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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jul 21, 2014 17:56:33 GMT
Are we in a decent league? Does he have a decent budget? I heard that we nearly completed a deal for Suarez but his 4 month ban meant the deal collapsed. we have jamie white and matty taylor are they decent? dont know yet,we know ryan brunt is tidy if he stays fit,im glad we havnt signed iwelumo,parkin,hughes,midson or constable but if 1 of them scores 25 goals then im sure somebody will say we should have signed them. So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players.
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Post by PeterHooper57 on Jul 21, 2014 18:07:12 GMT
we have jamie white and matty taylor are they decent? dont know yet,we know ryan brunt is tidy if he stays fit,im glad we havnt signed iwelumo,parkin,hughes,midson or constable but if 1 of them scores 25 goals then im sure somebody will say we should have signed them. So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players. Unfortunately, not one proven goal scorer amongst them. Our problem last season was a lack of goals. Would have loved to have seen BRFC sign Constable; with Parkin coming off the bench. UTG
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Post by Qi on Jul 21, 2014 18:09:03 GMT
At the opposite end of the spectrum, FGR have just signed Jon Parkin. That club are either going to win the league this year or balls it up completely. They balls it up every year. The last few seasons they have been touted as the team/one of the teams to beat and end up thoroughly cocking it up. Sounds like us then.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jul 21, 2014 18:15:06 GMT
So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players. Unfortunately, not one proven goal scorer amongst them. Our problem last season was a lack of goals. Would have loved to have seen BRFC sign Constable; with Parkin coming off the bench. UTG Constable at £2k per week and Parkin on not much less behind that?! Those days are over, for the first time in ages the recruitment has been a breath of fresh air, knowing that 3 year deals for journeymen crocks are finished and replaced with 1 year incentive based contracts is the way forward. I'm not sure that any team in the conference has a proven goalscorer, and if you look at last seasons top conference scorers there's plenty on that list who people thought wouldn't have been on there. Hoofball galore with Constable and Parkin in the same team, much rather see pace and younger players who have enough experience to know whats required of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 18:16:47 GMT
it strikes me that darrell clarke has stood his ground and held his nerve on recruitment policy,it does feel a bit different and more promising than our recruitment in recent seasons but of course its what happens from grimsby on that matters
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Post by rightsideofbristol on Jul 21, 2014 18:52:00 GMT
Yeah just think we could have signed some quality higher league players like Riodan and Clarkson...... Oh hang on
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Post by PeterHooper57 on Jul 22, 2014 5:37:09 GMT
Unfortunately, not one proven goal scorer amongst them. Our problem last season was a lack of goals. Would have loved to have seen BRFC sign Constable; with Parkin coming off the bench. UTG Constable at £2k per week and Parkin on not much less behind that?! Those days are over, for the first time in ages the recruitment has been a breath of fresh air, knowing that 3 year deals for journeymen crocks are finished and replaced with 1 year incentive based contracts is the way forward. I'm not sure that any team in the conference has a proven goalscorer, and if you look at last seasons top conference scorers there's plenty on that list who people thought wouldn't have been on there. Hoofball galore with Constable and Parkin in the same team, much rather see pace and younger players who have enough experience to know whats required of them. Youngsters. Both Mansell and Monkhouse are in their thirties. Parkin, Hughes, Constable (£2k per week, wheres the evidence ?) and Midson have proven track records of scoring goals. We currently have strikers with none. Brunt is always injured and so is the fella from salisbury (currently unfit according to DC) and neither of them or any of the others score goals. Only time will tell, although I hope DC can "walk the walk" !
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Post by stevek192 on Jul 22, 2014 6:45:41 GMT
The truth is PeterHooper57 if you don't create then your strikers are not going to score many goals. Take David Clarkson last season- he didnt score many goals but how many chances did he miss? How often was he played as a striker? How often did we play one up front? How many games did we play where we hardly created a worthwhile chance? Goalscorers need to go on runs of scoring goals but we played so defensive thatw e were never going to score enough goals.Hopefully this season it will be different and we actually can create chances and maybe then our strikers will have goalscoring records. If I had to give an opinion why White is injured so much then I would say its down to his general levels of fitness and you would hope that he would put this right and take this chance he has been given. I hope anyway that we bring in one more striker but feel our goals will be more down to if we have the players to create them.
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Post by The Man from Del Monte on Jul 22, 2014 7:18:58 GMT
Spot on Steve. If we don't have the personnel to create chances then our strikers will not score. Asking strikers to score out of nothing on a regular basis is not realistic.
Do we currently have enough creativity? Time will tell. I still feel we need one more creative player who is going to get us goals AND assists. I would also like to see us bring an experienced head up front. Someone who we can bring off the bench if needed. I'm not on about throwing money at players like Parkin or Constable, but someone like Jack Lester (an example!) who has been there and done it but can still offer us something.
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Post by gasgomarchingin on Jul 22, 2014 10:02:34 GMT
Has he recruited a decent striker yet? Yes, Jamie White.
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Post by gasgomarchingin on Jul 22, 2014 10:04:59 GMT
So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players. Unfortunately, not one proven goal scorer amongst them. Our problem last season was a lack of goals. Would have loved to have seen BRFC sign Constable; with Parkin coming off the bench. UTG So what is Jamie White then?
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Post by Gashead on Jul 22, 2014 10:06:55 GMT
Once Taylor moved away from the FGR set-up, he scored a goal a game for Chester. Suggests to me that, if we get some creativity in the side, we have two people in the side who will score goals.
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Jul 22, 2014 13:45:07 GMT
Has he recruited a decent striker yet? Are we in a decent league? Does he have a decent budget? I heard that we nearly completed a deal for Suarez but his 4 month ban meant the deal collapsed. I'll rephrase it: has he brought in a decent striker for this crap level we've fallen to or do we carry on from last season with our heads in the sand thinking we'll be alright and slip into Conference South in the last ten minutes of the season?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 13:52:09 GMT
So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players. Unfortunately, not one proven goal scorer amongst them. Our problem last season was a lack of goals. Would have loved to have seen BRFC sign Constable; with Parkin coming off the bench. UTG WE were never ever going to sign Constable. He left Oxford to join up with his old mate (who happens to own/sponsor the club?). If rumours are correct up here, he is now on more than he was at Oxford.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jul 22, 2014 13:55:03 GMT
Are we in a decent league? Does he have a decent budget? I heard that we nearly completed a deal for Suarez but his 4 month ban meant the deal collapsed. I'll rephrase it: has he brought in a decent striker for this crap level we've fallen to or do we carry on from last season with our heads in the sand thinking we'll be alright and slip into Conference South in the last ten minutes of the season? Nobody knows how anything will end up in football, lets just see where we are at in a few months time, pointless worrying and getting on the managers back when a ball hasn't even been kicked yet. If things are going in the wrong direction at Xmas, i will be at the front of that Que calling for DC head. The events over the summer has shown that the BoD are here to stay and nothing will change, but on the pitch i think DC is creating something special, and all the moaning and pressure is going to cripple our season before it's even started.
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Jul 22, 2014 14:07:49 GMT
I'm not calling for anyone's head, just wondering. You know what they say about repeating the same mistakes over again...
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Post by stevek192 on Jul 22, 2014 14:32:31 GMT
Jamie White I believe scored 11 in 17 appearances, Taylor six in 7 for Chester and Brunt is capable of scoring goals fitness permitting however, I too would like to see another striker come in to make it a choice of 4 with Lucas making up the fifth or maybe even Harrison.
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Post by alwaysgas on Jul 22, 2014 16:56:48 GMT
we have jamie white and matty taylor are they decent? dont know yet,we know ryan brunt is tidy if he stays fit,im glad we havnt signed iwelumo,parkin,hughes,midson or constable but if 1 of them scores 25 goals then im sure somebody will say we should have signed them. So far we have a strikeforce of Brunt (Good all round striker, decent in the air and on the floor, good finisher, has the potential to be our main man this season if he stays fit) White (When he's fit and healthy he has the chance to be the next Jamie Cureton, natural goalscorer, poacher we have missed for ages) Taylor (Gives us pace up front, knows the division well, another one who is a goalscorer and a clever footballer) Monkhouse (400 plus league appearances, big bloke, good footballer, highly rated, an option up front when he doesn't play out wide.) Harrison (Direct quote from DC on GP last week 'Never going to be a winger, he is a striker') (90% of the time he is useless, lets hope he proves people wrong) Lucas (Young targetman who has lots of potential. Hopefully DC will get him on loan so he doesn't waste away playing 1 reserve team game a month) Thompson (Trialist) (Sounds similar to Oumare Tounkara, big striker, pace and power, very raw, worth a contract if he does well in the next week) 7 strikers, 4 good ones and 3 youngsters with potential. The mix of the strikers and the strength in depth is decent, i also like the fact that DC has the option to keep back some of the budget to spend on a loan deal if by the end of august we are struggling to get goals or injury's are effecting our main forward players. I assume you haven't seen him yet WC but Thompson isn't a similar player to Tounkara. He is tall and slim and was able to flick the ball on, hold it up and always looked to bring in another player as quickly as possible. He also closed down defenders and was able to turn them as well and although a couple of times he was like Bambi on ice that is not unusual for a young tall leggy striker. It is difficult to say how quick he is as he didn't really get any chances to run or for that matter shoot. What was also good about him was that he looked to win the ball legally and did not holt our moves by giving away free kicks. This was refreshing to see after Harold, the all in wrestler, and was the first difference I noticed between Lambert and Walker, although of course there were a lot more. I thought he was well worth another look and so did DC as him, Trotman and possibly Higgins will be at Yeovil tonight so I assume Pierce may not stay, which on Saturdays performance I agree with. I thought the move that hopefully defines the way DC wants to play came very near the end on Saturday when we were 1 down. Preston stopped the ball from going out with his feet and immediately passed it to Greenslade and there then occurred a number of neat passes that unfortunately broke down on the edge of Bath's area when Harrison couldn't lay the ball off. Last year under Ward, Preston would have picked the ball up and hoofed it down the middle.
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