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Post by benhomly on Feb 22, 2024 9:58:03 GMT 1
I remember Glen Hoddle playing sweeper for Swindon . Destroyed us 4-1 i think at home . I remember James Berrett having a spell as a sweeper for us. May have been under Murphy as caretaker. I hope Slapps doesn't see this or it'll turn into the James Berrett appreciation thread  |
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Post by rubicon on Feb 22, 2024 13:05:08 GMT 1
the team got their name because the city of Alkmaar is famously easy to find your way around... No they didn't! They got their name from the amalgamation of two clubs in the City. |
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Post by mosher on Feb 22, 2024 13:13:57 GMT 1
the team got their name because the city of Alkmaar is famously easy to find your way around... No they didn't! They got their name from the amalgamation of two clubs in the City. Whhoooooosssssshhhhhh! |
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Post by Gag N Bone Man on Feb 22, 2024 13:44:45 GMT 1
genuinely struggle to remember a faster CB for us - on Saturday there were times when he was ridiculously fast yet looked like he was only in 3rd gear.
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Post by Porrohman on Feb 22, 2024 14:14:53 GMT 1
I remember Glen Hoddle playing sweeper for Swindon . Destroyed us 4-1 i think at home . I remember James Berrett having a spell as a sweeper for us. May have been under Murphy as caretaker. Gerry played him there when we beat the Chesties at Bellend Road, I think it was the game Skarzy and Mickey Collins scored. |
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Post by bells ringing :) on Feb 22, 2024 15:12:27 GMT 1
genuinely struggle to remember a faster CB for us - on Saturday there were times when he was ridiculously fast yet looked like he was only in 3rd gear. efe sodje was quick, but i do agree the sign of real pace is someone running fast yet not looking like they are even trying. Balker is quickest centre half i have seen for us for sure. Him and helik could be superb together, balker just sweeping inbehind the big man. |
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Post by galpharm2400 on Feb 22, 2024 16:20:13 GMT 1
genuinely struggle to remember a faster CB for us - on Saturday there were times when he was ridiculously fast yet looked like he was only in 3rd gear. efe sodje was quick, but i do agree the sign of real pace is someone running fast yet not looking like they are even trying. Balker is quickest centre half i have seen for us for sure. Him and helik could be superb together, balker just sweeping inbehind the big man. Big lads can shift but its the 'turning circle' and getting the long limbs going that Balker does not seem to suffer from. Perhaps he has a long torso, whatever, he turns and moves quickly. |
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Post by tepidterrier on Feb 22, 2024 16:23:40 GMT 1
I remember Glen Hoddle playing sweeper for Swindon . Destroyed us 4-1 i think at home . I remember James Berrett having a spell as a sweeper for us. May have been under Murphy as caretaker. Must've been one of the last times anyone played as a sweeper ever! They were largely made obsolete with changes to the offside rule and changes in formations to fit that. |
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Post by paulmat on Feb 22, 2024 17:23:11 GMT 1
I remember James Berrett having a spell as a sweeper for us. May have been under Murphy as caretaker. Must've been one of the last times anyone played as a sweeper ever! They were largely made obsolete with changes to the offside rule and changes in formations to fit that. The way Murphy used Berrett wasn't a million miles from how Corberan used Hogg when he dropped him into the middle of a back 3. |
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Post by Oblong of Dreams on Feb 22, 2024 17:53:06 GMT 1
No they didn't! They got their name from the amalgamation of two clubs in the City. Whhoooooosssssshhhhhh! With hindsight the joke would've worked better if I'd said it was difficult to find your way around. Still would've airshipped. |
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 14, 2024 14:28:59 GMT 1
Any idea on what his injury was yesterday? Thought it was a hamstring at first as he was clutching it but then looked more like his ankle. Hopefully weeks rather than months.
Must be the worst feeling as a player when you've spent all summer getting fit, gone through the worst part of pre season and then pick up a bad injury
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Post by detox on Jul 14, 2024 14:39:04 GMT 1
Any idea on what his injury was yesterday? Thought it was a hamstring at first as he was clutching it but then looked more like his ankle. Hopefully weeks rather than months. Must be the worst feeling as a player when you've spent all summer getting fit, gone through the worst part of pre season and then pick up a bad injury Makes me wonder that with all the technological equipment they have nowadays that they can't identify potential weaknesses in athletes. Having gone through pre season training, physio,stamina training etc etc..?? |
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Post by blueandwhiteterrier on Jul 14, 2024 16:29:45 GMT 1
I genuinely hope the guys okay, but he seems to get injured quite easily for a defensive player.
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Post by deanoh94 on Jul 14, 2024 16:48:04 GMT 1
Looked like an ankle injury to me. If it’s broken then he will be out for 12 weeks.
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Post by dezzly on Jul 15, 2024 11:21:58 GMT 1
Is it just me who thinks he’s been a bit unlucky.Feel like the club getting a bit of stick for signing a so called crock but he played around 18 months injury free I believe before he signed for us,I know he had previously had the acl but 18 months solid isn’t a run most injury prone players manage to be honest.
I do feel like we probably won’t see much of him this season now if it’s a bad one,which it looked to be.Also looked unlucky how it happened.
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Post by Mastercracker on Jul 15, 2024 11:35:23 GMT 1
Is it just me who thinks he’s been a bit unlucky.Feel like the club getting a bit of stick for signing a so called crock but he played around 18 months injury free I believe before he signed for us,I know he had previously had the acl but 18 months solid isn’t a run most injury prone players manage to be honest. I do feel like we probably won’t see much of him this season now if it’s a bad one,which it looked to be.Also looked unlucky how it happened. Barely been injured before apart from the ACL but yeah fans here have decided he's a crock after 6 months and that we should have known. |
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Post by townarentbest on Jul 15, 2024 11:36:05 GMT 1
I'm curious how people are diagnosing broken ankles and 3 months+ recuperation periods from seeing someone subbed off in a friendly?
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 11:51:45 GMT 1
Is it just me who thinks he’s been a bit unlucky.Feel like the club getting a bit of stick for signing a so called crock but he played around 18 months injury free I believe before he signed for us,I know he had previously had the acl but 18 months solid isn’t a run most injury prone players manage to be honest. I do feel like we probably won’t see much of him this season now if it’s a bad one,which it looked to be.Also looked unlucky how it happened. but yeah fans here have decided he's a crock after 6 months and that we should have known. He's played seven matches since he arrived in January 2024. He missed the first game as he'd arrived ill. Then he played two matches before being ruled out again through more illness. He played another two matches and then was out for almost a month with a quad injury. Then after returning from that, he played three more games and was stretchered off (where he was looking for an excuse to come off because his bottle had gone - in my opinion) and missed the rest of the season. Now, in pre-season, he's been stretchered off again. And doing a bit more research, he was out for eight games with a thigh injury in 2019, then spent two periods which amounted to four months out with "a knock" in 2020, and then again for another month in 2021 and then another month in 2021 with a groin injury. Then he spent a whole year out between 2021 and 2022 with a cruciate injury, then a knee injury in 2023 plus another "unknown injury" after that. He's a sicknote. |
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 11:57:39 GMT 1
Is it just me who thinks he’s been a bit unlucky.Feel like the club getting a bit of stick for signing a so called crock but he played around 18 months injury free I believe before he signed for us,I know he had previously had the acl but 18 months solid isn’t a run most injury prone players manage to be honest. I do feel like we probably won’t see much of him this season now if it’s a bad one,which it looked to be.Also looked unlucky how it happened. This isn't really true. He's been out with numerous injuries since 2019 and all told spent over two years out injured with various injuries before signing for us. |
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Post by dezzly on Jul 15, 2024 12:01:51 GMT 1
Is it just me who thinks he’s been a bit unlucky.Feel like the club getting a bit of stick for signing a so called crock but he played around 18 months injury free I believe before he signed for us,I know he had previously had the acl but 18 months solid isn’t a run most injury prone players manage to be honest. I do feel like we probably won’t see much of him this season now if it’s a bad one,which it looked to be.Also looked unlucky how it happened. This isn't really true. He's been out with numerous injuries since 2019 and all told spent over two years out injured with various injuries before signing for us. Fair enough,with this and the above post I’ll stand corrected. What I’d read was different so was going with that. If it is a broken ankle as some are saying can’t imagine be seeing much of him this side of Christmas if at all. |
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 12:15:28 GMT 1
This isn't really true. He's been out with numerous injuries since 2019 and all told spent over two years out injured with various injuries before signing for us. Fair enough,with this and the above post I’ll stand corrected. What I’d read was different so was going with that. If it is a broken ankle as some are saying can’t imagine be seeing much of him this side of Christmas if at all. Even if it isn't a broken ankle, I'm sure there'll be another injury to come along soon enough. It's a shame, as he's a decent player but if he's never going to be on the pitch then it's pointless him being here. |
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Post by Mastercracker on Jul 15, 2024 12:24:59 GMT 1
Barely been injured before apart from the ACL but yeah fans here have decided he's a crock after 6 months and that we should have known. He's played seven matches since he arrived in January 2024. He missed the first game as he'd arrived ill. Then he played two matches before being ruled out again through more illness. He played another two matches and then was out for almost a month with a quad injury. Then after returning from that, he played three more games and was stretchered off (where he was looking for an excuse to come off because his bottle had gone - in my opinion) and missed the rest of the season. Now, in pre-season, he's been stretchered off again. And doing a bit more research, he was out for eight games with a thigh injury in 2019, then spent two periods which amounted to four months out with "a knock" in 2020, and then again for another month in 2021 and then another month in 2021 with a groin injury. Then he spent a whole year out between 2021 and 2022 with a cruciate injury, then a knee injury in 2023 plus another "unknown injury" after that. He's a sicknote. In the 18 months of football prior to us signing him he missed 2 games injured, according to transfermarkt. Vast numbers of our squad have missed more games over that time period. He's been a crock for us yeah, but IMO it wasn't obvious he was going to be. |
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Post by incognito on Jul 15, 2024 12:28:25 GMT 1
This isn't really true. He's been out with numerous injuries since 2019 and all told spent over two years out injured with various injuries before signing for us. Fair enough,with this and the above post I’ll stand corrected. What I’d read was different so was going with that. If it is a broken ankle as some are saying can’t imagine be seeing much of him this side of Christmas if at all. You were right the first time. He was near enough ever-present throughout 2022/23 and the first half of 2023/24. |
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 12:34:06 GMT 1
He's played seven matches since he arrived in January 2024. He missed the first game as he'd arrived ill. Then he played two matches before being ruled out again through more illness. He played another two matches and then was out for almost a month with a quad injury. Then after returning from that, he played three more games and was stretchered off (where he was looking for an excuse to come off because his bottle had gone - in my opinion) and missed the rest of the season. Now, in pre-season, he's been stretchered off again. And doing a bit more research, he was out for eight games with a thigh injury in 2019, then spent two periods which amounted to four months out with "a knock" in 2020, and then again for another month in 2021 and then another month in 2021 with a groin injury. Then he spent a whole year out between 2021 and 2022 with a cruciate injury, then a knee injury in 2023 plus another "unknown injury" after that. He's a sicknote. In the 18 months of football prior to us signing him he missed 2 games injured, according to transfermarkt. Vast numbers of our squad have missed more games over that time period. He's been a crock for us yeah, but IMO it wasn't obvious he was going to be. In the five years before he signed for us he'd missed over two years with cruciate, knee, thigh, groin and "knocks". I'd say it was pretty obvious, but you're right it seems he only missed a few weeks from July 2022 to January 2024. |
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 12:35:08 GMT 1
Fair enough,with this and the above post I’ll stand corrected. What I’d read was different so was going with that. If it is a broken ankle as some are saying can’t imagine be seeing much of him this side of Christmas if at all. You were right the first time. He was near enough ever-present throughout 2022/23 and the first half of 2023/24. Yeah, I got it wrong. It was 2020-21 and 2021-22 where he spent a total of 562 days out injured. |
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Post by royrace on Jul 15, 2024 12:43:02 GMT 1
Feels to me it's probably the player, and of course it could just be back luck, I'm very much hoping it's not a case of something else not being right at the club. We had a lot of injuries last season which I assumed was down to the changes in coaches. I guess it's possible it's something else.
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 15, 2024 12:44:37 GMT 1
Feels to me it's probably the player, and of course it could just be back luck, I'm very much hoping it's not a case of something else not being right at the club. We had a lot of injuries last season which I assumed was down to the changes in coaches. I guess it's possible it's something else. It's more down to the club's knack of signing players with bad injury records, in my opinion. |
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Post by TTCMatt on Jul 15, 2024 12:47:59 GMT 1
It's not good news. 2024 will hopefully just be an annus horribilis in his Town career.
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Post by dewsburyterrier on Jul 15, 2024 13:08:07 GMT 1
It's not good news. 2024 will hopefully just be an annus horribilis in his Town career. I guess that it something that is going to be keeping him out until around the New Year? A real shame for the lad. |
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Post by bells ringing :) on Jul 15, 2024 13:16:57 GMT 1
If correct its a huge shame for the lad and us, but you would asume a centre half has now defo being added to the list. If we ever get a real run out of Balker, then i think we will see he has got real quaility and can add a lot to us.
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