Smal Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Couldn't believe how much he was still managing to sprint back and help Burn out in the second half. Was like the duracell bunny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 To coin an American Football running back phrase. He really is like a pressure release valve. You just know he's going to get you up the pitch or nick a cheap free kick when he gets the ball with a bit of space to run into. Late in the game, I think it was him or possibly someone else that nicked it back. He then carried it 20-30 yards, before making sure he drew the foul. Clever as fuck when it is for your team. Infuriating and borderline cheating when it is against you. Glad he now plays for us every week and it's not twice a season against us. He's relentless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Just to add. Is he going for a club record for yellow cards? Is that 7 in all comps now?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Mag Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 56 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said: Just to add. Is he going for a club record for yellow cards? Is that 7 in all comps now?! That yellow last night was a joke tbf, must have picked up afew of those 7 when they weren’t yellows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeB Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Expected him to turn out great when he signed cos Eddie Howe etc. Christ he’s absolutely superb though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Grand Old Team to a man said he was basically shite and they’d ripped us off. Absolute clowns. Normally I trust other supporters to know their players but they didn’t rate Gordon despite him having an amazing breakthrough season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianSwan Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Don't forget, Thomas Tuchel really tried hard to get him for Chelsea when he was there. I saw videos at that time from 'football experts' highlighting how hard Gordan works off the ball and how his pressing would be great for a Tuchel team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 2 hours ago, Lush Vlad said: Just to add. Is he going for a club record for yellow cards? Is that 7 in all comps now?! Tiote RIP is at #1 right? Big Joe in at #2? You get 3 game suspension in the league for 15. Think Tiote managed it one year. Joelinton got close. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, gbandit said: Grand Old Team to a man said he was basically shite and they’d ripped us off. Absolute clowns. Normally I trust other supporters to know their players but they didn’t rate Gordon despite him having an amazing breakthrough season A lot of their hardcore fan base were just emotionally twisted against him, from the incident with the fans blocking him in and deciding he wasn’t trying for their club. He was the only shining light in that awful side of theirs at the time, and it’s why he was the only one to move for decent money when they needed to sell because they are financially fucked. Edited October 5, 2023 by Nine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 5 minutes ago, Nine said: A lot of their hardcore fan base were just emotionally twisted against him, from the incident with the fans blocking him in and deciding he wasn’t trying for their club. He was the only shining light in that awful side of theirs at the time, and it’s why he was the only one to move for decent money when they needed to sell because they are financially fucked. Not so sure, I read pages and pages of them laughing at us and saying they’d absolutely robbed us. Genuinely think during his second season they started to not rate him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Just now, gbandit said: Not so sure, I read pages and pages of them laughing at us and saying they’d absolutely robbed us. Genuinely think during his second season they started to not rate him I mean, it would be hard for most players to look good in that shambles of a team as it was at the time but if they genuinely thought they ‘robbed us’ that is hilarious. Just another case of a negatively emotional set of football fans failing to see the wood for the trees.. and we got a bargain out of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 1 hour ago, The College Dropout said: Tiote RIP is at #1 right? Big Joe in at #2? You get 3 game suspension in the league for 15. Think Tiote managed it one year. Joelinton got close. Tiote only got 14 because Pardew didn’t play in the last game (or two?) of that season so he wouldn’t be suspended at the start of the next season. Perch got 5 in his first 5 games for us, which was quite some going. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 He’s the perfect example of why we should trust the transfer process at the club now. It’s obvious just how much “someone” wanted him and everyone is now seeing why. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 7 hours ago, Smal said: Couldn't believe how much he was still managing to sprint back and help Burn out in the second half. Was like the duracell bunny. Aye his workrate is tremendous like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 His repeated sprint ability across 90 minutes is something to behold, like. It's even more impressive when you consider he was pretty much done in after an hour last season. He's put some serious graft in over the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 It's the same Everton fans who made death threat bed sheets against Benitez when he signed. There's a large portion of their fan base which is mentally unhinged. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 16 hours ago, Nine said: I mean, it would be hard for most players to look good in that shambles of a team as it was at the time but if they genuinely thought they ‘robbed us’ that is hilarious. Just another case of a negatively emotional set of football fans failing to see the wood for the trees.. and we got a bargain out of it. Most people on here thought they had robbed us at the time too to be fair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Matt1892 said: Most people on here thought they had robbed us at the time too to be fair. Because he squared up to Trippier, is generally an infuriating player to watch your team play against and was deemed unlikeable. So slightly different reasons for our sides emotional reaction to him but it’s good to see it’s wearing off now. Edited October 6, 2023 by Nine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 5 minutes ago, Nine said: Because he squared up to Trippier, is generally an infuriating player to watch your team play against and was deemed unlikeable. So slightly different reasons for our sides emotional reaction to him but it’s good to see it’s wearing off now. Him not being likeable to opposition fans played a part but there was a lot of people who felt we overpaid for him and that he had not showed anything to justify the fee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Matt1892 said: Him not being likeable to opposition fans played a part but there was a lot of people who felt we overpaid for him and that he had not showed anything to justify the fee. What I mean is, fan opinion on his ability was clouded because of the reasons I mentioned.. but yes you could argue that he was an unknown quantity at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 That season they basically had Maupay who never scored and DCL almost permanently crocked. He could of done all the same stuff but they didn’t have the players to take advantage of it. Also as a local lad he was an absolute lightning rod for any criticism. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Vinegar Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 05/10/2023 at 11:42, Lush Vlad said: To coin an American Football running back phrase. He really is like a pressure release valve. You just know he's going to get you up the pitch or nick a cheap free kick when he gets the ball with a bit of space to run into. Late in the game, I think it was him or possibly someone else that nicked it back. He then carried it 20-30 yards, before making sure he drew the foul. Clever as fuck when it is for your team. Infuriating and borderline cheating when it is against you. Glad he now plays for us every week and it's not twice a season against us. He's relentless. This is so important, he did it a couple of times at 3-1 towards the end of the PSG game. Gives us such a tactical advantage, opposition teams can't be sloppy because we'll nick the ball, get it to Gordon and they'll have to choose between fouling him and disrupting momentum or letting him run at the defence. It's the sort of little extra dimension that good teams have. Obviously he does lots of other stuff well, but I've really noticed this in a few games and it is a massive boost for us imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 4 minutes ago, Ed Vinegar said: This is so important, he did it a couple of times at 3-1 towards the end of the PSG game. Gives us such a tactical advantage, opposition teams can't be sloppy because we'll nick the ball, get it to Gordon and they'll have to choose between fouling him and disrupting momentum or letting him run at the defence. It's the sort of little extra dimension that good teams have. Obviously he does lots of other stuff well, but I've really noticed this in a few games and it is a massive boost for us imo. Another one for the “shithousery” manual! Every little helps. The lad is just going to get better too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Could he get a call up with the Saka injury? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 minute ago, GeordieDazzler said: Could he get a call up with the Saka injury? Doubt it under Southgate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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