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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on Jul 12, 2024 13:30:14 GMT 1
Let’s hope Thomas isn’t poached. Oooh cracking post thing is, unless someone is prepared to shell out...
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Post by SacTown on Jul 12, 2024 13:36:51 GMT 1
Regarding Sorba and whether his egginess is of the good or bad sort... All we have to go on is what we see on the pitch. The rest is rumours. What we saw on the pitch last season was someone who spent most of it running his arse into the ground, and someone who looked like he fkn hated losing. Let’s hope Thomas isn’t poached. No yoking.
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Post by benhomly on Jul 12, 2024 13:36:52 GMT 1
Oooh cracking post thing is, unless someone is prepared to shell out... Now that some interest has been shown I think there'll be a scramble for his signature
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Post by tepidterrier on Jul 12, 2024 13:37:21 GMT 1
Said person did also add that “he’s just an idiot” (regarding sorba) so I’m not saying he’s a role model but he’s not as bad as people make him out to be. They also said Andre was blaming everybody but himself which probably didn’t help Sorbas case as everybody was thrown under the bus and people just assume sorba os bad because he’s passionate and gets frustrated at times. this sounds about right. He's always come across as hyperactive, probably quite irritating and hard to manage, but not a troublemaker or a bad influence. As another poster said, he was great for most of the season. He looked to have turned a corner attitude wise on the pitch, was really knuckling down and setting the standard for the rest of the team. Unsurprisingly he became unmotivated and less focused when Breitenreiter started picking on him. He performed for Corberan, Moore, and Warnock in the brief period he played under him. He hasn't performed for Schofield, Fotheringham, and Breitenreiter, and fell out with the latter two. Duff surely will fall into that former category if he stays.
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on Jul 12, 2024 13:39:12 GMT 1
thing is, unless someone is prepared to shell out... Now that some interest has been shown I think there'll be a scramble for his signature big whisk for whoever signs him
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Post by benhomly on Jul 12, 2024 13:43:37 GMT 1
Now that some interest has been shown I think there'll be a scramble for his signature big whisk for whoever signs him Maybe so but whoever gets him will be hard to beat
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Post by benhomly on Jul 12, 2024 13:45:48 GMT 1
In fact I'll go as far as saying they'll probably end up battering some sides
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Post by King Neil on Jul 12, 2024 13:59:18 GMT 1
Go on then
It'll be be a real coop for whoever signs him
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Post by ColchTerrier on Jul 12, 2024 14:01:06 GMT 1
Eggs.
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Post by COWSHEDPHIL on Jul 12, 2024 14:02:52 GMT 1
Rumours have gone extremely quiet or maybe it’s because England are smashing it !
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Post by Terriersmad on Jul 12, 2024 14:03:10 GMT 1
Said person did also add that “he’s just an idiot” (regarding sorba) so I’m not saying he’s a role model but he’s not as bad as people make him out to be. They also said Andre was blaming everybody but himself which probably didn’t help Sorbas case as everybody was thrown under the bus and people just assume sorba os bad because he’s passionate and gets frustrated at times. this sounds about right. He's always come across as hyperactive, probably quite irritating and hard to manage, but not a troublemaker or a bad influence. As another poster said, he was great for most of the season. He looked to have turned a corner attitude wise on the pitch, was really knuckling down and setting the standard for the rest of the team. Unsurprisingly he became unmotivated and less focused when Breitenreiter started picking on him. He performed for Corberan, Moore, and Warnock in the brief period he played under him. He hasn't performed for Schofield, Fotheringham, and Breitenreiter, and fell out with the latter two. Duff surely will fall into that former category if he stays. What we're saying is that his head's scrambled.
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Post by runner76 on Jul 12, 2024 14:21:04 GMT 1
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Post by terryya on Jul 12, 2024 14:30:25 GMT 1
Regarding Sorba and whether his egginess is of the good or bad sort... All we have to go on is what we see on the pitch. The rest is rumours. What we saw on the pitch last season was someone who spent most of it running his arse into the ground, and someone who looked like he fkn hated losing. Whether stays or goes, I think it's Sulphur, so good this transfer window!
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Post by royrace on Jul 12, 2024 14:34:21 GMT 1
Sorba's set pieces are excellent, & they alone should be worth £1m of anyone's money. However, the rest of his game isn't very good, he's not especially fast, has very few tricks, can't head a ball, can't shoot & is one of those players who runs at a challenge like he means it but always "doesn't quite get there". Anyone who has played the game at any half decent level isn't taken in by this, he tins any challenge so his ridiculously small "shin pads" are wasted on him anyway. He's clearly not the brightest, which is not vital when it comes to football, he got almost as many yellows & reds as he did goals & assists last season, I'm not quite sure how/where he fits into a 352 system & his temperament is, at best, questionable. That being said, the club will know how he behaved last season & if they want rid & can get £1m, I'd take it. Alternatively, if they feel Duff can get something out of him, I'd be on board with that too. Just interested, since you and other fans have such a high bar for someone who fills Sorba's position, who was the last winger who surpassed his capabilities at Town. Watch me laugh my arse off if anybody suggests VLP. 🤪 Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't
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Post by arry11 on Jul 12, 2024 14:41:10 GMT 1
Just interested, since you and other fans have such a high bar for someone who fills Sorba's position, who was the last winger who surpassed his capabilities at Town. Watch me laugh my arse off if anybody suggests VLP. 🤪 Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't I would struggle to find a player with worse stats than VLP.
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Jul 12, 2024 14:42:25 GMT 1
In terms of 'attitude problems' in any working group, more often than not they're due to poor/weak leadership. The role of a manager is to stamp out 'attitude problems' and develop a cohesive unit. I'd suggest that Darren Moore, in particular, might have been a poor/weak leader who lost control of his staff; comprised of young, rich, self-important men who he needed to have a tight grip on. If Duff has sorted things out behind the scenes then we should absolutely look to keep hold of Sorba. He'll be great in League 1. The first bit is bang on. Strong leadership will be able to identify and isolate poor attitudes and be able to keep the rest of the group performing - in the transfer window they'll surely get rid of them as well. Some tricky characters could be led astray by bad eggs when the leadership is absent or weak. That could be Sorba - he certainly grafted his bollocks off for almost all of the season.
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on Jul 12, 2024 14:45:39 GMT 1
Just interested, since you and other fans have such a high bar for someone who fills Sorba's position, who was the last winger who surpassed his capabilities at Town. Watch me laugh my arse off if anybody suggests VLP. 🤪 Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't VLP served one purpose. He got us up the field. He could pick the ball up in our defensive third and get us into the attacking third. Other than that he offered fuck all. That's why he spent the last season before moving back to Holland in the Greek third division. 102 games for us, 7 goals, 5 assists. as winger's stats go that 's pretty poor. Sorba has played 135 games for us, 7 goals, 31 assists. Pilkington played 125 for us, scored 25, 18 assists. Gary Roberts played 192, scored 39, with 52 assists.
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Post by yellowbelly on Jul 12, 2024 14:46:26 GMT 1
Cock O the North is Sorba !
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Post by Terriersmad on Jul 12, 2024 14:46:26 GMT 1
Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't I would struggle to find a player with worse stats than VLP. And yet so important to the way we played while we won promotion, and key in that first year up. So good at relieving pressure, even if he was so frustrating with his use of the ball. If it appeared in stats, it'd probably be called something like 'transitional runs' or some such.
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Post by billy143 on Jul 12, 2024 14:52:49 GMT 1
Too many egg puns, one is an oeuf
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Post by bluestripe on Jul 12, 2024 15:05:22 GMT 1
Just interested, since you and other fans have such a high bar for someone who fills Sorba's position, who was the last winger who surpassed his capabilities at Town. Watch me laugh my arse off if anybody suggests VLP. 🤪 Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't But you think Steve Mounié is not League 1 standard. I rest my case, m'lud 🤪 Having said that, it is not totally surprising you can't see the qualities of Big Steve, given all he had to feed off were scraps and cul de sac step overs from VLP. 🤪
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Post by BLUE&WHITE on Jul 12, 2024 15:25:38 GMT 1
Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't VLP served one purpose. He got us up the field. He could pick the ball up in our defensive third and get us into the attacking third. Other than that he offered fuck all. That's why he spent the last season before moving back to Holland in the Greek third division. 102 games for us, 7 goals, 5 assists. as winger's stats go that 's pretty poor. Sorba has played 135 games for us, 7 goals, 31 assists. Pilkington played 125 for us, scored 25, 18 assists. Gary Roberts played 192, scored 39, with 52 assists. Reminder about how good Roberts actually was.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Jul 12, 2024 15:27:39 GMT 1
VLP served one purpose. He got us up the field. He could pick the ball up in our defensive third and get us into the attacking third. Other than that he offered fuck all. That's why he spent the last season before moving back to Holland in the Greek third division. 102 games for us, 7 goals, 5 assists. as winger's stats go that 's pretty poor. Sorba has played 135 games for us, 7 goals, 31 assists. Pilkington played 125 for us, scored 25, 18 assists. Gary Roberts played 192, scored 39, with 52 assists. Reminder about how good Roberts actually was. roberts and pilks were class , supplying and scoring goals.
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Post by kirkheatonterrier on Jul 12, 2024 15:32:13 GMT 1
And they didn't take all the corners and free kicks either
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Post by Convictatthemac on Jul 12, 2024 15:46:16 GMT 1
TBF, the new midfielders Evans and Kane both seems decent on set pieces, however they both also seem to be able to hit a long range bomb, so I wouldn’t want to waste them on corners, I’d rather have them patrolling around the edge of the box for the second ball or a nice worked set piece. Sorba providing the ball from the corner is still the best option in my opinion.
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Post by rockwall on Jul 12, 2024 15:47:51 GMT 1
VLP served one purpose. He got us up the field. He could pick the ball up in our defensive third and get us into the attacking third. Other than that he offered fuck all. That's why he spent the last season before moving back to Holland in the Greek third division. 102 games for us, 7 goals, 5 assists. as winger's stats go that 's pretty poor. Sorba has played 135 games for us, 7 goals, 31 assists. Pilkington played 125 for us, scored 25, 18 assists. Gary Roberts played 192, scored 39, with 52 assists. Reminder about how good Roberts actually was. In my top 5 favourite players. Him and Pilks supplying Rhodes and Novak was so exciting.
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Post by Big Ern on Jul 12, 2024 15:59:55 GMT 1
VLP served one purpose. He got us up the field. He could pick the ball up in our defensive third and get us into the attacking third. Other than that he offered fuck all. That's why he spent the last season before moving back to Holland in the Greek third division. 102 games for us, 7 goals, 5 assists. as winger's stats go that 's pretty poor. Sorba has played 135 games for us, 7 goals, 31 assists. Pilkington played 125 for us, scored 25, 18 assists. Gary Roberts played 192, scored 39, with 52 assists. Reminder about how good Roberts actually was. One of the most underrated town players of the last 20 years. I saw him a few weeks ago at a golf resort in Spain with all the Chesterfield team. His massive lugs stuck out like a sharks fin in that pool.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2024 16:11:01 GMT 1
I was at the pub last night and some bloke said apparently West Brom want Sorba? Any truth in this. He was a sheff wed fan!
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Post by merseysideterrier on Jul 12, 2024 16:11:36 GMT 1
Let’s hope Thomas isn’t poached. Oooh cracking post Meh, it was all white
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Post by shawsie on Jul 12, 2024 16:21:32 GMT 1
Name a better one (than VLP)? You can't I would struggle to find a player with worse stats than VLP. The two sprinters who some thought would pillage the championship must be up there, along with Ramadhan bloody Sobhi!!!
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