grebes Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 A all round top bloke, great player and great servant to BCFC. Wishing Liam Fontaine huge success in the Scottish Cup Final today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty Swallocks Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Jog on... c'mon the mighty 'Gers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 The use of superlatives in modern everyday language to describe ordinary things, really irritates me. Great player? No, just average. Great SERVANT to City? No, did us a great dis-service with his inept performances in the last two or three years here. And very well paid for this averageness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 15 minutes ago, cidered abroad said: The use of superlatives in modern everyday language to describe ordinary things, really irritates me. Great player? No, just average. Great SERVANT to City? No, did us a great dis-service with his inept performances in the last two or three years here. And very well paid for this averageness! In the OP's defence, Fonts was part of a City team that finished 4th in the second tier of English football (24/92, a higher finish in the 92 than any team of the Atyeo era, for example) and came as close as any City team other than the 75/6 one and the 1906 one to reach the top division, a rare feat in these parts. For younger fans, cidered, that is a great City team. I would suggest for all of us, it is too. How we would love to see that level of "averageness" again! The players that trundle about in L1/Div 3 are generally average by my reckoning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 "Great player"?! Has the bar for "great" ever been lower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Come on Hibs! I don't really care tbh but good luck Fonts #RobboredSaysZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 1 hour ago, grebes said: A all round top bloke, great player and great servant to BCFC He might a top bloke but "great player?"......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotham Brow Red Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 1 hour ago, grebes said: A all round top bloke, great player and great servant to BCFC. Wishing Liam Fontaine huge success in the Scottish Cup Final today. Cheers Fonts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Coventry away at Sixfields. The day Fonts thought the ball was a hand grenade. Wow. Great player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelRobartes Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 G'wan Fonts, g'wan Hibs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 More of a grate player tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 I think people's judgement are clouded by those last 2 seasons where his confidence was shot to pieces. At one point he was a great player and one of the first names on the team sheet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 10 minutes ago, MarcusX said: I think people's judgement are clouded by those last 2 seasons where his confidence was shot to pieces. At one point he was a great player and one of the first names on the team sheet Sorry but being one of the first names on the team sheet doesn't necessarily mean he was ever great. In the same way that being called into the Wales squad doesn't automatically make you a great striker. All depends on the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 14 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said: Sorry but being one of the first names on the team sheet doesn't necessarily mean he was ever great. In the same way that being called into the Wales squad doesn't automatically make you a great striker. All depends on the competition. FirSt name on the team sheet in a promotion winning team, and then in a play off final season. What more could he do?? Southampton wanted to pay £1m for him, he was clearly a very good player at that time. Who knows what the breakdown of that deal did to Fontaine mentally? Probably the reason of his turn in form after that time. i think it's terrible how a player who was a key part in a very good couple of seasons for this club gets insulted so heavily when it goes wrong. No doubting his performances deteriorated rapidly for us, but there's also no doubting that at one stage he was a great player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 26 minutes ago, MarcusX said: FirSt name on the team sheet in a promotion winning team, and then in a play off final season. What more could he do?? Southampton wanted to pay £1m for him, he was clearly a very good player at that time. Who knows what the breakdown of that deal did to Fontaine mentally? Probably the reason of his turn in form after that time. i think it's terrible how a player who was a key part in a very good couple of seasons for this club gets insulted so heavily when it goes wrong. No doubting his performances deteriorated rapidly for us, but there's also no doubting that at one stage he was a great player. Derek Williams was virtually ever-present in our more recent promotion-winning side. Is he a great player? Truly great players are great for more than "at one stage" of their career and wouldn't result in the sort of split opinions we are seeing on this thread. They are unanimously loved. Ask if George Best was a great player on the Man Utd forum and would the response be mixed? In fact I wouldn't say we had any "great" players in the 06/07 squad. It was a collective success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citywest30 Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 4 hours ago, cidered abroad said: The use of superlatives in modern everyday language to describe ordinary things, really irritates me. Great player? No, just average. Great SERVANT to City? No, did us a great dis-service with his inept performances in the last two or three years here. And very well paid for this averageness! Don't mean to be picky but he used 'great' as an adjective. The superlative would have been 'greatest'. Now I guess he didn't use that as that would be pushing it but I can see why some would describe him as a great servant even if maybe not a great player. All about opinions tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityred exile Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 hes having a good game ! anybody on here notied 2 of our former loanies also playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Get in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Skin Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Well done Fonts. We'll done Hibs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Tee hee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 All kicking off . Fans fighting. Crossbars being snapped now horses on pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordie Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said: All kicking off . Fans fighting. Crossbars being snapped now horses on pitch Rovers aren't playing are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballwinningcentrehalf Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Fantastic game. Well deserved victory for Hibs. Crazy scenes at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordie Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 2 minutes ago, ballwinningcentrehalf said: Fantastic game. Well deserved victory for Hibs. Crazy scenes at the end. Agreed on both points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Well deserved Hibs were far better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawe Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Rangers to join the Football League? It's a no, for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Skin Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Stokes was on fire. Like the look of John McGinn. Hope we are in for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballwinningcentrehalf Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Today only strengthened my feelings that John McGinn could be a decent acquisition for us this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 What were Rangers fans doing on the pitch? terribly bad losers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miah Dennehy Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 7 hours ago, Betty Swallocks said: Jog on... c'mon the mighty 'Gers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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