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If Irish people are good at anything, it's ****ing up online polls.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Anyone keeping an eye on him these days? Seems to be a regular for Morcombe in the bottom tier but more than that I don't know.
You're obviously not a Wise Owl.
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I am just an owl fella.
See for yourself: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=55195Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
started the last two games in a row, but has only started three games since the end of October (including those two). Was a regular starter up until then, with 11 starts in Morecambe's first 19 games
Only six goals this season (two penalties) and only one at home
Interviewed on extratime.ie this week, touches on moving to Portugal, playing non-league and doing his coaching badges
Part 1: http://extratime.ie/newsdesk/article...mond---part-1/
Part 2: http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...mond---part-2/
Padraig Amonds 20 in 20 starts for Grimsby has the 27yo being talked about as the search for the next Jamie Vardy begins in earnest. Out of contract in the summer, and with scouts reported from Championship, L1 & L2 keeping an eye, the man will have options by the sound of this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...do-Neymar.html
Wow. That completely slipped under my radar. Quite the return.Quote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Not sure if Championship or L1 sides will be interested though. The man had a less than 1 in 4 record in L2.
If you're on twitter, you can vote Amond for Play of the Year by tweeting "Padraig Amond #NGAvotes": https://twitter.com/nonleaguepaper/s...80495296618496
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Who should be crowned the @SShieldOfficial Player of the Year? Get your votes in by midday Friday! #NGAvotes
Grimsby should cashew in on him soon, they'd be nuts not to.
(slow day here...)
But who is going to shell out?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Did he ever get to wear the "I had a Macadamia" training top?
Refuses to play for peanuts .........
http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...-to-come-back/
Stick to the topic boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI_kKZ_RQ_o
1.48!!
21 Goals of Amond, he has another 11 since then, why has no big club not gone after him?
They would be nuts not too. ;)
Seriously he is the next Jamie Vardy, were I a Premiership manager I would
snap him up, got to be worth the gamble I mean they will be paying peanuts for
him, if he had a season like Vardy how much would he be worth?
He's out of contract now so I'd imagine he'll be looking to get a League One club now or a club looking for promotion from League Two.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Most of the non-league grounds in the club makes you realise just how far LOI lags behind in ground development.
Don't think so unfortunately. Four years in the fourth tier averaging just 9 goals a season isn't something a Premiership manager should be getting excited about. But he's certainly earned another shot at league football.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Have to agree with the other two posters, that's a bit much. Amond is nine months younger than Vardy, and playing non-league football. Don't get me wrong, it's a great achievement, but I doubt we'll se him play at a higher level than Championship (at best) in his careerQuote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
We are talking about a country thats biggest tourist landmark is a sellotaped pole.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Correction!!! That sellotape has been ripped off and/or perished in the elementsQuote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
not even in the top ten: http://www.independent.ie/life/trave...-34719406.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
But it is now, not 4 years ago. You could say the same about Vardy. How could
anyone be so pessimistic?
because in four years, Amond will be 33. It's unlikely that a premier league club will sign a 33 year old striker with no experience at that level.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
So is that the kernel of your argument?Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just very unlikely. Vardy started on his journey from non league at 25, and as a striker facing into his prime years. Amond is 29 now, very much in his prime as a striker, and out of contract. He's had a fantastic season at Grimsby, so presumably can hope for a contract in League Two, or one of the promoted sides/lower ranked sides in League One. It's unlikely that a Championship or Premier League side is going to take him straight to that level.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
His best season in League Two yielded 11 goals (2013/14 with Morecambe) so he'll have to improve on that to get another move to a higher club, or get promoted. That's at least one season, if not two, when he'll be 31. Again with an excellent season behind him, he could get promoted at least once. That puts him at Championship level in three years, and he's 32. Very few 32 year old Championship (again assuming he's playing at that level) strikers, with no experience at a higher level, get transfers to the Premier League, so with a promotion, he could be playing Premier League football in four years.
That's a lot of coulds and assumptions. Has any striker, at that age, gone from non league to Premier League in a short space of time?
Vardy is a very rare exception.
Amond - unlike Vardy - has, relatively speaking, failed to deliver at the fourth tier in England, in addition to the top flight in Portugal, over a spell of five seasons. Lots of forwards can drop down a level and then start banging goals in. Doesn't mean they're going to be able to jump four levels overnight.
Look at the previous top scorers in the Conference -
2014/15 - Akinade (31 for Barnet). Scored 23 for Barnet this year in the fourth tier.
2013/14 - Grey (30 for Luton). Immediately moved to Brentford in the second tier, and scored 16. Moved to Burnley and notched 25 this year - but he was only 22 at Luton.
2012/13 - Green (25 for Mansfield). Immediately moved to Birmingham - and after one goal in two seasons (much of which was injury-hit), he was released and is back at Mansfield again
2011/12 - Vardy (31) - and as noted, he's had four years with Leicester at this stage to get to Premiership standard.
2010/11 - Tubbs (37 for Crawley). Has scored 56 goals in 5 seasons since then and is back in the Conference with Eastleigh on loan.
2009/10 - Brodie (26 for York). Has only played one season outside the Conference, scoring 5 for Morecambe.
2008/09 - Mangan (26 for Forest Green). Has played Conference more often than not since, scoring 17 goals in three seasons in the League.
Vardy is the only one of that who's even played in the Premiership. Grey is the only other one who's really made an impact outside the fourth division. No reason at all to consider Amond the next Vardy unfortunately, even ignoring the issue of age.
I am talking about now, he has an eye for goal, seriously someone would be mad to not snap him up and give him a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Lets face it you can splash out millions on a top striker and he can turn out to be useless.
I can't believe nobody is apparently too interest, I have seen no clubs mentioned.
You have to play him in a system that suits him though.
Don't worry OwlsFan... I got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Even Vardy did nothing when he was first signed.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
So you can't compare to Vardy and talk about immediate returns.
The history of top scorers in the Conference shows that the vast majority can't make it at a level beyond the next one up.
I guess it's because if clubs were to take a punt on every player that scores loads of goals at a much, much lower level they'd be seriously overstocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
A nicely succinct way of putting it!
are you really asking why a Premier League club is not linked with a non-league striker?Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
As for his age Colonel Sanders was 66 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Eh, ok.
Not entirely relevant, but there you go.
A goal is a goal an accurate header or shot works just as well in the pub car park and it does in the BernabéuQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Why didn't Villa sign him? He got more goal than the shower of expensive sh*te currently at the club.
Were they better buys? I don't think so.
Where the players they signed from Premiership clubs a better option?
Including Barcelona Man City and Liverpool.
Anyhow someone will come in for him.
Hm. Not entirely sure you understand how football works, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Oh I am, it is basically bag of wind which gets kicked around a park, nothing more.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
"Bag of wind" - excellent.