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Son of Cod
July 8, 2018, 9:29pm
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Connell was great for one season, but Black was better for longer for us at a higher level so Black for me too.
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Kingsley Black


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I suppose it’s a generational thing. It’s got to be Black looked at objectivily but many people wouldn’t have seen him. Bit like my generation with Rafferty etc.

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Black was a good player for us, but I always saw him as steady rather than spectacular (I also don't see another club signing him for a lot of money as relevant for his gtfc form, I didn't pick Paul Warhurst as #9!).

Connell on the other hand got me out of my seat countless times in 10/11 (particularly the first half of it); a sole bright spot in a shite side.

So him.

Menno Willems gets a mention for his lethal set pieces (that became lethal only to pedestrians once we'd paid £160k for him)


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Quoted from Abdul19
Black was a good player for us, but I always saw him as steady rather than spectacular (I also don't see another club signing him for a lot of money as relevant for his gtfc form, I didn't pick Paul Warhurst as #9!).

Connell on the other hand got me out of my seat countless times in 10/11 (particularly the first half of it); a sole bright spot in a shite side.

So him.

Menno Willems gets a mention for his lethal set pieces (that became lethal only to pedestrians once we'd paid £160k for him)


Sums my thoughts up well.

I was always left a little disappointed with Black in a Town shirt.  The absolute embodiment of everything that I became bored with towards the end of the second Buckley era.  Tidy, clever, no pace and a rare end product.  Connell was spectacular, albeit as a flat-track bully, in a season that was otherwise abject.
  
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July 9, 2018, 9:35am

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July 9, 2018, 9:35am

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Quoted from Abdul19
Black was a good player for us, but I always saw him as steady rather than spectacular (I also don't see another club signing him for a lot of money as relevant for his gtfc form, I didn't pick Paul Warhurst as #9!).

Connell on the other hand got me out of my seat countless times in 10/11 (particularly the first half of it); a sole bright spot in a shite side.

So him.

Menno Willems gets a mention for his lethal set pieces (that became lethal only to pedestrians once we'd paid £160k for him)

Same for me really. Connell scored some superb goals in an ultimately disappointing season. Black deserves a mention too for scoring our first ever goal at Wembley, although I reckon these days it would go down as a Jimmy Glass own goal. So Connell for me too, one bright light in that first non-league season, even though he wanted out from about Christmas.


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I've missed out on the last few selections.

Got to be Connell, as he got me out of my seat far more often than Black did. Kingsley was a very steady player in a side of much better overall quality than Connel had the mispleasure to play in. I agree with others that Black was steady rather than exciting. Some of Connell's goals will live long in the memory. Not much of what Black did, has.
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I remember him curling in a perfect top corner free kick at the Osmond end once. Unfortunately, it was indirect!


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