Erik Midtgarden

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

He's too ugly to play for us.

Anyway, this is truth. He'll never fit in, or maybe he can share with Whing.

 

[Gav1901]

Yeah but if our top class strikers are actually in fact average compared to non-english ones then logic follows that the lower league non-english forwards will be better as well.

Face it English players are generally not as good, and overpriced.
Why pay a premium for an average Englishman when you get a better non-englishman for less money?

This has nothing what so ever to do with Prem players.

 

[jordanseagull]

Im sick and tired of us looking at so many foreigners. I support Brighton and Hove Albion, and Gus is slowly screwing us over. Wait and see - he'll bugger off sometime in the next 2 years to a bigger club, and we'll be left with Yulhioslarv Kishnargjjen and co.

 

[Gav1901]

Yes it does it is the same situation in every league.

It's not like we are after a Prem striker though.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

But they're not though are they.

we've been signing english players for years.......look how far it's got us

 

[Gav1901]

we've been signing english players for years.......look how far it's got us

Bad point.

Look at our managerial situation we had.

When we had Dean Wilkins our team was nearly all English and that is the furthest we've finished in the last 3 years.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Anyway, let's hope that this chap turns good and bangs 10 past Bognor tonight and 20 past Eastbourne tomorrow .

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

we could sign some liam dickinson-a-like for a small fortune, or a foreign hot shot for free

i'm struggling to work out which one makes more sense.........

 

[theonesmith]

Bad point.

Look at our managerial situation we had.

When we had Dean Wilkins our team was nearly all English and that is the furthest we've finished in the last 3 years.

Why are you objecting so to a TRIAL of a 22 year old who scored an average of a goal every 3 games in the Norwegian 1st Division? Do you not think Gus knows what he is doing?

 

[Gav1901]

Why are you objecting so to a TRIAL of a 22 year old who scored an average of a goal every 3 games in the Norwegian 1st Division? Do you not think Gus knows what he is doing?

I'm not objecting it.

I was just agreeing with another user that we should look at English players more often.

 

[Mendoza]

We need him to help complete a "non English" starting 11 that will take us to GLORY

Brezovan

Calderon El Abd Greer Kishishev

Dicker Battipiedi Baz

Barnes Midtgarden

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Bad point.

Look at our managerial situation we had.

When we had Dean Wilkins our team was nearly all English and that is the furthest we've finished in the last 3 years.

but we still FAILED

whack a couple of foreign dynamoes in that team and it would've destroyed league one that year

look, just stop being racist, it's quite offensive

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Scandinavians normally settle pretty well in Blighty don't they.

 

[Dave the OAP]

he is a spotty yoof.

he will go down well with the pottymouths in the Singing Section

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

he's very ugly, which in itself is quite flair

 

[Gav1901]

but we still FAILED

whack a couple of foreign dynamoes in that team and it would've destroyed league one that year

look, just stop being racist, it's quite offensive

I'm not being racist

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

I'm not being racist

........you just don't like foreign people being in this country?

 

[theonesmith]

I'm not objecting it.

I was just agreeing with another user that we should look at English players more often.

More often? Which implies they haven't. Look at the names bandied about on here for the good English strikers. Kevin Phillips? Having a laugh. One I thought we might actually possibly get was Simeone Jackson- and he went to Norwich, who are a good couple of levels of attractiveness above us. Le Fondre and Pittman are two being mentioned now, and to be honest I think they will be A) overpriced and B) probably reluctant to leave.

There is not a huge range of choice of "proven English strikers" and certainly not a glut of money to bring one in, as many on here still don't seem to realise.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

but we still FAILED

whack a couple of foreign dynamoes in that team and it would've destroyed league one that year

look, just stop being racist, it's quite offensive

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Do you think Gus and the team have not been looking at English/English based players?
I'm pretty sure, since Gus' arrival, we have signed Sparrow, Lua-Lua, Greer, Barnes, Painter etc. Hardly a direct snub to local players.

Fair enough, go abroad and pick up some cheap talent - I really don't see the problem.
What is this obsession of having to have English players to play for our team?

Do you feel the same about British Airways or other such diverse organisations?