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Not sure what your point is about Samaras - he's easily a better player than Doyle and a regular feature at World Cups and European Championships. I can't imagine fans of many ambitious clubs would be excited about signing a striker who's hardly scored a goal in 3 years.
I'd hope Doyle could score more goals than Samaras in a Celtic shirt.
I also think my dog could score at least 10 goals a season in the SPL!!! Any striker worth his salt should be banging in at least 25 goals up in Scotland.
Not sure what you'd base that on. As in scoring goals in the SPL are so easy.
If you were comparing Doyle of 3 years ago with Stokes you'd easily have a point. But even Stokes has improved whilst Doyle's worth (both footballing & transfer venue) seems to he dropping like a stone.
Personally, should try Leeds on loan as worked well with McDermott before?
There must be a lot of strikers who aren't worth much salt then because not a lot of strikers can manage 25 a year in the SPL. To a certain extent, the SPL is becoming a side-show for Celtic again. The likes of Samaras should be judged by how they compete in European games and he's always outstanding. With all due respect to Doyle, he's never been on the same level.
Well if Gary Hooper can score a bucket load up north then there is hope for Doyle.
Doyle could do a job for Celtic. If that doesn't come off then hopefully Leeds or Ipswich comes in for him. He has never let us down in an Irish shirt & hope he can force his way back into the Irish set up.
Well Hooper has scored in the Champions League and will be playing in the Premier League next season so I'm not sure what the point of that is. Would you like to remind us about what an average striker Henrik Larsson was while you're at it?
Tbf to Doyle, he's never been a prolific striker. And a totally different sort of player to Henrik and Hooper.
His best quality was to work very hard and make chances for others (Which would make him closest to Samaras from those other 3 names.).
But even in this, he seems to have declined. Sadly.
I don't think Doyle ever really made a lot of chances for others either. For Ireland, he was always about holding the ball up and running the channels. When he first arrived at Reading, he was your basic goalscoring striker but once he moved to Wolves he became this sort of hard-working, outside-the-box forward.
Hooper started out at Scunthorpe. Scoring a load of goals for Celtic up in Scotland doesn't necessarily mean he's going to do the business in the PL.
How did Kris Boyd, Kenny Miller & Scott McDonald fare when they moved south?
Anyway I digress. It's a Kevin Doyle thread. He is good enough to score goals up in Scotland.
Nobody said he's not good enough to score goals. It's your bizarre criticism of better strikers than Doyle which is baffling.
Samaras is a bog standard target man. Nothing special about him at all.
Doyle isn't a top class striker but neither is Samaras. What's bizarre about that?
You clearly don't watch Samaras play. He can play all across the front line, he's as good a wide man as he is in the centre and he has the technical ability that Doyle can only dream of. Seriously, he has played in every international competition he's been eligible for and excelled at every level. He's not a tier one striker but his ability should be evident to anyone, and Norwich haven't been chasing Hooper for a year for the craic.
What kind of dog do you have Shakes? Newfoundlands are very smart. But if it's a pink Poodle, you may have a problem. I see you as a man who believes a dog is an extension of himself. So i would say a German Shepherd. Which are tall if they stand upright, so he (or she) could maybe head in 9 and score the tenth on a penalty.Quote:
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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
From a penalty surely ? The dog would notch its tenth from a penalty.Quote:
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I expect he would **** all over the opposition!!!Quote:
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I think that's a bit of hockey lingo creeping in from Sid the KidQuote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
Is it considered a power play when one team gets a guy thrown out on a red card and the other team plays a man up?
No, it's considered a red card.
Read an article in yesterday's Indo suggesting that Doyle, Henry and O'Hara among others had been ordered to train with the reserves. Some bargain basement! This article, however, seems to refute that and the reality is Doyle will probably go out on loan to a Championship team.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/spor...-kevin-5582972