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Will he have something worth saying or has he just missed the sound of his own voice?
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Is Keef developing a bit of a fetish for left backs?
Right back and up front looking a bit light.
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According to both Wiki and Soccerbase he signed for Telford in March but is yet to play for them.
Looks like that’s a data issue as much as anything – no line-ups reported on AFC Telford’s website, for example.
This site suggests he played their game against Southport in May:
https://www.besoccer.com/match/southport/afc-telford-united/202245980/lineups
Shows how bored we are with the close season that we are even discussing this. The sooner we get back to losing a couple of games every week the better.
Oh hang on a minute!
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He could not pass the ball, cross the ball or shoot. Pretty key attributes for a footballer no matter how quick you are.
Give him 3 league games for Telford for them to work it out.
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If you are a striker that is worth a light you don’t need to do trials. You just leave your phone switched on.
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Just beat me to that one NI.
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If we have to sign players with an injury record I think a 6 month contract is an excellent idea. If he stays fit and plays well he will get another deal. If not then we haven’t lost too much.
The astute businessman likes a 2 year deals for crocs.
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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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