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Squad as it stands

Post by divas » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:04 am

GK
Knight
Liversedge

DF
Arnison
Bower
Miller
Foster
Plummer

MF
Lumsdon
G.Smith
J.Smith
Bennett
J.Gray
Groves

FW
Windass
Thorpe
Main
Riley

Trialists
Williams (DF)
Convery (MF)

Youth

2nd Year
Hewitson (DF)
Duffy (DF)
Lomas (MF)
Barnes (MF)
McReady (MF)
Smith (FW)
Robinson (FW)

1st Year
Bertram (GK)
Thomson (GK)
Hutchinson (DF)
P.Gray (DF)
Grainger (MF)
Collins (FW)
Marshall (FW)
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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by divas » Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:17 am

with that current list in mind, it looks as tho we need to bring in at least another 3 or 4 players, a defender, midfielder and forward on season long loans would help out a lot.

with no recognised right winger, convery must fancy his chances of being offered something.

its a good first XI but under that we dont have much, youth lads like barnes, lomas, mcready & smith will no doubt feature quite a bit this year.

blyth will be interesting tonight, as if we are to have any more trialists at the club, tonight is the main game i'd expect to see them involved.

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by wylam_rangers » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:03 am

Does anyone know what happened to

Caley
Hickman
Smiurthwaite

3 of the youth/young players I can't account for.

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by StevieMardenboro » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:05 am

Also who is Baxter? I noticed his name mentioned in the RA game but have never heard of him . . .

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by Ned_Flanders » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:16 am

Divas, is that the Vaisennen who we had a few years back?

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by quakersam » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:17 am

Wylam:- Grant Hickman and Ian Smurthwaite joined Northallerton Town. Not sure about Phil Caley.

Stevie:- I hadn't either, he's on trial at the club. Right winger called James Baxter. Only looks quite young so I don't no if he's for the youth or whatever

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by divas » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:32 am

Ned_Flanders wrote:Divas, is that the Vaisennen who we had a few years back?
yes, after being released by Penney he moved back to Finland and then returned
to England playing non-league with Spennymoor and working at Hedlam Hall as a gym instructor, while continuing his studies.

Wikipedia reckons he returned to Finland to sign for FC OPA for the 09/10 season, however it seems as tho he's been given the chance to win a contract here for next season. I'd think it highly unlikely we'd take him on tho as we're pretty well covered at centre back with Foster, Miller and Plummer who could turn out to be a very good prospect after reading some match reports of his time in Hull City's reserves.

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Post by Ned_Flanders » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:39 am

Thanks for that Divas :thumbup:

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by darlogaz » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:36 pm

i also see that bridges is at yeovil for trials at the mo ? any light on him having a trial up here then? :?

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Post by Quakerz » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:38 pm

He's gone to Norwich not Yeovil.
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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by darlogaz » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:45 pm

sorry mate yeah your rite i got my wires crossed with another story line there :oops:

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Post by piggy » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:28 pm

Presuming everyone is fit, we can stick out a decent first eleven that I would imagine can compete with the majorty of sides in League 2. As someone says above we have feck all cover really and a few injuries and we would be struggling bigtime.
Heres hoping CT can pull a few strings and bring in a couple of decent kids from the Boro.
I really hope Vasien doesnt sign, I recall as soon as Penney took over he was shown the door asap. Seem to recall DP saying he didnt think he was good enough. Lets face it he wasnt a bad judge of a player was he?

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Post by RUMPLESTILTSKIN » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:52 pm

piggy wrote:Presuming everyone is fit, we can stick out a decent first eleven that I would imagine can compete with the majorty of sides in League 2. As someone says above we have feck all cover really and a few injuries and we would be struggling bigtime.
Heres hoping CT can pull a few strings and bring in a couple of decent kids from the Boro.
I really hope Vasien doesnt sign, I recall as soon as Penney took over he was shown the door asap. Seem to recall DP saying he didnt think he was good enough. Lets face it he wasnt a bad judge of a player was he?

Just remind me, who signed Fortune? :roll:
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Post by piggy » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:00 pm

RUMPLESTILTSKIN wrote:
piggy wrote:Presuming everyone is fit, we can stick out a decent first eleven that I would imagine can compete with the majorty of sides in League 2. As someone says above we have feck all cover really and a few injuries and we would be struggling bigtime.
Heres hoping CT can pull a few strings and bring in a couple of decent kids from the Boro.
I really hope Vasien doesnt sign, I recall as soon as Penney took over he was shown the door asap. Seem to recall DP saying he didnt think he was good enough. Lets face it he wasnt a bad judge of a player was he?



Just remind me, who signed Fortune? :roll:
Yes he also signed Purdie, Abbott, Ravenhill, Miller, Foster, White etc all pretty decent players at L2 level.
I think we can forgive him the odd dud even the very best managers occasssionally get it wrong.

Now jog on son

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by darlo2001uk » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:06 pm

RUMPLESTILTSKIN wrote:
piggy wrote:Presuming everyone is fit, we can stick out a decent first eleven that I would imagine can compete with the majorty of sides in League 2. As someone says above we have feck all cover really and a few injuries and we would be struggling bigtime.
Heres hoping CT can pull a few strings and bring in a couple of decent kids from the Boro.
I really hope Vasien doesnt sign, I recall as soon as Penney took over he was shown the door asap. Seem to recall DP saying he didnt think he was good enough. Lets face it he wasnt a bad judge of a player was he?

Just remind me, who signed Fortune? :roll:
And Griffin, and loan players of the quality of Griffith, Gall, Tremarco

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by divas » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:41 pm

loan players are difficult - who wants to loan out decent players, you also have to bear in mind that there will have been a budget to be adhered to when these signings were made.

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by Norm_D_Ploom » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:38 pm

Lads, lets drop it eh, Penney made good signings and bad, but on the whole the good ones, generally full time deals, would outweigh the bad, generally loans.

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Post by Quakerz » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:49 pm

darlo2001uk wrote:
RUMPLESTILTSKIN wrote:
piggy wrote:Presuming everyone is fit, we can stick out a decent first eleven that I would imagine can compete with the majorty of sides in League 2. As someone says above we have feck all cover really and a few injuries and we would be struggling bigtime.
Heres hoping CT can pull a few strings and bring in a couple of decent kids from the Boro.
I really hope Vasien doesnt sign, I recall as soon as Penney took over he was shown the door asap. Seem to recall DP saying he didnt think he was good enough. Lets face it he wasnt a bad judge of a player was he?

Just remind me, who signed Fortune? :roll:
And Griffin, and loan players of the quality of Griffith, Gall, Tremarco
He had no money when he signed Griffin and Fortune, as the budget had been slashed and the remaining players took up most of it.

Tremarco was a decent player too.
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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by darlo2001uk » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:37 pm

He had no money when he signed Griffin and Fortune, as the budget had been slashed and the remaining players took up most of it - Q


Slashed to £2 million, eh Quackers? :roll:

Don't worry Norm, I'm only trying to get Quackers on the rev limiter. :D :D :D

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Post by Quakerz » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:41 pm

I got my season's mixed up Ray.

Certainly it looks like the budget was increased again during last season, after being slashed back from £2 million. But at the time Griffin, Poole, Fortune etc were signed we had fuck all to play with. Everybody knows that.
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Post by darlo2001uk » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:43 pm

Quakerz wrote:I got my season's mixed up Ray.

Certainly it looks like the budget was increased again during last season, after being slashed back from £2 million. But at the time Griffin, Poole, Fortune etc were signed we had fuck all to play with. Everybody knows that.
Agreed.

Not like you to get mixed up though, Q? Old age senility setting in?

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Post by Redcar_Quaker » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:53 pm

wylam_rangers wrote:Does anyone know what happened to

Caley
Hickman
Smiurthwaite

3 of the youth/young players I can't account for.
Phil Caley has signed for Newton Aycliffe.

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Re: Squad as it stands

Post by Darlo_G » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:03 pm

divas wrote:GK
Knight
Liversedge

DF
Starosta
James
Miller
Foster
Plummer

MF
Lumsdon
G.Smith
J.Smith
Bennett
J.Gray
Groves

FW
Windass
Thorpe
Main
Riley

Trialists
Woodhead (GK)
Vaisennen (DF)
Convery (MF)
Baxter (MF)


Youth

2nd Year
Hewitson (DF)
Duffy (DF)
Lomas (MF)
Barnes (MF)
McReady (MF)
Smith (FW)
Robinson (FW)

1st Year
Bertram (GK)
Thomson (GK)
Hutchinson (DF)
P.Gray (DF)
Grainger (MF)
Collins (FW)
Marshall (FW)
God, that squad is hump. But, considering everything that has gone on over the last 6-8 months, I'm just glad we have a team to support next season.

I think we will be mid table this year, at best.

Hopefully, we may see a few young lads come through this season. Are we still investing in the youth team, or has that gone tits up?

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Post by wylam_rangers » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:04 pm

Redcar_Quaker wrote:
wylam_rangers wrote:Does anyone know what happened to

Caley
Hickman
Smiurthwaite

3 of the youth/young players I can't account for.
Phil Caley has signed for Newton Aycliffe.

Thanks - that helps me complete the list

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