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***Sonny Carey signs a three year deal***
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Agree 100%blackpool72 said:I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter0 -
Docherty will be captain next season …blackpool72 said:I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter1 -
That's spooky...🙄RonnieMoore said:
Docherty will be captain next season …blackpool72 said:I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter0 -
Every Sonny I’ve known, as in my kids associated with through school or footy have been right little cnuts24
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Agreed. The two Sonny's I know of were pretty hardcore.oohaahmortimer said:Every Sonny I’ve known, as in my kids associated with through school or footy have been right little cnuts
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Heard we're in for his cousins: Bradley and Jim.0
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I admire your steadfastness, Ronnie. Once you take a liking to someone, like Docherty and Berry, you remain loyal.RonnieMoore said:
Docherty will be captain next season …blackpool72 said:I don't think this will be the last midfielder we sign this window so for that reason I expect Jones to be named captain for next season as Docherty may well nt be a regular starter
On the other hand, once you have got it in for someone, like TC or Dobson, you keep on sniping every chance.
I would hate to be your enemy.
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This all dayNabySarr said:
Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsensecantersaddick said:
Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid.jimmymelrose said:
But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?The Red Robin said:
They’re not talking about literal squad numbers.golfaddick said:
Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season.Southbank said:
Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.cantersaddick said:
I think the other way around fella.Southbank said:That's our 8, now we need a 10
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?
In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.1 -
Wouldn't have called this one that ... to his face.oohaahmortimer said:Every Sonny I’ve known, as in my kids associated with through school or footy have been right little cnuts
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Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
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Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q
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Brilliant 😀fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html1 -
You are all so confused. 2 is right back, 3 is left back, 4 is right half, 5 is centre half, 6 is left half, 7 is right winger, 8 is inside right, 9 is centre forward, 10 is inside left and 11 is left winger.NabySarr said:
Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsensecantersaddick said:
Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid.jimmymelrose said:
But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?The Red Robin said:
They’re not talking about literal squad numbers.golfaddick said:
Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season.Southbank said:
Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.cantersaddick said:
I think the other way around fella.Southbank said:That's our 8, now we need a 10
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?
In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.What’s complicated except no 3 or no 2 might be a second no 5, so no 4 or no 6 might play where no 2 and no 3 play so 8 and 10 might have to fill in somewhere else and 7 and 11 might be up and down taking over where 4 and 6 leave spaces, Then we get no 33 come on as sub!
WTF do numbers mean any more - haven’t got a scooby doo.5 -
That all sounds like ...Dippenhall said:
You are all so confused. 2 is right back, 3 is left back, 4 is right half, 5 is centre half, 6 is left half, 7 is right winger, 8 is inside right, 9 is centre forward, 10 is inside left and 11 is left winger.NabySarr said:
Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsensecantersaddick said:
Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid.jimmymelrose said:
But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?The Red Robin said:
They’re not talking about literal squad numbers.golfaddick said:
Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season.Southbank said:
Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.cantersaddick said:
I think the other way around fella.Southbank said:That's our 8, now we need a 10
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?
In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.What’s complicated except no 3 or no 2 might be a second no 5, so no 4 or no 6 might play where no 2 and no 3 play so 8 and 10 might have to fill in somewhere else and 7 and 11 might be up and down taking over where 4 and 6 leave spaces, Then we get no 33 come on as sub!
WTF do numbers mean any more - haven’t got a scooby doo.
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Haven't been on here since Friday and genuinely delighted to see that it's all arguing about calling players by numbers and whether that's dumb. It is! But everything is! Descriptions of players by position, number, talking about rigid formations is all reductive and stupid anyway because the game is more complex than it ever was. Thierry Small was a 2 for us. But also a 7. But also both and neither. Was Campbell our 11 or our 10 given he was our main creative threat and the likes of Berry and Anderson were more traditional 8s at the same time as Docherty. Coventry was our 4 or our 6 depending on how old you are and how European you are. If you're arguing about whether a player is a 4 or an 8 then congratulations on losing your mind. Players aren't constrained by these simplistic descriptions. They get assigned them for ease but it's all meaningless, like everything.2
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Brilliant read that. We may have found ourselves a little Gem.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q0 -
Lettuce hope we have, Cos he could add much needed goals and dribbling ability to our midfield.carly burn said:
Brilliant read that. We may have found ourselves a little Gem.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q13 -
There is always the risk he romanes at league one level and has to leaf to free up wedge.Scoham said:
Lettuce hope we have, Cos he could add much needed goals and dribbling ability to our midfield.carly burn said:
Brilliant read that. We may have found ourselves a little Gem.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q7 -
Great read, sounds like he could work well with the likes of coventry, allowing him to find those so called “pockets of space”.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q1 -
Yes - we have the ‘solid citizens’ , it’s the razzamataz we need to add - a good starting pointItalian_Addick said:
Great read, sounds like he could work well with the likes of coventry, allowing him to find those so called “pockets of space”.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q0 - Sponsored links:
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Stu_of_Kunming said:
Very simple, which is why terminology has evolved along with the game.ElfsborgAddick said:
It always was, "he's a forward, he's midfield, he's a winger, he's a centre half".jimmymelrose said:
But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?The Red Robin said:
They’re not talking about literal squad numbers.golfaddick said:
Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season.Southbank said:
Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.cantersaddick said:
I think the other way around fella.Southbank said:That's our 8, now we need a 10
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?
Simple.
Stuart Balmer used to be our number 1.
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ShootersHillGuru said:
I think his wages and signing on fee are considerable.stonemuse said:
Interesting … if that’s correct, and according to the Preston fan their average wage is 10k, perhaps we’re not so far off after all.Gisappointed said:
Given that Doc and Berry are on £8k+, it’s hard to classify him as a starter unless one of the above are moved on. Cant imagine at 24 he will be on big money.jose said:To add competition for a place in the team seems to be the reasoning, as in not a guarantee of an automatic starting place.
Then there will be added bonuses.
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Dippenhall said:
You are all so confused. 2 is right back, 3 is left back, 4 is right half, 5 is centre half, 6 is left half, 7 is right winger, 8 is inside right, 9 is centre forward, 10 is inside left and 11 is left winger.NabySarr said:
Anyone who calls the deepest midfielder 'the 6' is an absolute melt. European woke nonsensecantersaddick said:
Lol what are you on about? People under 30 use position numbers to distinguish distinct roles and types of players all the time. Particularly distinct midfield roles. The usual 3 aree 6,8,10. 6 being your deepest midfielder either a Dobson type defensive Mid or a Coventry style ball winner and passer. 8 is your box to box runner and 10 your attacking mid.jimmymelrose said:
But it means nothing now. A 10 this, an 8 that. Does anyone under 30 have any idea about what that even means?The Red Robin said:
They’re not talking about literal squad numbers.golfaddick said:
Numbers mean sod all. If they did then Sweaty Balmer would have played in goal one season.Southbank said:
Well who knows, but a ball carrier is an 8, not a 10. We will soon know either way.cantersaddick said:
I think the other way around fella.Southbank said:That's our 8, now we need a 10
Even back in the 80s when I started going, these numbers you refer to weren't totally respected. Tell me for example where a 4 or a 6 plays?
In old money 442 the 4 and 8 were the CM and 6 was a CB with 10 as the pacey striker. However as football has evolved (no one plays that way anymore) so have the roles and the descriptions of them.What’s complicated except no 3 or no 2 might be a second no 5, so no 4 or no 6 might play where no 2 and no 3 play so 8 and 10 might have to fill in somewhere else and 7 and 11 might be up and down taking over where 4 and 6 leave spaces, Then we get no 33 come on as sub!
WTF do numbers mean any more - haven’t got a scooby doo.1 Goalkeeper2 and 3, Right/Left backs5 and 6 Centre halves4 and 8 Midfield7 and 11 Right/Left wing9 and 10 Centre forwards0 -
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Glad you guys have found our resident Bard. Matt writes so wonderful pieces, do check him out.carly burn said:
Brilliant read that. We may have found ourselves a little Gem.Scoham said:
Was just about to share that after seeing it on X, a good read and insight into his progression with Blackpool.fenaddick said:Very sweary but a nice blog post from a Blackpool fan about Carey
https://mclfoot.blogspot.com/2025/06/cheers-sonny.html
https://x.com/cooksleft/status/1931603220448567546?s=46&t=A-w3Eq0EWWpjMxring904Q4 -
Brilliant read, it weirdly seems like he was their Albie Morgan, a player that was always nearly their and you could clearly see there was something, I really hope he comes and smashes it here0
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This stood out for me.
Sonny's greatest attribute is the space he finds. Some call it 'hiding' - but that's the fucking point of him. He finds pockets of space. That doesn't work if he's been tasked with playing in the middle of the meat grinder without anyone winning the ball for him
We've got ourselves a younger more athletic Luke Berry. That'll do for me.13
