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On 3/30/2024 at 9:28 PM, CanadaFan123 said:

Which names on that list would be considered impressive company? 

Cyriel Dessers has had a pretty decent career. Nigeria International. Tied for the leading scorer in the Eredivisie a few years back. He was also the leading scorer in the inaugural edition of the Uefa Conference League. Had a short stint in Serie A as well.

Would be more than happy if Bair could eventually match that resume.

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7 hours ago, masster said:

Cyriel Dessers has had a pretty decent career. Nigeria International. Tied for the leading scorer in the Eredivisie a few years back. He was also the leading scorer in the inaugural edition of the Uefa Conference League. Had a short stint in Serie A as well.

Would be more than happy if Bair could eventually match that resume.

Dressers funny enough was one of the players at Genk who contributed to the log jam for Ugbo. While Ugbo was doing well on loan at Troyes, Dressers was doing the same for Feyenoord. Both were behind another Nigerian Paul Onuachu 

Futhermore, it was shortly after Dessers committed to Nigeria that Ugbo was positioning himself for a Nigeria call as well. Ultimately he chose the Maple Leaf, but at the time I remember thinking that Dessers may have knocked Ugbo down the Super Eagles pecking order, after the two kind of battled it out for the back up role behind Onuachu. 

Anyway, fun to watch how all these guys careers have crossed paths and played out. Ugbo now finding his feet in the Championhip with Wednesday, while Onuachu left Genk and ended up at Southampton, where he scored 0 goals and got shipped out to Turkey on loan. Dressers meanwhile was chosen over Onuachu for Nigeria and is now the main forward at Rangers, but yet he's just 1 goal ahead of our boy Theo Bair, who right now appears to be behind Ugbo in the Canadian pecking order. 

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7 minutes ago, GasPed said:

Wow - that really is a man-against-boys type of goal.  I don't recall ever seeing a Canadian striker literally shrug off a 200 lb defender clutching a handful of shirt like he wasn't even there.  Really impressive.

The comment has always been that he has been a big dude who didn’t use his size to his advantage.   There is a pretty big chance that he is in the perfect environment to overcome that.  The physicality of the SPL may have forced him to utilize that part of his game.  

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6 hours ago, RS said:

It's beside the point but that pitch is disgraceful. 

Bair should be well-prepared to play in Concacaf outside of the big three countries.

If the SPFL split was not happening next weekend, this match would not have been played.  It is a disgrace and Dundee need to be brought to account for it.  Their neighbours across the street, Dundee United, have had zero issues.  

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