Peter Crouch is.....

[Coyboy]

"Plan B" is called that for a reason. It's not Plan A.

Was that copy and pasted for a job application for ITV Sport?

 

[brendanb50]

I'm not going to slate Crouch as I think he has done enough to earn the respect of our fans with his assists and the few goals he has scored and also his experience in the champions league will be a big help to the rest of the squad but he does have his weaknesses.

Can't generate any power whatsoever in his shot and is easily marked. Saturdays game against Everton proved it. If he is marked out of the game then our chances of scoring go down dramatically as he is our target man at the mo. He is also physically weak so it's easy for him to be shoved out of the way.

We do need at least 2 top quality strikers then I believe we will be almost complete and out of the 4 strikers we have, if I was manager I would sell Crouch and Keane.

Not going to slate him as I said before as without him we most probably would'nt be in the position we are in now and to call him shit is way OTT.

Sums up my thoughts on the big man word for word really.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

The trouble is right now, if Crouch is plan B, then we don't have a plan A, just two plan C's.

I don't get the Crouch knocking. Without Crouch where would we be this season right now? Zero-one point in the CL and hovering mid table in the EPL.

If we had great other options, other strikers who offered more to the team dynamic you could all be on firmer ground but Defoe and Pav are decent strikers who are fucking lightweight footballers.

Crouch right now is the best option we have to get the best out of people like VDV and Bale.

When we sign Ibrahimavich or Torres and REdknapp still picks Crouch you can knock him, until then engage some common sense.

 

[Raxscallion]

The trouble is right now, if Crouch is plan B, then we don't have a plan A, just two plan C's.

I don't get the Crouch knocking. Without Crouch where would we be this season right now? Zero-one point in the CL and hovering mid table in the EPL.

If we had great other options, other strikers who offered more to the team dynamic you could all be on firmer ground but Defoe and Pav are decent strikers who are fucking lightweight footballers.

Crouch right now is the best option we have to get the best out of people like VDV and Bale.

When we sign Ibrahimavich or Torres and REdknapp still picks Crouch you can knock him, until then engage some common sense.

Bloody nora. I agree with BC!

 

[Gassin's finest]

Crouch works bloody hard for the team in every game, takes a lot of punishment from defences, and creates a nuisance for the opposition every time. Many defences may be able to get the measure of him, but he never ever makes it easy for them. Ok he's not Van Basten, or even Berbatov for that matter, but his selflessness and canny knack for scoring important goals means he should get more respect than he's deserving here.

 

[Spurger King]

Crouch works bloody hard for the team in every game, takes a lot of punishment from defences, and creates a nuisance for the opposition every time. Many defences may be able to get the measure of him, but he never ever makes it easy for them. Ok he's not Van Basten, or even Berbatov for that matter, but his selflessness and canny knack for scoring important goals means he should get more respect than he's deserving here.

Good post. Puts my planned contribution of 'Crouch can be so ineffective he should be called Crouch-potato' to shame.

 

[jamesc0le]

Crouch-potato'

that would be so good on a tshirt

with a pic of crouch getting sandwiched

 

[Stoof]

Was that copy and pasted for a job application for ITV Sport?

Surely I would just send in a spunked on picture of the 1999 Champions League final. That's all they talk about after all. :wink:

 

[sasa_moto]

The thing that makes me angry is that he often doesn't play to his strenghts, sometimes he trys to play with his feet when is easier to play (shoot) with his head, often he tries to control the ball when much quicker players wouldn't make it, then he trys to dribble when it's easier to pass etc... as he was trying to prove that despite being extremly tall, he can still play as others do. Well, he can't. If he played smarter, not trying to be white Pele, it would be better for Spurs and himself as well.

 

[stemark44]

The trouble is right now, if Crouch is plan B, then we don't have a plan A, just two plan C's.

I don't get the Crouch knocking. Without Crouch where would we be this season right now? Zero-one point in the CL and hovering mid table in the EPL.

If we had great other options, other strikers who offered more to the team dynamic you could all be on firmer ground but Defoe and Pav are decent strikers who are fucking lightweight footballers.

Crouch right now is the best option we have to get the best out of people like VDV and Bale.

When we sign Ibrahimavich or Torres and REdknapp still picks Crouch you can knock him, until then engage some common sense.

Remember the way you used to feel about Darren Bent,I feel exactly the same about Peter Crouch.
He will score the odd goal and I will be euphoric in that moment but after that the reality kicks in again.
I feel exactly the same about him as I do of Jamie Carragher when he scores an o.g for us.

 

[Twizzle]

ITS not good enough....BUT... crouch played his part in the most succesfull season we have ever had in the prem....

He scored and played in both games against city, and they couldn't handle him..so lets give him some credit!!

If we get champs league again, and crouch only gets 7,8,9 goals...who fucking cares???

what you say is true but how long can Crouch live of the achievements of that game ?

he hasn't really done a great deal since and as a striker he is here to score goals

 

[Alfieconnman]

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.

This says it all for me.

 

[Maske2g]

Remember the way you used to feel about Darren Bent,I feel exactly the same about Peter Crouch.
He will score the odd goal and I will be euphoric in that moment but after that the reality kicks in again.
I feel exactly the same about him as I do of Jamie Carragher when he scores an o.g for us.

Except Bent scored them in half the time Crouch did.

 

[Maske2g]

Rafa Benitez once said Crouch covers more distance then Lampard and Gerrard, is this a ringing endorsement of Crouch?

NO. It just shows you statmongers how much bollocks there is to be found with stats.

 

[MattyP]

Thought Crouchy was a lot better last night.

 

[$hoguN]

Thought Crouchy was a lot better last night.

Me too, however his decision making is still poor at times, I could not believe he didn't lay that ball on to VDV for a tap-in

 

[Marty]

He scored, missed an absolute sitter (how did he not hit the target at least?) and was a real handful for the Inter defence all game.

In Europe Crouch has to be in our plan A. They just don't know how to deal with him.

 

[Maske2g]

He did have a better game, still managed to frustrate with his insistence of 5 touches when 2 is needed, and managing to knock some simple knockdowns past our players with both head and foot, but fair play for sticking to it after missing a sitter and scoring.

 

[Shanks]

I thought he put in a bloody good shift last night.

Good goal, should have squared the cross to VDV in the first half, but generally a striker would try and attempt that (certainly pav would of!).

 

[alamo]

Me too, however his decision making is still poor at times, I could not believe he didn't lay that ball on to VDV for a tap-in

Wanted to kick his tits off when that happened. Thankfully wasn't decisive

Good game 3MP