| Question for older blue fans 18:40 - Nov 22 with 3223 views | FrimleyBlue |
How good would the likes of Beattie be in the modern defensive game of tippy tappy football.
Watching the Fulham game today was like watching town painfully try and play the newly formed defender tip tap style and it's something I really hate. I want my defenders to defend and leave the midfield to play with he ball.
Now I know Beattie was a rock and same with butcher. But how would you think they would get on nowadays. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 18:44 - Nov 22 with 3173 views | GlasgowBlue |
Beattie would have been very much like Virgil van Dijk in today's game. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 18:45 - Nov 22 with 3169 views | bluejacko |
Both no nonsense defenders but Beattie in particular could play as well! Both weighed in with their fair share of goals.
TBF I think they would both still have been able to do a job for the team.😀 |  | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 18:46 - Nov 22 with 3168 views | Wickets |
I have always thought that great players of yesterday would be great players today . I could be wrong but somehow i dont think so . For instance Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen would rip most teams apart . |  | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 18:47 - Nov 22 with 3157 views | lazyblue |
Both would have been absolutely fine in modern game and still best defenders in the league. | | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 18:48 - Nov 22 with 3151 views | homer_123 |
The Beat could play. Quite happy with the ball at his feet and he could pick a pass...if needed.
Butch was less so but again not bad either ball at feet. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 18:56 - Nov 22 with 3129 views | homer_123 |
| Question for older blue fans on 18:46 - Nov 22 by Wickets |
I have always thought that great players of yesterday would be great players today . I could be wrong but somehow i dont think so . For instance Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen would rip most teams apart . |
What would Warky be worth today?! | |
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| Question for older blue fans on 19:24 - Nov 22 with 3060 views | PJH |
The Beat (RIP) was way more than just a defender because he was a complete footballer in as much he could do everything that a footballer could be expected to do-don't know if he was any good in goal though.
I think his only weakness was that he did not seem to understand just how good he was. |  | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 19:28 - Nov 22 with 3044 views | PJH |
| Question for older blue fans on 18:46 - Nov 22 by Wickets |
I have always thought that great players of yesterday would be great players today . I could be wrong but somehow i dont think so . For instance Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen would rip most teams apart . |
I think so.
A whole host of our players from the mid 1970's through to the early 1980's were class then and would be class now. | | | |
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| Question for older blue fans on 19:30 - Nov 22 with 3031 views | Keno |
Personally I’d love to see Big Al in the modern game.
No nonsense solid defender
Be even better if he was Miked up |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 19:47 - Nov 22 with 2999 views | Scuzzer |
In this modern day football they wouldn't survive. You cant make contact or be aggressive in the tackle which leads me to believe their like would be suspended for most of the season.
Cripes I hate it. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 19:52 - Nov 22 with 2982 views | gtsb1966 |
| Question for older blue fans on 19:47 - Nov 22 by Scuzzer |
In this modern day football they wouldn't survive. You cant make contact or be aggressive in the tackle which leads me to believe their like would be suspended for most of the season.
Cripes I hate it. |
Spot on. |  | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:09 - Nov 22 with 2951 views | Guthrum |
| Question for older blue fans on 19:47 - Nov 22 by Scuzzer |
In this modern day football they wouldn't survive. You cant make contact or be aggressive in the tackle which leads me to believe their like would be suspended for most of the season.
Cripes I hate it. |
Altho their use of physicality was a reflection of the era they played in. Had they come through the system in the last decade or so, then they would probably have been trained not to do that.
I never saw Beattie play live, but from all I've heard, he had the talent to have been equally good if he'd been developed in a different way, toughness was not the sum total of his game. Possibly might have avoided some of the injury problems which shortened his career. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 20:12 - Nov 22 with 2938 views | jaykay |
put it this way Virgil van Dijk is a poor mans beattie |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 20:31 - Nov 22 with 2915 views | Vic |
Beattie would be absolutely fine in today’s game. He was incredibly quick and nimble footed. |  |
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| Question for older blue fans on 20:35 - Nov 22 with 2915 views | Seablu |
With the current advancements in player welfare and general well-being, he would be absolutely immense.
If Harry Maguire is worth £80 odd million, Beattie would be well over £120m.
Evans would take £40m and Nsiala though. |  | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:39 - Nov 22 with 2901 views | gtsb1966 |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:35 - Nov 22 by Seablu |
With the current advancements in player welfare and general well-being, he would be absolutely immense.
If Harry Maguire is worth £80 odd million, Beattie would be well over £120m.
Evans would take £40m and Nsiala though. |
Maguire at 80 million  | | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:41 - Nov 22 with 2892 views | bluejacko |
| Question for older blue fans on 19:47 - Nov 22 by Scuzzer |
In this modern day football they wouldn't survive. You cant make contact or be aggressive in the tackle which leads me to believe their like would be suspended for most of the season.
Cripes I hate it. |
Don’t think that would be the case! They could both be physical when it was needed but I reckon they could have adapted well. | | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:46 - Nov 22 with 2878 views | PJH |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:09 - Nov 22 by Guthrum |
Altho their use of physicality was a reflection of the era they played in. Had they come through the system in the last decade or so, then they would probably have been trained not to do that.
I never saw Beattie play live, but from all I've heard, he had the talent to have been equally good if he'd been developed in a different way, toughness was not the sum total of his game. Possibly might have avoided some of the injury problems which shortened his career. |
I do not doubt that The Beat plus a lot of our players from that era had the talent to play in any era.
Kevin Beattie would be a world class player now just as he was a world class player then. | | | |
| Question for older blue fans on 20:48 - Nov 22 with 2869 views | PJH |
| Question for older blue fans on 19:47 - Nov 22 by Scuzzer |
In this modern day football they wouldn't survive. You cant make contact or be aggressive in the tackle which leads me to believe their like would be suspended for most of the season.
Cripes I hate it. |
Equally a lot of supposed top players now would not have survived back then because they neither know how to tackle or how to take a tackle. | | | |
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