Not Andy Naylor
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I mentioned to someone at the club that I almost ran over GM in Sainsbury's car park on Preston Road and they winced. Make of that what you will.
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Is there actually any truth in the Glenn Murray speculation?
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ok .....contract up, wanted a pay rise, poyet wouldn't agree so he went to our biggest rivals up the road , moody ,homesick apparently all the time but i guess once he bought his gaff he had to deal with it in a grown up way and not sulk.......still not keen , don't think he was either...my opinion of course.
Of course he wanted a pay rise, he was ****ing brilliant. We offered him something pitiful (as we did with Barnes), meanwhile Palace offered him TRIPLE. We basically pushed him out the club to make way for CMS, wages wise.
He then wanted to come back but Gary Dicker broke Will Hoskins foot, stopping the move.
But he didn't clap the fans once or something, and stopped running because he had a HERNIA. What a prick eh?
Icy Gull
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Nope Poyet thought CMS was a better player and wanted him more than Murray. Hard to believe but there ya go. Beggars belief that he chose the really shit one, surely someone with a football brain should have seen the goals came because of Peterborough's gung ho style and Tomlin and Boyd as providers. Apparently not.
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Still SO baffled by this. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Murray couldn't be MORE of a Poyet player, and CMS couldn't be LESS!
Didn't you mention, in one of the other glenn murray threads, that he has developed a reputation for being lazy in training?
It wasn't Tomlin at the time was it? It was Mackail-Smith, Boyd and MacClean. Boyd was the ONLY decent one. 'Mac-attack' my 4rse.
Could it maybe just be that Poyet DOESN'T actually (or didn't at the time, at least) have the clear pure footballing ideology that some credit him with?
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Defence first and retaining the ball is the most important thing. It did lead to some really dull football in amongst some scintillating stuff when we ripped teams apart
Does it mean that they are a Waitrose shopper and wouldn't be seen dead at Sainsbury's?
Gus constantly banged on about patient, intelligent, passing football. Our team completely exemplified this, in both it's strengths and weaknesses. The ideology was there for all to see, I've never seen a League One side with such an identity.
I don't know if there was a striker in England at the correct level who suited this better than Glenn Murray. I'm not sure there was one at the correct level who suited it less than CMS. The way Gus liked to play would suggest that he really REALLY wouldn't rate a headless chicken like CMS. I still wonder if there's something to the whole story we don't know about.
BensGrandad
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Lee Tomlin is now apparently surplus to requirements at Bournemouth
Justice
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Do we have to go over this Glenn Murray bollocks every transfer window? He left five seasons ago ffs and yet almost daily there is a I want Glenn Murray back thread, if he ever reads NSC he must be pissing himself laughing at all the sad wankers posting the same shit week after week I know I would.
How many seasons ago did sidwell leave? how many for zamora? How many for crofts?
I don't follow Bournemouth that closely, but where is he in the striker pecking order?
Afobe, Grabban, Murray ? Isn't that Wilson out for a while still, Yann Kermorgant has gone to Reading. Who else is there? They don't have a lot of depth in that department do they?
Afobe, Grabban, Murray ? Isn't that Wilson out for a while still, Yann Kermorgant has gone to Reading. Who else is there? They don't have a lot of depth in that department do they?
Justice
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Because he's fat.
I agree entirely, yes. Its utterly baffling.
My point is that just perhaps, for all the "We play my way" stuff, that he was, on some level, NOT completely clear in his strategy / theory.
Perhaps. Perhaps he was trying to evolve his philosophy but over reached.
Afobe, Grabban, Josh King, Rantie, Wilson, Murray...
BensGrandad
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Does that matter if he can put the ball in the net at whatever level you are playing. Look at Akinfenwa at AFC Wimbledon not a size 0 model.