Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[Assassin]

I wonder if top defenders will be able to handle Carroll...

Here's Vidic trying....

Given the right service and support, he could be "unplayable"

[Drago]

Given the right service and support, he could be "unplayable"

There wasn't many saying that before we bought him.

[Craig_H]

[Rudo]

Given the right service and support, he could be "unplayable"

Same was said about a certain Emile Heskey.

Whilst the 'unplayable' word makes me cringe a little, i do think Carroll will be a success, been a fan for quite a while.

[little dave hedgehog]

There wasn't many saying that before we bought him.

we're saying it now because we're hoping it's true.

[Drago]

we're saying it now because we're hoping it's true.

It is true. Folks should have copped on earlier.

[Assassin]

There wasn't many saying that before we bought him.

The guy is a "lethal weapon" I read with interest recently, that the training staff were shocked that he had not bone any upper body strength training. When his new training regime starts paying off he will be even stronger

I have seen a lot about the fee, it does not concern me. The way I have lived to date, if I see something I want and I am happy to pay the price, I WILL buy it.

[Bender]

The guy is a "lethal weapon" I read with interest recently, that the training staff were shocked that he had not bone any upper body strength training. When his new training regime starts paying off he will be even stronger

I have seen a lot about the fee, it does not concern me. The way I have lived to date, if I see something I want and I am happy to pay the price, I WILL buy it.

That's the spirit

[Assassin]

Same was said about a certain Emile Heskey.

Whilst the 'unplayable' word makes me cringe a little, i do think Carroll will be a success, been a fan for quite a while.

There is a big difference between Heskey and Carroll:

Heskey had a big physique but wasnt very athletic, more of a carthorse

Carroll has a fantastic natural physique and is extremely athletic, he is a thorougbred

[Assassin]

That's the spirit

It is the only way to live life

[Bender]

It is the only way to live life

[Rudo]

There is a big difference between Heskey and Carroll:

Heskey had a big physique but wasnt very athletic, more of a carthorse

Carroll has a fantastic natural physique and is extremely athletic, he is a thorougbred

Not comparing them or anything.

Carroll is alot more complete than Heskey ever was, just saying that word 'unplayable' was associated with Heskey in his early days.

[Mostar]

Same was said about a certain Emile Heskey.

Whilst the 'unplayable' word makes me cringe a little, i do think Carroll will be a success, been a fan for quite a while.

I agree.

I hope he comes through for us as many are predicting but he will not be a success unless we can give him support and service he needs.

[Big-Red-Ed]

Heskey was athletic. He could have done the lot but the mind was never quite in it. I hate to say this but he almost had a streak of cowardice about him. Those last days at Liverpool were pitifull. He practically hid during matches and would roll around the ground as if he had been shot. A mate of mine (a Celtic man) went to a match with us and described heskey as playing with roller skates on!

I hadn't heard of Carroll this time last year and on first viewing assumed he was just going to be a gig raw battering ram. His skill level surprised me right away and stepping up to the prem and being in a mediocre team he has managed 11 league goals. He was also fantastic against us. A toon mate of mine said that he is also their best defender due to his aerial prowess and marks the opposing strikers at set pieces.

I can't wait to see him in action for us and think he will add a bit of devil that we have been sadly lacking for years. Let us do the bullying for a change.

[Galb]

Heskey was athletic. He could have done the lot but the mind was never quite in it. I hate to say this but he almost had a streak of cowardice about him. Those last days at Liverpool were pitifull. He practically hid during matches and would roll around the ground as if he had been shot. A mate of mine (a Celtic man) went to a match with us and described heskey as playing with roller skates on!
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A very sad case of a player who had the lot, except the mental strength to make it.

He was and could be unplayable at times but the guy had virtually no self-belief or self-confidence. When he was on form, he was brilliant (his first season for example, the Chelsea game, etc) but it would only take one terrible miss for him to then go to pieces for the next four or five months.

I think it took him 6 months to get over that 80 yard run (against Palace?) which ended with him chipping it into the hands of the keeper. You could see him almost instantly go from on form (which he'd been for a few games prior) to horribly, horribly self-doubting again.

You dont get the impression Carroll knows the meaning of 'self-doubt'.