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monkeyboy
July 9, 2020, 7:08am
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Do you know what, i don't really think there is one single player we have that would make me really really gutted if they left.
What i see is an opportunity to get better in.

Ethan Robson may be worth a punt but cant see the 2 Burnley lads coming back as they are on the fringes of the prem now so can see a championship loan for both.

Like i said we will get some new lads in that hopefully will be an improvement to the team.
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Quoted from monkeyboy
Do you know what, i don't really think there is one single player we have that would make me really really gutted if they left.
What i see is an opportunity to get better in.

Ethan Robson may be worth a punt but cant see the 2 Burnley lads coming back as they are on the fringes of the prem now so can see a championship loan for both.

Like i said we will get some new lads in that hopefully will be an improvement to the team.



Completely agree I think IH rates Robson too. All in all though you’d expect clubs to have a bigger pool to fish in which will inevitably bring down wages.

I’m optimistic that IH and the current situation will actually give us a much more balanced/stringer squad overall and we’ll be less dependent on one or two individuals which is somewhere we haven’t been for a very long time.


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Quoted from HertsGTFC


Completely agree I think IH rates Robson too. All in all though you’d expect clubs to have a bigger pool to fish in which will inevitably bring down wages.

I’m optimistic that IH and the current situation will actually give us a much more balanced/stringer squad overall and we’ll be less dependent on one or two individuals which is somewhere we haven’t been for a very long time.


I hope your right I think we have 11 experienced pros 3 of which are still young and not exactly world beaters yet Seriously do people think any of the more mature players left other than Hendrie/Mckeown are league winning quality taking into account injury proneness, liable to do a member up, pick up bans or simply not that good etc.
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It's official, Billy Clarke signs for Bradford for a third spell:

https://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/news/2020/july/clarke-returns-for-third-stint/


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I think if we’re patient then there are going to be loads of players getting quite desperate and be happy to sign, they’ll also have to accept a lesser wage.
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Thank God for that. I can imagine to get him to GTFC Ollie will have had to dangle the cash-flavoured carrot in front of him to get him to play for us in the first place, so now that he has finally fleeced us out of more money while he made his decision, we now have more money for wages in the kitty for new players. Who knows, we may be able to get 2 players in for what we were paying Clarke.
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Thank God for that. I can imagine to get him to GTFC Ollie will have had to dangle the cash-flavoured carrot in front of him to get him to play for us in the first place, so now that he has finally fleeced us out of more money while he made his decision, we now have more money for wages in the kitty for new players. Who knows, we may be able to get 2 players in for what we were paying Clarke.


We could get 5 players in but if theyre all sh1t3 it doesn't add up to 1 good player
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We could get 5 players in but if theyre all sh1t3 it doesn't add up to 1 good player


I agree, but we are talking Ollie here. He's already made his intentions clear.
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I'm actually quite p!ssed about this... Ollie gave him an olive branch to get his career going again, albeit in his twilight years. He's tarnished any adoration as a town fan I had for him,
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We enjoyed watching whilst he was here.
Move on there will be someone else fills his boots
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