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Vital football are reporting that he is unlikely to ever play again for us after falling out with DiCanio about the training regime.

Oh well, nevermind

Ta who eh?

Hopefully we can terminate the loan and send him back to Orient rather than pay his wages for the rest of the season.

Sounds like someone who would have fit in perfectly with last season's wasters.

I heard about this at Wembley so think it happened a while ago
Apparently Orient are refusing to have him back so we are stuck with him

Good on them.

I thought after Clarke we were going to do proper interviews with players to make them aware of how tough the training regime is at the club? Seem to be making the same old mistakes which must be costing the club a fortune.

I'll probably get a bollocking for saying this but .....

As successful as this season has been, the recruitment policy has been a bit of mess!

Weather it was Atiku, Clarke, Abdulla or numerous others on loan or permanantly they have probably cost us a small fortune.

Paolo/Jez Wray need to look into putting recruits through a more stringent set of tests.  For players to arrive here and then say the training is to hard beggers belief! I think it was in the radio interview yesterday where Paolo said Tehoue wasnt as good technically as he had thought ....... Surely he would have seen numerous videos of the player or scouting reports etc.

You are right, our recruiting has been a right mess. Remember that PDC wanted to buy Murray in January, 3 months on he has been sent back.

Someone told me that PDC has been in meetings all week with the board saying that he wants 10 new players in by the start of next season. He has been told that 8 players need to go in order for that to happen. Let's hope for our sake that the selection process tightens up a bit before we decide who we are signing

Wasn't that an April Fool wind up by the facebook page?

Was it? I cant remember where i read it. I look a tit now then :) To be fair I wouldn't have been surprised if it was true. I don't rate him at all.

The thing is it isnt going to be easy to shift a lot of players out ..... The ones who came on perms at the start of the year such as Esajas and Gabilondo probably signed 2 year deals on decent wages.  Now if no one matches those then they could bide there time here and pick us some easy money.

The ten figure in, to compete at the higher end of league 1 is probably about right .... However based on this year ... How many players will Paolo need to sign to find those 10?

I would rather Paolo went out in the summer and signed a strong core of 10 and stuck with them, using the loan market to dip into as and when required.  Most of the loans this year have been pants .....  This is best illustrated by the signings of Bostock and McEvily, where it looks like we have gone into the market for the hell of it.  Neither on there showings thus far seeming to be any better than the permanent players we already have at our disposal.

Fucking hell.

Bostock and McEvely have barely played. They've been here less than 2 weeks.

Someone told me Di Canio blah blah blah must be true.

Only 2 weeks ago most were sure our players were good enough for L1. A week without a win and all of a sudden they are all shit, we need to replace them all and no ones good enough. All we are missing is Bart to show up.

Thats not was was said though, was it?

Maybe a bit harsh on Bostock.  I think McEvily is no better or worse than Cibo .... Some will agree some will disagree ...

However I stand by my point over the holes in our recruitment policy I think need tightening up!

Pretty much. As far as i'm aware:

Smith, Thompson, Bodin, Gabilondo and Kennedy's deals are all up in the summer.

Benson, Rooney, Cox, Wes all expire in 2014.

Everybody else in 2013.

I reckon all 5 who's deals are up this summer will go.

I agree with those 5 being off, I think you could probably add to that Kerrouche, Esajas & Lanzano.
So there is 8 I think will be gone.

From what Ive heard from a saucy bird who's in the know, I think more than a few eyebrows will be raised in the summer when we announce the transfer listed players. More like 10 + departures if she's right.

Also, the wage bill is nothing like everyone thinks. The three players mentioned above are on an average mechanics wages, but with decent appearance bonuses, which is quite clever when you think about it.

I reckon, Esajas, Gabilondo, Kennedy, Bodin, Risser, Connell, Phil Smith, Thompson, Kerrouche, Magera, will all be shipped out in the summer.

All darkies, that's what happens withing a be fascist manager and not at all with being a shit player...

Fucking hell, what year is this??

tis the year eighteen hundred & ninety nine squire

To be honest, this doesn't suprise me in the slghtest...
I would say only Foderingham, Caddis, Flint, Macca, Devera, Ritchie, Ferry, Rooney and Benson are 'safe' as such.

My apologies; I thought it was 1977.

Whats happened to Lee Cox?

You should really fuck off. There's no place for people like you in this century.

I don't have any gripes at the players bought in at the start of the season. After clearing out so many in the summer this was bound to happen but we have made a few boo boos since then.

Murray looked lightweight in his first match for us and that hasn't changed for me.....the others....pah!

Or to put Ironside's point differently, is it possible our manager might have a problem with non-white players? He didn't seem particularly complimentary about women in football either if I recall the discussion around Kate Cady's departure.

Just saying, like...

There was me thinking Wes Foderingham was black, silly me.

Would imagine he's lost his place on the bench as Bostock (theoretically) provides a more attacking alternative as a sub and with Caddis out Risser's ability to cover at the back presumably puts him ahead of Cox in the pecking order.

Paolos best man is gay and his business partner is black.Our supporters have been well represented on this thread havn't they.

So why would he even sign them in the first place then?

Just reminded me a bit of Ron Atkinson when they nearly all turn out to be "lazy" (Clarke, Atiku, Esajas, Tehoue, Kerrouche). Delighted if that's wide of the mark.

Well if watching Tehoue's appearance against Cheltenham was anything to go by...  "Lazy" is pretty much bang on.  I expended more energy sat on my arse in the DR...

I don't think Atiku or Esajas were deemed lazy, just shit. So yes I think you are very far wide of the mark.

Yeah I expect Devera and super Wes will be bombed out soon

There was a mention on the radio on Saturday that PDC was disappointed with him - Not sure whether that's disappointed with attitude in training, or whether he doesn't have the 'quality' that PDC thought he had.

wider of the mark than a Pericard shot

PdC's comments about "wasting too much time on players he couldn't change" makes me think that Tehoue just wasn't prepared to bow to the serious hard work ethic that he's instilled in the rest of the squad.  McElevely's post match comments ("winners just get their heads down and keep working hard" or similar) is more akin to what PdC seems to like.

I just hope that McEvelely gains some confidence to bomb down the line on the overlap more and more, I'm in the "I thought he did a good solid defensive job at wembley" camp.

There was a comment up there about Coxy - I reckon he would be right up PdC's street.  Always put in a shift, worked hard and ran for the full 90, had all the skills and none of the ego, total professional.

I think McEveley will do so when he reaches full match fitness...

I agree. There were definately positives with McEvely but he was struggling in the second half with fitness I thought.

I thought McEveley looked good. He seems less likely to make a mistake than Cibo, although so far he hasn't looked as good going forward.

The 3 PDC fall outs that we know of have all been strikers, perhaps he gets frustrated with them for not having an ounce of his footballing ability?

On the flip side, and the more likely scenario, PDC worked out that Tehoue was a lazy sack of turd, which most of us worked out for ourselves, cheerio Jonathan Tehoue, gone and already forgotten.

nah it's definitely the racist thing

Who's the poor sod who has to take the reserves for training each day? Can't imagine that there'll be too many happy campers amongst that lot.

  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Never thought of that!!!

 :hmmm:

We don't train like that apparently - we have no reserve squad.  A lot of the training is done positionally, ie the strikers train together, the defence together etc.  But they do all eat their lunch together!!!!

And Ice Cream :)