holmz
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Post by holmz on Sept 2, 2017 10:25:06 GMT
I wish, looks like Clarke has bought another very expensive dud as regards scoring still time I know.Cant help but think Clarke's philosophy of buying strikers with potential to score lots of goals is a bit flawed most other teams buy players that are already prolific in that department and then try and improve other aspects of their game. I've not seen much of him yet - but he seems to contribute a lot and has forced a few saves already. Seems quite unfair to criticise a player after only a handful of games. Maybe reserve judgement until the lad has played a few more times... "expensive dud" after 4 league games FFS. Go and have a lie down.
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LPGas
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Post by LPGas on Sept 4, 2017 18:21:14 GMT
"It took the snake ages to start scoring regularly." Quite right, and I remember the same applied to Rickie Lambert, Jason Roberts, and Nathan Ellington to name but three from the past! Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton
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Post by LPGas on Sept 4, 2017 18:23:36 GMT
Alledgdly £300k on Nicholls. Bradford spend £250k on man who scores a hat trick last Saturday.
We have too many players who average at best
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 20:10:26 GMT
"It took the snake ages to start scoring regularly." Quite right, and I remember the same applied to Rickie Lambert, Jason Roberts, and Nathan Ellington to name but three from the past! Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two.
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Post by LPGas on Sept 5, 2017 12:58:25 GMT
Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. I was sat with his mum when he scored. I taught him for 4 years
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Post by PessimistGas on Sept 5, 2017 13:21:49 GMT
Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. Cureton's full debut was a 1-0 win at Home Park vs Plymouth - Lee Archer scored. They had Bruce Grobbelaar in goal who got some ridiculous stick for the whole game (it was around the time of match fixing scandal). He scored 2 against Chesterfield at home a week later. Remember it like it was yesterday, great days, before follwing the Gas made me all twisted and cynical. A few weeks later he scored a thunderbolt against Crewe with Andy Gurney getting another worldy. The game was played on a Friday night and we posted a rare +6,000 crowd, which was considered a large crowd.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 13:24:02 GMT
Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. I was sat with his mum when he scored. I taught him for 4 years Ellington scored on his second home appearance. His debut v Gillingham was 0-1. he nearly scored with a header where he outjumped a much taller opponent but that was as good as it got.
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Sept 5, 2017 16:34:09 GMT
Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. Cureton's full debut was a 1-0 win at Home Park vs Plymouth - Lee Archer scored. They had Bruce Grobbelaar in goal who got some ridiculous stick for the whole game (it was around the time of match fixing scandal). He scored 2 against Chesterfield at home a week later. Remember it like it was yesterday, great days, before follwing the Gas made me all twisted and cynical. A few weeks later he scored a thunderbolt against Crewe with Andy Gurney getting another worldy. The game was played on a Friday night and we posted a rare +6,000 crowd, which was considered a large crowd. I certainly remember that thunderbolt against Crewe - they were at or near the top at the time with an excellent side full of many of Dario Gradi's marquee youngsters and we'd been battered up to that point and somehow stayed on level terms. I said to my mate 'what the hell is he doing' when he let that one fly; he's not let me forget that. The Gurney won was even more of a shock - somehow we won despite spending most of the game in our own penalty area.
Also remember the return fixture v Plymouth that year and Grobelaar spending the whole time patently not giving a s**t and bantering with the clubhouse before conceding a comedy goal. I was a huge Grobelaar fan as a kid as I was a childhood Liverpool fan. But it's always occurred that nobody had a better cover for match fixing than him - how the hell would you tell? All he had to do was walk into court and show an extended video of his career. 'Honestly, m'lud, I'm not bent I've just always give up s**t goals'. He was genuinely my football hero as a young kid but now I look at footage and think 'really? did someone think this guy was a top class goalie?' - I know he pulled off some amazing saves but there's so much footage of him looking like a complete liability. I don't think he'd last 5 minutes now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 19:12:10 GMT
Alledgdly £300k on Nicholls. Bradford spend £250k on man who scores a hat trick last Saturday. We have too many players who average at best The fees for wyke and nichols were undisclosed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 19:23:00 GMT
Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. Cureton's full debut was a 1-0 win at Home Park vs Plymouth - Lee Archer scored. They had Bruce Grobbelaar in goal who got some ridiculous stick for the whole game (it was around the time of match fixing scandal). He scored 2 against Chesterfield at home a week later. Remember it like it was yesterday, great days, before follwing the Gas made me all twisted and cynical. A few weeks later he scored a thunderbolt against Crewe with Andy Gurney getting another worldy. The game was played on a Friday night and we posted a rare +6,000 crowd, which was considered a large crowd. After Cureton's first v Chesterfield a bloke ran from the crowd and embraced him. Anyone want to own up to that?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 8:55:19 GMT
Ellington definitely didn't, but Cureton got two. Cureton's full debut was a 1-0 win at Home Park vs Plymouth - Lee Archer scored. They had Bruce Grobbelaar in goal who got some ridiculous stick for the whole game (it was around the time of match fixing scandal). He scored 2 against Chesterfield at home a week later. Remember it like it was yesterday, great days, before follwing the Gas made me all twisted and cynical. A few weeks later he scored a thunderbolt against Crewe with Andy Gurney getting another worldy. The game was played on a Friday night and we posted a rare +6,000 crowd, which was considered a large crowd. I was at the game at Plymouth,I think it was the only time I have seen Rovers win there,it was a good day out,couple of drinks in the Penny come quick near the station and walk through the park to the ground,stood in the Devonport end. Sadly the Penny come quick is gone and the ground has been changed into another soulless place (apart from the old stand) shame as it used to be a proper old style ground.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 6, 2017 11:51:08 GMT
I hate this fanbase so much most of the time EDIT: well not the fanbase, just... this mob of negative people that show up all damn week everywhere. It's enough to lose the enthusiasm to go isn't it. At our last home game there were a group of about 10-15, on the west terrace, who moaned for much of the game and one younger guy challenged them and it came close to nastiness. I sometimes wonder why some even turn up if all they aim to do is to undermine our own players. I ended up managing to blag a seat upstairs for the second half as a friend had to leave and let me have his place. I don't think I've ever been so grateful to move away from where I normally stand.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 6, 2017 11:55:41 GMT
Alledgdly £300k on Nicholls. Bradford spend £250k on man who scores a hat trick last Saturday. We have too many players who average at best How does anyone know what we paid please ? I know the idiot who owns posh was saying he didn't feature in this seasons plans and that he did well to get the money he did for him but I've seen no figures been bandied about. Any links ? Thanks in advance
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 6, 2017 12:05:19 GMT
"It took the snake ages to start scoring regularly." Quite right, and I remember the same applied to Rickie Lambert, Jason Roberts, and Nathan Ellington to name but three from the past! Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton And, if you remember it, many said Cureton was a lazy barsteward ! I wish we had a couple that lazy right now but then, our strikers can only score if they get given good ball. Seems they are expected to get back to pick up what the defenders miss and then run on with it and score right now. We really do need that one player who can provide the front line with good ball and someone who can also maybe hold up the ball and spray it to oncoming strikers. I think someone said that Carl Saunders was a defender until Gerry Francis got him playing up front but I could be mistaken. We need someone who can hold the ball up as he used to.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 6, 2017 12:14:41 GMT
PessimistGas "before follwing the Gas made me all twisted and cynical" I feel you mate. For the first time since the nearly season of 99/2000 I am questioning my reasons to go to games. I am positive that if not for the person I go with, I would probably be cherry picking the games I go to or not going at all. I don't mind being called a fairweather fan, water off of a ducks back but damn, it gets hard when you go and all you seem to hear is moaning. It was deserved V Posh but the whole team and not just one striker. Maybe it's an age thing ? I just don't get why anyone would go if they are only going to moan and even boo our own team. I know this is cliche but our fans aren't how they used to be. I remember when it was all fields 😂😂👍🏻
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Post by bloogas on Sept 6, 2017 16:07:42 GMT
Wrong Nathan Ellington scored on his home debut, as did Cureton And, if you remember it, many said Cureton was a lazy barsteward ! I wish we had a couple that lazy right now but then, our strikers can only score if they get given good ball. Seems they are expected to get back to pick up what the defenders miss and then run on with it and score right now. We really do need that one player who can provide the front line with good ball and someone who can also maybe hold up the ball and spray it to oncoming strikers. I think someone said that Carl Saunders was a defender until Gerry Francis got him playing up front but I could be mistaken. We need someone who can hold the ball up as he used to. I read that Saunders was a fullback. Don't know if he'd ever played up front before he came to us.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 17:31:48 GMT
And, if you remember it, many said Cureton was a lazy barsteward ! I wish we had a couple that lazy right now but then, our strikers can only score if they get given good ball. Seems they are expected to get back to pick up what the defenders miss and then run on with it and score right now. We really do need that one player who can provide the front line with good ball and someone who can also maybe hold up the ball and spray it to oncoming strikers. I think someone said that Carl Saunders was a defender until Gerry Francis got him playing up front but I could be mistaken. We need someone who can hold the ball up as he used to. I read that Saunders was a fullback. Don't know if he'd ever played up front before he came to us. It's a myth I think. He possibly started off as a defender but he'd been playing up front for Stoke for years, without scoring many goals.
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 6, 2017 17:53:02 GMT
And, if you remember it, many said Cureton was a lazy barsteward ! I wish we had a couple that lazy right now but then, our strikers can only score if they get given good ball. Seems they are expected to get back to pick up what the defenders miss and then run on with it and score right now. We really do need that one player who can provide the front line with good ball and someone who can also maybe hold up the ball and spray it to oncoming strikers. I think someone said that Carl Saunders was a defender until Gerry Francis got him playing up front but I could be mistaken. We need someone who can hold the ball up as he used to. I read that Saunders was a fullback. Don't know if he'd ever played up front before he came to us. Thanks for that. I didn't know if it was maybe a false memory
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Post by LPGas on Sept 25, 2017 9:39:02 GMT
Alledgdly £300k on Nicholls. Bradford spend £250k on man who scores a hat trick last Saturday. We have too many players who average at best How does anyone know what we paid please ? I know the idiot who owns posh was saying he didn't feature in this seasons plans and that he did well to get the money he did for him but I've seen no figures been bandied about. Any links ? Thanks in advance Posh turned down 280k apparently. From their local paper
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kingswood Polak
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Post by kingswood Polak on Sept 25, 2017 16:16:16 GMT
How does anyone know what we paid please ? I know the idiot who owns posh was saying he didn't feature in this seasons plans and that he did well to get the money he did for him but I've seen no figures been bandied about. Any links ? Thanks in advance Posh turned down 280k apparently. From their local paper If it’s anything like our bristol post then just information the trawled from forums and Facebook
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