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Post by archwhopper on Feb 9, 2024 22:18:53 GMT
Just turned over to channel 4's jimmy carr i literally just told you and james alabi is one of the contestants, he comes across a bit thick to be honest , reckon he could do a good job for us at this level
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Post by agl on Feb 9, 2024 22:35:40 GMT
Just turned over to channel 4's jimmy carr i literally just told you and james alabi is one of the contestants, he comes across a bit thick to be honest , reckon he could do a good job for us at this level Are you saying he could do a good job for us because he comes across as a bit thick? |
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Post by archwhopper on Feb 9, 2024 22:57:02 GMT
Not at all, reckon as a footballer he could do a decent job for us still at this level, but as he left the show first he has a very poor memory or not to upset anyone he is a little slow on the uptake
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Post by Lobster on Feb 10, 2024 0:38:59 GMT
What was he on that for? Sounds like they're really struggling for celebrities!
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Post by borussiachester on Feb 10, 2024 2:17:32 GMT
What was he on that for? Sounds like they're really struggling for celebrities! Think the contestants are just commoners rather than celebrities. With that being said, though, he does seem to have a staggeringly impressive collection of friends and contacts in the game for someone who’s spent most of his career in non-league - and he must have a good agent to have continued to play at the level he has for so long despite a pretty terrible goal return ever since leaving us. He’s got a fairly successful podcast at the moment, too, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he decides to have a more serious crack at trying to make it on TV once he hangs up his boots. |
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Post by weststander on Feb 10, 2024 6:49:34 GMT
Not sure what went wrong with this lads career,.
He had all the attributes to play at a higher level.
Probably not a targetman but better playing off the shoulder of the last man.
Good turn of pace, strong and a decent goals return for us
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 10, 2024 6:50:20 GMT
One one of the worst strikers I’ve ever seen at the club.
Never forgive him for his performance v Wrexham away.
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Post by Lobster on Feb 10, 2024 7:57:23 GMT
One one of the worst strikers I’ve ever seen at the club. Never forgive him for his performance v Wrexham away. Strange assessment of a player who scored 17 goals in a season when we finished six from bottom. |
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 10, 2024 8:22:13 GMT
One one of the worst strikers I’ve ever seen at the club. Never forgive him for his performance v Wrexham away. Strange assessment of a player who scored 17 goals in a season when we finished six from bottom. 3 pens and the freak night v Aldershot flattered him. Maybe a slight exaggeration but he was crap and still is. |
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Post by Lobster on Feb 10, 2024 8:54:54 GMT
Strange assessment of a player who scored 17 goals in a season when we finished six from bottom. 3 pens and the freak night v Aldershot flattered him. Maybe a slight exaggeration but he was crap and still is. He did sometimes look crap but can't really argue with his goalscoring here. Hasn't done much anywhere else though. |
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Post by Lobster on Feb 10, 2024 9:02:14 GMT
What other ex-Chester players have made unexpected appearances on television?
I remember it being mentioned that one-game wonder Mark Clifford was on one of those home makeover shows once. Also Andy Harris had been on something called "Britain's Brainiest Footballer" or something before he signed for us.
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Post by agl on Feb 10, 2024 9:14:26 GMT
Not sure what went wrong with this lads career,. He had all the attributes to play at a higher level. Probably not a targetman but better playing off the shoulder of the last man. Good turn of pace, strong and a decent goals return for us Agree with the above but maybe not a good enough all round game. Great memories of the game at Braintree when he absolutely destroyed them in the 2nd half. Also, a thoroughly nice guy. |
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Post by Harry Lime on Feb 10, 2024 9:41:41 GMT
One one of the worst strikers I’ve ever seen at the club. Never forgive him for his performance v Wrexham away. You've obviously not been watching us long then. He wasn't great, but we've had a few worse ones. Had at least a couple worse this season! |
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Post by weststander on Feb 10, 2024 9:43:31 GMT
Not sure what went wrong with this lads career,. He had all the attributes to play at a higher level. Probably not a targetman but better playing off the shoulder of the last man. Good turn of pace, strong and a decent goals return for us Agree with the above but maybe not a good enough all round game. Great memories of the game at Braintree when he absolutely destroyed them in the 2nd half. Also, a thoroughly nice guy. Sometimes lacked that fire snd determination to push himself on |
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 10, 2024 9:53:25 GMT
One one of the worst strikers I’ve ever seen at the club. Never forgive him for his performance v Wrexham away. You've obviously not been watching us long then. He wasn't great, but we've had a few worse ones. Had at least a couple worse this season! Supported Chester FC the same amount of time as you, I’d imagine. |
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Post by Anders on Feb 10, 2024 10:44:38 GMT
Whatever you think of Alabi, he did actually seem to find the net for us, even if his stats were a bit padded out. Really nice lad who went out of his way to do community work for us as well.
Always thought he was a bit mismanaged elsewhere, because he was strong and muscly managers always seemed to use him as a target man when that absolutely wasn’t his game at all.
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Post by Imperial on Feb 10, 2024 11:36:55 GMT
He was rubbish. His one good season with us was the aberration, not the rest where he couldn’t hit a cow’s arse. He couldn’t win headers, wasn’t quick, wasn’t a particularly good finisher & didn’t hold the ball up well.
We’ve had worse strikers but he’s easily the most overrated.
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Post by Harry Lime on Feb 10, 2024 12:14:07 GMT
You've obviously not been watching us long then. He wasn't great, but we've had a few worse ones. Had at least a couple worse this season! Supported Chester FC the same amount of time as you, I’d imagine. Yeah probably. Lets hope we've both got loads of really good players to watch in the years to come. Few things more exciting than a new striker or two coming in. |
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Post by bryndjones on Feb 11, 2024 19:30:34 GMT
Alabi was an easy target, but he scored a pearler at Kiddy, demolished Aldershot plus he won the penalty and put it away against Wrexham. Just a shame he chose Tranmere.
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Post by agl on Feb 11, 2024 20:35:18 GMT
He was rubbish. His one good season with us was the aberration, not the rest where he couldn’t hit a cow’s arse. He couldn’t win headers, wasn’t quick, wasn’t a particularly good finisher & didn’t hold the ball up well. We’ve had worse strikers but he’s easily the most overrated. Hmmm...58 games for us over two seasons, 23 goals. I think you are confusing him with someone else? As you say, we've certainly had worse strikers. Tranmere must have seen something in him. |
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Post by Lobster on Feb 11, 2024 20:51:22 GMT
He was rubbish. His one good season with us was the aberration, not the rest where he couldn’t hit a cow’s arse. He couldn’t win headers, wasn’t quick, wasn’t a particularly good finisher & didn’t hold the ball up well. We’ve had worse strikers but he’s easily the most overrated. Hmmm...58 games for us over two seasons, 23 goals. I think you are confusing him with someone else? As you say, we've certainly had worse strikers. Tranmere must have seen something in him. 23 goals and made us £25K. I wish we'd had more strikers as crap as him. |
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 11, 2024 21:10:30 GMT
Goats away worst performance I’ve seen from a Chester player except Lucas Dawson in nearly every game he played.
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Post by borussiachester on Feb 11, 2024 23:10:58 GMT
Goats away worst performance I’ve seen from a Chester player except Lucas Dawson in nearly every game he played. I honestly don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to say that Dawson is the worst footballer I’ve ever seen - and I’m not just limiting that to Chester players. |
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Post by weareblues on Feb 11, 2024 23:12:07 GMT
Goats away worst performance I’ve seen from a Chester player except Lucas Dawson in nearly every game he played. I honestly don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to say that Dawson is the worst footballer I’ve ever seen - and I’m not just limiting that to Chester players. The guys a millionaire he was never arsed about playing football says it all pretty much retired when left us |
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Post by Imperial on Feb 12, 2024 0:36:01 GMT
He was rubbish. His one good season with us was the aberration, not the rest where he couldn’t hit a cow’s arse. He couldn’t win headers, wasn’t quick, wasn’t a particularly good finisher & didn’t hold the ball up well. We’ve had worse strikers but he’s easily the most overrated. Hmmm...58 games for us over two seasons, 23 goals. I think you are confusing him with someone else? As you say, we've certainly had worse strikers. Tranmere must have seen something in him. As I said, that season was the aberration. Tranmere saw 9 games 0 goals & got rid. He never got anywhere near that tally again because he genuinely wasn’t very good. |
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Post by Imperial on Feb 12, 2024 0:38:47 GMT
Goats away worst performance I’ve seen from a Chester player except Lucas Dawson in nearly every game he played. I honestly don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to say that Dawson is the worst footballer I’ve ever seen - and I’m not just limiting that to Chester players. Was an absolute disgrace, him & Liam Davies in the same team was a real low point. |
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Post by thetheremin on Feb 13, 2024 12:48:19 GMT
Hmmm...58 games for us over two seasons, 23 goals. I think you are confusing him with someone else? As you say, we've certainly had worse strikers. Tranmere must have seen something in him. As I said, that season was the aberration. Tranmere saw 9 games 0 goals & got rid. He never got anywhere near that tally again because he genuinely wasn’t very good. Didn’t he score 5 goals in a pre-season friendly for Tranmere and they thought he was the new messiah. At that point he still thought he could play at the highest level. |
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Post by loskasleftfoot on Feb 13, 2024 15:18:18 GMT
I honestly don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to say that Dawson is the worst footballer I’ve ever seen - and I’m not just limiting that to Chester players. The guys a millionaire he was never arsed about playing football says it all pretty much retired when left us How did Dawson make his money? |
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Post by Moltisanti on Feb 13, 2024 15:27:09 GMT
The guys a millionaire he was never arsed about playing football says it all pretty much retired when left us How did Dawson make his money? Mummy and Daddy loaded |
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Post by ChesterTrueBlue on Feb 13, 2024 18:29:17 GMT
I honestly don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to say that Dawson is the worst footballer I’ve ever seen - and I’m not just limiting that to Chester players. Was an absolute disgrace, him & Liam Davies in the same team was a real low point. Liam Davies, by far and away one of the worst footballers I’ve ever seen. |
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