Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 What for you is the worst thing about City buying players from abroad ? For me it's the fact that our reputation is becoming more widespread. Before we were an insignificant club in the English league now our dynamism will be talked about in Germany, France , Iceland etc . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 major your title hookerd me you should have put "from" in the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnr1986 Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 Apart from hordur, and maybe Dujric to some degree, none of the foreign players brought in have improved us just filled out what was already a fairly average squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollywhyte Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 3 minutes ago, Johnr1986 said: Apart from hordur, and maybe Dujric to some degree, none of the foreign players brought in have improved us just filled out what was already a fairly average squad Heggler is an extremely good player and I currently have no idea why he joined us. He is literally being dragged down by the players hes surrounded with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bat Fastard Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 Well the foreign players all seem to be very tall, and we have needed to become a bigger team for a while. Hopefully they will improve us when they have settled into the team and into their new home. In patches, most of them have looked like good players - we just need to blend them in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 35 minutes ago, reddoh said: major your title hookerd me you should have put "from" in the title. Perhaps you should have started your sentence and my title with a capital letter, ' hooked ' not ' hookerd' and a pesky little apostrophe to separate ' me ' from ' you ' , whilst we're on the subject of grammar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: Perhaps you should have started your sentence and my title with a capital letter, ' hooked ' not ' hookerd' and a pesky little apostrophe to separate ' me ' from ' you ' , whilst we're on the subject of grammar. Sadly Major thought process 'City buying a broad' hookerd is not a word but was the closest to what I was meaning to point out. On the point of grammar, she like my granddad has sadly passed away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 30 minutes ago, Johnr1986 said: Apart from hordur, and maybe Dujric to some degree, none of the foreign players brought in have improved us just filled out what was already a fairly average squad Does this confirm Geert Mayer & Pertin Jaantunen have been City's best imports from outside the UK? I say UK as we've had some good Scottish, Welsh and Irish players at AG and if they had their way, those countries would be classified as "abroad". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 3 minutes ago, 22A said: Does this confirm Geert Mayer & Pertin Jaantunen have been City's best imports from outside the UK? I say UK as we've had some good Scottish, Welsh and Irish players at AG and if they had their way, those countries would be classified as "abroad". Even though we bought him from Scotland, I would say Jacki was pretty good as was Jan Moller plus I would put Ago as a class above along with Goater from Bermuda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 38 minutes ago, ollywhyte said: Heggler is an extremely good player and I currently have no idea why he joined us. He is literally being dragged down by the players hes surrounded with. Bet that he's probably thinking the same !!! I do smile when posters rave about a new signing , before seeing him play ,because he's played for ..... Played in champions League .... Swedish International ... etc Perhaps I'm a bit cynical but if it appears 'strange' that a player is coming who has a CV that doesn't match our current status I tend to have. A slight worry 'Why's he coming here then' The explanations could be * Believes in the project / club well sold to him (Positive reason) * Money (Negative reason IMO) *His career has hit a bump / slump and he's grateful for a move / hopes he can relaunch himself (Positive reason dependant on outcome) *'Mainly for foreign players (And IMHO a likely attraction) hoping for a route (Via us rather than with us) into the ££££ Premier League (Has potential to be positive or negative dependent on outcome) What if we signed an ex Arsenal First Teamer Or an ex England Centre Forward Two names Gus Caesar Michael Ricketts (I know we didn't sign him but you get my drift) CVs can be misleading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 53 minutes ago, reddoh said: Sadly Major thought process 'City buying a broad' hookerd is not a word but was the closest to what I was meaning to point out. On the point of grammar, she like my granddad has sadly passed away It's not a big deal . I gathered that you were jesting , hence the wink ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 31 minutes ago, 8menhadadream said: Even though we bought him from Scotland, I would say Jacki was pretty good as was Jan Moller plus I would put Ago as a class above along with Goater from Bermuda. Jacki took the piss out of this club and I am amazed that so many people consider him so highly . A disruptive waster . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 1 minute ago, Major Isewater said: It's not a big deal . I gathered that you were jesting , hence the wink ! couldn't resist the old joke Major Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 9 minutes ago, reddoh said: couldn't resist the old joke Major Mrs Reddoh speaks very highly of you . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 Just now, Major Isewater said: Mrs Reddoh speaks very highly of you . no she doesn't :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Major Isewater said: Perhaps you should have started your sentence and my title with a capital letter, ' hooked ' not ' hookerd' and a pesky little apostrophe to separate ' me ' from ' you ' , whilst we're on the subject of grammar. Think you meant comma not apostrophe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 18 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: Jacki took the piss out of this club and I am amazed that so many people consider him so highly . A disruptive waster . Not how I remember him Major but I was probably caught up in the romanticism of the time. Either that or I was pissed at most games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curr Avon Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Major Isewater said: What for you is the worst thing about City buying players from abroad ? For me it's the fact that our reputation is becoming more widespread. Before we were an insignificant club in the English league now our dynamism will be talked about in Germany, France , Iceland etc . In the words of Status Quo, they'll be Mockin' All Over The World! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 58 minutes ago, 22A said: Does this confirm Geert Mayer & Pertin Jaantunen have been City's best imports from outside the UK? I say UK as we've had some good Scottish, Welsh and Irish players at AG and if they had their way, those countries would be classified as "abroad". Ireland is already 'abroad' - who are the good Irish players we've had? Greg Cunningham? Brendan Moloney? Derek Williams (born in Germany?) Gary Keogh (born in Essex)? Andy Keogh? Callum O'Dowda? Alex Pearce (born in Oxfordshire)? Simon Cox (born in Reading)? Paul Heffernan? Ah, there was Liam Munroe, he was born in Dublin and played one game for us in 1957...and Barry Corr from Co.Wicklow played three games for us in 2006...and Eamonn Dolan from Galway played three games for us in 1989...Andy Gara played a few matches for us in 1902/03...Sean McCarthy (not that one) played a few games in 1949....Stephen McLaughlin played five games in 2013... Other than that I'm struggling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears in rain Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 Think the issue is getting adjusted to playing in the championship as well as a cultural change for them. But this takes weeks and there's the issue they can't help the side immediately. Hegeler said he struggled with the idea of always having to be quick at moving the ball and attacking. He likes to slow the game down and go from there. (Still rate him though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 8 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Ireland is already 'abroad' - who are the good Irish players we've had? Greg Cunningham? Brendan Moloney? Derek Williams (born in Germany?) Gary Keogh (born in Essex)? Andy Keogh? Callum O'Dowda? Alex Pearce (born in Oxfordshire)? Simon Cox (born in Reading)? Paul Heffernan? Ah, there was Liam Munroe, he was born in Dublin and played one game for us in 1957...and Barry Corr from Co.Wicklow played three games for us in 2006...and Eamonn Dolan from Galway played three games for us in 1989...Andy Gara played a few matches for us in 1902/03...Sean McCarthy (not that one) played a few games in 1949....Stephen McLaughlin played five games in 2013... Other than that I'm struggling... Anthony Rougier was Irish though his brother Tony was Trinidadian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnr1986 Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 hours ago, ollywhyte said: Heggler is an extremely good player and I currently have no idea why he joined us. He is literally being dragged down by the players hes surrounded with. Can't see what he offers us myself poor mobility not dominant in challenging opposition, and quite happy to let them dictate play, the reason he join us was he was sat on the bench and in some weeks not even on it, so a fairly sensible move for him, I'm sure Wagner at Huddersfield who has signed some great talent from That league would of been keen for the price we got him for, but probably questioned his mobility in the centre of midfield in the championship which in my opinion he lacks, nothing against hegeler clearly a very technical player, but certainly not an improvement on what we already had and our results certainly haven't improved with him in the side . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 37 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said: Anthony Rougier was Irish though his brother Tony was Trinidadian Was that North or south? for the bonus point can you name brothers where one was born in any part of Ireland and the other(s) were born in Trinidad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 57 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Ireland is already 'abroad' - who are the good Irish players we've had? Dermot Curtiss who played inside forward at AG. In 57/58 England played the Irish Republic in the World Cup qualifying group. Curtiss played at Centre Forward for Ireland whilst Atyeo was his counterpart in the England team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 11 minutes ago, reddoh said: Was that North or south? for the bonus point can you name brothers where one was born in any part of Ireland and the other(s) were born in Trinidad? Wild guess - Clinton Morrison ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityloyal473 Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 hours ago, ollywhyte said: Heggler is an extremely good player and I currently have no idea why he joined us. He is literally being dragged down by the players hes surrounded with. Couldn't agree more. He's three passes ahead of the rest of the team. He'll be gone in the summer regardless of what division we are in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 2 hours ago, 8menhadadream said: Not how I remember him Major but I was probably caught up in the romanticism of the time. Either that or I was pissed at most games! Just like the man himself . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 43 minutes ago, cityloyal473 said: Couldn't agree more. He's three passes ahead of the rest of the team. He'll be gone in the summer regardless of what division we are in. What if we make the Prem ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 4 hours ago, Major Isewater said: What for you is the worst thing about City buying players from abroad ? At the moment, probably the exchange rate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityloyal473 Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 35 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: What if we make the Prem ? He'll move to Barca or Real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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