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He carries the ball forward well but does not look to have the qualities needed for a CB.
Did he play CB for the cods, Crewe & Morecambe? Played a fair few games. St Mirren too.

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If Mr Swann has stated that we aren’t going out of the league – then obviously there is a plan to ensure that this tragedy will be avoided.

Rather more seriously though, it is the Manny situation which has tilted everything the wrong way. That’s what happens when you do not have a balanced squad.

Please tell me he is able to play tomorrow!

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My only concern here is that we do not really know what is in the pipeline for the next couple of weeks.
Okay. Based on times past we can reasonably assume that there are no Ferrero Rocher in the goodie bag – but there may yet be a few Liquorice Allsorts.

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Kenyon is a better option in front of the back 4 than Rowe.
Agree that we must return to Millen at RB. Sigh.

Anybody got a clue whether Manny has actual Covid or if his great aunt’s cousin knows somebody who might have?

A sudden thought. Was Hallam available yesterday?
Perry?

What’s happening with Wood and Scrimshaw? Turan?

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Personally, I would have Davis ahead of Roe playing in front of the defence – I just can’t see him as a CB.
Roe was patchy.
It’s not that he has been terrible today but ‘presence’ is so vital.

I’d expect Beestin back in CM next week.

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No. I try to to fight the pessimism – you embrace it!

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Lol.

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Er … ME in my younger days, Alcy.
Tall, wavy blonde hair and semi-fit.
Today, what hair I still have is grey, I’ve shrunk by more than an inch and am now fit to drop.

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Hmm. Thanks.

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Description, please.

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Of course. The Beast!!
Wasn’t Baker younger, though?

We desperately need a back-to-goal forward who can hold the ball up and play others in.

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It’s one of those gambles which, if it works, would be a real fillip. Could help Jarvo develop too.
BUT – how often do those sort of gambles work for us?
There was Beags and Ford, of course, BUT with big ugly strikers who are old and whose fitness is in question – I’m struggling to recall too many successes.
Mind you, if he’s 90% fit and 60% match fit, to be fair, there aren’t too many on here who would argue that it’s not an improvement on Loft.
(I’ll bet a half fit Andrew would cut down the gifting away of possession by a good 80%.)

As for Matt Done – similar questions to be asked. Too many gambles, perhaps.
But what can you get for 60 quid a week plus £500 win bonuses?

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There ain’t no ‘possibly’ about desperately needing an extra CB for cover.
Taft is improving to what he can be, Manny has made a few mistakes but has been a stalwart – what if one or both were injured or suspended?
We could get relegated on that scenario alone.

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More likely – he has sussed that he has been sussed by the new boss.

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One CB available yesterday and one who may be fit but was surely not match fit. Not to bring in a 4th CB would be dangerous.
(BTW, I don’t think anyone said that Manny has Covid. ‘Covid issues’ and similar language was used.)

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I was seriously upset to see the teamsheet.
Davis had not had a game in anger for 6 weeks or so. How unmatch fit are you gonna be? His showing was a 5/10 when Manny usually gives us a 7.
I’m convinced it cost us the draw.
Three CBs just ain’t enough to run a squad.

Two incoming quickly and the chairperson was being very tongue in cheek about a forward.
O’ Neill gone to Darlo.
Whatever happened to that Tom Eaves rumour, BTW?

Three bids for Loft. Hmm. If we do get £50k – that could go to boost three incomers’ wages for half a season if …

U23 Championship striker, apparently.

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Can’t agree with CBRP over getting rid of Perry. He is certainly nowhere near the finished product but a guy who can pass a bit like Tony Curry yet needs to toughen up and have a bit better overview of games is well worth persevering with.
Besides, he only has a dozen first team games under his belt. He is guaranteed to improve with experience and building up muscle tone.

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Hill clearly knows that Loft intends to leave on a free.
It is a small amount, yes, but …
… and it gives room for a replacement.

We shall, of course, all be totally peed off when he turns into a real striker down the line.

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Valid points. In an ideal world we need 3 – 5 better players in.

Why did Bhuna not have the knowhow to straighten out the mess is a real biggie for me.
Can we believe that Cox ignored and rode roughshod over a man who really did have the genuine experience?

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Funny you should mention ‘The Unassuming Assassin’, Cass, it came out originally in 2005 and I hadn’t bothered to read the upgraded/updated/re-edited version brought out by Steel City Press a couple of years ago.
So that was my Christmas reading and I reread the sequel ‘The Assassin Reassessed’ too. (Lesgeo Junior edited TUA – he is a far superior writer to anything I can do and owns Steel City Press.)
Good stuff.
(PS. Never buy the old Kindle edition of TUA, BTW – they noused it up. new version is okay, though.)

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I really do not mind two postponements – but five or more would be contraindicated.

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Goals scored?

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Hippo (customary excellence), Bunn (class act), and Green (best game at the club) – 8
Loft – 9
Nobody below a 6 – and not that many 6s, either!

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It’s hardly a line-up which has experience with one another in positions played.
It’s like the first team to play together for 90 minutes in the pre-season friendlies.

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Hallam, Kenyon and Davies on the bench.
Bunn fit to start.
Where’s Wood and Scrimshaw?
Loft benched.

Interesting.

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Devarn Green???

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Scored 5 against FG?
Sounds like they’ve used up their quota for 2021.

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There were ‘different issues’ over Vardy’.
The ‘no better than …’ was to disguise the ‘why’ we were not interested.
Sorry. I know more but am unable to reveal them.

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alcazar

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And Halifax will allow him to join us without a fee!
Terrific.

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“as for my ” bloody dropout illegal boat invaders” if I had my way I would puncture them mid crossing”.

Surely you can disapprove of what is happening in The Channel, AWG, and demand overdue government action without wishing people dead!
(Perhaps you might even advocate the Aussie approach which refuses to surrender to moral blackmail – at least that puts you rather closer to the moral high ground.)

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