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Title: Billy comments in FP
Post by: DonnyAps on January 03, 2025, 12:15:15 pm
Interesting snippet in the Free Press from Billy and his current goal status, more interesting though is his comment that he wants to be scoring in the Championship for Donny.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: CottyRover on January 03, 2025, 04:18:30 pm
So he expects to be around for another couple of seasons then!
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: keyser_soze on January 03, 2025, 04:26:37 pm
I was just thinking that yesterday I wonder what options are available for another year. Limited service but he’s certainly still got plenty of goals in him. More productive than Joe with similar game time. L1 or L2, another year is surely a no brainier for all involved.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Nudga on January 03, 2025, 04:27:31 pm
Love him to bits but he's no chance of playing at that level when he's 40 years old.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 03, 2025, 04:32:00 pm
Love him to bits but he's no chance of playing at that level when he's 40 years old.
Didn’t Gordon Strachan manage it?
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Sprotyrover on January 03, 2025, 04:36:15 pm
Just checked he played for Coventry in Prem at 40
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Nudga on January 03, 2025, 04:38:45 pm
Yep, different era and to be fair,  Strachan played a higher level longer than Billy did.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: drfchound on January 03, 2025, 04:39:54 pm
Love him to bits but he's no chance of playing at that level when he's 40 years old.

That’s an interesting comment.
Just to continue along that theme, I feel sure that Copps could still do the business for us in L2 and make a significant improvement to the team.
He certainly knows how to receive a throw in and build play from it.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: BradwellRover on January 03, 2025, 05:45:00 pm
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: drfchound on January 03, 2025, 05:48:33 pm
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.

One of the lads in my group said the same thing (about controlling the high pass).
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Lesonthewest on January 03, 2025, 08:08:11 pm
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.

One of the lads in my group said the same thing (about controlling the high pass).

There wasn't many games where Copps did something that was worth the entrance fee alone, absolute genius with a football.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: ForsolongaRover on January 03, 2025, 08:16:54 pm
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.

One of the lads in my group said the same thing (about controlling the high pass).

There wasn't many games where Copps did something that was worth the entrance fee alone, absolute genius with a football.

- as were so many players in SOD’s teams and we were usually better than a lot of the higher placed teams in the Championship. But people used to complain about “tippy-tippy football and no Plan B. Oh for a Plan A!
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: knockers on January 03, 2025, 08:47:36 pm
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.

One of the lads in my group said the same thing (about controlling the high pass).

One of the lads in our group said the same thing!
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Bentley Bullet on January 03, 2025, 09:29:52 pm
I also compared the incident to Copps, who typically would have plucked the ball from the sky and brought it down in a show of astonishing skill.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: Jimmydee on January 03, 2025, 11:54:47 pm
Copps………..sublime.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: i_ateallthepies on January 04, 2025, 09:07:16 am
Copps did it numerous times and was sublime but I've seen Molls do it sublimely too, just this time it didn't quite come off.
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: roverstillidie91 on January 04, 2025, 10:35:05 am
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.

One of the lads in my group said the same thing (about controlling the high pass).
that's why he'll never be any better than the ceiling which I'd say is mid table league one
Title: Re: Billy comments in FP
Post by: donnievic on January 04, 2025, 11:19:06 am
Molyneux failed to control a high pass on Wednesday and my comment was ‘Copps would have brought that down every time’. We were very lucky to have such a gifted player.
so did hurst in the 2nd half,but maybe because it wasn’t Molly or sterry it’s not a mistake or error