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Paul Gallagher

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Just wanted to dedicate a thread to this fella.

He is the club captain and was taken off against the plastics (when anyone could have been taken off) and had responded with two excellent MOTM performances.

It is an abosulte pleasure to watch him play for our club.
 
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He's always been a class player at this level. Was good for Stoke in 05-06 back when he was a young striker, 11 goals in 37 games then 13 in 40 games at Plymouth in 08-09. Ironically enough only loan club he didn't do much at around that time was 07-08, 1 goal in 19 games at Preston although this was in last days of Simpson so he just got lost in all the chaos.

Pretty good in the deep lying midfield role aswell. Can't believe when I just checked now he only got one Scottish cap when you think of some of the dross they've had since 2004.

Get the feeling he'll make a good coach/manager one day aswell.
 
JK said:
Just wanted to dedicate a thread to this fella.

He is the club captain and wa taken off against the plastics (when anyone could have been taken off) and had responded with two excellent MOTM performances.

It is an abosulte pleasure to watch him play for our club.
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And it’s not just about kicking a ball. Straight over to fisher to walk in at half time, a mature word I am sure and a clever distraction from the emotion not five minutes before
You can teach football to a degree but leadership generally is a rare gift
 
Apparently there was a marked difference today when he went off, not the same movement and forward thinking, what I would like to know is, over the last couple of transfer periods, we were hoping for a goalie and striker, should we also not be looking for another Gally as replacement too, because to my mind we don't have that type of player at North End if Gally were to slow down or get injured. He has been a great servant to North End and maybe irreplaceable.
 
At times he is class above most in the championship, he does has an off game every now and then but not often . Long may he continue both on and off the pitch , would love him to stay on in some sort of coaching role with a view to maybe one day being our manager. How will we replace him I’ve no idea . Legend in my eyes
 
Gally's retirement, and subsequent testimonial, will be sad days.

He's truly been the heart of our club for the past few years. Maybe not the type of captain we've needed at times, but a fine servant who we need to keep in some capacity and one we'll be telling our children (well, if you're my age) in the years to come.
 
What I don't understand, given the shite playing for them over the years, is how he only has 3 Scotland Caps.

Gally deserves far far more, even now at the age of 35.

Their loss.

Edit - without checking, I thought he had 3 Caps but another poster (SoccerHQ) says he has only the one, even worse selection policies by the Scottish FA over the years then!
 
Question is, how long will he continue. Age doesn’t seem to have taken its toll at all in the past couple of years. Probably helps he had no pace to lose.
 
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Forgot to add.

Did you know that I was practically in a minority of one on here in 2007 proclaiming the class of Gally to much derision. Billymac savaged me daily on this!

I don't think I've mentioned this before lads...

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Well done. You’re an example to us all.
 
To be fair he was pretty dreadful in his first loan with us, but maybe it was the way we played him. You could tell he had the class but it didn’t come out enough then.
 
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