David Weir

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Been confirmed on twitter by DW he's been training with us

DW: "David Weir has been training with us. Got great experience and still looks fantastic. He wants to keep playing football

DW on Weir: "He's out of contract so no rush. Can wait and see what happens. Everyone relaxed and honest about it
 
I think we should sign him up a.s.a.p, if a 41 year old can get away with wearing a number 7 top, he's got to be worth a punt....
 
Sir David of Weir won't let anyone down that he signs for.

Of course he isn't going to be fast, but what you will get is a fantastic organiser, a leader and a player whose football brain is still very much intact. He was written off every second week when he joined Rangers at the age of 36, none more so than when we got beaten 3-0 by Celtic last season (Gary Hooper scored a very good goal against him that would have made many a CB look a bit foolish). A few weeks later he turned in the best performance i saw from him in a Rangers jersey in the League Cup final and he never gave Hooper or Samaras a sniff. He strolled through 120 minutes of football.

Hopefully you sign him and he can help you towards promotion.
 
dublinbear said:
Sir David of Weir won't let anyone down that he signs for.

Of course he isn't going to be fast, but what you will get is a fantastic organiser, a leader and a player whose football brain is still very much intact. He was written off every second week when he joined Rangers at the age of 36, none more so than when we got beaten 3-0 by Celtic last season (Gary Hooper scored a very good goal against him that would have made many a CB look a bit foolish). A few weeks later he turned in the best performance i saw from him in a Rangers jersey in the League Cup final and he never gave Hooper or Samaras a sniff. He strolled through 120 minutes of football.

Hopefully you sign him and he can help you towards promotion.
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Amen to that!
 
dublinbear said:
Sir David of Weir won't let anyone down that he signs for.

Of course he isn't going to be fast, but what you will get is a fantastic organiser, a leader and a player whose football brain is still very much intact. He was written off every second week when he joined Rangers at the age of 36, none more so than when we got beaten 3-0 by Celtic last season (Gary Hooper scored a very good goal against him that would have made many a CB look a bit foolish). A few weeks later he turned in the best performance i saw from him in a Rangers jersey in the League Cup final and he never gave Hooper or Samaras a sniff. He strolled through 120 minutes of football.

Hopefully you sign him and he can help you towards promotion.
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No offence, but I think Christopher Biggins could stroll through 120 minutes of Scottish football.
 
Stanley Matthews played for England at 42.

He also played in the Football League until just after his 50th birthday.

I think he played in a competitive game at the age of 70.
 
Paul McGrath was knocking on when he played for us and showed the youngsters a thing or two
 



WalthamstowBlade said:
No offence, but I think Christopher Biggins could stroll through 120 minutes of Scottish football.
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Its probably about the equivalent of a League One fixture if you exclude Rangers & Celtic. But when players are earning piss all thats what happens. Nicky Law is doing a job for Motherwell as we speak. But where in the world would you get a 6-6 thriller like Motherwell Hibs a couple of seasons back?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdd2r5_motherwell-6-6-hibernian-spl-highli_sport

Watch the last goal. Its a screamer!
 
WalthamstowBlade said:
No offence, but I think Christopher Biggins could stroll through 120 minutes of Scottish football.
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He also played in the only defence to keep a clean sheet at Old Trafford last season.

6 Champions League games and 4 Europa League games in total.
 
judge said:
He earned it , even if it was just Dublin beer tickets to him
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Depends how you define "earned". Most remember him as a real class act for us. I just remember him having our pants down.


UTB
 
alcoblade said:
Anything's too much when they're sat in the pub.

UTB
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what were united supposed to do then ?tell him to fuck off after playing so well on a month to month ? hindsight is a trememndous thing isnt it ? maybe they should have inserted a no pub clause
 
I remember MGrath playing well all the time - regardless of what he did off the field. He was still a cut above the rest even at that late stage in his career.

As for David Weir - I can see the logic behind this if he is still fit enough to compete. DW knows that we have no real leader on the pitch at the moment and when we play the teams that bully us and dominate us physically, someone like Weir could make all the difference. Our team is too quiet, no Morgs leading the pack, so Weir may be just what we need to keep a calm, steady influence where necessary and to ensure that we don't throw points away (Wendy, Exeter, Orient etc)
 
Whilst by all accounts McGrath was all but drinking his own urine by that stage, I was under the impression that the main reason he didn't play more for us was that the knee injury he got against QPR finished his career.

12 games, only 1 defeat, never went out of walking pace, yet the best reader of the game I have ever seen for us.

Stanley Matthews played for England at 42.

He also played in the Football League until just after his 50th birthday.

I think he played in a competitive game at the age of 70.

No, he finished in 1965 when he was 50 (FWIW the oldest player ever in the football league was 52, and that was a one off appearance by a manager in an injury crisis).

A friend of my Dad's saw him play in his last season for Stoke. He said that teams had such respect for Matthews at that stage that defenders were very careful not to foul him and he was given a bit more space on the wing than the winger on the opposite flank...
 
Can only echo what people above have said about McGrath.

Had easily the best positioning of any player I've seen pull on the red and white.

As for "having our pants down"; I'd rather have a memorable 10 minutes from a world class 'escort', than a full night and lasting case of VD from a toothless prossie picked up from a gutter in Neepsend.
 



Houso said:
As for "having our pants down"; I'd rather have a memorable 10 minutes from a world class 'escort', than a full night and lasting case of VD from a toothless prossie picked up from a gutter in Neepsend.
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What a perfect comparison between McGrath and Nosworthy!
 
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