Season 2012-13
Opinion
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We need someone like The Stracq!
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, Posted 22/03/2013 at 12:05:12
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148 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:44:15
152 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:57:30
Would love to see Taarabt at Everton. Closest thing I've seen to Duncan McKenzie in 30 years.
156 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:02:11
His shooting is dreadful, and he thinks he's Pele.
157 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:01:58
159 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:10:25
161 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:15:01
164 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:28:14
168 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:39:04
169 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:43:47
170 Posted 22/03/2013 at 14:48:45
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.
173 Posted 22/03/2013 at 15:05:50
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.
182 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:02:32
183 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:18:38
186 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:24:30
Neville — limited player who gives 100% — we hate him.
It's a funny old world on Toffeeweb
191 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:29:34
193 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:36:33
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.
196 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:43:18
202 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:54:27
Neville = £50k per week
205 Posted 22/03/2013 at 16:57:34
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!)
206 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:10:27
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.
208 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:29:11
210 Posted 22/03/2013 at 17:31:07
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.
213 Posted 22/03/2013 at 18:15:46
219 Posted 22/03/2013 at 18:53:00
242 Posted 22/03/2013 at 19:38:32
260 Posted 22/03/2013 at 20:41:23
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!
265 Posted 22/03/2013 at 20:55:33
268 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:07:10
270 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:10:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pwe4sTJzH8
273 Posted 22/03/2013 at 21:30:23
280 Posted 22/03/2013 at 22:01:16
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.
326 Posted 23/03/2013 at 09:23:52
As for Taarabt, there's a reason QPR are down the bottom, and it's not a lack of talent.
333 Posted 23/03/2013 at 10:13:45
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.
342 Posted 23/03/2013 at 11:10:53
Add Graham Stuart, Bakayoko, Michael Branch and Mikel Madar. All dreadful and couldn't hit a barn door.
346 Posted 23/03/2013 at 11:51:26
How could you miss Brett Angel!!!
Bakayoko and Amo too — both shite!!!
365 Posted 23/03/2013 at 15:05:44
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?
425 Posted 23/03/2013 at 22:03:59
426 Posted 23/03/2013 at 22:19:19
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.
434 Posted 23/03/2013 at 23:33:47
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!
435 Posted 23/03/2013 at 23:43:55
463 Posted 24/03/2013 at 10:08:37
647 Posted 25/03/2013 at 02:27:14
Honest.
What a top suggestion...
652 Posted 25/03/2013 at 04:41:26
656 Posted 25/03/2013 at 07:44:31
697 Posted 25/03/2013 at 15:12:59
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145 Posted 22/03/2013 at 13:29:50
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.