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| Rammy wrote: | | SkankyMinga wrote: | There seems to be a lot of negativity around Ian Poulter being the wildcard pick ahead of Darren Clarke, which I don't understand really. I presume Clarke is ahead on points.
What I also fail to understand is how can someone finish 2nd in the Open but not qualify automatically? He has obviously had a lot poorer season than I realised. |
Darren Clarke has won 2 tournaments this season and has an excellent Ryder cup record. Poulter apart from the Open championship has only one top ten finish this season and generally talks a good game rather than letting his clubs do the talking |
I think hes picked poulter on attitude and the fact that faldo himself has always criticised players for hiding in europe and not testing themselvs on the us circuit; this is kind of poulters reward
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He has picked Poulter and Casey because he wants to be the top dog as Captain.
I think it showed with the number of messages Darren Clarke got from the rest of the team, who was more popular and respected, DC not NF.
Terrible pick.
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| MT VESSELS wrote: | He has picked Poulter and Casey because he wants to be the top dog as Captain.
I think it showed with the number of messages Darren Clarke got from the rest of the team, who was more popular and respected, DC not NF.
Terrible pick.
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Totally agree that it's a terrible pick, as Poulter is not really what a team wants, plus his form is appalling so he doesn't deserve a place. However, being popular and respected aren't criteria for justifying a pick or not. |
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Although I would have preferred Darren Clarke in the team to Poulter, at the end of the day it is Faldo picking the 2 wildcards and nobody else. He has his gameplan and fair play to him for sticking to his guns. I remember Woosie getting a lot of stick before the last Ryder Cup about his perceived style of captaincy, and we all know the result of that encounter. I think that Faldo will do OK, and Europe should probably be good enough to win the Cup again, with or without Poulter, I would guess 16-12 to be the final score.
Faldo is on a hiding to nothing in any case, as he wouldn't like to be remembered as the captain of the first European side to lose this century.
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can we all agree that Poulter was an inspired choice now?
3 points out of 4 and no european can outscore him this week....
well played young man
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