Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23516585

 

Not at all. I just wanted a reaction before I had to leave the forum for a while. Anybody is at liberty to do the same. The downward path of Griffit also surprised me, though I've probably looked into his career more than a few. He was a genuinely good prospect, back in 2003-04. I thought he might make a go of it at Elfsborg.

 

This weather is hurting my head, feels like I have a migraine.

 

Anyone see that Anders Svensson is playing against Celtic tonight. So is an English striker playing for Elfsborg.

 

Isn't he on loan from Celtic, or is that someone else?

 

All I remember of Griffit was that he came on as a sub in a home game against Newcastle, scored what we thought was the winner in the closing minutes to put us ahead 4:3 only for Newcastle to equalise moments later. Great game. I remember Folly being more of a prospect then Griffit.

 

You're thinking of Bangura.

 

No, apparently he [James Keene] is a former Portsmouth apprentice who also was on loan with them last year. He has played over 100 games for Elfsborg.

 

And Anders hit the bar

 

I looked Folly up after the discussion earlier and according to wikipedia he's had to retire at 27 because of chronic pulmonary embolism!

 

Correct. Folly works in Sports Direct in Sheffield now.

 

On the topic of Anders, he's currently 3 caps for Sweden away from overtaking Thomas Ravelli as Sweden's all-time most capped player, with him currently two short of Ravelli's 143 on 141, and in doing so he would also enter the top-20 most capped international players ever.

 

Just got my football fix for the week - Salisbury City 4 - 0 AFC Bournemouth, probably had a couple too many beers up there for a school night.

 

Yeah, so did I. Provoked me searching into his condition too. Then I went and looked up Jhon Viafara, Youssef Safri, Peter Madsen, Grzegorz Rasiak, Mario Licka, Djamel Belmadi, Marek Saganowski, Kamil Kosowski and I didn't stop until I arrived at Inigo Idiakez. Of course, there was always Stern John and several others I forget or just don't want to remember. I liked some, but I always knew they were footballers who weren't going to be hanging around. Mercenaries is an ugly term for them, but some of them definitely were. I link them with Saints in the wilderness years when, despite whatever success, or lack of it, was being managed on the field, the in-fighting in the boardroom was gradually squeezing the life out of the club. The one player amongst them, Marek Saganowski, I was genuinely sad to see leave because I knew he loved it on the South Coast. He managed to be around for the start of the new era in League One.

EDIT: And when are we going to sign Rudi Skacel..?

 

I thought Saga went before the season. Raziak was definately here. I remember Pardew warming him up as a sub away at Swindon then I think putting him on for about 1 minute.

 

Saga was crap for us, save for his initial loan spell, and then the first few games after he came back from Aalborg.

 

Thank you for that contribution from reality. It may be so but I liked him as a player, GBS. There's no logic in my list.

 

Folly was at Aberdeen a couple of seasons ago and broke his ankle. He never got back to fitness - I don`t think he was particularly interested. He was released about 18 months later - don`t know where he went after that.

 

Oh yeah, I loved him during that loan spell, and that he kept talking about finishing his career with us. But the fact is, he just didn't perform when we really needed him to

 

I have all the team photo posters from the last four seasons, in the first of the "new era" with Nic and Markus on it, Saga is there but Rasiak isn't. I can remember Rasiak being around too, but I have photo evidence Saga was!