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Thanks for that Robertson – I had deleted the iFollow app as it had stopped working. Reinstalled it after seeing your post and can log in with previous username/password.
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Elliott Whitehouse the first trialist to make the cut.
Welcome Elliott. Has good experience at this level and could be a decent signing.
Let’s have a keeper and a couple of forwards next please Keith/Lee.
Some won’t like the fact he had a spell with the Cods but I am encouraged Keith is prepared to back his judgement on a player he has not worked with previously.
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As we have been demonstrating for the last 3 seasons it is really difficult for any player to look decent in a really shite team. When teams don’t make any runs it’s easy for good players to be caught in possession. When teams make the wrong runs it is easy for good players to hit stray passes.
That is why in a shite team we tend to only see maximum effort as a positive and perceived lack of effort as a negative.
Probably why Rory was the only credible candidate for player of the season.
We will never know how good Pugh would be in a team that actually can play a bit of football. I hope he gets that opportunity somewhere else.
Same goes for Cribb, Gallimore, Shrimpton and pretty much the whole set of players but particularly the youngsters. If we can make the massive leap in quality from embarrassingly shite to barely competent as a team then we will see which of these youngsters can play and which can’t.
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I have no problem giving it 2 or 3 weeks to decide on trialists. We can probably assume they train OK or they would be gone. We have one more closed doors friendly which is good because you can only assess capability in games.
If we are not sure after 3 games then it is only fair to the players to let them try elsewhere.
My worry is that we only have 5 trialists. Say we are lucky and 3 are considered good enough to sign. That still leaves us 4 or 5 first eleven players short in my opinion.
That 4 or 5 needs to include a keeper and 2 forwards with some decent experience of mens professional football. We won’t find them in a lucky bag.
Quite optimistic thinking it will go to the last game of the season.
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They are planning to play 46 games of football.
Do you mean what are the owner/coo expectations?
Should be a big improvement on last season when we played football in about 4 of the games.
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It may be better to have a stripped down squad with something resembling real strikers than what we’ve seen in recent years.
I really want eight in – could we manage with six if it were to increase our striking power?Training – Day Five! Signings – ONE!
Come on Lee and Keef. Throw us a bone here!
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As we saw most Saturdays last season they don’t often work weekends NI.
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