http://www.foxsports.com.au/football...-1226476888791
sounds legit
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Hopefully he can at least take zwanwijk out in the derby
heskeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
inb4 someone says "Heskey's Esky's"
Looking at you pv4
Also he's no Griff, but Heskey is the biggest signing we've made without a doubt.
Good work I say.
Edit: And re costs, consider that Culina was signed on over $0.9 mil per season, Nick Carle was on $0.6 mil for SFC I think, John Aloisi was on $1.4 mil for SFC back in the day, we offered Kewell $2 million. Signing one of the most well known English footballers of the last decade for $1.4 mil doesn't seem so bad.
Heskey will rip a-league defences a new one. Great signing.
Best way to win us over.Quote:
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In other news: I love Vigs and miss him terribly.
Happy with the signing and hope he goes well. Concerned where the money is coming from though. All well and good to sign a marquee player but if the team folds midseason when Tinks does the runner who is going to pay the bills?
This...Heskey is worth $1 mill but Smeltz was not worth $400,000 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by pistolpete
Fantastic signing,
Definetly will have the best and most powerful shot in the league
NOW,thats what i call a signature!!
What an awesome coup to get Emile,EPL and euro clubs were chasing him.
Great boost for tha Jets, his knowledge and experience will be invaluable,especially to the younger
guys that have signed.
Make no mistake,he can fuxxn score goals,as long as he stays injury free.
You do realise the members of the advisory board responsible for that decision are no longer there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Really happy with this signing.
Not sure how many goals he will score, but he will be providing those around him with bucketloads of opportunity.
Add in his experience to pass on to the younger element of the squad and it really should be a good move by the Jets.
Think this could be a really good signing - shame we couldnt get griff, but I think Heskey has the potential to tear this league up and at worst he may be comedy gold judging by the jokes in the english press.
- A prisoner on Death Row in Utah has been allowed to choose his firing squad. He has chosen Heskey.
- The England football team go to a theatre in Cape Town to relax. Suddenly Emile gets up and walks on to the stage. Fabio Capello shouts, “Heskey! What are you doing up there?” Heskey replies, “Doing what you said boss. Holding up the play.”
- Emile gets a part-time job at a zoo and the keeper, aware of the striker’s reputation for a lack of pace, tells him to take care of the tortoises. Later the keeper pops to see how Emile is doing and finds him standing by an empty enclosure, sobbing. “Where have all the tortoises gone?” asks the keeper. Emile shrugs and says: “I just opened the door and whoooossh!!!”
- It’ll be nice for Emile when he weds Chantelle Tagoe. It’ll make a change to hear “Mrs Heskey” instead of “Heskey misses”.
- Emile plans to open a pub when he retires – because he’s great at putting shots over the bar.
- Today in England training, Heskey’s 1,000 shots all hit the net. Shame they were playing tennis.
- What’s the difference between the BP oil spill and Heskey? The oil spill posed a threat to the United States.
- A fan was chuffed when he got Emile’s autograph after a match. The next week, he accosted him again and got another signature. After the following game he tried to get it again. Heskey said, “This is the third time you’ve asked for my autograph. What’s going on?” “Well,” said the man, “If I get eight more of yours I can swap them for one of Wayne Rooney’s.”
- A Nigerian player arrived at Aston Villa. During training the manager kept saying: “Foot, ball, goal – foot, ball, goal,” while pointing at his foot, the ball then the goal. The Nigerian said: “Don’t speak so slowly, I speak perfect English.” Then the manager told him, “I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to Emile.”
- Robert Green faced over 100 shots in training today without conceding a goal. Tomorrow, he and Heskey will train with the rest of the squad.
- A spectator got into the England dressing room after the England v Algeria game. A few unsettling minutes passed before the team realised it was just Emile.
- The new Emile Heskey Subbuteo playing piece was released today and the likeness is uncanny — especially that big block of concrete around his feet.
As a Jets supporter we all know not to get too carried away with any Marquee sgning, even though it is one has played many years in the EPL and a couple of World Cups with over 60 caps for England. We all have to be patient and allow him time to settle in both on the park with his new team and off the park in his new surroundings. A player of Emile Heskey's stature and the money he will be on, I would expect to be making an impact by round 8. If not scoring goals, then at least contributing and creating goals for others.
Mario Balotelli @MarioBaloltelli
So it's official, Emile Heskey has joined Newcastle Jets. He was of course supposed to join Newcastle United but completely missed.
bahahahahahaha.
Ill pay that
he'll kill you if you don't.
@layles89
I'm just scared he'll miss the pen when he goes to sign the contract.
in 2010 Gérard Houllier stated that Emile Heskey is as good as Didier Drogba
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...-didier-drogba
imagine if we had a strikeforce that include Drogba's current strike partner and someone as good as Drogba - we'd rip the anus out of every defence in the league and hand it to them on a platter
**** I hope this bloke wins the golden boot and rams his donger down the throat of every twitter flog
sif though
It will probably be better for the A-League's reputation if he doesn't win the golden boot, but I hope he does it.
Heard Aaron Kearney talking to someone from the Mirror newspaper in the UK about Heskey this morning. Didn't hear the whole interview but the quote was that he won't be a fan favourite but he will be a players player.
Well here's hoping he'll be both. Certainly I was a big fan of Viduka for the way he held up the ball and distributed and loved watching him play for Leeds. Even if Heskey doesn't score too many goals, I think the Newcastle faithful are educated enough to appreciate these qualities in a player.
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Originally Posted by furns
That's not what I have been told. The responsible person IS still there.
Good comment in the Herald today.....
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COMMENT: No joking, Heskey could be van Egmond's answer
By MICHAEL PARRIS Sept. 19, 2012, 11:33 p.m.
LET'S not beat around the bush: Emile Heskey has a reputation as a poor finisher and a striker who doesn't score enough goals.
Five minutes on YouTube or Google will inform you that, unfairly or not, Heskey for some time has been the butt of jokes for many in England, despite playing 62 internationals and almost all of his 17-year career in the Premier League.
When news of Heskey's move broke in England, someone purporting to be Mario Balotelli tweeted to his 142,000 followers: "So it's official, Emile Heskey has joined Newcastle Jets. He was of course supposed to join Newcastle United but completely missed."
Yesterday, London's Daily Mirror, reporting on his imminent move Down Under, mockingly referred to the former Liverpool man as Emile "wider contribution" Heskey.
It's a reference to the justification often given for his presence in the EPL and the national side, in that what he offers as a striker should not be measured merely in goals.
But perhaps "wider contribution" is not an epithet to be sniffed at by Jets fans. Not yet, anyway.
Heskey is 34 (35 in January), only 11 months older than Dwight Yorke when the former Manchester United star joined Sydney FC in their championship-winning season to kick off the A-League.
"All Night" Dwight was paid $1 million for his troubles. Whether the Jets' new marquee can have the same influence is very much an open question.
The line between desperation and opportunism can be blurry, but it should be noted that whispers about the Jets chasing Heskey surfaced months ago.
In Heskey's favour is that, until May, he was still playing at the highest level, even though he scored only once for Aston Villa in 28 EPL games last season.
He scored nine times in 92 league outings over four seasons for Villa and a goal every 4½ games during his English club career - hardly a strike rate to set The Squadron's pulses racing.
Yet Heskey has been a durable figure in a league renowned for its physicality.
He joined Liverpool from home-town club Leicester in 2000 for a club-record £11 million transfer fee and became a valuable foil at Anfield for fellow England front men Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen.
He started ahead of Fowler in the 2001 FA Cup final, which the Reds won 2-1 over Arsenal, at the end of a campaign that yielded 22 goals and the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup treble.
Heskey has been dogged by criticism for most of his career, but his supporters have regarded him as a target man who can hold the ball up and bring those around him into the game.
It is this quality that Gary van Egmond will be looking for from his marquee signing.
If Heskey can do it in the Premier League for 17 years, then he could become a dominant figure in the A-League.
The coach appeared to be frustrated when he told reporters last week: "Unfortunately right at this moment we are not as well equipped in that front third."
Now that van Egmond has the equipment, what will he do with it?
Chances are he will rely on Heskey to keep the ball, which is a key component of his hard-pressing game plan.
The coach knows his side cannot defend high up the pitch for 90 minutes if they keep giving the ball back to the opposition.
See your ad hereHeskey may not possess the silkiest skills on the ball, but he has built a career on holding off some of the toughest defenders in the world.
How much legwork van Egmond will expect from him when the Jets haven't got the ball remains to be seen.
But if Heskey can retain possession in the opponent's half, Ruben Zadkovich, Ryan Griffiths, James Brown and Bernardo Ribeiro will benefit.
And you never know: after 17 years of struggling in front of goal, maybe Heskey is due.
Deans!!!!!!!Quote:
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zura zura zura zura goooolllllllllll
and we will sing it until he scores :)
I cant wait to see heskey in the blue and red, most people on this site do not know what a good footballer is, he is 10 times better then any forward we have ever had, including sooky boy griffithsQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
adam was a defender, braQuote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
shit shirts :blush:
yeah man, lay off Adam. He did a great job as a DM and scored a few goals.Quote:
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Brilliantly played Sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by snake
bullshit...i've always praised the jesics and gallawaysQuote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
you're right. Most of us are only on here for the NRL thread and Skirt Boys semi nudes.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForeverRed
Caaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrmnnnnnn
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Originally Posted by plague
run at meeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
so are zad and heskey going to have shoot offs to see who can miss by the most?
I'm waiting for pv4 to see this comment.. haha.. :popcorn:Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Think of the children on the family hill OMG ����Quote:
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