Guest firetotheworks Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Michael Owen. As if there's even any real contest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes_End_Mag Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Michael Owen. As if there's even any real contest. Don't let TWD hear you say that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Michael Owen. As if there's even any real contest. I'm speaking purely in terms of talent, here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Alan Smith He was good player for Leeds for a season or two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Generally a good player until he broke his ankle or something. Took me awhile to figure out who A.Smith was. Sounds like a regen. THE Alan Smith scoring goals is absurd. That list, all of those players had long peaked by 28 for various reasons. Seems a nob but I hope Ali can bump the trend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Correct. He was acceptable at Man U, until Risse from Liverpool managed to shatter his leg with a shot. He never recovered and NUFC bought the damaged goods, as per usual in that era of the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 That injury and Fergie turning him into a midfielder is what ruined him. Best performance for us was in a 1-1 home draw v Arsenal, despite playing his back to goal for the whole game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Scored on his debut in a friendly against Sampdoria iirc then never scored again for us He was made caretaker manager at Notts County this week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Scored on his debut in a friendly against Sampdoria iirc then never scored again for us He was made caretaker manager at Notts County this week Yes, that was an I was there moment. Good header as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Michael Owen. As if there's even any real contest. I'm speaking purely in terms of talent, here. Sorry, I was responding to Nobody and forgot to quote. I agree though, I'm finding it difficult to think of anyone worse who played regularly. There are players like Amdy Faye, Mike Hooper, Matty Pattison, Stephen Carr, Boumsong and Nicky Butt who all ran him fairly close mind, if for shorter amounts of time. Give Colback a couple of years and the hate will be at the same level probably, not that I think he has a chance of that providing Rafa's here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Correct. He was acceptable at Man U, until Risse from Liverpool managed to shatter his leg with a shot. He never recovered and NUFC bought the damaged goods, as per usual in that era of the club. I dunno if this is a really niche joke about how Lawrenson kept insisting that that's what happened (when it was clearly his other leg) or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Wasn't Smith just an average forward overhyped to death becuase Leeds did fairly well at the time. Viduka was better and he was hardly a worldbeater. Like turning Kevin Doyle into a defensive midfielder and being surprised when he turns out to be the worst footballer ever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Aye, I know Colback's shit but people saying he's the worst player they've ever seen for us is to forget Alan Smith. I preferred Smith tbh, he was a dreadful player but at least he looked like he wanted to win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Michael Owen. As if there's even any real contest. I'm speaking purely in terms of talent, here. Sorry, I was responding to Nobody and forgot to quote. I agree though, I'm finding it difficult to think of anyone worse who played regularly. There are players like Amdy Faye, Mike Hooper, Matty Pattison, Stephen Carr, Boumsong and Nicky Butt who all ran him fairly close mind, if for shorter amounts of time. Give Colback a couple of years and the hate will be at the same level probably, not that I think he has a chance of that providing Rafa's here. Owen at least scored some goals for us. Aye, he cost more and was a captain that couldn't give less of a fuck about us, still hate Smith's faux hard worker bull shit more though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Scored close to 20 goals in a single season as a teenager iirc.. perhaps some big ones in Europe too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The only reason I hated Owen was that he didn't want to be here and was always pining for the Liverpool shirt which he gave up himself when he thought the glory days were over. Other than that, there was no doubting his talent. The little fucking shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Owen is the worst. Smith was an inferior player by a long way but Owen is the worst. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The only reason I hated Owen was that he didn't want to be here and was always pining for the Liverpool shirt which he gave up himself when he thought the glory days were over. Other than that, there was no doubting his talent. The little fucking shit. Disagree with that like, with us at least. In 08/09 he was pitiful and spineless. I'll never forget that one on one vs Portsmouth and him trickling it straight at David James. For me Owen was a good finisher with incredible pace. Once that pace went he was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary and had nothing but finishing to offer. I'm bias like, I've always preferred slow, skillful. intelligent players, over fast players who don't really need to think beyond 'run fast' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The only reason I hated Owen was that he didn't want to be here and was always pining for the Liverpool shirt which he gave up himself when he thought the glory days were over. Other than that, there was no doubting his talent. The little fucking shit. Disagree with that like, with us at least. In 08/09 he was pitiful and spineless. One on one vs Portsmouth and he hits it straight at David James. Owen was a good finisher with incredible pace. Once that pace went he was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. He was still a good finisher, I just felt he didn't put the effort in during the final season after Keegan's efforts to get him a new contract were stonewalled. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Always find it funny how he left Liverpool and next season they won the Champions League. Bet he loved that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Owen is the worst. Smith was an inferior player by a long way but Owen is the worst. Didn't see that much football when Smith was playing (there's a joke in there somewhere!) but was he worse than Des Hamilton? Or for that matter Marcelino? Though neither of them actually played that much (Smith played four times as many games) they both drove me mad. Or what about Billy Askew? Even fewer appearances, but similarly head-scratching levels of shitness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Smith was abominable - managed to brand himself As some sort of enforcer that detracted from his shitness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I'd still take Smith over Colback. Least he had some fire in him. Colback's just gutless, talentess and worthless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/latest-videos/goal-of-the-day-martins-v-tottenham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Viduka was better and he was hardly a worldbeater. Just had a 'Did he? He did didn't he' moment there. Completely forgot he played for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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