Downing Unhappy, Would You Want Him?

[pgheverton]

to say they are going to be the best players in the world everyone is of course nonsense. they wont even all pan out. however, probably for the first time in their lives when they step on the pitch, they will be athletically inferior. the brazillians will be athletically inferior. that may not mean much in theory, but when youre out there on the pitch, it means something

 

[GhostOfDixie]

i believe there is an incredible pool of untapped guys out there. guys who can mark ronaldniho. slam his face in the dirt kick him and his faggot pony tail into the ground. make them bleed.

You really do live in a strange world. Let me tell you something, your not a football fan, and your not the sort of fan we want associated with our beautiful club. So do one.

 

[GhostOfDixie]

to say they are going to be the best players in the world everyone is of course nonsense. they wont even all pan out. however, probably for the first time in their lives when they step on the pitch, they will be athletically inferior. the brazillians will be athletically inferior. that may not mean much in theory, but when youre out there on the pitch, it means something

Does it really?

 

[pgheverton]

especially for players who rely on superior athletcism. like the brazillians. take that adavantage they have now and turn it to a disadvantage. see how they react to it.

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Stop it, please. You make no sense.

 

[atrottel]

Look, pgheverton, I appreciate that you may be pretty young and only be aware of "soccer" through a Playstation game. But to put it in simple terms that you may understand, top-class football players have to be Peyton Mannings because they have to do everything and think on top of that, rather than run hard for 10 yards, make a sharp turn to the left and catch a ball, before having a three-minute pause for an ad break.

And for every (one) Peyton Manning that the NFL or college football has, they have far too many players like Randy Moss (short arms when the game gets tough or he doesn't fancy it), Romanowski ('roid droid), Pacman (team poison), etc.

Show me a few John Lynch's who can actually play football and I might be interested.

And, by the way, UEFA doesn't turn the blind eye to illegal supplements and suspect medical treatments that the NFL does.

 

[pgheverton]

why because i want everton to win and not clamor for mid atble and eat uefa cup scraps? tell me how youre going to beat me. thats what i want to know. you dont want somebody to be a fan of everton because they have different ideas about how evrton should proceed? obviously what theyre doing nows not working. im exactly what you should want. someone who wants everton to return to greatness. i know here we dont accept mediocrity. we expect championships. man u expects championships. thats why they get them and everton doesnt. if that makes me undesirable fan or whatever im sorry you feel that way. i want everton to win and their current strategy isnt a winning one

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Beat you? Who are you? What's your team? Stop talking crap, please for the love of god.

 

[pgheverton]

there are thousands of guys who arent poison or take steroids or anything like that. its amazing the stereotypes that are out there that can be sraeted by newsmedia and how it is reported. peyton manning probably couldnt play football but a ladanian tomlinson type athelte could. youre going to tell me that anybody in the epl is going to able to run around all night and make cuts and run ten yards and change directions and get to loose balls faster than he would. not a chance.hes going to blow by you, around, and through and there is nothing that any defender could do. that is definitely a lock. whether hed be a better pure footballer than ronhaldinho thats for newspapers to decide. it will be a different type of game. more forward movement and less slick passing. its a different level of athlete. now what needs to be done is take guys like that, who can do all the things above you said better than anyone currently in the epl and teach them how to play football. its a natuarl progression

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Not if he can't play football, you [Poor language removed] idiot.

You can't learn football overnight, it takes years of development. Can you understand that you weirdo?

Sorry, but look what you are doing, you are really getting my back up.

 

[pgheverton]

pac man jones would be a great player.obviously we dont want him on everton. but physically he is superior to anyone out there

 

[GhostOfDixie]

pac man jones? what are you saying? who else is there? Super Mario McCarthy? Sonic "The Hedgehog" Smith?

 

[atrottel]

Why don't you do the people here the respect of listening to what they are saying when you plainly and admittedly know virtually nothing about the game.

Your thesis says that it should be relatively easy to take top class athletes from one sport and put them in another. Show me frequent examples from your own sports, outside the one or two crossovers from basketball who have become tight ends - and they are only notable because they are a rarity.

Hasn't Jeremy Bloom just been waived by two NFL teams and not been picked up by others despite various tryouts?

 

[atrottel]

And, if Americans are superior to the physical and mental pygmies in the rest of the world, do you not think the American owners of certain Premier League clubs would be alive to your concepts as well? Or are you just ahead of your time?

In fact, if you look up The Everton Way on this wonderful American interweb thingy, you will find that Everton is already making a move to develop youth potential in the States.

But I've got to go now and watch Bayern Munich getting thrashed by Stuttgart. Be far more interesting if their teams were filled with speedy flavor clowns who were all 6'5", but we have to make do with what we can get...

 

[ever tony an]

and back to the subject

it depends on the price 10 million no tar
6 million yes please