Xaver "No Middle Name" Schlager
- Thread starter Heffing Psycho!
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I love Samba Sow. What a shame his body wasn't quite up to it. If Schlager can be that kind of beast he'll be a fan favourite for years to come.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Schlager is no Samba sow.
Schlager is not as quick across the turf, and so far when he tackles he doesn't leave dismembered opponents scattered around him.
He works hard and can spot a pass.
Schlager is not as quick across the turf, and so far when he tackles he doesn't leave dismembered opponents scattered around him.
He works hard and can spot a pass.
SteveStonesBaldSpot
Youth Team
He’s like a genuinely top 10 quality Ryan Yates.
Steve B
John Robertson
There’s a little bit of the Danilo about the way Schlager cruises around the pitch. Schlager is a far more disciplined (and withdrawn) player than Danilo but they both are constantly moving, waiting, anticipating, shark like, searching out moments to cut out or intercept, and break forward. Love these types of players.
Fawazzock
Jack Burkitt
Fair play for having an opinion reasonably held.
Whilst Schlager is clearly very decent, collectively, folks can go in mob handed when someone has a minority opinion.
Caveman Ninja
Fucjin g wot karate
Hodge was raving about Schlager on Post-match
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I'm still here Crewton
Sorry folks but you're all off the mark regarding comparisons.
This is the fella.
This is the fella.
Notcher
Ian Bowyer
Workrate of Dom and drives forward like Danilo.
Bailey
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That was a bleak old time wasn't it!
Cureboy
Grenville Morris
Danny Sonner, Brynjar Gunnarson and Michael Stewart. It wouldn't have been so bad but it was all in the same f***ing squad.
Quntib Hollox
Jack Burkitt
Don’t forget Michael Stewart once turned us down 
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
He could have turned us up but he was still shiteDon’t forget Michael Stewart once turned us down
Typical overrated Man U fringe player who never really did anything anywhere else. I remember someone like John Curtis was highly rated at that stage and ended up doing very little, in the end he ended up playing for us in League 1 and wasn't exactly amazing there.
A lot of these loans never seem to work for us - or even buys. Most of what we've had from Man U or Arsenal has been either utter dross or they've played silly when we've tried to buy (Hendo and Garner).
Cloughie1975
Stuart Pearce
I remember Michael Stewart making a hash of a free kick in one game and someone shouted in the Upper BC-Don’t forget Michael Stewart once turned us down
‘Did Fergie teach you that one?’.
Ewan Husami
Viv Anderson
I thought Gunnarson was ok (relatively) I remember (memory may be clouded) Sonner missing a nailed on free header for the winner against Derby, that was it for me
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
I remember we had Gunnarsson on trial after he left Stoke and he played in a friendly v Ajax, looked good (and of course it was Ajax) and everyone on the official forum seemed to want him signed up... He got injured in the first match and then didn't do much after but then we had that downward spiral towards the end of Hart's time anyway
Danny Sonner came on a free and hadn't done a lot before that and I don't think a lot was expected of him which was probably about right as he wasn't very good
Bailey
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I'm still here Crewton
Looking to the upper tier to see where his pass went.
It absolutely f***ing was.
I used to read Cormac McCarthy's The Road to cheer myself up.
Bailey
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The time in the 2013/14 season when Jonathan Greening stood still in the centre circle for an entire game with his mouth open, before eventually being substituted.
This was the season I was unrealistically excited by the signing of Djamel Abdoun. What a life eh?
Cureboy
Grenville Morris
I was excited when we signed The Terrorist upfront. That excitement quickly faded as he looked about as good as George Wear's fake brother when he got a game for Southampton.
Caveman Ninja
Fucjin g wot karate
Forgot all about Jonathan Greening. Expected him to be good. Wasn't
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
Because he was old by the time we got him, another McClaren genius move.
Thing is Greening was actually a decent player for WBA and Fulham but he was past his peak when we got him and knowing that time I bet he was some way down the list of targets because the club wouldn't pay for the players McClaren actually wanted so probably he went for someone because he knew him from Man U same as Boateng who he managed at Boro as well as Miller, Derbyshire, Reidy (who was also on a free and had played for us before)...
The Greening of a few years before would have adequately replaced Paul McKenna (who had left the club when his contract expired and also when Davies was sacked) as the experienced engine room midfielder (similar role which I think Schlager is doing now, to keep this more on topic, even though he's perhaps more of an Anderson replacement too with his work rate) but wasn't up to it any more even when he had just signed. When we got round to the famous meme time from Billy, it was a couple of years later, and Greening hadn't been anywhere near a first team player until we had a lot of injuries (we'd had the McClaren/Cotterill season, when Doughty passed away, then the sale to al-Hasawi, the season with O'Driscoll, McLeish and then Davies, and then into the second season of Davies' second spell) and he was even more off the pace. And that season we tanked a promotion challenge into midtable of course under Gary Brazil.
Templeton
Viv Anderson
Gunnarson was a decent player but needed the right mixture of players around him to negate the extreme lack of pace. Got promoted to the Premier League with Reading and stayed of gir a couple of years I think.
Though our loans started our current renaissance off, without the 6 successful loanees we would never have got promoted