Hungry Joe
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If I put money on it you'll have an added incentive to walk out, the results of which could completely destabilise the club and doom us to Conference football in two years time. Sportsman's bet alright?
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If I put money on it you'll have an added incentive to walk out, the results of which could completely destabilise the club and doom us to Conference football in two years time. Sportsman's bet alright?
Billy the Fish
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http://gillingham.clubfans.co.uk/2009/02/the-crofts-conundrum/
An interesting article about Crofts from a Gillinghams site. He seems to be the player that some of you are describing. They also think he used to be a better player and he's gone backwards in the last few years.
An interesting article about Crofts from a Gillinghams site. He seems to be the player that some of you are describing. They also think he used to be a better player and he's gone backwards in the last few years.
The Large One
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I wish Micky Adams had known that when he signed the 28 year-old Richard Carpenter.
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Dont forget Dodge was a similar age (or bit older?)
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I dont think he even came into the pro game until he was about 27, Up until then he was playing for Sutton Utd so it shows players can improve at any age.
The Large One
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No, you're missing your own central point, which was not how good they were but that they didn't improve after 25.
Chippy is living proof of disproving that point. He got better for us after he joined.
Hungry Joe
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Not another Gillingham reject then? I seem to remember Chippy had his fair share of knockers on here early doors too. Is patience so out of fashion these days?
Not forgetting that clueless simpleton George Graham - what was he thinking of when paying £2.5m to sign 28 year old Ian Wright for Arsenal?
I guess he really got lucky because Wright only ended up as the all-time highest scorer for the country's second biggest club.
BensGrandad
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I think he was a littler younger than that probably about 25 as I was sent by Barry LLoyd to report on him and a centre forward Francis Arawatife and suggested signing him but the chief Scout at the time overruled it saying he was too old. I think, if memory serves me right, he went to Crystal Palace with Dave Bassett who only stayed a short while and he moved on to Sheff Utd and took Paul Rogers with him.
Another interesting fact about the game at Gander Green Lane was that it was in the season that the Conference experimented with offsides only in the penalty box and the opponents I think it was Weymouth or Dorchester had a freekick on the halfway line and their goalkeeper, eventually signed for Spurs, took it and all the other 23 players were in the Sutton 6 yd box.
Tony Book was signed by Man City when he was 28 from Bath by Malcolm Allison.
Another interesting fact about the game at Gander Green Lane was that it was in the season that the Conference experimented with offsides only in the penalty box and the opponents I think it was Weymouth or Dorchester had a freekick on the halfway line and their goalkeeper, eventually signed for Spurs, took it and all the other 23 players were in the Sutton 6 yd box.
Tony Book was signed by Man City when he was 28 from Bath by Malcolm Allison.
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Cor, this is like a TAG-team event. The Complete Badger is doing his finest London Irish against the combined MIGHT of TLO, Simster and Hungry Joe. Is this "Complete Badger Baiting" or what ? Great stuff.
Carry on.
Carry on.
Taybha
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the poll simply proves that Mr slade and Mr Navarro contribute to nsc
Hungry Joe
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I haven't got onto that yet. From what I've seen Crofts has a great engine, tackles hard, closes players down and has a decent footballing brain on him. The last time I looked these were worthy midfield attributes. I think he does all these things to a higher standard than Fraser did. Super.