Only wishful thinking but no Scully in the Lincoln team tonight.
Its not surprising really, but he's being linked with a reunion at Blackpool with Appleton... Worked together last season.
Same/similar position to Dale?
I was at the Lincoln home game, forever to be known as the Gilbey two acts of madness game or the game we realized that Conor Washington could miss all 4 of his chances; I need to move on.
Without checking who was the Charlie Kirk lookalike was it Dale or Scully who was ginger but played on the right but was very left footed. The opposite of Kirk but had an effective 1st half when attacking the Covered end ?
Sam, surprised you didn't know the answer to that, what with you being an expert and your vast network of Scouts, Coaches and players you talk to !
Anthony Scully, the Irish 23 year old lad is yer man who has a slight resemblance to Charlie Kirk if you haven't been to Specsavers for a while, and did play right flank and either fed the over lapping full back or cut in on his favoured left foot and scored as the Cafc defense fell asleep. Also when getting taken off he decided to walk around the pitch at the Jimmy Seed end to get a good reception rather than in front of the Covered end where he might be reminded of the "troubles in Northern Ireland" Scully was born in London but has an Irish accent so it's either Kilburn or his family went back to his dad's country.
As has been mentioned, Anthony Scully, who's Dad Tony (same name !) was a pro Journeyman footballer who can claim to have played for Man city and Palace on his travel making 257 apps on his travels.
Anthony may get a move to Blackpool where the ex male model Michael Appleton is now in charge. Scully Missed a couple of months with a knee injury but was sharp towards the end of the 21/22 season.
LB, LB, LB and once more for luck a Left Back with pace and this is quite radical, a left footed Lb. I know this is unlikely as cafc think they have this covered with Stephen but he isn't Ryan Sessegnon and I'm not convinced he can cross with his left foot from an advanced position after overlapping. If he can then great if not CBT you are still on the left. Unless Jack Payne has that gig with his "wand of a left foot" according to a Swindon fan.
Think Kanu might well get an opportunity early on this season and by the looks of him I reckon he'll grab it with both hands.
Our problem might be keeping hold of him after Christmas!
He hasn’t developed physically yet, he is a good goal scorer, needs to work on other sides of his game, he will be in the u23s for now!
Mason Burstow hadn't developed physically but he still played and scored early doors despite being bullied by CB. The irony was he never looked like scoring after his move to Chelsea which took me by surprise on D day.
We actually had no other choice at that point
The same will happen again if we don't get 2 forwards in to replace the 2 who have left.
As someone wiser said earlier in the thread, if you are worrying about the 3 strikers we have not being enough for the 1 striker spot, surely the 3 wide players we have for 2 spots would be more of a concern?
That being said, now Davison has gone I'm quite sure we'll get a loanee in that can be 3rd choice striker. And assumedly a loanee wide player and a loanee defender.
We need a first choice striker who can start and play 90 minutes with Stockley. Aneke is our 3rd choice striker as he will only be on the pitch for 30m per game.
What formation are you expecting us to play? Obviously we will have 3 CMs that is a given. So I assume you think we will be playing 3-5-2? Which would make Kirk, DJ and CBT defunct.
Nah, we are clearly playing a 4-3-3. So where does this first choice striker fit?
If you mean to replace Stockley, I'd be fine with that but it's not going to happen, and if we got rid of Stockley there would be a lot of mouths frothing about Sandgaard. Stockley won't be anything but first choice and Chuks would be a waste as not the main sub of him.
Assuming his first choice is close to Sutton, there are not enough goals in that line-up, even with Payne instead of JFC. We struggled to score enough goals last season with Stockley AND Washington on the pitch at the same time, and Aneke on the bench. There is nobody in the squad with a goal scoring record anywhere near as good as Washington's. So where are the goals coming from?
As it happnes, DJ and CBT both operated reasonably as wing backs and Egbo, Clare and Sessegnon can all play there.. But Kirk would be redundant that is true,. Given he is still pretty unproven that is no great loss.
I would play 3-5-2 with this squad because of the lack of goals in any of the possible 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 line-ups. We have 4 decent centre backs, 4 decent wing backs and 4 decent centre mids, ie plenty of choice for rotation (excluding JFC if he leaves). We just need one good extra starting striker.
Oh good god no. The whole point of this summer has been that we aren't going to spend weeks and weeks playing players out of position again. Some players who did 'reasonably well' as wing backs? Be still my beating heart. The issue isn't that there's not enough goals in Stockley or others, it's that the team had absolutely no idea of how to supply each other. Part of that was because we had wingers as wingbacks, full backs as centre backs, midfielders as defenders and sometimes midfielders as strikers. There will be more goals in players like CBT and Kirk if they actually play in their natural positions and if there's a plan for how to play football, which we sadly seemed to lack under Jackson. The goals come from an effective system, not just crowbarring players into random positions to get more strikers on the pitch, as Jackson learned to his cost.
CBT and Kirk have scored 34 goals between them in 280 league games. If they were that good this season they would score 11 goals this season, as two out of our front three. Even if Stockley has a great season and scores 20 that would be nowhere near enough to be successful.
Is that what you want? There are simply not enough goals in a side with them and Stockley as the front three. We need another goalscorer on the pitch.
Yeah, like Payne (13 goals last season) and Fraser (14 goals for MK Dons
when played in a system that suited him). I am hopeful we'll sign
another winger focused more on goalscoring, but this idea that 'need
more goals = must have more strikers on the pitch' is daft. If our
system works and is effective we should be getting goals from all over
the pitch, not just from the front three. Swindon had 15 different goalscorers
last season, six of them getting 5 or more, with Payne getting the second most. We also should be pulling more goals out of players like Kirk and CBT who didn't previously have great goal records by playing them in a system that encourages goals from players in those positions. McKirdy was Swindon's top
scorer with 19 goals. His previous maximum was 5 and his career total
was 10. He played on the wing as well as up front. Holding midfielders,
wingbacks, centre backs and Jonny bloody Williams chipped in with goals
for them and they ended up the league's top scorers. The alternative plan, of playing lots of players out of position just so we get to have two strikers on the pitch is exactly what we tried last season. I know we had injuries but we got 13 and 11 goals out of our strikers and the next highest goalscorer had 4. It was Ben Purrington. The midfield contributed absolutely nothing in terms of goals and that's what did so much damage to us. We finished 13th. The system - if it works - will generate the goals from multiple areas rather than relying on just one extra goals man.
*Google’s Tom Cannon *Analyses goals record for under 23s *Checks out Twitter rumour account *Searches Twitter for any info from Everton fans *Asks account for source *Shares info in various Charlton WhatsApp groups *Convinces self he will bang goals in next season *Decides he could be the difference next season *Searches for any more info every half hour
He called Jack Payne to be fair so might be legs in it
Did they chuff. 90% of Charlton fans could have guessed we were in for Payne. This page said it was nearly over the line (2 weeks before it was a done deal).
On 28th June they claimed Dunkley had signed for Charlton.
On 23rd June they claimed our bid was accepted for Reed and it should be done the next day.
It's a page run by a random Charlton fan who needs to get a life.
Think Kanu might well get an opportunity early on this season and by the looks of him I reckon he'll grab it with both hands.
Our problem might be keeping hold of him after Christmas!
He hasn’t developed physically yet, he is a good goal scorer, needs to work on other sides of his game, he will be in the u23s for now!
Mason Burstow hadn't developed physically but he still played and scored early doors despite being bullied by CB. The irony was he never looked like scoring after his move to Chelsea which took me by surprise on D day.
We actually had no other choice at that point
The same will happen again if we don't get 2 forwards in to replace the 2 who have left.
As someone wiser said earlier in the thread, if you are worrying about the 3 strikers we have not being enough for the 1 striker spot, surely the 3 wide players we have for 2 spots would be more of a concern?
That being said, now Davison has gone I'm quite sure we'll get a loanee in that can be 3rd choice striker. And assumedly a loanee wide player and a loanee defender.
We need a first choice striker who can start and play 90 minutes with Stockley. Aneke is our 3rd choice striker as he will only be on the pitch for 30m per game.
What formation are you expecting us to play? Obviously we will have 3 CMs that is a given. So I assume you think we will be playing 3-5-2? Which would make Kirk, DJ and CBT defunct.
Nah, we are clearly playing a 4-3-3. So where does this first choice striker fit?
If you mean to replace Stockley, I'd be fine with that but it's not going to happen, and if we got rid of Stockley there would be a lot of mouths frothing about Sandgaard. Stockley won't be anything but first choice and Chuks would be a waste as not the main sub of him.
Assuming his first choice is close to Sutton, there are not enough goals in that line-up, even with Payne instead of JFC. We struggled to score enough goals last season with Stockley AND Washington on the pitch at the same time, and Aneke on the bench. There is nobody in the squad with a goal scoring record anywhere near as good as Washington's. So where are the goals coming from?
As it happnes, DJ and CBT both operated reasonably as wing backs and Egbo, Clare and Sessegnon can all play there.. But Kirk would be redundant that is true,. Given he is still pretty unproven that is no great loss.
I would play 3-5-2 with this squad because of the lack of goals in any of the possible 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 line-ups. We have 4 decent centre backs, 4 decent wing backs and 4 decent centre mids, ie plenty of choice for rotation (excluding JFC if he leaves). We just need one good extra starting striker.
Oh good god no. The whole point of this summer has been that we aren't going to spend weeks and weeks playing players out of position again. Some players who did 'reasonably well' as wing backs? Be still my beating heart. The issue isn't that there's not enough goals in Stockley or others, it's that the team had absolutely no idea of how to supply each other. Part of that was because we had wingers as wingbacks, full backs as centre backs, midfielders as defenders and sometimes midfielders as strikers. There will be more goals in players like CBT and Kirk if they actually play in their natural positions and if there's a plan for how to play football, which we sadly seemed to lack under Jackson. The goals come from an effective system, not just crowbarring players into random positions to get more strikers on the pitch, as Jackson learned to his cost.
CBT and Kirk have scored 34 goals between them in 280 league games. If they were that good this season they would score 11 goals this season, as two out of our front three. Even if Stockley has a great season and scores 20 that would be nowhere near enough to be successful.
Is that what you want? There are simply not enough goals in a side with them and Stockley as the front three. We need another goalscorer on the pitch.
Yeah, like Payne (13 goals last season) and Fraser (14 goals for MK Dons
when played in a system that suited him). I am hopeful we'll sign
another winger focused more on goalscoring, but this idea that 'need
more goals = must have more strikers on the pitch' is daft. If our
system works and is effective we should be getting goals from all over
the pitch, not just from the front three. Swindon had 15 different goalscorers
last season, six of them getting 5 or more, with Payne getting the second most. We also should be pulling more goals out of players like Kirk and CBT who didn't previously have great goal records by playing them in a system that encourages goals from players in those positions. McKirdy was Swindon's top
scorer with 19 goals. His previous maximum was 5 and his career total
was 10. He played on the wing as well as up front. Holding midfielders,
wingbacks, centre backs and Jonny bloody Williams chipped in with goals
for them and they ended up the league's top scorers. The alternative plan, of playing lots of players out of position just so we get to have two strikers on the pitch is exactly what we tried last season. I know we had injuries but we got 13 and 11 goals out of our strikers and the next highest goalscorer had 4. It was Ben Purrington. The midfield contributed absolutely nothing in terms of goals and that's what did so much damage to us. We finished 13th. The system - if it works - will generate the goals from multiple areas rather than relying on just one extra goals man.
The only slight concern with the past goal scoring records you quote for Payne & Fraser is that about 50% of their goals were penalties.
We’re gonna need some favourable refereeing to get them both as many spot kicks again this season.
He called Jack Payne to be fair so might be legs in it
Did they chuff. 90% of Charlton fans could have guessed we were in for Payne. This page said it was nearly over the line (2 weeks before it was a done deal).
On 28th June they claimed Dunkley had signed for Charlton.
On 23rd June they claimed our bid was accepted for Reed and it should be done the next day.
It's a page run by a random Charlton fan who needs to get a life.
Sounds like he won’t be going to Pompey either. I imagine he may be available for a cheaper price later on in the window as Accrington look to get whatever they can.
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Striker and attacking winger is priority.
Sam, surprised you didn't know the answer to that, what with you being an expert and your vast network of Scouts, Coaches and players you talk to !
Anthony Scully, the Irish 23 year old lad is yer man who has a slight resemblance to Charlie Kirk if you haven't been to Specsavers for a while, and did play right flank and either fed the over lapping full back or cut in on his favoured left foot and scored as the Cafc defense fell asleep. Also when getting taken off he decided to walk around the pitch at the Jimmy Seed end to get a good reception rather than in front of the Covered end where he might be reminded of the "troubles in Northern Ireland"
Scully was born in London but has an Irish accent so it's either Kilburn or his family went back to his dad's country.
As has been mentioned, Anthony Scully, who's Dad Tony (same name !) was a pro Journeyman footballer who can claim to have played for Man city and Palace on his travel making 257 apps on his travels.
Anthony may get a move to Blackpool where the ex male model Michael Appleton is now in charge. Scully Missed a couple of months with a knee injury but was sharp towards the end of the 21/22 season.
Glad to help.
All will be revealed soon.
*Google’s Tom Cannon
*Analyses goals record for under 23s
*Checks out Twitter rumour account
*Searches Twitter for any info from Everton fans
*Asks account for source
*Shares info in various Charlton WhatsApp groups
*Convinces self he will bang goals in next season
*Decides he could be the difference next season
*Searches for any more info every half hour
..nice try
Hell of a shot on him
On 28th June they claimed Dunkley had signed for Charlton.
On 23rd June they claimed our bid was accepted for Reed and it should be done the next day.
It's a page run by a random Charlton fan who needs to get a life.
We’re gonna need some favourable refereeing to get them both as many spot kicks again this season.
I believe this could be the other railway football team Crewe Alexandra; all change.
Chuff Chuff nonsense from a wannabe.
( No not me 🤦🏻♂️)