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PV1973

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  1. As daft as it may sound a performance like this on live tv could see a league club come in for him.
  2. I really struggle to get excited about an untried youngster coming in on loan. All being well he works out like Arblaster and Devine did.
  3. You’re Nathan smith keeping an eye on VFIA / Devine intervention?
  4. Said the same earlier, but someone isn’t listening, as they still think the remainder of the contract MUST be paid up in full.
  5. It is absolutely true though. The player could turn around and say I didn’t ask to leave, but you’ve agreed a fee (or he’s told he can leave for nothing because they want him out), so he asks for a percentage of his wages. It is genuine.
  6. All the talk of uche going and us having to pay his wages is a real grey area. There are many ways it could go. We could demand a fee or else he isn’t going anywhere. We could let him go for no fee if we just wanted him off the books. We could come to an agreement over his last 6 months and not pay the full amount but pay a percentage of it. He could get a signing on fee / increased wages / longer contract there and ask us if he can go for nothing. it’s not cut and dried that a player has to have his full contract paid up. It just depends how negations go between the clubs and agent.
  7. But there’s a massive difference between getting hammered by half time and still being in the game at half time, despite what we may think of what we have or haven’t created. It’s face it, if he hadn’t changed it he would have got criticised for not changing things. So it’s whatever suits the narrative isn’t it.
  8. Of course we were desperate to get back in it somehow. But without checking any stats I can’t think of another game apart from the opening match where we were so far out of it at half time.
  9. The thing is that football clubs up and down the country have seen what Uche can bring to a team and have bought him in to do a job. He isn’t making a career of it by being totally crap. The old dreaded nasty agent theory. No contract is going to say you talk to other clubs if you want to. It may have a release clause in there. Maybe other clubs have contacted us and come in for him who are looking for a striker like him? Maybe we’ve told him he can go as we’ll get a fee? Maybe he’s unhappy here and wants to leave? Maybe he hasn’t brought to the team what we thought he would and we have someone else lined up? Maybe he’s going to get more money by moving? Loads of factors come in to play and other clubs will know he only has 6 months left in his deal. I disagree. We’re losing a game that we need to get back in and what we were doing in the first half wasn’t working, he had to change it and whether we were top of the league or bottom I think he would have done the same.
  10. Plymouth had just lost a loan player who plays in midfield too who went back to his parent club and then was farmed back out to Stoke. Maybe they’ve identified Devine as his replacement.
  11. The 2 latest loans seem to indicate that we have been working in the background to identify replacements just in case they went back to their parent club. Hopefully we have someone lined up to replace Devine.
  12. Is Williams a left or right sided centre half?
  13. Agree with this and now I think l we can see where we need to strengthen. Wingback / fullback who can give us more options to change things during a game, 1 centre mid (poss 2) and someone creative like Airblaster. Be interesting to see what happens with Devine and Balmer too.
  14. It’s bad enough watching your kids playing amateur football and trying to get involved by saying stuff to fans / other parents being negative at that level. Cant imagine it’s worth having a pop at fans around you in a crowd of thousands at a professional game.
  15. If we can get someone else to play wingback yes..
  16. I think the writing was on the wall once he had his shirt number taken off him. Now he can’t even make the bench when we have a lot of injuries which clearly says that Crosby isn’t having him. Wouldnt be surprised to see him off to Cheltenham in January. It’s a shame, he’s been good for us. But equally he’s also been playing in a side doing poorly so Im not convinced he’s as pivotal to us staying up or not as people may think. He can’t do it on his own. Hes a loan who was always going to go back given factors like how Sheffield are doing, how well he’s played individually, the big injury he just suffered and how the mood has turned here too. Now we need other players to step up to the plate or we bring in someone as good in January.
  17. At this rate Ben Garrity could attract some interest.
  18. Let’s say we had signed him back as we intended in August, we would have been rotating between him, clark, grant, Massey and plant as wingbacks. More options between the 5 of them. More options to go 4 at the back in a game if needed and also less load on players like Clark and Grant. Either way we need to be recruiting for the wingback position come January whoever it is that we bring in.
  19. I can see why we wanted to get someone like Gibbo back in to the fold as we need competition on both sides of the pitch at wing back and players that could play full back if needed too. My understanding is that it was almost done but we couldn’t shift someone out of the club to make it happen. In addition I think it was either Yates or Sproson that said he was close to coming back in when they commentated on whichever away game it was just after the window shut. Now it looks like he’s in and out of the squad at Bristol it wouldn’t surprise me if we possibly went back for him. So for all our criticism of the recruitment process it does seem like we at least tried to address the wing back / full back issue, but couldn’t get it sorted. I’ve said before that if we can get decent fullbacks and wingbacks in that will give us 30+ appearances a season, who will also add some strength and depth to the squad then that’s the way we should be going because this season and last season that position has not been sorted.
  20. What will be interesting if Crosby goes and we get a new man in is what formation will he want to play? Because a new man may prefer 4 at the back. Which means a massive change in playing personnel at the club. Plus if we are thinking of making a change then it needs to be done soon so the new man can assess the squad himself. We don’t want another situation of the manager not going til the end of the jan window.
  21. The odd crossfield pass that works doesn’t make him a good player. His defensive work should be what defines him. We need him to ad balance to the side on the left hand side of defence and he’s a valuable member of the squad when he’s fit.
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