Thudd

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpg

the way thudd plays football is the way football is played in all of my dreams btw

http://images.football.co.uk/Dynamic/Group/Source/99fffe0048e6da3810233468d1b2df9a.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2008/10/14/460HuddlestoneNickPottsPA.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J84KYkmPs2Y

tom huddlestone is the best footballer in england, discuss.

^^^that is about as well as a football has been hit ever, i mean steven reid might have it beaten but sheesh the technique is mindblowing xp

THUDD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4g_DmR9L4

"oh that's beeeeeautiful"

gerrard/lampard/barry/hargreaves should be begging to partner him at england cm tbh

Love this pass

THUDD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Ezcr8ba74

he must be such a blissful joy to train/play with

like, he should be in the england squad to train with the others, even if they're going to be speedist about picking him

speed is for lesser beings without the touch and passing ability of THUDD

I really hope he is aware of his nickname/trademark.

d-mac otm, also suedey otm

that pass is simply out of this fucking world

pretty sure he takes the curve of the earth into acccount or something, he can make the ball speed up mid air i seen it with my own eyes

Somebody needs to make a rap song about Thudd, it would be much like Black Rob's WHOA but with the obvious THUDD refrain.

he deserves a croon/swing anthem imo, cos he's a classy guy.

paucity of thudd clips on youtube a fucking travesty

hahaha i'd like to say that Thudd's goal against Man City would have been an easy goal of the month

but December 2006 was, like, sensational. Probably the best GOTM ever, and that includes the Edman/Gerrard/Rooney/Chippo month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzUyYOCKzcE&feature=related

thudd still wins obv

although matty taylor MATTY TAYLOR

what a shame he never got his own thread :(

An excellent 4m53s of anyone's time.

oh i don't want to spoil thread but it really has to be essien there. maybe scholes, lampard ahead of it too. that is 5 mins of pure striking for sure xp

when you see the replay of matty taylor's you see it is a full volley with the ball spinning across him FROM 45 YARDS INTO THE TOP CORNER

i'd like to say that's a once-a-career hit but not many people hit one like that

but yeah, simply amazing month

April 2005 was the other stormer

lol at celebrations of mourinho and mark hughes

yeah seriously, essien wins - it's not the strike itself, it's that he's running off to the fans a full second before anyone else knows its in

fucking hell what a month though

bentley's is amazing too just for the sheer i-guess-i-have-no-option-left-but-to-do-THIS-! of it

you british people sure do spell "soccer" weird

almost as weird as how Americans spell "hand"

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2007/Nov/Week4/1615935.jpg

Clearly more footballers should fall into the cauldron of magic potion as a baby.

I love Two Ton Tom, even when he's a bit rubbish.

guys we should not be fighting on this , not ont he one thread where the glory of soccer meets the dramatic majesty of the all american 7 ft quarterback

xp this from a guy that accuses me of not being a real spurs fan, i ask you. there's nothing more spurs than loving a footballer like BTH

Yes, this is a thread of love. Big, big love.

Propose we should rename it the quarterpounder position after Tom.

I can't tell you how much I wanted him to score a proper thunderbolt equaliser against Brazil. In the 90th minute.

One this this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSfs170XPw

BOOOM like dynamite explode.

quarterpounder

jesus i gotta be honest between that and 'jews did 9-1' ilx just keeps on giving this week.

the official footballer of ilx

i think so, i mean who ever even heard of dave kitson?

he gained stoke city and lost our hearts

jimmy bullard pulled a similar move

whereas i could never begrudge tom a move to real/milan.

maybe liverpool- i'd begrudge him that, even though he'd be IMMENSE there

ugh the thought is hateful- benitez in charge of our beautiful innocent and carefree tom. he'd have him playing sideways passes to lucas the whole time.

Big Thudd aka THE UNIT

thudd lyfe

I <3 THUDD.

lucky that thudd and alex song are completely different styles of DM or you'd have to choose between them.

three man central midfields, in a perfect world they'd work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTY8zsFd29w

atm think i'd pick thudd over song tbh.

in a highlights package thudd, but watching song over 90 mins against liege, i was seriously impressed. guys moves the ball like a player in his 30's

tell me what is happening with the kyle you didn't loan straight back to us.

jeremy?

this one went to my school. we sold him to you then loaned him back for the season: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Walker

this one we sold to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Naughton. but not much sign of him in the team yet.

Walker in particular is hilarious.

good touch for a lad who runs the 100m in about 10.5.

naughton has had a few appearances, i think he's got a good choice of being the backup right back next season (hutton rubbish) if the whispered micah richards move doesn't materialise.

think he's got a sub appearance or two at right mid as well, so looks like he's at least going to get first team exposure while we see how he develops.

i wonder if he is friends with thudd

We need a new footballing mascot every season really Kitson -> Bullard -> Thudd.

I tried to do it with qualified chemical engineer Lolofinjana last season but it didn't quite work :(

Also, only player to start every single game this season. I feel bad for not having paid enough attention to him but maybe its because he hasn't played as many of the 40-yard wonderpasses.

Where's that picture of Huddlestone and Lennon wearing pink shorts and playing in the sea? It needs to be here.

there's the one with his overhang gut in pink shorts on the other thread.

Also, only player to start every single game this season.

palacios/thudd such a *huge* improvement on zokora/jenas. 90% of our improvement on last few seasons right there.

Best thing about this is that Modric is still to come.

could spell trouble for thudd, that, even though i'm assuming it's krancjar that'll make way.

but either way

                             ^
                             |
modric ---->              Lennon
              Thudd
  <--------- Palacios ---------->

compares pretty well to last season's starting midfield, or any midfield going back to carrick, david et al

Krancjar Out?

(wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes tbh, just showing his movement doesn't do him full justice i feel)

krancjar isn't likely to start ahead of modric, but the question might well be determined by form, fitness and the opposition. i don't think he'll lack games, given that he can play behind the striker or on either wing.

I'm a full convert to Kranjcar after his performance last week - not sure you can work him and Modric into the same team but he's way better than Robbie Keane or for that matter Lennon either out on the left or in the hole.

wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes

Maybe a cross between an elephant and a flamingo?

eh, using only the /code/ tags, that'd be pretty good work

krancjar is great, but he is essentially a not-quite-as-good modric, so fitting them both in poses questions.

they play together for croatia, right? might be worth looking into. could be our own xavi-iniesta axis right there, BUT WITH THUDD. my god, it's a monster.

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new club crest imo

great work here today.

This is a banner day for ILX football threads.

we need to get more of the mainstream traffic on to the thudd thread, i firmly believe, as stated, that he could be the player to get the yanks behind soccerball once and for all.

I like that LJ's mod request managed to get Thudd's picture in the admin log, twice!

It should come up on the 'confirm ban' page.

Are you sure you want to ban this poster?

I mean, look at Thudd, a few short months ago people suggest banishing him to the reserves for being fat and rubbish and yet here he is now:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpg

the very definition of the beautiful game

he is quite fat

who dared suggest ban thudd? he's always been the heir apparent to pirlo as the world's best quarterpounder

yes, but not rubbish
xp

pirlo is half the man thudd is

takes better set pieces, though. i'll give him that.

He also has swooshy hair

Apps  Gls    Ass
231   11     22 

231 appearances? Guy isn't 23 until December.

Ass
22

I think he's fiddling his vital statistics

22 kilos, imo

the affection for this guy is one of the most boring ilx memes imaginable...plus the moniker.

lol u jealous even lucas's girlfriend thinks of long tom thudda when it's time to put out

doubt lucas has a gf

Tom would improve the current Liverpool team no end, srsly.

To be honest I doubt Two Minute Tom has a girlfriend either.

Cannot believe he's still 22, it feels like a decade ago when he was at the Wolves.

can't find a decent youtube clip of it, but his strike against sunderland a few weeks ago was very nice.

his performance yesterday was pretty decent, although he should have buried that chance

We expect more than "pretty decent" from an icon when Dave Kitson's banging them in for fun in the Champ.

long time since anyone acknowledged thudd as the best passer in england

After Tom Huddestone struck a shot of such inaccuracy that it didn't even go out for a goal kick, Kranjcar was able to meet it, loft his cross into the middle and watch Crouch out-jump Ryan Nelsen to head in via the bar.

such libel! tommy obviously meant to hit it all the way to niko in the corner.

yeah wtf text guy watch ur back on the internet from now on

Is THUDD's birthday today! Happy birthday THUDD!

thudd hb motm imo

thudd+erica=greatestdayever? if only christina hendricks was also born on this date

considering he had like a billion shots, thudd probably should have had a birthday goal today

there was one crossfield pass in the second half that was so mindblowing lennon failed to control it properly iirc

whisper it in dark corners but corluka was far better than thudd in this match tho.

i like that cross a couple of games ago that thudd did that was disguised as a really shit shot that went to the corner flag, but it was a ploy to set up a goal for crouch.

Corluka is the most consistently decent unsung hero in the Spurs squad IMO.

corluka has transformed aaron lennon. it's as good a partnership as anderton/carr that one season they were both fit.

THUDD

AH-AH

HE'S A MIRACLE

UH-HUH

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/27/article-0-03AF19EE000005DC-554_306x410.jpg

every time he hits the ball at speed i make an involuntary sound that approximates to YOMP!

YOMP!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_04/107spurs_468x321.jpg

YOMP!

http://images.sportinglife.com/08/05/330/Wales-U21-v-England-U21-Tom-Huddlestone-score_874003.jpg

DE JOMP!

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00950/Tom_Huddlestone_tak_950177a.jpg

it's usually followed a fifth of a second later by a similar noise and a defender lying on the floor winded

http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/images/2008/07/14/huddlestone.jpg

nike invited him to test their new football and he kicked it so hard it went back to before it was invented and the scientists at nike were confused and many of them cried for fear and all that thudd could say was YOMP

this guy here broke his neck trying to follow a YOMPER from THUDD and THUDD's all like 'Ref I am not to be blamed if foolish individuals break their necks trying to follow a YOMPER from my boot"

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00061/IN6530412BIRMINGHAM-_61141t.jpg

YOMP

spurs-supporting friend and i found a pub showing the spurs-hull game illegally on canal plus and i told him of 'yomp'...he approved. there was one inevitably blocked half-volley that was yomp in its distilled form

i'd have to know how you were sayin it though, to be completely happy with it spreading. for a start, it's never 'yomp' it's definitely YOMP, got to bite down on the 'mp'

oh don't worry, i typed 'yomp' but said "YOMP"

ok, a small thing but we owe thudd this.

i dream of an entire packed 'Naming Rights Here' stadium barking YOMP as one some day, it will truly be shock and awe for the hapless opposition.

won't be available against liverpool due to a knee injury.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/teamnews190110.html

But assuredly it was in that Word of God itself which was in the beginning with God and was God, namely, in the wisdom itself of God, apart from time, at what time that wisdom must needs appear in the flesh. Therefore, since without any commencement of time, the Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, it was in the Word itself without any time, at what time the Word was to be made flesh and dwell among us. And that Word was YOMP.

Do Royal Marines still YOMP? I remember the Falklands was all about the YOMPING.

Poor Tom, he deserves better than having 'yomp' as his legacy.

yeah what was wrong with THUDD?

UNIT, Big THUDD, YOMP- new marine code

and YOMP is only for a THUDD strike, it's not a catch-all or anything

But THUDD works better for a big strike. Simplistic, powerful and onomatopoeic. And you can put extra Ds on the end to indicate POWER.

Anyway having JJ in midfield may not be a bad thing against Liverpool.

I say you can have both YOMP and THUDD, Batman-stylee

seriously, thudd with a soft 'd' finish just kind of dies out, but YOMP! echoes like a military shout

JJ or kranjcar? would have assumed that niko/modric can do a job centrally, though that may be just a touch too attack minded.

that said, jenas midfield is just a touch too nothing-minded.

Definitely not Modric in the centre up against Mascherano, he's way better with more space to play with out on the left. Probably not Kranjcar either given he plays pretty ineffectively there for Croatia.

Every time JJ has come on we start playing in a different way and there's more penetration through the middle of the park. I'd say Palacios-Jenas-Croatians on both flanks is the way to go.

I'd trust Modric to win space in the centre, tbh. And I'm not sure that Liverpool, in their current state (including injuries) need much more than Palacios to handle them through the centre.

I'd much prefer to see us put them on the back foot, though in fairness JJ covers a lot of ground off the ball (though again, in fairness he doesn't seem to do much once he gets there)

I actually just said YOMP out loud :(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/30/tom-huddlestone-tottenham-hotspur-england-interview

no excuses for not watching him tonight folks- the best passer in the english game.

eh unless he isn't playing for any reason, like.

I think watching a competent passing midfielder would make me cry.

jesus to think that it's only 12 months since our starting midfielders were zokora and jenas- is this right?

That Graun piece is v sweet and nice to read in its own way (this is the thread where it is OK to say stuff like that about Graun features) - also I love that he got picked ahead of Ravanelli for his Derby debut, aged 15

also it acknowledges that he is the best passer with either foot in england, which maybe more people need to say and hear.

no excuses for not watching him tonight folks- the best passer in the english game.

eh unless he isn't playing for any reason, like.

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It's like I live in a world where no-one else knows Cesc exists.

fabregas is a very good passer.

terrible.

Three more of those in a row and he should be ready to hit the bar to speed up England's inevitable quarter-final exit this summer

thudd and modric- both in crap form lately (modric back from injury tbf) and that's 90% of our shit form (other 10% dawson's lack of brane and palacios lack of giving a shit intermittently)

but i thought modric was the best player in britain

I guess we can lock this one now right

modric off form isn't going to be the best player in britain, don't talk shite

in the meantime, the best player in britain has been aaron lennon, then david bentley iirc. i may be missing king for 90 mins in there somewhere

nani was the best player in britain for like a game and 30 minutes until he got too good and got himself sent off

yes that is true.

Gareth Bale is now the best player in Britain though

RIP

he didn't get shawcrossed did he? i got bored and stopped watching

johnny heitinga is a savager and more twisted specimen of purest evil than a thousand ryan shawcrosses

cos hes foreign right

?

don't hold out on me here what's up with thudd

possible broken foot? badly twisted ankle? not sure tbh

needs a gastric band amirite

i is just here for the free coffee

from watching it or what? can't see any info anywhere. information superhighway my ass.

Reports from White Hart Lane that Tom Huddlestone has beed decapitated in a freak coming together with Dutch international Johnny Heitenga

O_O

it's only a suspected decapitation

guys reports that his head has been attached in an IMMENSE 9 hr surgery and they're waiting to see if it 'takes'

Gonna need Jamie O'Hara back at this rate. Either that or take a chance on putting a Croatian in the middle of the park. Actually, that won't work either seeing as we have no other fit wide players.

o'hara back, surely? would rather have him than jenas all other things equal anyway.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6028809,00.html

http://www.tottenhamblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/facebook1.jpg

Tom Huddlestone has had 64 shots and scored once, the worst ratio in the top flight

but he takes all his shots first time from 30 yards on either foot. i'm giving him a free pass on that stat.

He's the new Tugay!

^^^okocha morelike

most of his shots are blocked

man tugay scored some crackers against us.

some games Bendtner must be pushing thudd close

i'll forgive tom 63 glorious misses more than i'll allow robbie keane missing 4/5 sitters.

Yeah basically he'll score one amazing goal every season and that is. Tugay scored one ripper every season as well, usually against Spurs.

as i said upthread, he generally takes so long to position his body for a shot that someone manages to get in the way, although i don't know for the life of me why they'd choose to

verdict on his latest showing(s)?

def has that rare ability to piss off drogba

not exactly rare tbh

that was the joke, iirc

what a badly formed "joke"

lol I am winding up the aggro in this thread, in honour of Thudd's radge

Oh my at that goal of the month upthread - could make a perfectly respectable Premiership all-time top ten from that lot. Where was it hosted from though?

Youtube, obv!

he's not back fully fit as yet, but tbh he's handled the defensive aspects of both games this week brilliantly.

he's been great. i'm assuming that palacios will play against united, but who do you drop from the team that beat arsenal and chelsea?
BAE, i guess?

would like to see bale given license to destroy gary neville tbh

Just watched Neville huffing and puffing vs City on MOTD - if Bale has anything close to Bellamy's pace Neville won't even bother chasing him, though he'll likely have a good go at slowing him down early on.

slow him down with a good bumming? :)

drop BAE, and there's no actual noticeable change in positioning from bale whether he's sent out at LB or LM imo

isn't that a problem defensively?

in a week where we have deservedly beaten arsenal and chelsea i'm not sure i'm int he mood to acknowledge any problems.

BAE is a much-improved player, but if it's a choice between the team with him in it or Bale at LB and Palacios in DM, then it's an easy choice.

Thudd's performances in the centre with Modric this week- hardly have given Capello food for thought?

Capello will pick him in the squad but not play him IMO*, which would, I think, be fair

*barring injury/final group game

what's fair is often wrong

plenty of time for thudd in the next two WC's i suppose

Hey guys, remember when Jenas made England squads?

tbf, if hargreaves can get a sub appearance or two then this shouldn't even be a question, sorry thudd lovers.

um I seriously think dude deserves a squad place ahead of loads of people who've recently made England squads or even the first team

I await his total domination of Gareth Barry in the Fourth Place Decider with glee

dude's done an Important Job for a High-Achieving Team - can't see how he can be left out really

Started every game bar injuries/suspension- Jenas is a fading memory.

Hargreaves has improved hugely since never playing football anymore imo.

There's a place for Thudd in games against teams that will sit back and defend- a full-time DM won't be needed and won't have enough to contribute in attack.

But I doubt he'll go, Capello doesn't seem to fancy him.

would this be the Capello who has given him a cap and IIRC said nice things about him

anyway, we'll see

means nothing- capello gave me a call up but i just sang three bars of a nation once again down the phone at him through a mouthful of brack

YOMP and a half!

apparently missing some quality YOMP action, although i did hear the echoes.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/5520447/

mad commentator seemed to like it :)

XD

fuuuck

a YOMP so beautiful I'm sure it has to be in elaborate italicised script.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2010/5/1/1272728009171/Tom-Huddlestone-006.jpg

in the middle of raising his arms for the 'Y' in YOMP imo

There's something Christlike about that pose, would've looked good by Zubarán.

get in(ri)

lucky, lucky boy. seems his aura can even dispel red cards

yeah but i love it when he loses his cool tbh he's so manly

and then there was that handball about 2 minutes later

definitely got an aggro streak. some lovely passes today and some neat defensive work, thought he generally looked pretty good, albeit happy to let city play in front of him

maturity shown in the past maybe dozen games makes him a squad cert imo.

I think Gareth Barry limping off increases the possibility of Thudd going to the World Cup quite considerably.

well no word on that yet but it didn't look too serious.

the fact that barry has been fairly anonymous in a fairly anonymous midfield for quite a lot of the season should probably come into play too.

barry has always made a weird virtue of anonymity though: some players make it look easy, barry has such an excess of composure that he makes it look boring.

i can't decipher if you're saying that's a good thing or a bad thing tbh

its a pretty important thing in the premiership in the moment: barry, carrick, denilson, ballack, lucas- all kind of that same anon but important centre mid

i can't decipher etc

huddlestone has become that guy, but with three or four world class crossfield passes per game. a little more consistency in the goalscoring and i can't see how he won't be in the running for england's first XI

there was a beautiful moment where he dummied to shoot, beat his man, dummied to shoot again, then slipped it wide for lennon (who cut inside, crossed for the Crouch knockdown, fell to Bale on the rising half-volley, almost sumptuous goal)

yes that was good. thudd dummies look nonsensical, it's like watching a glacier send you the wrong way over aeons

he did it a couple of times to notable effect. when he chooses to skin his man it is like some great natural wrong has been unleashed

live an avalanche, but w/a football imo

^^^typo but this is what goalkeepers do when Huddlestone swings his leg back to shoot

bet king has annabel's drained at this stage tbh.

Letter writing campaign starts here

XDDDDDDDDD

i dunno what capello reads, who's got italian though? let's do this.

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perfectly weighted pass for keane (keane scored 2 today!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk86UFkfAi0&feature=player_embedded

hoping thudd has a huge season this year, can't believe how young he still is. actually all the spurs midfield: bale, modric, thudd, lennon could be lining up together for 6+ years. kranjcar and corluka too.

would hate to see this guy go and waste 2 years waiting for ferguson to realise just how to play him. see berbatov.

lucky boy
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=839971&sec=england&cc=5901

never mind that

his effort tonight

he had that christ-like pose for the yomp off the post.

it was very nearly a karate kid pose, beautiful stuff. some great 60-70 yards balls too, he's in the groove atm

we'll not discuss the grooves on elmander's chest, though

dang that dec 2006 clip is amazing

huddlestone takes it imo (and not just cuz i'm reading this thread) because while, say, scholes' goal looked like a "why not fuck it i'll have a crack at it" moment, huddlestone's looked like a guy saying "...yup." ~aced~

also lol at you guys calling him the UNIT---u have heard of randy johnson, i presume

Not good enough for a top team...

he's playin for one

whatevr you think of that it doesn't change my point!

:)

thudd with essien in fron of him, with drogba to aim at- chelsea could win the league with that combo imo

he's a major luxury, exactly the type of player that goes missing when you guys lose to man u.

most of man u were missing that game tbf

out for 8-10 weeks?
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/46813/Spurs_star_faces_two-month_layoff_.aspx

crash diet imo

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/gallerypictures/17549L.jpg

you've got to be fucking kidding me

?

loki from the new thor movie

his name is tom hiddlestone

THIDD

to raise money for cancer research, he's not cutting his hair until he scores a competitive goal
www.justgiving.com\huddlefro

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If there's one thing that Liverpool team needs it's a midfielder.

adam and huddlestone waddling around the halfway line chipping 40 yard balls to carroll, skrtel as sweeper, suarez running onto the knockdowns, lucas flitting around in the gaps as #10

don't want that fat useless lump thudd

overstocked tbf

There was good news from Spurs Lodge as Tom Huddlestone ran for the first time
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/team-news-130112.html

anyone in the uk feel this?

Tom Huddlestone - Goal.com
www.goal.com/en/people/england/10053/tom-huddlestone
Tom Huddlestone. Date of Birth: Dec 28, 1986 (Age 24). Place of Birth: Nottingham. Nationality: England. Height: 188 cm. Weight: 71 Kg. Position: Midfielder ...

'for the first time' i can believe it

sandro parker thudd livermore plenty of deeplying cm players there, hope we start to see some non-forced rotation soon, if just to keep squad players fresh and somewhat involved

the antibig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dcGMApCOAo

http://www.lifescapemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bambi.jpg

thudd having a contest on twitter: whoever gets the closest on his premier league best XI gets a shirt.

link?

https://twitter.com/#!/TomHuddlestone6/status/167683484515708928

revealing his XI at 11:00 tonight

ta!

thudd having another surgery won't play this season. rip.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0saohxcXT1rn325to1_500.jpg

pretty slow going on the fro, but i am liking the look

needed his yomping threat last night, parker modric just can't hit em from distance, allows defenders and midfielders to crowd out the box while we run and pick passes forty yards out

Doubt he'd be much use without proper wingers, which Bale isn't any more.

when have we ever had proper wingers? Anderton, ginola, lennon on and off and bale for two years before his conversion into qbert.

that is a completely incorrect reference

Bale thinks he's Ronaldo now. Qbert lol

Broken my brain trying to think about what you could possibly mean by qbert.

you had to cordon off moving sparks to shade areas it was either game boy or spectrum and it was from about the same time as qbert that's all i got

btw is thudd hoping arry will mistake him for sandro now or what

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5bou7nC3c1qka6w5o1_500.png

martin jol sniffing around?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/7/11/1342029844541/Tottenham-Hotspur-manager-008.jpg

just knew this would be that pic

if modric goes i want thudd in our first xi, let's make this happen

sandro huddlestone sigurdsson

that is pretty.....complete, really

without modric u have to rip it up and start again

i think so, and i think we have the players

supposedly thudd is miffed at his lack of playing time during pre season and it's now being reported that he won't be in the squad tomorrow. rip biggest of all big men.

Rumoured to be on his way to Stoke :(

found his level tbf

cold

Reportedly deleted a load of veiled AVB disses on Twitter this week as well. Love the guy but after a year out my hopes for him getting even his old paltry level of mobility back are pretty much zero.

it's almost as if he has always been shit

Reportedly deleted a load of veiled AVB disses on Twitter this week as well. Love the guy but after a year out my hopes for him getting even his old paltry level of mobility back are pretty much zero.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his tweets were not anti avb, that whole story was complete bullshit. wish he would go to italy, his game would be appreciated there.

what was the whole respect thing about then?

he retweets lots of generic inspirational quotes all the time

ah, okay.

it's almost as if he has always been shit

This is nonsense - he's (okay maybe was) one of the best long passers of the ball in the Premiership. The problem is you effectively have to build your midfield around him to compensate for his failings and most clubs above say Everton or even Stoke level wouldn't be prepared to do that, because they have more complete players to build teams around.

yes but as an overall player, just because ilx had a big jizzfest for him since day 1 doesn't mean he's ever actually done anything.

found out bill

a fat clown for all to see

huddlestone is potentially a good player.....give him a fletcher type to cover for his lack of running and a couple of flying wingers

probably why he was best in palacios' first season, with lennon to hit on the break

^^^ OTM. He would have been fine with Parker round there as well I think.

Give him one job to do with the right players around him and he'll do it very well, same as hundreds of good players who can't do everything and anything on the pitch. But why retool your midfield to accommodate him when you already have Modric in there?

This is all Redknapp-era anyway, he's probably not mobile or versatile enough to fit in an AVB team.

Modders and Huddlestone didn't really work when they were being played together because Thudd was expected to do most of the defensive work and he's just not quick enough.

let's see where he ends up.

He'll turn up at Stoke like all second-tier Spurs players do these days.

http://i.imgur.com/0cbFp.gif

you had to cordon off moving sparks to shade areas it was either game boy or spectrum and it was from about the same time as qbert that's all i got

QIX

yes!

obv he's not over injury fully yet, and looks in shape, but idk how he fits in these days....

try greasing him and giving it a big push

He's been excellent off-the-bench past few weeks

respect. i thought he was done. maybe now he'll get the move to italy his game deserves.

Hush you, what'll happen is avb works out a credible rotation and tactical policy to keep sandro, dembele, thudd, holtby all happy and competing.

i would like him to stick around, just don't think he has the mobility avb will require. carroll more important to work into the rotation imo.

I agree, if u mean ANDY

There's not been a lot of mobility with avb's starting xi inc dempsey and sig on wings lately, adebayor lolloping around fifty yards from anyone and parker tripping everyone else up. Hopefully he'll spot that having a player that lasers the ball around in a very disjointed unit at present is A Good Thing

MOTD2 graphics last night showing the entire Spurs midfield all with ten feet of each other makes me wonder who he's meant to laser it to once Bale isn't there.

Point being that he wont be within ten feet of anyone, not having run anywhere, ever

tbf that all changed with defoe and holtby comin on anyway

thudd may have pulled a dawson for now but you'll try and replace with moutinho again i'd expect

chasing willian and damiao generally does suggest avb sees where the problems are at least

still not sure i really get holtby yet but i suspect he might be one to flourish next season

He's been very neat, but better off the bench imo for now. Better wide than either sigurdsson or dempsey, probably best in the hole tho.

would hate to see thudd go obv.

his weight is given as 71kg ie 11 stone 2lbs gtfo

Nother site says 12st 5lbs gtfo

Yet another says 15 6 maybe, maybe

yeah holtby's gotta be the amc

think he probably just needs to bulk up a bit, got the engine and skillset just a tad lightweight

like it's not even a steroidal premier league thing i don't think, i mean ozil had to get ripped to play in spain after he moved so

Modric didnt but he bounced off tackles

Think Tom's a Plan B/not-so-secret weapon rather than a regular starter.

Holtby is very incisive and composed and more intelligent in his play than Sigurdsson or Dempsey and can play deep or further advanced. Would imagine Dembele-Sandro-Holtby will be the first choice central midfield, the squad has been reasonably well built from the back upwards but is really threadbare upfront and out wide.

avb out
;_;

He'll come back to us, like Defoe did, when the management realises what they've let go.

I know ppl say no one player is bigger than the team but with thudd that is just factually incorrect.

I will adopt hull as second team if livermore/thudd are a starting two in midfield. That's immobile but as a sitting pair it's an interesting prospect.

thudd/koren dreamteam

thudd/koren/boyd is p much the most cultured potential midfield three in the premiership outside of man city & chelsea, shame it's also probably the most immobile

and then there's paul mcshane and alex bruce behind them :D

i am wounded, wounded. it will never really heal.

much like hudd's ankle

http://www.hullcityafc.net/cms_images/news/tom-huddlestone-signing-4-3116-992054_478x359.jpg

I'm excited for him, although it may mean I like Spurs less

Jake Livermore is also going from the north Londoners to Humberside - on a season-long loan in his case - and Huddlestone questioned Spurs’ policy of off-loading English players.

“The first few years I was there, the philosophy and policy were to buy young British players, such as myself, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, Michael Dawson, Jermaine Jenas, and players like that,” said Huddlestone, who will make his debut at Chelsea on Sunday.

“Now Steve Caulker has gone sold to Cardiff], they’ve let me go, Jake has left and it has gone the opposite way - buying more established international players. I’m not sure if it is good for the club.

“It will be difficult [for Tottenham]. They’ve let a few players go who were used to the Premier League week in, week out. Bringing players in from abroad, as we’ve seen in the past, can take them a while to settle.

“You could see it happening last season. David Bentley left, Jermaine Jenas left [for QPR in January] and they were ready to accept a bid [also from QPR] for Michael Dawson.”

Woeful casemaking there

www.stevegleiber.com/news.htm

Paul Merson has admitted he is heartbroken at Arsenal's decision to sell him to first division Middlesbrough for £4.5million. "I thought I would end my career at Arsenal. When they said I could leave I felt terrible," he told the News of the World.

The news was delivered to Merson by Gunners manager Arsene Wenger yesterday. The Frenchman has made several major signings in the close season and feels he can do without Merson, one of the fans' favourite players. Merson said: "Arsene Wenger came to me and said 'We have been offered £4.5million for you'. "I asked Arsene 'Aren't you going to try to keep me?' and he just said 'No'. He kept saying it was a lot of money for a 29-year-old and he had to take it. "My 15 years with Arsenal was over in 15 minutes. I felt terrible. They didn't make any effort to keep me."

Dennis Bergkamp has cushioned the blow for Arsenal fans with a contract extension which should keep the 28-year-old Dutch international in north London for the rest of his career.

This guy's blog ends here btw, obviously never got over losing Merse

http://www.estadao.com.br/fotos/Willian_Shakhtar_StefanWermuth_Reuters_07112012_292_280.jpg

http://www.hullcityafc.net/cms_images/news/tom-huddlestone-signing-4-3116-992054_478x359.jpg

stay off the pies kids

iirc merse was at the zenith of his pissheadery at that point, probably had the whole conversation with a hatstand in wenger's office

i mean i know thudd is carrying timber but he doesnt look in bad shape there imo

yeah his 40yard dash time should be inching under 5.8 seconds

the line about huddlestone that he was a 16st xabi alonso cast before the swine of english fitba is about as accurate as those sentiments usually are

his notable skill is being able to drop well weighted passes over 20-60 yards with minimal backlift and a lowish trajectory but with a slight backspin so it sits at the feet of the recipient

it's a neat trick to have but it's also the most common such talent for an english midfielder or pseudo midfielder to have, gerrard, carrick, twp &c

his control and short passing are not especially good

disagree obv

his first touch some ways better than most english midfielders

he's considerably better on his second foot than most english footballers

his weighted passes are consistently better, and at their best far better, than other english players

the epl is 70% non english and creative midfielders are probably more like 80% so it's scarcely worth comparing him only to his reliably lumpen compatriots

it is when he's not getting a game in that lumpen midfield imo

but then he was getting one for ours either i spose

interesting to see if he makes international squad with a run

I think Gerrard has a tendency to put too much on those long low passes and Carrick doesn't have Thudd's passing range or cunting ability. Both make up for those shortcomings by being able to move.

Both significantly older fwiw

in terms of ability to move that's not a positive

but hey i love Thudd too and i am having weirdly ambivalent feelings about Steve Bruce lately. i think City will be alright.

the epl is 70% non english and creative midfielders are probably more like 80% so it's scarcely worth comparing him only to his reliably lumpen compatriots

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva

u will oblige, tbh, by listing the furriners in england who surpass our lad thudd in the metrics suggested btw

He's made a perfect career move. Midfields have to be built around him, and at Spurs this was not the case. He's looking absolutely imperious at Hull. Obviously an England recall would be out of the question as Wilshere is his more-mobile equivalent, although I think Thudd's deep-lying style is more suited to controlled possession football - perhaps Wilshere will develop in this regard. Thudd's a better passer and dead-ball striker. Let the love-in continue!

wilsheres best skill is carrying the ball between the lines with lil bursts then playing off of the attacking midfielders / forwards like ilkay gundogan with a feltham YOI demeanour and haircut

can see other teams looking for similar skillets

huddlestone isnt really like that at all

veratti should be better than wilshere or ilkay because he can do everything wilshere can do but with real playmaking intelligence

yeah but wilshere is the player england are looking to build their team around

a wilshere - huddlestone CM would be an interesting experiment though

i dont really care about england

huddlestone wilshere is quite a complementary central midfield

i dont rate huddlestone that highly but id like to see what he does with a few months starting for hull, the epl lacks interesting players in those sort of teams

cleverley & milner though. keepin it solid bruv

england won't select thudd so this is moot. let's talk about hull. ridiculous flair quotient for supposed lumpen relegation trash

di canio getting rid of one of the only interesting players in that tranche and giving him to wba was probably not the best decision

what else are hull doing, is meyler playing, is gamelad brady still being game, who is aluko, why is aluko

when Sunderland signed Giaccherini I thought it was the wing-back who played for Italy in the recent Euros and was excited, but I'd gotten the name wrong

?? that was Giaccherini

gamelad brady scored a game finish & assisted the 2nd goal, so steve bruce subbed him off for flair merchant supreme george boyd who set up the winner quite brilliantly

bruce deserves quite a lot of credit for this & how he's set up hull to retain possession and build slowly

elmohamedy (sp?) is a speedy winger/fullback with a decent cross & brain, but thudd & aluko alone make hull worth watching. aluko is like a little buzzing bee who pops up everywhere doing impressive things & skinning opponents. and occasionally thwacking in amazing volleys

this Giaccherini is a striker, maybe they're brothers, Italian football does brothers more than any other major nation I think

oh it is the same one

paolo you're a shit. play him where he's supposed to be

I haven't really watched him tbh, but for some reason in my head he's not a million miles away from Weimann in terms of skillset. That could be way off the mark though

hes mostly played in attacking midfield in italy i think

he is i would guess about 8" shorter than weimz

low centre of gravity scampering sub-giovinco supra-stephen hunt lateral utility drone

yeah that may not be far off, i'm always taken aback by weimann's heigh when i see him in the flesh. usually imagine him as quite a diminutive chap

haha xp

he scored a headed goal in the first game, assumed he was a standard CF

attacking midfield in italy rarely = attacking midfield here, especially when playing alongside conor wickham

kinda want to discuss steve bruce's unlikely being a good manager tho

weimzi was playing #9 vs germany the other week

what are weimann's obvious attributes

i don't notice him much until he's popped up in front of goal. gather he must have pace & awareness as primary skillset

hes quickish for his size, not especially skilful but can find space and is a good finisher

not dissimilar to the way podolski plays for arsenal or the german nt

someone compared him to dempsey on here not so long ago, seemed kinda otm - not necessarily a good footballer but an effective one. works hard, makes good runs, which makes him look quicker than he actually is. as a result he often does that thing of just being in the right place at the right time. gives off the vibe of being a good finisher whilst still missing potloads of chances. endeared himself to the fans by being prepared to accept that he wasn't going to be the central striker and apparently committing fully to being a high energy presence on the flank, tracks back well etc.

find it surprising he'd be a #9 then - that sort of player would probably need a skilful & physically dominant player alongside to thrive, mostly for the purpose of distracting defenders

villa seem to be playing him as a replacement milner, maybe a bit further forward. which is FAIR ENOUGH probably

dempsey isnt a bad comparison, more so than the hypertrophic jawline drone

what about dirk kuyt

gonna keep this up all night maybe

dempsey has a lot more swag than weimann. cf chip vs juventus

heavy drinking has turned my posting style into a hoy hoy's. perhaps time for a ban

ilf is missing a hoy at least in the high volume a hoy of 2k10 vintage

re: Kuyt Yeahh, maybe. I think Weimann has it in him to be more prolific from the flank than Kuyt was. 12 goals in 38 isn't a bad return for a lad playing in our shower of shite (as we were for much of last year) and I think he could push on well past that if he keeps progressing

let's start a thread

at least 1/3 as obsessive as this one

<3

Sad realisation that i like this guy a lot more than the club he left

oh Thudd is totally my Premiership team yeah

saw the second half; to say he was imperious does augustus c a grand deal of flattery

it was fulham, lads

The fulham that fucked us out of cl place at whl this sixmonth past, tbh theyve prob fucked us since but thats the one avb can thank

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tom-Huddlestones-hair-/221345205566

this lad at hull thom huddelston tell of him someone he looks an interesting mix of strength and technique

for posterity, there is little more joyous than an act of pure, savage bullying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7fo2FOPvaw

ah, now if only he could play in League One every week eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ASCB1kSpU

p special

Half-time: Hull 0-3 Arsenal

Hull seemed to have got themselves into this game, and missed a great chance through Aluko, but now they’re well out of it. Even if the first two goals owed a lot to deflections, sloppy play – twice by Tom Huddlestone – was part of their undoing and you have to praise Arsenal too.

Thudd has had a nigh-appalling season

the line about huddlestone that he was a 16st xabi alonso cast before the swine of english fitba is about as accurate as those sentiments usually are

his notable skill is being able to drop well weighted passes over 20-60 yards with minimal backlift and a lowish trajectory but with a slight backspin so it sits at the feet of the recipient

it's a neat trick to have but it's also the most common such talent for an english midfielder or pseudo midfielder to have, gerrard, carrick, twp &c

his control and short passing are not especially good

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 16 August 2013 00:43 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1 month passes...

He's made a perfect career move. Midfields have to be built around him, and at Spurs this was not the case. He's looking absolutely imperious at Hull. Obviously an England recall would be out of the question as Wilshere is his more-mobile equivalent, although I think Thudd's deep-lying style is more suited to controlled possession football - perhaps Wilshere will develop in this regard. Thudd's a better passer and dead-ball striker. Let the love-in continue!

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the fuck

Huddlestone's main virtue relies on having very fast attacking players around him to capitalise on those long balls, he was never going to work well for long in a side as slow as Hull, and that's before you get into his own lack of mobility. Elmohamady is probably their best player and he is no Bale/Lennon.

Sounds like he's covering himself in glory today if Twitter is anything to go by.