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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Feb 1, 2019 6:34:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 7:03:03 GMT
All 3 of the component parts of his name could be first or surnames. Hopefully nobody bullies him...hands off our Johnson. Welcome to the Gas. Expect people to slag you off before seeing you play.
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on Feb 1, 2019 7:15:23 GMT
Some are raging on the other forum. Don't know how people can do that before he's even kicked a ball. Looks handy judging by a goals video there - but then they all do. Got a good left foot and is good in the air. He's at the age where he could mature into something special. Fingers crossed that he does.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 7:24:40 GMT
Exactly Cabbage Man. Glad to say the only time I read that forum was when someone added a link. Depressing.
The so called appreciation page on Facebook is just as bad.
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Post by thegasman on Feb 1, 2019 7:26:29 GMT
While I really do hope and pray JCH hits the ground running, his tally of 6 in 29 (no assists) this season doesn't inspire confidence. How many games do we have left?
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Post by Igitur on Feb 1, 2019 7:45:13 GMT
A lot of people would have gone to bed last night disappointed (keep it clean) as the BBC has the reported time of the deal as 23.55, I gave up at 23.00. We'll have to give him a go, the mantra of bringing in a player who adds to the squad is seen as surely he must be better than Payne.
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Post by One F in Dunford on Feb 1, 2019 7:46:59 GMT
I’m pleased with this signing. First saw him playing for Coventry youths against us and he was head and shoulders above the other players on the pitch. Have followed his career a bit since and I believe that he’s a bit of a “rough diamond” who can mature into a very good player. Does a lot of running, gives 100% and is very strong. Just the sort of player we need to lead the line, bringing other player into play.
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Post by eppinggas on Feb 1, 2019 7:53:27 GMT
And it's definitely not Katarina Johnson-Thomson? Welcome to the Club Johnson. Let's give him 100% backing from the Gas. We will need his goals to stay up. (The only other person I have heard of called Johnson is in Peep Show). Stay UTG.
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Post by warehamgas on Feb 1, 2019 8:02:48 GMT
Seems a good signing. Goodish record and GC has worked with him which has got to be good. As we might not have much money and GC has said we need to get several out before getting someone in I guess he’s been as good as his word. I like it that a manager has been straightforward and done what he said he will do. And Rovers seem to have been working on this right to the end. I would say well done everyone involved but I don’t expect many others to agree! UTG!
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Post by laughinggas on Feb 1, 2019 8:16:13 GMT
Look at our history of strikers. Probably any club. Can be a great deal or naff deal. Let's hope this is a great one and we unleash his skills.
Just imagine comments back in the day when we signed Archie Stevens or Paul Randell from non league Carl Saunders playing left back. Just for starters.
I choose to forget Robbie Turner and all the other camel's
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Post by vaughan on Feb 1, 2019 9:42:21 GMT
His clips show that he is a powerful runner with a bullet of a left foot.
His goals record is mediocre.
However, he may be a confidence player. If the crowd get behind a powerful centre-forward and instil confidence, then we maybe surprised. See Archie and Bruno.
That's why everyone disliked Payne. He was not aggressive enough for our simple tastes.
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Post by bloogas on Feb 1, 2019 9:46:09 GMT
The obvious hope is that he provides the knockdowns, etc., for Nichols, Reilly & Jacubiak.
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Post by laughinggas on Feb 1, 2019 10:07:32 GMT
Not sure a good day to "gel" and go straight into the team.
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Post by Igitur on Feb 1, 2019 10:19:53 GMT
Not sure a good day to "gel" and go straight into the team. Yes, I'm always amused when a player is bought late in the week by teams and goes straight into a team. He must be a natural and/or a fast learner. Interesting to see if JC-H starts or sits on the bench to watch how TN plays
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 10:55:12 GMT
Not sure a good day to "gel" and go straight into the team. It's a perfect day, we have a multi-million pound, state of the art indoor training complex, don't we?
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Post by harrybuckle on Feb 1, 2019 11:24:41 GMT
here's Jonny ...everything you wanted to know about our striker. Compiled by Stephen Byrne.
JONSON CLARKE-HARRIS b 21.7.1994 Leicester F 6’; 11 st 3 lbs Career: Beaumont Town; Judgemeadow; 1.7.10 Coventry City; 8.5.12 Blackburn Rovers (trial); 23.7.12 Peterborough United (free); 12.10.12 SouthendUnited (loan) [0+3,0]; 23.2.13 Bury (loan) [4+8,4]; 15.5.13 Oldham Athletic (free) [28+17,7]; 1.9.14 Rotherham United (£350,000) [27+44,9]; 16.1.15 MK Dons (loan) [2+3,0]; 12.3.15 Doncaster Rovers (loan) [2+6,1]; 31.1.18 Coventry City (loan); 1.7.18 CoventryCity (free) [30+14,8]; 31.1.19 Bristol Rovers (free). Shortly before midnight on Transfer Deadline Day, Rovers announced the signing of striker Jonson Clarke-Harris, once Rotherham’s club recordsigning. As The Gas lay second from the foot of the table, goals were needed if the side was to preserve its hard-earned League One status. Clarke-Harris had once become Coventry’s youngest ever player, when he appeared in an August 2010 League Cup-tie atCraig Stanley’s Morecambe just twenty days after his sixteenth birthday, and it was from Coventry that he joined Rovers almost a decade later. After a goal in his solitary appearance for Blackburn reserves, the striker played for Southend on loan against Rotherham,Morecambe and Aldershot before a loan spell at Bury included two goals against Yeovil Town on his final appearance. Oldham’s Young Player of the Season in 2013-14, he claimed his first goal for the club with a twenty-five-yard free-kick against Notts Countyand commanded an impressive transfer fee after scoring in three consecutive fixtures in December 2013. He was sent off, just twenty minutes after coming on as a substitute, twelve minutes from the end of Oldham’s 3-1 home defeat against Preston North End inMarch 2014. An impressive start at Rotherham saw Clarke-Harris claim his first goal with a long-range strike as local rivals Leeds United were defeated 2-1 and he hit two goals as Bristol City crashed 3-0 in November 2015, but his spell in Yorkshire was punctuatedby a string of loan deals and the fact that he missed much of the 2016-17 campaign with a cruciate ligament injury. MK Dons were promoted in 2014-15 and his only Doncaster goal came against his former and future club Coventry. After making a brief substituteappearance at the Mem in December 2017, as Rovers beat Rotherham 2-1, he helped Coventry secure promotion to League One in the spring of 2018. Even after a 6-2 home defeat to Yeovil Town on Easter Monday, the Sky Blues triumphed in the play-off final; beforea crowd of 50,196, they defeated Exeter City 3-1, Clarke-Harris appearing as a substitute for the final thirty-nine minutes on the Wembley turf. Subsequently, he was in the Coventry side which conceded three goals in the opening 23 minutes at The Mem, as Rovers triumphed 3-1 in a League One fixture in September 2018.
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Post by a more piratey game on Feb 1, 2019 13:17:23 GMT
GC has worked with him which has got to be good that's the best bit for me. GC likely to know how to use and motivate him, with an idea of where he will fit
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Post by a more piratey game on Feb 1, 2019 13:19:32 GMT
That's why everyone disliked Payne. He was not aggressive enough for our simple tastes. don't agree Vaughan. I think it was because people thought he was moody and precious - like the onus was on us to build him up, he didn't like it being on him to perform
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Post by harrybuckle on Feb 1, 2019 14:43:16 GMT
Everything you wanted to know about Abu. Compiled by Stephen Byrne
ABUMERE TAFADZWA OGOGO b 3.11.1989 Epsom M 5’ 8”; 12 st 4 lbs Career: Beacon School, Banstead; 2000 Wimbledon; 2004 Fulham (trial); July 2004 Arsenal (professional, 3.5.07); 2.10.08 Nottingham Forest (trial); 13.11.08 Barnet (loan) [7+2,1]; 29.6.09 Dagenham and Redbridge (free) [218+7,17]; 1.6.15 Shrewsbury Town (free) [102+1,4]; 26.6.18 Coventry City (free) [6+4,0]; 31.1.19 Bristol Rovers (free). Seasoned Rovers supporters had seen tough-tackling midfielder Abu Ogogo play on a number of occasions against The Gas. Six League appearances for Dagenham against Rovers, the first being Rovers’ crushing 4-0 defeat in May 2012 and the run including a goal ten minutes into Rovers’ 2-0 loss in September 2013, had preceded three matches in a Shrewsbury side containing future Rovers players in Stefan Payne and Alex Rodman. It was on the day that Payne left on loan that the lifelong Chelsea fan, brought up in the Surrey village of Tadworth of Nigerian descent, arrived at The Mem to attempt to save the Pirates from relegation to League Two. “A real warrior on the pitch”, as Rovers’ manager Graham Coughlan described him, he brought with him the experience of well over 300 League matches. Having joined Arsenal from Fulham alongside Kieran Gibbs, who won ten England caps, Ogogo was converted from a striker to a midfielder into a rapid full-back in the Gunners’ side which reached the FA Youth Cup semi-finals in 2006-07, even making the bench in the League Cup in 2008. After a trial game for Forest’s reserves against Shrewsbury Town, he scored for Barnet against Luton Town but also picked up two red cards in his brief spell at Underhill. Indeed, for a while indiscipline threatened to derail his burgeoning football career, as he was also sent off three times each with both Dagenham and Shrewsbury; he also pleaded guilty, in May 2010, to grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm during an assault in Croydon in August 2008 and received a suspended eight-month prison sentence as well as being asked to complete 120 hours of unpaid community service. Thereafter, Ogogo developed into a fine midfielder, well-respected through the lower leagues, growing in stature under the watchful eye of the former Rovers coach John Still at Dagenham. He was in the Daggers’ side, with Anwar U’ddin an unused substitute for his team, which defeated Rotherham United 3-2 at Wembley in May 2010, before an attendance of 32,054, in the League Two play-off final, but which was relegated twelve months later after crashing 5-0 at Peterborough on the final day. Captain of the Daggers from 2012, he was named as their Player of the Year in 2013-14. He even played in the astonishing 6-6 draw with Brentford in the League Cup in August 2014, a match which also featured Jamie Cureton and Tony Craig. Player of the Year for the Shrews in 2015-16, he started the 2017-18 season as captain but was no longer in the side as they suffered agonising Wembley defeats in both the Football League Trophy and the League One play-off final.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 16:26:42 GMT
It's yet another fingers crossed striker. We have had enough of those recently of which none have worked. We are second from bottom we no longer have the time to wait for yet another striker to come good. Having said that it was what I expected. When decent money had to be spent on a proven goalscorer the owners have buried there heads in the sand yet again.
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