Last night I watched a Charlton forward come onto the pitch. He doesn't look a brilliant footballer. He's not particularly big. He's not particularly fast. He doesn't seem able to jump particularly high. He doesn't track back or work his socks off.
However, he links up well with his team mates, he makes some cracking runs into space, he has a fearsome and accurate shot, his heading is strong, he's got great upper body strength, he's frightened of no one regardless of size or reputation and HE KNOWS WHERE THE GOAL IS.
Remind you of anyone?
Come on Dicko. Grow a beard and make sure you make that Number 8 shirt your own next season. You my son could become one of this Clubs all time heroes.
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Not many would of done that tho to be fair westrside, the way he done that with melchiot will always stay with me always, he abvsolutly roasted that guy!! lol
Dicko left him standing - look at the run that lead to Dicko hitting the post, for example.
And when Sam sent Dicko away and he cut in before just hitting the side netting from an acute angle.
He scared those West Brom defenders sh*tless with pace.
Would be close very close I watched him play for gillingham and no one could live with him for pace in that league.
My mate went to the home games and said his speed was his 2nd best attribute as his eye for goals was mental.
Last night i was telling anyone who would listen that you can teach people how to put the ball in the back of the net but you can never teach where a player should make his runs to, and las night for his goal the 5 or 6 yards he moved in the pen area were as close to Wrighty as i have ever seen.
This boy is gonna be good real good and as for those who reckon Pards dont rate him you are nutts had it on good authority he rates him higher than any other striker at the club.
I even think he may have hinted as such on his audio blog
by the way Keegan has just been announced newcastle manager
Paul who?
Picked up from non-league, in his first trial match behind closed doors scored 9 against Charlton's then 1st team defence, Simon Webster, Sweaty Balmer et al.
Labelled the 'new Derek Hales, he made a promising start to his Charlton 1st team career, netting a good few before injury laid him out of the game for a long while. Never the same afterwards & eventually let go.
I see a few parallels.
And no, he wasn't as fast as Dicko.
Good comparison Oggy but (hopefully) your last line signals the difference between Dicko and Gorman. Pace gets you a long way (look at SuperKev for instance).
Derek Hales slouched about a lot of the time it is true but at his peak he was quicker than almost anybody over the first 5 yards and that bought him the little bit of time that made him so effective in the box.
Now needs an additional 400 bhp to get any inertia at all.
That hits the nail on the head Len. Killer would not have won a 100 yards dash but over 5-10 yards he was absolute mustard. He just lived scoring goals and his upper body strength helped as well.
He just had that little bit of oomph about him. And determination & aggression.
You never saw Halesy afraid to miss in front of goal - he just went straight for it, like "Get out of my way!"
And when try telling the kids of today, they won't believe you.......
(with apologies to the Monty Python team)
I was at the training ground once and the team were doing sprint training 1 v 1 from one end of the pitch to the other and poor Gorman got beaten by half the length of the field by Kim Grant.
If you could have given Grant some of Gorman's finishing ability he would have been a decent player.
Agreed re the comment about dickos likeness to wrighty - early doors but the signs are very exciting indeed...
happy days - feel good factor creeping back in :)
by the sounds of it ormy so did you :-) lol
Mind you, I was not getting paid to play professional football at the time like he was. We had a chat to him once and he asked us not to tell people we had seen him in there (which we kept to because he was a top bloke), although I guess its safe to spill the beans 14 years later. For the record, it was the Chinese takeaway near Sidcup station.
Didn't he move on to Orient when he left us? Makes you wonder where these old players are today - and what they are doing now.
PS: Henners..... you're not really THE Peter Garland are you?
Don't worry - like Ormy, we can keep a secret....... ;o)
Gorman like Dickson had a touch of arrogance about him, remember him up against the railings after scoring. went to fisher athletic after his injury and failed comeback for us, was disliked in the dressing room, for some reason.
hales was the fastest man on earth, if there was a fight around. remember it kicking off in our area once, halsey was on the half way line, then a split second later he was in the melee getting stuck in.