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He won 10-9.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Every game involves me racing into a lead before he makes the most dramatic of comebacks. The goal he scores into is the width of a door though.
I didn't want to give the final score for fear of damaging my chances of a call up.
Seems like he has great character. I know just the guy who might fancy him...
http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quot...-130-49-84.jpg
The thing is he might turn out to be rubbish I accept that, so we could write:-
Padraig Amond, rubbish?
However with some of the players we are taking that question mark is not required.
That is the difference.
Here he makes a goal out of nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97bNky1gRao
He offers something different to what we have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCsJtvTDBWw
A bit of magic, that will be useful considering we need back to back miracles!
nobody's saying he's a bad player, just that he's unlikely to play at any level higher than league one, including international
While we're through the looking glass, anyone know if Lee Trundle has booked Magaluf yet?
The climb has begun. Amond signs for Hartlepool: http://mobile.hartlepoolunited.co.uk...d-3146931.aspx
The Paddy Madden talk reminded me of Tricky's short lived (but intense) love affair with this fella. I see he has gone on to score seven goals in nineteen games this season in League 2 - not too bad but sadly not quite justifying Tricky's Euros wild card campaign I don't think. :)
Referred to as Podge Amond by Jeff Stelling, Hartlepool fan, on TV yesterday.
Didn't notice that, but then I'd completely forgotten he'd even moved to Hartlepool until I dug this thread up. Maybe he should have stayed put at Grimsby who are six points ahead of them.
Edit- says he's scored nine goals here actually. Wiki must need updating.
Signed for Newport County: https://www.newport-county.co.uk/new...padraig-amond/
Goal and assist today
Newport earned themselves a replay away to Spurs today. Amond got the opener before Kane equalized.
Is that a weird pronunciation of Amond the commentator's using?
I always pronounced it like almond, the nut. The commentator makes him sound French
Sounded odd, there is also the question of how you pronounce pardaigQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
paw-drig, pahd-rag, paw-rick or paaah-ric?
Article here https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...4/golf.comment
The ancient
Anglo-Saxon surname Amond came from Hamon, an Old French
personal name brought to
England after the
Norman Conquest in 1066.
It does have a French ring to it, I think the vest bet is to drop all the 'd's
pawrig amon
Well here he is playing against a Champion League level side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
He is playing for a 4th tier side with 4th tier teammates and easily scoring against a top tier side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vouWGo5gBG4
You get the same space at every level the whole of the pitch to make your own space as we see him do here, round the back of the defender.
Oh and Spurs score 6 minutes after they take him off!
What a ridiculous substitution!
I bet the man reason no top tier club enquired for him was nobody knew how to pronounce his name.
This stinks of MON/TOD and "good luck"... He's averaging a goal every 3 matches in League 2. He's not Harry Kane. There are plenty of players scoring against PL sides in the FA Cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Kane averages a goal every 3.6 games on league 1Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
I don't know why exactly, but it makes me think of Jermaine Beckford. Remember him? Had a few decent seasons with Leeds in tier two, scored a winner again Man Utd at Old Trafford in a cup game. I remember everyone talking like he was a superstar in the making, why isn't a big club signing him, why isn't he getting called up to the England squad, etc. Fast forward past an underwhelming run with Everton, Leicester, Preston (where he was sent off for fighting with a team mate on the pitch, then sent off three minutes after returning from suspension) currently playing with Bury in Tier 3 and played six games with Jamaica in 2013.
The point being, a lower tier player scoring against a top club in a cup game is absolutely meaningless as a metric for overall talent.
Well at least he got a chance, he didn't seem to do bad, various factor apply, different systems etc... not every player makes
it. I think maybe Beckford relied more on physical attributes rather than say positioning and awareness, the more mental aspects of the game. Plus as you point out he seems to have some attitude problems.
Just give him a shot though, if he turn out to be rubbish he won't be any different to what we already have!
He's got a pretty strong scoring record, albeit at a lower level. It strikes me as strange that a League 1 or Championship team has never taken a punt on him. I suppose there's no harm in having a look at him in a training squad but at age 29 I suspect there are other players in need of more match time with our senior squad like Horgan, Hogan, Maguire that we really need to start blooding -- young players plying their trade at a higher level who will offer more for Euro 2020 qualifying and the tournament itself in the attacking positions.
One of the reasons no big club came in for him is that Amond is almost nuts.
Actually his scoring record in four seasons at League Two level was about one in four-and-a-half games before he had that big year at Grimsby in the National League and followed that up with a record of about one in three games over the last season and a half with Hartlepool and Newport - best bet for a move up would probably be promotion with Newport, or a transfer to another promoted team.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
Yes but he often plays in the wide positions, no? Good strike record for a player who isn’t exclusively a centre forward. But perhaps I have bad intel on that front.
It's the wrong thread Jeff!
Winner for Newport against Leicester City in the FA Cup today.
A very cool penalty it was too. Mark O'Brien came on afterwards to help Newport see out the game. Great scenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Call him up Mick!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...mission-upset/
He was interviewed by the Telegraph pre-match and spoke very well about the thrill of the Spurs goal and the trials and tribulations of playing at that league level. There's another good interview to be had now after the penalty.
Heard in a interview that he played hurling for Carlow under an assumed name before a Rovers game :O
With the finish of a continental deity tonight as his club knocked Middlesbrough out to make the business end of the FA Cup and meet Man City
- https://streamable.com/k7xhw
Assisted the first goal too. Big congrats to Amond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hay4sFEMw4g&feature=youtu.be
2:30
First goal 2:00 we don't see the assist, but it hardly created the goal.
Hell of a strike. Ball coming to him at pace.
Amond is playing like he's a Brazilian :)
Better than playing like he's a Cashew.