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How good was Robbie Slater as a player?

Monoethnic Social Club said:
just "hoi polloi" brother, no need for the "the" at the front... You are in essence saying "the the many" :)

Sorry not often I can correct an author :)
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Authors get corrected all the time. They like to call it editing but we all know what it really is... envious revenge.

Mind you, I could probably mount a very technical defence of "the hoi polloi" being correct. Once it becomes an anglicised borrowing, the two words combine with a global meaning and still need an English article in front or it looks grammatically weird.

I'm very pleased to learn some more Greek. I can add hoi polloi to the words which used to get shouted at me when playing Greek teams: malaka and apo piso...
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
Authors get corrected all the time. They like to call it editing but we all know what it really is... envious revenge.

Mind you, I could probably mount a very technical defence of "the hoi polloi" being correct. Once it becomes an anglicised borrowing, the two words combine with a global meaning and still need an English article in front or it looks grammatically weird.

I'm very pleased to learn some more Greek. I can add hoi polloi to the words which used to get shouted at me when playing Greek teams: malaka and apo piso...
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Malaka is such a good word.
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
I've met both Slater and Foster. Slater at least was friendly and happy to talk football.

Foster was aloof, looked over your shoulder the whole time looking for someone more important to talk to. Even with his activist work you can't help but feel that it's all about him and his corporate/political future.

Reminded me very much, in fact, of Peter Garrett who (despite being my favourite Aussie frontman of all time) avoids the hoi polloi like the plague - speaks in slogans, if he speaks at all - and (was) only interested in people who could help his political future. (How federal politics must have broken his heart...)
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I've heard this about Foster too.

Yet when I met him - at a school football camp, he was friendly and quite talkative. There weren't too many 'important football people' there!
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
Authors get corrected all the time. They like to call it editing but we all know what it really is... envious revenge.

Mind you, I could probably mount a very technical defence of "the hoi polloi" being correct. Once it becomes an anglicised borrowing, the two words combine with a global meaning and still need an English article in front or it looks grammatically weird.

I'm very pleased to learn some more Greek. I can add hoi polloi to the words which used to get shouted at me when playing Greek teams: malaka and apo piso...
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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAH .. although Im a little suss as to WHY you would have "apo piso" shouted at you when playing... sure it wasn't in the showers after the match? hahahahahahahahahah
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAH .. although Im a little suss as to WHY you would have "apo piso" shouted at you when playing... sure it wasn't in the showers after the match? hahahahahahahahahah
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I suspect it was an overture of vigorous friendship...

I have a colleague at work called Marko who is always a tad mystified when I call him Malarko.
 
I do wonder if the English weather softened his skin. Old mate on twitter seems to get a little hurt whenever he's called a snake or Arnie fanboy.
 
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melbcityguy said:
Scrap metal generation 😆

We won an Asian cup fire up
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Just for reference, the below players in that squad went through an NSL team at some point of their career/youth:

  1. Mat Ryan (Marconi)
  2. Ivan Franjic (Melbourne Knights)
  3. Tim Cahill (Sydney Olympic, Sydney United)
  4. Mark Milligan (Parramatta Eagles?, Northern Spirit)
  5. Matthew Spiranovic (Melbourne Knights)
  6. Tomi Juric (Sydney Olympic, Sydney United - unsure if this was during NSL era or NPL era)
  7. James Troisi (Adelaide City)
  8. Mile Jedinak (Sydney United)
  9. Matt Mackay (Brisbane Strikers)
  10. Eugene Galekovic (Melbourne Knights, South Melbourne)
  11. Terry Antonis (Sydney Olympic, Marconi)
  12. Alex Wilkinson (Northern Spirit)
  13. Marco Bresciano (Carlton)
Very much a hybrid, gold-plated youth development at that point to be fair (granted a lot of those names went Youth at NSL, then onto A-League before Socceroos)
 
NicCarBel said:
Just for reference, the below players in that squad went through an NSL team at some point of their career/youth:

  1. Mat Ryan (Marconi)
  2. Ivan Franjic (Melbourne Knights)
  3. Tim Cahill (Sydney Olympic, Sydney United)
  4. Mark Milligan (Parramatta Eagles?, Northern Spirit)
  5. Matthew Spiranovic (Melbourne Knights)
  6. Tomi Juric (Sydney Olympic, Sydney United - unsure if this was during NSL era or NPL era)
  7. James Troisi (Adelaide City)
  8. Mile Jedinak (Sydney United)
  9. Matt Mackay (Brisbane Strikers)
  10. Eugene Galekovic (Melbourne Knights, South Melbourne)
  11. Terry Antonis (Sydney Olympic, Marconi)
  12. Alex Wilkinson (Northern Spirit)
  13. Marco Bresciano (Carlton)
Very much a hybrid, gold-plated youth development at that point to be fair (granted a lot of those names went Youth at NSL, then onto A-League before Socceroos)
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SHHHH NSL is EVIL, get with the new dawn program...... lol
 
melbcityguy said:
I know he won a epl title but I never hear about his legacy as a player. Obviously these days you think of him as a pundit
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Recently saw an old video of him playing Argentina home and away in 1993.

Terrific crosser, good pace as a winger. Very impressed!
 
Decentric said:
Recently saw an old video of him playing Argentina home and away in 1993.

Terrific crosser, good pace as a winger. Very impressed!
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70 years old, sockah fanatic, knew nothing about Slater until he recently saw a video.

Too funny.
 
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