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I do. If you had a family and you weren't really setled anywhere and Grimsby offered me £2k per month and Bristol Rovers offered you the same then you along with 99% of other people would choose Bristol. Like someone has stated there is so much more in and around Bristol. Grimsby isn't that bad, but from the outside looking in it's not great (the programme 'skint' didn't help)
Sorry but don't agree . If you were a decent non league player living somewhere like Sheffield or Leeds then we'd be a better move if they didn't want to relocate far |
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To be fair, if the return of Alan Connell had worked, we wouldn't be having this debate, likewise if Liam Hearn had been loyal and not re-injured, how many more goals would have been scored?
Hannah will never reproduce his loan form without changing tactics and giving him playing time.
Would Southwell have progressed at this level, or always been seen as the cheap option as often stated on here?
Could we find a goalscorer and give them one year to prove they are worth the next move up into the league or fire us back there?
Names in the frame would then be the likes of Brett Williams, or Omar Bogie, who both seem loyal to their local clubs for now !
Do the regions' clubs with youth teams not have any budding talent ? - like Conor Townsend on loan the other season, now regularly playing in the Scottish Premier League!
However, we have dropped back on midfield again lately, and this was our strength at the season start.
Brown, Disley and Clay all need to be fit, and Neilsen in for variety and skills to unlock stubborn defences.
We have good players here, but they need to be all playing together on form.
Midfield have been our strength in making us hard to beat but also our weakness in scoring enough goals IMO. I know i sound like a broken record but we really need to find someone different in midfield if we are to be creative and even exciting. An attacking central midfielder with an eye & the skill for running in beyond our strikers on timed runs would make a huge difference. Nielson remains the one player who can beat a player regularly. His issue is 1) getting in the team and 2) knowing when to release it for maximum effect |
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I've just read two threads - one showing a rival making an ambitious signing of a proven striker, and the other a near neighbour moving forward with another new stadium. You'll forgive me if I express feelings of jealousy, exasperation and rage! Other people make it happen don't they. Meanwhile, in Grimsby........ 
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Midfield have been our strength in making us hard to beat but also our weakness in scoring enough goals IMO.
I know i sound like a broken record but we really need to find someone different in midfield if we are to be creative and even exciting. An attacking central midfielder with an eye & the skill for running in beyond our strikers on timed runs would make a huge difference.
Nielson remains the one player who can beat a player regularly. His issue is 1) getting in the team and 2) knowing when to release it for maximum effect
Step forward the player never given a chance in his best position. Paddy McLaughlin. |
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Indeed. What are his strengths?....running beyond the strikers, scoring goals, running with the ball and passing. BUT, because most including Hurst see him as lacking in defensive qualities, he's simply frozen out.
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Indeed. What are his strengths?....running beyond the strikers, scoring goals, running with the ball and passing. BUT, because most including Hurst see him as lacking in defensive qualities, he's simply frozen out.
Exactly. I still can't believe that we pursued Paddy and gave him a 2 year deal, only to leave him out of the team, while we constantly bring in average loan players, who are no better. Harry Pell anyone? Paddy must be seething, if not baffled. |
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Exactly.
I still can't believe that we pursued Paddy and gave him a 2 year deal, only to leave him out of the team, while we constantly bring in average loan players, who are no better.
Harry Pell anyone?
Paddy must be seething, if not baffled.
Doesn't it seem that all Town's midfield players are expected to be able to do everything? Tackle, pass intelligently, run all day ......? The art of team building is to take what individual players do best and compensate for what they do badly. If you have an inventive and skilful forward looking midfielder who can't tackle you surround him with players who can. Perhaps we should club together to buy the manager a set of Brian Clough dvds to see how it's done. |
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To be fair, if the return of Alan Connell had worked, we wouldn't be having this debate, likewise if Liam Hearn had been loyal and not re-injured, how many more goals would have been scored?
Hannah will never reproduce his loan form without changing tactics and giving him playing time.
Would Southwell have progressed at this level, or always been seen as the cheap option as often stated on here?
Could we find a goalscorer and give them one year to prove they are worth the next move up into the league or fire us back there?
Names in the frame would then be the likes of Brett Williams, or Omar Bogie, who both seem loyal to their local clubs for now !
Do the regions' clubs with youth teams not have any budding talent ? - like Conor Townsend on loan the other season, now regularly playing in the Scottish Premier League!
However, we have dropped back on midfield again lately, and this was our strength at the season start.
Brown, Disley and Clay all need to be fit, and Neilsen in for variety and skills to unlock stubborn defences.
We have good players here, but they need to be all playing together on form.
Mark Cullen was at Hull at one point, scored a load for Stockport in this division then Luton signed him and he's sat on the bench there ever since as far as I'm concerned, someone might know more about him since Luton went up? |
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Step forward the player never given a chance in his best position.
Paddy McLaughlin.
Not convinced that Paddy is one to may runs beyond the strikers on a regular basis. I think he is another player who gets better the less he plays!  |
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The days when players who have spent time in the top tier dropping down to League 2 or below have long gone because of the money they will have earned.
Two of our best signings in recent years have been Liam Hearn and Shaun Pearson both of which came from lower down the pyramid but with something to prove.
I understand Ilkeston have some very promising young players, one of whom has just moved to Fleetwood. I would hope we have been watching them as they can often come with real desire and without the price tags and baggage from those who have been round the block.
TBF we at least seem to got out of the practice of signing aged journeymen, the majority of our signings are around the 22-26 age range
There's a young lad scoring a few goals for Boston.
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