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We need him back now....it might be almost too late by January.

Ha, who decided to make C.r.o.u.c.h turn into Yorke....?

Sabin scored?  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

If he comes back and doesn't score then we know sometings up behind the scenes. If I remember rightly, he did say he wanted to come back didn't he?

JAMIE Cureton feels his County Ground career is over ­ despite rediscovering his goalscoring touch.

The striker’s successful loan stint at Colchester ends on New Year’s Day but he believes it is in the interest of all parties if a permanent deal is struck.

That decision ultimately rests with Iffy Onuora and Cureton feels he does not figure in the Town boss’ plans.

The 30-year-old said: “My gut feeling is that I won’t be coming back because I’ve been allowed out on loan in the first place and I’ve been allowed to extend that stay even though I’ve been scoring goals.

“I’ve come here and proved what I can do. I couldn’t have done any more.

“Iffy will have to make a decision if he thinks I can come back and reproduce the same thing at Swindon.

“But there is no guarantee that I will and he might want to use my wages to bring in some of his own players, which he has done already.

“Iffy is doing well with the players he’s brought in and the team seems to be picking up a bit and he may feel that he doesn’t need me.

“I’ve spoken to Iffy a couple of times since I’ve been down here.

“He said he didn’t want to bring me back to have me sat on the bench again and go back to what it was like at the start of the season when I really wasn’t enjoying my football at all.”

Cureton arrived in Wiltshire in the summer as one half of a much-vaunted new strike pairing alongside Tony Thorpe.

The duo failed to make any impact in the shadow of Rory Fallon and while Thorpe continues to wait in the wings, Cureton was given a chance to regain some confidence by Colchester manager Phil Parkinson.

He proved an immediate hit, and has netted seven times for the U’s after getting himself on the scoresheet again last night.

The former Bristol Rovers and QPR man admits life at Layer Road is more to his liking.

“It’s going very well for me here and I’m really enjoying it,” he said.

“They are pleased with me. I haven’t had any conversations about staying yet but I’d be happy to.

“I’ve come to a club doing well and full of confidence and playing a way that suits my style.

“The way we were playing at Swindon there wasn’t a role that suited me. Tony Thorpe has had the same problem.

“Iffy likes to play one up front with wide men in support. It’s a system that suits Rory (Fallon), but not me.

“At Colchester we play 4-4-2 with wide men getting crosses into the box.

“That’s football. Certain players suit certain clubs and systems.

“I struggled for form and confidence at Swindon but I scored on my debut at Colchester and haven’t looked back.”

Cureton doesn’t even fancy a fleeting festive return to the County Ground when the two clubs meet in League One on Boxing Day ­ less than a week before the current loan deal expires.

He is not permitted to play in the fixture and is likely to stay away altogether.

But if Onuora does decide to hand Cureton a reprieve, the little poacher will answer the call come the New Year.

He added: “It would be nice to see some of the lads but it might be wise to stay away from the game on Boxing Day ­ I’m not sure what reception I’ll get from the fans.

“A couple of days later my loan finishes, so depending on what decisions other people make I could be back playing for Swindon on January 2 ­ who knows?

“I’m under contract at Swindon, it is the club I signed for and if they want me back I’ll come back and give 100 per cent to get them out of trouble.

“But I don’t want to go back and be in the same situation I was before, given all the hard work I’ve put in to get my season going again.”

FFS get this bloke back, we need to change our system (ie play football) to accomodate a player who can score and is contracted to us for another 18 months.  

Our team is incapable of creating the chances Curo needs to score, we aren't a very creative side.  He's bettor off leaving.

So who is doing Curetons job in the team now??

I see him in the first eleven myself

Evans
Jenkins O'Hanlon Comyn-Platt Nicholas
Pook Gurney Migz Bouazza
Fallon Cureton
subs Heaton McDermott Roberts Ifil Smith

That looks a good side!

Fucking disgrace, people who rather see long ball football with Fallon up front on his own than a player who has proved that when you play football he'll score

Fucking disgrace, people who rather see long ball football with Fallon up front on his own than a player who has proved that when you play football he'll score.

My fingers are crossed Iffy's hand will be forced with the board choosing to cash in on Fallon.  Come back Curi all is forgiven.

I've had enough of watching shit football, play the ball on the deck and reap the rewards.

Fucking disgrace, people who rather see long ball football with Fallon up front on his own than a player who has proved that when you play football he'll score.

Bollocks, this team is capable of playing football.  Whalley, Migs, Pook, Nicho, O Hanlon, Roberts, Bouazza, Jack Smith,  they are all decent enough players.

So you saying Colchester's team are jam packed full of Rivaldo's then are you???

I'm saying if we persist on relying on a player like Fallon and long ball football we will go down.  This isn't a pop at Rory cos he's done well, for him, but he's no Parkin, we cannot put all our survival hopes on him.

Erm, talk about our style all you want, Curo didn't score for months and regardless of how you play strikers should score.

Barnsley away, anyone?

I'd be giving Thorpe another go soon.

Can I remind you that our current team has a record of W3, D5, L2 in the last 10 matches
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And if all those players listed I'd say only Migs, Boazza. Whalley and Roberts are capable supplying Cureton with chances . The latter 2 are inconsistant and Migs is injury prone. Boazza may not even be here after xmas.

You don't need to be footballing genuises to pass the ball.  This is league 2 not Serie A.

No fucking chance, pile of wank

Well, no. But have you seen anything so far this season to suggest that they can? I haven't.

Bender. He's showed that he's still got class and he's scored goals wherever he's been.

W2 D4 L4 in the league which would get us relegated. I think it's a fucking shame if we don't bring Cureton back to be honest but if not we must try and get a fair price for him.

When?

The second goal against City.

Form is temporary, class is forever...

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: That made me laugh so hard, a bit of phlegm landed on my monitor

I'm going to have to hurt you on Saturday  :x

Two points:
1. to be fair to Iffy the first two leagues games were right offs anyway - it was going to take longer for his influence to take effect. He only took charge 24 hours before the Doncaster game!!!
Realistically he's on a W2 D4 L2 in the league which is 10 points in 8 games. 42 points from 42 games sees you go down - he's scoring enough for about 52 points at the moment which could be enough.

2. On the Cureton point, money is everything to this club and we should be trying to get a good price, or just offload him for free (with success clauses) sooner rather than later - what are his wages like?

Good luck, i'll be at the other end of the country :P

One goal, WOW! I'm talking about a full 90 minutes here. At least 45 minutes then....

Don't agree with point one at all, those games were not right offs and I'd have expected a win against Franchise who were second bottom at the time.

I doubt Cureton's wages are that high, similar to Bouazza's probably. Probably not higher than average for this league.

What I meant is that Iffy couldn't have ahd much influence on the team for the first two matches - it was effectively King's team that played - Unluckily for us we hit two form teams at the wrong time - Franchise went on a run and Doncasters run has just ended.
Okay we should have won the Franchise one, but Iffy could do nothing about Doncaster given only 24 hours...

i think we shud try and release Thorpe in order to get Cureton back .. its obviously a money issue.

Basically, my math could be wrong, but we've played 20 games....8 under Iffy and 12 under Kingy

Iffy has got us 10 points in 8 games
Kingy got us 7 (which is three less) in 12 games (which is 4 more)

That was off the top of my head, but I could be wrong...

Thats also counting the Doncaster game as Iffy in charge, despite him only being installed 24 hours earlier, personally I wouldnt put that one down on Iffys record myself

Yeah your maths is totally wrong.

We've played 20 games, 10 under Iffy, 10 under King. which is the same number of games played under both. Iffy's had the luxury of playing Franchise, Rotherham, Bristol City who were all in the relegation zone at the time.

But King had the luxury of assembling over 4 years the squad he wanted

Who plays on the wings and supplies the ammunition for them then Arriba?

The point is whether or not it's worth Cureton coming back. I think so because our results have been pretty shit anyway so changing things around a bit may as well be tried.

Ben, did you say that when results are shit you need to chnage things.  That almost for a moment read like you thought gettign rid of King was a good idea! :wink:

It would have made more sense to change the problem areas rather than our stronger ones.

but the results havent been that bad, have they?

Bar Barnsley at home we have been playing alright and picking up points.

The performances have also been so much better under Iffy, and he certainly hasnt dragged to 7 straight defeats....

Mods, can we have a poll thread please?

"Have we improved under Iffy?"

We've already had that one, I'd be more interested in a poll of Should cureton get another go or should we keep things as they are.

we should play 4,4,2 with cureton and fallon upfront.
cureton has gone away and found his form,which is what we wanted.as he is our player already,i dont see it as a gamble.
iffy should fuck roberts and thorpe out the door,big headed useless tossers

any 2 of these
bouazza,shakes,nickalau,stroud,also roberts would be perfect wide right if he put some effort in.
our current so called style has us way down the league

But whilst results haven't all been terrible, they haven't all been great and some have been shocking. Not just barnsley at home, what about Boston home and away and Peterborough, Franchise, port vale home.

Blah blah blah blah blah etc. etc.

You know cup runs can make us a lot of money, money that we desperately need so it's very important.

In all seriousness I was pretty pissed off to be out of all cups at this stage. Last year people were moaning when we went out in a area semi final in the ldv. Going out at this stage is a lot worse.

Iffy is totally culpable for Franchise. You're missing the point anyway, it was about whether Cureton can improve us not whether Iffy is doing a good job.