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Word on the street is that Pericrap is training with Fairford Town  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

yeah, that's been posted a few times.
I think it's only to get his fitness levels up though.

I dont think he should aim that high.

He was sat just behind me in the Arkells on Saturday....

I've also heard that Elvis is dead!!!

OMG!!!!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

King Vince has been on trial at Bristol Rovers and will appear for them in a friendly tonight.

Finger crossed for him. I genuinely hope Rovers sign him.

Could be the big target man that they are missing.

Agree Batch,although he frustrated the shit out of me i cannot help feeling that the position and tactics left him baffled...like ourselfs.
Young enough to still come good.

No doubt he'll find his scoring feet next season and score a hat trick against us!

Hope he doesnt sign for them, bound to turn in a couple of good performances against us.

 :nod: :nod:

that cunt would struggle to trap a bag of cement.formations don't make your touch shit.
utter dross....

I do as well and not because I think he's shit, I think he had a very hard time here, similar to BP at Southend (and we know what happened when he moved). Vinny deserves a break in my mind. (I'm not entirely sure why, but I just kind of liked him for some reason. I think it was because the stick he got made me want him to come good and be able to tell his doubters to fuck off.)

Can't agree aribba,if Burnley play Austin on the wing his touch and all round game probably would't be the same,Pericard is a target man who needed/needs balls into the box to attack....not played to his feet on the halfway line.
That said you are right good players have a good touch regardless of formations,but good players are not abundant in LGE 1.

Agreed. I think he just needs some confidence, he looked scared shitless at times out on the pitch.

Do feel a bit sorry for the bloke so hope he gets a contract.

It was a sad state of affairs last season at times when you could see people wishing for him to make a mistake so they could hurl abuse, there was little encouragment.  He must have been shitting himself everytime the ball came to him, nothing like fans killing a players confidence.

Likewise. I know he had a real crappy time of it, but he got some pretty unwarranted shit at times.

i didn't like the booing and abuse he got but he was shit. For a forward his scoring record is dismal

Yep,cannot disagree with that.

Same, I think it's because he's not a arrogant prick like most footballers.

However maybe that's what helps you in being a good player.

Actually I was thinking more on the line of stitching Rovers up with a carthorse.

The reason I didn't like him was that he seemed lazy. I'm not talking about slow. I mean lack of effort. Now that may be down to fitness. But why wasn't he fit if so.

I wish him no ill feeling. I do not think he should have been treated the way he was by fans. But at the same time I don't rate him at all. He is on the road to becoming a Trevor Benjamin.

That said, he did OK for Carlisle. So he must have something there when everything is right.

I didn't perceive a lack of effort from him, but perhaps I'm being over-generous.
To me he simply appeared slow, which could well have been down to fitness issues - he almost seemed to be frustrated himself by his lack of ability to keep up with the game.
My perception of him was that he was a one-trick pony.  If a ball was played to his feet he was very good at controlling it, holding off a defender and playing a short ball to a team-mate.
Ask him to run onto anything, play a long ball, run past an opponent, defend in any way or shoot and you'd be extremely lucky to get a positive outcome.

Think somebodies been messing with his wikipedia page, just look at this ridiculous first line:


Vincent de Paul Péricard (born 3 October 1982 in Efok, Cameroon) is a French professional football player,

 :girlgiggle:

He was gash, utter utter gash. Lazy gash as well.

He had a purple patch at Carlisle before we signed him but before then he's had a fucking shocking scoring record.

He was lazy and didn't put in enough effort to at least semi make up for being utter shit.

One of the worst forward ever. Possible the worst number 9 we've had?

No.

Paul hunt or shaun close

you can ask paul hunt about it by popping into the wheatsheaf, stratton. He's about to be the new landlord there!

To be fair to Oggy i thought he was a midfielder?

Agreed on Shaun Close but unsurprisingly given his limited ability i don't think he played number 9 very often either.

What number was Ben Hutchinson?

He was number 9

And therefore our worst no 9 ever.

Mark McCammon.

Anyone know how Pericard got on last night for Rovers

http://www.brfcforum.co.uk/index.php?/topic/98788-vincent-pericard/page__st__100

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For what it's worth, he was awful tonight. didn't look the slightest bit intrested. Richards looked twice the centre forward he did aswel as doing all his running for him too.



thats our Vince  :D

Neale fenn?

He got a rough time of it with us. I suspect he'll become another Revell if he pitches up at Rovers.

When speaking to him at training, he said that got pretty low due to the fact the fans were getting on his back and calling him lazy etc. He made a joke out of it, calling 'energy efficient'. He's down to earth and not big headed at all. I hope he gets a contract some where and gets back fit again. He's a confidence player and needs an arm around him sometimes.

Maybe, but he needs more than confidence.  Confidence doesn't cause laziness or fitness.  Added to that the lack of ability, then I am glad he left us.

He done well at Carlisle before he came to us that was why we signed him perhaps he would be better in a team playing with confidence, I'm sure once he get's a club and get properly fit then he will become a handful again, it's just that in a team fighting for survival and having nothing decent up front he looked like a donkey

Oi! 

Actually, hang on...you're right.  I wasn't even as good as Pericard last time out.

Possibly, but my point is that he has no excuse on his lazyness & fitness, as this has nothing to do with confidence.  So regardless of playing in a poor side, that is something he can control.  The fact that he didn't, and doesn't seem to have done since leaving us (as Luggy pointed out), suggests I am happy he is no longer with us.

It kind of could, lack of confidence = hiding = looks like laziness.

But he just looked plain lazy/unfit to me. On occasion he put in a reasonable run, then looked to be blowing out his arse for the next 20.

I think he played crap on purpose, so everyone could hypothesise as to why he was crap several months after playing his last game for us.

Wow, his foresight really paid off.

I find it amazing people are still willing to defend him having had this long to reflect. It seems to be mainly based on this 'nice guy' image a section of our fans created of him. To me and many others he camed across as quite arrogant in the sense that he didn't really seem to care that he was shit or want to do anything about it. I'm sure he definitely clocked up the most £'s per ground covered given the cash he was on.

I just thought he was plain lazy, he never looked to close down any defenders, allowing them free reign to ping the ball out of defence, I never saw him once make a gut busting run, errrrm... he made Fola Onibuje look talented. (Sorry Coca)

Maybe the time inside sent him off track a bit, as he had a reasonable amount of ability in his early days.

He did put in probably the tackle of the season - can't remember which game but it was a superbly timed bone cruncher. He was shit but better than Dossevi and a load of other shite we've had. There is no doubt his better days are behind him.

Saw Pericard down at Next Generation gym a few months ago just sitting on a machine doing nothing. He sat there with fiddling with some kind of machine for at least an hour. Not just lazy on the pitch.

I think most of us wanted him to do well. He got loads of shit but there was one game where he played a blinder at the county ground and people were chanting his name. I cant remember what game that was though. It only happened the once.

He played well as a lone striker in the home game against Rovers last year, I think Charlie was injured or suspended.

Just out of curiosity has anybody on this forum played as a striker at any level? Saturday/Sunday league?

Yep me

i have too

Yes/come winger. :D

Why?

I think he may be agent Darren looking for his next bit of business..

I used to be able to cross the ball onto a sixpence,which really used to piss the people off eating there Xmas pudding.

In my youth i used to play Sunday League. One particular season we had a real ggod team and if i'm honest i was never that special upfront but i could run and never gave up. In our good seasons i scored a lot of goals, most of which seemed to just happen, full of confidence right place right time etc. When we got promoted into a much more competive league we were outclassed all over the pitch and i struggled badly. My game changed and i stopped chasing every ball as i knew it was little point.

 I know Pericard is a proffessional but I relate to him just the same. If we had a blinding season last year I have no doubt that Vince would have bagged a shit load of goals.

Cool, I'll upload a youtube video and create some Wiki stats for the morning. Just got to make up some foreign sounding club names I've played for now. Sporting Stigtomta, Racing Club Salta, that sort of thing.

Aaaagh I see. He's scored 23 goals between 1999-2011. I can't see it.

And yet he was still shit at the back end of the season when we were flying. Your comments are definitely valid and make sense, but I'm afraid its just more glossing over the pericard situation.

There's a reason his career has steadily declined from juventus to the likes of stoke and then to us and still seems to be declining. This is also why the 'nice guy, tried hard but a bit shit' image doesn't wash with me, it seems to be the exact opposite as there's got to be something in there somewhere for him to be at the clubs he's previously been.

No one on here has called him a nice guy,just a few who reckon(myself incuded)that he was not used in his proper position..some players can adapt,sadly for him and us he couldn't.
Get the ball in advanced positions,cross a decent ball and tell him to get his head to the ball.
Not standing on the halfway line trying to link in players,holding the ball up for the likes of Duggie bombing forward to help him :D
That said his style of football hardly endeared himself to fans of a struggling team,he often looked lazy...some would/do say was lazy.
Could do a job lge 2 ;)

Heard a few people say he was one of the most approachable players last season. He did talk to the fans and he did care what they thought, so I believe him when he says the abuse affected him.

If he had just scored that header against Charlton things could have been different.

Anyway, I think his career is pretty much ruined now. Just so slow.

big fan of VP

I've played upfront at a very poor level - certainly no target man.

The less I saw of the ball - the more chasing down the defenders I did. Sometimes pointless, sometimes not...

I'll never be the best at football but I'll try the hardest. I can be accused of many things, lack of effort will never be one of them...

Be sure that the Algerian Wiki police aren't monitoring your every move, he may tamper with your stats.

Since his posting I've been meaning to go and sky rocket all his goals.

Haha lets do it. I reckon put a few appearances for Barcelona in there too.

Big vince got stick for lack of effort, but alot of the time he would have been chasing lost causes.In his defence he was often isolated up top. When you are alone up front you can't chase every ball as you'd be fucked after a while. Alot of those booing couldn't see that due to their cluelessness about the game. That said, that doesn't excuse his dire touch and woeful finishing.

Now if Vince was a front man like this guy...

http://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town-fc/stags_walk_off_after_three_players_hospitalised_in_friendly_at_ilkeston_1_3643720

Bit old at 36 though.

Fair play to vince.

It seems he forged out a career as a wrestler before becoming a "footballer"

[url width=768 height=1024]http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x480/tanswell2010/a5617ee0.jpg[/url]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1o82BVKFp8

Danny Wilson, we're coming for you nigga

Spot on.

Vince was a decent bloke though and the abuse affected him massively. He was never gonna be a success after that

If a professional footballeer can't chase the ball/lost causes/everything for 90 minutes then he isn't fit enough.

Dossevi was equally as shit and isolated but he managed to run.

Just a shame that he always ran offside.

My worst hands on head moment for Dossevi was away at Bournemouth, through on goal only keeper to beat, goal at his mercy.....straight at Jalal.

What is the point of charging about upfront alone when the opposition defence have the ball? they will just hit square balls across the back line meaning the chasing forward wont get near the ball. It's wasted running. Because we were shit and the rest of Pericards game was poor it grated fans more as it made him look lazy. You appear to be one of those fans.

Exactly. Danny even said he didn't want him chasing lost causes.

Vince was quite blatently not shit the game against Southampton proved that, he was absolutely blinding, plus he scored the winner against Rovers so he's always got that.

He wasn't helped by the incessant shit he got from a selection of morons, players thrive on confidence, booing a centre forward who was quite obviously trying isn't going to help, he did more than that f'ing prick Prutton did all season, I think we should have kept him on, Paolo would have got him fitter than ever and he would have banged them in, it's ironic he's just the sort of player we need right now (according to pretty much everyone) I just really hope he goes to a different division as he would need no motivating to play against us and prove everyone wrong.

Don't understand why we are spending so much time debating this. Fact of the matter is that he won't be playing for the Town again and is therefore no longer of interest.

Agreed, and I hope we haven't signed anymore lazy cunts so a section of our fans can make excuses for them with their rose tinted glasses on.

There's a big difference between not always chasing lost causes which very few strikers(and usually the shit ones) do (Dossevi, etc.) and not running about at all, hardly challenging for 50/50, headers, etc. I feel quite confident that shit won't fly under Paolo however and they'll be out the door before we start this discussion.

We should have offered Paynter a contract earlier and I'm still not sure why we didn't keep Greer....

;D

To put their defence under pressure, to force them to play it. Maybe even to force a mistake and win possession.

If they just end up playing square balls across the back line, so what - they arent going to score for there.

Defend from the front.


No, he fucking isnt - and no one has said otherwise.

I'm sure if PdC thought he could be the answer he'd have kept him on or let him train with the Town. He was fucking useless and I can't see this changing regardless of who he played for.