Peter Crouch is.....

Dwallace said:

:clap:WOW we actually have a spurs fan with good footballing knowledge and a good footballing brain. Be careful though mate that can get you into a lot of trouble on this forum.:wink: Anyway your spot on to cut a long story short he isn’t good enough and he should never ever of been a spurs player. All these comments about his England caps and scoring record is laughable. Before people bleat on about his fantastic scoring record for England look at the teams he has scored against 3 goals against the footballing giants of Jamica spring to mind.

The only manager who rates this guy his arry the rest of the managers who bought him couldn't get rid of him quick enough. He is a player than you bring on in games in the last 5-10 minutes to get you a goal when all else has failed. Not a player you lump balls up to when you have squad packed full of good technical players that are capable imo of competing with any side in the premiership when it comes to playing football. It saddens me that we play football the way we do when he is in he side. Tbh I don't see Arsenal with Chamakh and Chelsea with Drogba playing ugly long balls to their CF's. It's exactly the reason why I never wanted Arry or Crouchie in the first place. We look like an old school English prehistoric football side ala Wimbeldon or Bolton if we didn't have good players I might understand it but we do it’s a tragedy.

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michaelden said:

how about goals overall or goals per minute played

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Donki said:

Have no idea but I am presumed it was goals overall, it just shows that he can head the ball dispite some slighty OTT comments on here.

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EastLondonYid said:

Wow.......what a load crap....

Crouch i agree is not a real top striker, and once defoe is back, harry we pair him up with VDV, but to suggest we play prehistoric football is utter bollocks!!!!

oh, and on the fact that Harry is the only boss who believes in crouch...and has bought him over and over again.....doesn't that really apply to defoe too?:shrug: how many times has harry taken defoe?...
and how many other managers have messed jermaine about?
that doesn't prove jack shit...

crouch is a good squad player, and a decent pro, he always gives 100%, never moans, and is well liked by his teamates...
i do think he will be used as an impact sub when defoe is back, but all the flack he gets is abot OTT.

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sidford said:

Crouch has scored 10 goals in his last 84 premier league over 3 seasons, how can that be good enough?!

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ethanedwards said:

We need an upgrade, as none of our strikers are good enough at the highest level, to compliment VDV. Darren Bent will probably score more league goals in 2010 than our esteemed strikers, which sums it all up for me.

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ethanedwards said:

We are basically a team that doesn't score enough goals, especially from our forwards. In the premiership for the calender year 2010 we have scored 36 goals in 27 games. Crouch, Defoe and Pav have contributed a grand total of 14, with Pav tops with 6. We need an upgrade, as none of our strikers are good enough at the highest level, to compliment VDV. Darren Bent will probably score more league goals in 2010 than our esteemed strikers, which sums it all up for me.

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tommyt said:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/oct/25/five-things-we-learned-this-weekend

Don't know if this has been posted...

1) The Premier League can deal with Peter Crouch

Crouch had a peculiar game against Everton on Saturday. Aggressively double marked at set pieces, with one defender in front and one behind, he was repeatedly buffeted to the ground as the ball was delivered, losing out not by foul play but by his own inability to compete at the jostling and ground-standing aspects of what is still a contact sport. By the end Crouch appeared to have spent most of the game either flat on his back or appealing to the referee for a (non-existent) foul. He did set up Rafael van der Vaart's tap-in with a deflection off his thigh. He also never stopped trying. But the increasing impression is that Crouch may be a busted flush at this level.


Here are the headline stats: in the past three seasons Crouch has scored 10 goals in 84 Premier League matches. :rofl: In other competitions, against teams less familiar with his strength and weaknesses, he has scored 22 goals in 37 games. This is an astonishing disparity in strike rates, particularly given that most "other" games are either internationals or European matches. It suggests that Premier League teams know how to cope with Crouch; that as a player he has failed to develop new strings and tricks; and that perhaps he is now finding it difficult physically. We don't have much insight into the effects of age on the Crouch-style physique, mainly because the Crouch-style physique is pretty much confined to one man: Crouch. But at 29 the lack of pace looks to be becoming chronic. He seems less flexible too. Perhaps we should simply be praising Crouch's ability to extract a fine career against the odds. But the facts are plain: over the past three years Crouch has been the scourge of strangers while among friends he fails to make a mark.

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nailsy said:

What's surprising to me is that so many people on here are giving Crouch grief while all the football pundits are saying how good an understanding he's got with VDV and how Defoe may struggle to get back in the team.

For me Crouch is a good squad player and I'd hate us to sell him. The modern day squad should be full of players who give you different options and Crouch is almost unique. He's not world class, and he's never going to score 20 goals in a season but he is a decent enough premier league striker who causes teams problems and creates chances for his team mates. He's off form at the moment, but he's also playing in a system that is different to the one he's used to. Don't forget that he's also had off the pitch problems which, whilst his own doing, may be affecting his form. Hopefully he'll score a goal soon and we'll see him return to form - may-be with the winner against Utd or Inter.

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Vedi86 said:

Just almost :grin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLCOaYB5Z8

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tommyt said:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/oct/25/five-things-we-learned-this-weekend

Don't know if this has been posted...

1) The Premier League can deal with Peter Crouch

Crouch had a peculiar game against Everton on Saturday. Aggressively double marked at set pieces, with one defender in front and one behind, he was repeatedly buffeted to the ground as the ball was delivered, losing out not by foul play but by his own inability to compete at the jostling and ground-standing aspects of what is still a contact sport. By the end Crouch appeared to have spent most of the game either flat on his back or appealing to the referee for a (non-existent) foul. He did set up Rafael van der Vaart's tap-in with a deflection off his thigh. He also never stopped trying. But the increasing impression is that Crouch may be a busted flush at this level.


Here are the headline stats: in the past three seasons Crouch has scored 10 goals in 84 Premier League matches. In other competitions, against teams less familiar with his strength and weaknesses, he has scored 22 goals in 37 games. This is an astonishing disparity in strike rates, particularly given that most "other" games are either internationals or European matches. It suggests that Premier League teams know how to cope with Crouch; that as a player he has failed to develop new strings and tricks; and that perhaps he is now finding it difficult physically. We don't have much insight into the effects of age on the Crouch-style physique, mainly because the Crouch-style physique is pretty much confined to one man: Crouch. But at 29 the lack of pace looks to be becoming chronic. He seems less flexible too. Perhaps we should simply be praising Crouch's ability to extract a fine career against the odds. But the facts are plain: over the past three years Crouch has been the scourge of strangers while among friends he fails to make a mark.

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Stoof said:

I expect it's been said over 11 pages, but I expect in and amongst the "OMGZ!! HE'S DA BEST" and the "FUCK SAKE CROUCH YOU SHOULD HAVE 150 GOALS BY NOW YOU PLANK", there's something of the "he's scored important goals, missed quite a few chances, been fairly unlucky for not getting awarded free-kicks, set-up important goals but ultimately is a poor headerer [actual word] of the ball".

And probably a lot of "good feet for a big man" and "unfortunately causes our defence to lump the ball up to him".

I've always maintained an admiration for Crouch, I think he offers something different. But I like having him on the bench. He's a Plan B for me - and "Plan B" is called that for a reason. It's not Plan A.

However, our Plan A can't include any of our current non-injured strikers. Pav, Crouch and Keane all suffer massively from inconsistency - Defoe does too, but less so in my opinion. So what do we do? Bring on Kranjcar and play a Scottish 4-6-0?? I don't know.

It's a very weird situation to be in. VDV for all his goalscoring and midfield brilliance won't stick in one position, he'll roam. And we saw against Villa that freeing him up and having someone to stay on the right wing was definitely the answer. So we need a loan striker then. In the meantime, dare we give Pav a run in the team? Probably. We've still got two months of this too.

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