Danny Wilson Said
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Neal Maupay falls through a wormhole in time and ends up playing for Albion in 1997. The Storer and Reinelt chances both fall to him.
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AmexRuislip
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Yes, because with Maupay in our side that season, neither of those specific results would have mattered.
We were a shit side, at the shitty end of an absolutely shit division. Maupay would have scored about 35 and we'd be top half.
Strange question.
maltaseagull
Well-known member
Did anyone see his post match interview?
Also, isn't he getting enough pelters at the moment without us having to invent hypothetical scenarios in which to slag him off further?!
And yes, this is all getting a bit silly. He'd be one of the absolute best players to have played in League Two in the late 90s, if he was dropped back there.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
If we had had Maupay instead of Storer or Reinelt we wouldn’t even have been in the relegation zone. Fact. He would have been the best player in the division by a country mile and transferred out to a Division One club as soon as possible.
Does anyone really believe that either of them were even half as good as Maupay?
Christ, he really is the current scapegoat isn’t he?
FFS
Does anyone really believe that either of them were even half as good as Maupay?
Christ, he really is the current scapegoat isn’t he?
FFS
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Sadly I don't think it is a strange question. Not on NSC anymore, anyway. It's emblematic of the depths this once great website has sunk to in recent times. I really hope it's just a consequence of covid-19 and its lock downs and the stresses and the strains its put everyone under but this place has become an increasingly, negative, bitter, argumentative and divided website. Everything is polarised and so many threads are seemingly designed to stoke that polarisation.
This is only a useful question to draw comparisons with Craig Maskell. Obviously Maupay is a much better player, but Maskell scored some useful goals that season, without really winning the crowd over and Reinelt scored after Maskell hit the post.
We started that season with Baird and Maskell as a strike partnership and very little back up. Baird then missed most of the second half of the season leaving Maskell to labour on leading the line, which was not really his strong point. Maskell wasn't big on heading the ball, or particularly quick, he was a decent lower league finishert hough over the course of his career.
Reinelt was more comfortable in midfield, where he did at least like to shoot (not always on target I might add). Fortunately he came good when it mattered.
blue-shifted
Banned
Yeh, add my voices to those saying that this is ridiculous.
Maupay would have looked like Messi in that division at that time
Maybe he'll come good and take us forward, maybe he won't
Maupay would have looked like Messi in that division at that time
Maybe he'll come good and take us forward, maybe he won't
Seasidesage
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Yes because to be honest I would have scored both...
Doonhamer7
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- Jun 17, 2016
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As the average premier league player in 1997 would be a championship player today, so as Maupay is an excellent championship player he would be scoring for fun in League 2
AmexRuislip
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Or it's great that the OP has come up with an imaginative thread, that's different
studio150
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What next in similar threads, Potter falls through a wormhole would we have stayed up (in any relegation year), or Zamora time travels to 1979 would we have stormed Division One scoring goals for fun, and then dominating Europe for a decade
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,194
Unfair on the player. OP will be disappointed with this thread
blue-shifted
Banned
Hmm yeh, but you might have put that chance at Sheff Utd away as well
This is ridiculous. He wasn't even 1. In that league, aged 8 months... he probably didn't know how to walk at that point.
On a serious note; I know we absolutely love a scapegoat, but think it's time for people to leave Neal alone. He's set to score 10 again for this season. Only Chris Wood and Danny Ings have done that in 19/20 and 20/21. Gain some perspective lads.
On a serious note; I know we absolutely love a scapegoat, but think it's time for people to leave Neal alone. He's set to score 10 again for this season. Only Chris Wood and Danny Ings have done that in 19/20 and 20/21. Gain some perspective lads.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Or it's great that the OP has come up with an imaginative thread, that's different
Maybe.
If there weren't already threads slagging off Maupay and dozens of other threads slagging off other players and the manager I might share your view. It's certainly an imaginative way to have a dig at a player but it isn't different in its essence, it's still looking to slaughter him.
AmexRuislip
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It's typical of NSC to always look at the negative side of things in a thread that maybe or maybe not aimed at a players period of not scoring.
I always try to look at things humorously, never to demean, whatever the case
Lower West Stander
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Interesting reading the comments on this thread against the actual vote.....