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He was meant to be our Gareth Bale aswell 🤣   Another one we were desperate to cap in case England got in there first...Quite a career since. This is his ninth club and he's only 25. 

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21 hours ago, Lex said:

He was meant to be our Gareth Bale aswell 🤣   Another one we were desperate to cap in case England got in there first...Quite a career since. This is his ninth club and he's only 25. 

On paper he has an incredible career. A Scottish striker with total transfer fees in the region of £30m. He’s won the Scottish Premiership, scored for Scotland, and scored goals in the Bundesliga, La Liga and the EPL, including winning goals away to Man Utd and Borussia Dortmund. 

Bit of a shame that he’s dreadful at football, really. 

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6 minutes ago, Paco said:

On paper he has an incredible career. A Scottish striker with total transfer fees in the region of £30m. He’s won the Scottish Premiership, scored for Scotland, and scored goals in the Bundesliga, La Liga and the EPL, including winning goals away to Man Utd and Borussia Dortmund. 

Bit of a shame that he’s dreadful at football, really. 

Good on paper, crap on grass

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2 hours ago, Paco said:

On paper he has an incredible career. A Scottish striker with total transfer fees in the region of £30m. He’s won the Scottish Premiership, scored for Scotland, and scored goals in the Bundesliga, La Liga and the EPL, including winning goals away to Man Utd and Borussia Dortmund. 

Bit of a shame that he’s dreadful at football, really. 

He got his first cap v Malta 

First touch he kneed it out for a goal kick 

Apparent within 2 seconds he was a donkey 

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13 hours ago, Binos said:

He got his first cap v Malta 

First touch he kneed it out for a goal kick 

Apparent within 2 seconds he was a donkey 

First cap was against Denmark in a game won by Matt Ritchie after a howler from Schmeichel.

Incidentally, also the match Tierney got his first cap in.

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28 minutes ago, HuttonDressedAsLahm said:

First cap was against Denmark in a game won by Matt Ritchie after a howler from Schmeichel.

Incidentally, also the match Tierney got his first cap in.

Also, Burke looked decent in the few minutes he was on the pitch.

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3 hours ago, Gordopolis said:

Also, Burke looked decent in the few minutes he was on the pitch.

I'd misremembered and thought his first game was the Lithuania home game. Anyway, that was the game that both formed and cemented his reputation as a sprinter/rugby winger who'd landed in the wrong sport 

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7 hours ago, HuttonDressedAsLahm said:

First cap was against Denmark in a game won by Matt Ritchie after a howler from Schmeichel.

Incidentally, also the match Tierney got his first cap in.

First start then was it

Anyway,  he's shit

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3 hours ago, Binos said:

First start then was it

Anyway,  he's shit

Why do all these big clubs keep signing him if he’s shit?

They must see something. Admittedly he hasn’t had a big money move since WBA shelled out £15 million on him 5 years ago, but clubs at a decent level are still taking a gamble on him.

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15 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:

Why do all these big clubs keep signing him if he’s shit?

They must see something. Admittedly he hasn’t had a big money move since WBA shelled out £15 million on him 5 years ago, but clubs at a decent level are still taking a gamble on him.

I hear it's cos he does a lovely flame grilled burger 

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8 hours ago, velo army said:

I'd misremembered and thought his first game was the Lithuania home game. Anyway, that was the game that both formed and cemented his reputation as a sprinter/rugby winger who'd landed in the wrong sport 

Yeah that was maybe his first competitive start?

He was like playing with a man down, though the whole team were utter pump that night. 

I think we then travelled away to play Slovakia midweek, but Burke was sent home for being so shit.

...and we lost timidly 0-3 to Slovakia.

Ah, Scotland, with this succession of shitemares you really are spoiling us.

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1 hour ago, Scary Bear said:

Why do all these big clubs keep signing him if he’s shit?

They must see something. Admittedly he hasn’t had a big money move since WBA shelled out £15 million on him 5 years ago, but clubs at a decent level are still taking a gamble on him.

I obviously don’t really know, but a guess would be that him being a physical player who does a lot of running will bump up his stats on any reports.

Alternatively/additionally it’s a succession of managers who think that they’ll be the one who moulds him into a player, before realising he isn’t very good.

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1 hour ago, Scary Bear said:

Why do all these big clubs keep signing him if he’s shit?

They must see something. Admittedly he hasn’t had a big money move since WBA shelled out £15 million on him 5 years ago, but clubs at a decent level are still taking a gamble on him.

I think they all see him as an impact player with his forrest gump type running ability late in games 

Would be interesting to see how many starts he's had since leaving Nottingham forest 

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1 hour ago, Scary Bear said:

Why do all these big clubs keep signing him if he’s shit?

They must see something. Admittedly he hasn’t had a big money move since WBA shelled out £15 million on him 5 years ago, but clubs at a decent level are still taking a gamble on him.

He's started 65 games in 7 years since leaving forest 

9 a season 

Better than I thought 

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