Hurry up and sign this bloke, this is getting painful.
Just a chance to don the flat cap and have a moan. Very decent signing if it indeed happens.I don't know what people are expecting, we're a NL club now, not a Lg1 club, most signings are going to be a bit bbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Obviously he had an injury last year. But the two seasons before that he had no major issues and was in the match day squad on 41 then 33 occasions. Challenge was he wasn’t always starting at L1 club. We however are in the NL32 and in the last three seasons appeared in just one more game than Alan MacCormack (55 as opposed to 54) and recently missed three months of last season with a quad injury.
If we can get a full season out of him potentially a very good signing but there are some red flags there.
Senior career* | |||
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Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2009 | Arsenal | 0 | (0) |
2008–2009 | → Barnet (loan) | 9 | (1) |
2009–2015 | Dagenham & Redbridge | 225 | (17) |
2015–2018 | Shrewsbury Town | 103 | (4) |
2018–2019 | Coventry City | 10 | (0) |
2019– | Bristol Rovers | 46 | (3) |
2020–2021 | → Dagenham & Redbridge (loan) | 9 |
32 and in the last three seasons appeared in just one more game than Alan MacCormack (55 as opposed to 54) and recently missed three months of last season with a quad injury.
If we can get a full season out of him potentially a very good signing but there are some red flags there.
Who needs Dieng when you've got Ogogo
A lot of Rovers fans would say he should’ve been first choice more regularly in L1. They didn’t exactly do great without him. Good player, should be perfect for the NL.Partially it does. Unfortunately he was at a L1 club where he wasn’t always a first choice but nonetheless fit and available to play- hence my clarification regarding when he was available and in the match day squad.
Had he been at a L2 club or NL no doubt he would have been first choice regularly
Any more on the horizon Moley?Over the moon with this one. He’ll be a massive player for us and a big hit with the fans.
Potential captain?Over the moon with this one. He’ll be a massive player for us and a big hit with the fans.
We had Humphries, Kelman, Hopper and Hutchinson. They were all on the way up but ultimately did it do us any good?
We never had a single leader on the pitch. Here is the thing people seem to be missing.
We have trimmed our budget and the mythical 27 year old who will boss midfield for 40 games will be heading for the EFL not RH. Players on the way down cost less than the ones on the way up.
Out of interest where do you think the 17 youngsters in the National League play off final came from ? All impressive and demonstrating good leadership skills Are Torquay and Hartlepool much richer than us??
I suppose we wont benefit then from the parachute payments ??
Nobody is arguing you dont need a bit of experience, its about a good balance surely
Id like to be convinced that having potentially the highest number of older players in the squad wont lead to problems . This clearly wasnt the recipe for success in the National league by any stretch of the imagination this year was it ??!! , Still lets face it we all like good deal of myth and fantasy over reality at times on here
Pleased to see though you coming round at last to acknowledging the growing number of young and hungry gems available that are going up into the league. Quite a number of them have also come into the 3 National leagues for many reasons and cost nowt
So was Michael Ricketts, quite literallyMassive signing!!!
Hope this helps
Greg Gordon
, I work as a football scout for a professional club in Scotland
As an average most footballers hit their prime between 27-30 and at this this stage they'd be deemed to have the highest cash value as experienced talents.
In my personal opinion, I think the peak or "prime age" for a footballer is 26.
For me, 26 is right at the fulcrum between youth (physicality, stamina, skills, etc.) and experience (awareness, mentality, positioning, etc.).