Dirty Dandy

[stef]

Has there ever been a Dandy who was a dirty player or a diving cheat ? in your memory AND I mean whilst wearing the RED.

 

Please give reasons and recalls for discussion

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Lee Miller?

[Bebo]

Lee Miller was a bit of a diver. Had a habit of going down far too easily and slowly getting back up, holding his back as if he'd severed his spine. But i wouldn't call him dirty.

[Tenerifered]

None. Not one. Ever.

 

We've had some useless b*stards but never a cheat.

 

 

Rougvie was hard as nails and mind him fookin nailing Mick Mills Ipswich"s hard man at Pittodrie.......that was AWESOME

[stef]

I didn't give an example because I can't think of a dirty b*stard or a cheat whilst wearing the Dandy red. Who do others falsely accuse

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Lee Miller was a bit of a diver. Had a habit of going down far too easily and slowly getting back up, holding his back as if he'd severed his spine. But i wouldn't call him dirty.

 

The question was dirty OR diving cheat

[Bebo]

The question was dirty OR diving cheat

 

And the thread title is Dirty Dandy.

[arty]

Has there ever been a Dandy who was a dirty player or a diving cheat ? in your memory AND I mean whilst wearing the RED.

 

Please give reasons and recalls for discussion

 

No but we've had a few no nonsense type players.

 

Jim Bett

Miller

Doug rougvie , hard nut and if you dished some out to him he'd dish it back.Possibly my favorite player even if his game play was a bit awkward looking.He was never shy to make a tackle but he was genuine I think.

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And the thread title is Dirty Dandy.

 

Definitely Lee Miller then.

 

Must have been filthy the amount of time he spent rolling about on the ground.

[stef]

I didn't think Miller or Rougvie as dirty or cheats even Bett was not so dirty as lazy.

 

What about Bertie (always good for a pen) Miller. Forgot his shorts one time.

 

Willie Young ? ? ?

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What about Bertie (always good for a pen) Miller. Forgot his shorts one time.

 

 

When you say dirty are we talking dirty tackles or dirty tackle ?

[stef]

When you say dirty are we talking dirty tackles or dirty tackle ?

 

Ha ha ha lol

 

I am clutching at straws suggesting Bertie was a "dirty" player

[arty]

Ha ha ha lol

 

I am clutching at straws suggesting Bertie was a "dirty" player

 

Think the game has changed quite a bit in the last twenty/thirty years.Most strikers would go down if there was a fair bit of contact under a challenge but these days they fall over all to easily.I'm not being specific to us but generally speaking.Seen a fair few players go over when if they'd stay'd on their feet might have scored a goal.

 

Edit.That doesn't apply to the old farm of course,no contact is hardly necessary to win a pen.

[a don in oz]

Lee Miller went down way too easy. Apart from being bloody lazy that was another reason I wasn't sad to see him go.

 

Can't recall an outright dirty player in my time at least watching which is only since 1980. Hard men, no nonsense, take no prisoners types a few, but no d... actually.

 

Nigel Pepper.

[onlyjim]

the only Time you find a dirty diving Dons player is after a muddy match getting into the bath.

[RAZOR]

Maguire is a little fairy, goes down for too easy.

 

Nigel Pepper falls into the lunatic category.

[a don in oz]

Great.

 

So you have the central defender who defenders and the full back who gets forward to support the midfield but tracks back and then you have the freekick-getter-er, a seldom heard of position in a football team whose role is to get freekicks somehow.

 

Yeah. Great.

[a don in oz]

You're praising a player who dived a lot... saying his worth to the team was that he got us numerous freekicks? As I said, I don't recall a position of the free kick getter.

 

But you enjoy that lunacy. Thank f**k it's no longer Miller time though.

[Crossbow]

that was nothing but pure gibberish

 

lee miller was in a sh*te, sh*te team therefore he had tomulti-task and sacrifice himself for the team, hence his scoring rate not being phenomenal

 

Lee Miller dived, no other word for it, yes he went down easily if challenged but he also dived; he cheated - don't like it, not what a dons player should do. Going down in the penalty box untouched by other hand and then claiming for a penalty - don't like to see it and saw it far too often - think those who do it should be retrospectively red carded and their teams docked a point. It would soon stop. I take Brian Cloughs attitude on this. Lee Miller dived. No excuse - he's a cheat. Can't remember him being dirty though.

[Bebo]

I remember one game away to Hamilton. Miller had one defender to beat to be 1 on 1 with the keeper. He did a barbatovesk side backheel to put the defender onto the wrong footing and direction. Instead of continuing with the ball and taking a goal scoring opportunity, he collapsed to the ground like a sniper had taken him down. It was blatant cheating by Miller. And he got quite a bit of abuse from the away don's fans.

 

That's what he was all about. Instead of taking goal scoring opportunities, he'd rather look to win free kicks.

[Bebo]

i remember that too, vividly

 

he fell to the deck as he realised he didnt have the pace to beat the defender, not because hed RATHER hit the deck!

 

So instead of finding another player or option, or holding up the ball, or using skill to beat the defender, he thought "f*ck it".

 

Lazy. Cheat.

[RAZOR]

i remember that too, vividly

he fell to the deck as he realised he didnt have the pace to beat the defender, not because hed RATHER hit the deck!

[Bebo]

 

Millertime was actually at that game, i vividly remember him wearing his black away top with Millertime on the back.

[RAZOR]

Millertime was actually at that game, i vividly remember him wearing his black away top with Millertime on the back.

You were there as well

[Bebo]

You were there as well

 

I'm not StandFreeEd.

[RAZOR]

I'm not StandFreeEd.

[Bebo]

he DID use skil to create the chance, yyou said it urself

 

he however didnt have the pace or support and lost his balance

 

the skill he used had outwitted even his own teammates, so he had noone with him

 

 

If i remember, it was a through ball from a counter-attack, he didn't have anyone else around him. He wrong footed the defender, he could have created a few yards of space and taken a shot, or held up the ball and waited for others to join him.

 

You're just confirming he's a cheat. He didn't have the pace to beat the defender, so he fell over looking for a free kick. But the referee, and the fans saw through that.

[Bebo]

no, he didnt cheat

 

he accentuated the foul on him for the referees benefit

 

he NEVER outright dived

 

there was always contact

 

theres a difference

 

the guy had NO pace at all, you cant blame him for that

 

You can't accentuate a foul when there wasn't one in the first place. No point arguing with you, your favourite Scunthorpe United 'striker' can do no wrong.

[Jazzer_Bett]

Plenty wage cheats thats for sure

[Bebo]

are you saying that you've seen miller OUTRIGHT dive, ie mikoliunas against scotland at hampden?

 

if so, no point arguing with you either!

 

Football is a physical sport. Have i seen Lee Miller go down when a foul wouldn't be considered a foul? Yes. Often? Yes.

 

Mikoliunas is a stupid cheat.

Miller is a sly cheat.

A cheats still a cheat. Even if you have masturbatory fantasies about them.