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Post by emperorsuperbus on Jun 17, 2020 11:57:59 GMT
I’ll concede Craig extended his career coming down to Bristol, the pull of London area may be greater this summer, he may have a coaching element already lined up. And I agree the non retained list has some likely high contract earners from the mistakes made in the end period of Daryl. To some extent it’s fair play to the board for giving Clarke the money and freedom, but ultimately you need as much of wage budget on field influencing games as often as possible. It won’t always be perfect, and a differential is taking a punt on talented injury prone player and I admit I didn’t see Nichols being goal scoring flop the day he signed. But truth of football is mistakes made several managers ago can be a headache years later.
I insist though, non retained and out of contract has experience and willing runners on the list, if not replaced we won’t have an effective team no matter how many decent passers we sign.
Josh Barrel for example could go either way, success or temperamental flop, but at best will ask for the ball to his feet, and fill the hole like an enganche not run the channels pulling men off Jono the way Nichols done.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jun 17, 2020 12:04:34 GMT
Josh Barrel for example could go either way, success or temperamental flop, but at best will ask for the ball to his feet, and fill the hole like an enganche not run the channels pulling men off Jono the way Nichols done. good point
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Post by irishrover on Jun 17, 2020 13:16:28 GMT
Harries is the one with great potential and very highly rated All four look decent so it will be interesting to see who nails down the centre-back positions. Again - I point to our previous experience of assuming we had sufficient promising back-up to cover for an expensive but experienced departing Centre Back. It has not gone well for us. I think I'm entitled to be a bit nervous about this.
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Post by droitwichgas on Jun 17, 2020 19:12:46 GMT
All four look decent so it will be interesting to see who nails down the centre-back positions. Again - I point to our previous experience of assuming we had sufficient promising back-up to cover for an expensive but experienced departing Centre Back. It has not gone well for us. I think I'm entitled to be a bit nervous about this. Assuming Davis returns fit and then remains fit surely our starting CB's next season was always going to be Davis and Kilgore, with Mayo & Harris as back ups, I can't see where Craig would have fitted in next season if he'd stayed. Plus I assume he's looking for another 2 years contact and I can't see how we could risk offering him such a long contract. The important signings for me are a creative midfielder to replace Sercs/Lines and a No 10 who can score at least 15 goals next term. assuming there's any playing budget left to spend.
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 18, 2020 8:44:05 GMT
Again - I point to our previous experience of assuming we had sufficient promising back-up to cover for an expensive but experienced departing Centre Back. It has not gone well for us. I think I'm entitled to be a bit nervous about this. Assuming Davis returns fit and then remains fit surely our starting CB's next season was always going to be Davis and Kilgore, with Mayo & Harris as back ups, I can't see where Craig would have fitted in next season if he'd stayed. Plus I assume he's looking for another 2 years contact and I can't see how we could risk offering him such a long contract. The important signings for me are a creative midfielder to replace Sercs/Lines and a No 10 who can score at least 15 goals next term. assuming there's any playing budget left to spend. Tony Craig was effectively our captain last year. He organised the defence and it was that 'hard to beat' mentality which got us to 2nd in the table ('as it stands' table - half time 26th Dec 2019). Real shame he can't be retained in some capacity. I think it unlikely he'll get a 2 year playing contract in the EFL - but you never know. He's probably had a couple of extra years playing at this sort of level anyway, he nearly joined Billericay... I note that Tony also has a significantly better goal scoring record than Tom Nichols. Tony Craig: 5 from 97 (no penalties). Tom Nichols: 4 from 93 (2 penalties). Good luck Millwall Tone.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jun 23, 2020 13:25:32 GMT
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 23, 2020 15:58:31 GMT
I seem to recall us having Sheppard, Laurie Taylor, Crabtree and Dalrymple all on the books at the same time.
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Post by womble on Jun 23, 2020 16:45:11 GMT
I seem to recall us having Sheppard, Laurie Taylor, Crabtree and Dalrymple all on the books at the same time. Wasn’t Richard Crabtree the really short one for a goalkeeper at 5ft 7in? Never really got a look in.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jun 23, 2020 18:55:16 GMT
I seem to recall us having Sheppard, Laurie Taylor, Crabtree and Dalrymple all on the books at the same time. Wasn’t Richard Crabtree the really short one for a goalkeeper at 5ft 7in? Never really got a look in. We moved to Wembley in 1970 (when I was 7) so I never got to see him play as he made his debut in 1971 (as did Dalrymple). I just recall that either the Rovers yearbook from 1970 or the Rothman’s football yearbook for that year listed Sheppard and Taylor as keepers who’d made first team appearances for us (although Taylor was never to make another one) whilst Crabtree and Dalrymple both hadn’t had a game yet. I remember thinking well they’ll never get a game with the other two ahead of them...Sheppard then completed a full 46 game season (the only time he did so) and Taylor was released. The following season both of them got a game when Sheppard missed 9 successive games...which was the season before the one where he got the skull injury that curtailed his career (he made one further Gas appearance after that injury).
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Post by mangogas15 on Jun 23, 2020 19:25:46 GMT
All four look decent so it will be interesting to see who nails down the centre-back positions. Yes, agree with that. Harries is the only ball player, Davies the leader, Alfie and Rollin utility CBs Or that's how I see it, without having seen it Davies needs to stay fit
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