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Post by surreybrewer on Jun 4, 2024 13:42:37 GMT
He has signed a 2 year deal and Nigel speaks very highly of him. Astonishing how he could play so well at Swindon after his performance at Burton. Player of season award winner there. He clearly has something we couldn't find in him.
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Post by sinfinbovril on Jun 4, 2024 17:07:55 GMT
He has signed a 2 year deal and Nigel speaks very highly of him. Astonishing how he could play so well at Swindon after his performance at Burton. Player of season award winner there. He clearly has something we couldn't find in him. We've heard that so many times. Once again, though, I hardly remember him playing.
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Post by ianmcgibbon on Jun 4, 2024 17:24:56 GMT
He has signed a 2 year deal and Nigel speaks very highly of him. Astonishing how he could play so well at Swindon after his performance at Burton. Player of season award winner there. He clearly has something we couldn't find in him. We've heard that so many times. Once again, though, I hardly remember him playing. I seem to remember one game, can't recall whether he came on off the bench or whether he started the game and changed position. Anyway, he ended up playing left back. First high ball towards him he literally ducked out of the way, as if he was scared of heading the ball. After that, it got worse. Poor lad was never seen again in a Brewers shirt. Obviously that was an out of character performance, but it was surprising that he didn't get another opportunity. Many others had plenty more chances despite frequent abject performances.
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Post by luke on Jun 4, 2024 17:56:08 GMT
We've heard that so many times. Once again, though, I hardly remember him playing. I seem to remember one game, can't recall whether he came on off the bench or whether he started the game and changed position. Anyway, he ended up playing left back. First high ball towards him he literally ducked out of the way, as if he was scared of heading the ball. After that, it got worse. Poor lad was never seen again in a Brewers shirt. Obviously that was an out of character performance, but it was surprising that he didn't get another opportunity. Many others had plenty more chances despite frequent abject performances. I remember when we played Bolton away on a Monday night, and he blatantly pushes the Bolton player in injury time. How it wasn't a penalty, he was so so lucky, because it was just so ridiculous
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Post by uttoxbrewer on Jun 4, 2024 18:44:50 GMT
He has signed a 2 year deal and Nigel speaks very highly of him. Astonishing how he could play so well at Swindon after his performance at Burton. Player of season award winner there. He clearly has something we couldn't find in him. Similar to David Keillor-Dunn one of his new teammates at Mansfield who’s done well there after hardly getting a look in when he was here. Let’s hope the recruitment improves under the new regime
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Post by surreybrewer on Jun 4, 2024 19:33:52 GMT
You're quite right Uttox, meant to mention him as well. It's Davis rather than David, probably a typo on your part. Seem to recall he scored a hat trick, against Accrington I think, and was then let go. Cloughie must have been unable to believe his luck and he was scaring for fun last season. Omari Patrick didn't do that badly either considering he was played out of position and scored regularly for Carlisle after his move.We do seem to let some talent slip through our fingers. Let's hope that the new regime gets the best out of the players.
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Post by mikeyboy on Jun 4, 2024 20:01:25 GMT
To be honest I’m not sure any of the 3 mentioned, Blake-Tracey, Keillor-Dunn or Omari Patrick were good enough for League 1.
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Post by uttoxbrewer on Jun 4, 2024 20:24:45 GMT
You're quite right Uttox, meant to mention him as well. It's Davis rather than David, probably a typo on your part. Seem to recall he scored a hat trick, against Accrington I think, and was then let go. Cloughie must have been unable to believe his luck and he was scaring for fun last season. Omari Patrick didn't do that badly either considering he was played out of position and scored regularly for Carlisle after his move.We do seem to let some talent slip through our fingers. Let's hope that the new regime gets the best out of the players. Thanks Surrey it is Davis, I looked it up before I posted as wasn’t totally sure, typed in Davis but came out as David, a combination of predictive text and me not checking the spelling afterwards! Re Mikeyboys point, I think he could be a decent league one player, guess we’ll find out next season?
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Post by surreybrewer on Jun 4, 2024 21:41:14 GMT
As I said Uttox, I thought it was a typo, predictive text gremlins strike again!
Like you,I will be very interested to see how he performs in League 1. It's undoubtedly a tougher league than when Albion breezed through it on their way to back to back promotions. But the goal is the same size in all divisions, and whilst he may have had more time in League 2 than 1, I think he'll still score plenty of goals. Who knows, if he is doing well, we could buy him back - galling though it would be!
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Post by superbrewer on Jun 7, 2024 18:24:40 GMT
Toto Nsiala has signed for Shrewsbury.
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Post by everard on Jun 13, 2024 21:19:24 GMT
Ted Sharman-Lowe joins Joe Sbarra at Doncaster (season loan from Chelsea)
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Post by Fred Andrews on Jun 15, 2024 9:05:54 GMT
Goalkeeper Matija Sarkic has died aged 26, did he ever have a short loan spell with us? I know his brother obviously played for us, Oliver.
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Post by mikeyboy on Jun 15, 2024 14:05:40 GMT
Goalkeeper Matija Sarkic has died aged 26, did he ever have a short loan spell with us? I know his brother obviously played for us, Oliver. I wondered the same myself Fred.
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Post by strettonbrewer on Jun 15, 2024 16:46:32 GMT
Goalkeeper Matija Sarkic has died aged 26, did he ever have a short loan spell with us? I know his brother obviously played for us, Oliver. No we had oliver sarkic (brother?) A keeper we had was Siegrest/Sinisalo from Villa
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Post by luke on Jun 17, 2024 10:02:03 GMT
Deji has officially joined Mansfield
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Post by mikeyboy on Jun 17, 2024 10:42:48 GMT
Deji has officially joined Mansfield Good luck to the lad. One thing with Nigel, he will either be an outstanding success or there will be a fall out and Deji will only play a couple of games. It could go either way and I hope he does well and proves his critics at Burton wrong.
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Post by bancroft on Jun 17, 2024 10:56:33 GMT
Deji has officially joined Mansfield He's a good player. We didn't get him in the right positions last season and neither did we support him via the players around him. he had a bad 2nd half to our season hope he does well for Mansfield, just not when we play them!
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Post by luke on Jun 17, 2024 11:34:47 GMT
If they play him in front of the defence as a bit of ball winner, he'll do much better imo. Best of luck to him
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Post by ianmcgibbon on Jun 17, 2024 12:07:11 GMT
Ben Petty joined Birmingham City as Assistant Manager
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Post by bancroft on Jun 17, 2024 15:51:37 GMT
Ben Petty joined Birmingham City as Assistant Manager Blimey that's good niche remembering :-) he must have been with us for about 2 months, 20 odd years ago!
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