thank fcuk!... no more of the totally unrealistic tim fans expecting this lightweight to win wimbledon, no more 'come on tim' chants...i mean.. as if he hadnt considered 'comming on'!!!

 

he was one of our best players, but he was strictly second best world wise, tedious and frustrating to watch as his inconsistent playing always meant that he would never reach full potential.

AMAZING NEWS..

I would write my own post here but I really can't add much more to what you've already said.

thank fcuk!... no more of the totally unrealistic tim fans expecting this lightweight to win wimbledon, no more 'come on tim' chants...i mean.. as if he hadnt considered 'comming on'!!!

 

he was one of our best players, but he was strictly second best world wise, tedious and frustrating to watch as his inconsistent playing always meant that he would never reach full potential.

 

Totally in agreement mate.. "Tiger" Tim???? More like "Pussyboy" Tim... A totally overhyped underachiever, much like the England football team..... :lol: :lol: All the newspaper ink wasted on him and the England footie team should've gone to our real sporting heroes - our olympic athletes, who are way more consistent with coming up with the goods....

Thank god for that

 

No more screaming little girls on "Henman hill" no more Henmania in the tabloids when he beats a Mongolian ranked 675th in the world, nice guy but a loser at the end of the day

 

Thank god for Andy Murray, spoilt little brat but has a winning mentality and fire in his belly which Henman never had

Edited August 24, 200717 yr by Vic Vega

Thank fook for that

 

He was struggling this year to be honest, as if he lost interest in the sport itself

Finally! :cheer:

 

He's never been as good as the press make him out to be, but that's down to the fact we don't really have any world class Tennis players, and Henman was the best out of a poor crop. We've got Murray now, but aside from him, there's no-one else.

Thank god for Andy Murray, spoilt little brat but has a winning mentality and fire in his belly which Henman never had

 

exactly craig... spot on m8.

Totally in agreement mate.. "Tiger" Tim???? More like "Pussyboy" Tim... A totally overhyped underachiever, much like the England football team..... :lol: :lol: All the newspaper ink wasted on him and the England footie team should've gone to our real sporting heroes - our olympic athletes, who are way more consistent with coming up with the goods....

 

i prefer athletics to tennis, but tbh its been along time since we had much to cheer about in that department m8. these world championships will demonstrate what a dire state uk athletics is in.

Underachiever? :wacko: He had a feckin' brilliant career making absolutely MILLIONS doing well in so many touraments yet even though this thread has mostly had replies from people who are known for being against being manipulated by the press that's exactly what you people have had done to you! i.e. he's apparently a failure for not winning Wimbledon, he's been our tennis player for years and getting to the semi and quarter finals so many times is a MASSIVE achievement. I remember rushing home from school many times when I was younger to see so I didn't miss him or to find out how he did. :lol:

 

Farewell to a great tennis player I say! Now Murray will get all the stick instead when he doesn't win it either :rolleyes:

Underachiever? :wacko: He had a feckin' brilliant career making absolutely MILLIONS doing well in so many touraments yet even though this thread has mostly had replies from people who are known for being against being manipulated by the press that's exactly what you people have had done to you! i.e. he's apparently a failure for not winning Wimbledon, he's been our tennis player for years and getting to the semi and quarter finals so many times is a MASSIVE achievement. I remember rushing home from school many times when I was younger to see so I didn't miss him or to find out how he did. :lol:

 

Farewell to a great tennis player I say! Now Murray will get all the stick instead when he doesn't win it either :rolleyes:

 

He did underacheive

 

Even Greg Rusedski made the FINAL of a major (US Open I think it was :unsure: )

 

Henman was inconsistent - one day he would be able to beat the world #3 then next day he would lose to someone from Azerbeijan ranked #300

Underachiever? :wacko: He had a feckin' brilliant career making absolutely MILLIONS doing well in so many touraments yet even though this thread has mostly had replies from people who are known for being against being manipulated by the press that's exactly what you people have had done to you! i.e. he's apparently a failure for not winning Wimbledon, he's been our tennis player for years and getting to the semi and quarter finals so many times is a MASSIVE achievement. I remember rushing home from school many times when I was younger to see so I didn't miss him or to find out how he did. :lol:

 

Farewell to a great tennis player I say! Now Murray will get all the stick instead when he doesn't win it either :rolleyes:

 

It's got nothing to do with with his failure to win Wimbledon, it's his constant failures in the Grand Slam - the Australian, French, US Opens; the Davis Cup as well - you know, the actual BIG, IMPORTANT tournaments where all the best players in the world compete, not the "second string" tournaments where not all the big players play in.. The constant over-hyping of his rather modest achievements was irritating to say the least, the press making out like he's a Boris Becker or a John McEnroe or summat, when he was frankly nowhere NEAR that calibre.. In the US or Germany, a player of his standard would be consigned to a very small paragraph in the sports section, certainly not receiving the sort of ludicrous hype he was getting... Which just goes to show how mediocre the standard of tennis actually is in this country, we make do with second best. We over-praised a rather average player and kept making excuses for him ("oh, he doesn't do well on clay courts...". Didn't do that brilliantly on grass ones either if you ask me.... :rolleyes: )

It's got nothing to do with with his failure to win Wimbledon, it's his constant failures in the Grand Slam - the Australian, French, US Opens; the Davis Cup as well - you know, the actual BIG, IMPORTANT tournaments where all the best players in the world compete, not the "second string" tournaments where not all the big players play in.. The constant over-hyping of his rather modest achievements was irritating to say the least, the press making out like he's a Boris Becker or a John McEnroe or summat, when he was frankly nowhere NEAR that calibre.. In the US or Germany, a player of his standard would be consigned to a very small paragraph in the sports section, certainly not receiving the sort of ludicrous hype he was getting... Which just goes to show how mediocre the standard of tennis actually is in this country, we make do with second best. We over-praised a rather average player and kept making excuses for him ("oh, he doesn't do well on clay courts...". Didn't do that brilliantly on grass ones either if you ask me.... :rolleyes: )

 

Exactly Scott, to me Henman was a choker, a guy who lost his bottle when the chips were down and did not have the mental strength to succeed at the very highest level

 

 

Edited August 28, 200717 yr by Vic Vega

this thread has mostly had replies from people who are known for being against being manipulated by the press that's exactly what you people have had done to you!

 

Eh..? How do you make that one out then Wicky?? :unsure: The press completely gushed all over him every single year. If we'd been manipulated, we'd surely be up there on Henman Hill waving our little Union Jack flags around... I'd've loved to have been proven wrong about Henman, I'd've loved it if he'd won at least one Grand Slam tournament. He just didn't have what it takes, the killer instinct that all the true greats like Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Sampras, Edberg, Becker, Ivanisevic, Lendl, Federer, Agassi, etc have.. ALL of these guys won a Grand Slam tournament or two, Henman failed totally to achieve this, or even get into a final (something that at least Rusedski achieved and he never ONCE got the sort of hype and backing from the press that Henman did..). The guy was a choker, end of. Andy Murray is someone I can see actually doing the business at some point in the next five years, he's got that killer instinct about him that Henman lacked, he just needs a bit more discipline..

Henman was a great player... not an all-time great, and not as good as the press made out, but still a great player. 128 people enter Wimbledon each year, so for Henman to reach the last FOUR so many times is pretty good going. He peaked at #4 on the world rankings, and frankly, I'd be pretty damn chuffed if only 3 people in the world were better at my job than me!!

Murray definitely has more potential though, a more complete game and he seems mentally stronger as well.