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Andy Carroll (now playing for Bordeaux)


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I’ve got no Ill will towards Carroll, good luck to him, I’ve always regarded him as bang average, even when he was in his prime form for us. I always saw severe limitations in his game that would always prevent such a player ever being just more than average. He could have had a far better career, however, but poor attitude to personal lifestyle choices and training and fitness meant that was never going to happen in the end. 

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4 minutes ago, Kanji said:

I love the fella deep down. 

I wanted him so badly to be our new Shearer at the time, a Geordie goalscoring number 9, and again I wish him well, but I just have no real feelings for him as a player or his time at the club. I do love that style of CF though, if he had pace, had a right foot, and a better attitude, he could have been one hell of a player. Ironically he has probably been our most significant player to come through our academy system since it’s formation and yet by all accounts he was nothing special coming up through the ranks. Right place and right time for him at the time you feel, for player and club. 

 

 

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On 30/11/2021 at 23:29, HTT II said:

I wanted him so badly to be our new Shearer at the time, a Geordie goalscoring number 9, and again I wish him well, but I just have no real feelings for him as a player or his time at the club. I do love that style of CF though, if he had pace, had a right foot, and a better attitude, he could have been one hell of a player. Ironically he has probably been our most significant player to come through our academy system since it’s formation and yet by all accounts he was nothing special coming up through the ranks. Right place and right time for him at the time you feel, for player and club. 

 

 

 

 

Didn't he have a loan spell somewhere, where he was absolute pony? Something like 1 goal in 20 games?

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9 minutes ago, Raconteur said:

 

Didn't he have a loan spell somewhere, where he was absolute pony? Something like 1 goal in 20 games?

Aye, again I just think it clicked for him when we went down, for club and player, with the right players around him for his game and the right manager who trusted youth, he wouldn’t have made it otherwise (here at least).

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His left foot was always immense like, he should have been a star. When we sold him I was sure he was going to go to another level. I think it was probably more down to injuries than application that he faded away so quickly 

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