GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Err? What??
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Err? What??
Read back mate. We've been using our supersecret forum language to ridicule him.
Squirrel Lada Chow.
SuitsBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
fack knows.
TX Bill
Player Valuation: £80m
Being an American and exposed to all sports and having played many (soccer, baseball, & golf primarily), I've known many good soccer players who were good athletes and could compete in other sports but I've rarely met athletes who excelled in their respective sports and made the transition to soccer with the same ease.
I get the gist of your post and it does make sense to an extent.
If I'm not mistaken, Ajax's youth system would identify players at an early age and categorize them by speed. Regardless of what positions they had previously played or been exposed to, the fastest players were groomed as strikers, the next speediest group would be groomed as midfielders, and then the last group as defenders.
Obviously there were exceptions but generally, they'd try to get as much speed up front.
There's no doubt in my mind that if some of America's finest were exposed to soccer at an earlier age and stuck with it, that we'd have some great ones. We're just now starting to see that happen and now with the advent of a professional league here. Younger players have something they can strive for.
But with the large contracts going to gridiron football, baseball, and basketball players, most of America's top athletes will attempt to make the grade in those sports as opposed soccer.
I get the gist of your post and it does make sense to an extent.
If I'm not mistaken, Ajax's youth system would identify players at an early age and categorize them by speed. Regardless of what positions they had previously played or been exposed to, the fastest players were groomed as strikers, the next speediest group would be groomed as midfielders, and then the last group as defenders.
Obviously there were exceptions but generally, they'd try to get as much speed up front.
There's no doubt in my mind that if some of America's finest were exposed to soccer at an earlier age and stuck with it, that we'd have some great ones. We're just now starting to see that happen and now with the advent of a professional league here. Younger players have something they can strive for.
But with the large contracts going to gridiron football, baseball, and basketball players, most of America's top athletes will attempt to make the grade in those sports as opposed soccer.
SuitsBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
we look at
carl lewis
flo jo
marion jones
marion jones's husband
roy jones junior
him on coke for the world boxing heavyweight title
will what is clearly a culture of american designer drugs infiltrate genuine football, im not talking soccer, no one else on the planet calls it soccer, its football, its played with the feet.
if i had my way with drug testing, they wouldnt be driving super cars thats for sure.
carl lewis
flo jo
marion jones
marion jones's husband
roy jones junior
him on coke for the world boxing heavyweight title
will what is clearly a culture of american designer drugs infiltrate genuine football, im not talking soccer, no one else on the planet calls it soccer, its football, its played with the feet.
if i had my way with drug testing, they wouldnt be driving super cars thats for sure.
him on coke for the world boxing"
Brilliant Suits.
Brilliant Suits.
Do you know what mate, Im struggling to remember that.
McCall would be the obvious, he was [Poor language removed] up.
McCall would be the obvious, he was [Poor language removed] up.
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Right, as I couldn't be arsed to read such a scribe, I have had a google, and this Holliday guy is a runner and an American footballer. So why the [Poor language removed] would we expect this guy to be able to play football.
Biggest load of tosh ever. Bring back the RS WUM's.
Biggest load of tosh ever. Bring back the RS WUM's.
toffeestillidie
Player Valuation: £35m
pgheverton he could be the fastest guy in the world but the game of football is more than just all out sprints.
if this man beats an offsides trap (assuming he can even develop the intricate timing to do so) but has a bad touch any keeper will clean up no problem. Jumping 10 metres in the air or wutever doesn't help if he can't link up with a direct a header. ball control skills, shielding ability, passing are essential skills for players in any position, and they take years to develop to the point where they can compete with other pro footballers. maybe the club could give him a look, but honestly i doubt anything would come of it even if they did.
association is so much different from sports like american football, where players are groomed to only need a couple skills, which is why so many footballers have thrived in american football as kickers. i'm guessing this holliday guy on a pitch would run around, maybe come upon the ball every once in a while, and have absolutely nothing to do with it. sorry mate.
if this man beats an offsides trap (assuming he can even develop the intricate timing to do so) but has a bad touch any keeper will clean up no problem. Jumping 10 metres in the air or wutever doesn't help if he can't link up with a direct a header. ball control skills, shielding ability, passing are essential skills for players in any position, and they take years to develop to the point where they can compete with other pro footballers. maybe the club could give him a look, but honestly i doubt anything would come of it even if they did.
association is so much different from sports like american football, where players are groomed to only need a couple skills, which is why so many footballers have thrived in american football as kickers. i'm guessing this holliday guy on a pitch would run around, maybe come upon the ball every once in a while, and have absolutely nothing to do with it. sorry mate.
Thank you, thank you ever so much for this.
The forum reached it's pinnacle with pgheverton.
I know you've seemingly managed to get sponsorship off Greggs, but if you could get this cat posting again I'd be forever in your debt.
The forum reached it's pinnacle with pgheverton.
I know you've seemingly managed to get sponsorship off Greggs, but if you could get this cat posting again I'd be forever in your debt.
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I like US college gridiron, i like paying attention to it.
Don't have a effing clue whats going on like?
Don't have a effing clue whats going on like?
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