We need someone like The Stracq!

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At a similar stage to our end of last season, when effort was there to be seen in almost every game, by most of our players, it would be a bonus to have someone like Denis Stracqualursi in our team.

Does anyone know how this season has gone for him so far?

Frank Capper, wallasey     Posted 22/03/2013 at 12:05:12

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Ross Edwards
145 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:29:50
Good question Frank.

I have done some research and he has played (according to Wiki) 23 games for San Lorenzo and scored 8 goals and created 4 goals which is the kind of record we need from particularly Mr Jelavic. I think that Davey should have brought him back during Jela's dry spell to freshen the team up.

Great passion and love for the game, if only more players had this attitude.

Tony J Williams
148 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:44:15
Fucks sake!! As much as I loved seeing the nutter try and head the ball on the floor, we need guile to beat the parked bus defenses of the "lower" sides, not a battering ram.
Steve Mink
152 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:57:30
Agree with Tony.
Would love to see Taarabt at Everton. Closest thing I've seen to Duncan McKenzie in 30 years.
James Marshall
156 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:02:11
Trouble with Taarabt is that despite his obvious talent, he's a fair weather player and couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo.

His shooting is dreadful, and he thinks he's Pele.

James Morgan
157 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:01:58
Steve, do you not think Taarabt is a bit showy with no real end product? And a bit fat, might I add.
David Flanagan
159 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:10:25
Taarabt has contributed very little in goals or assists in his 2 seasons in the prem.Showpony with no end product. The Straq was a trier but limited in the extreme.If we want to improve we need far better players
Steve Mink
161 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:15:01
Well I like him.
Tony J Williams
164 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:28:14
Taarabt = Samaras...
Kevin Tully
168 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:39:04
Frank, he is in my top 5 worst centre forwards ever to pull a blue shirt on - stop it please.
Tony J Williams
169 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:43:47
Are we sure the poster wasn't Frank Zappa, smashed off his tits on drugs? gonna ram it, ram it, ram it up your ......
Nick Entwistle
170 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:48:45
The Stracq was a beast. I'd have him back in a second.

Now as for Royston Drenthe, he's played two games for Alania and has of yet not shagged a teammates Labrador, or stolen the managers fingers.

A well behaved Drenthe is someone we would all like.

Ray Robinson
173 Posted 22/03/2013 at 15:05:50
Agree with Kevin.

Rod Belfitt, Bernie Wight, Brett Angell. Who's the fifth, Kevin? Stuart Barlow? If all you want is effort, sign me on? I'm 59 and can still run around a bit. If we are to show ambition, we need better than Count Stracq.

Andy Mack
182 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:02:32
Stracq was awesome, I don't think I've loved a player so much in such a short time as Dennis - Despite, or perhaps because of, his limitations. He looked mental, played as though it was a privilege - wish he'd have got to take a few pens or free kicks in his short time with us, an absolute rocket of a shot. A player how made you laugh... much more endearing than all the twattish playboys that populate the premier league. I hope he gets a game at goodison again in a friendly or something. What a nutter!

Gareth Davies
183 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:18:38
His heading the ball on the floor was absolute comic genius and was copied by TC in a match later that season. He was a great inspiration and cheap, so would have been a good moral booster for the whole squad.
Graham Mockford
186 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:24:30
Stracq — limited player who gives 100% — we love him.

Neville — limited player who gives 100% — we hate him.

It's a funny old world on Toffeeweb

Barry Rathbone
191 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:29:34
Have him back tomorrow and certainly don't agree he was just a trier - things happened when the Straq was on the rampage.
James Stewart
193 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:36:33
Stracq was awful. Tried hard but lets be honest he was rubbish.

Taarabt as the quality but how many times does he actually turn up and play? once, twice a season maybe. Not worth the money he would cost. Plenty of better players out there. Mirallas is twice the player for me.

Dean Adams
196 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:43:18
I am with Barry on this one, he just inspired others around him to put that bit more effort in. Agree with Gareth too, that hedar was class!! Probably never forget that moment.
Daniel Lawrence
202 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:54:27
Stracq = £5k per week

Neville = £50k per week

Kevin Hudson
205 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:57:34
Three great memories of Stracq:

The way he flogged himself against Man.City in January, 2012.

His visible joy at scoring his first goal.

Going mental in the Gwladys following his strike against Chelsea.

Does anyone have a link of him 'doing the worm..?' (Love to see it again!)

Paul David
206 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:10:27
Anichebe - No talent, a shithouse, feigns injuries, only shows effort in about 1 in 5 games.

Stracq – No talent, brave, honest and works his socks off in every game.

The Stracq simply isn't good enough but i'd play him over the other fat lump every time.

Richard Dodd
208 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:29:11
We`ve got someone-and a far more skillful player. His name is Victor Anichebe. He played his first full game for us last Saturday!
Kevin Tully
210 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:31:07
Ray @ 173, I give you Alan Biley, and for the dough we spent, Beattie has to be up there.

I think Straq had his first start in a night game in the League Cup, and I just sat there thinking this has got to be wind up - he couldn't tackle a full breakfast, and turned like the QE2, apart from that he scared me a little bit.

Paul English
213 Posted 22/03/2013 at 18:15:46
Jim Pearson... how's about that then!
Drew O'Neall
219 Posted 22/03/2013 at 18:53:00
I loved Straq.
Bobby Mallon
242 Posted 22/03/2013 at 19:38:32
I loved Li Tie and just wish we would go to the Far East and buy the top players from over there, get some much needed exposure and shirt selling.
Wayne Smyth
260 Posted 22/03/2013 at 20:41:23
If we want players to freshen things up how about our young players who've been waiting for a first team chance for 2 or 3 years?

No, lets go get a player who wasn't good enough the first time around, pay his wages and put another obstacle in the way of the youngsters with talent at the club. FFS!

Brian Hill
265 Posted 22/03/2013 at 20:55:33
Kevin Tully, thanks for reminding me of Alan Biley. I'll be having nightmares for months.
Chris Regan
268 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:07:10
If you mean someone running around like a headless chicken hardly scoring then Jelavic is filing that role right now. Worst post ever!
Nick Entwistle
270 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:10:24
His latest goal. Don't think much of their kop end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pwe4sTJzH8

Tony Christian
273 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:30:23
Alan Biley a Rod Stewart lookalike who had considerably less success scoring
Graham Mockford
280 Posted 22/03/2013 at 22:01:16
I remember Alan Biley's debut, two goals at home to Birmingham in a 3-1 win, also Howard's first game as manager. This was followed by another goal away at Leeds, a very scary night where I was lucky to get out of Yorkshire alive.

It was all down hill from there, that is he never scored again. However, he is in the top 5 barnets of all time along with Felli, the Terry Curran perm, the Carsley/Gravesen 'Mitchell brothers' look and Leighton's indie rock effort.

Mike Allison
326 Posted 23/03/2013 at 09:23:52
Anything good about the Stracq (apart from perhaps comedy value) is replicated ten times over in Anichebe, with the added bonus that Anichebe can also play football and score goals.

As for Taarabt, there's a reason QPR are down the bottom, and it's not a lack of talent.

Peter Bell
333 Posted 23/03/2013 at 10:13:45
Kevin Tully...
If the Stracq is in your top 5 worse centre-forwards, you cannot have watched much of Everton.
Harper, Belfitt, Pearson, Smallman, Walsh, O'Keefe, Wright, Irving, Biley, Mick Feguson, Wakenshaw, Aspinall, Barlow — That is 13 I can think of off the top of my head.

I will get some old programmes out and will probably find another 10 worse than the Stracq.

Mark Frere
342 Posted 23/03/2013 at 11:10:53
Peter Bell.

Add Graham Stuart, Bakayoko, Michael Branch and Mikel Madar. All dreadful and couldn't hit a barn door.

Tony Christian
346 Posted 23/03/2013 at 11:51:26
@Peter333

How could you miss Brett Angel!!!

Bakayoko and Amo too — both shite!!!

Peter Bell
365 Posted 23/03/2013 at 15:05:44
Steady on... I named them 13 centre forwards off the top of my head in about a minute. As I said, give me a bit of time and I could name you many more.

What I liked about the Stracq was we knew he had limited ability but, similar to Andy Gray, he had this infectious attitude of working up the players around him. He left behind a young family, many thousand miles away to come and play for Everton, and showed more commitment and enthusiasm than any of the other impostors I included in my previous post.

And yes... how did I forget Brett Angell?

Clive Rogers
425 Posted 23/03/2013 at 22:03:59
Stracq had one good game against Chelsea and was absolute rubbish the rest of the time. A headless chicken with no ability whatsoever.
James Martin
426 Posted 23/03/2013 at 22:19:19
God, Stracq wasn't that bad, his header against Fulham was class and, had he not had one cleared off the line against Chelsea, he would have been on a right little scoring run around that time.

After watching Saha being impotent for the entire season, it was refreshing to see someone whose first touch didn't come back over the halfway line and who didn't fall over the moment he was touched.

Clearly he had limitations but there have been far worse Everton strikers than him; who here would say that he would have done the invisible man act like 11 other players did against Wigan? There's no way he'd have ever shown such a lack of effort.

Ernie Baywood
434 Posted 23/03/2013 at 23:33:47
People underrate Stracq. He turned our season around last year, before the new signings did.

He lacked technical ability but you don't have that kind of impact in the Premier League if you don't have 'something'.

And I've not seen someone seem so proud of playing for Everton. What a bloke!

Colin Wainwright
435 Posted 23/03/2013 at 23:43:55
I've seen Brett Angell in a blue shirt. Stracq was okay as far as i'm concerned.
Berndan Bradley
463 Posted 24/03/2013 at 10:08:37
Let's face it, he gave us all a laugh and commitment, but he is Fucking Dog! He's shite!!! If that's what you want Everton to be like support Stoke!
Ste Traverse
647 Posted 25/03/2013 at 02:27:14
I'm defo sure the Stracq is the answer to ALL our current problems.

Honest.

What a top suggestion...

Adam Fenlon
652 Posted 25/03/2013 at 04:41:26
Bring back Jo!
Bob Parrington
656 Posted 25/03/2013 at 07:44:31
C'mon guys. Let's get serious. Pip is no good in defence or midfield so, forget Straq and put him up front. He's fast, he luvs Everton, he's got a great shot.........and many more fantastic traits............. er, now where are those pills?
Paul Kelly
697 Posted 25/03/2013 at 15:12:59
Stracq, hey. A few mixed opinions on the fella. Reckon we would be a couple of places higher in the league if we had him up top, and he would of certainly out scored Jelly this season. Would rather see players of less ability show as much pride and passion as he did than players with all the ability do fuck all and go missing for several months. You can have/carry one or two players of this calibre but not a whole team.

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