Quote1-1, Brady lays it on a plate for Elmo.
1-0 down at home within 2 minutes. Long should have equalised but shot straight at the keeper.
1-1, Brady lays it on a plate for Elmo.
Elmo is a rat!Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Half time. Long has missed four great chances and gotten booked, according to journalists.
Only four?
Yeah, not up to his usual standard of missing.
A late Sakho header puts Hull through to the play-off round 2-1 on aggregate.
Neither Brady nor Long comes out well in this match report.
http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football...in_169937.html
Yeah. Thank God we have jazz hands to come back and drag defenders all over the place, win headers, link the play up, get on the end of Wes and Andy's passes, win fouls in/around the box and create those kind of chances for himself eh?
Oh get over yourself. Long's finishing is a major weakness despite his good work. Keane's finishing is a major strength despite his lesser influence in general play.
Don't tell me you're happy to read that Long scuffed chances and shot straight at the keeper several times, as he is wont to do.
I have to admit I didn't see whether he created those chances for himself - did he? - but I'd be seriously worried if his yips in front of goal (that's what they are becoming - yips) continue into the start of the league season.
Edit: I should also add that it's a particular worry because Bruce isn't stupid and he has more options than last season. Long is at serious risk of being benched, which ieould be a serious disadvantage for Ireland. I think that's fair to say.
Last edited by Stuttgart88; 08/08/2014 at 7:29 PM.
What an odious bell-end of a comment. Do you genuinely want us to fail so you can compose a trite "I Told You So" post?
This forum could do with an ignore button.
As opposed to the people that seem to be taking glee in Shane Long missing chances in a game they didn't even watch?
Of course I don't want Ireland to fail ffs.
C'mon, what is your gripe with Robbie, really? You clearly hold something against him for some reason...
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Who's been taking joy from Shane Long missing chances? Nobody enjoys it when he misses chances. I interpret the comments of Stutts and Charlie above as being primarily borne out of an all-too-familiar frustration.
Taking glee? Seriously?
Some context is required here. A very outspoken poster here takes every opportunity possible, with the occasional concession to rational argument, to argue against the merits of a pretty reliable international goalscorer. Jazz hands, age, inferior league, no goals against Brazil or Germany, whatever excuse possible. At the same time he overlooks the very real fact that our most athletic forward also has a very serious deficit in front of goal.
I've a balanced view here. For the umpteenth time I see a lot of quality in Long but his finishing has been awful, and not just recently. I'd pick him over Keane all day long if I didn't feel he was becoming utterly hapless in front of goal. If not hapless then the most charitable I can concede is unreliable. That'd be generous as things stand. I hope be makes me look stupid but in the last few years I have seen too many bad misses not to think he just hasn't got instinctive goal scoring in his locker.
But I don't recall any concession from the other party that Long's finishing isn't a worry.
Long brings something to the table that Keane doesn't. Keane brings something to the table that Long doesn't. It's not something that's easily solved. It'd be nice to think we could afford just one player in the final third not busting his ****** just to occupy defenders and that our midfielders and wide players can get sufficient grip on a game to feel confident enough to pick a reliable goalscorer.
And don't patronise me about a game I didn't even watch. Hull is over 100 miles from where I live and it wasn't on telly. A live match report is the best evidence I had and it was pretty scathing in its description of Long's finishing. If it didn't match my own observations over the last two or three seasons I wouldn't have been as inclined to accept it as true.
I've always thought of TOWK as something that is usually wrapped in latex.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Seems like Rory McIlroy owes his recent majors wins to McShane and Robbie Brady
https://mobile.twitter.com/pmacca15/...04919546822656
Not a one Irishman in the Hull starting line-up to face QPR, Ince getting the nod ahead of Brady. Dunne starts for QPR alongside Ferdinand and Caulker.
McShane, Brady and Meyler all in for the Europa League game in Belgium, Quinn not in the squad. Shame that Hull seem to be treating European competition as a reserve competition.
Quinn failed a fitness test before kick off
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