Aaron Connolly F Millwall b.2000

**Stuttgart88** · 01/06/2022, 11:07 AM

When David Connolly questions your attitude you know you're in trouble

**sadloserkid** · 01/06/2022, 3:14 PM

The man scored 193 senior club goals (I just looked at his Wiki page obviously). Was there an attitude problem there or was he just a lad who didn't quite match up to the early hype? It's a running joke with certain friends that I'm like a search engine for footballers' misdemeanours and I'm drawing a blank (or have erased from memory) whatever Dave Connolly got up to.

**CraftyToePoke** · 01/06/2022, 3:50 PM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

The man scored 193 senior club goals (I just looked at his Wiki page obviously). Was there an attitude problem there or was he just a lad who didn't quite match up to the early hype? It's a running joke with certain friends that I'm like a search engine for footballers' misdemeanours and I'm drawing a blank (or have erased from memory) whatever Dave Connolly got up to.

No tabloid kodak moments come to mind, but wasn't he known to be particularly .... self assured .... lets say ?

**tetsujin1979** · 01/06/2022, 3:56 PM

Was it Givens who rang him to come into a squad and Connolly said he should have been first choice?

**Diggs246** · 01/06/2022, 4:40 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Was it Givens who rang him to come into a squad and Connolly said he should have been first choice?

His exact words " what do I owe the honor of this call"!!!

**sadloserkid** · 01/06/2022, 4:44 PM

If towering self-regard is his biggest faux pas I'd happily enough give him a pass. 😁

**Razors left peg** · 01/06/2022, 4:48 PM

Im not sure I believe anything from Don Givens.

I think Connolly was a bit unlucky that his career coincided with Robbie. He would have gotten a lot more caps otherwise

**seanfhear** · 01/06/2022, 4:49 PM

Originally Posted by Diggs246

His exact words " what do I owe the honor of this call"!!!

Is that from the Horse�s Mouth ?

**Stuttgart88** · 01/06/2022, 4:51 PM

yeah, that's true. Givens himself said so. I think his spelling had a u in it though

**SkStu** · 01/06/2022, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by Diggs246

His exact words " what do I owe the honor of this call"!!!

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Im not sure I believe anything from Don Givens.

these both made me laugh for different reasons

At the end of the day... Two Connollys from Galway; the w@nkery must run deep in that Galway Connolly lineage

**CraftyToePoke** · 01/06/2022, 4:55 PM

I thought he said, well, Don, to what do I owe this pleasure ?

Anyway, stuff of legend. Aul Don wouldn't handle that at all

**Razors left peg** · 01/06/2022, 4:56 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

these both made me laugh for different reasons

At the end of the day... Two Connollys from Galway; the w@nkery must run deep in that Galway Connolly lineage

Steady now.......

**CraftyToePoke** · 01/06/2022, 5:03 PM

Originally Posted by Don Givens

Clutching a piece of paper in his right-hand, Givens continued: "The conversation on the 'phone on Saturday evening went 'Hello David, it's Don Givens, are you fit?' He said 'to what do I owe the honour of this phone call?'

"I said 'I would like you to join the squad tomorrow.' And he said 'Why was I not selected in the original squad?' I said 'That was the choice I made.'

"Then he said 'I should be the number one striker for Ireland, not number five.'

All here : https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-26027770.html

It was honour.

**Razors left peg** · 01/06/2022, 5:12 PM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

All here : https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-26027770.html

It was honour.

Reading that again Givens comes across as a complete tw@t

**CraftyToePoke** · 01/06/2022, 5:35 PM

Whoever the other four strikers were * we ended up with none & Glenn Crowe being replaced by Rory Delap in a 0-0

* ( guessing Keane / Quinn / Morrison / Duff ) or have I forgotten one instead of Duff ?

**elatedscum** · 01/06/2022, 6:07 PM

Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke

Whoever the other four strikers were * we ended up with none & Glenn Crowe being replaced by Rory Delap in a 0-0

* ( guessing Keane / Quinn / Morrison / Duff ) or have I forgotten one instead of Duff ?

Gary Doherty and Graham Barrett. Quinn would have been retired. Duffer as a winger.

**Eirambler** · 01/06/2022, 6:18 PM

For all Aaron's flaws he has already played more Premier League games and scored more Premier League goals than David Connolly ever did.

David was an Irish player I was never able to warm to, always seemed to have an over confidence in himself that wasn't backed up by his ability at the highest level.

As for Aaron, his next step is crucial. He may not have much interest from Championship teams after a fairly disastrous loan move to Middlesbrough. But if he can get fully fit, fully focused and find a team with a setup that lets him run off defenders and find a bit of space out wide he could be a great loan signing for a team at the right level. Unfortunately that level might now have to be League 1 or maybe even somewhere like Aberdeen.