Defoe etc. etc. all made their debuts around 17/18, and went on to have long and strong careers, without exception.

IMO I think it is down to mentality, all of the players mentioned Hines, Collison, Sears, all had decent ability, they made their debuts early, and then stepped off the gas a little, they didn't look after themselves as well as they should have done, and ended up paying the cost of that.