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A bit harsh on Brigg Town BS.
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I think you are exaggerating for effect Ni. I do believe those 3 could probably keep us up.
Pyke, Sinclair and Nuttall probably not. Hill obviously made the wrong calls in January.
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All the owners of Man United have done is badly mismanaged the football side of the business whilst creaming off the profits. Oh and without ever using a dollar of their own money.
Pretty wholesome as owners of Premier League clubs go.
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Ferrite I think we knew Green and Jarvis were not League level players. They had plenty of chances over a couple of year and failed to take them.
Green had pace but could not pass or shoot. He never looked like scoring and I’ll be buggered if I can remember an assist. Most of his runs ended with him on his arse and if there was a resulting free kick it usually went to the opposition.
Jarvis worked hard most of the time and very occasionally flattered to deceive e.g. his cracking headed goal. Most of the time he looked what he was. A 6 or 7th tier footballer.
Loft had some skill and had a decent game about 1 in 5 games. Seemed quite good at self delusion and thought he was too good to play for a shite team. Not exactly pulling up trees for the slightly less shite team he plays for now. Hippolyte was pretty dammed hopeless for a season and a half and then had a run of half a dozen games where he looked adequate. Such was the dross around him that some of us (me included) mistook that for being good. Saw half an hour of him playing for Stockport the other day and he looked OK in what is obviously a better football team than the one he left. For me he is the only one of the four we have missed.
Hill had to try something at the end of January and Swann funded 7 or 8 lottery lucky dips. Delaney has so far proved the only winning ticket. Grant might do so yet and certainly an upgrade on Kenyon. Feeney and Sinclair the jury is very much out. Pyke and Nuttall have rather demonstrated why they have such poor scoring records and why they were not wanted by their home clubs.
The problem here though is not Hill’s panic “buys” in the January sales. It is the 3 years of recruitment by the non footballing father and son combo.
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We have to face facts Nuttall, Pyke and Sinclair don’t have 10 league goals between them in their careers. We needed 20 from the 3 of them in less than half a season to have a chance of staying up. Let’s be honest none of them have looked very likely to score 1 yet. Always going to be a very long shot and you don’t pick up goalscorers at the arse end of the January window.
Jarvis is hardly the answer with 2 goals in 2 years and is clearly not league (or even National League) standard.
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Demonstrates what a nonsense statistics can be without context.
Many of Adkins defeats were with a very low budget Championship team. Many of Wilcox’s draws were with a high budget League 2 team. Most of the could have (should have) been wins.
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I think there are enough donkeys at the Sinking Sands already.
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To be fair Cass Keegan was not bleesd with lots of natural talent. He kept on improving right through his playing career and was a great role model for youngsters. He could run forever though.
There is a bit of the young Keegan about the lad Burns. If he works as hard on his skills he will make a very good player in time.
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When I was about 12 or 13 used to go to all the junior and reserve matches as well at the OSG often meeting up with Vinny Grimes who was in my class at school. Remember when Keegan played for the juniors Vinny immediately called him “first team material” which became his nickname until it happened in 68. Best memory in the league cup. We lost 6-1 and only Keegan and Terry Heath did not look out of place against the Gunners who were all bigger, fitter and faster. It was the fullest I ever saw the OSG though – about 18,000 I think were there.
Better than getting our arses kicked by poor League 2 sides.
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Heard it misfires going back and is shite going forward Mick.
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Yes and that was when KVV and McAtee and Eisa were playing well.
They are all earning more than we pay and we don’t have anyone with their ability here now.
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It was a little more theatrical than Maguire’s poor effort.
The booking was well worth it.
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To be fair Heath most Iron fans loved it when KVV gave it to the Cods after scoring at Blunder Park in what could well be our last ever league game there.
Not much to cheer since then.
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Deleney is a hit for me. League 2 quality and athletic and committed and more consistent than Taft.
Grant is an upgrade on Kenyon. Not much quicker around the pitch but has the nous to be in the right place. Still struggling to last the pace – I think he took a knock at the end of the first half Saturday which probably didn’t help.
Feeney has quality but it looks as if his legs are gone. Has a trick but no pace to get away with the ball and create space. May get better with more games but not so sure.
Sinclair, Pyke and Nuttall have not done anything yet. Not sure what has happened to Jarvis but him and Bunn if fit would probably replace any of those 3 on what we have seen so far along with Burns who needs to play every minute he is fit enough to do so.
Do I blame Hill or the players themselves. Not for me. It is what you get scraping the barrel in the last week of January with no money to spend. The only people to blame are those who have chosen who to recruit over the last 4 years. I think they are called Swann.
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Was at pains to point out it was not him and the players that caused the problem.
You are certainly correct about that Keith.
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Read hundreds of your posts and they all make pretty much the same point.
Still don’t agree with you though.
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