Clive Allen "I'm Ready" !

[alextheyid]

oh clivey...hehe joker

 

[dannythomas]

IMO the 87 midfield was more than hugely better. The current team has no one near the quality of Hoddle, Waddle and Ardiles. Paul Allen remained a consistently good player untill the early 90's. We also had an ageing Tony Galvin as back-up.

Bent and Allen are completly different players. I personally think Bent would be better in a team that prefers to play long balls over the top of the opposing defence and use his pace.

(BTW I laughed at your original post ! )[/quote]

Thank you sir. I think Modric may turn out to be a great player. The others plus Lennon are younger than their 87 counterparts and may yet be as good.

 

[thfcsteff]

EDITED...
Also, while I agree that Bent could indeed find far worse people to take pointers about playing as a lone striker than Clive Allen, it's absolutely undeniable to mention that the best football of Darren Bent's career has been played as the lone stiker in a 4-5-1 system (during his Charlton days). So to suggest that he is best suited to playing a role that's NOT as a lone striker in a 4-5-1 doesn't make sense to me. His ineffectiveness in the first two (repeat, two) games of this season has been as much the midfield's fault for not giving him the opportunity to get in behind defences as it has been Bent's fault, IMO.

Err...mate...blame the midfield all you like, the ONLY way to get behind two lines of 4 (which is what we've faced in both games this season) as a lone striker is to punt the ball 65 yards and hope for the best. If you want to play FOOTBALL as our midfield does, then your striker/s need to adapt their game, drop off, drag defenders, all of the above. benty needs to develop his off-the-ball game beyond one thing...time's running out for him to do so...if we'd have had a striker who could bring players into the game we'd have won both matches, come to think of it, if we'd have taken even two of our easy chances missed then we'd have won saturday anyway...

 

[Flatters]

Darren Bent is the most expensive greyhound on this planet.

A fucking terrible bit of business by all.

:roll:

 

[antiloqus]

ok, weird dream last night. firstly i dreamt clive was out on the pitch during warm up showing us his stuff for some promotion or something (not great though!) then i dreamt that we beat chelsea 5-0 with Eto'o and Henry up front (i play as Barca on pro evo you see) i was in the team too & set up the last goal by some fluke header from eto'os spilled shot giving henry a tap in..... maybe i should lay off the cheese :shrug:

 

[Dougal]

it was 52,he scored a hatrick against some german side in a friendly.

If friendlies counted we wouldn't hear so much rubbish about Bent

 

[Dougal]

Dont forget Nico Claeson.

Don’t forget Clive and Paul Allen too.
Richard Gough and Chrissy Waddle,
Gary Mabbutt and Glenn Hoddle,
And Danny all the goals are gonna be for you!

 

[Destroyer]

Don’t forget Clive and Paul Allen too.
Richard Gough and Chrissy Waddle,
Gary Mabbutt and Glenn Hoddle,
And Danny all the goals are gonna be for you!

Hotshot Tottenham.

 

[drjimmy]

I am not too worried about the 'Bent is crap' bit - play to his strengths, before you write a player off......

It's the thought that Jenas is likened to Hoddle/Waddle or Ardiles, that has shocked me! mg:

The guy is hopelessly inconsistent, goes missing when the going gets slightly tough, ensures he is hardly ever in a position to make incisive passes and as a motivotor.........!

No, I won't go on, it's too depressing

 

[mkkid]

If friendlies counted we wouldn't hear so much rubbish about Bent

:rofl::rofl::rofl:,when Darren wins the golden boot,you will be sorry Dougal!

 

[dannythomas]

I am not too worried about the 'Bent is crap' bit - play to his strengths, before you write a player off......

It's the thought that Jenas is likened to Hoddle/Waddle or Ardiles, that has shocked me! mg:

The guy is hopelessly inconsistent, goes missing when the going gets slightly tough, ensures he is hardly ever in a position to make incisive passes and as a motivotor.........!

No, I won't go on, it's too depressing

Jenas can be compared to either Paul Allen or more likely Steve Hodge. Hodge was a midfielder whose main strength was getting into the box. Jenas should be doing the same. When Jenas and Modric played 30 or 40 yards further forward after Sunderland scored we suddenly looked like a team.

 

[roons]

Clive allen thinks bent is crap- fact