Ben Mee

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:26 pm

The best centre half iv seen play for us, forget John Mcgreal and a teenage Cahill.

If he was 6ft 2 with good distribution he would be at the very top.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:27 pm

He has far, far exceeded my expectations, given his height at centre back. Immense.

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:28 pm

Different type of player but I loved Dobson - Mee is a modern icon for the club though

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:28 pm

KRBFC wrote:The best centre half iv seen play for us, forget John Mcgreal and a teenage Cahill.

Back from a ban are we?

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:28 pm

Oh, I dunno, Waldron and Thomson were good but, yes, in modern times, Mee's an excellent shout.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:29 pm

Superb today.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:30 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:Oh, I dunno, Waldron and Thomson were good but, yes, in modern times, Mee's an excellent shout.

Been watching since 2000 so I cant compare with players before then.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:30 pm

Chester Perry wrote:Different type of player but I loved Dobson - Mee is a modern icon for the club though

I'm sure someone will remind me whom they were, but there was at least one poster on here, during the Summer, who described Mee as a liability!

TheOriginalLongsider · Post by **TheOriginalLongsider** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:30 pm

Tarkowski was also good.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:31 pm

You or me ? Or Mee ?

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:31 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:You or me ? Or Mee ?

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:31 pm

fidelcastro wrote:I'm sure someone will remind me whom they were, but there was at least one poster on here, during the Summer, who described Mee as a liability!

You are a liability

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:32 pm

KRBFC wrote:You are a liability

That's a bit rich coming from you!

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:33 pm

fidelcastro wrote:That's a bit rich coming from you!

You're boring

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:35 pm

KRBFC wrote:You're boring

And you're so fascinating!

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:43 pm

Most under-rated player in the PL (long may that continue)

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:47 pm

I like Ben Mee.

scouseclaret · Post by **scouseclaret** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:58 pm

What vegas said.

Absolutely immense today.

dpinsussex · Post by **dpinsussex** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:59 pm

KRBFC wrote:The best centre half iv seen play for us, forget John Mcgreal and a teenage Cahill.

If he was 6ft 2 with good distribution he would be at the very top.

I dont believe my eyes. A positive thread from krbfc

what_no_pies · Post by **what_no_pies** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:13 pm

Ben Mee
Shakes you
Any way he wants to
Head injury
He's alright

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:32 pm

dpinsussex wrote:I dont believe my eyes. A positive thread from krbfc

I haven't been negative about any game this season..... Including the West Brom game which we lost.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:37 pm

what_no_pies wrote:Ben Mee
Shakes you
Any way he wants to
Head injury*
He's alright

*'Kick a ball in his face' would work so much better, IMO.

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TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:42 pm

KRBFC wrote:If he was 6ft 2 with good distribution he would be at the very top.

If Vokes was 2 yards quicker and a bit better finisher....

If Brady had a right foot.....

Etc, etc.

Tall Paul · Post by **Tall Paul** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:44 pm

Excellent today

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:00 pm

So we have to chop 2" off his height?

He has started for Burnley waaaaaaay better than a certain michael Keane did. Keane was far from convincing. Tarka has been bob on. Wether he ends up as good as Keane is open to debate, but he has been excellent so far.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:39 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:If Vokes was 2 yards quicker and a bit better finisher....

If Brady had a right foot.....

Etc, etc.

To say Ben Mee would be good enough to play for a top CL club if he was a couple of inches taller and had better distribution is a compliment. A very positive comment, some will try and pretend like its a negative though.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:44 am

bobinho wrote:So we have to chop 2" off his height?

He has started for Burnley waaaaaaay better than a certain michael Keane did. Keane was far from convincing. Tarka has been bob on. Wether he ends up as good as Keane is open to debate, but he has been excellent so far.

Not sure what you mean by "He has STARTED for Burnley way better than Keane"
That wasn't Mee's first game for us, he's been here for 5 years?

What do you mean by "so we have to chop 2" off his height"? I said if he was 6ft 2" tall, Mee isn't 6ft 4" tall.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:33 am

How crap are we that after all these years he still doesn't have a proper song. Thinking caps on folks, it's the least he deserves from us

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:47 am

KRBFC wrote:To say Ben Mee would be good enough to play for a top CL club if he was a couple of inches taller and had better distribution is a compliment. A very positive comment, some will try and pretend like its a negative though.

Not trying to pretend it's negative at all, just s bit pointless.

My point was that you could pick smy player in our squad and say if certain aspects of their game were better, they would probably be playing for bigger teams.

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:36 am

Thank god Mick Duff had that shocker at Hull.. The move to CH and Stephen Ward coming in at LB is absolutely the best improvement we could have had in our defence.
More than his playing ability it's his leadership and organisation that standout.
Can we keep him will be the question next Summer.

DavePTClaret · Post by **DavePTClaret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:00 am

KRBFC wrote:The best centre half iv seen play for us, forget John Mcgreal and a teenage Cahill.

If he was 6ft 2 with good distribution he would be at the very top.

For my money Tarkowski's been better than him so far this season, while Keane was orders of magnitude better than him last season. But Mee once stopped a shot with his face, so...

And he isn't 6"2, and his distribution is dicey at best.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:31 pm

DavePTClaret wrote:For my money Tarkowski's been better than him so far this season, while Keane was orders of magnitude better than him last season. But Mee once stopped a shot with his face, so...

And he isn't 6"2, and his distribution is dicey at best.

Keane moved for a bigger fee than Mee would because Keane is younger, a tad quicker, taller and has better distribution. Defensively Mee is on a different planet to Keane and carried him, fans just didn't realise it until Keane left.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:43 pm

Seriously ?

PaintYorkClaretnBlue · Post by **PaintYorkClaretnBlue** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:48 pm

I think that playing alongside Mee helped Keane immeasurably.

what_no_pies · Post by **what_no_pies** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:57 pm

PaintYorkClaretnBlue wrote:I think that playing alongside Mee helped Keane immeasurably.

Keanes performances in blue certainly reinforce this opinion.

Malvern claret · Post by **Malvern claret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:31 pm

Agree with post 3. I always thought that if Dobson had stayed at centre back he could have become the long term successor to Bobby Moore in the England team

diamondpocket · Post by **diamondpocket** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 4:22 pm

We need a Ben Mee song; he deserves one, been a huge player in our progress.
I've been thinking along the lines of BLUE MOON, city song seeing as he came from there but with BEN MEE as the opening line.
Just need some ideas for the rest.
BEN MEE
we saw you standing alone
without a club or a home
But now you're one of our own.

Not the best idea so open to suggestions but I thought of something like this.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:10 pm

diamondpocket wrote:We need a Ben Mee song; he deserves one, been a huge player in our progress.
I've been thinking along the lines of BLUE MOON, city song seeing as he came from there but with BEN MEE as the opening line.
Just need some ideas for the rest.
BEN MEE
we saw you standing alone
without a club or a home
But now you're one of our own.

Not the best idea so open to suggestions but I thought of something like this.

You've a short memory. Don't you remember the "Hi ho, it's off to work we go" tune to his name that used to be sung?

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:10 pm

diamondpocket wrote:We need a Ben Mee song; he deserves one, been a huge player in our progress.
I've been thinking along the lines of BLUE MOON, city song seeing as he came from there but with BEN MEE as the opening line.
Just need some ideas for the rest.
BEN MEE
we saw you standing alone
without a club or a home
But now you're one of our own.

Not the best idea so open to suggestions but I thought of something like this.

That's not a bad effort

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:57 pm

Looking at today...Ben Mee made Keane look good!

Caernarfon_Claret · Post by **Caernarfon_Claret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:00 pm

KRBFC wrote:I haven't been negative about any game this season..... Including the West Brom game which we lost.

I for one have noticed the extra positivity - if I may say so you seem far more balanced. (between positivity-negativity/realism)

Caernarfon_Claret · Post by **Caernarfon_Claret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:02 pm

United doing their thing this season (scoring three in the last ten minutes)

ClaretRock · Post by **ClaretRock** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:04 pm

Reads the game better than most players and spots danger very quick. His distribution is up and down some times he plays some great balls but sometimes it isn't up to much. I agree he may have made Keane look good but that's what a good defensive unit does.

Juan Tanamera · Post by **Juan Tanamera** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:15 pm

what_no_pies wrote:Ben Mee
Shakes you
Any way he wants to
Head injury
He's alright

Amen to that.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:35 pm

TheFamilyCat wrote:Not trying to pretend it's negative at all, just s bit pointless.

My point was that you could pick smy player in our squad and say if certain aspects of their game were better, they would probably be playing for bigger teams.

If I had a lot more pace, a left foot I could use, was 30 odd years younger and didn't drink so much, I'd be able to get in any Sunday League team in the Burnley and Pendle area.

levraiclaret · Post by **levraiclaret** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:48 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:If I had a lot more pace, a left foot I could use, was 30 odd years younger and didn't drink so much, I'd be able to get in any Sunday League team in the Burnley and Pendle area.

Me too but make that 40 years younger, oh and I would need to move 120 miles closer.

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:01 am

Malvern claret wrote:Agree with post 3. I always thought that if Dobson had stayed at centre back he could have become the long term successor to Bobby Moore in the England team

Instead in midfield he became the most expensive signing ever. Not for long I know but a record at the time

Dobro was immense in any position ! Centre back, sweeper and midfield!