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Why does the adver always insist on going back to previous Swindon players for their thoughts on games especially saturday. The Official site does the same.

To be honest I don't give a shit what Rhys Evans thinks. He's moved onto a different club. He's nothing to do with STFC.  :twisted: Arghhhhhh!!

agree.dont mind when its a legend type player but rhys evans?no ta

Is that Blackpool Reserves' Rhys Evans??  No I really do care about what he thinks about us.  :wink:

Whats funnier is he would be third choice if he came back here.

I never really saw what the fuss was about with flapper Evans???

He was dodgy on crosses and his shot stopping wasn't all that.

That was probably the best part of his game.

His kicking was awful.

His shot stopping wasn't as good as Brez or Smith though.

Smith's positioning is a cut above though - which means less flying saves in the first pace.

But flying saves look cool.

Spoke to his mum the other day and apart from the injury woes (double hernia op - doubtful to play again this season) the local fans were booing him after just a couple of errors ... cant see him staying at Blackpool long .. hes a decent keeper - better than he even showed here .. hopefully he will get a new team and become the number 1 again

Why do you think that fatbury? If he was better than he showed then surely he would have shown it.?

ands its not as if he wasn't busy enough to show his worth.
he was poo and got away with not getting stick because he was local

Fatbury, do you claim to know everyone to do with Swindon?

good theory, what about P o o k then?

with pook i think its more to do with the postion he plays.somethimes its a thankless task

Or he's just shit.

I dont know if you knew or not but I coached a junior team down at Highworth for 8 years .. he was my keeper for 4 of them (under 9 to u 13 before he joined Chelsea School of Excellence) .. so I know what hes capable of -

How many professional keepers have you trained at that level? Got many others to compare him with.

I'd have thought that especially with keepers there's only certain amount of potential to see when they're that young. There's a lot of development left to do, physical and mental, and keepers don't tend to peak until there late 20's anyway.

Not at all Ralphy ...

Ill explain tho - obviously know Rhys as explained above ..

Paul Trollope used to help me out with the coaching during the early 90s (we were in the same school team at Highworth in OUR younger days) - he was in Swindon reserves then before he went on to Torquay Fulham Derby etc

I know a few of the club staff - as you know I went to Ibiza with some of them ...

But another  of my players made it to pro level as well ... (Shane Duff - Cheltenham) plus a lot of them play at local level as well for teams such as Highworth, Cirencester etc

Im also friends with Steve Slattery - England Masseur (who was a fellow coach and now chairman at Highworth Juniors)

As a result of these links I have a few contacts in the game who drip feed me stuff occasionally - its not always accurate but sometimes it is ... Sonic said show him something that was correct the other day - I checked back and I have been correct on stuff before ... I dont mind if people heckle or criticise me tho .. its a forum and im old enough and big enough to take it ... obviously Id prefer if it they didnt but thats life ....

Hope that clarifies things for you

Oh and I nearly forgot ... my ex girlfriend Amy is a chief football writer at the Observer now

Thats a pretty fair point Ben - I occasionally drove him to goalkeeper coaching schools run by the FA so I know he was pretty good for that age

And at Schoolboy level he was England Number 1 and Paul Robinson (YES THE PAUL ROBINSON) was only number 2 keeper ..


But you are right I guess re development ... Im just biased when it comes to Rhys

Sounds like Rhys didn't exactly fulfill his potential then!  :-))(

give him time Spuddy ... didnt you play against him when at Liden (tho he used to play up front a lot on Saturday footy)

i scored past him in a year 9 vs year 11 game at kingsdown... he's gotta be shit.

the difference between local footy and cofe-academy is massive.
players that look amazing at local level mostly look like fish out of water when trialed at pro clubs.
having said that evans must have been awesome as a kid to play at the level he did

I wish I was fatbury.

Why?

I think they call it sarcasm

 :soapy tit wank:

 I did a good few years managing/coaching etc....in local league youth  football.   Came across the likes of Holgate, Zebroski, David Stroud,  Chris Taylor and Leigh Henry, there may be more.

 Have to say that none of them struck me as being all that, as kids, and none of them have made it much further than Marine.....in fact Zebroski not even that high being at O*frod.

 Of the bunch Stroud impressed me the most, simply because he was comfortable with the ball.

I like how it mentioned Evans season *might* finish at Wembley

Not likely, hes about 3rd choice keeper  :D

Yes i did, on many occasions.

He was always in goal whenever we played West Swindon, they were always scared of us.  8)

your eldest was the main man as a kid i seem to remember. you're right about stroud, only because he was about 3 times faster than anyone else.

Yep thats true .. Liden were the only side who used to beat that Westside team - Those matches were good entertainment actually

Liden were shit in my age group. The mighty Eldene FC always used to beat them.

Always shit on the Liden side of the bridge!

i used to play for hungerford up to U15s, we won everything for 2 years and then started losing by embarrassing scorlines like 10-0. i still have a box full of cheap plastic trophies emblazoned with impressive statements like 'Burbage Minor League Winners 1991'!