[Archived] Robbie Savage At The Hordens

[thenodrog]

Listening to the MU v Big club match on Radio Five and Sav was partnering Alan Green in the commentary box. Damned good job he made of it too. I think we will hear a lot of Robbie in future in the media.

btw I'd bet that we might be the first club that he's left that would not consider booing him if he came back to Ewood with another club.

btw 2 How many can remember the chorus of opposition to signing him from our resident know nowt 'lady' members when he was first talked about? <img src="http://www.brfcs.co.uk/mb/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Hang your heads girls.

Seems Sav is in almost constant demand. He's never out of the papers and never off the radio.

[Mc Love]

He has a column in the Mirror

[Amo]

He has a column in the Mirror

He has his moments, but we all know Savage is prone to talking out of his rear end.

[bazza]

Great athlete. Poor footballer. But what a nice, entertaining chap!

[thenodrog]

..... Poor footballer.

In comparison to Tugay certainly but in comparison to R'Keith certainly not.

Poor footballer or not I bloody well wish he was 25 and still here. I'm sure that the people who would rate his on field contribution highest would be his opponents. Every team needs someone to get it and give it to the better players. It's not pretty but it's very necessary and Sav was one of the best at that.

[patrickvalery]

..Poor footballer.

I dunno. He knew what he was good at and didn't venture away from that too often. He had his niche and players like that will always find a home.

[bazza]

. Poor footballer.

OK then. Shall we say a footballer of limited talent.

I agree a 25 year old Robbie would be perfect for us at this stage in the club's history.

[T4E]

Sav was an excellent player, I'm amazed anyone that watched him in blue and white would think differently. Our midfields downward spiral began when he left.

[AggyBlue]

I dunno. He knew what he was good at and didn't venture away from that too often. He had his niche and players like that will always find a home.

What was he good at because I can't think of anything

[Ricky]

I think we missed sav massively when he went. He was the engine in the midfield for us. He was in the team during one of our most successful recent spells. He's a great bloke as well.

[Tim Southampton Rover]

What was he good at because I can't think of anything

He had bundles of energy, brilliant enthusiasm on and off the pitch, he never gave up and more importantly he had the desire to win. He's always admitted that he wasn't brilliant technically but his mentality is probably up there with the best of them.

[AggyBlue]

He had bundles of energy, brilliant enthusiasm on and off the pitch, he never gave up and more importantly he had the desire to win. He's always admitted that he wasn't brilliant technically but his mentality is probably up there with the best of them.

So even Sav would agree with the posts on here about his limited ability.

[T4E]

More like ........ 'well I remember Alan Shearer as the best striker in Europe by a mile and I remember taking a picture of Savage to my hairdressers to see if she could copy the style'.

Is that what you did with your poster of Paul Scholes?

[savage8]

What was he good at because I can't think of anything

ridiculous post !

[roversmum]

Sav was a motivator, we certainly could do with his like in the team now.

[Amo]

Savage was no Cruyff, but I think his technical ability is downplayed too much. I don't think you can play midfield at the highest level for that time without it. Of course, his main attribute was his energy and dynamism, which was infectious within the camp at a time when the whole world was against us. There's an incredible difference between Robbie Savage and a Keith Andrews-type, who runs around pointing a lot but generally does very little.

[Ozz]

Also an excellent dead ball taker-free kicks and corners were great. And was the our cheer leader, a terrace representative on the pitch.

[JamieUK]

He's releasing an autobiography on the 5th August - think I shall be getting a copy...

[LeChuck]

He's releasing an autobiography on the 5th August - think I shall be getting a copy...

About five topics down from this one...

http://www.brfcs.co.uk/mb/index.php/topic/23337-robbie-savagethe-autobiography/

[92er]

He's releasing an autobiography on the 5th August - think I shall be getting a copy...

Perhaps there'll be 1 chapter on his underperformance at Rovers-which he admitted recently.

And maybe 2 on Birmingham where he said he played his best, where he enjoyed himself the most and which is a club he said he should not have left.

[thenodrog]

Is that what you did with your poster of Paul Scholes?

Nope... he took one of me to his hairdressers.

[thenodrog]

What was he good at because I can't think of anything

Aggy you've destroyed any credibility you may have had on here with that stupid comment. If you could rem the 66 World Cup you would have said that Nobby Stiles was a crap player too. To an extent you would be right but Nobby's got a World Cup winning medal and he played a massive part in his teammates getting one too! His contribution was massive cos he was not on the pitch to spray passes about and dictate play, nor to carry the ball on mazy runs forward, nor to arrive in the box late and unleash unstoppable strikes into the top corner of the net..... Stiles was on the pitch in an England shirt simply to harry and stop the opponents star midfielder(s) from from controlling the tempo, from dictating proceedings and from running the match. And Stiles did that to perfection.

[BRFC95]

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[Presty On Tour]

Robbie Savage has come out of international retirement

[beerwins]

ridiculous post !

I dont think it was that bad of a post, Savage wasnt the greatest footballer, he did'nt really excel in any part of his game but he was a great character and you get a character like Savage in your team and he gets the team motivated and can drag that extra 10% from the players.

We miss a character like Sav, we have a good team spirit and we have Salgado and Samba who are good leaders but we miss a real character to get the players heads up.