Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
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dembethewarrior
What minute did we time his mazy run at? Sure that was after 60 mins.
You mean the one when he fell over and got booked for diving?
Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
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surge
Bale was cramped up against Croatia at home for (what felt like) the last 10 minutes and even if he had one more run in him I wouldn't say he was able to handle pace of the game for that period. Tyler Roberts came on and pretty much said you move here so I can do the running you can't do any more. I don't particularly have a view on Tomlin last night but not sure I'd be bragging that I made one run after 60 minutes if I were him.
He isn’t. But a few of us are pointing out he did something after that minute marker, to help those that said he was basically useless after that time.
Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
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LeningradCowboy
You mean the one when he fell over and got booked for diving?
Nope
Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
It’s a bit disheartening when fans have a dig at the one player who has the ability to get us out of our seats, the one player who does go on a mazy run (ok, he got booked but we were all loving his beating two or three opponents), the player whose tight control in the box set up Madine, the player we all hope would take a free kick within shooting range whether it was the first or ninety first minute. It the Lee Tomlin type players that keeps my interest in football alive.
Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
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splott parker
It’s a bit disheartening when fans have a dig at the one player who has the ability to get us out of our seats, the one player who does go on a mazy run (ok, he got booked but we were all loving his beating two or three opponents), the player whose tight control in the box set up Madine, the player we all hope would take a free kick within shooting range whether it was the first or ninety first minute. It the Lee Tomlin type players that keeps my interest in football alive.
Baffles me as well.
Let’s swap him for Don Cowie.
Re: What a terrible, desperately-boring game...
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the other bob wilson
This post just proves how low expectations have dropped when it comes to rating centre forwards at Cardiff City. Yes, it was a great flick by him for the goal and it means people like you finally have something else besides headers to set up goals at Sheffield United and Ipswich and the fact that you don't think he missed a penalty against Wolves because his feeble effort was saved (and, anyway, it was a better missed penalty than Junior Hoilett's a few minutes later :hehe:) to try to show that he is worth the £6 million we paid for him nearly two years ago - based on all of the facts, Madine has been an awful signing as three assists and no goal proves.
I thought he was poor overall last night and that came after what I rated as a promising showing at Charlton where, for a period in the first half in particular, he was a real nuisance to their centrebacks.
It seemed to me that he mistimed an awful lot of jumps last night and so was nowhere near the ball when it reached him. I will say that anyone who has played up front for City in recent seasons deserves a degree of sympathy because it is a thankless task for most of the time and I applauded Madine when he came off because he's a City player and I did think he put the effort in, but at other clubs there wouldn't be the sort of clutching at straws with him that you are indulging in and I'd have Danny Ward back in the starting line up at Forest at Madine's expense based on his performance last night.
This is exactly right. :thumbup: