Cropper Gone

Quoted from Mappers

Does he though ?
Rory Delap was basic but made a career from it at a higher level .
Thought it would be pretty effective at league 2 because teams at any level struggle with the trajectory of it ,a shame we didnt see it much at all and probably wont now as its a pretty unique skill (look at Mahers attempted ones to see the difference he provided)

Sort of. Delap was a Premier League player for years before anyone (Tony Pulis, obvs) realised he had a long throw!

But aye, Waterfall had 3 or 4 attempts on goal just in the Forest game.

Quoted from Mappers

Does he though ?
Rory Delap was basic but made a career from it at a higher level .
Thought it would be pretty effective at league 2 because teams at any level struggle with the trajectory of it ,a shame we didnt see it much at all and probably wont now as its a pretty unique skill (look at Mahers attempted ones to see the difference he provided)

Delap made a career from his long throw? Really?

He played 241 games in the Premier League for Derby, Southampton & Sunderland before we joined Stoke where Tony Pulis discovered his long throw when they were messing around I training. He made another 134 Premier League appearances for Stoke.

That’s 375 PL appearances. Nearly 10 full season of games.

The lad could clearly play a bit.

It's unbelievable that Delap had that in his locker for so long without telling anyone. Pulis said he told him that he was county javelin champion as a child.

It's similar to waiting 41 games for Mitch Rose to take a throw in for us.

Truthfully, it makes me wonder if some of these footballers aren't the brightest. It's the equivalent of having a belting delivery for crosses and set pieces but not bothering to mention it and watching a teammate repeatedly knocking the ball straight at the defenders' shins

Absolutely, at some point it has to come up that you've got a decent throw in your locker.  It's not like they will never have thrown the ball in their life is it!

Regards Cropper, disappointed for the lad as it just seems every time he gets fit he breaks down again.  I think there's a lot more to his game than just his massive throw too.  Back end of last season he was really good at right-back.  Ultimately he got more game time because Michee was injured but he added a bit more defensive steel at a time when we needed it down that right.

With seven subs, especially with nine in the cup, I would always have him in the squad just for that alternative option.  Quite a few games this season where I wouldn't have had any objections to us just lobbing those throws into the box for the last 10-15 minutes.