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Ebanks Blake & Craig Gordan

MSE7
MSE7 Posts: 1,345
in General Charlton
Both free agents, Come on Slater get your wallet out lets bring them in
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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,195
    Is our injury table big enough ?
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    They ain't injured
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,420
    But are they fit?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,749
    shirty5 said:

    But are they fit?

    Weill I'd give them one.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,949
    don't need Gordon
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,480
    Ebanks blake broke his leg at the beginning of April so even if that has mended he still has to get match fit.

    Gordon was a free agent when we signed Alnwick

    Slater "transfers" £1m a month into the Club already. He told me so himself so we must be awash with money.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,276
    Not sure what Ebanks-blake would bring us. We don't give any service to our current strikers, so why would having one more make this any different?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,813
    DaveMehmet said:

    shirty5 said:

    But are they fit?

    Weill I'd give them one.
    This is NOT the "would ya ? " thread , DM ....

  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,357
    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    The Red Robin said:

    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
    So you'd sign a player who left his last club because of a persistent knee injury that prevented him from playing and would prefer him over two fit and uninjured players?

    Thankfully fans don't select teams or buy players.


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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    according to Wiki, Gordon's salary at Sunderland was over £2million a year .. no wonder he was let go .. Hamer is a great and very brave shot stopper, however his distribution is getting worse by the game and slows us down, as I said on another post, he's the new Johnnie Wilkinson, great 60 yard touch finders .. Gordon would be expensive but right now Hamer could do with some r&r, Alnwick is no Gordon Banks .. IF we can afford Gordon .. get him .. It is a very BIG BIG IF though.

    Ebanks-Blake .. injured and now probably overweight and would take ages to get properly fit and motivated .. a poor man's Fuller .. 4 years ago he was one of the best, alas today his best is well behind him
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,806
    We need to sort midfield. Not waste money on another goalkeeper and striker.....repeat to fade
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,633
    Heard that Norwich are looking to loan out Becchio....not a chance in hell
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,357
    BlackForestReds said:

    The Red Robin said:

    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
    So you'd sign a player who left his last club because of a persistent knee injury that prevented him from playing and would prefer him over two fit and uninjured players?

    Thankfully fans don't select teams or buy players.

    Thank God! What do those fans know eh? Imagine if they dared to offer their comment on a football forum?!

    When / if fit he's a far superior keeper than anyone we've had since Scott Carson. Big IF though.
  • dabos
    dabos Posts: 2,717
    Ebanks-Blake scored 15 goals in 40 appearances last season for an atrocious Wolves side. I would definitely take him.

    Craig Gordon isn't very good.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    The Red Robin said:

    BlackForestReds said:

    The Red Robin said:

    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
    So you'd sign a player who left his last club because of a persistent knee injury that prevented him from playing and would prefer him over two fit and uninjured players?

    Thankfully fans don't select teams or buy players.

    Thank God! What do those fans know eh? Imagine if they dared to offer their comment on a football forum?!

    When / if fit he's a far superior keeper than anyone we've had since Scott Carson. Big IF though.


    He last started a match in April 2012 and seems to have not played much for a couple of seasons prior to that date due to some long running knee injury problems. Since being released he seems to have had a couple of trials here and there and mostly been involved in coaching, so I would imagine that he considers that his playing career is over bar some team taking a massive punt on him recovering both fitness and form.

    There's no point signing players who are carrying long-term career threatening injuries. I can imagine the complaints here if we'd signed him and he sat in the physio's room while soaking up much needed money that could/should be spent on strengthening other areas of the squad. A non-starter.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,120
    Clem_Snide said:

    We need to sort midfield. Not waste money on another goalkeeper and striker.....repeat to fade

    Couldn't agree more.
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,600
    Clem_Snide said:

    We need to sort midfield. Not waste money on another goalkeeper and striker.....repeat to fade

    Thank you. Was starting to fear I was the only sane person left in the asylum.

  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,640
    The Red Robin said:

    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
    Gordons alive!!
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,640
    grumpyaddick said:

    Clem_Snide said:

    We need to sort midfield. Not waste money on another goalkeeper and striker.....repeat to fade

    Thank you. Was starting to fear I was the only sane person left in the asylum.

    Disagree as we don't ever use our midfield why not play 5-0-5 and just hoof it up


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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,195
    dabos said:

    Ebanks-Blake scored 15 goals in 40 appearances last season for an atrocious Wolves side. I would definitely take him.

    Craig Gordon isn't very good.

    Craig Gordon was fantastic a few seasons ago.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,612
    Sort out a decent centre midfielder first please.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,725
    Disagree. Target man for me. If the ball doesn't stick up front the midfield can't get forward.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Unless the midfield support each other, pass to each other and move forward. Madness, I know, but it works for Barcelona.
  • Eddie Firmani
    Eddie Firmani Posts: 650
    Gordon was one of the best keepers I've ever seen play, but he is just about as brittle as a very brittle thing.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    edited October 2013
    dabos said:

    Ebanks-Blake scored 15 goals in 40 appearances last season for an atrocious Wolves side. I would definitely take him.

    Craig Gordon isn't very good.

    I didn't realise he did so well last year .. shame about the nasty injury
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,357
    BlackForestReds said:

    The Red Robin said:

    BlackForestReds said:

    The Red Robin said:

    LargeAddick said:

    don't need Gordon

    I'd say we do.
    So you'd sign a player who left his last club because of a persistent knee injury that prevented him from playing and would prefer him over two fit and uninjured players?

    Thankfully fans don't select teams or buy players.

    Thank God! What do those fans know eh? Imagine if they dared to offer their comment on a football forum?!

    When / if fit he's a far superior keeper than anyone we've had since Scott Carson. Big IF though.


    He last started a match in April 2012 and seems to have not played much for a couple of seasons prior to that date due to some long running knee injury problems. Since being released he seems to have had a couple of trials here and there and mostly been involved in coaching, so I would imagine that he considers that his playing career is over bar some team taking a massive punt on him recovering both fitness and form.

    There's no point signing players who are carrying long-term career threatening injuries. I can imagine the complaints here if we'd signed him and he sat in the physio's room while soaking up much needed money that could/should be spent on strengthening other areas of the squad. A non-starter.
    As I said originally...
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Eddie Firmani said:

    Gordon was one of the best keepers I've ever seen play, but he is just about as brittle as a very brittle thing.

    unfortunately, THIS ^^

  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,725
    Vincenzo said:

    Unless the midfield support each other, pass to each other and move forward. Madness, I know, but it works for Barcelona.

    That's part of it but even passing teams have players up front that can hold up the ball. The higher you go the more players can do, and the better the team are at keeping the ball on the floor.

    If our defenders are closed down heavily sometimes they'll have to go long. It'll only come straight back to the opposition if we don't have a striker that can handle that.
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Thanks Scoham, you just have a knack of explaining things so well.

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