97 per cent. In other news Shane Long missed a great chance for West Brom a while ago and now Norwich are two goals up. Should've known better than to put him in my fantasy team.
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97 per cent. In other news Shane Long missed a great chance for West Brom a while ago and now Norwich are two goals up. Should've known better than to put him in my fantasy team.
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Originally Posted by SkStu
That is pretty good for a Canadian, you are obviously better at Geography then the USA folk are alleged to be, apparently
in a test a lot of them though Australia was South Korea!!!
I think there is a youtube video showing that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Yer ma.
Be fair Tricky, Stu is Irish, not a member of the Diaspora even, let alone Canadian, AFAIK.
Well that would explain it, privately I expected the Canadians to be just as thick as the Yanks!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
I would certainly struggle to pick out Canadian provinces.
Indeed I will give it a go here!!!
http://www.lizardpoint.com/geography/canada-quiz.php
Not very good!!
Quiz over. You scored 18 out of 39.
Your score is 46%.
Just seen the chance on MOTD - super save by Ruddy. Not much more Long could have done.
Pele-Banks stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
87%.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
And never set foot in Canada...
Suarez won goal of the month on MOTD2, but Danny Mills can't believe Shane Long didn't even get a mention.
Was actually Ramsey who won Suarez was second, surprised Ramsey won, his goal was good but nothing too special.
Ah, Ramsey, sorry. Dunno why I had Suarez in my head. There were a ream of great goals last month to be fair, but Long's two were a bit out of the ordinary.
Shane Long was busking in Temple Bar while all this was going on
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbAPtimIQAAukAv.jpg
It's not Shane Long. My God Stutts has lost 3 Stone.
That's some tin of fruit
http://www.lizardpoint.com/geography/usa-quiz.php
Quiz over. You scored 103 out of 150.
Your score is 68%.
I couldn't make out the lakes and couldn't figure out illinois properly as i thought it was meant to be a state(the lakes!), dont know why they drew the water like that it was confusing.
The most difficult for us foreigners is the little nuggets like kentucky or virginia or tenesse or idaho etc.
Tennessee.
Luckily for me they didn't ask to spell the states as part of the quiz. massachusetts would definitely have got me.
Or Mississippi;seems right?
That's correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Quiz over. You scored 113 out of 150.
Your score is 75%.
Those southeast states are a biotch.
That's correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Quiz over. You scored 37 out of 39.
Your score is 94%.
View detailed results (with option to print).
I got Saskatchewan wrong.
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/...ingham-forest/
Linked with Nottingham Forest again today.
Hard to believe that he wouldn't have at least half a dozen Premier League teams interested in him.
Whatever about his goalscoring record, there are probably still only 3 or 4 strikers with better goalscoring records outside the top 6 clubs.
Look at Modibo Maiga, Danny Graham, Pablo Osvaldo, Jozy Altidore and Ricky Van Wolfswinkel off the top of my head.
They have shocking goalscoring records, no better than Long in other non-goalscoring aspects and half of them are probably making three times as much as Long.
GOAL - West Brom 1-1 Hull - Matej Vydra (86 mins)Wow - what a fine team goal this is! Shane Long with the Zidane-style backheel to Zoltan Gera, he feeds an inch-perfect pass to Matej Vydra, and the ex-Watford man calmly sends a low shot into the net for his first for the club. Big goal.
It was good from Shane. It wasn't that good. Plus he back heeled it to himself and played a simple pass to Gera who made the goal with a Grealish-esque :) pass to Vydra.
Left out of the squad today.
Presumably to manage his ongoing muscle injuries.
I doubt we will hear of a Long tweet, claiming he was fit and slagging off his paymasters.
At West Brom, he is probably used to being treated with a modicum of respect and diplomacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
The list of players Trapattoni fell out with was quite frankly embarrassing.
I forget where Long was treated with disrespect.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
You're not talking about the game where Trap said he didn't use him because he was an injury suspect but Long stuck his head in front of a microphone and claimed he was fit, then he wasn't fit after all, but we were not supposed to know he wasn't fit?
The very same player who was allowed by Trap to leave the Ireland camp, sent on a wild good transfer chase by his club, why? because his club respect him so much?
Trapattoni has form for this, in fairness. I don't think anyone can excuse what happened with Kevin Foley, Stephen Kelly and Steven Reid in particular.
Long himself was poorly utilised for a long time, being left out of the side when people like Folan, Best, Cox and Walters were playing.
And if I recall, Trapattoni called him "stupid". It's blatant lack of respect and hypocrisy, considering some of his managerial faux pas over the last 5 years.
Your recall is suspect and the analysis immature.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Trap says Shane Long fitness claim 'idiotic'
Trap did not say Long was stupid, he said Long's claim to be be fit was idiotic, i.e. to publicly claim he was fit when he was declared unfit to play.
And since, we have seen another example of Long's immaturity, towards another manager.
Steven Reid said he didn't want to play Int'l anymore b/c he was hurt too much and needed to concentrate on his club career. Trap was disappointed but understood.
Whether he called him stupid or idiotic doesn't excuse it. Are you going to try and defend his behaviour towards Stephen Kelly? Steven Reid?Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
I would understand Shane Long's exasperation with Trapattoni. It must be pretty humiliating to be kept out of the team by the 6th choice striker at his own club because Trapattoni couldn't tell the difference between them.
Trap neither called him stupid nor idiotic.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Trap said his claim to be fit was idiotic and it was idiotic because he was unfit and Trap was going to start with him.
There's a difference between regarding an opinion to be idiotic and regarding a person to be idiotic, playing the ball v playing the man.
What on earth has that got to do with what Trap said about Shane Long?Quote:
Are you going to try and defend his behaviour towards Stephen Kelly? Steven Reid?
Fine, you understand and support Long's exasperation, protests and indiscipline at being left out of the team by Trap after he was declared unfit to play and his exasperation, protests and indiscipline after he was left out of the team by King, when he was fit to play.Quote:
I would understand Shane Long's exasperation with Trapattoni. It must be pretty humiliating to be kept out of the team by the 6th choice striker at his own club because Trapattoni couldn't tell the difference between them.
geysir, you are just going to have to accept that some people will think Trapattoni calling one of his players' behaviour "idiotic" and insinuating that they are stupid is arrogant and unprofessional; just like his behaviour towards Steven Reid when Sam Allardyce had to put him in his place after making some asinine and potentially career damaging remarks about his supposed lack of fitness and just like his behaviour towards Stephen Kelly when he made borderline libellous comments about him and the FAI (again) had to reproach him for his fundamental lack of common sense, respect and decency.
Compare the way Andy Reid dealt with his exclusion from the Irish team with the way Trapattoni dealt with it. Night and day. Reid didn't have a bad word to say about him. Then you have Trapattoni constantly making belittling remarks and innuendo (and again like Steven Reid furore) that could impact on Andy's club career.
When you look at the players Trapattoni fell out with; S. Reid, A. Reid, Foley and Kelly, these are probably the most laid back, polite and intelligent members of the squad and you would swear they were Roy Keane foaming at the mouth the way Trapattoni managed to vex them.
Again, with Long, I understand his exasperation and petulance (Stokes too) of being unused substitutes year in year out, not getting so much as a substitute appearance
and then watching Jonathan Walters and Simon Cox practically walk into the first team as soon as they get their passports.
I admire your willingness to defend Trapattoni to the hilt; he done reasonably well before Euro 2012 but he erased a lot of the goodwill by saying "arrivederci" if he didn't get a new contract before Euro 2012 and then half assing it during the WC qualifying campaign.
Trap was a ***t.
Stokes dug his own grave with his attitude with Trap.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
But, what has Walters (the son of an Irish woman) done to be dragged into this? Or Cox?
Long is way too inconsistent for Ireland. Fluffed chance after fluffed chance would be enough to wind me up too.
"Reports in a couple of papers this morning claim Tottenham are considering a £4million bid for West Brom striker Shane Long in January. To help fund the offer, The Sun on Sunday suggests that Spurs striker Jermain Defoe will be on his way to Major League Soccer club Toronto FC in a £6million deal."
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...ansfer-2968013
Spurs are a far cry from Nottingham Forrest. Long's big shot with a bigger club.
Would spend his time at Tottenham picking the bench splinters out of his ass. Would far prefer to see him at Hull or even EvertonQuote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
Soldado and Adebayor aren't setting the world on fire though.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark12345
Could work out and if it doesn't, Spurs probably wouldn't stand in his way if they recouped their transfer fee.
I'd say it won't happen for a few reasons though.