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Another two important players gone. Butterfield in particular is irreplaceable at this level. Should have made it number one priority to keep him. His individual moments of brilliance are something we won’t see again for a long time at Glanford Park.
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Butterfield’s an exceptional one off player who should always have been higher than regional level. No one is irreplaceable.
You joined the forum around 4am today and have since only submitted posts attempting to bring the club down. You’ve clearly got an agenda, whoever you are.
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Yes. Some truth in that.
One of the very highest earners – obviously – and will be well into his 35th year by the start of the new season.
You can reasonably take a view that offering contracts to older players can be quite a risky decision.
He did slow down and will certainly not be getting any faster in the future. His goals also became less frequent, of course.
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I think JB really is nearing the end of his career. The signs were already there. I’d rather hoped that he might have been Number 2 to AB which might well have been the best of both worlds for the club.
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Butterfield was not as effective in the last dozen or so games but I don’t think it was fitness related.
Two things happened. Even the less tactically aware of our opponents realised that stopping Butterfield negated about 80% of our attacking threat. Given most opposition had at least one extra player in midfield this was easy for them.
At the same time Dean became more concerned with not losing and we saw less off Denton and Ogle pushing on and more of Roberts, Corbett, Sembie-Ferris, McAlinden or Beestin (whoever was nominally playing wide forward) were creeping back to become half arsed wide midfielders.Left Butterfield (and Clunan and Scales) with very little to play forward passes to.
Disappointed he has gone as we all know how good he is in a side with a positive outlook. Gives Beestin the chance to finally nail that attacking midfield role which is where he does his best stuff.
We need 40 games out of you though Alfie.
‘It’s been a torrid 24 hours as an Iron fan’
Total exaggeration. As if it has. For ‘torid’, see the previous years up to Hilton leaving. Torid my arse!
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Haha yep…back to back relegations, HMRC winding up orders, staff not being paid, losing the academy, almost losing the stadium, players hours away from going on strike, CCJs all over the place…but it’s losing two players who deserve to be playing at a higher level that compels you to come out of the woodwork during this “torid” 24 hours!
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These players leaving aren’t a mega surprise considering the money they would have been on and how we have to budget accordingly in our current situation compared to irresponsibly budgeting under the previous regime in charge. Old saying but some people literally have to ” wake up and smell the coffee” we still have a football club to support next season and that is the most important detail here.
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We don’t need to be down the club have an income of a mid table division 2 team, sure it wont be long before we have some incoming players, personally I hope non of the players offered contracts sign they weren’t up to it last season why should they be this, needed that new manager after the darlo game instead of shocking him at the end of the season he was always going have to play catch up after his appointment, it is what it is and we’ll just have to roll with it im afraid.
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Here’s what Butterfield’s wife had to say, at the cult page, about the contract situation.
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If, as Mrs Butterfield suggests, Jacob wasn’t in the manager’s plans then why offer him a contract at all?
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Never a good look seeing contract details in the public domain, nothing much the club can do there though. By the sounds of it they were probably better off not offering a contract at all.
Meanwhile, It is pleasing to see the players that are leaving showing affection to both the club and the fanbase as evidenced by the post by Butterfield’s wife; hopefully that culture can be strengthened in the forthcoming season.
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