McAtee

It's all academic really.

I'm sure PH had good reasons for doing what he did and you can't really criticise what he has achieved in the cup this season.

We were getting nowhere near them whatever the line up.

PH probably thought there was only one way we could win this tie - to stay in the game for as long as possible and then hope we had something in the tank in the last quarter to create something. In which case having McAtee charging round with energy in the last quarter would be the plan. Hunt was brought on to help us keep the ball a bit better I expect. If we’d held it at 1-0 to 70 mins or so it could then have got interesting, as it was we were gone once the second went in.

He threw a paddy over being subbed off a couple of games ago and Hurst wasn't having that so is benching him. Hurst doesn't like players who talk back or question him.

To be honest, Mcatee didn’t look fit when he came in. As soon as they got the third he saw his bottom.

Massively disappointing from him…

He injected a tiny bit of energy and urgency when he came on at the start of the first half. But I don’t really think it was a huge issue with him not being in the starting 11.

He’s not having a particularly good season in the EFL by his own standards in the National League last season. For the majority of this season I’ve referred to him being a bit of a luxury player, that has often flattered to deceive.

I don’t think he will feature greatly next season at Luton. I think he needs to impress far more consistently at L1 and L2 levels before you will ever see him making a dent anywhere in the Championship

On a wider note ,there is no way at this point Mcatee is Championship standard -will be interesting to see what Luton do with him next season ,they might even be in the Prem .

Would expect him to be loaned out , maybe a lower end league 1 team .

We did good business getting the cash we did for him tbh , if we can use a small amount of that to tempt Cheltenham and sign lloyd on a decent length contract it would be the icing on the cake as I think although slightly different ,in terms of quality there isnt much in it between them +i cant imagine Lloyd answers back .

All opinion of course .

Quoted from Mappers

On a wider note ,there is no way at this point Mcatee is Championship standard -will be interesting to see what Luton do with him next season ,they might even be in the Prem .

Would expect him to be loaned out , maybe a lower end league 1 team .

We did good business getting the cash we did for him tbh , if we can use a small amount of that to tempt Cheltenham and sign lloyd on a decent length contract it would be the icing on the cake as I think although slightly different ,in terms of quality there isnt much in it between them +i cant imagine Lloyd answers back .

All opinion of course .

It would be interesting to know what cash we did get or him before deciding on whether it was good business.

He is currently on £4000 per week at Luton of which we pay 50% to have him returned to us for the season, most of which he has either been injured or ineffective.

He has been a great player for us, though I am looking forward to next season when he is no longer an option and we have hopefully secured a couple of long term strikers of quality with the money we have accrued from the cup run.

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It would be interesting to know what cash we did get or him before deciding on whether it was good business.

He is currently on £4000 per week at Luton of which we pay 50% to have him returned to us for the season, most of which he has either been injured or ineffective.

He has been a great player for us, though I am looking forward to next season when he is no longer an option and we have hopefully secured a couple of long term strikers of quality with the money we have accrued from the cup run.

I cant see how it wouldnt have been a good deal for us
-Leaves at the end of this season for free anyway
-We get a fee and him loaned back for a season

I think the issue you are reffering to is that IYO he has underperformed this season (which i would actually agree with )

I just hope people dont continually bring him up as one to return in future if he becomes available ,he did well in the NL (which he was a level above ) time for him and us to move on .

Quoted from Mappers

On a wider note ,there is no way at this point Mcatee is Championship standard -will be interesting to see what Luton do with him next season ,they might even be in the Prem .

Would expect him to be loaned out , maybe a lower end league 1 team .

We did good business getting the cash we did for him tbh , if we can use a small amount of that to tempt Cheltenham and sign lloyd on a decent length contract it would be the icing on the cake as I think although slightly different ,in terms of quality there isnt much in it between them +i cant imagine Lloyd answers back .

All opinion of course .

He's perhaps become a bit of an Omar Bogle since getting injured and coming back on loan. When he's good he's very good but he has a tendency to get frustrated and take himself out the game. We saw it sometimes in the NL too but he was so beyond that league he was often able to make something happen instead of waste chances by trying to do things on his own. Probably likes to party on his days off a bit too much and became too much of a Billy big boots since signing for Luton for Hurst's liking and he finally put his foot down. He's always been the type of manager who prefers players to be more disciplined and professional.

He's a good player and has been for us since he signed but at this point he should perhaps knuckle down and focus on his own game instead of throwing a tantrum when things aren't going his way.

MCAtee was not the only frustrated player yesterday, as our passing of the ball, when we did get our 20 odd% possession, was rather poor.

Several of Crocombe's kicks out just flew into touch giving the ball steaight back.

Brighton just kept making simple passes to each other, waiting for us to attempt tackles so they could feed the ball through to swift runners.

Town held back and that just made for a slow game in the 1st half. They looked like any through ball correctly made would lead to a chance to score, but didn't pass until a strong run was being made.

Brighton rarely got out of 2nd gear, and didn't need to, really.

In reality, they should have scored more, but didn't have to cheat or foul us like Southampton did.

This was a sharp lesson in patient build ups, accurate passing, and having lively attackers who made runs for each other in turn.

They did to us what we did to Dover, yes it hurts, but it also shows what we need to improve ready for next season at our level.

Anyone got £354 million going spare?

They continually research, they select from the conveyor belt, they improve eager players, they eventually sell at huge profit, and they go back to the conveyor belt again.

We need to set up a lower league level conveyor belt approach !!