Alex Rhodes

Alex Rhodes

SmiffyBee said:
was is it with you and right wingers ?

Brooker, Rhodes and Williams (M) all in your personal hate list in recent years...:sad::sad::sad:
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Rhodes was a left winger. :wave:
 

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Gee Bee said:
I'm not sure he was ever a regular fixture in the starting line up to be considered our best player.

He certainly had some good games but my memory says that he didn't start that many and tore very few apart that often. :confused:
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He'd just started playing reguarily, and was tearing teams apart, through his sheer pace.

His goal and assist at Hillsboro shortly before this in the space of two minutes was prehaps the best example.

He really was playing well at the time.
 

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NorthamptonBee said:
I would go as far to say that without the injury he would be on loan at Woking at the moment.
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Thank you. A sane comment. Alex is a lovely fella but had three good weeks in four years at Brentford and now everyone thinks he was Ronaldo.
 

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markbfc said:
Thank you. A sane comment. Alex is a lovely fella but had three good weeks in four years at Brentford and now everyone thinks he was Ronaldo.
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Stephen Hunt was the same then
 

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bees66 said:
Stephen Hunt was the same then
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I remember laughing at the "who is the best" thread about Hunt and Rhodes. I had some drug ridden posters telling me that Rhodes had more potential.:eek::eek:They were both smashing people but Hunt being allowed to leave was disgusting whereas we were all pleased to see Rhodes depart.
 

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Holysmit said:
He'd just started playing reguarily, and was tearing teams apart, through his sheer pace.

His goal and assist at Hillsboro shortly before this in the space of two minutes was prehaps the best example.

He really was playing well at the time.
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Have a look at his playing record and you will see he wasn't playing regularly. He made 17 starts in 4 plus years and the season following his Bournemouth goal he made some of those starts up until is injury, but certainly was more regularly used as a sub. Tabb was often on the left as Hargreaves & Talbot filled the middle with Rankin often on the right.
Rhodes played some games down the left and some down the middle had lightening pace, but final delivery was in the main crap. One game against Sheff Wed, doesn't make him as terorising defenders every week. :wave:
 

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Gee Bee said:
Have a look at his playing record and you will see he wasn't playing regularly. He made 17 starts in 4 plus years and the season following his Bournemouth goal he made some of those starts up until is injury, but certainly was more regularly used as a sub. Tabb was often on the left as Hargreaves & Talbot filled the middle with Rankin often on the right.
Rhodes played some games down the left and some down the middle had lightening pace, but final delivery was in the main crap. One game against Sheff Wed, doesn't make him as terorising defenders every week. :wave:
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He'd scored 3 goals in 10 games, despite being a sub for a while.

He was only just breaking into the side at the time, you are right, but he was playing brillantly, and was a geniunely exciting player to watch at the time. I was raving on about his peformances at the time.

Nobody knows whether he could have kept this form going, or whether he would have been found out, but it was clear he was never the same player when he came back, as sadly he had lost his pace.
 

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markbfc said:
Thank you. A sane comment. Alex is a lovely fella but had three good weeks in four years at Brentford and now everyone thinks he was Ronaldo.
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Andy Scott, anyone?
 

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Holysmit said:
He'd scored 3 goals in 10 games, despite being a sub for a while.

He was only just breaking into the side at the time, you are right, but he was playing brillantly, and was a geniunely exciting player to watch at the time. I was raving on about his peformances at the time.

Nobody knows whether he could have kept this form going, or whether he would have been found out, but it was clear he was never the same player when he came back, as sadly he had lost his pace.
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I agree with you. The injury seemed to take not only most/all of his pace but all his confidence as well. I got the impression he felt he could get round any full back before the injury but after the injury he always seemed a bit timid. He was attracting a lot of attention from others clubs (according to the media at the time) and as a young player he was a very big prospect.
 

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Brentford 4 Life said:
I agree with you. The injury seemed to take not only most/all of his pace but all his confidence as well.
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Rhodes was only ever a good substitute, sadly I remember him most for his miss more than anything at Grimsby in the great escape and I knew then he was on his way out
 

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bees66 said:
Rhodes was only ever a good substitute, sadly I remember him most for his miss more than anything at Grimsby in the great escape and I knew then he was on his way out
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You knew he was on his way out after only his SECOND league appearence at the age of JUST 22 when he hadn't played for over four months previously. :eek: You must be joking! :idea:
 

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strange how history re-writes things. no doubt at all that, at the time of the injury, we were all sad as he was in the middle of "bursting" onto the scene. besides the Sheff Wed game, i remember the commentators drooling over him during the Bristol City FA Cup match. bastard McShane :mad1:
 

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markbfc said:
Thank you. A sane comment. Alex is a lovely fella but had three good weeks in four years at Brentford and now everyone thinks he was Ronaldo.
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....................can he not drive straight through tunnels???.............................
 

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Brentford 4 Life said:
impression he felt he could get round any full back before the injury
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Thats all well and good if you can also deliver a final ball which he has never done with any consistency, either before or after injury.
Imho, he had few good games and because of them, became overated by many.
 

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Gee Bee said:
Thats all well and good if you can also deliver a final ball which he has never done with any consistency,.
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Aaron Lennon has made a living in the premiership and earned a few england caps from getting round the full back and c*cking the final ball up!!! :fishing:
 

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BeeHomeSoon said:
Aaron Lennon has made a living in the premiership and earned a few england caps from getting round the full back and c*cking the final ball up!!! :fishing:
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Couldn't agree more he's crap imho at that level, but still better than Rhodes.
Lennon is still somewhat younger than Rhodes too, so maybe he'll to be at Woking when he's in his late 20's. :D
 

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Hope Rhodes makes a career for himself but BSP is probably his level; his injury obviously hit his development, but if he had the ability he'd have shown it by now
 

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SmiffyBee said:
yeah, but apart from that.....:sorted::sneakoff:
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I don't hate them, well probably Brooker. Rhodes was half decent which is a half more than Marvin. Brooker was talented but had so much attitude, fair play to the **** at Tranmere, more effort shown with two fingers than the previous 2 seasons. I liked/loved Gary Roberts, Sinton, Rowlands etc so I have no problem with right footed wingers or people that play there.:sorted:
 

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Injured again.
 

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No surprise that he has been released by Rotherham.
 

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Left Oxford by mutual consent after failing to break into the first team.

Shame really, he is heading back to the Rymans level from whence he came.
 

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Stanley said:
Left Oxford by mutual consent after failing to break into the first team.

Shame really, he is heading back to the Rymans level from whence he came.
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Didn't he come from Newmarket?

Eastern Counties League, one step below the Southern League.
 

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Yeah Newmarket Town...went up there for the friendly.

Shame i liked Tiger.... showed promis but after McShane the ginger **** injured him he was never the same :(
 

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Brentford legend...remember that Bournemouth game when he scored and GP went wild
 

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..................good luck to him.......................
 

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Released by Grays, godspeed Alex.
 

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Alex Rhodes

McShane dirty ****,,,, not even good at football lol.

Rhodes had a bright future shame :(

but yes BFC ledgend to me for that goal kept us up !
 

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Banshee Mildew said:
Double ****!
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Only positive thing to say is having seen his performances in the premiership, in one way we shouldn't have felt cheated when Hull paid £500k or whatever it was for him, it was more than he was worth. Easily the worst player to have played in the premiership and one of the dirties.
 

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Westlad said:
Only positive thing to say is having seen his performances in the premiership, in one way we shouldn't have felt cheated when Hull paid £500k or whatever it was for him, it was more than he was worth. Easily the worst player to have played in the premiership and one of the dirties.
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I think this guy might have a rightful claim to this title.

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