Doobs

[Royalee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 361585.stm

Well done Doobs.

[Compo's Hat]

Saw a bit of it Saturday lunchtime

[Thaumagurist*]

Who is "Doobs"?

[Row Z Royal]

Who is "Doobs"?

You really are an idiot.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Who is "Doobs"?

Pedant.

[Royalee]

ALOL at people rating him above Pearce.

[TBM]

Who is "Doobs"?

Centre back - used to play for Reading last season.

[Wycombe Royal]

It was a good finish though......

[Royalee]

Cracking finish - really used his experience there.

[Terminal Boardom]

I wonder how we would get on if we played Huddersfield?

[Royalee]

We'd win, hth. Also, the most we've let in so far this season in a game is 4, in a league above captain Doobs.

[Terminal Boardom]

No it doesn't! I reckon we would go down by 2 or 3 goals. Hudersfield are brimming with confidence and scoring for fun. They are everything that we are not. Just because we are one division higher is an irrelevance in a one-off game. Look at what we did to WBA when they were Prem AND we played our back ups. HTH

[Focher]

ALOL at people rating him above Pearce.

Or rating him in anyway shape or form. I got slated last season for almost, not totally, pointing the finger at him as the main reason why we didnt go up last season. Our dip (or should i say total capitulation) in form coincided with his return to the team, his style of football and atrocious distribution meant we lost our shape, and other players constantly found themselves covering him as they had no confidence in him

The guy is utter utter shit.

[Royalee]

ALOL at people rating him above Pearce.

Or rating him in anyway shape or form. I got slated last season for almost, not totally, pointing the finger at him as the main reason why we didnt go up last season. Our dip (or should i say total capitulation) in form coincided with his return to the team, his style of football and atrocious distribution meant we lost our shape, and other players constantly found themselves covering him as they had no confidence in him

The guy is utter utter shit.

Spot on...but he had experience didn't he?

[Focher]

ALOL at people rating him above Pearce.

Or rating him in anyway shape or form. I got slated last season for almost, not totally, pointing the finger at him as the main reason why we didnt go up last season. Our dip (or should i say total capitulation) in form coincided with his return to the team, his style of football and atrocious distribution meant we lost our shape, and other players constantly found themselves covering him as they had no confidence in him

The guy is utter utter shit.

Spot on...but he had experience didn't he?

Yep Champions league, and top end of the Premier League.

The fact that he's done this speaks volumes for the players he was playing with, they must have been exceptional to carry a sack of horse shit like that.

[floyd__streete]

No fan of Duberry am I. Absolute klutz of a centre-half, absolutely adored by Reading supporters for reasons which entirely escape me, his trademark being the avoidable-booking-for-needless-halfway-line-lunge and I will forever remember his point blank missed header at Southampton last season which almost cost us a point.

[Alan Partridge]

He was better than Pearce last season and the season before.

He was consistantly ok for us doing what he does, he was never a ball playing centre half but he was superb in the air, a good member of the squad and he did a decent job for a couple of years. 34/35 now? Clearly passed his best wasnt' the future to keep him on.

He clearly splits opinion but the guy in his career played in the CHampions LEague I believe he won a UEFA cup and a cup winners cup while also playing the vast majority of his career playing in the Premiership. £800,000 he was a decent enough signing for the club.

When you consider Mills was £2million shows you don't get much for your money these days.

Interesting of note that Pearce is the one being looked at as this saviour held back by Duberry playing almost. Almost identical type of players, just that Duberry at 34 is still quicker than him.

[Vision]

He was better than Pearce last season and the season before.

He was consistantly ok for us doing what he does, he was never a ball playing centre half but he was superb in the air, a good member of the squad and he did a decent job for a couple of years. 34/35 now? Clearly passed his best wasnt' the future to keep him on.

He clearly splits opinion but the guy in his career played in the CHampions LEague I believe he won a UEFA cup and a cup winners cup while also playing the vast majority of his career playing in the Premiership. £800,000 he was a decent enough signing for the club.

When you consider Mills was £2million shows you don't get much for your money these days.

Interesting of note that Pearce is the one being looked at as this saviour held back by Duberry playing almost. Almost identical type of players, just that Duberry at 34 is still quicker than him.

Pretty much this ^^^. Putting the ills of a side that couldn't score at home purely at the feet of 1 central defender is a little odd even by HobNob standards.

Fair play its a QuaLOLity own goal mind.

[Royalee]

He was better than Pearce last season and the season before.

He was consistantly ok for us doing what he does, he was never a ball playing centre half but he was superb in the air, a good member of the squad and he did a decent job for a couple of years. 34/35 now? Clearly passed his best wasnt' the future to keep him on.

He clearly splits opinion but the guy in his career played in the CHampions LEague I believe he won a UEFA cup and a cup winners cup while also playing the vast majority of his career playing in the Premiership. £800,000 he was a decent enough signing for the club.

When you consider Mills was £2million shows you don't get much for your money these days.

Interesting of note that Pearce is the one being looked at as this saviour held back by Duberry playing almost. Almost identical type of players, just that Duberry at 34 is still quicker than him.

Pearce plays the simple pass and looks to keep the ball a lot more than Duberry ever did. He also reads the game better than Duberry and both are slow. Mills will come good also, but both are far better than Duberry - no coincidence that his signing coincided with our collapse, or that Stoke went from strength to strength once he left them.

[Thomas L'Heureux]

He was better than Pearce last season and the season before.

He was consistantly ok for us doing what he does, he was never a ball playing centre half but he was superb in the air, a good member of the squad and he did a decent job for a couple of years. 34/35 now? Clearly passed his best wasnt' the future to keep him on.

He clearly splits opinion but the guy in his career played in the CHampions LEague I believe he won a UEFA cup and a cup winners cup while also playing the vast majority of his career playing in the Premiership. £800,000 he was a decent enough signing for the club.

When you consider Mills was £2million shows you don't get much for your money these days.

Interesting of note that Pearce is the one being looked at as this saviour held back by Duberry playing almost. Almost identical type of players, just that Duberry at 34 is still quicker than him.

Pearce plays the simple pass and looks to keep the ball a lot more than Duberry ever did. He also reads the game better than Duberry and both are slow. Mills will come good also, but both are far better than Duberry - no coincidence that his signing coincided with our collapse, or that Stoke went from strength to strength once he left them.

Agreed for the most part. Doobs is quite simply an awful footballer. Fair enough he can occassionally get that fifty-pence-piece shaped head of his onto high balls but generally he is terrible.

He's worse on the deck that Sonko post-injury. The only difference is that Sonks had a bit of pace and therefore caught the man. Doobs was just left for dead.