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We have been told that Dewhurst is on loan from t’Blades.
Reports locally keep saying things like ‘former Blade’.
Shall keep wandering into my garden today until I bump into my Blades-crazy neighbours and instigate a chat about football/friendlies etc – our win might even get a casual mention.

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It would but I’ve been reliably told that it’s so old the parts are obsolete.

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Was there a commentary on this game?
Is there one v Rochdale?

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Nuttall is a very inexperienced player considering how long he has been a pro. I thought he looked much happier alongside Daniel.
Let’s be fair the guy has a lot to learn.
All I ask of him is that there is progression and he wants to be ‘the best he can be’.
Over his next dozen starts – we’ll learn a lot about him.

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Well, you can forget the last one!

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Huh?

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True enough, Mick but experience is the biggest factor.
Some great performances from young uns today.
We both agree that there can be too many in a side.

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mistertonmick

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I couldn’t agree more.

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One of the desired ‘two strikers’ seems to have already arrived.

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I disagree, to an extent Mick.
The point is that these lads will only produce of their best when they have experience amongst them and around them. Our past problems didn’t come from youngsters but from youngsters having to play with even more youngsters.

The upside of that has been how many are now ready to slot in alongside more experienced players. This was why I supported Hill’s decision to put so many of these guys into the inferno at the end of last season when the season was gone. The value of that was starting to show through today.

Daniel, Whitehouse and Butterfield brought genuine structure which had previously been lacking – even Feeney looked better in a proper setup and helped younger players.
Gallimore had a really good game – looks a genuine RB now.
Moore-Bilham looks like a real find. Nuttall looked better alongside Daniel.

Only Sellars-Fleming didn’t look quite right. He has guts, skill, determination, ability but needs to spend some time in the gym building some muscle. Real promise there, though.

Perhaps Harry Lewis is not an LB. I suggested he might be a few weeks ago and someone took me to task over that. They were right. He is better further forward.

GK looks a find!

I know full well that it was only a friendly but it encouraged me. Am unable to get to the next two – and am lamenting that fact.

We are moving slowly towards a ‘balanced squad’.

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Sargents have been gone for decades – or so I thought.

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Yeah. Even if that were to allow us to hit the dizzy heights of mediocrity – it’d be such a giant leap from our recent, doleful campaigns.

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Journeymen ahead of young uns, please.

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Torps – best target man ever seen at Scunny and could still score goals.

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I obviously can’t disagree. We need Nuttall to be forced to play for his place.

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Lumby scored so many of his with headers in the 6 yard box.
Flounders scored more with his head than many tend to remember – last touch from 3 yards out.
When I think of Cammy, I see him going two paces into the box in left channel and then hammering across the GK and inside his left hand post.
He did that with SO many goals!
A smile and a sigh!

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Colin Daniel covers a multitude of positions on the pitch. This is the kind of versatility we really do need. As he can play comfortably up front there now remains one mega question.
Where is the 20 goal a season striker we shall so desperately need to make an impact?
I’d very happily take someone who can score 15 – but will settle for 12 at this point, as I feel we could consolidate a lower mid-table slot. Offer me that and I’d snatch your hands off.
As long as there are never more than three or four bodies in the treatment room at the same time – I am not too unhappy about the squad. There is evidence of balance.
(That opinion would rather depend on Butterfield being fit enough to sign, of course.)

I do feel that there is now the possibility, at least, that the misery of recent seasons will not be repeated.

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That hadn’t occurred to me before. Would have thought O’Malley was pencilled in to start.

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We still need a CB.
The balance of the side looks as though it could possibly end up being a bit better than that of recent seasons – but balance of squads has been our bugbear for a lot of years.
Where does a club in our situation find at least one goal-scorer, though?

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Without goal-scoring forwards ‘competitive’ is a meaningless word for us.

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Steve – just so long as it is someone with experience.

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Bring him in – but he needs to have an ‘enhanced medical’ first.
A bit of class would not go amiss in the squad.

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Green always looked to me to have enough about him to be a league player as regards skills and pace but he always looked as though he didn’t respond to being coached.
I don’t wish to have a go – but the lad always looked to me as though his thought processes on the pitch lagged behind his abilities.

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Oggy is really gifted when it’s about putting them into the old onion bag.
He’s been around a while. Oggy, oggy, oggy!

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Yes. Isn’t he the guy who used to score goals?

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Will there be commentary on the friendlies?

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I’ll settle for just two strikers, WG.

We’ll only have spent a tiny amount of money so far, consequently, we can clearly afford to spend 25% of the budget on a real goal-scorer and another 25% on a player so fast that no defender can keep up as he cuts defences to ribbons.

It has to be that – what other outcome could there possibly be? My only worry is that they won’t be here before Saturday.

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alcazar

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One good thing. At least it can’t get any w … Oh!

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ironking

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I don’t think I’m likely to live long enough to see it – and for my age I’m not in bad nick.
Only a takeover – and by a decent consortium – can possibly turn our fortunes around.

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The guys you mention, NI, were good players who were past it but we still took a punt.
I did say plodders

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