Excluded from the squad for todays match at home to west brom
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Excluded from the squad for todays match at home to west brom
http://i.imgur.com/bjhQWhD.png
With Shakira taking his place in the Stoke City lineup, this is the only logical solution. Can Jon do it on a cold Tuesday night in Milan?
(as far as I can tell, this is a windup)
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Originally Posted by joe_denilson
Yup its a windup
saw it on the below
https://twitter.com/sportswankers
Still funny though - it had me going for awhile
What the mail actually say about walters....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...e-Norwich.html
The Guardian's deadline day newsfeed is carrying that Walters has been subject to a bid from Leicester.
Out of WBA, Leicester and Norwich it's difficult to pick the best side he could move to.
I think Stoke are missing a trick by selling him though. Are they really that much attackingly sophisticated that they can unlock all PL defences with the talented yet inconsistent trio of Shaqiri, Affelay and Arnautovic? Diouf seems to score in spurts too. I'm all for stylish football but I think Stoke are getting a bit carried away with themselves if they're willing to sell someone as constantly effective and hard-working as Walters.
He's staying at Stoke by the look of things. They don't want to sell him. It's all over a contract dispute, he's been offered a one year extension, but he wants longer than that, wages aren't a problem.
All from Sky Sports.
Aye, but he's been a model professional for them and always manages over 30 PL games a season. His fitness is still immense. I think if they wanted so badly to keep him then they'd reward him and meet his demands (which don't exactly constitute astronomical and unreasonable wages or owt).Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Yeah - 10 mins till window closes , Sky have confirmed he is staying at Stoke - they have given him the option of signing that extension or he can allow his current contract to run downQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Eitherway he is staying at stoke
One way or another, it's yet another occasion where Walters hasn't turned up on time for international duty.
Does he owe us something? These guys today are doing us a favour by turning up and playing for their country. None of them need the money and I'd imagine playing a match away against the likes of Gibraltar isn't high on their bucket list. International football has become a joke due to matches like the one we are playing tonight. What is the point of it at all? TV revenue and 80k punters turning up to watch crap countries like this play the big teams, that's all. $$$
I don't know, I like it, it retains a romance, gives the little fish a chance of a big catch now and again, I mean as fine a 'product' as the CL has become, I still long for the days Limerick could draw Real Madrid or AC Milan players could be pictured picking their steps through mud in Athlone. At least the international game still retains this. And it probably means Ireland will win too, and lets face it, we aren't exactly taking out the superpowers of the world game, or those on the rungs below that even, presently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
I'm pretty sure Stutts was being tongue-in-cheek.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
Just put Stoke 2-0 up at home to Leicester
Now Stokes all time leading Prem scorer with 35 for them at that level.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34191895
Leicester came back to draw 2-2, they are quite the come back team they came backQuote:
Originally Posted by back of the net
from 0-2 down to beat Villa 3-2 last week.
Interesting bit of trivia
I must say that was a bit of a surprise to me, I don't recall Walters scoring many goals of Stoke, and he has not played that manyQuote:
Jonathan Walters (35) is now two clear of Peter Crouch (33) as Stoke City's all-time leading Premier League scorer.
more game than Crouch about 178 v 135.
Also I note Walters is 35, he is getting on a bit now isn't he?
He seems to age with every goal he scores too!
Walters is so massively underated for the job he does at stokeQuote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
As for his age .....he isn't 35....Ironically he turns 33......tomorrow (Sept 20th)
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Originally Posted by back of the net
Ah that would explain it, seems I got his age mixed up with the goals scored.
That would also explain why there seemed to be so many 1 and 2 year olds in the Irish squad. :redface-new:
32 tomorrow! 20/9/83 is only 32 dammit!Quote:
Originally Posted by back of the net
He was born around a month after I got my inter results.
The "inter cert"comment ages you far more than anything else there Stutts!
Does the business again for Stoke today by opening their scoring with a tap-in. Looks determined to make that next contract a good one, be it at Stoke or elsewhere.
https://streamable.com/lu9yQuote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
A great pass from Arnautavic(?)
Great movement from Walters again. Reminiscent of the goal v Georgia.
For those with a memory like mine here is the Georgia goal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMbRt3KeOwk
Ha! That's me told. It was actually Long's movement I was thinking of!
Yea, I got confused by that at well, I think a different goal was shown on TV recently where the ball basically bounced off him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I am still a bit confused, nothing new in that!!
Jon Walters: Stoke chief executive Tony Scholes keen to compromise
Serious amount of goals off the bench, didn't even realise he was on the bench that often!
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/jon...football/43433
Not the best article ever written but the sentiment is clear.
Having become a PL and Irish international footballer at the age of 27, in 5 short years he has become a crucial warrior for us. Interesting to note that he has 7 goals in 36 internationals which is fairly close to his goal per game ratio in the PL also.
He's spoken of the pride playing for Ireland gives him due to his late mother being from Mayo. Without trying to over-emotionalize or over-personalize it, you can see his willingness to battle in the Irish jersey in her memory every time he steps out on to the field.
Also, has anyone seen the pictures of Shane Long after scoring the goal where his initial celebration is to point to the sky and look upwards (can't find the image now)? Presumably that's a tribute to his own late father. Another man who hasn't had it easy when you consider his father's passing and that his mother moved to England with him when Reading signed him from Cork City to help him make the adjustment.
hmmm, joe.ie has certainly changed it's tune with regards to Walters: http://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/thre...the-door/14605
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What we got instead, however, was Jonathon Walters, a lumbering journeyman that only found out he was Oirish this time last year.
i thought his mother was a dub? spent time in louth and meath in summers too.
Think you might be right. Might have mixed him up with Mason there.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
This is one of the articles I was referring to anyway: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...reland-up.html
Missed out against Swansea tonight with a groin strain.
Just scored an absolute beauty to put Stoke 1up against Chelsea
Just seen it, assist from Whelan makes it even better, could do with more of that for Ireland!
Was a really good goal.
Super goal, I remember scoring one like that when at school, flick and spin.:)
1:1 now though, Walters subbed and then they concede and also go down to 10 men.
Maybe Glenn will hit the winner??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL1jvL5S0cY
Whelan with the run and assist.
That's a travesty of a piece.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979