Robert Earnshaw

And he talked about...

With Chris Coleman, Robert Earnshaw was apparently like a really vocal voice in, you know, let's get behind the manager.

And then he never played for Wales again.

Weirdly, it's just I think that was more coincidence than Coleman was trying to oust him or anything.

So I was sitting watching the in- the never ending international break, uh, that, uh, has been, seems to been going on since 1945.

But anyway, uh, John Hartson and Rob Earnshaw were in a TV studio talking about Wales.

Yes, I was that desperate for football, I watched Wales.

Uh, also managed by a former, uh, Norwich player, Ian Craig Bellamy.

Um, and I was like, he used to play for Norwich.

And I was like, well, obviously Earnie Obviously, what a brilliant player Rob Earnshaw was for Norwich, uh, and, and for other clubs as well.

But I said, I was like, "I'm pretty sure John Hartson used to play for us." And I...

But he was really bad, and he was.

A special guest on the sofa already.

Rob Earnshaw is here, fair play to Nia Jones, spending some time in the country after a trip to Lisbon and Copenhagen.

Uh, we've got a very special guest, more special than these two today.

The Wales manager, Craig Bellamy, is gonna join us on the program.

We will look back on those, but we're gonna look ahead as well to the visit of Erling Haaland and Norway, less than 24 hours away.

Uh, we'll stick with the number two, two guests on the sofa.

Uh, Rob Earnshaw is here.

Rob, how are you?

I've got Craig Fleming at 20.

Rob Earnshaw at 19.

I've got John Ruddy at 18.

Robert Green at 17.

Chris.

Because I think he was the Motori of his day.

What did he do apart from score goals? And I think had Rob Earnshaw played for Norwich City a generation or two later or a generation or two earlier in a successful team, he would have been a massive Norwich City hero.

I think he happened to choose the time to come to Norwich City when it was all a bit Peter Grant and it wasn't going very well.

Ryan Babble was excellent as well.

Robert Earnshaw.

Still Ryan was brilliant.

Brilliant.

And he gets this team.

Oh no. Robbie Earnshaw.

The goal scorer, Earnshaw.

Robbie Savage is in this side.

That might have been top goalscorer, by the way.

That might have been top goalscorer.

Robbie Earnshaw, lock him in.

Do you think your title

You think of the Forrest strikers they've had this century.

Players like successful ones and great goal scorers in their own rights absolutely david johnson robert earnshaw lewis graben chris wood but none of them quite do what liam de lapp does seems a little bit more in the mold of and i'm not saying he's going to achieve the same sorts of things or score as many goals as these players but that sort of stan collie more pierre van hoydonk player who does a lot of work outside the area has that height and strength and does all that other work as well as getting goals

Yeah, height, strength, pace, power.

He's got a lot for sure.

Could be, yeah.

You know, captained by Dwight Gayle or Robbie Earnshaw or someone like that from down the years.

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That's what I'm thinking.