https://wfcforums.com/index.php?thr...m-united-11-11-2023.60596/page-6#post-3290693 I did tell you Rajovic was garbage and got told off for it!!
The forum has a zero tolerance towards negativity. You’ve been around long enough to know that. Raj is amazing because he’s scored 10 goals. Fail to acknowledge that, and you will be pounced upon by the happy police.
As I've mentioned earlier we needed him no the pitch towards the end of the game still to help deal with their aerial bombardment from set-pieces.
Your post there called him "a total waste of money". With him having scored 10 goals in 1700 minutes of football after costing just £1mil, it hardly seems as if your post there has already been proven correct in his signing having been a "total waste", even if he is crap outside the box.
I see your point, maybe it’s a mix of both. I still remember names of players like Soloman, Drysdale, Lavin and I don’t think any of them return as legends. Not that those 3 were in the mix for my favourite players of course! Darren Bazeley however!
I just noticed I missed Conference League games from my above post - so Rajovic had actually already played 22 games this season before having joined us in August. So considering there are only 13 games left of this season in the Championship (and the Swedish league started at the beginning of April and ended end of November), it's already as if the season should have ended about a month ago already for him if you use the length of a Championship season as a yardstick. And his pre-season at Kalmar wouldn't have been with the expectation of such a long season either. Again, it shouldn't be surprising if he seems off the pace.
I saw Soloman score an absolute cracker away at West Brom. Although sadly we got absolutely hammered in that game.
Stupid haircut! The club was poorly run back then but the difference was we felt much closer to the players, so it seemed we were all working together to do the best we could. It’s not like that now. (And I was well into my 30s in the 1990s.)
It speaks volumes that the only players we can keep for longer than a few years are those who aren't good enough for the big boys (Deeney perhaps was good enough for a time, but we were in a position then to rebuff them, plus he liked being a big fish in a small pond), but even so, we've done a remarkable job of recruiting precisely the wrong personalities
Some footballers just aren’t naturals. They don’t look like they can play, yet they manage to get picked and do enough to justify their place through hard work and determination. Lloyd Doyley is an example. Anyone could see that he was limited, but he regularly justified his place by doing what he’d learned to do, consistently. The problem for a striker, however, is that even if he learns to do the simple things well, he’ll still be lacking the ability to trouble decent defenders who will know his game. I guess it depends on guile and a willingness to play the players. At the moment he just seems too naive. But maybe his ability to position himself to score is something that can always happen, even against good opponents. If it is possible for him to gain a bit of speed then it could make a huge difference. I’d be surprised if he’s not a better player next season. He seems to have a good attitude and hunger. I’m one of those (rare?) people who sees (or just imagines) some improvement in him. But he was very poor yesterday. I think he will always look about as natural on the ball as Doyley. But maybe it won’t matter. I look forward to the club selling T shirts with the words ‘I was there when Rajovic nutmegged someone’.
Doyley could defend fairly well though which was his main job. Admittedly he probably wouldn’t make it now due to the lack of passing ability . Mind you some could say that hasn’t stopped some of the current mob !
Fair enough and I agree . I think most on here and X point fingers at the owner etc understandably but on the WO they seem more critical of VI and his tactics/style of football .
Didn't both to watch a single minute as I knew it was going to be bad, but saw a replay of Aspirlla's goal, another fantastic finish. Enjoy him in a Watford shirt over the next 13 games before he's sold in the Summer. Fair play to those who went considering the season finished after the Cardiff loss.
Lavin and Bazely both lodged at my house as youth teamers. I had a fight with Lavin or one of the others staying at the same time, because he spat in the bin. Bazeley was one of two Darren's staying at the same time. One of them liked rap, the other liked U2. I can't remember which was DB.
Think there was an almighty booze filled dust up in the High Street once where one of our players (possibly Rob Page) ended up kicking Lavin when he was on the floor and everyone got arrested.
That was Perpetuini, not Lavin. As I heard it, Page was holding a kebab in one hand at the time and didn't spill so much as a strand of shredded lettuce.
In that case, I think Lavin might've been one of the others that had his collar felt! His name was definitely in the mix and think about 3/4 of them got nicked.
GT stripped Page of the captaincy if I recall. And when Perpetuini finally broke into the first team, I always remember there being a definite issue between the two. Page was clearly never a fan.
It was a number of years after Lavin joined Millwall, I think. Pretty sure it was at some point during the Premier League season 1999-00. If not, it was the season before.
H Yes it was about that time but then did Page lose the captaincy ? Or was that just when Vialli came . Lavin was early to mid 90s. Got into trouble for kicking the ball into the crowd at Reading whilst with Bristol City . https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2171474/lavin-charged-with-assault
Yeah, I'm not sure Page was stripped of the captaincy. If I recall correctly the whole incident fell into the category of 'post-beer hijinks' and there was a general sense that perhaps a young player who'd got a bit full of himself was taken down a peg or two.
At least he did manage to put the ball in the onion bag occasionally, Araujo hasn't done that since before he joined us last January...
Last season we had Bayo, Davis, Araujo, and Manaj This year we've got Bayo, Rajovic, and (a not fully fit) Dennis That's got to be a good debate on its own surely?
My first time in Rotherham, I thought it was a really good away day, the pub before the game was decent and very cheap. The worst part was probably the football match. It wasn't the most enjoyable game to watch and I felt that we may have set up a little defensive against a club that has only won 3 games this season (that is a dismal record).
Lloyd Doyley worked his socks off to play consistently at the level he did . SAF is quoted as saying " hard work will beat talent when talent doesn't work hard enough" Sir Lloyd of Doyley is living proof of this
As limited as Rajovic is, how can he be considered by some as our worst ever striker when Steve Butler and Peter Beadle used to play for us?
