The Yak

[Norfolk Royal]

Has anyone discovered whether he's actually played a game since last May yet?

[Handsome Man]

Who else was there when the Yak tapped home after Hahnemann parried Rochemback's free kick to make it 2-0 Boro? This prompted the guy next to me to say "its guna be a long hard season", but before half time it was 2-2 and by full time Reading emerged as 3-2 winners
Just experienced some nostalgia watching this, especially after Kitson knocked in the first one - the way he picked up the ball and held it up as if to say "We're still all in this together and here is our first Premier League goal", I'd forgotten that, but I remember thinking it at the time too.

Ahhh the memories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yVa02GEB1c

Interesting to see Yakubu use all his years of experience in the game to win a free kick early on against the young upstarts from Reading.

[Gilksy]

Wattsy says Yak's available this weekend, so he must be in reasonably good shape.

[Nameless]

Wattsy says Yak's available this weekend, so he must be in reasonably good shape.

Player on a deal heavily weighted towards appearances and goals declares himself fit for selection shock !,

Although there would have been little point in the deal if we weren't sure he could at least be named on the bench straight away. Bound to be a few weeks before he is 100% match fit, unless he is one of those lucky people who just never get out of condition

[Hoop Blah]

It'll be down to Clarke and his team to make the call on Yakubu being available, not the player.

[Snowball]

I never knew there were five Teddy Sheringham's who played professional football......very unusual..

I broke Sherringham's career down because he played Prem then Champ then Prem and for a few different clubs.

if other players are a year out, so what? It was a quick selection from Googling "older players"

I note I forgot Marcus Hahnemann

Where some players may have played OLDER than i posted, that's because I didn't search for their very last game


the point still stands that many, MANY players have played into their late thirties
even forties, at quite a high level


And The Yak, who is allegedly 32? Maybe it's made up and he's older
but that didn't stop him being sold for 7.5 million or 11.5 million
even if he "was five years older, six years older, seven years older, than he says"

and every time he was signed he did a good job.

[Snowball]

I hate when people describe those sorts of penalties as good. They're shit, as we saw with HRK. You're relying on the 'keeper gambling and choosing wrong. Just oxf*rd learn to hit it in a 2 foot square zone at a top corner, starting six inches in from the wood work. It's not a lot to ask a professional athlete to learn to do that consistently from 18 pissing yards and it'd be all but unsaveable.

presumably a Dodd awaits anyone pointing out the daftness of the above.....

Classic Ian Royal, football expert.

Just as a matter of interest, plenty of Nobbers have played, and they will know that when taking a penalty, the idea of putting it high in the corner, on a regular basis, at pace is very, very difficult. if it wasn't all penalty-takers would do it.

For my own case I always wellied it, hard as I could, on the floor, as near to inside the post as possible.


I'd be hopeless these days, though. When I took penalties they were only twelve yards out (and they were small yards), not sure how I'd've done with a penalty spot on the edge of the penalty area

[Royal_Delight]

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editor ... ID=HP_FT_6

"Yakubu has been a familiar face in England since his move to Portsmouth in 2003. He subsequently starred for Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers before choosing to continue his career in China.

But the 32-year-old, who spent a short time in Qatar before cutting ties with Al Rayyan, decided it was time to return to British shores with Reading on transfer deadline day.

The ex-Nigeria international is expected to be a flop at the Madejski Stadium. He's simply not likely to be fit for the rigours of second-tier English football and the 16th-placed club will be hard-pushed to bring match-winning performances from the striker, irrespective of his experience."

[GH Royal]

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2015/02/04/8589402/ben-arfa-matri-and-the-panic-buys-of-the-transfer-window?ICID=HP_FT_6

"Yakubu has been a familiar face in England since his move to Portsmouth in 2003. He subsequently starred for Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers before choosing to continue his career in China.

But the 32-year-old, who spent a short time in Qatar before cutting ties with Al Rayyan, decided it was time to return to British shores with Reading on transfer deadline day.

The ex-Nigeria international is expected to be a flop at the Madejski Stadium. He's simply not likely to be fit for the rigours of second-tier English football and the 16th-placed club will be hard-pushed to bring match-winning performances from the striker, irrespective of his experience."

Feel that's very harsh, I don't think he should be judged until given a couple of games to prove himself. His record is good but he has been out in the wilderness for a couple of seasons. I think he'll do well personally.

[RoyallyFcuked]

Who else was there when the Yak tapped home after Hahnemann parried Rochemback's free kick to make it 2-0 Boro? This prompted the guy next to me to say "its guna be a long hard season", but before half time it was 2-2 and by full time Reading emerged as 3-2 winners
Just experienced some nostalgia watching this, especially after Kitson knocked in the first one - the way he picked up the ball and held it up as if to say "We're still all in this together and here is our first Premier League goal", I'd forgotten that, but I remember thinking it at the time too.

Ahhh the memories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yVa02GEB1c

Great day. How the oxf*rd did Riggott not get sent off?

Good question, I think probably because he got the ball as well. Had there been a bit of an incident between him and Kits beforehand? I might be thinking of something else but I swear something happened between them.

After watching it back, surely it cant have been for the incident where Arca got injured, as that was Riggott himself? Looked like he just wanted to take Kits out and he was just lucky he was able to do it without it being a very obvious red card.

Hate him for that anyway, and still feel bad for Kitson as he was unlucky and missed much of the season. Glad he did at least get our first PL goal.

[Nameless]

The ex-Nigeria international is expected to be a flop at the Madejski Stadium. He's simply not likely to be fit for the rigours of second-tier English football and the 16th-placed club will be hard-pushed to bring match-winning performances from the striker, irrespective of his experience."

That is a shockingly bad piece of writing, probably explained by the fact that they obviously had an article planned in advance and nothing really happened that fitted their theme. So they made stuff up.
No one expects him to flop, everyone excepts it's a lowish risk gamble,, no one knows what his fitness is like but he's not a hard running midfielder and will probably feature off the bench so it's not a big issue. What the bit about us being 'hard pushed to bring match winning performances out of him' is supposed to mean I'm not sure.
Written by someone with space to fill and nothing to say....

[West Stand Man]

The ex-Nigeria international is expected to be a flop at the Madejski Stadium. He's simply not likely to be fit for the rigours of second-tier English football and the 16th-placed club will be hard-pushed to bring match-winning performances from the striker, irrespective of his experience."

That is a shockingly bad piece of writing, probably explained by the fact that they obviously had an article planned in advance and nothing really happened that fitted their theme. So they made stuff up.
No one expects him to flop, everyone excepts it's a lowish risk gamble,, no one knows what his fitness is like but he's not a hard running midfielder and will probably feature off the bench so it's not a big issue. What the bit about us being 'hard pushed to bring match winning performances out of him' is supposed to mean I'm not sure.
Written by someone with space to fill and nothing to say....

Kettles and pots spring to mind ( it is 'accepts', just in case you are not able to spot your own shockingly bad piece of writing).

[Nameless]

Fair cop !!

But there's a fundamental difference between minor word sloppiness on a forum and a supposedly professional journalist producing nonsense

[West Stand Man]

Fair cop !!gv

But there's a fundamental difference between minor word sloppiness on a forum and a supposedly professional journalist producing nonsense

Yes there is.

[TFF]

Good old Dave

[sandman]

Royal_Delight


What a bullshit you talk ,,,,, Royal_Delight .......The Yak Raring to go and he wont be no Flop at Reading fc.... I have see him training

Dive-Rhyl you talk f[u]ckity f[u]ck f[u]ck many times ova. Yakity Yak Yak is fatty fat fat and gobbles down lots of meat, just like your Dad.

[Snowball]

BT Sport's weekend football email shows

37 year old Jorge Alberto Rojas scoring an amazing 40 yard screamer in the Copa Libertadores


http://sport.bt.com/jaw-dropping-40-yar ... 3960009648

[wingnut]

The ex-Nigeria international is expected to be a flop at the Madejski Stadium. He's simply not likely to be fit for the rigours of second-tier English football and the 16th-placed club will be hard-pushed to bring match-winning performances from the striker, irrespective of his experience."

That is a shockingly bad piece of writing, probably explained by the fact that they obviously had an article planned in advance and nothing really happened that fitted their theme. So they made stuff up.
No one expects him to flop, everyone excepts it's a lowish risk gamble,, no one knows what his fitness is like but he's not a hard running midfielder and will probably feature off the bench so it's not a big issue. What the bit about us being 'hard pushed to bring match winning performances out of him' is supposed to mean I'm not sure.
Written by someone with space to fill and nothing to say....

I think he's right. Practically every other football fan in the country who isn't a Reading fan probably laughed when they heard the news that we'd signed him. I know all those in my office did.

[Rollerbob]

Can't understand why.

A proven ex-premier league goal-scorer? Signed for nothing, or a short-term deal? Reeks of clever business. And if he's god awful, then it doesn't really matter. We haven't lost anything.

If everyone in your office laughed when we signed Yakubu, they must have been on the floor when we signed players like Akpan, Travner, Blackman etc etc

[sandman]

Sandman shut the F--uck up will you... The Yak be very sharpe in training.. you will be surprise when you see him Tuesday haha

I was speaking to Dive-Rhyl. So shit the feck up Dave-Royal ok.