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Sam McCallum Confirmed (1 Viewer)

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Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Looked half decent at Nuneaton.
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Fantastic a position we are short in as we only had three left backs already
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
Fantastic a position we are short in as we only had three left backs already
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He’s a seventeen year old we’ve bought in for development. Stick your tampon back in.
 
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tisza

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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i really like this side of the club atm.
Difficult to compete with PL academies so taking on these promising 18/19 yr olds and giving them to Farndon for a year or two is a solid policy. Only need to hit a couple and it's good business.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Liquid Gold said:
He’s a seventeen year old we’ve bought in for development. Stick your tampon back in.
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To add to the eighteen and nineteen year old ones we have already
 

shmmeee

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  • Aug 9, 2018
  • #7
Our U23 second string is gonna piss the league this year :/
 

ccfcricoh

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
To add to the eighteen and nineteen year old ones we have already
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Tends to be a pretty normal age for u23 sides as far as i'm aware
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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shmmeee said:
Our U23 second string is gonna piss the league this year :/
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Great does that give the first team automatic promotion then
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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ccfcricoh said:
Tends to be a pretty normal age for u23 sides as far as i'm aware
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At the top level not where we are, it looks like they have spent there time searching for cheap players and not spending time finding the centre forward we need
 
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Loughborough Sky Blue

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
At the top level not where we are, it looks like they have spent there time searching for cheap players and not spending time finding the centre forward we need
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I would hazard a guess it is not the same people recruiting for the youth teams and the first team.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Loughborough Sky Blue said:
I would hazard a guess it is not the same people recruiting for the youth teams and the first team.
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I would think the head of recruitment looks after both
 

mark82

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
I would think the head of recruitment looks after both
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Yes, but below that it's different people.
 
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SkyBlueCRJ

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Hats off to who's heading up the recruitment for the U23's, whether it's our new scout or JF, the future definitely looks bright.
 
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Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Not too sure of the issue in signing youngsters to go into the U23's. It's not as if we haven't paid big-ish fees (for us anyway) for 2 strikers.
 

ccfcricoh

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
At the top level not where we are, it looks like they have spent there time searching for cheap players and not spending time finding the centre forward we need
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having a strong u23 is a huge benefit to us in the longer time and shouldn't be overlooked.

it won't be the 1 person going out scouting every signing we make!

You think we need another centre forward, doesnt mean Robins thinks we do... we pay him to manage, let him manage.
 

mark82

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Nick said:
Not too sure of the issue in signing youngsters to go into the U23's. It's not as if we haven't paid big-ish fees (for us anyway) for 2 strikers.
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Let's not sign anyone for the future. While we're at it, let's get rid of the youth academy. We obviously have money coming out of our arsehole so we don't need to develop anyone to sell in the future.
 
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higgs

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Liquid Gold said:
He’s a seventeen year old we’ve bought in for development. Stick your tampon back in.
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Ha ha

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
 

mark82

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Anyway, McCallum has been here or weeks and his isn't really news. Not sure why we are having a flounce over it now.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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mark82 said:
Let's not sign anyone for the future. While we're at it, let's get rid of the youth academy. We obviously have money coming out of our arsehole so we don't need to develop anyone to sell in the future.
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I don’t think that’s what anybody is saying but the under 23’s must come a very distant second to the first team in recruiting players.
 

Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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mark82 said:
Anyway, McCallum has been here or weeks and his isn't really news. Not sure why we are having a flounce over it now.
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Exactly, it's just taken a while to announce. Same with Williams and Walters.

In fact, wasn't Mason for development too?
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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ccfcricoh said:
having a strong u23 is a huge benefit to us in the longer time and shouldn't be overlooked.

it won't be the 1 person going out scouting every signing we make!

You think we need another centre forward, doesnt mean Robins thinks we do... we pay him to manage, let him manage.
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In a few months time we will be saying if only we had a goal scorer and then in January we will get the unfortunately we don’t have the money to buy a centre forward but the good news is we have four left backs.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
I don’t think that’s what anybody is saying but the under 23’s must come a very distant second to the first team in recruiting players.
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I'd surprised if any recruitment for the youth team is taking focus away from the first team to be honest.
 

ccfcricoh

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Ca
Terry Gibson's perm said:
In a few months time we will be saying if only we had a goal scorer and then in January we will get the unfortunately we don’t have the money to buy a centre forward but the good news is we have four left backs.
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Can i have next weeks lotto numbers whilst you're at it?
 

Skyblue_CP

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  • Aug 9, 2018
  • #25
Nick said:
Exactly, it's just taken a while to announce. Same with Williams and Walters.

In fact, wasn't Mason for development too?
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I was always under the impression he was back up to Brown but out performed him in pre season, could be wrong mind
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
  • #26
ccfcricoh said:
Ca

Can i have next weeks lotto numbers whilst you're at it?
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My advice is do like the club are buy five million tickets and one is bound to win
 
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Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
In a few months time we will be saying if only we had a goal scorer and then in January we will get the unfortunately we don’t have the money to buy a centre forward but the good news is we have four left backs.
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We have just signed 2 strikers for 6 figures each and have more strikers than we do left backs?
 

shmmeee

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  • Aug 9, 2018
  • #28
Nick said:
Not too sure of the issue in signing youngsters to go into the U23's. It's not as if we haven't paid big-ish fees (for us anyway) for 2 strikers.
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£70k and <£150k are big fees now?
 

Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
  • #29
shmmeee said:
£70k and <£150k are big fees now?
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For us in recent times they are, I made sure I put that disclaimer in
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Nick said:
We have just signed 2 strikers for 6 figures each and have more strikers than we do left backs?
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You can play one left back but tend to play more strikers
 

Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Terry Gibson's perm said:
You can play one left back but tend to play more strikers
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You can only play 1 goalie but we have 4 of those going down to U23 level too.

Just because we havent signed Chaplin it doesnt mean we havent signed strikers or havent been looking.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Nick said:
For us in recent times they are, I made sure I put that disclaimer in
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In recent times we hadn't just gone up a division, not received multi-millions in fees. I was also under the impression that we are now breaking even, but TBH haven't been paying attention to that side of the club for a couple of years.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Nick said:
You can only play 1 goalie but we have 4 of those going down to U23 level too.

Just because we havent signed Chaplin it doesnt mean we havent signed strikers or havent been looking.
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Don’t start me on goalkeepers Nick I have money about that in the past too many of the same ability in this squad
 

Nick

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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shmmeee said:
In recent times we hadn't just gone up a division, not received multi-millions in fees. I was also under the impression that we are now breaking even, but TBH haven't been paying attention to that side of the club for a couple of years.
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We are breaking even because of the fees...

I also missed off Allassanni if he plays up front.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 9, 2018
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Nick said:
We are breaking even because of the fees...

I also missed off Allassanni if he plays up front.
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So we aren't breaking even? Were still losing millions each year?

I'll wind my neck in and adjust expectations accordingly then.
 
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