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Bladeinleeds said:
actually seemed to do better in the prem than in the championship.
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I've often thought that too and I think we'll see the same in Basham as we move up the league(s). I reckon it's because in the lower leagues if you clog someone they clog you back and they both end up looking like a pair of, well, cloggers. In the prem a lot of players start crying & play-acting if you clog them and it disrupts their's and their team's pattern of play.
 

ljk said:
He probably wouldn't fit into this wilder team but he was great for us.

Ability wise he was very lop-sided and broke down plenty of counter attacks for both teams on the pitch, but it's easy (and lazy) to just remember the misplaced passes and dodgy first touches. When Monty did a great job, and that wasn't a rare occurance, you just didn't notice he'd done it because it was the players around him that took the plaudits.
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Put it this way, while he might not have made the first team in our current line up, I am sure he would have been great in Adkins side, when teams simply ran through our midfield, pausing momentarily to wave to our midfield as they jogged past, and then went for goal. We needed some "grit" in that side.
 
JohnDenver said:
He's an Aussie citizen now. Does that mean I don't love him anymore?
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"Rules worth living life by, Chapter 1: Never give an Aussie an even break, not in an Ashes year".

So the answer to your question is "yes, you do not love him anymore".

:)
 
Pinchy said:
He would be a fish out of water in a Tuftyball team, dominating possession, comfortable on the ball, pass and move. Thank Pele it's out of the question.
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Very true. I have a soft spot for anyone giving 100%, and i always appreciated NMs workrate.....BUT i'm happy that we've moved on with Tuftyball :)
 
Tyler Durden said:
Just a matter of time before some cowardly piece of human garbage arrives to perpetuate his twisted vendetta. Not to name names of course.....
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Pinchy said:
He really, really wouldn't. Tufty likes proper footballers who play the right way. Monty was a talentless, ragamuffin shadow-chaser. He played like his boots were on the wrong feet, constantly giving the ball away. Half-decent midfielders at all levels ran rings around him and Frank Lampard has never mentioned him, ever.

He would be a fish out of water in a Tuftyball team, dominating possession, comfortable on the ball, pass and move. Thank Pele it's out of the question.

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Wow, my powers of foresight are uncanny....
 
Let's be right here.

It's his attitude and work ethic that has got him his good career in the game. Certainly not the type of midfielder that would fit in many teams in England these days, but a good honest pro and a top fella.

If only he had some talent on the ball to match that incredible fitness and heart. What a player he would have been then.
 
Always loved Monty, never hid when the going got tough. Broke up the play and gave the ball to the more creative players like a re-invented Trevor Hockey.

Really nice unassuming bloke as well. I wish him well in the future.
 
Fucking hell I realise how old I am gettting as I remember his debut -think it was against Norwich and thought that lad looks a bit nippy and a good prospect and here we are now he's retiring !!!
 
RammyBlade said:
Fucking hell I realise how old I am gettting as I remember his debut -think it was against Norwich and thought that lad looks a bit nippy and a good prospect and here we are now he's retiring !!!
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He did, I remember thinking the same. It could just be the passing of time but I recall that he was quite lithe and seemed to have a decent touch. It seemed that his bulking up took some of that away.
It does feel like it's only five or so years since Monty, Tonge and Jags were breaking through but in reality they're at the end of their careers.
 
metalblade said:
Hear is a clip of Monty at his best #fallingonhisarse #secondtouchisatackle ..............
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We didn't need the video, did we, having seen (well some of us did) the same thing so many times over ten painful, and occasionally hilarious, years?

Thank Pele it's over.

I ❤ Bushy-Tailed Squirrels with a public-spirited dedication to road safety.
 

Monty divided opinion on purpose and ability in the side, but had 100% unity on commitment to the badge.

Wasn't my favourite but he never left anything behind. He would have given a kidney to have been on that open top bus. True Blade,
 
Divided opinion (as this thread makes very clear) and was never the most talented player, but I loved Monty. Never gave less than 110% for United, despite his limitations. I remember several 1 on 1 (very effective) marking jobs he did on players who were light years ahead of him ability-wise, but he never shirked a tackle or bottled it.

A good lad, and a player who I don't think ever thought he was better than he actually was.

Good luck in the future Monty. Always welcome at the lane in my opinion.
 
lingsbord said:
Always loved Monty, never hid when the going got tough. Broke up the play and gave the ball to the more creative players like a re-invented Trevor Hockey.
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Unlike Trevor, the more creative players, in Monty's case, were playing for the opposition.

Occasionally he would momentarily deprive the opposition of the ball. Most people clearly missed what one or two of us saw. The hundreds of times when half-decent midfielders we'd never heard of left him trailing in their wake.

Hard-working, tireless but talentless and ultimately ineffective mediocrity. It's Bassett's legacy. It's the Bladesfans' Way. It's S2.
 
I've seen more technically gifted footballers, 'big Dave' for the Dog and Duck FC springs to mind. But despite being lacking in certain area's he is, and always will be, a Lane legend. In terms of work rate and commitment, he's the best we've had. Good luck in retirement!
 
Superblades said:
Only 35, thought he would have carried on for a few more years.
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Would you in that situation? You're 35 years old and have just been offered a job "upstairs" working with the CEO. Would you turn round and say, "no thanks - I want to keep kicking a football around", knowing that your time in the game is limited at professional level and the club are offering you a fantastic "career" opportunity? He is still planning to play non-league football.
 
Rusty view said:
One of my favourite players. He really did do the unseen work in games. A combative midfield who broke up the play and regular gave the ball to Browny. The 2 complemented each other brilliantly. If it wasn't for Monty, Brown wouldn't have expressed himself half as much.
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Are you Nigel Adkins by any chance? "Doing the unseen work" my arse. That's what Adkins said about Hammond. Look, I tell you what, I pay to go and watch footballers do "seen work" not "unseen work". In Monty's case he did "seen work". His "seen work" was valuable to the team, he could tackle and win the ball and he always gave 100%. Other aspects of his game left me wondering how the hell he'd ever made it as a professional footballer - but his overall contribution was positive.

No he didn't make Brown express himself more. Brown was an outstanding talent and would have been with or without Montgomery.

Can we just praise Monty for what he did well - the effort, the commitment, the tackling and leave it at that - rather than trying to make all there was all these other wonderful talents to him?
 

Cerberus Blade said:
Are you Nigel Adkins by any chance? "Doing the unseen work" my arse. That's what Adkins said about Hammond. Look, I tell you what, I pay to go and watch footballers do "seen work" not "unseen work". In Monty's case he did "seen work". His "seen work" was valuable to the team, he could tackle and win the ball and he always gave 100%. Other aspects of his game left me wondering how the hell he'd ever made it as a professional footballer - but his overall contribution was positive.

No he didn't make Brown express himself more. Brown was an outstanding talent and would have been with or without Montgomery.

Can we just praise Monty for what he did well - the effort, the commitment, the tackling and leave it at that - rather than trying to make all there was all these other wonderful talents to him?
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Love him or loath him he's in peoples memories far more than most of the tossers we've suffered the last five years.
 
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