See, if I was manager bullshit like Page being number 2 just wouldn't fly. I'm having none of that. If 3's taken he can have 16, 21, 33 or he can do one.
See, if I was manager bullshit like Page being number 2 just wouldn't fly. I'm having none of that. If 3's taken he can have 16, 21, 33 or he can do one.
Nothing better to do at 3pm on a Saturday My guess: 1 Amos 2 Page 3 DaSilva 4 JJ 5 Bauer 6 Pearce 7 Fosu 8 Crofts 9 Magennis 10 Reeves/left open 11 Holmes 12 Clarke 13 Phillips 14 Forster-Caskey 15 Konsa 16 Sarr 17 Marshall 18 KAG 19 Aribo 20 Solly 21 Dijksteel 22 Barnes 23 Hacket-Fairchild 24 Charles-Cook 25 Kashi 26 Lennon 27 Lapslie 28 Hanlan 29 Umerah 30 Novak 31 Maynard-Brewer 32 Watt
Ooooohhhhh look who had Pearce at 6, DaSilva at 3, Fosu at 7, Barnes at 22, Watt at 32, and don't worry about the rest.
No number for Sarr, no number for Amos, no number for RCC, no number for Hackett-Fairchild (I hope someone is there to give Henry a huge when he hears the news, poor fella will be heartbroken). Lapslie gets 35 but isn't on the "senior team" page. Hanlan and Umerah both there at 28 and 29 respectively.
That said, it's entirely possible we're reading too much into this. I think numbers have to be submitted by tomorrow, but then you can add players and numbers as they come in/come in to the first team.
I do hope Sarr is staying. If not we'd leave ourselves with three fit center backs going into the season. Like with Ceballos, he's done pretty much everything you could ask for this pre-season in terms of looking fit and up for it and showing good technical ability. I struggle to see us getting a drastically better player to be our fourth choice center back at this point, unless Bowry is thought of so highly that it's felt he could step into that 4th choice (5th when Lennon is fit) role.
It's not even in numerical order, just looks poor with random photos in last year's kit, some with this year's training kit and some during a warm up.
Bring back the whole squad photo.
I found that really odd too, but I suspect this is because they're still in the process of uploading headshots of the players with their numbers. The Twitter account just said numbers officially announced tomorrow. Suspect that means we've stumbled upon a work in progress.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! We cannot have a centre mid at 6.... I will not and cannot accept it.
It's going to happen and you're going to like it. You'll forget all about it when he's marauding around the pitch making slide tackles and pinging 60 yard passes.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! We cannot have a centre mid at 6.... I will not and cannot accept it.
It's going to happen and you're going to like it. You'll forget all about it when he's marauding around the pitch making slide tackles and pinging 60 yard passes.
I'll love his play but every time i see that bumber on his back I'll have to go take a happy pill.
I also wonder when players will be able to pick whatever number they want a la cricket and American football. Joe Root wears 66 (or is that Stokes) and shahid afridi wears 00.
They used to be able to
Root is 66 (as in Route 66).
Perhaps they should allow negative numbers and decimal places - and, how about infinity?
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! We cannot have a centre mid at 6.... I will not and cannot accept it.
It's going to happen and you're going to like it. You'll forget all about it when he's marauding around the pitch making slide tackles and pinging 60 yard passes.
I'll love his play but every time i see that bumber on his back I'll have to go take a happy pill.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! We cannot have a centre mid at 6.... I will not and cannot accept it.
Four words: Stuart Balmer - Number one...
Alphabetical wasn't it? Hope he comes and plays next month, him and webbo are still my favourite Center back pairing. We've had better footballers in that position but both epitomised the club at that point, 100% commitment and both seriously put their bodies on the line. Webbo used to put his head in harms way when he really shouldn't and balmer never shirked anyone, still remember him being wheeled into an ambulance during a game in the early days back at The Valley. Few broken ribs I think.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! We cannot have a centre mid at 6.... I will not and cannot accept it.
Four words: Stuart Balmer - Number one...
Alphabetical wasn't it? Hope he comes and plays next month, him and webbo are still my favourite Center back pairing. We've had better footballers in that position but both epitomised the club at that point, 100% commitment and both seriously put their bodies on the line. Webbo used to put his head in harms way when he really shouldn't and balmer never shirked anyone, still remember him being wheeled into an ambulance during a game in the early days back at The Valley. Few broken ribs I think.
Yep! The whole squad's numbers were based alphabetically.
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That said, it's entirely possible we're reading too much into this. I think numbers have to be submitted by tomorrow, but then you can add players and numbers as they come in/come in to the first team.
I do hope Sarr is staying. If not we'd leave ourselves with three fit center backs going into the season. Like with Ceballos, he's done pretty much everything you could ask for this pre-season in terms of looking fit and up for it and showing good technical ability. I struggle to see us getting a drastically better player to be our fourth choice center back at this point, unless Bowry is thought of so highly that it's felt he could step into that 4th choice (5th when Lennon is fit) role.
1 Amos, 2 Page, 3 Dasilva, 4 Jackson, 5 Bauer, 6 Kashi, 7 Marshall, 8 Crofts, 9 Magennis, 10 Clarke, 11 Holmes, 12 Reeves, 13 Phillips, 14 Sarr, 15 Konsa, 16 Pearce, 17, 18 Ahearne-Grant, 19 Forster-Caskey, 20 Solly, 21 Barnes, 22 Dijksteel, 23 Aribo, 24 Charles-Cook, 25, 26 Lennon, 30 Novak, 32 Watt, 39 Fosu.
The others can sort it out amongst themselves
https://www.cafc.co.uk/team/first-team
2 Lewis Page
3 Ahmed Kashi
4 Johnnie Jackson
5 Patrick Bauer
6 Jason Pearce
7 Mark Marshall
8 Andrew Crofts
9 Josh Magennis
10 Billy Clarke
11 Ricky Holmes
12 Ben Reeves
13 Dillon Phillips (gk)
14 Tariqe Fosu
15 Ezri Konsa
17 Joe Aribo
18 Karlan Ahearne-Grant
19 Jake Forster-Caskey
20 Chris Solly
21 Lee Novak
22 Jay Dasilva
23 Naby Sarr
26 Harry Lennon
32 Tony Watt
33 Aaron Barnes
34 Anfernee Dijksteel
12 Ben Reeves