Just clicked on that story about Marquis and Wimbledon and a related story popped up about their LB Nesta Guiness-Walker who is not signing a new contract - wonder if we're in for him?
I'd go for another at Lincoln, Anthony Scully. He's always impressed whenever I've seen Lincoln play and he's also from London so might fancy a move back home.
11 goals in each of his last 2 seasons from the wing.
Remember his goal at The Valley made something out of nothing and took his chance well.
One of the reason why last season was so boring was lack of that flair player. Previously, had someone like Holmes, Lookman, Aribo who could create some magic on there own. No one really had that ability and were all just honest professional instead of flair players.
I think DJ has some flair both in skill and potentially with his passing as we saw him do for the Washington assist. We just need to get him on the ball in the right areas and with options making runs around him.
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
It'd be nice to see Stockley joining in that sort of football but I haven't seen anything to suggest that's one of his attributes.
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
Watching Stockley live, I was surprised to see that his interplay is actually one of his greatest strengths - he has great ball control, can see a good pass, and very good at flicking it on to players running on - unfortunately there wasn't much of the latter going on last season, however. Need some midfielders who aren't afraid to drive into the box and shoot
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
It'd be nice to see Stockley joining in that sort of football but I haven't seen anything to suggest that's one of his attributes.
Lol I felt the same when typing it so added (don’t laugh) in an edit.
Who knows, maybe put him in a system that is all in on pass & move and he’ll surprise us. We've not had the kind of focus on this style of play in our recent history so everyone that's here should get a fresh look and a chance to prove themselves.
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
I'm not excited about DJ being part of their starting line up to be honest. We need far better to finish top 6. As a squad player he's fine though, I hope he progresses this season.
I'd go for another at Lincoln, Anthony Scully. He's always impressed whenever I've seen Lincoln play and he's also from London so might fancy a move back home.
11 goals in each of his last 2 seasons from the wing.
Is he the Fella who went down like a sack of shit when he stood next to one of our defenders? Good player when he stayed on his feet..
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
Watching Stockley live, I was surprised to see that his interplay is actually one of his greatest strengths - he has great ball control, can see a good pass, and very good at flicking it on to players running on - unfortunately there wasn't much of the latter going on last season, however. Need some midfielders who aren't afraid to drive into the box and shoot
Mate no disrespect but Great ball control and him seeing a good pass is not what i saw from him and i went to the valley everygame last season i know its all about opinions but i always thought he looked lumbering and doesnt have a great touch or control at all i remember him taking heavy chest touches or heading it and it going miles either side of him agreed with better driving attacking midfielders willing to run onto knock ons maybe it could be better this year but yet to be convinced
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
Watching Stockley live, I was surprised to see that his interplay is actually one of his greatest strengths - he has great ball control, can see a good pass, and very good at flicking it on to players running on - unfortunately there wasn't much of the latter going on last season, however. Need some midfielders who aren't afraid to drive into the box and shoot
Yeah I agree with this. Lots of times Stockley would drop deep and control the ball and play a great pass out to someone on the wing.
I have the feeling he might surprise some people this season.
The Garner style of short, sharp passing in the final third absolutely suits the wide players who had previously struggled under Bow / Adkins / Jacko.
Kirk in particular is not a winger who beats a man and gets to the byline, his game is about being on the edge of the box and opening them up with a five yard pass that no-one else saw.
The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
What a good saying. Why haven't I heard this before
This black box. Does it have 'pay transfer fee' turned off?
Who gives a shit. We’re not signing players not wanted by other clubs. Why buy a player if you can get one just as good for free. PSG conducted nearly all their transfer business last summer with freebies, it’s not an indication of their quality
This black box. Does it have 'pay transfer fee' turned off?
Out of contract players will always be the first to sign as there is so much less negotiation involved. The best part about all four signings is that they were players their clubs wanted to sign a new contract but refused as opposed to being released.
Some of our fanbase are determined to be negative.
Excellent out of contract signings ‘meh, spend some money!’ Spend money ‘why are we wasting money when there’s loads of decent out of contract players?!’
This black box. Does it have 'pay transfer fee' turned off?
A transfer fee does not determine the quality of a player. Some fantastic players for this level are out of contract. More than happy to pick off out of contract players
This black box. Does it have 'pay transfer fee' turned off?
You do wonder who's going to be the first to break the mould as no one in L1 has paid a transfer fee as yet. My money's on Sheff Wed 🦉😡 and we must all beware the 'Foul Owl on the Prowl' (a track sung by the Little Willies, taken from the film 'In the Heat of the Night', staring Sidney Potter) 😎
To be fair, even when you are playing as a one up front you need people to join you and Stockley was terribly isolated last season when we played it.
Agree, we tend to get hung up on formations if we have a bad experience, 4231 we all feared after Robinson and now the Adkins 433.
It’s not the formation because there are various ones that work well with decent sides, it’s how we apply it, part of the reason it went so wrong last season is we changed it early on and then again when Jacko took over and it was square pegs in round holes.
We need two in every position, absolutely no doubt about that. Gunter at left-back vs Sheffield Wednesday was enough to deal with.
1x RB
2x LB
1x CB (ideally left-footed) 1x RW
2x ST
Don't care which ones are loans and vice versa but that has to be it if we want to go for promotion, can/will obviously change depending on who leaves
Pretty much this however unless you are counting under 23s that would take us over squad limits or i’m guessing if you are asking for 2 more strikers you are assuming Josh Davison is going
If you are say holding a ball up. A decent target man can do this for a few seconds before he gets smothered. I thought Stockley was doing this to be fair but nobody gave him an option within a reasonable time frame so he was smothered or he flicked on to nobody.
We need two in every position, absolutely no doubt about that. Gunter at left-back vs Sheffield Wednesday was enough to deal with.
1x RB
2x LB
1x CB (ideally left-footed) 1x RW
2x ST
Don't care which ones are loans and vice versa but that has to be it if we want to go for promotion, can/will obviously change depending on who leaves
Pretty much this however unless you are counting under 23s that would take us over squad limits or i’m guessing if you are asking for 2 more strikers you are assuming Josh Davison is going
Nope I'm just assuming that Aneke will pick up a long injury early on
Wonder if Payne only comes in there’s an unexpected departure, either Dobson or JFC? Neither will want to be backup, while Fraser, McGrandles and Payne if he signs will be here to play regularly.
This black box. Does it have 'pay transfer fee' turned off?
Who gives a shit. We’re not signing players not wanted by other clubs. Why buy a player if you can get one just as good for free. PSG conducted nearly all their transfer business last summer with freebies, it’s not an indication of their quality
In addition we wont have paid fees to clubs... But it just means we'll pay more to the individuals / agents - Signing on Fees for example will be smaller than a transfer fee, but always seem to get forgotten when a player is a free agent, we're not just getting away with taking over their wage.
The figures that get released, relating to that will be interesting for this summer, and will give a small reflection/
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The prospect of DJ, Kirk, Fraser and Stockley (don’t laugh) passing and moving with Blackett-Taylor’s pace coming off the bench against tired legs is an exciting one.
Add Scully and/or Stockton to that equation and I’ll be ready to join in with the pants spaffing.
Who knows, maybe put him in a system that is all in on pass & move and he’ll surprise us. We've not had the kind of focus on this style of play in our recent history so everyone that's here should get a fresh look and a chance to prove themselves.
Good player when he stayed on his feet..
agreed with better driving attacking midfielders willing to run onto knock ons maybe it could be better this year but yet to be convinced
I have the feeling he might surprise some people this season.
Spend money ‘why are we wasting money when there’s loads of decent out of contract players?!’
Wimbledon will try and get whoever they can afford so what is now a possibility for them, does not mean it was intended for us whilst JJ was here.
1x RB
1x RW
Don't care which ones are loans and vice versa but that has to be it if we want to go for promotion, can/will obviously change depending on who leaves
Antonio Rudiger
Jesse Lingard
Nemanja Matic
Joao Moutinho
James Tarkowski
The figures that get released, relating to that will be interesting for this summer, and will give a small reflection/