Kings a Joker!

[Sippo]

"He’s in Arizona at the moment but I’ve spoken to his mum which is always a bonus ­ when you’ve got film star looks you can chat to mums and it’s always an advantage to a manager"  

http://www.thisisstfc.co.uk/News_Headlines_Story.asp?NewsID=4432

[Kinky Tom]

He does almost look like a short, fat Bruce Willis. :?

[le god cuervo]

the biggest joke in that story is that he thinks a centre-back is the most important target. surely we need midfielders!?!

[strooood]

exactly LGC, what is he on about? ok yeah a new defender would be handy but it's a bit worrying he's saying that only a "major signing" would displace pook  :|
is king sca :| ed of signing midfeilders? turbo, howard, smith, hewlett and maybe igoe are all leaving and he wants a centre half  :-))(

[Ben Wah Balls]

But he says he can't finalise that until he knows whats happening with Duke and Igoe, Heywood's gone so he can look for replacements there now. Besides we're already looking at a couple of midfielders.

[Piemonte]

I can understand that we need a centre back in Heywoods mould, but yeah, we do need a midfield.

What he dosnt say is how likley the "major signing" in midfield actually is.........

[Kinky Tom]

Maybe that means he already has midfielders lined up, but still needs to get a CB in.

Maybe the club is playing it's cards closer to it's chest, so to speak.

[Piemonte]

our current contracted midfield: Migz, pook :?

maybe Igoe & Duke if they accept contracts

Jenkins, Roberts & O'Hanlon have all played there too.

We WILL be signing midfielders, either that or we're going to be playing 15 year olds by christmas :|

[walrus]

our current contracted midfield: Migz, pook :?

maybe Igoe & Duke if they accept contracts

Jenkins, Roberts & O'Hanlon have all played there too.

We WILL be signing midfielders, either that or we're going to be playing 15 year olds by christmas :|

We can't....  Isn't it against football league regulations to play an U16 player?

Defence in my opinion is the area that has been the biggest problem this season, with King continuously bleating on about individual mistakes.  Sean Dyche would do nicely in my opinion, although he may be lacking a bit of pace....

[Melksham Red]

I reckon AK's eyeing 3-5-2 again. Hence his need for another CB. He can then use a number of players as wing backs (Thierny? Duke? Jenkins, Lapham, Nicholas)

[Piemonte]

You may well be right Melksham. We'll be needing further back up in both the centre of defence and midfiled if that is the case.

[sonicyouth]

Ifil and O'Hanlon are our only two centrebacks, unless we sign Comyn-Platt, so I can understand why King is after another centreback. I think Melksham might be right about 3-5-2 as well, or at least King is trying to sign the players to cover both 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 comfortably.

[Kinky Tom]

Ifil and O'Hanlon are our only two centrebacks, unless we sign Comyn-Platt, so I can understand why King is after another centreback. I think Melksham might be right about 3-5-2 as well, or at least King is trying to sign the players to cover both 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 comfortably.

I think he's right too, I've said this on thisis.  I reckon the fact that he says Pook is in the first 11 also indicates that we will have 3 central midfielders, with Migz holding back I hope.  This of course means that we are likely to have 3 centre backs too, unless it's 4-5-1! :nuts:

[Piemonte]

Tom, have you altered you avatar to show alan smoking a spliff?

or is that a tampax??

[Kinky Tom]

Yes it's a spliff, I thought his hand gesture would lend itself very well to it.  Unfortunately I'm not really an artist, so it's not hugely convincing.

I imagine I'll keep it for a while though. :doobie: