*Gullsworth*
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Neil Smillie & Steve Penney?
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Buckley & Lua Lua or....
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Great question.
Buckley is the best of the lot I would say. But Steve Penney was a really dangerous player too.
Buckley is the best of the lot I would say. But Steve Penney was a really dangerous player too.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
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Just watched the vid of our 2-0 cup win over Liverpool ( yes I was there too) and our wingers then crossed the ball and beat BETTER players far more than our present crop of wingers. But we seem to idolise the present day far more...why?
The Truth
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I reckon the wingers we had in 2010/2011 were the best I've seen. Noone and Bennett with LuaLua on the bench. What a team that was!
Peter Grummit
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I'd go for Buckley and Lualua Saturday...
Fourteenth Eye
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Penney was an international who went to the world cup.............
Meade's Ball
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I was trained for two weeks by Steve Penney and Kieran O'Regan in the mid-80s, and i turned out not very winger-like. So, i vote Buckley.
Fourteenth Eye
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*Gullsworth*
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Maybe not for skill though.......IMHO the standard of keeping the ball under control has decreased.....more so this season for some reason, but I realise the modern player has to control a balloon compared to the older balls of twenty#thirty years ago!
Mackenzie
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Buckley and Penney.
sllugaes
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- Dec 15, 2012
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If we are talking about either Lua Lua or Buckley - Lua Lua all the way.
Stronger
Chases back and tackles
More dangerous
Cuts in, rather than runs to the corner flag
Better Pace
Defenders appear to be more threatened from Lua Lua (doubling or trebling up on him)
Yes Lua Lua drifts in and out of the game yet Buckley for me disappears after a dangerous 5 minute spell.
Although on the same note would be happy to play them both of either wing - that we never happen!
Stronger
Chases back and tackles
More dangerous
Cuts in, rather than runs to the corner flag
Better Pace
Defenders appear to be more threatened from Lua Lua (doubling or trebling up on him)
Yes Lua Lua drifts in and out of the game yet Buckley for me disappears after a dangerous 5 minute spell.
Although on the same note would be happy to play them both of either wing - that we never happen!
BensGrandad
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I think that you are wrong on every score in each that you have shown Buckley is better and more dangerous.
Vegas Seagull
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BALL over SAS...smillie was the least wingerish of the lot & Penney was the best crosser of the lot but our current two are far more dangerous & inventive and all oppo's would far prefer facing the older two
London Irish
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The missing link in this debate is who Penney and Smillie had to cross to, their crosses were always going to look better with some actual players there to meet them. LuaLua and Buckley often have a more thankless task
sllugaes
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Prefer lua lua every time, is buckley stronger!!! and buckley chases back to tackle - no he has cost us goals my being to flimsy blackpool game for example.
If i was a full back would be far more concerned with lua lua running at me.
We will differ.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
So, is Will Buckley playing with an injury? The reason I ask is that on Saturday has up against Dan Harding, a player he's terrorised every time their paths have crossed, but Harding was never stretched, or beaten.
So, is Will injured, or is there something more fundamental about his loss of form / pace?
So, is Will injured, or is there something more fundamental about his loss of form / pace?
I used to love watching Smillie and Penney - good times!
Seagull kimchi
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Penney and Penney please.
