QuoteWhat's Long's injury?
Long joins the lengthening list of injured Irish players.
Long, McShane and Brady all injured now.
Quinn's season has been ruined by injury.
Eyes on Meyler's cruciates now with a potential FA Cup final on the horizon.
What's Long's injury?
Steve Bruce doesn't believe it is serious. Then again, he didn't believe that Brady's fitness/injury problems were serious either so....
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Steve...ail/story.html
Shane Long tweets defense against dive accusations; comments from Meyler.
Long didn't even appeal he carried on playing, not his fault the ref gave a penalty.
His fall was very divacious.
Maybe he made to play on as he thought he might get a yellow!
I was just about to check up on the meaning on that 'word'.
I saw it on MOTD, and was expecting to see a dive. I'm pretty sure it wasn't though. He had his calf clipped and a push on his shoulder both around the same time. It was a tangle of legs, a very soft penalty but not a dive in my opinion.
Selling Long maybe would have made sense if they weren't relying on Anichebe, Vydra, Sessegnon, Anelka (at the time) and Berahino to score the goals to save them from relegation. Long offers more than all of them and they don't offer the goals to counteract that. There is no fluidity or rhythm to their attack anymore.
Look at How Hull's attacking play has benefited from signing Long. Jelavic looks pretty shocking at times and even he is benefiting from it. It's not just the goals - and they have come in handy - but it's the way they play.
His goalscoring return isn't even that meager when you take everything in to account. Aside from Aguero, Sturridge, Rooney, Aguero and Giroud who all have at least twice as many goals as Long but make more in a week than he does in a year, strikers who score more than Long are:
Remy (13)
V. Persie (11)
Lukaku (11)
Bony (10)
Negredo (9)
Benteke (9)
Welbeck (9)
Lambert (9)
Eto'o (8)
Adebayor (8)
Dzeko (8)
If Long is not value for money, then what are Dzeko, Adebayor, Eto'o, Welbeck, Negredo and Soldado. Even Van Wolfswinkel earns more than Long and he hasn't scored in 22 games! 10m pounds and he has no technique whatsoever!
He received some vile abuse from a section of WBA fans in front of his young daughter - upset her, understandably, according to reports.
He is currently the second best Irish player on stats behind Coleman and in front of McCarthy (Delaney next).
Took his goal well I thought, poachers sort of goal.
Stats. Hmmm.
Stats, I don't trust them. Stats don't pass the Stutts gut test for me.Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
David Moyes swears by them
Also I must say I was surprised Shearer saying he was a big fan of him, seems
he is a bigger fan of him than anyone Irish!!!
Furthermore you are in no position to criticise when your name is very nearly Statsgart.
Last edited by tricky_colour; 24/03/2014 at 12:30 AM.
Very good!! If indeed you meant that, it's so good I can't be 100% sure!!!
Try saying "Stats don't pass the Stutts gut test" five times really quickly.
Great character reference from Ben Foster in defence of Long. Should shut up those fans who accused him of diving and end any ongoing debate.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30118777.html
When i read it thats exactly what i did. Was that intended though? I think not.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Why would that piece end any debate about the incident? It looks really, really like a dive. The shape of his body and legs as he falls all scream dive to me. I'm a huge fan of Longs and I don't really care about whether dived or not but the outrage needs to be curbed by the evidence.
http://youtu.be/jRJc8_65hD4
http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos...2-west-brom-0/
If it was a dive I don't really see why he got back up so quickly and played on, unless he had planned to dive, realised he'd made a mess of it and tried to cover it up, only to be hoist by his own petard so to speak and awarded the penalty nonetheless.
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