Dicker- True class

[The Truth]

Today's performance was flawless. Great positioning, passing of the highest level and terrific support play. He will be instrumental next season as it seems he is the heart and soul of every nice passing move the Albion try to create.
Great game and what a pleasure it is having this sort of player (the Fabregas of league 1) in our team. Twice Hammonds ability.

 

[Sheebo]

Him and Crofts have been great all season...

 

[ken tiler]

A great player - an Irish Trevor Brooking

 

[Barry Izbak]

MOM without any doubt whatsoever,

except the match sponsors who thought Elphick's easiest afternoon of the season was worth the MOM

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Dicker is the best footballing brain we've had here since Zamora. Fact.

 

[clarkey]

That ball where he just dropped off and knocked it first time cross field to pick out Calderon was just one of a number of exqusite moments from our Irish genius.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

except the match sponsors who thought Elphick's easiest afternoon of the season was worth the MOM

At one point THPP was screaming blue murder at Elphick & El-Abd. The ball was in the Albion half and I swear the order of play went as follows:

Elphick to El Abd (parallel to the centre line, in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, istill n the Albion half)
Elphick back to El Abd (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
Elphick back to the keeper.

One step up the evolutionary ladder from The Mighty Hoof, admittedly, but still a f***ing disgrace.

Brainless idiots the pair of them.

IMHO, like.

 

[severnside gull]

Really pleased that he is playing so consistently of late and have to agree he could be quite special BUT he needs to get himself into goalscoring positions more if he is to fulfil that potential.

 

[Bean]

He has been brilliant this season, although I think he's more of a 'clearing up' at the back player than a goalscorer.

 

[clarkey]

At one point THPP was screaming blue murder at Elphick & El-Abd. The ball was in the Albion half and I swear the order of play went as follows:

Elphick to El Abd (parallel to the centre line, in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, istill n the Albion half)
Elphick back to El Abd (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
Elphick back to the keeper.

One step up the evolutionary ladder from The Mighty Hoof, admittedly, but still a f***ing disgrace. Brainless idiots the pair of them.

IMHO, like.

There was a bit of moaning about that in F Block, and Gus turned around and gestured for everyone to calm down and that he was happy with it. Im just happy to see us keeping hold of the ball, even if it was in a massively primitive form. WE must have had almost 70% of the ball in the first half.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There was a bit of moaning about that in F Block, and Gus turned around and gestured for everyone to calm down and that he was happy with it. Im just happy to see us keeping hold of the ball, even if it was in a massively primitive form.

For sure, but that pair of clod-hoppers only have to get it wrong the once, which is far more likely than not, and they gift the opposition a goal.

 

[drew]

At one point THPP was screaming blue murder at Elphick & El-Abd. The ball was in the Albion half and I swear the order of play went as follows:

Elphick to El Abd (parallel to the centre line, in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, istill n the Albion half)
Elphick back to El Abd (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
Elphick back to the keeper.

One step up the evolutionary ladder from The Mighty Hoof, admittedly, but still a f***ing disgrace.

Brainless idiots the pair of them.

IMHO, like.

Chuckle brothersesque!

Actually, I don't have too much of a problem with it other than the fact that when they receive the ball and there is 20 yards open in front of them, at least move another 5 yards forward!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

At one point THPP was screaming blue murder at Elphick & El-Abd. The ball was in the Albion half and I swear the order of play went as follows:

Elphick to El Abd (parallel to the centre line, in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, istill n the Albion half)
Elphick back to El Abd (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
Elphick back to the keeper.

One step up the evolutionary ladder from The Mighty Hoof, admittedly, but still a f***ing disgrace.

Brainless idiots the pair of them.

IMHO, like.

How is keeping the ball a "f***ing disgrace" - especially if you're winning comfortably. You sound like an utter fool with that comment.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

How is keeping the ball a "f***ing disgrace" - especially if you're winning comfortably. You sound like an utter fool with that comment.

Try watching that Simpsons episode where all of Springfield turn out for the soccerball game Mexico v Portugal or somesuch. The ball goes sideways about a dozen time from the kick-off, the crowd get first bored and then riot and the match is abandoned while the stadium crashes and burns. That's about how pathetic it was. Seriously. I challenge anyone who witnessed it to defend such levels of fuckwittery

 

[Chesney Christ]

How is keeping the ball a "f***ing disgrace" - especially if you're winning comfortably. You sound like an utter fool with that comment.

Agree. Typical English mentality, terror of ever passing sideways or backwards and desire to see the ball hoofed. And we wonder we haven't won a thing since 1966......

 

[Richy_Seagull]

At one point THPP was screaming blue murder at Elphick & El-Abd. The ball was in the Albion half and I swear the order of play went as follows:

Elphick to El Abd (parallel to the centre line, in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, istill n the Albion half)
Elphick back to El Abd (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
El Abd back to Elphick (still parallel to the centre line, still in the Albion half)
Elphick back to the keeper.

One step up the evolutionary ladder from The Mighty Hoof, admittedly, but still a f***ing disgrace.

Brainless idiots the pair of them.

IMHO, like.

jesus wept. do you actually know anything about football? It only takes a small amount of footballing knowledge to see the rest of the teams movement while this is going on is dragging opposition out of their positions. Staying patient until the right ball is on is what it is about.

After years of hoofing at any opportunity I can't actually believe someone is moaning about us PASSING the ball. The defence as a whole were superb today, end of.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

jesus wept. do you actually know anything about football? It only takes a small amount of footballing knowledge to see the rest of the teams movement while this is going on is dragging opposition out of their positions. Staying patient until the right ball is on is what it is about.

Elphick and El Abd were utterly bereft of ideas at that point. Neither of them even attempted to move the ball forward, not even by a yard. In the end, with not a brain cell between them, they left it to the keeper to do the hoof. The smarter posters picked up on that. You, however...

 

[Ninja Elephant]

For sure, but that pair of clod-hoppers only have to get it wrong the once, which is far more likely than not, and they gift the opposition a goal.

It appears you missed El-Abd CHARGE forward from centre back then? If Bennett had been awake, he would have played El-Abd in, who would then, surely, have lobbed the keeper with his left foot before doing a moonwalk in front of Block H. Classic scenes.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Dicker was class today. The best answer to the goons last week at Oldham who were having a go at him (one in particular, who posts on here; no names, no pack drill, you know who you are).

 

[Meade's Ball]

Players are the players they are for various reasons. Dicker is the player he is, because he hasn't the natural pace to move any more than elegantly. Noticing this of himself, he strolls and roams in a number of places, but will rarely get into those one-on-one goalscoring positions as he can't sprint himself away from a centreback, and is aware that being there will limit his ability to get back and shore up the midfield on occasion. Instead of harearsing around, he found his strength to be elsewhere.

For me, as i've said before, he's everything i ever wanted to be as a player. That touch, that quick-thinking, that weight of pass, that surprising drop of the shoulder that grants him space, that cursory self-appraisal when something doesn't quite work, that endeavourousness, that non-gloryhuntingness.
I love the guy and hope no bigshot manager, or bored stalker, thinks of him as i do. Ace.