[Football] Big Bob Sanchez

[vagabond]

You're going to wear that trumpet out if you keep blowing it.

[emoji38] like it. I’m not claiming sole credit. There were a few of us brave enough to criticise our former keeper and took a fair bit of flack. Wasn’t just me.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I think it's the 3rd time I've posted this now - the chant HAS to be this... ("Spanish Bob...")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0uJfhywW8


Edit: perhaps:

Spanish Bob - He's our keeper, he's our hero
[Saves a worldy?]*, then just carries o-oon...

* anything better to sound more like "yo te quiero"...?

That would be an amazing chant.

Maybe 'lets in zero' instead of saves a worldy?

 

[MattBackHome]

This thread is worthless without [MENTION=1530]mejonaNO12 aka riskit[/MENTION], aka the Ivor Novello of NSC.

 

[Blue3]

Hey Bobby your so fine you blow our minds
Hey Bobby, Bobby Sanchez

 

[SweatyMexican]

Really pleased for him. Played past all my expectations when he first came in. He’s been amazing.

Yet another dual-nationality player England have slipped through. We could make a decent first 11 out of them.

 

[Springal]

Really pleased for him. Played past all my expectations when he first came in. He’s been amazing.

Yet another dual-nationality player England have slipped through. We could make a decent first 11 out of them.

Why do people keep talking about this dual nationality thing? Is it just because he has lived here long enough? Or is one of his parents / grandparents English?

 

[Audax]

I reckon I was one of the first to call it after pointing out Ryan's goals conceded compared to xG against this season were terrible. It wasn't so much that he'd been dropping clangers, but that he'd only been making the regulation saves and not the sort of top-drawer saves that you occasionally need your keeper to make to win games - and Sanchez has made a few of them. The fact that he dominates his box far more is just an added bonus.

More than a simple "added bonus". The ability he has to control his own box (a recent example of failing to do so notwithstanding) has probably prevented him being asked to save a fair few shots that Ryan would have ended up needing to face. That helps give the defenders less work to do, fewer opportunities to get beaten, and thus greater confidence. Cannot be underestimated the value that Sanchez has brought since coming in IMO.

I'm sure some stato somewhere will run an analysis at the end of the season that will show that Sanchez was a significant part of saving our season (assuming we stay up).

 

[nwgull]

More than a simple "added bonus". The ability he has to control his own box (a recent example of failing to do so notwithstanding) has probably prevented him being asked to save a fair few shots that Ryan would have ended up needing to face. That helps give the defenders less work to do, fewer opportunities to get beaten, and thus greater confidence. Cannot be underestimated the value that Sanchez has brought since coming in IMO.

I'm sure some stato somewhere will run an analysis at the end of the season that will show that Sanchez was a significant part of saving our season (assuming we stay up).

I don't disagree. It's stuff like that that can go unnoticed - you'll rarely see the keeper claiming crosses to completely snuff out an attack on match highlights. Has anyone produced a YouTube of Sanchez claiming crosses yet?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Has anyone produced a YouTube of Sanchez claiming crosses yet?

"It's one small step for Bob...one giant leap for Mat Ryan."

 

[schmunk]

Why do people keep talking about this dual nationality thing? Is it just because he has lived here long enough? Or is one of his parents / grandparents English?

He is eligible for UK citizenship, as he's lived here so long, he'll either have Indefinite Leave to Remain or EU Settled Status. He couldn't be a dual national though, as Spain doesn't allow it - he'd have to relinquish his Spanish citizenship to do so.

Separately, his surname is Lynch Sanchez - the "Lynch" being his father's surname. I don't think we know anything further, but it doesn't sound like a very Spanish name...

 

[CaergybiGull]

Has anyone suggested a chant for him yet?

Hopefully 1 will emerge before we are allowed back in to the stadium.

Will this do?

 

[Questions]

FIRST DRAFT

Our goal-ie comes from Sunny Spain
Eeees Bob from Espana!

We’ll never lose another f**king game
With Bob from Espana!

He does-n’t play in League One anymore
Now he---'s with the Albion!

And he’ll nev-er let opponents score
It’s Bob-by we adore!


[Was going to be "We kinda liked the Aussie we had before / But it's Booby we adore"]

Yes. Well it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better! But apart from that, excellent!"

 

[Wozza]

Yes. Well it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better! But apart from that, excellent!"

I'm sure that New York-based fan can pull it off....

 

[Bry Nylon]

I'm sure that New York-based fan can pull it off....

What ever happened to Randy Banjo? Is he still trying to crowd-fund a holiday to the UK?

 

[Solid at the back]

Congratulations Robert, what a fantastic save at the weekend when the ref played advantage

 

[Lower West Stander]

Very likely, although whilst I'm not sure he is yet at the level to keep for a team challenging for international honours, I would point out that my key word is 'yet'.

If I was in Spanish team selection I'd tie him down. If I was Southgate I would have been playing him in the next match....

Can we agree Potter called something correct here...... ?

Mason Mount is a much better keeper surely?

 

[Stato]

Ahead of Kepa... Which is still a massive achievement, well done Robert [emoji1319]

So, if any of the big boys want him, the bidding presumably starts at 88,000,001 Euros.

 

[GT49er]

Makes you wonder how on earth Walton was ahead of him in the pecking order to be honest.

Some of us (me anyway) thought he'd overtaken Walton a year or more ago. Not that Walton's rubbish - he's proved himself well capable of playing in the Championship.

 

[severnside gull]

In the Spain squad.

What a season for the young lad.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/19160734.robert-sanchez-called-spain/

We've got a Spanish international!

Brilliant. What an experience if he can join his first international camp - if being, if it doesn’t result in him having to quarantine

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Add a few noughts to his worth. Lovely jubbly.