The goalie was in danger of getting a cric in his neck looking at the flight of the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
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The goalie was in danger of getting a cric in his neck looking at the flight of the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Because it elevated after clipping the bar? :o
The last straw left before 2pm (GMT).
Ah balls. I can't attach the image properly.
How does one do this?
It has to be said that the path (of the righteous) to get your image in a post is not at all clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
Assuming you are selecting an image from a website and assuming you have copied the url of the image
select the image icon
select from url
paste in the url of the image
unselect Retrieve remote file and reference locally
Your image should now show in the post.
That doesnt seem to work.
Ah well not that big a deal.
here's the photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...00451498_n.jpg
Do it like this
Anyway if you quote my post and look at it you will see the address of the picture is between "[img]" and "[/img]"
so just click on the image and select "copy image url" (if using firefox) or similar, if using another browser, and then but the "[img]" and "[/img]" things around it.
That is what geysirs advice should have done.
That's the link to the page with the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
What you need is the link to the photo itself.
Right click the photo and open up in a new window - copy that url.
or right click the image and copy image address (url)
In your reply
Select the image icon
Select from url
Paste in the url of the image.
unselect Retrieve remote file and reference locally
Actually I just noticed that if you right click on the photograph and drag it into the test box it puts the address there, like this:-
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...00451498_n.jpg
It's a pity it did not put the [img] things around it as well as that would make it even easier.
You can also drag a picture straight to your desktop, if yo did not already know that.
Sammon happy to learn from the master Keane: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...eane-1.1423761
I've been very critical of Sammon. I thought he did nothing against Poland and was awful against Austria, but credit where it's due. He linked well with Keane in the two recent home games. I've yet to see last night's game but am glad to hear he did well enough and I'm pleased that he seems to have played his way into the squad as a regular member.
However, I can't find Charlie D's quote from earlier right now (it's in the Spain match thread I think) where he said Sammon is not a target man and his clubs haven't used him that way. That may well be true, but Trap did use him as a target man against Austria and he won much less in the air than he should have. He even failed to read the flight of the ball at times and gave his marker a free jump. It was a tactical blunder by Trap in my opinion and one that was very costly.
Bit of a curate's egg, does something decent such as picking Pique's pocket but his touch coming in on goal with his left foot was awful, narrowed his own angle by moving inside instead of cutting across the goal to open his angle up. Did okay in general but never looks like scoring.
I'd agree with that pretty much, but he did very little, I think his touch is a consequence of luck as much as anything else cos he doesn't do it consistently enough, perhaps its something he is still working on.
Stutts I agree with that also, I think when you watch the match you will agree with most of what I said, assuming he doesn't do anything too significant after 65 mins :D
He must feel good about having 19 pages on the Ireland forum though.
There's a picture on the Irish Times website of the team lining up before last night's game. Sammon isn't that tall compared to some teammates. It surprised me, although having hair maybe adds an inch!
His lack of height might explain why he didn't win that many headers against the Spanish the other night. For a so called target man it was a painful watch.
This one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_f..._940/image.jpg
He looks like he has his head slightly bowed whereas the others are standing upright. It's fairly clear watching him in action that he's taller than everybody except Forde. His lack of ability in the air is just that, a lack of ability, probably due to the fact he's generally played for clubs where he's required to play the ball on the ground rather than be a target man.
Who cares whether he's an inch taller or shorter than O'Dea or whoever? He's cr@p in the air and shouldn't be used as the focal point for a long ball game. His lack of ability in the air is probably innate, not because he plays / played for Barcelona copycats like Kilmarnock.
That photo seems to show that he's no Tony Cascarino and even if he has bowed his head (even though is right arm is arched upwards just to get around O'Dea's shoulder - or maybe his elbow is bent, but who cares?) he's not as tall as I thought he was. You have no idea how tall I thought he was! Argue that...:)
I wouldn't say he's far off Cas. It looks fairly obvious O'Dea is pushing his neck slightly forward but I don't really want to argue about a picture.
There's no such thing as innate aerial ability. It's one of the most practicable skills in football, hence why there are so many target men around who don't show much innate footballing ability elsewhere. I'd say his lack of aerial ability is down to the fact he's come through at clubs like Cherry Orchard and UCD where playing the ball on the ground is taken for granted. Wigan are the same. I'd say it's stupid to use him as a target too.
I dunno; Paul Byrne came the same route and was quite good in the air, I think. He just doesn't have the knack for it. He's improved (some very nice, Quinn-esque, knock-downs in recent games), but it's just a weak area in his game. He makes up for it elsewhere obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
No point reading too much into it.
The fact that you have already argued quite a bit about a picture clearly showing Sammon to be around the same height as some teammates just shows how innately argumentative you are. Or was it an acquired skill nurtured by an argumentative environment? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
There absolutely is such thing as innate aerial ability. Just because some players had it without having great skills with their feet doesn't mean it's not an innate ability. Nor does that mean it can't be worked on so I partially accept your point that he could conceivably get better at it.
I'd agree with that, in Gaelic particularly so, you either have it or not, take Willie Joe Padden in Gaelic, only about 5'10 but serious ability and strength in the air. Some guys have it some don't.
It's a learned skill :) I meant if we continued down the road we were going it would very quickly have become an argument in which we are both losers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
There are aspects that are innate like balance and awareness, but mostly it's down to upper body strength and height, and most importantly practice.
Hull supposedly interested in Sammon and Carlton Cole.
http://www.newsfiber.com/p/s/h?v=E%2...x140%2FoJr8%3D
Between that and offering McShane a new contract, Bruce really is making up for not lining out for us all those years ago; a tremendous servant to Irish football.
Watching The IT Crowd as I write this.... is it just me (it is!) but why is Chris O' Dowd so popular?
Anyways onto more pressing matters. The "Sammon Spain Opportunity".... so he tried to curl the shot with his right foot around Valdes from what I could see....
and missed....
Technically was he right to attempt it? What would Gabriel Batistuta have done? Delayed and cut it back to Keane?
It's a miss that really gnaws at ya!:rolleyes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuW_zReqRI4
He's a Rossie. Popularity is something that's just unavoidable for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grafter
His second touch took him way too wide. If he'd taken it inside he'd have had a much simpler chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grafter
Laugh, shake his head and wonder if the bald guy was one of them football-mad dictators who put themselves in the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grafter
Either that or he's trying to get them out of sight for relegation by Christmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
All we need now is Martin Keown to take over at Crystal Palace and sign Paul Green.
McShane and Sammon in the same team.
Oh dear...
Could Bruce really have played for us? His mother was from the North so surely, at that time, he wouldve only been eligible to play for them no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Born in England to a NI born mother? Then young Bruce was entitled to be Irish citizen when he was born, or take it up any time in his life. The 1956 nationality act decreed that all northern natives were entitled to Irish citizenship. Bruce would have been entitled to play for the FAI as a naturalised citizen, according to the FIFA rules before 2003.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
These days (post GFA), that Irish citzenship is conferred automatically to Nordies.
Hmmm. I always had presumed he was eligible on the basis of grandparent. Maybe I dreamt that up.
Just noticed that Alex Bruce got 32 games under Pops last season. Norn Iron's latest Premiership superstar.
Sammon has found the net. (no pun intended.)
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/PI...#axzz2a3iEnd3z
Scored tonight in the League Cup against Brentford.
Don't think he's been starting in the league, so that's a nice reminder for Clough.
Another in the second half. 4-0 now.
Early signs may not be great for Sammon under new boss Steve McClaren.
Sammon must seize chance to start week in week out asserts the Derby press.
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Cono...ail/story.html