Favourite (current) player

[LordNelson]

Baby, if you're feelin' good.
And baby if you're feelin' nice.   :drums:
You know your man is workin' hard, he's worth a DEUCE!

[MJG]

What do the results above show? Maybe that we do not see ourselves as a one man team, and its about team ethic.No real superstars, something I would like to continue given some of the big names we are linked with for Jan.

[Tom]

But of course Dempsey! Elm,  :tom: are you kidding me.

[TonyGilroy]

It's an interestingly ambiguous question: character or performance? The player I still find most fascinating to watch remains Murphy. When he makes space in a crowded midfield by a shrug of the shoulders, the many on this board who remember Haynes will surely agree that he's our nearest thing since. I also quite like what I sense of him as a character, albeit the same goes even more for Hangeland and Hughes. The Murph by a neck.

Unsurprisingly that sums up my view perhaps because we've expressed it to each other countless times.

I like intelligence in a player and Murphy absolutely runs the show on the field and you sense is a strongly influential, positive influence off it.

He also gives the impression of being in love with the game and that's becoming less and less apparent in highly paid players.

[richie17]

Big Murphy fan, thrilled at the *concept* of Hangeland and Hughes, everything about them, but when I get to the ground and listen for the team news the player I want to hear is in the team is Dempsey.    Love the way he plays the game, even when it's going badly. 

[Tom]

Big Murphy fan, thrilled at the *concept* of Hangeland and Hughes, everything about them, but when I get to the ground and listen for the team news the player I want to hear is in the team is Dempsey.    Love the way he plays the game, even when it's going badly.  

Dempsey is a hard working player and is fun to watch. Very creative with the ball! Down to earth guy who isn't stuck on himself or has an attitude either. Plus he has a beautiful wife!  :dft012:

[BalDrick]

Dempsey by a touch of mascara hiding a black eye, so many other potentials. Baird probably the closest I came to not selecting Deuce, also Schwarzer (though he's blotted his copy book of late and I don't want to see any Australians winning anything for the next month or so) and Murphy the other possibles. Nice to have so many possibles but for me Dempsey never stops trying his heart out and gets my vote for that.

[BalDrick]

'Plus he has a beautiful wife!'

Pretty sure Mrs Murphy's a sort too - the blonde that used to be in Hollyoaks before they were all models isn't she? In that way Murphy should be the winner, ugly guy gets pretty girl, inspiration for us all!

[richie17]

'Plus he has a beautiful wife!'

Pretty sure Mrs Murphy's a sort too - the blonde that used to be in Hollyoaks before they were all models isn't she? In that way Murphy should be the winner, ugly guy gets pretty girl, inspiration for us all!

She is indeed.  And she's from Tooting, I recently heard.   Local hero of sorts then.

[Nick the Swede]

Would say it's a photo finish between Dempsey, Gera and Hangeland.

I did chose from players that actually plays for us, BUT my vote did go to Stoor as I know how good he was before Roy completely destroyed any sort of confidence the lad had. Sad to see his talent be wasted like this. -"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

[os5889]

Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

[BalDrick]

"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

[Nick the Swede]

Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

See above...

"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

I hope you are right, and agreed, Stoor should be considered dead wood for Fulham as I can never see him get back to his old self with us. 

[MJG]

Ummmm who voted for Fredrik Stoor???

See above...

"Hughes please let him leave the club and have a chance of getting his career back on track!"

I'm pretty sure you'll get your Christmas wish. There's a lot of dead wood (not slating the player per se, I know nothing about the guy) that'll need culling if we're really going to be (part) paying the wages of the likes of Santa Cruz and Bentley.

I hope you are right, and agreed, Stoor should be considered dead wood for Fulham as I can never see him get back to his old self with us. 

Stoor is a strange one, Im sure when we signed him and then Pantsil that everyone (including Roy) felt Stoor would be the number one RB, but Pantsil got in first and it never really worked out for Stoor.
To be fair when he has played he has been pretty crap, but he will look back at this as 3 wasted years.

[BalDrick]

but he will look back at this as 3 wasted but no doubt very well-remunerated years

Stupid industry that rewards a man for basically doing nothing but making up the numbers. Have no idea if Stoor the man will be happy or unhappy about that, but I do know the football world's full of people who would be happy.

[Nick the Swede]

but he will look back at this as 3 wasted but no doubt very well-remunerated years

Stupid industry that rewards a man for basically doing nothing but making up the numbers. Have no idea if Stoor the man will be happy or unhappy about that, but I do know the football world's full of people who would be happy.

He's been wanting away for a very long time, and has made some less than clever remarks about Roy/Fulham for not letting him go in the Swedish media. Having been a fan of Fredrik since he came through the ranks of the youth system in my "local" club at the age of 14 I think it is safe to say that he'd rather play regularly and make less money than the opposite.

But you are right BalDrik too many slackers in Football these days to whom money seems more important than the game.

MJG:
Yeah, I think we all saw it in that way. Sadly he got injured just before his debut and Pantsil did a job for us and the rest is, as they say, history.

[TonyGilroy]

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

[Nick the Swede]

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

Agreed, he hasn't handled the situation well at all. (Poorly advised by his agent?)

One odd thing was all these reports coming from Motspur Park saying that Stoor was the fastest player in the squad etc. He never really showed it the few times he got to play. Then again, before coming to us he was an amazing crosser of the ball too  :tom:

When Huges arrived my guess is that he was at a point of no return mentally. The mental status is obviously where he has failed, Baird, Gera et al should have been good examples for him really.

Anyhow, enough off-topic back to FoFers favourite players!

[richie17]

I read an article in the Swedish press when a Swedish journalist visited Motspur Park.  Hodgson at the time said that Stoor was really struggling with the pace of the game and that his passing wasn't what it needed to be.  Hodgson thought it would come around, or at least said as much, but it never really has.

I wonder if Stoor is an example of how personality affects performance.  I've never forgotten how miserable he's always looked during warmups,a nd while you can't always judge a book by its cover, if he is prone to introspection/wallowing then his time in England will presumably have become something of a vicious circle.   Frustrating because every time I've seen him I've seen something to like in his play (with the converse also being true), but alas, it hasn't happened.

[richie17]

But he could have taken the Baird approach and waited for an opportunity which he was determined to take.

Mouthing off in the press and playing badly when given a rare opportunity is not the way to impress and when Hughes arrived he had a clean slate no matter the issues with Hodgson.

Agreed, he hasn't handled the situation well at all. (Poorly advised by his agent?)

One odd thing was all these reports coming from Motspur Park saying that Stoor was the fastest player in the squad etc. He never really showed it the few times he got to play. Then again, before coming to us he was an amazing crosser of the ball too  :tom:

When Huges arrived my guess is that he was at a point of no return mentally. The mental status is obviously where he has failed, Baird, Gera et al should have been good examples for him really.

Anyhow, enough off-topic back to FoFers favourite players!

The crossing's what I was referring to.  In that league cup game against Leicester he whipped in some delicious looking crosses.    You can see that the talent's there.   But equally he was involved in a couple of the goals we let in that night, and has looked a bit shaky several times since.