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Sam Lavelle - gone to Carlisle on a 2year deal (p22)

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  • Excellent news, how tall is he?
  • Pleased with that, was an area we badly needed an extra option in given Inniss's injury history. 
  • mattinfinland
    mattinfinland Posts: 1,096
    Welcome Sam!
  • ButtleJR
    ButtleJR Posts: 1,595

    Sad reality is Innis can't really be first choice. Can't say I've heard of Lavelle but having read the replies to the above I'm excited by him. Welcome Sam.
  • felix_31
    felix_31 Posts: 297
    Excellent news, how tall is he?
    bloody huge 
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    Seems a decent signing. Good back up for Innis and very much a ‘grow with the club/best of the league’ type player. Three year deal too. Wonder if he was the plan B to Kerr? 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,593
    Don’t know a lot about him but like the strategy we seen to have in spending on players who can grow with us without over paying. 

    Glad as I don’t think you can count on innis. 

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  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,260
    I’m sure I can be proved wrong with examples, but when you sign the captain of another club it suggests they’ve got something about them. 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,260
    They look like two different people in those photos. Are we sure we’ve signed the right bloke?
  • felix_31
    felix_31 Posts: 297
    Valley11 said:
    Seems a decent signing. Good back up for Innis and very much a ‘grow with the club/best of the league’ type player. Three year deal too. Wonder if he was the plan B to Kerr? 
    Not sure he's been signed as back-up tbh 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,053
    I can't profess to know much about him but comments from Morecambe fans seem positive, he's a big unit too and presumably won't break down on the regular like Inniss. 

    3 year deal doesn't suggest he's just in as cover either, looks like he's intended to play a part to me.
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,125
    Don't know anything about him but for some reason I think he's going to be as good as Morrison was for us 
  • felix_31
    felix_31 Posts: 297
    Valley11 said:
    Seems a decent signing. Good back up for Innis and very much a ‘grow with the club/best of the league’ type player. Three year deal too. Wonder if he was the plan B to Kerr? 
    Funny looking at how similar Kerr and Lavelle appear.. Both Scottish, 24 y/o club captains who've represented their clubs over 100 times. Football manager search from SG? 
  • Morcombe fan:

    "For me our club have undervalued Sam.

    If £200K+ is the agreed fee then Charlton have got a bargain when looking at what other clubs are paying for a central defender. "



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  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,264
    Never heard of him but signing Morecambe's captain who led them to promotion from League Two looks like the Matt Taylor signing of the 11/12 promotion team. Very pleased with this and means we don't need to rely on Innis who along with Lavelle, Famewo and Pearce means we shouldn't have to worry about CB position any time soon.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,119
    Welcome Sam. Always like signing captains.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,693
    Really like the look of this, young but experienced and on a long term contract. Captained a promotion winning team.

    6 ft 3 so we don’t lose that height when he plays instead of Inniss and takes the pressure off Elewere.

    Great to have 5 first team CBs after what happened last season. So important we have a strong spine and this should really help that.

    It also means Pearce shouldn’t play too often - looks like that random Facebook rumour that he’d be 5th choice was right.

    My guess has been for a while that we went for some ambitious targets early on and missed out. He probably wasn’t one of our top targets but doesn’t mean he can’t be a big success.
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    FULLERpromise Posts: 343
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  • felix_31
    felix_31 Posts: 297
    Scoham said:
    Really like the look of this, young but experienced and on a long term contract. Captained a promotion winning team.

    6 ft 3 so we don’t lose that height when he plays instead of Inniss and takes the pressure off Elewere.

    Great to have 5 first team CBs after what happened last season. So important we have a strong spine and this should really help that.

    It also means Pearce shouldn’t play too often - looks like that random Facebook rumour that he’d be 5th choice was right.

    My guess has been for a while that we went for some ambitious targets early on and missed out. He probably wasn’t one of our top targets but doesn’t mean he can’t be a big success.
    CB is so so important, so pleased we have decent options there. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,385
    Pleased with this one, CB is a position where you need plenty of decent options, as CBs get whacked and will pick up the odd red card. Plus, there's the option of 3 at the back as well.

    I've been getting frustrated with the way we're having to wrap Inniss in cotton wool this season, you don't want to keep having to use up one of your 3 subs on a CB swap. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,053
    Shows a bit of savvy/gamesmanship in the market by Gallen & Co as well IMO. Wigan gazump us for one option by throwing money at it so we sign another of comparable quality but for a third of the cost. 


  • Jac_52
    Jac_52 Posts: 1,470
    Not heard of him but he started 44 out of 46 league games last year for them and he's tallish so I'll take it. Hope he does well.
  • Seems like a good honest player. Hope he does well for us, but might have to wait for his opportunity.