Andy Carroll (now playing for Bordeaux)

[Joey Linton]

Quite the achievement that his transfer has actually managed to turn out even worse than most anticipated. 

[WarrenBartonCentrePartin]

It's the people who run fan YouTube channels and questionable notables on Twitter I feel sorry for. They seemed to love him. They'll be gutted.

Us folk with half a brain realised it was a horrendous attempt at positive PR that thankfully fell flat on its knees into the sodden turf (figuratively - and literally in Andrew Thomas Carroll's case).

[Joey Linton]

[Segun Oluwaniyi]

15 minutes ago, Inferior Acuña said:

Set up Shelvey at Sheff U too - think maybe a few more assists?

My main memory is the header that hit Dier's arm to give Newcastle a nonsense point against Spurs. I suppose that would be an assist as well.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I’m genuinely amazed we didn’t offer him a new deal. 

[ToonArmy1892]

7 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I’m genuinely amazed we didn’t offer him a new deal. 

I am aswell.

#cans

[Guest]

What an absolute car crash of a signing. Joelinton gets the stick because he cost £40m but we’ve wasted a squad place on this bloke who’s made a couple of million from us doing fuck all.

[Yorkie]

Signing was a fucking insult tbh. I've nowt against the bloke himself and I'll always have extremely fond memories of 2009-2011, when he was turning into a monster of a striker, and I hope he manages to have a decent rest of his career somewhere where his physical limitations aren't laid to bare so starkly. But it was a pisstake of a signing; as disingenuous as the man who brought him here. Done just to appease, poorly masked as some great homecoming that the Geordies would love, along with their new Geordie manager. Just proper bullshit. 

[NEEJ]

Good night sweet prince. 

[toon25]

He turned to absolute shit after that move to Liverpool and went rapidly downhill from there 

[ToonArmy1892]

I keep thinking released from prison when reading the title.

[Joey Linton]

4 minutes ago, ToonArmy1892 said:

I keep thinking released from prison when reading the title.

Probably the only thing about him that's actually improved over the last ten years, his off field behaviour.

[Beth]

Even Gateshead wouldn't take this fucker on for £200 a week.

[Pons Alias]

The bloke was bang average here, was sold on the back of a very decent half season and never ever recaptured that form.

David Kelly was a much better striker.

 

 

[Guest]

Kelly was a good second tier striker. He only ever scored 6 goals in the top flight.

[RS]

He was a poor mans Duncan Ferguson. Ridiculous money spent on him over his career. 

[Scotty66]

Should never have left to join Liverpool. Was genuinely gutted when he did and with hindsight he'd have had such a better playing career staying here. Was a quality player then and caused problems for just about every defender we played against. 

Weird that for a player that never relied on pace and just had pure strength and aerial power his career went downhill so fast. Unfortunately that was all the injury problems though and not his own game style. 

[Yorkie]

Thing is although he wasn't rapid he wasn't glacial, like some forwards with his height and general physique. He could get past a defender, or could at least nip in ahead with a crucial touch. His close control was pretty good too. 

[Kanj]

He should just retire and enjoy his lovely family, maybe get into coaching in the North East or something. 

[Beth]

1 hour ago, Kanji said:

He should just retire and enjoy his lovely family, maybe get into coaching in the North East or something. 

I could be wrong but I doubt he will have been financially astute with his money.

[Guest]

Going from his Instagram he has a big family so I imagine he’s been clever enough to set himself and family up for life.

[toontownman]

He played the Kuqi role upon his return. Still, more useful in all round play than Gayle.

[Abacus]

He had phenomenal talent in the air, some of his headers were out of this world.

Obviously injuries took a huge toll, but I do wonder if we'll see a player like him again. The big man centre forward has gone out of vogue (but would clearly appeal to someone living in the past, like Bruce).

But in general, with all this talk of heading the ball leading to brain injuries and being discouraged at youth training level, you can't see that style of player coming through again.

Wish him all the best, though. He clearly wanted to play for us and did his best. I'll always remember the championship promotion season, where we won 1-0 away at Doncaster with him scoring, when he'd got a plaster on his arm after a punch up ?

[Abacus]

The other thing I remember about that Doncaster game was finding out about Carroll's broken hand on the coach on the way down there, and that all the coaches were diverted to pile into Ripon until the police would let them head down the motorway to get to the actual stadium.

It was a midweek game, and so some random midweek afternoon, a few sleepy country pubs in that town got absolutely flooded with fans. I remember there was one local old fellow sat on a stool by the bar, when suddenly he was surrounded by people singing and downing pints at a rate of knots.

The funniest part was when the landlord burst out of the toilets like there had been a murder, yelling "Right - everybody stop! Who's done it? I'm calling the police!"

"Who's done what?" came the cry

"Who's done it? Own up! Who's nicked the bogs?"

And sure enough, a whole urinal trough had gone missing since we'd got there

There was a pause.

And despite the fact there was still only that confused old local man sat on his stool who was not wearing a Newcastle top, someone piped up with

"How dare you, you're only blaming us because we're from Newcastle" 

I still have no idea how someone stole a toilet in plain sight. Or why.

[Superior Acuña]

4 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Thing is although he wasn't rapid he wasn't glacial, like some forwards with his height and general physique. He could get past a defender, or could at least nip in ahead with a crucial touch. His close control was pretty good too. 

Yeah, that was one of the things that him seem exciting back then - he wasn't just a lump it up to the big man. He was very good in the air, he had all that, but he was good with the ball at his feet too.

 

Although it was the second tier, that Doncaster game is a good example of him with the ball at his feet.

 

 

Edited June 6, 2021 by Inferior Acuña