He must have something about him with his stats but I switched the video off after his 3rd one on one miss in 4. Odd video, maybe it was created by a fan hoping to show scouts he isn't very good!
Corey Blackett (to use the official Curbs name for him) is one of our most skillful players and can be really outstanding when the ball is at his feet but when it isn't (which due to the nature of the game, is most of the time) he contributes nothing. Even his running off the ball is terrible.
When he does leave in January it might make us a better team and certainly tougher to beat.
It was interesting to hear Curbs talking on Charlton TV recently. If I remember the conversation turned to players being sent out on loan. He said that when he sent Scott Parker off to Norwich on loan he told him he needed to work on the defensive side of his game, as if he came back into the first team alongside Claus Jensen he would have to do double duty on tackling as Claus never tackled.
Ive heard we have been scouting a young Irish Right footed centre back called Connor O'Riordan who plays for Crewe Alexendra, seems quite a prospect
Score twice yesterday… Crewe fans raving about him…
I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
8.6 match rating on whoscored, 5 shots totals, 5 headers won, 70% pass accuracy, highest for defenders. Statistically he is brilliant.
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
Ive heard we have been scouting a young Irish Right footed centre back called Connor O'Riordan who plays for Crewe Alexendra, seems quite a prospect
Score twice yesterday… Crewe fans raving about him…
I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
8.6 match rating on whoscored, 5 shots totals, 5 headers won, 70% pass accuracy, highest for defenders. Statistically he is brilliant.
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
I'd never heard of WhoScored until you just mentioned it...... so thank you....... although I also think I'm likely to now spend too much of my life on that damned site....... so on second thoughts I'll take that thank you back
Glad to hear you'll be back in video mode on Tuesday.
Ive heard we have been scouting a young Irish Right footed centre back called Connor O'Riordan who plays for Crewe Alexendra, seems quite a prospect
Score twice yesterday… Crewe fans raving about him…
I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
8.6 match rating on whoscored, 5 shots totals, 5 headers won, 70% pass accuracy, highest for defenders. Statistically he is brilliant.
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
I'd never heard of WhoScored until you just mentioned it...... so thank you....... although I also think I'm likely to now spend too much of my life on that damned site....... so on second thoughts I'll take that thank you back
Glad to hear you'll be back in video mode on Tuesday.
Ive heard we have been scouting a young Irish Right footed centre back called Connor O'Riordan who plays for Crewe Alexendra, seems quite a prospect
Score twice yesterday… Crewe fans raving about him…
I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
8.6 match rating on whoscored, 5 shots totals, 5 headers won, 70% pass accuracy, highest for defenders. Statistically he is brilliant.
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
I'd never heard of WhoScored until you just mentioned it...... so thank you....... although I also think I'm likely to now spend too much of my life on that damned site....... so on second thoughts I'll take that thank you back
Glad to hear you'll be back in video mode on Tuesday.
Thank you mate appreciate it, at work but should be able to make kick-off and have enough time to do the usual
Thanks, interesting that Alfie May was our lowest scoring player on the day, closely followed by AMB.......... guess May had a mare..... which happens...... haven't read on here what AMB did/didn't do to get his relatively low score?
Ive heard we have been scouting a young Irish Right footed centre back called Connor O'Riordan who plays for Crewe Alexendra, seems quite a prospect
Score twice yesterday… Crewe fans raving about him…
I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
8.6 match rating on whoscored, 5 shots totals, 5 headers won, 70% pass accuracy, highest for defenders. Statistically he is brilliant.
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
I'd never heard of WhoScored until you just mentioned it...... so thank you....... although I also think I'm likely to now spend too much of my life on that damned site....... so on second thoughts I'll take that thank you back
Glad to hear you'll be back in video mode on Tuesday.
Thank you mate appreciate it, at work but should be able to make kick-off and have enough time to do the usual
Thanks, interesting that Alfie May was our lowest scoring player on the day, closely followed by AMB.......... guess May had a mare..... which happens...... haven't read on here what AMB did/didn't do to get his relatively low score?
May, may have had a mare, but probably wouldn't have, if some twat had not played him on the right wing.
Think we all know the outgoings will make the difference so that we can bring people in. Surely Abankwah at least goes back, can we offload Kirk? Other than maybe Camara and Tedic not sure who we should actually be getting rid of and that will make bringing players in tough
Could be quite a lot of outgoings. Obviously not all of the below but...
- Abankwah, Tedic, C Campbell not getting a look in; if I was their clubs I would.be recalling them.
- Camara always injured, we may as well return him.
- Kirk I am sure will be offloaded one way or another.
- Walker I can't see being renewed.
- CBT and Dobson last 6months, almost certainly won't sign again so do we cash in whilst we can?
- Leaburn.. he will go soon enough, will it be this window?
- Kanu also last 6 months.
I think Kanu (although might still be on loan), Leaburn and Dobson will stick around. Kirk I can’t see being offloaded because I don’t know who would want him. Walker I had forgotten about but I don’t know if we’ll find a better third choice keeper
This window will be very revealing about the new ownership group. Appleton has done enough to win over the sceptcs (like me) and prove he is at least competent.
Now will the owners back him during his first transfer window?
Will we retain CBT and Dobson and see a Grade A proven centre-back to play alongside Jones with maybe a former Appleton favourite or two on loan?
Or will it be the usual band of injury-prone has-beens and nobodies smoothed over with some suitable hyperbole and PR rhetoric?
This window will be very revealing about the new ownership group. Appleton has done enough to win over the sceptcs (like me) and prove he is at least competent.
Now will the owners back him during his first transfer window?
Will we retain CBT and Dobson and see a Grade A proven centre-back to play alongside Jones with maybe a former Appleton favourite or two on loan?
Or will it be the usual band of injury-prone has-beens and nobodies smoothed over with some suitable hyperbole and PR rhetoric?
Sadly, I think this ownership are not likely to be putting together a promotion charge in January. Not convinced by them yet, especially as it is becoming apparent that CM is the main man and the others just invested in a punt. The money men are not owners in the sense that they are going to fund losses and keep putting in cash.
This window will be very revealing about the new ownership group. Appleton has done enough to win over the sceptcs (like me) and prove he is at least competent.
Now will the owners back him during his first transfer window?
Will we retain CBT and Dobson and see a Grade A proven centre-back to play alongside Jones with maybe a former Appleton favourite or two on loan?
Or will it be the usual band of injury-prone has-beens and nobodies smoothed over with some suitable hyperbole and PR rhetoric?
I think Appleton and Scott will both be well aware of the flaws in the squad as it stands right now, but very few people will actually know whether we can or will invest in January. I think that caution will continue to remain around the wage bill of players like Aneke and Kirk, plus even Hector and Fraser for what they give vs. what we get for what we probably pay. The chance of getting any actual quality whilst those kind of high earners remain feels relatively unlikely, but I don't have a crystal ball.
Given the amount of times Appleton has spoke about lacking experience in the squad, I feel he will go for players over the age of say, 28-29. I think it's a reasonable assessment, but comes as a massive gamble. More often than not, they are not hungry and motivated like May and more like scummy journeymen like Ben Watson (who I detested tbh), with no desire and just coming for a paycheck until they retire. As Curbs has spoke about, it's about the man as a character - chasing success and wanting to win games, even in the latter stages of their career. We've had a pretty bad record of signing players like that and May, with his local links, has been the only real outlier.
I hope some of the non-playing loans go back and we roll the dice on a few of those again. I think the risk of CB-T and Leaburn going are both relatively high, but the former would be much more devastating than the latter. I think Dobbo will wait until the summer out of respect for the club, but I wouldn't blame him if a good offer came in. Form until the end of the year will be important in at least keeping a couple of those.
Exactly. We are just part of their investment portfolio. I'm surprised how hopeful many of our fans are.
Without derailing the thread, yes we are just an investment for the convoluted ownership we have but the investment as is, is worth virtually f all. It’s a money pit going nowhere. A failing business which despite Methven’s spin is about as far from being sustainable as you can get. If things don’t change which is looking like the likely scenario then I see the ownership collapsing to a smaller core of bigger, richer owners who might just go for it a bit more. That’s not any time soon though. The suffering goes on.
I wonder if we'll look at loaning a keeper in January like we did when Jed Steer was recalled and left us with Phillips and nothing. We loaned Chris Maxwell and he sat having excellent hair and doing nothing else for 6 months, but it was the experienced cover we needed just in case. It takes up a loan spot but given that we've got three loan players we're not using and one we can't it might not be a waste. Looking at the free agents you can see how we ended up with Walker; he's at the end of his career and he's clearly ok with being short-term third choice and coming in for cup games or if there's an emergency. He's also likely very cheap while we're still paying for two first team keepers every week. Other free keepers are Matt Macey, Joe Lewis, Adam Bogdan, Elliot Parish, Ross Stewart and, troublingly, Yohann Thuram. Of those only Macey is a keeper not at the end of his career who also has decent football league experience. He'd probably want to play, would want L1 keeper money and likely wouldn't settle for a 6 month deal. Of those keepers listed Walker is actually the one who has been playing regularly most recently. I always thought Joe Lewis was a decent keeper but he hasn't played regularly since 21/22. From there the choice becomes whether you extend Walker and are happy with him coming in in case AMB gets injured, which he does more than most keepers I'd say, or if you try and loan someone. You never get the feeling AMB is quite first choice so there's a chance a team could loan us someone to compete and potentially take his place. We clearly don't really need Chem or Abankwah so we could do worse than get some short term cover in once the window opens in place of one of them, it doesn't have to be a free agent necessarily.
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I know the last bloke from there didn’t work out but
Christ I wish I never realised how good whoscoreds stat tracker is. I have 0 interest in xG, but individual players statistics, completely different story.
Glad to hear you'll be back in video mode on Tuesday.
Thank you mate appreciate it, at work but should be able to make kick-off and have enough time to do the usual
- Abankwah, Tedic, C Campbell not getting a look in; if I was their clubs I would.be recalling them.
- Camara always injured, we may as well return him.
- Kirk I am sure will be offloaded one way or another.
- Walker I can't see being renewed.
- CBT and Dobson last 6months, almost certainly won't sign again so do we cash in whilst we can?
- Leaburn.. he will go soon enough, will it be this window?
- Kanu also last 6 months.
Now will the owners back him during his first transfer window?
Will we retain CBT and Dobson and see a Grade A proven centre-back to play alongside Jones with maybe a former Appleton favourite or two on loan?
Or will it be the usual band of injury-prone has-beens and nobodies smoothed over with some suitable hyperbole and PR rhetoric?
Given the amount of times Appleton has spoke about lacking experience in the squad, I feel he will go for players over the age of say, 28-29. I think it's a reasonable assessment, but comes as a massive gamble. More often than not, they are not hungry and motivated like May and more like scummy journeymen like Ben Watson (who I detested tbh), with no desire and just coming for a paycheck until they retire. As Curbs has spoke about, it's about the man as a character - chasing success and wanting to win games, even in the latter stages of their career. We've had a pretty bad record of signing players like that and May, with his local links, has been the only real outlier.
I hope some of the non-playing loans go back and we roll the dice on a few of those again. I think the risk of CB-T and Leaburn going are both relatively high, but the former would be much more devastating than the latter. I think Dobbo will wait until the summer out of respect for the club, but I wouldn't blame him if a good offer came in. Form until the end of the year will be important in at least keeping a couple of those.
From there the choice becomes whether you extend Walker and are happy with him coming in in case AMB gets injured, which he does more than most keepers I'd say, or if you try and loan someone. You never get the feeling AMB is quite first choice so there's a chance a team could loan us someone to compete and potentially take his place. We clearly don't really need Chem or Abankwah so we could do worse than get some short term cover in once the window opens in place of one of them, it doesn't have to be a free agent necessarily.
Would fit the bill of replacing Abankwah assuming he goes back.