SzilardNemethsCurtains 2,844 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, p_mards said: Gibson sure took back control from that European Victor Orta and everything worked out fine *swigs pint of Carling and continues to read the Evening Gazette’s sports section* 💪🇬🇧 Unelected European bureaucrats trying to take over the dressing room 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,347 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 11 minutes ago, macapes said: Well, yeah, if you make a list of 5 foreign players there will not be an Englishman amongst them. Mark English the Irish runner? Link to post Share on other sites
macapes 1,919 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 1 minute ago, Blanco said: Well name the English snakes then How about the 5 best players we've ever had? How may of those would be foreign in most people's lists? Cherry picking 5 players you call treasonous - not convinced by Ayala, Braithwaite or even Valdes mind - is hardly damning evidence. Neither would be picking 5 terrible foreign players out of however many have played for us. Lee Dong Gook being awful doesn't impact on Viduka. Valdes apparently being a traitor doesn't impact on Schwarzer. Maybe we shouldn't sign knobs regardless of nationality. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,347 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, Blanco said: Well name the English snakes then Adder is one of them, I know that. Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,641 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Think it's more a worrying that teams struggle to be successful with a lot of British players. Though Sheffield United are a welcome exception. Link to post Share on other sites
Blanco 4,917 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Just now, macapes said: How about the 5 best players we've ever had? How may of those would be foreign in most people's lists? Cherry picking 5 players you call treasonous - not convinced by Ayala, Braithwaite or even Valdes mind - is hardly damning evidence. Neither would be picking 5 terrible foreign players out of however many have played for us. Lee Dong Gook being awful doesn't impact on Viduka. Valdes apparently being a traitor doesn't impact on Schwarzer. Maybe we shouldn't sign knobs regardless of nationality. Now you’re getting there. It shouldn’t matter a damn where they come from but if they are local or English Boro fans for some reason have a gripe with it 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,641 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, macapes said: How about the 5 best players we've ever had? How may of those would be foreign in most people's lists? Cherry picking 5 players you call treasonous - not convinced by Ayala, Braithwaite or even Valdes mind - is hardly damning evidence. Neither would be picking 5 terrible foreign players out of however many have played for us. Lee Dong Gook being awful doesn't impact on Viduka. Valdes apparently being a traitor doesn't impact on Schwarzer. Maybe we shouldn't sign knobs regardless of nationality. I cannot see how you can criticise Ramirez but just give Braithwaite a free pass. Braithwaite did it 4 times, and never achieved anything with us. At least Ramirez was instrumental in promotion before a dodgy 6 months. Link to post Share on other sites
Blanco 4,917 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Changing Times said: Adder is one of them, I know that. Good man CT 👍 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,347 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said: Think it's more a worrying that teams struggle to be successful with a lot of British players. Though Sheffield United are a welcome exception. I wouldn't say it's worrying. The best resourced teams will tend to be able to sign the best players wherever they are from. The same thing applies at our level, possibly to a lesser extent, but essentially the same thing. We signed two from abroad last season so it's clearly not a case of us ignoring that area. I never thought I'd see the day when Boro were being criticised for not signing 'enough' foreign players mind. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
p_mards 1,365 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, SzilardNemethsCurtains said: Unelected European bureaucrats trying to take over the dressing room Luckily we had the perfect British replacement lined up in Gary Gill to step up and take all of that control back *Downs a shot a vodka and starts rambling about the shape of bananas* 💪🇬🇧 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Old Codger 3,064 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Blanco said: Well name the English snakes then Merson...Bamford....Cyril Knowles....Danny Mills and anyone else whoever left us for Newcastle or Sunderland (except Cloughie and little Stan) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
macapes 1,919 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said: I cannot see how you can criticise Ramirez but just give Braithwaite a free pass. Braithwaite did it 4 times, and never achieved anything with us. At least Ramirez was instrumental in promotion before a dodgy 6 months. I didn't make the list, I just didn't argue with Ramirez. Braithwaite I put the blame on Pulis. But that's a different conversation that we've all already had. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Old Codger 3,064 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Changing Times said: Adder is one of them, I know that. Grass............ 1 Link to post Share on other sites
macapes 1,919 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Blanco said: Now you’re getting there. It shouldn’t matter a damn where they come from but if they are local or English Boro fans for some reason have a gripe with it Getting where? You made a list of five foreigners you didn't like. I merely pointed out that stating there were no English players in there was a bit redundant. I've never argued for or against foreign players vs English ones. Link to post Share on other sites
SzilardNemethsCurtains 2,844 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 1 minute ago, p_mards said: Luckily we had the perfect British replacement lined up in Gary Gill to step up and take all of that control back *Downs a shot a vodka and starts rambling about the shape of bananas* 💪🇬🇧 "I don't care who they are Neil and whether they can judge a player but they must be previously associated with the club, British and called proper names like Gary or Ian" 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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