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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 29, 2018 21:42:16 GMT
Who would you like to see go, and who would you personally replace them with (within reason - we're not going to replace nichols with mo salah) (and also assuming we're not scouting Slovakian 3rd division players, pirate 😂)
Leads - Luke Burke - 20 - Wigan, out of contract end of season
Moore - Lyle Taylor - realistic target, sure he's out of contract at the end of the season, is a goalscorer.
CB - not sure what's happening with Craig, unsure whether he'll be a player or a coach next year - Mark Beevers - Bolton - likely to be shipping out a few players, think he's 28 and out of contract this season, very experienced player.
Striker - Eisa - Cheltenham, would certainly have to put our hands in our pockets for him.
My lost in based entirely on players in the EFL currently, and also realistic targets, Sammy Ameobi is a free agent in the summer, but he won't be coming here.
There's probably positions we need to strengthen, but I don't think we're going to have a huge overhaul in the summer so I've stuck to a few key positions we need to do something about.
And if you're reading rovers - we don't want anyone from Peterborough, we could turn jack marriot into a 5 goal a century striker if we bought him lol
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Post by midlandgas213 on Apr 29, 2018 21:56:08 GMT
After watching arsenal this afternoon sign Nelson on loan
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Post by mattgashead on Apr 29, 2018 21:57:07 GMT
Who would you like to see go, and who would you personally replace them with (within reason - we're not going to replace nichols with mo salah) (and also assuming we're not scouting Slovakian 3rd division players, pirate 😂) Leads - Luke Burke - 20 - Wigan, out of contract end of season Moore - Lyle Taylor - realistic target, sure he's out of contract at the end of the season, is a goalscorer. CB - not sure what's happening with Craig, unsure whether he'll be a player or a coach next year - Mark Beevers - Bolton - likely to be shipping out a few players, think he's 28 and out of contract this season, very experienced player. Striker - Eisa - Cheltenham, would certainly have to put our hands in our pockets for him. My lost in based entirely on players in the EFL currently, and also realistic targets, Sammy Ameobi is a free agent in the summer, but he won't be coming here. There's probably positions we need to strengthen, but I don't think we're going to have a huge overhaul in the summer so I've stuck to a few key positions we need to do something about. And if you're reading rovers - we don't want anyone from Peterborough, we could turn jack marriot into a 5 goal a century striker if we bought him lol To be honest I don’t know what the obsession is about getting rid of Leads and Craig. In terms of suggestions, I fear Eisa would be too expensive and would rather we bought a more physical striker, Lyle Taylor up front could be a good option. One in league 2 that looks decent is James Collins from Luton. Other option (bit hopeful this one) is Christian Doidge, if we’re gonna spend big money I reckon he is more the sort of striker we need.
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 29, 2018 22:13:04 GMT
Who would you like to see go, and who would you personally replace them with (within reason - we're not going to replace nichols with mo salah) (and also assuming we're not scouting Slovakian 3rd division players, pirate 😂) Leads - Luke Burke - 20 - Wigan, out of contract end of season Moore - Lyle Taylor - realistic target, sure he's out of contract at the end of the season, is a goalscorer. CB - not sure what's happening with Craig, unsure whether he'll be a player or a coach next year - Mark Beevers - Bolton - likely to be shipping out a few players, think he's 28 and out of contract this season, very experienced player. Striker - Eisa - Cheltenham, would certainly have to put our hands in our pockets for him. My lost in based entirely on players in the EFL currently, and also realistic targets, Sammy Ameobi is a free agent in the summer, but he won't be coming here. There's probably positions we need to strengthen, but I don't think we're going to have a huge overhaul in the summer so I've stuck to a few key positions we need to do something about. And if you're reading rovers - we don't want anyone from Peterborough, we could turn jack marriot into a 5 goal a century striker if we bought him lol To be honest I don’t know what the obsession is about getting rid of Leads and Craig. In terms of suggestions, I fear Eisa would be too expensive and would rather we bought a more physical striker, Lyle Taylor up front could be a good option. One in league 2 that looks decent is James Collins from Luton. Other option (bit hopeful this one) is Christian Doidge, if we’re gonna spend big money I reckon he is more the sort of striker we need. Leads is nowhere near the player he was, since he's taken a few clatterings over the years he is far too lightweight, doesn't get forward enough any more, is about 3 stone and doesnt offer enough defensively, and is injury prone, but not small knocks, 6-9 months at a time. His wages can be used elsewhere. He was incredible for us in the conference, but we're not in the conference any more, I rate him as a player, but his confidence is shot to sh** and I don't think he'll ever be the attacking wing back that we once had that fits DCs style of play. And I'm not in favour of getting rid of Craig, but I'm naturally assuming he was brought in to become a defensive coach, and we will need another CB - unless DC is going to play Broadbent and Menayase, locks will be missing a few games with international duties, but even with all 4 one injury and a call up means we're light at the back again. Everyone calls for James Clarke to go - he's a utility player and will play anywhere across the back 4 and midfield, he's not the best player, but an asset to the team in the respect that he'll play anywhere and give it his all. I think eisa probably will be too expensive currently, but doiges goals kept Fgr in the league this year - so I doubt he'll be a cheap option either. That then brings you onto Ellis - who has been very good this season - but is that because he hasn't had a main scorer with him and he knows we are reliant on him, will his goalscoring and work rate continue when he has a solid partner? Only time will tell. He could be back to his old ways next year but I hope he's not.
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 29, 2018 22:16:59 GMT
[/quote]To be honest I don’t know what the obsession is about getting rid of Leads and Craig. In terms of suggestions, I fear Eisa would be too expensive and would rather we bought a more physical striker, Lyle Taylor up front could be a good option. One in league 2 that looks decent is James Collins from Luton. Other option (bit hopeful this one) is Christian Doidge, if we’re gonna spend big money I reckon he is more the sort of striker we need.[/quote]
And James Collins is a great shout, 20 goals a season on average since 2011, didn't even consider him but would be a great addition to the squad
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Post by pirate on Apr 29, 2018 23:30:31 GMT
No Slovakian 3rd division players jkgas15, but quite a few from Spain, Italy, Holland and Germany I wouldn't mind. The following players would probably leave for me in an ideal world: Moore, Nichols, Bola, Leadbitter, J Clarke, Sweeney, Broom, Gaffney, Burn And target... Left Backs : Either Luke Leahy (Walsall) or Harry Toffolo (Millwall, free) would be my preference. Right Backs: Any of Matthias Bader (Karlsruher SC, free), Nils Winter (Alemannia Aachen, free), Ties Evers (Volendam, free) or Juanjo Nieto (Hercules CF, free) would be my preference. Centre Backs: Any of Ben Heneghan (Sheffield United), Dorian Dervite (Bolton, free), Cian Bolger (Fleetwood), Curtis Nelson (Oxford, free), Israel Puerto (CD Mirandes), Sebastian Neumann (Wurzburger Kickers, free), Matthew Steenvoorden (SC Cambuur, free) or Luka Bogdan (Catania) would be my preference. Defensive Central Midfielders: Any of Bryn Morris (Shrewsbury), Funso Ojo (Scunthorpe), Jay Spearing (Blackpool, free), Jamie Hanson (Derby, free), Alessandro Mastalli (Juve Stabia), Oscar Sielva (Bouzas, free), Joey Veerman (Volendam) or Robert Gucher (Pisa) would be my preference.  Wingers: Any of Jordan Graham (Wolves, free), Harry Forrester (Rangers), David Wheeler (QPR), Matty Kennedy (Cardiff, free), David Henan (Everton, free), Rob Hall (Oxford, free), Fabio Viteritti (Energie Cottbus, free), Luigi Falcone (Catanzaro, free), Luigi Canotto (Juve Stabia), Lago Júnior (RCD Mallorca), Manuel Farrona Pulido (Fortuna Koln, free) would be my preference. Strikers: Any of Sergio Buenacasa (Barakaldo), Duckens Nazon (Wolves), Manuel Fischnaller (Alessandria), Patrick Schmidt (Saarbrucken, free), Marcel Platzek (Rot-Weiss Essen), Sam Hendriks (Go Ahead Eagles), Nuha Marong (Atletico Saguntino, free), Sory Kaba (Elche), Streli Mamba (Energie Cottbus, free), Alex Jones (Bradford), Mart Lieder (FC Eindhoven, free), Petar Sliskovic (Hallescher, free) or Macauley Chrisantus (Real Murcia, free) would be my preference
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2018 23:47:08 GMT
I Dont think we will be paying much in the way of transfer fees and i dont think we will be bringing players in from europe unless their very young and are paying their own passage. I just dont see either happening.
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 30, 2018 0:04:37 GMT
We bought in Rogvi Baldvinsen or however its spelt from abroad, he lasted 41 minutes and 38 seconds.
But on the other hand we brought in Broghammer from germany who was half decent.
It's one of those where it's a gigantic risk and probably a lot more expensive to scout than players in the efl.
I'd love to see us take a chance on some young 6ft 4 senagalese striker who's bagged 50 goals in 2 seasons over there rather than someone who scored 10 goals in L1, but it just isn't logistically viable.
I would welcome foreign players (Welsh doesn't count) into the squad, I hate to say it but the sh** have gambled on it, it may not have got them premiership football, but they paid £1.5m for kodjia, sold him to villa for £15m, scored shed loads for them. Paid £5m for that dickhead with the white armband on his hand, he's scored a good few for them this year, and no doubt they'll turn a hefty profit over on him. Flint (I know he's English) they bought him for peanuts, turned down £8m from Brighton in Jan.
Yet we on the other hand bought Nicholls for £400k and will have to pay someone double to take him.
I'm voting for Pirate to take the scouting role
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Post by pirate on Apr 30, 2018 0:21:48 GMT
If we're only signing players from Britain then my list would change to something like this:
Left backs: Luke Leahy (Walsall) or Harry Toffolo (Millwall, free)Â
Centre Backs: Any of Ben Heneghan (Sheffield United), Dorian Dervite (Bolton, free), Curtis Nelson (Oxford, free), Cian Bolger (Fleetwood)
Wingers: Any of Jordan Graham (Wolves, free), Harry Forrester (Rangers), David Wheeler (QPR), Matty Kennedy (Cardiff, free), David Henan (Everton, free), Kenji Gorré (Swansea, free), Rob Hall (Oxford, free), Ben Kennedy (Stevenage), Jamie Mackie (QPR, free)*
*Mackie can also play as a striker
Defensive Central Midfielders: Any of Bryn Morris (Shrewsbury), Funso Ojo (Scunthorpe), Jay Spearing (Blackpool, free), Jamie Hanson (Derby, free)
Strikers: Duckens Nazon (Wolves), Alex Jones (Bradford), Billy Kee (Accrington), Ian Henderson (Rochdale), Lyle Taylor (Wimbledon, free), Joe Nuttall (Blackburn)
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Post by pirate on Apr 30, 2018 0:28:21 GMT
We bought in Rogvi Baldvinsen or however its spelt from abroad, he lasted 41 minutes and 38 seconds. But on the other hand we brought in Broghammer from germany who was half decent. It's one of those where it's a gigantic risk and probably a lot more expensive to scout than players in the efl. I'd love to see us take a chance on some young 6ft 4 senagalese striker who's bagged 50 goals in 2 seasons over there rather than someone who scored 10 goals in L1, but it just isn't logistically viable. It's a lot easier these days with tools like scout7 and Wyscout etc. www.silicon.co.uk/projects/scout7-football-recruitment-intel-174427We have Brian Dutton who is apparently identifying players abroad who can fit into our playing style. www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/who-new-bristol-rovers-coach-60132
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 30, 2018 1:03:40 GMT
We bought in Rogvi Baldvinsen or however its spelt from abroad, he lasted 41 minutes and 38 seconds. But on the other hand we brought in Broghammer from germany who was half decent. It's one of those where it's a gigantic risk and probably a lot more expensive to scout than players in the efl. I'd love to see us take a chance on some young 6ft 4 senagalese striker who's bagged 50 goals in 2 seasons over there rather than someone who scored 10 goals in L1, but it just isn't logistically viable. It's a lot easier these days with tools like scout7 and Wyscout etc. www.silicon.co.uk/projects/scout7-football-recruitment-intel-174427We have Brian Dutton who is apparently identifying players abroad who can fit into our playing style. www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/who-new-bristol-rovers-coach-60132I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective?
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Post by pirate on Apr 30, 2018 1:14:07 GMT
I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective? You could watch all of a players full matches for the past several seasons with things like Scout7/Wyscout and then where necessary go and scout the player in person. Flights and accommodation are cheap enough with places like Spain, Germany, Holland and Italy and the expense would be worth it if you pick up a gem on a free that is first team ready. The 3rd tier divisions in those countries are comparable, if not better technically, with League One from what I've seen and it wasn't so long ago we got played off the pitch in a 3-0 defeat during pre-season by Spanish 3rd tier side Sabadell.
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 30, 2018 1:40:25 GMT
I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective? You could watch all of a players full matches for the past several seasons with things like Scout7/Wyscout and then where necessary go and scout the player in person. Flights and accommodation are cheap enough with places like Spain, Germany, Holland and Italy and the expense would be worth it if you pick up a gem on a free that is first team ready. The 3rd tier divisions in those countries are comparable, if not better technically, with League One from what I've seen and it wasn't so long ago we got played off the pitch in a 3-0 defeat during pre-season by Spanish 3rd tier side Sabadell. Picking up a gem isn't always an easy thing to do, and it's got to be hard to judge the standard, in my opinion conference football is a similar standard to the SPL, if you take celtic and rangers and I think its Aberdeen or hibs off the top of my head who are up there the standard is appalling on the most part (not everyone's opinion I know) but take my opinion for this example, that means the Scottish 1st division standard is comparable to the English 5th divison... How would you work out where to place the standard of (for example) the Montenegro 2nd division? I'm intrigued, because like I said with the spl, their first division would get destroyed in our second division. Even after watching a few 90 minute matches I wouldn't know where to place the Polish Ekstraklasa in comparison with our level of football. Especially when our level of football significantly changes every year, 15 months ago who would have put Sunderland and Accrington in the same divison? And with the versatility in team selection and formations that DC uses its gotta be difficult to judge players when they're playing under a manager that plays 4-4-2 every week with the same XI? I know it's a scouts job to decide all of the above, but that's a lot of leg work compared to taking someone from England
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Post by pirate on Apr 30, 2018 2:00:22 GMT
You could watch all of a players full matches for the past several seasons with things like Scout7/Wyscout and then where necessary go and scout the player in person. Flights and accommodation are cheap enough with places like Spain, Germany, Holland and Italy and the expense would be worth it if you pick up a gem on a free that is first team ready. The 3rd tier divisions in those countries are comparable, if not better technically, with League One from what I've seen and it wasn't so long ago we got played off the pitch in a 3-0 defeat during pre-season by Spanish 3rd tier side Sabadell. Picking up a gem isn't always an easy thing to do, and it's got to be hard to judge the standard, in my opinion conference football is a similar standard to the SPL, if you take celtic and rangers and I think its Aberdeen or hibs off the top of my head who are up there the standard is appalling on the most part (not everyone's opinion I know) but take my opinion for this example, that means the Scottish 1st division standard is comparable to the English 5th divison... How would you work out where to place the standard of (for example) the Montenegro 2nd division? I'm intrigued, because like I said with the spl, their first division would get destroyed in our second division. Even after watching a few 90 minute matches I wouldn't know where to place the Polish Ekstraklasa in comparison with our level of football. Especially when our level of football significantly changes every year, 15 months ago who would have put Sunderland and Accrington in the same divison? And with the versatility in team selection and formations that DC uses its gotta be difficult to judge players when they're playing under a manager that plays 4-4-2 every week with the same XI? I know it's a scouts job to decide all of the above, but that's a lot of leg work compared to taking someone from England I think the overall level of the Scottish Prem is probably a combination of League One and League Two, but you make some decent points. The thing you look for in a player at any level is transferable skills, can they make the step up or play in our league with the attributes they possess. That is the challenge and risk you have to weigh up, but if we are limiting ourselves to players from these islands I think we could be missing out on some fantastic players and ones that are potentially better value than the inflated market in this country, where you have 4th tier players touted for million pound moves after one decent season.
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Post by jkgas15 on Apr 30, 2018 2:16:03 GMT
Picking up a gem isn't always an easy thing to do, and it's got to be hard to judge the standard, in my opinion conference football is a similar standard to the SPL, if you take celtic and rangers and I think its Aberdeen or hibs off the top of my head who are up there the standard is appalling on the most part (not everyone's opinion I know) but take my opinion for this example, that means the Scottish 1st division standard is comparable to the English 5th divison... How would you work out where to place the standard of (for example) the Montenegro 2nd division? I'm intrigued, because like I said with the spl, their first division would get destroyed in our second division. Even after watching a few 90 minute matches I wouldn't know where to place the Polish Ekstraklasa in comparison with our level of football. Especially when our level of football significantly changes every year, 15 months ago who would have put Sunderland and Accrington in the same divison? And with the versatility in team selection and formations that DC uses its gotta be difficult to judge players when they're playing under a manager that plays 4-4-2 every week with the same XI? I know it's a scouts job to decide all of the above, but that's a lot of leg work compared to taking someone from England I think the overall level of the Scottish Prem is probably a combination of League One and League Two, but you make some decent points. The thing you look for in a player at any level is transferable skills, can they make the step up or play in our league with the attributes they possess. That is the challenge and risk you have to weigh up, but if we are limiting ourselves to players from these islands I think we could be missing out on some fantastic players and ones that are potentially better value than the inflated market in this country, where you have 4th tier players touted for million pound moves after one decent season. And after all that hard work, and proving they have the capability it's then hit and miss whether they can actually perform at that level Omar Bogle, Ricky Miller, just 2 dodged bullets from recent years that could have cost us a fortune. At least Luke James and nichols only cost £400k + wages lol As I said at the start I think I'd like us to start digging offshore, but until the clubs infrastructure is built correctly and we have the resources and facilities to fully develop whatever we bring through it's a distant dream, in one of DCs analogies - "why shop at Walmart when there's a perfectly good asda here" 😂 I think until we are comfortable off the pitch it's not something we are going to see happen unfortunately On that note I'm off to bed mate, enjoyable chat but baby will be waking me up in less than 3 hours for a feed so this little bit of sleep will be desperately needed haha
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Post by beaver132 on Apr 30, 2018 4:48:15 GMT
I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective? What did we do when we got Nicholls? Peterborough was clearly too far to send anyone, because if we'd seen him play and train, we'd presumably know he couldn't hit a barn door at 5 paces.
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Post by axegas on Apr 30, 2018 7:11:31 GMT
I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective? What did we do when we got Nicholls? Peterborough was clearly too far to send anyone, because if we'd seen him play and train, we'd presumably know he couldn't hit a barn door at 5 paces. MS worked with him at Exeter so I’m guessing his opinion of Nichols was a very positive one. He also scored against us and we all know DC loves to sign a striker on the basis of a decent 90 minutes playing against us.
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Post by blueridge on Apr 30, 2018 7:17:49 GMT
I completely get where you're coming from, technology is a beautiful thing and people have access to content they didn't 10/20 years ago, but equally I could put together a quick highlights video that makes 'player 1' look like a footballing god (I don't know how the site works I clicked on it and there's far too much writing for me to read at 2am - that's purely an assumption of what the video would be - I could be wrong and I'll apologise in advance if I am) We would still have to send Brian out to Bulgaria to watch this guy train, and play (which isn't cheap even with booking.com comparing prices of 1m hotels), because you can't rely solely on a video or two, that would be foolish and very expensive. Yes it's great to narrow down what and where and who you're looking for, its a great marker, but it's still going to be very costly to actually go and physically watch these players, even if the videos were watched and we invited them for a trial without going to watch them - and I'm assuming we would pay for them to travel over for a trial? - it's a bit bad if we invite them and expect them to cover all expenses, because I'm guessing the Finnish second division wages aren't quite L1 level? We have Brian, teams with a big budget have lots of Brian's dotted everywhere, making the Brian of the bigger teams jobs a lot easier and cost effective? What did we do when we got Nicholls? Peterborough was clearly too far to send anyone, because if we'd seen him play and train, we'd presumably know he couldn't hit a barn door at 5 paces. Think you'll find he scored more goals in all competitions for Peterborough last season than EH has for us this season - what does that say?
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Post by peterhooper57 on Apr 30, 2018 8:11:33 GMT
What did we do when we got Nicholls? Peterborough was clearly too far to send anyone, because if we'd seen him play and train, we'd presumably know he couldn't hit a barn door at 5 paces. Think you'll find he scored more goals in all competitions for Peterborough last season than EH has for us this season - what does that say? It probably says, that Nicols had a better service at the Posh and when he came to BRFC, he realised Ellis was a better forward as he was, and still is, scoring goals off of scraps, which Nicols is unable to do, because he has no physical presence and unable to create opportunities for himself. Ellis is perfect for the way BRFC play, I just hope DC can hold on to him during the transfer window.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Apr 30, 2018 8:21:19 GMT
Who would you like to see go, and who would you personally replace them with (within reason - we're not going to replace nichols with mo salah) (and also assuming we're not scouting Slovakian 3rd division players, pirate 😂) Leads - Luke Burke - 20 - Wigan, out of contract end of season Moore - Lyle Taylor - realistic target, sure he's out of contract at the end of the season, is a goalscorer. CB - not sure what's happening with Craig, unsure whether he'll be a player or a coach next year - Mark Beevers - Bolton - likely to be shipping out a few players, think he's 28 and out of contract this season, very experienced player. Striker - Eisa - Cheltenham, would certainly have to put our hands in our pockets for him. My lost in based entirely on players in the EFL currently, and also realistic targets, Sammy Ameobi is a free agent in the summer, but he won't be coming here. There's probably positions we need to strengthen, but I don't think we're going to have a huge overhaul in the summer so I've stuck to a few key positions we need to do something about. And if you're reading rovers - we don't want anyone from Peterborough, we could turn jack marriot into a 5 goal a century striker if we bought him lol Some great suggestions, but all predicated on the basis these players will want to come to BRFC; unfortunately, DC will be fishing in a different pool of players as we do not have any money to pay top wages and our facilities, ground and training ground, are currently in and amongst the worst in the league. IMO our best chance for future success is by growing our own from within the Under 23 Development Team, get some players into the first team, and sell them on at a profit.
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