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« Reply #61845 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 14:21:27 » |
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Nomoreheroes
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« Reply #61846 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 14:23:36 » |
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So, Khan, McGurk and Glatzel off then?
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You're my incurable malady. I miss the pleasure of your company.
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Berniman
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« Reply #61847 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 14:31:13 » |
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I would say that is a prepare yourself for Glatzel to be sold warning, they have already made it known that Khan will go, and McGurk has only just signed his contract, Glatzel was an option that we took I thought.
Thanks for the pre-season Paul
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When somebody shouts STOP! I never know if it's in the name of love, if it's HAMMER TIME, or if I should collaborate and listen...
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« Reply #61849 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 15:44:52 » |
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Best you can get is 6/1 on us going down right now.
Frightening, but 2 games in isn't long enough. That said, fgr struggled the entire season last year... |
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Jimmy Quinn
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« Reply #61850 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 16:54:51 » |
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We’ve kept the momentum going from last season |
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« Reply #61851 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 17:52:09 » |
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Uwakwe available on a free according to Pete O’Rourke
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« Reply #61852 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 18:01:35 » |
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Uwakwe available on a free according to Pete O’Rourke
Might be a decent acquisition for us? Where does he play? |
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« Reply #61853 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 18:26:51 » |
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Might be a decent acquisition for us?
Where does he play?
Not sure, never seen him play mate |
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Jimmy Quinn
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« Reply #61854 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 18:36:51 » |
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Enigma springs to mind.
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« Reply #61855 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 18:43:33 » |
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Not sure, never seen him play mate
Think I heard his name once - maybe I even saw him once. Which is an upgrade on Milan Missing I suppose… |
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« Reply #61856 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 19:19:03 » |
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As with everything else we're so bad at recruiting players. Nobody seems to hang around for very long and the ones that do invent mysterious injuries so they never have to play for us.
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #61857 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 19:59:38 » |
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Uwakwe available on a free according to Pete O’Rourke
We couldn’t afford him even if he FUCKING PAID US. |
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« Reply #61858 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 20:04:29 » |
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Honestly my perhaps most controversial opinion is that in all of the last four seasons we've got far more individual players signings right than wrong - we've just a) repeatedly appointed the wrong managers and b) not put anything like the support systems needed in place to help them improve their potential and perhaps c) just not signed enough players to begin with.
Like absolutely we've got some wrong but you can make a very fucking good side out of players we've signed under Clem, and lots of them have gone on to play at a higher level, just not with us. You could definitely complain about our ability to hold onto them though. But all the following are definitely good enough for this division in the right system:
(Not including this season as it's too early, but there are players in this squad better than they're performing)
GK: Wollacott, Brynn, Mahoney, Bycroft
DF: Odimayo, Conroy, Crichlow, Baudry, O'Brien, Cooper, Egbo, Tomlinson, Hunt, Hutton, Clayton, FBT, MacDonald, Kokolo, UGM, McCarthy
MF: Gladwin, Lyden, Payne, Gilbert, Williams, Reed, Grant, McEachran, Darcy, Khan, Kemp, McGurk, Ofoborh
FW: Simpson, Davison, McKirdy, Barry, Austin, RHM, Wakeling, Young, Glatzel
Some of those are definitely borderline and people will disagree, but you can make a damn good L2 squad out of the best of them. We just can't retain anyone for more than six months and cut ourselves off constantly at the knees by cutting every corner we can financially. Oh, and we play good players out of position or in systems that don't suit them all the fucking time.
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« Reply #61859 on: Friday, August 23, 2024, 20:09:39 » |
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I’d concur we’ve done ok with recruitment over the period. A massive problem seems to be we recruite really well for one area or position at the expense of another - hence why the teams haven’t been good enough. Then we rip it up & start again but seemingly prioritising the complete opposite position to the one we got right the season before whilst haven’t lost the good recruitment for that position anyway
Only Garner got the balance right & the obvious thing to point out was he was the only manager that had Ben Chorley here…
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