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  • Thread starter PUSB-We_are_going_up
  • Start date Jan 7, 2021
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Paxman II

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #246
Paxman II said:
Too old? he's 31. What's the gamble on a striker of his calibre when what we have is rank hopeless at the moment with our two main strikers out for a long period? We need to gamble to survive. We need goals. I think MR's would have taken him in a heart beat and paying his wages will have been the exclusion for us tbh.He will help QPR a lot who sit just below us in the table.
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Well there you go.....
 

CovUpNorth

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #247
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We could’ve signed him for the money we paid for Hiwulla and Baka. We wanted a McNulty replacement, he was it.
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Money well and truly wasted by Robins.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #248
CovUpNorth said:
Money well and truly wasted by Robins.
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In the case of those two yes.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #249
Be fair. Hiwula was our top scorer first season in L1. We went off the boil second season but did a job.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #250
shmmeee said:
Be fair. Hiwula was our top scorer first season in L1. We went off the boil second season but did a job.
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Yea but ultimately both will leave for nothing after falling out of favour
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #251
The problem:

Once Godden & Walker are fit, any incomer will likely be, at best, third in the striker pecking order, in a team that plays only one up front.

1. Would anybody who was any good, join us in that situation? Unless you are a loan
2. We can't have any more loans.
3. Or unless the new player is seen as a long term replacement for Godden. But that's too expensive

Answers on a postcard to M Robins c/o Trillion St Andrews Birmingham
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #252
Gibbo said:
The problem:

Once Godden & Walker are fit, any incomer will likely be, at best, third in the striker pecking order, in a team that plays only one up front.

1. Would anybody who was any good, join us in that situation? Unless you are a loan
2. We can't have any more loans.
3. Or unless the new player is seen as a long term replacement for Godden. But that's too expensive

Answers on a postcard to M Robins c/o Trillion St Andrews Birmingham
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I don't think we'd play one up front if we had two Championship quality strikers fit. And if we are going to keep playing one up, and with it be more direct than we were last season, then annoyingly neither Godden nor Walker are the right type of player to play there. I guess the alternative is we sign a better quality throughout and can play higher up the pitch like last season.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #253
Gibbo said:
The problem:

Once Godden & Walker are fit, any incomer will likely be, at best, third in the striker pecking order, in a team that plays only one up front.

1. Would anybody who was any good, join us in that situation? Unless you are a loan
2. We can't have any more loans.
3. Or unless the new player is seen as a long term replacement for Godden. But that's too expensive

Answers on a postcard to M Robins c/o Trillion St Andrews Birmingham
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The problem:

Godden is out for months and Walker still for weeks.

1. Would you persist with just Max and Baka if you could get temporary reinforcements?
2. We can sign free agents as well as loans.
3. We don’t need a long term replacement now. Just need bodies for the remaining months.
 

PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #254
shmmeee said:
I don't think we'd play one up front if we had two Championship quality strikers fit. And if we are going to keep playing one up, and with it be more direct than we were last season, then annoyingly neither Godden nor Walker are the right type of player to play there. I guess the alternative is we sign a better quality throughout and can play higher up the pitch like last season.
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We do have championship quality strikers Godden and Walker
 
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Skybluebeliever

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #255
Gibbo said:
The problem:

Once Godden & Walker are fit, any incomer will likely be, at best, third in the striker pecking order, in a team that plays only one up front.

1. Would anybody who was any good, join us in that situation? Unless you are a loan
2. We can't have any more loans.
3. Or unless the new player is seen as a long term replacement for Godden. But that's too expensive

Answers on a postcard to M Robins c/o Trillion St Andrews Birmingham
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Why can’t we have any more loans ?

I think we have no alternative to bring a striker in on loan , MR will then have to decide which loan player does not make his squad for each game
 
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Magwitch

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #256
Is it a maximum of five loan players per match day squad or on the field of play.
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #257
shmmeee said:
I don't think we'd play one up front if we had two Championship quality strikers fit. And if we are going to keep playing one up, and with it be more direct than we were last season, then annoyingly neither Godden nor Walker are the right type of player to play there. I guess the alternative is we sign a better quality throughout and can play higher up the pitch like last season.
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He can only play 2 if he has 12 players. He played 1 all last year
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #258
Skybluebeliever said:
Why can’t we have any more loans ?

I think we have no alternative to bring a striker in on loan , MR will then have to decide which loan player does not make his squad for each game
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doesn't james mean bwe have the max for the match day squad
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #259
Magwitch said:
Is it a maximum of five loan players per match day squad or on the field of play.
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match day iirc
 

Gibbo

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #260
Brighton Sky Blue said:
The problem:

Godden is out for months and Walker still for weeks.

1. Would you persist with just Max and Baka if you could get temporary reinforcements?
2. We can sign free agents as well as loans.
3. We don’t need a long term replacement now. Just need bodies for the remaining months.
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Free agents have been rejected by their previous clubs. There may just be a reason for that.....
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #261
Gibbo said:
The problem:

Once Godden & Walker are fit, any incomer will likely be, at best, third in the striker pecking order, in a team that plays only one up front.

1. Would anybody who was any good, join us in that situation? Unless you are a loan
2. We can't have any more loans.
3. Or unless the new player is seen as a long term replacement for Godden. But that's too expensive

Answers on a postcard to M Robins c/o Trillion St Andrews Birmingham
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We can have loans. It just means that one has to be left out of the match day squad on game day. Unfortunately, I think that's a sacrifice Robins is just going to have to make unless he decides to send one of Giles or McCallum back to their respective parent clubs.

It's looking likely that Godden is going to be out for the majority of the season (if not all of it) and with Walker injured for at least another month there's more than enough opportunity for a loan to get game time. Even once Walker returns I suspect the loan would play in front of Biamou and Baka so I see no reason why he'd struggle for minutes.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #262
Gibbo said:
He can only play 2 if he has 12 players. He played 1 all last year
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Different league different tactics. He said when he signed Walker he was looking at playing him with Godden, we’ve gone two up on several occasions when we had more than two strikers.

And it doesn’t change the fact that neither Walker or Godden are the right style of player to play on their own in this division.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #263
PUSB-We_are_going_up said:
We do have championship quality strikers Godden and Walker
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Indeed. And we’ve never had both fully fit at once.
 
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Skybluebeliever

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #264
Magwitch said:
Is it a maximum of five loan players per match day squad or on the field of play.
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Match day squad
 

Johhny Blue

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  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #265
PUSB-We_are_going_up said:
We do have championship quality strikers Godden and Walker
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No we don’t
 
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CovUpNorth

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 13, 2021
  • #266
Brighton Sky Blue said:
In the case of those two yes.
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And Kastaneer, Jobello, Pask, Hilssner, Mason. DaCosta
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2021
  • #267
Andre Green (former Villa) is a free agent and being linked with sheff wed, might be worth a punt as he wouldn't demand high wages.
He was once regarded as the next big thing at Villa before a bad loan move left him struggling for form.
Played for England at 5 different age levels, and former Villa manager Tim (the twat) Sherwood said he was going to end up as a striker rather than a winger.
Now that iron lung Hilssner has gone in loan, should we have a look at Green?
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jan 14, 2021
  • #268
fatso said:
Now that iron lung Hilssner has gone in loan, should we have a look at Green?
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Sheff Wednesday are signing him....
 

Skybluedownunder

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2021
  • #269
Wonder what Sturridge is doing, surely he must be bored, just googled him and no stories of him going anywhere, surely he would prefer to be picking up a wage slip at the first club of his career that he didn’t get chance to play for the first team before getting poached as opposed to sitting at home doing fuck all, come in, get fit, show yourself on the big stage on a contract till the end of the season and get yourself a bigger deal, bit like what Marlon King did to us. We’d still probs be able to pay £6-8k a week and it would be local to all his family


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Alkhen

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  • Jan 14, 2021
  • #270
Skybluedownunder said:
Wonder what Sturridge is doing, surely he must be bored, just googled him and no stories of him going anywhere, surely he would prefer to be picking up a wage slip at the first club of his career that he didn’t get chance to play for the first team before getting poached as opposed to sitting at home doing fuck all, come in, get fit, show yourself on the big stage on a contract till the end of the season and get yourself a bigger deal, bit like what Marlon King did to us. We’d still probs be able to pay £6-8k a week and it would be local to all his family


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Won't happen but even if it did I can't imagine he is anywhere near fit or sharp enough. Would take too long to get up to speed. he'll l join an MLS team I recon
 
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