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Where are they Malpas?

We have a busy schedule of games and have suspensions.

I didn't know Malpas read the forums. THanks for enlightening me Bartholomew

FFS !

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  bart must do this for a laugh

whew, it's a good job you reminded him bart!

Never crossed his mind at all i bet :-))(

 :boring:  :boring:  :boring:

I agree,

We should have atleast 5 new players in right now. What the fuck is he doing? Bring in someone anyone? COME ON.. We can still make the playoffs...

For fuck sake cheer up you miserable sod.

booo malpas out

They're over there!!!!! ------------------->

 :mrgreen:

Oh no they're not!

Oh no they're not!

I'm meeting dan for a pint in the savoy. fancy it?

ooh, double post. weird.

nah, got work early tomorrow so I'll be good tonight.

Fair do's. It's only going to be a quiet one or two if you change your mind.

Yeah. Quiet. Right.

i dont think there's much point getting in players now.we wont be going up, and it gives opportunity for malpas to look at what he has.
then he can plan for next season, in which he should be looking to mount a serious attempt to get promoted.

Agree on that. Easton and Allen in the middle for now is ok - I've liked what I've seen of Allen.

But if the player in question would improve the squad for next season, may as well give it a shot. Otherwise, play one of the new 'pro's'

While there is still that outside chance of the play-off's (We won't make it) then we would be silly not to at least try and get there.

I'd suggest the young pro's are probably not quite good enough for L1 football as yet but those that do have the potential will need to be introduced gradually to get them used to the regours of L1 football.

We have needed a play maker type player for quite sometime, this is the only type of player we should be getting in that should be able to improve what we have got, and remember we have Peacock out for 3/4 games suspended with the only cover available either JPM or Sofi who are wide players.

Who's to say what's on offer is better than what we have?

Some people need a reality check, I'm sure Malpas has tried, he's even said in the papers he has been trying to get a creative midfielder.

A creative central midfielder who is not a totally liability on the defensive part of his game is fairly hard to come by for a mid table league 1 side I'd imagine.

no news! :-))(

Is good news.

nope!

unless the loan player is top notch then i dont see much point in bringing one in tbh. Chances are he wont play much , and will just be a drain on wages. The loan window don't shut untill the end of march anway, so its not the greatest hurry in the world

Exactly.
There's no point just bringing somebody in for the sake of it. It can't be easy to find a creative midfield player that
a) we want
b) we can afford
c) will play for us
d) has a club who will let him play for us

Well we need one now with Chris Allen getting injured, there is no partner for Easton with Peacock out, unless of course Malpas decides to blood one of the youngsters...I don't see he has a lot of choice really, I think he is going to have to take a risk on a loan player

I would say for this season it would be best to give a few youngsters a taste of first team action.  It's rare to have a season where you are safe, don't really expect to reach the play offs anyway and have an opportunity thanks to injuries and suspensions to give the youth a go without pissing off the first teamer.

oh, and if we go down the route of using youth I;d like the club to say it's a strategy out in public, so the fans know why.  Then we as fans should do our bit and support the little fellas knowing they may not win every game.  If we can 1 or 2, like Allen, that push on and stake a real claim for a place then we'll the better for it.  If we crush the poor sods confidence straight away we'll be waiting another couple of years for any homegrown talent to come through and potentially changing Manager more often than Fulham and Newcastle combined.

Think it might be worth looking at a loan now if Allen is out for any period of time. We're down to bare bones in the middle of the park. There's still no point in going out and just signing anybody to please Fatbury though

maybe if we had a manager with contacts it might help

i never realised how good Sturrock was till now ...

Yeah Sturrock was ace. All the players he bought in last year were amazing. Barry Corr who has been out injured more than he has played, Blair Sturrock who is so prolific in front of goal he shouldn't be playing in this division, oh and Kevin James and Ashley Grimes made such an impact didn't they?

Take you rose tinted specs off fatbury, they don't suit you at all.

Sturrocks contacts were all with former players of his!

and everyone is having a pop at McGovern, one of his last signings.  All of the Malpas signings were ones suggested to him by the current set-up weren't they?

Which tells you since january that Malpas has been unable to attract one player himself  :(

Tough time for loans as well you only have to have a quick scan through the various club sites to see that every man and his dog are trying to bring players in at the moment.

It doesn't help that there are so many sides in the Chumpionship still chasing promotion or the playoffs and it's just as wide open down at the foot of the table.  Young Weston moving up to Scunny from Leeds maybe an exception to the rule but it sums up the current climate.

Plus I think it was Sturrock who mentioned a lot of the Premier league sides as a rule of thumb will only loan players in the 20+ age bracket with any experience to Championship clubs and at the same time demand that they play every game and pay their full salary.  The only players he said were offered to him in a lot of cases were youth team players with very little experience and a hefty salary to boot.  In that instance it has to be a bit of home grown every time.

By virtue of the fact alone that there’s no thread with plucking names from arses is testimony to what little there is available out there.

Sturrock missed out on shitloads of targets. I lost count of the amount of times we were expecting a player 'in the next day or two' only to get nothing.

How about Yohan Folly as a rectum plunger he was linked to us previously, he's not playing much at Muff and would be an ideal replacement for the Cock and Allen.

he got one in and was the best player yesterday

agreed Timlin was class

All those people that ridiculed me a few weeks back for saying we should get Timlin back-eat your hats

I love you adje

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As for Malpas's contacts, I think the big problem he has had so far is the transfer window shut soon after he signed. He knows the Scottish scene well, so would expect a few players to come down in the summer. However he cant get anyone from up there own loan so has to rely on the recommendations of Dave Byrne

Requited Fred!