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SteveDeckchair wrote: Made oi larf! You pay £100k for a striker to get you 7-12 a season? Bargain!

The figure was nearer £20,000. You should know from experience not to trust fans valuations of players. You all thought you'd get £150,000 - £200,000 for Zebs remember yet got about a 1/4 of what you expected.

blueboy wrote: The figure was nearer £20,000. You should know from experience not to trust fans valuations of players. You all thought you'd get £150,000 - £200,000 for Zebs remember yet got about a 1/4 of what you expected.

You see this issue I have with this?

Matt.

A pleasant evening to watch a kick about. Tiverton used to have a decent side but are now terrible (and in all honesty we were not alot better).
Thought the first half team played Ok.

Saah was impressive (although he has nothing to do). Looks good on the ball. He is better on the ground than Ellis or Robbo but not as physically strong as either.
The keeper looked strong although had nothing to do all night. He is like a bigger version of Kevin Deardon and considerably uglier as well. if you stuck Craig Stanleys ears on him to go with possibly the biggest chin in football you would have one hell of a looker.
Was impressed with Oastler actually, and Atieno looked up for it and did well. He looked he was up for it, and was desperate to impress which he did. Compare that to Macklin who farted about like a big jesse. You would think that he might be up for trying to impress the new manager but no - Ling needs to stick a rocket up his jacksie.
All going well until the second half "team" came out. The only player who emerged with any credit was Spear. As for the rest of them - well to actually "lose" 1-0 To Tiverton who were awful - Ling must be having nightmares.
Believe me Mcphee has not improved - he was bloody awful. Stevens,Kee etc etc - all terrible.
Have we got eleven players out of this lot who can compete in League 2 - difficult I'd say.
I would put the following players into the team, not necesaarily in their proper positions.

Ugly Keeper.

Robbo-Ellis-Saah-Nico

Mansell-Oastler-O'Kane-Stevens

Howe-Kee

Subs - Nothing.

Kee and Stevens are only included because we don't have anything else. Far from being impressed by Leadbitter I don't think he is League 2 standard.
Our strength maybe the back four and goalkeeper. if Ling goes with Saah/Robbo at the back I would actually play Ellis somewhere else (god knows where ).
It is a painfully thin looking set up. O'KAne is really the only one bit of class that we have.

The figure was nearer £20,000. You should know from experience not to trust fans valuations of players. You all thought you'd get £150,000 - £200,000 for Zebs remember yet got about a 1/4 of what you expected.[/quote]

You see this issue I have with this?

Matt.[/quote]

Ha good point Matt. I won't repeat myself as this is your forum and irrelevant to the Howe point really. I was just giving my opinion on him and used Harrold as an example.

Out of interest will you have a full strength team out for the Weston game on the 25th of this month? I live fairly close so might pop along to watch it if you will.

It's all good Blue, perfectly decent post, just entirely contradictory from one sentence to the next, if you read it the way I did. Plus, it gave me a chance to use some pretty colours, which I always I enjoy.

We haven't really got a sufficiently large squad to not play a decent side, so you'll definitely not be watching a bunch of reserves if you do decide to come along.

Matt.

Matchday thread v Bristol City coming soon ?