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He was fast but had a tiny footballing brain. He would get the ball in the final 1/3 and then shoot, now there was no way of telling if it was a cross or a shot.

Had no idea what the off-side rule was either
 
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Richey said:
Really? That cannot be right. Have you forgotten Piechnik? Tanner? Dicks? Konchesky?!
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Worse than all of them, for me, mate... At least they knew their positions and didn't spend large quantities of their matches wandering the pitch, anywhere but where they were supposed to be. They weren't good, but they weren't utterly fucking clueless about how to play the game.

That was my main issue with Moreno, I think... He had ability, but was thick as bottled shite.
 
Whaddapie said:
Worse than all of them, for me, mate... At least they knew their positions and didn't spend large quantities of their matches wandering the pitch, anywhere but where they were supposed to be. They weren't good, but they weren't utterly fucking clueless about how to play the game.

That was my main issue with Moreno, I think... He had ability, but was thick as bottled shite.
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Yeah I somewhat agree with this. Totally brainless defender. At least with Konchesky etc it looked as though they knew their limitations, but Moreno thought he was Roberto Carlos.
 
Whaddapie said:
Worse than all of them, for me, mate... At least they knew their positions and didn't spend large quantities of their matches wandering the pitch, anywhere but where they were supposed to be. They weren't good, but they weren't utterly fucking clueless about how to play the game.

That was my main issue with Moreno, I think... He had ability, but was thick as bottled shite.
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Yes, good point well made.
 
tomasjj said:
Him and Riise could battle it out for stupidest footballer award.
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Come on, mate. Moreno and Riise should not be mentioned in the same sentence. Johny Rockets might not have been a perfect footballer, but he loved our club and was good enough to give us several memorable moments on the pitch against our rivals. He was also easily the best left-back to have played for us in the last 20 years until we signed Robertson.
 
bluebell said:
He was fast but had a tiny footballing brain. He would get the ball in the final 1/3 and then shoot, now there was no way of telling if it was a cross or a shot.

Had no idea what the off-side rule was either
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Are you referring to Riise or Moreno? That description could fit both
 
Whaddapie said:
Worse than all of them, for me, mate... At least they knew their positions and didn't spend large quantities of their matches wandering the pitch, anywhere but where they were supposed to be. They weren't good, but they weren't utterly fucking clueless about how to play the game.

That was my main issue with Moreno, I think... He had ability, but was thick as bottled shite.
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It's a shame when people I like are wrong (to coin a phrase). 😉 Dicks I'll give you (he could actually play when the red mist didn't descend) but the others - Tanner especially - were as hopeless as Moreno even if they were in position, and just now and then (even if more by luck than judgment) Moreno would get an assist or even a goal at the other end, which those other buggers never even approached.
 
Holle said:
But he didn't know that he was allowed to use his right foot also.
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I liked Johnny Rockets and he was light years ahead of Moreno as a footballer, but there's a fair bit of rewriting of history about him on here at times. Ironically in a thread in which Moreno is getting stick (rightly enough) for his positioning, teams invariably used to target the space JAR left behind him on his forays upfield and it paid off for them quite often. Without one of the all-time greats in Sami Hyypiä covering for him back there, we'd have suffered from this even more than we did.
 
peekay said:
Come on, mate. Moreno and Riise should not be mentioned in the same sentence. Johny Rockets might not have been a perfect footballer, but he loved our club and was good enough to give us several memorable moments on the pitch against our rivals. He was also easily the best left-back to have played for us in the last 20 years until we signed Robertson.
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I was talking about stupid footballers. As players, they are oceans apart, agreed.
 
I fucking hated Moreno. He'll go to his grave never understanding why he got all the blame for losing the Europa League final? Well that doesn't surprise me, I doubt there's much he does understand.

The penalty he gave away at Norwich in that 5-4 game sums him up. Dives in and gives away a stonewall penalty that the ref doesn't give for some reason, he looks up at the ref bewildered, and when he realises the ref hasn't given anything, he carries on hacking at the player until the penalty is eventually awarded. Absolute retard.
 
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This is everything you need to know.
 
Judge Jules said:
It's a shame when people I like are wrong (to coin a phrase). 😉 Dicks I'll give you (he could actually play when the red mist didn't descend) but the others - Tanner especially - were as hopeless as Moreno even if they were in position, and just now and then (even if more by luck than judgment) Moreno would get an assist or even a goal at the other end, which those other buggers never even approached.
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Ha! Touche, old chap... 🙂

Maybe it's 'recency bias' (as they say now), but I just don't remember any others - unspeakably bad as they most certainly were - being quite as utterly stupid in their positions as Moreno was. Yes, Tanner et al were fucking brutal players, but I don't remember them as complete idiots. As opposed to just being bad at it, Moreno played as if he didn't understand the concept of what he was out there to do.

To this day, whenever Moreno is mentioned, visions of lobotomized golden Labrador puppies chasing a tennis ball fill my head.
 
Holle said:
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This is everything you need to know.
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Reminds me of a quote from Julian Dicks which once earned me a tenner from "Private Eye" when they printed it in their "Colemanballs" column:

"Once you've had bull terriers you'd never want any other dog. I've got two bull terriers, a Rottweiler and a bulldog."
 
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