Applauding the opposition goalie

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by Moose, Oct 28, 2017.

  1. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    He was, let's say, a character.

    Mind you he made the 8th most Football league appearances of all time, playing in over 750 games.. so cant have have been that awful.
     
  2. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    When he moved from Blackpool to Villa in the 70s, the Villa fans called him the 'Blackpool Monkey'.
     
  3. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    That was because he was so athletic :) Swinging on the crossbar etc.



    His warm ups where often more entertaining than the matches he played in..

     
  4. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I’m going to say it again, stop applauding the other team’s goalkeeper.

    Last night Ederson got a generous welcome from the Rookery and then proceeded to urinate on your hospitality with a shameful and rather professional display of time wasting and general twattery.

    Our role as fans is to get behind our team and inspire them to win, not to be polite to superstars of dubious character. We should be making it clear their behaviour is under scrutiny. We should get in their heads.

    It’s not the 1960’s. Put this habit in the bin with your rosette and your rattle.
     
  5. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    Agreed. I always used to flick the Vs at them when I was young. I've always been a rebel.

    Best bit of goalkeeper heckling I've seen was at a reserve match where john lukic was the goalie. Some wag shouted "just shoot, the keeper's ****" And lukic had to he held back by his defenders, giving it all the "dont you know who I am" big ones.

    I guess you had to be there.
     
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  6. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Get a life, it's only a game!
     
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  7. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Happy clapper! Get there early next time and see if you can get a Citeh player’s autograph.
     
  8. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Tried. Too many dads outside the stadium exit. Sad!
     
  9. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    Nevermind ‘applauding’ the opposition goalie - after watching the game back on BT this morning (to see if we were as bad as we looked...we were) Robbie Savage sounded like he wanted to do a lot more to Ederson that just give him a clap.
     
  10. Stevohorn

    Stevohorn Watching Grass Grow

    Give him 'the' clap maybe?
     
  11. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    I attended a Northwood game a few years back and some chap was giving the away keeper lots of abuse. The chap in question had a thick scottish accent. The keeper turned to him and said he had no idea what he was saying so try it in English.

    Mr Scotland didn't seem to get the joke!
     
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  12. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Kelso perhaps?
     
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  13. Guy

    Guy Squad Player

    Always remember the welcome we have to the great Peter Shilton when his indiscretions came out in the papers
     
  14. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Paddy Kenny was always exempt too.
     
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  16. Can the 1881 generate funds for a flag saying "you're a tw@" that we can show to approaching opposition goalkeepers?
     
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  17. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    A fresh lead!
     
  18. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Maybe recycle the Lesta banner by moving the letters around.

    Good & bad sides of the 1881.
     
  19. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Name aside, any evidence that Kels was/is Scottish?

    It adds an edge to his yarns.
     
  20. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Pretty sure at some point he said he was Scotch
     
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  21. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    Ex Watford Grammar schoolboy who lived in Scotland (Kelso, would you believe?) for many years.
     
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  22. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Hopefully has migrated back to the Queen of the South forum or similar.
     
  23. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I fear he has gone the way of Nnnn. Suffocated in his sleep by his gf's massive **** that he kept telling us about.
     
  24. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    They are my main visual memory of the Mazzarri period.
     
  25. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Or mammary.
     
  26. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Also no sign of Jossy for a while.

    Has Moog retired this persona?
     
  27. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Moog regularly forgets passwords.
     
  28. Harrow Orn

    Harrow Orn Squad Player

    Best I have seen is when we played Ipswich (I think). They had a keeper called Dean Gerken who made a mistake. Our fans sung "Gerken's in a pickle, Gerken's in a pickle la la la la"
     
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  29. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Hell of a keeper, as he managed to keep England goalkeeper, Scott Loach, out of the side.
     
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  30. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    I remember Kevin Pressman used to be given a rough time every time he visited. And rightfully so.
     
  31. Teide1

    Teide1 Squad Player

    I was pretty disappointed with the Man City keeper the other night with his time wasting antics at the end, yes he was rightly booked but that didn't stop him!, as City are the best in the premier they should be beyond the play acting (talking to his mate with the ball lodged on the top of the net) what was all that about? They went down in my estimations after that!
     
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  32. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    I've never really understood booking a goalkeeper for time-wasting - or any player for that matter. It's not as if any referee in the world will send a player off for doing it twice. So is it really a yellow card offence? A much better punishment would be that every time a referee has to blow his whistle for time-wasting, he informs the offending player that a minute extra will be added to injury time...eg. gain 10 seconds here, lose 60 seconds at the end. Or just have the clock go dead every time the ball is dead.
     
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  33. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    It’s not just the seconds ‘wasted’ though, is it? The ref as timekeeper should be well capable of adding the equivalent time on at the end, but it’s the disruption to the flow of the game and resulting frustration of opposing players and fans that is the problem. I suspect this comes under the archaic term ‘bringing the game into disrepute’ - a bit like dropping your shorts and mooning the crowd. I think it should be a yellow card and doing it twice should be a red.
     
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  34. hornet93

    hornet93 Academy Graduate

    I don't get this tradition either. We usually end up abusing the 'keeper by the end of the game, so why not just do it straight from the start?

    I'd like to see the whole Rookery giving 'keepers a bit of stick as they approach the goal after half time. But first we lull them into a false sense of security by applauding them as we do now. Then as soon as they raise their hands to acknowledge this reception, we immediately turn to jeering, sticking up two fingers, etc. Might actually throw a few of them off.
     
  35. HELGO

    HELGO Reservist

    On the rare occasions we are winning, Ben is a master of time wasting.
     
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