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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Wednesday at 2:57 PM
  • #246
AFCCOVENTRY said:
With Wilson, Bidwell and Allen new deals I suspect we can get some cash for them now. Don’t expect them to be here for next season.
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Yeah I reckon that’s the plan.
 
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procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:06 PM
  • #247
AFCCOVENTRY said:
With Wilson, Bidwell and Allen new deals I suspect we can get some cash for them now. Don’t expect them to be here for next season.
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Wilson will still be here. I think Allen will be too
 
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Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:07 PM
  • #248
Sick Boy said:
Yeah I reckon that’s the plan.
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you got a bee on your hat
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Wednesday at 3:15 PM
  • #249
Tommo1993 said:
you got a bee on your hat
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Stupida fa-cking game
 
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TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:18 PM
  • #250
Sick Boy said:
Yeah I reckon that’s the plan.
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King seems quite smart, even if he can get a small amount of money for them he'll see the extension as worth doing. Makes sense to me, it all adds up.
 

Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:20 PM
  • #251
GC1976 said:
I’d rather see “made available for Transfer“ list. Now that would be worth waiting for !
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We know that list, the whole squad. Every player has their price.
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:21 PM
  • #252
I think it's time to move on from Allen. Good pro and cannot fault his effort, but we need better now.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:21 PM
  • #253
So basically we've lost None of the first team squad from last Season.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:22 PM
  • #254
Reckon we’ll get a few hundred K for each of Allen Bidwell and maybe even Wilson. Sell Sheaf or Eccles plus Lats and BTA maybe. Plus Gus and Vik sell ons that’s probably pushing £15m before you’ve sold any silverware.
 
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Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:23 PM
  • #255
Robinshio said:
no shocks it is more what happens to
Rodrigues
collins
Lati
Simms
Thomas Asante

aswell as some of the older youth team players who are under contract - and hope we hold on to our better players
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I expect them all to stay, bar maybe BTA.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:37 PM
  • #256
PVA said:
I think it's time to move on from Allen. Good pro and cannot fault his effort, but we need better now.
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You are not going to get much better as a player who will only be an occasional starter and bench player

Eccles or Sheaf will move in the summer and a new player come in
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:47 PM
  • #257
Grendel said:
You are not going to get much better as a player who will only be an occasional starter and bench player
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Really?
 

Gint11

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:48 PM
  • #258
SBAndy said:
Burroughs will get a gig at L1 or L2. Howley I’m less certain on.
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Howleys got a host of L1 and L2 clubs interested.
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 3:49 PM
  • #259
Grendel said:
You are not going to get much better as a player who will only be an occasional starter and bench player
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Of course we can.

We've already got one in Eccles.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 4:14 PM
  • #260
PVA said:
Of course we can.

We've already got one in Eccles.
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Why would Eccles - who has been a regular - settle for that? He will at his age need a move.
 
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procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 4:18 PM
  • #261
SBT said:
Really?
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Grendel is correct. Allen is a positive influence on the squad, it counts for a lot
 
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procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 4:19 PM
  • #262
Grendel said:
Why would Eccles - who has been a regular - settle for that? He will at his age need a move.
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In reality Eccles needs to be starting regularly at his age
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 4:38 PM
  • #263
procdoc said:
Grendel is correct. Allen is a positive influence on the squad, it counts for a lot
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On your point I agree, but to suggest you can’t find anyone better as a backup shows a lack of ambition/imagination imo. If the rumours are true that the team are planning to move him on then it would seem they agree.
 
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procdoc

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  • Wednesday at 5:10 PM
  • #264
SBT said:
On your point I agree, but to suggest you can’t find anyone better as a backup shows a lack of ambition/imagination imo. If the rumours are true that the team are planning to move him on then it would seem they agree.
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Who’s better that would come to be backup on his wages?
 

MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 5:15 PM
  • #265
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
So basically with lost None of the first team squad from last Season.
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Yet

Not all necessarily a good thing.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 5:26 PM
  • #266
procdoc said:
Who’s better that would come to be backup on his wages?
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That’s a question for Dean Austin, but if the team ends up moving Allen on then clearly they think they can do better.
 

larry_david

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 5:43 PM
  • #267
Cian Tylers instagram post reads pretty tough. Essentially 2.5 years of the same wrist injury that by the looks of it will never heal, and that'll be his career over.

Pretty sure he was due a season long league 1 loan a few years back before this happened and now he's probably gonna have to find a new job.

We had Tom Billson too a few years back who's now a football agent. Life can be tough, being a young footballer requires a fuck load of luck.

Another one is Batwani who was on verge of first team squad and got two footed away at Nuneaton in preseason and missed the entire season and some...very much doubt he'll make it now either.

Then there's Isaacs Moore who's had 2 acls I think and was being heavily linked with Villa at 16
 
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Colin Steins Smile

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 5:57 PM
  • #268
I've seen it within my work at football clubs. I agree that it is a really tough sector to be working in. Many of those players will have been connected with a club from the age of 7 or 8 years of age.
They'll envisage a career of professional football and just one bad injury, their whole career has gone.
That's why it's vital they pursue academic qualifications to the best of their ability. Unfortunately, too many don't!
 
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PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 6:01 PM
  • #269
procdoc said:
Who’s better that would come to be backup on his wages?
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It doesn't have to be on the same wages.

Obviously we're not going to pay silly wages for someone to sit on the bench, but we're consistently signing players on higher wages and that includes backup/squad players.
 
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mrfang1987

Member
  • Wednesday at 6:29 PM
  • #270
Shame for Cian Tyler who was very highly rated. Luke Bell is well thought of.

I’d heard that Isaac Moore has impressed and will be around pre season if he can stay fit. Tough to come back from two ACLs though.
 

Shannerz

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 6:50 PM
  • #271
Grendel said:
You are not going to get much better as a player who will only be an occasional starter and bench player
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I agree, but at this stage in his career, is he going to settle for that?

He could be a regular for a decent Championship team.
 
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jto123

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 6:53 PM
  • #272
Am I the only slightly sad about Howley? I have a memory of him stepping in at one point when we were in need and he really stepped up and showed promise. Thought he would eventually break through.
 
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shepardo01

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 7:07 PM
  • #273
jto123 said:
Am I the only slightly sad about Howley? I have a memory of him stepping in at one point when we were in need and he really stepped up and showed promise. Thought he would eventually break through.
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It's always sad releasing a young player who has been with the club since whenever, in this case, u7 I think.
Howley was never ever anywhere good enough for Championship Coventry City.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 7:11 PM
  • #274
jto123 said:
Am I the only slightly sad about Howley? I have a memory of him stepping in at one point when we were in need and he really stepped up and showed promise. Thought he would eventually break through.
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If you look at the list of players who won the same award he did three years ago, you have to be disappointed with how his development has gone in comparison

Football League Apprentice of the Year - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
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Martw

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 7:51 PM
  • #275
Gint11 said:
Howleys got a host of L1 and L2 clubs interested.
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Good news
 
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procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 8:33 PM
  • #276
SBT said:
If you look at the list of players who won the same award he did three years ago, you have to be disappointed with how his development has gone in comparison

Football League Apprentice of the Year - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
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Apart from Will Truman that now plays for Buxton lol
 

Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 8:44 PM
  • #277
Poor loan choices haven’t helped Burroughs and Howley they would have been better off playing in league two than going to Scotland and barely playing.
 
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Hobo

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 9:13 PM
  • #278
The job of the Academy is to prepare players for life as professional footballers, which might be League 1, League 2 or even National League and not necessarily our first team
 

Mucca Mad Boys

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 9:23 PM
  • #279
SBT said:
On your point I agree, but to suggest you can’t find anyone better as a backup shows a lack of ambition/imagination imo. If the rumours are true that the team are planning to move him on then it would seem they agree.
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You’ve got some good midfielders in the group; Sheaf, Grimes, Eccles and Torp before getting to Allen.

One of those could be sold but to get a better player, we’d need to be spending a lot of money and there’s areas where we need to spend more money. How many players would be happy to join to potentially be 4-5th choice?

That said, if we could get some cash for Allen, I wouldn’t be against that. If we bring in a consummate pro like Grimes in the changing room, that would make up for the positives he brings to the squad.
 

Mr Panda

Well-Known Member
  • Wednesday at 9:31 PM
  • #280
jto123 said:
Am I the only slightly sad about Howley? I have a memory of him stepping in at one point when we were in need and he really stepped up and showed promise. Thought he would eventually break through.
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Victim of our success. Had he been of the Bayliss/Shipley age we’d have probably given him opportunity in leagues two and one.
 
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