Hope we get a new contract sorted quickly.Artell did say it would be looked at after the transfer window closed. Anybody heard anything?

He is becoming increasingly important to the side along with George.

He is very reliant on DA, look how often he looks across to DA for guidance.

During the window DA did say once it was closed they’d be talking to a few players.

Denver is a class above coming forward with the ball. Great now we’ve got Jason on the right hand side, makes the whole team much more dangerous. Hope we can keep them in tandem next season 🤞

Imagine he has already been offered something but keeping his options open ; I can't imagine he wasn't in the same group as Green & Rose as priorities to tie down - you would think it will take us getting the big promotion to have a chance of keeping him with his output going forward this season imo .

No talks had started with his agent prior to the window closing.

Quoted from Alan Buckley

No talks had started with his agent prior to the window closing.

Surely that's stating the bleeding obvious isn't it? All depends on how we do n how his form holds ip over the next 3-4 months

Quoted from forza ivano

Surely that's stating the bleeding obvious isn't it? All depends on how we do n how his form holds ip over the next 3-4 months

Someone said they thought he’d be in the same group as rose and green to be offered a deal. I was just saying he wasn’t. Wind your neck in.

He does get away with lots of foul throws mind !

Quoted from livosnose

He does get away with lots of foul throws mind !

I have noticed most long throws are foul ones in all divisions.

Nobody seem to care that their feet are in the field of play when they throw .

Quoted from grimsby pete

I have noticed most long throws are foul ones in all divisions.

Nobody seem to care that their feet are in the field of play when they throw .

I thought this but I’m sure someone posted a while back with an updated version of the rule (or just what the actual rule has always been), and that so long as one foot is behind the line it’s not a foul throw.

Happy to be corrected but I noticed it at a game this season and was confused but absolutely certain someone quoted the rule.

When he arrived he looked to have potential but I can only describe him as rusty (which was understandable) but overall he striked me as someone who had a lot of the attributes but didn't quite know how to put them together.

He's another example of Artell developing someone and it continues to be a major selling point of the club at present.

From a very, very selfish point of view I think Hume would definitely benefit from seeing how far his game can go under Artell/GTFC.  However, it was his prerogative last summer to see what else was available and he took that option, making us wait a fair while before signing.  

I'll be absolutely delighted if we tie him down, but I think we've got a battle on here.

Quoted from gtfc_chris

I thought this but I’m sure someone posted a while back with an updated version of the rule (or just what the actual rule has always been), and that so long as one foot is behind the line it’s not a foul throw.

Happy to be corrected but I noticed it at a game this season and was confused but absolutely certain someone quoted the rule.

I've noticed this as well, it's a bit like a corner, as long as the ball is placed over, not on, the line it's now ok. The other one is goalkeepers now hold the ball over the 18 yard line when taking a kick. A few years ago this was frowned upon but not now.

Years and years ago....possibly when Neil Woods was manager, we won a game where the opposition keeper was sent off for something minor. I missed the game but remember people commenting about it after but I never found out what the keeper had done to get sent off. Does anyone have any idea which game that might have been? There can't be many where the keeper was sent off!


edit: Chatgpt says it was our first game in non-league vs Crawley. Amusingly, I was at the game and can't remember that at all.

Michel Kuipers wasn't it?  Handled outside his area and Lee Peacock scored with the worst under the wall free-kick you'll  ever see.

Here’s some fun things from the laws. Regarding corners. As long as the ball is on the line it is ok. Similarly for goal kicks. On the line means looking down from above even the smallest part of the ball will be on the line. That’s a fundamental and applies to goal/on goal, in/out of play.

As for keepers handling the ball over the edge of the penalty area, that is still not acceptable and is punishable with a direct free kick and potentially a dismissal if it stops a Dogso. What you normally see for kicks out of the goalkeepers hands is the AR letting them know they are getting close/taking the urine before giving a free kick for it. In any case you see goalkeepers dropping the ball and kicking from the ground much more these days so it’s much less of a thing.

Thanks......no idea why I can't remember the sending off at all. I remember Lee Peacock scored. Can even remember saying to a friend we'd be going straight back up after that game...

I think we all thought that!  Crawley heavily tipped owing to their new found lottery wealth and Steve Evans spending it like it was his own dinner money.  £250,000 for Matt Tubbs was it?

I suppose if you deem six years applicable under the definition of straight back up we weren't wrong.

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I think we all thought that!  Crawley heavily tipped owing to their new found lottery wealth and Steve Evans spending it like it was his own dinner money.  £250,000 for Matt Tubbs was it?

I suppose if you deem six years applicable under the definition of straight back up we weren't wrong.

Contrasts nicely with the 5-0 Braintree game the next year where reality really settled in.

Quoted from diehardmariner

I think we all thought that!  Crawley heavily tipped owing to their new found lottery wealth and Steve Evans spending it like it was his own dinner money.  £250,000 for Matt Tubbs was it?

I suppose if you deem six years applicable under the definition of straight back up we weren't wrong.

the £250,000 was for Mr Richard Brodie

Right you are, £55,000 for Tubbs.

Of course a different era, but what seemed like ridiculous levels of spending absolutely pales into comparison to what Stockport, Wrexham (and others!) did just over a decade later.

Sergio Torres for £100,000.  Big wages no doubt on free transfers for players like Craig McAllister and Kuipers.   But nothing at all like what was to come.