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Post by daniel300380 on Aug 4, 2018 11:37:51 GMT
We've just sold a striker virtually guaranteed to get us 15 goals this season, then you say why are fans writing off a player who's never scored more than 5, no wonder the owners treat us like mugs if fans are just happy to accept swapping a £750K striker for one worth £150K. If he's got any real potential are Walsall, who are hardly strapped for cash themselves, going to let him leave so cheaply? [ Someone on Twitter said wael said it's not him anyway. If it was him, I think he would bring more than goals. He's 6ft 4 isn't he?? Devon White never scored many. Fans have been moaning they want a target man for years, at this level, not all target men score loads. If it was him, with a goal scoring number 9, don't see much of a problem.
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Post by baggins on Aug 4, 2018 11:42:43 GMT
We've just sold a striker virtually guaranteed to get us 15 goals this season, then you say why are fans writing off a player who's never scored more than 5, no wonder the owners treat us like mugs if fans are just happy to accept swapping a £750K striker for one worth £150K. If he's got any real potential are Walsall, who are hardly strapped for cash themselves, going to let him leave so cheaply? He wasn't worth £150k 4 years ago. We take them cheap, sell them on for a profit. It's how we've always worked. I don't feel treated like a mug.
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Post by gasofsomerset on Aug 4, 2018 11:46:35 GMT
In the services on the way to Peterborough and heard direrctly from Ken Masters that we will have signed someone Monday from Walsall but would leave it to us to work out.
Apparently he has travelled with the team today but the papers were not sorted in time. So yeah, probably Bakayoko
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Post by baggins on Aug 4, 2018 11:49:04 GMT
In the services on the way to Peterborough and heard direrctly from Ken Masters that we will have signed someone from Walsall but would leave it to us to work out. Apparently he has travelled with the team today but the papers were not sorted in time. So yeah, probably Bakayoko Have a safe trip fella, cheer them on for all of us back home. Come on Gas!!!
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Post by gasofsomerset on Aug 4, 2018 11:53:13 GMT
In the services on the way to Peterborough and heard direrctly from Ken Masters that we will have signed someone from Walsall but would leave it to us to work out. Apparently he has travelled with the team today but the papers were not sorted in time. So yeah, probably Bakayoko Have a safe trip fella, cheer them on for all of us back home. Come on Gas!!! Cheers mate, looking forward to it!! Sold nearly 800 tickets too.. UTG
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Post by thegasfc on Aug 4, 2018 11:54:31 GMT
Have a safe trip fella, cheer them on for all of us back home. Come on Gas!!! Cheers mate, looking forward to it!! Sold nearly 800 tickets too.. UTG I'm sure another 100 will go at the gate too.
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Post by mrpirate on Aug 4, 2018 11:54:33 GMT
Crikey gasheads - don’t write a bloke off before he’s even pulled on a shirt. We have a very good habit of signing strikers and turning them into gems. If it is the chap from walsall he’s what we’ve been crying out for - a big, athletic and tough centre forward with a presence up top,
Get Stewy working with him and I’m sure the goals will come. Let’s face up to it - we will never be a club to fork out hundreds of thousands on players. Never have and we never will.
I’d much rather have a club whom can fund it’s self and live with in its means, with the slim chance of getting promo. The last thing we want is a soulless club like that red bunch who can’t buy success.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 11:57:01 GMT
Nathan blissett Mark 2.
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Post by thegasfc on Aug 4, 2018 11:58:42 GMT
Crikey gasheads - don’t write a bloke off before he’s even pulled on a shirt. We have a very good habit of signing strikers and turning them into gems. If it is the chap from walsall he’s what we’ve been crying out for - a big, athletic and tough centre forward with a presence up top, Get Stewy working with him and I’m sure the goals will come. Let’s face up to it - we will never be a club to fork out hundreds of thousands on players. Never have and we never will. I’d much rather have a club whom can fund it’s self and live with in its means, with the slim chance of getting promo. The last thing we want is a soulless club like that red bunch who can’t buy success. Not true at all. The only players we have turned into gems were the ones that we bought on frees in the summer after relegation to the Conference. <iframe width="25.160000000000082" height="5.259999999999991" style="position: absolute; width: 25.16px; height: 5.26px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_84370746" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="25.160000000000082" height="5.259999999999991" style="position: absolute; width: 25.16px; height: 5.26px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1197px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_32422241" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="25.160000000000082" height="5.259999999999991" style="position: absolute; width: 25.16px; height: 5.26px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 202px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_1136845" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="25.160000000000082" height="5.259999999999991" style="position: absolute; width: 25.16px; height: 5.26px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1197px; top: 202px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_39518443" scrolling="no"></iframe> Since we've had Gaffney, Luke James, Tom Nichols and Dom Telford. Them lot haven't really performed for us, so.
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Post by mrpirate on Aug 4, 2018 12:01:47 GMT
Yes, not all players will be gems. But our club history - Hayles, curetoen, roberts, Ellington, Bodin, Taylor, Harrison.
Point I’m trying to make is, under DC we haven’t done bad. So try and look on the bright side. And here’s hoping Nicholls bags one today. I agree about Gaffney and James! All clubs have their stinkers
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Post by kampucheagas on Aug 4, 2018 12:09:17 GMT
Yes, not all players will be gems. But our club history - Hayles, curetoen, roberts, Ellington, Bodin, Taylor, Harrison. Point I’m trying to make is, under DC we haven’t done bad. So try and look on the bright side. And here’s hoping Nicholls bags one today. I agree about Gaffney and James! All clubs have their stinkers We've had much bigger stinkers than our Rory! DC gets it right more often than not, playing Nichols or Reilly next to a powerhouse could be the making of them!
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Post by nailseagashead on Aug 4, 2018 12:09:32 GMT
Yes, not all players will be gems. But our club history - Hayles, curetoen, roberts, Ellington, Bodin, Taylor, Harrison. Point I’m trying to make is, under DC we haven’t done bad. So try and look on the bright side. And here’s hoping Nicholls bags one today. I agree about Gaffney and James! All clubs have their stinkers Jeez! That's a bit harsh on Gaffney, think he played a real key part in our return to league 1. Even in league 1 he worked hard and created space for others, calling him a 'stinker' in terms of signings is very harsh.
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Post by thegasfc on Aug 4, 2018 12:11:26 GMT
Yes, not all players will be gems. But our club history - Hayles, curetoen, roberts, Ellington, Bodin, Taylor, Harrison. Point I’m trying to make is, under DC we haven’t done bad. So try and look on the bright side. And here’s hoping Nicholls bags one today. I agree about Gaffney and James! All clubs have their stinkers Jeez! That's a bit harsh on Gaffney, think he played a real key part in our return to league 1. Even in league 1 he worked hard and created space for others, calling him a 'stinker' in terms of signings is very harsh. Never really performed after his loan, tbf.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Aug 4, 2018 12:12:49 GMT
Gaffney was a good signing at the time. The problem is we’ve ascended so much people are forgetting the context some players were signed under.
The only real gaffe Darrell has made has been Tom Nichols based on performances to date. Everyone else on a fee has either been alright (at least for the time) or has been shrewd business (Sercombe?)
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Post by mrpirate on Aug 4, 2018 12:15:20 GMT
On loan, Gaffney was superb. Once he earned his deal he wasn’t great and never really looked a threat.
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Post by nailseagashead on Aug 4, 2018 12:19:10 GMT
Jeez! That's a bit harsh on Gaffney, think he played a real key part in our return to league 1. Even in league 1 he worked hard and created space for others, calling him a 'stinker' in terms of signings is very harsh. Never really performed after his loan, tbf. He did the job he was brought in to do, without his goals in league 2 while he was on loan and after he joined us permanently we would not have been promoted. Remember the first home game after Al-Qadis take over think Gaffers scored the winner in a 2-1 win over morecambe if I remember rightly.
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Post by piratesfchhh on Aug 4, 2018 12:24:42 GMT
Very interested in this walsall lad. You dont play over 80 games in league one at 22 without having something about you.
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Post by lpgas on Aug 4, 2018 12:40:54 GMT
It's no good going back in our History and saying "we are good at signing strikers" we can start with Alfie Biggs, Randall, and so on. How long should we go back? At the moment we just need to go back to the conference.
We have had Taylor, who was very good for us, and DC signed him, and DC was lucky when Bodin asked for a trial. Gaffney, was ok in league 2, but a bit lost in league 1. Meanwhile he signed Telford on loan, who DC admits "is a natural goal scorer" but doesn't sign him on a Free. Meanwhile he spends our second highest fee ever on Nichols, and without doubt not the Taylor replacement he thought he was getting. so DC has had some luck with his signings but on the ones he "went for" ie Luke James and Nichols he has been poor. Personally I would have preferred James to stay. We would have saved enough money to buy Cole. I fear we are about to sign Gaffney mark 2.
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Post by Gas-Ed on Aug 4, 2018 12:42:09 GMT
I’m not one to be fooled by a YouTube video but you can see exactly what he would offer in this 5 min video. Pace, power and good feet.
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Post by mrpirate on Aug 4, 2018 12:46:28 GMT
It's no good going back in our History and saying "we are good at signing strikers" we can start with Alfie Biggs, Randall, and so on. How long should we go back? At the moment we just need to go back to the conference. We have had Taylor, who was very good for us, and DC signed him, and DC was lucky when Bodin asked for a trial. Gaffney, was ok in league 2, but a bit lost in league 1. Meanwhile he signed Telford on loan, who DC admits "is a natural goal scorer" but doesn't sign him on a Free. Meanwhile he spends our second highest fee ever on Nichols, and without doubt not the Taylor replacement he thought he was getting. so DC has had some luck with his signings but on the ones he "went for" ie Luke James and Nichols he has been poor. Personally I would have preferred James to stay. We would have saved enough money to buy Cole. I fear we are about to sign Gaffney mark 2. Point I’m trying to make is don’t write off any signing before he even pulls on the shirt. When we signed those I listed, none of them were marquee/ proven. We all just need to chill out a bit - trust the gaffer and his back room team. All clubs have their dodgy signings. But we’ve done more good than bad under DC. The hysteria needs to stop, and just get behind the 11 who wear the soviet for the gane
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