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| September 18, 2014, 5:30pm |
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Pittman is strong especially upper body, much better than Hannah in that respect, so strong does not necessarily mean a 6 foot 6ins target man. Liam Hearn too was strong, could win the ball and look after it.
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| ginnywings |
| September 18, 2014, 5:38pm |
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No problem with a big striker as long as he can play a bit and score a few. Gash would be ideal. Problem is that Hurst seems to sign huge muscle bound battering rams with no technique like Spencer, Rankine or Pearson. Perhaps Hurst likes big players because he himself is Hobbit size.  |
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| Maringer |
| September 18, 2014, 6:19pm |
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Spencer and Rankine were big lumps, but Pearson wasn't. He was very mobile and scored 18 for Burton in their promotion season and 14 the following year. I remember him giving us a chasing in the terrible relegation game at Burton - not difficult with that defence, admittedly, but he was still a decent player at his best.
Truth be told, I was surprised how disappointing he was for us, but I recall he had fitness problems from the start and it seems he has never got back to his best form. Probably down to injuries.
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| grimsby pete |
| September 18, 2014, 7:00pm |
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If Gash is available then I can not understand why we have not signed him already,
Unless he does not want to come to sunny Cleethorpes.
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| KingstonMariner |
| September 18, 2014, 8:47pm |
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Spencer and Rankine were big lumps, but Pearson wasn't. He was very mobile and scored 18 for Burton in their promotion season and 14 the following year. I remember him giving us a chasing in the terrible relegation game at Burton - not difficult with that defence, admittedly, but he was still a decent player at his best.
Truth be told, I was surprised how disappointing he was for us, but I recall he had fitness problems from the start and it seems he has never got back to his best form. Probably down to injuries.
So he was another striker with a good scoring record elsewhere that was bottom when he played for us. Says something about the management here then/the approach his team takes. |
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| KingstonMariner |
| September 18, 2014, 8:48pm |
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My advice to PH for Saturday (assuming he can't get his physical striker, and he's having problems there according to GET) is:
Play Toto up front, and tell Hannah to stay close to him and onside (Pearson & Magnay CBs). Tell the fullbacks (Walker & Winfarrah)
to launch it up to him as soon as they get inside the opponent's half (this stops them being caught too far forward out of position) and
instruct Nielson to get to the edge of the box to knock in the weak defensive headers which will drop there periodically.
I estimate this will yield 3 goals which ought to win us the game.
B*gger the fans' desire to see the ball passed around on the deck - this works best with with a pressing game which our players
seem unable to achieve consistently (top players are athletes with footballing skills; our players are footballers with varying amounts
of athleticism). It may not be pretty but if it gets 3 points...
Well thanks for that Sir Alec. It's a shame you've retired because we could really do with you at Grimsby. |
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| KingstonMariner |
| September 18, 2014, 8:50pm |
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After a few seasons watching Conference football, a couple of things occur to me:
1. The referees don't tend to be very good and often allow all sorts of manhandling of the forwards by defenders.
2. The defenders in this division tend to be big and brutish.
The quotes from Hurst in the GET article show nothing but common sense. Have people even bothered to read it? It's like there is a disconnect with reality and this board sometimes.
Saying it would be useful if we had a striker with strength to hold up the ball is sensible. Saying it would be helpful to have a striker who can win some headers at times is sensible.
Somehow, these comments seem to have been conflated into the theory that we are going to play route one every game when we get a new striker in, which is clearly utter nonsense!
He doesn't even mention getting a tall player in, just somebody with some physicality and the comments from the Halifax game were that we needed a bit more strength up front, so what the heck is wrong with Hurst's comments in the GET?
The mind really boggles sometimes.
He doesn't mention getting a striker who knows where the net is either. |
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| Maringer |
| September 18, 2014, 8:59pm |
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So he was another striker with a good scoring record elsewhere that was bottom when he played for us. Says something about the management here then/the approach his team takes.
He had a decent goalscoring record three years before he joined us. The two seasons before he joined, he didn't score many at all. Is that Hurst's fault as well, then? Wow, Hurst is such a bad manager that he stops strikers scoring goals two years before they join us.  |
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| Maringer |
| September 18, 2014, 9:05pm |
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He doesn't mention getting a striker who knows where the net is either.
He doesn't mention getting a striker who doesn't know where the net is either. Now, which sort of striker do you think he is trying to sign? One who can score goals or one who can't? |
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| TAGG |
| September 18, 2014, 9:51pm |
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"In general, it would be best if there is an element of physicality to the striker," said Hurst, outlining his ideal targets.
"In general, it would be best if there is an element of physicality goal scoring to the striker," said Hurst TAGG, outlining his ideal targets.
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| In his three stints as Grimsby Town manager spanning over 10 years the club was never relegated and he also guided them to three promotions.
Only 14 managers have reached 1,000 matches in charge of a Football League team by 1998 and Buckley is one of them.
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