Christopher Grant Wood of NEW ZEALAND!
- Thread starter Kelvin's Local
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Neither do i?
There is, however, a reason why teams want promotion to the Premier League, and a part of it is for the broader relevance, the cache of being in the top league.
weejockmcplop
John Robertson
Sure, but for me winning trophies is the whole point. Being in the EPL is simply a means to an end.
PlayedOnGrass
Geoff Thomas
In England yes - the famous double team etc.
No one in Europe or further afield talks about Spurs in the same breathe as ourselves
FLC
Viv Anderson
I like being irrelevant in terms of the media.
Ian Moore Gone Little
Geoff Thomas
I haven’t spent long periods in Europe since the 80s and have only been out of Europe once, so can’t speak with any great authority about how Forest and Tottenham are spoken of abroad these days. Given the ubiquity of the Premier League and our relatively recently rejoining it in its more modern hugely overhyped incarnation, I suspect your second statement above would apply but not in the way you intend.
What I will say is that Tottenham’s list of honours is a convincing argument to say that they do indeed have a glorious history. Yes, most of those trophies were decades or more ago (and of course I believe we would have won the UEFA Cup against them had we not been cheated by a bribed ref in the 1984 semi-final) but so were, er, all of ours. And, like us, most of their successes have come in the cups. To write them off as having no history is tantamount to doing the same with Forest, but to a club with the same number of League Cups, twice as many League titles and four times as many FA Cups.
I strongly dislike the way they are bigged up in the national (for which, largely, read London) media, I agree with those who think it is wrong that they are considered part of the Sky/cartel/“big” 6 (why them and not Newcastle, Everton, Villa, etc?) and I would be absolutely delighted if they are successful in this season’s relegation bid because I can think of very few things the game needs more than one of its privileged “elite” experiencing the real world for a change, but I would challenge anyone who claimed we didn’t have a glorious history, so feel I should do the same in their case.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
MGW basically saying what I was thinking, that Wood being up there makes such a big difference to us, even if he is not doing much himself - he is a presence & always in areas to score goals when you get into a dangerous areas, makes it much easier to either create or score yourself.
The way the goals have flown in since he has come back probably tells its own story. That was a performance that we put in last season, maybe even better!
The way the goals have flown in since he has come back probably tells its own story. That was a performance that we put in last season, maybe even better!
Yoghurt Slice
Viv Anderson
Yeah it's absolutely clear as day how much of a difference he makes. We need a clone 10 years younger
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Scored 3 in 135 minutes since this post. X
donny
Jack Burkitt
Wood is more troubling for a CB than Jesus or Taiwo, and, when you put a 2nd CF up there with him, combined with Hutchinson and MGW buzzing around the fringes of the box, it draws the opponent out more, creating those spaces.
JohnnyCarey
Geoff Thomas
For us, he's a genuinely transformative player. He's the lynchpin that holds our attacking play together -- everyone else takes their bearings from where he is and what he's doing. It's not accident that we're suddenly scoring goals from all over the place now that he's back. Surely, at £15 million or whatever it was, the best value signing we've ever made?
Notcher
Ian Bowyer
Quite obviously that's as a lone striker.
Do you think he'd score 3 if he was still playing up front on his own? Wood is occupying the CB's
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
His finish was also brilliant, made that look easy. He won the ball too with his smart pressing.
Monkman
John Robertson
That isn't close to what you wrote, read it again.
You get a lot right, it's ok to admit when you're wrong.
Notcher
Ian Bowyer
I've always been talking about him as a lone striker leading the line though mate as that's what he's been playing as. It's been said that he'd be better as a 10 or false 9.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
It was just a gentle ribbing, no harm done.
Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.
Fulchester United
Sounds like etc etc
Pugwash
Viv Anderson
If we win the UEL, I’d like us to go in with a big bid for Porto’s Samu Aghehowa
Est.1865
Premier League Survivors
What a performance, penalty aside, we are twice the side with Wood in it.
Quality.
Quality.
Got Wood?
TrickyTree101
Viv Anderson
Such a better penality taker than MGW - Wood is in the Harry Kane league for taking penalities. I rate him that highly.
Scored 35 penalities missed 3, however the missed one were in 2010, 2013 and 2016 - so 10 years since the last one missed.
How bloody good is that !
Scored 35 penalities missed 3, however the missed one were in 2010, 2013 and 2016 - so 10 years since the last one missed.
How bloody good is that !
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
He gets it into that area which a keeper is never going to get to because from the centre if he dives up and outwards he's going to be falling
And it's far enough off actual top bins to not be a high risk miss either.
Plus he absolutely leathers them
Unstoppable most of the time.
Tony Woodcock's LoveChild
Now what?
I've got a right good semi
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
He’s scored about 28 in a row, he’s a fantastic penalty taker, no brainer for him to be on all of them.