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Post by htafcdan on Jul 24, 2024 19:45:28 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 if it’s the twitter account i think it is take no notice 😂
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Jul 24, 2024 19:50:53 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 if it’s the twitter account i think it is take no notice 😂 It is
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Post by htafcdan on Jul 24, 2024 19:54:30 GMT 1
if it’s the twitter account i think it is take no notice 😂 It is 🤦♂️the blokes seen that a town fan posted a screenshot of when fabrizio romano said here we go about matos, and not realised it was from january
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 24, 2024 20:14:38 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 Would he? Or are we just saying the usual, "he'll be class in League One" like we seem to do with everyone?
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Post by arry11 on Jul 24, 2024 20:29:16 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 Would he? Or are we just saying the usual, "he'll be class in League One" like we seem to do with everyone? Personally i would like to see Hodge sign seems to have a bit more skill and passing range.
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Post by wilmohtafc on Jul 24, 2024 20:50:57 GMT 1
Potentially stupid suggestion but bring in Sean Morrison as back up CB? Would be a good helik replacement stature wise and his long throws would help, but we'd still need a quick CB Take potentially out of your comment and you would be spot on. Bit rude mate, need 2 CBs a starter and backup. He'd be great Helik back up, as he's a unit compared to our other options. Might be a little slow but he knows league 1, can defend very well and his long throws remove the risk of us losing the ball from a throw in in our half, get us on the attack and allow us to get it in the box from almost the half way line. Might i remind you his long throws almost cost us the game at their place.
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Post by isitjustme on Jul 24, 2024 20:58:21 GMT 1
Take potentially out of your comment and you would be spot on. Bit rude mate, need 2 CBs a starter and backup. He'd be great Helik back up, as he's a unit compared to our other options. Might be a little slow but he knows league 1, can defend very well and his long throws remove the risk of us losing the ball from a throw in in our half, get us on the attack and allow us to get it in the box from almost the half way line. Might i remind you his long throws almost cost us the game at their place. So he has a long throw in. Just means we lose the ball a little further away from the throw in taker. Not that much of an advantage I feel....
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Post by rockwall on Jul 24, 2024 21:19:35 GMT 1
Take potentially out of your comment and you would be spot on. Bit rude mate, need 2 CBs a starter and backup. He'd be great Helik back up, as he's a unit compared to our other options. Might be a little slow but he knows league 1, can defend very well and his long throws remove the risk of us losing the ball from a throw in in our half, get us on the attack and allow us to get it in the box from almost the half way line. Might i remind you his long throws almost cost us the game at their place. I don't know if you saw Morrison play for Rotherham but he limped around more than Vaclik. He genuinely looked in pain just jogging. If he is the type we would sign even for back up, then God help us.
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Post by emleyterrier on Jul 24, 2024 21:21:28 GMT 1
Take potentially out of your comment and you would be spot on. Bit rude mate, need 2 CBs a starter and backup. He'd be great Helik back up, as he's a unit compared to our other options. Might be a little slow but he knows league 1, can defend very well and his long throws remove the risk of us losing the ball from a throw in in our half, get us on the attack and allow us to get it in the box from almost the half way line. Might i remind you his long throws almost cost us the game at their place. How can you watch our friendlies and think Sean Morrison is what we need if Helik goes? All 6 of the goals we conceded have been from fast attacks with pace. Town need to be signing a defender who can run and not punt the ball out of play as soon as they get the smallest bit of pressure. And if the sole reason for signing someone is for their long throws, then we may as well not sign a striker as Kyle Hudlin would be a 'threat in the box'.
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Post by BLUE&WHITE on Jul 24, 2024 22:52:41 GMT 1
Looks like tomorrow is going to be busy.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Jul 24, 2024 22:54:13 GMT 1
Looks like tomorrow is going to be busy. do go on ! or are you talking about the pre season game?
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Post by royrace on Jul 24, 2024 23:24:07 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 I'm not sure about him. Off the ball he would be the best in league one. On the ball I thought he was terrible, particularly how he would seemingly go all jelly legged while running with the ball before eventually falling over. I think he did that once didn't he. He'd be a superb signing for L1 imo, slightly underwhelming at championship level but just look at the state of the squad and management team he was parachuted into. I think he deserves some leeway. Would be a coup.
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 24, 2024 23:28:27 GMT 1
Bit rude mate, need 2 CBs a starter and backup. He'd be great Helik back up, as he's a unit compared to our other options. Might be a little slow but he knows league 1, can defend very well and his long throws remove the risk of us losing the ball from a throw in in our half, get us on the attack and allow us to get it in the box from almost the half way line. Might i remind you his long throws almost cost us the game at their place. I don't know if you saw Morrison play for Rotherham but he limped around more than Vaclik. He genuinely looked in pain just jogging. If he is the type we would sign even for back up, then God help us. He'll be class in League One.
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Post by townrwe on Jul 25, 2024 0:21:39 GMT 1
Looks like tomorrow is going to be busy. Hokey Cokey.
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Post by harri54 on Jul 25, 2024 0:30:50 GMT 1
As someone who has worked at Academy level football in the medical department. It is well known that some players are sometimes sent to their medicals with their medical records. They have been known to pull over on route and delete or remove any physical evidence of previous injuries. When was this? The 1800s? Nowadays, medical people put in your NHS number and it pulls everything up for them. If town were to be signing a player. Said players medical record is on a system that with the correct details can be seen by any medical practitioner. Not true. I've had loads of treatment from the same physician that Town referred injuries to while in the PL & my NHS GP knew nothing about it, having now moved GP area they can't even access the archived NHS treatment history.
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Post by utttrooper on Jul 25, 2024 0:36:03 GMT 1
I'm not sure about him. Off the ball he would be the best in league one. On the ball I thought he was terrible, particularly how he would seemingly go all jelly legged while running with the ball before eventually falling over. I think he did that once didn't he. He'd be a superb signing for L1 imo, slightly underwhelming at championship level but just look at the state of the squad and management team he was parachuted into. I think he deserves some leeway. Would be a coup. He'd have probably been good at Championship level if he had players who can actually pass a fucking ball alongside him. Also he couldn't be alongside Kasumu or Hogg really if we wanted playing through the midfield to have been a semi viable option
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Post by specialun on Jul 25, 2024 0:40:44 GMT 1
seeing rumours were in for Matos again, probs a loan. Not getting hopes up but is there any truth in this? Would excel in L1 Does he come with studs and a brain this time? He wasnt ready last year - like watching an under 6 games chase the ball dive in and no concept of positioning The amount of times he was caught out of position or on the floor after diving in, in no man’s land between a press and sitting etc was dreadful That said you can see he can develop and in league one with an extra 6m physical development etc he should do fine
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Post by twyford on Jul 25, 2024 1:18:21 GMT 1
I'm not sure about him. Off the ball he would be the best in league one. On the ball I thought he was terrible, particularly how he would seemingly go all jelly legged while running with the ball before eventually falling over. I think he did that once didn't he.He'd be a superb signing for L1 imo, slightly underwhelming at championship level but just look at the state of the squad and management team he was parachuted into. I think he deserves some leeway. Would be a coup. My recollection of the incident was that he was unbalanced as a result of the challenge in which he won the ball but rather than go down and (probably in vain) hope to get a free kick he tried to carry the ball further upfield, and in doing so became progressively more unbalanced until falling over. Whilst it certainly looked comedic I thought the attempt to counter was to be commended. Of more concern to me, and he's not alone in this, is the number of times players just slip. I know pitches are watered but aren't there options for longer / more studs?
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Post by RickDangerous on Jul 25, 2024 7:12:50 GMT 1
Be all for matos, I'd have had him back in the championship. He passed the eye test on the things you want from someone in that role. He was a disrupter. We've actually got a few ball players he can pass to now. The stuff he was messing up with are things that with a longer run in the side and more experience he'd fix in my opinion.
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Post by duncfost01 on Jul 25, 2024 7:30:59 GMT 1
If true Matos would be a great addition. Don’t forget he played in an awful midfield last year. He played in a team that wasn’t playing for each other. A team that had no plan.
I don’t think that will be the case this season.
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Post by harris on Jul 25, 2024 7:44:24 GMT 1
Suspect there’s nothing in the Alex Matos rumour. Somebody on Twitter quoted Fabrizio Romano’s tweet from back in January saying we were getting him, so I imagine @3rdtierefl saw this without noticing the date.
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Post by kimbo999 on Jul 25, 2024 7:48:02 GMT 1
are we that desperate for players morrison, matos are being banded around. Morrison old and slow got enough of them Matos, said it before headless chicken basically kasumu who falls over and has a Chelsea tag. Can't trap a bag of cement We need a new spine if nichols going don't rate maxwell enough,helik defensively doesn't fill me with confidence might be better at this level. Need a Hogg replacement and need a striker as not confident on Healeys injury record but there's no one really behind him. Il put mi tin hat on
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Post by Convictatthemac on Jul 25, 2024 8:00:30 GMT 1
Looks like tomorrow is going to be busy. Busy day? Should have signed someone… it’s 8am fgs 😂
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Post by bluesandtwos on Jul 25, 2024 8:05:52 GMT 1
Looks like tomorrow is going to be busy. Busy day? Should have signed someone… it’s 8am fgs 😂 It’ll be that damned fax machine jamming again 🤬
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Post by ldotm on Jul 25, 2024 8:27:58 GMT 1
are we that desperate for players morrison, matos are being banded around. Morrison old and slow got enough of them Matos, said it before headless chicken basically kasumu who falls over and has a Chelsea tag. Can't trap a bag of cement We need a new spine if nichols going don't rate maxwell enough,helik defensively doesn't fill me with confidence might be better at this level. Need a Hogg replacement and need a striker as not confident on Healeys injury record but there's no one really behind him. Il put mi tin hat on I’d lower your expectations if Helik doesn’t fill you with confidence.
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Post by Big Ern on Jul 25, 2024 9:00:42 GMT 1
are we that desperate for players morrison, matos are being banded around. Morrison old and slow got enough of them Matos, said it before headless chicken basically kasumu who falls over and has a Chelsea tag. Can't trap a bag of cement We need a new spine if nichols going don't rate maxwell enough,helik defensively doesn't fill me with confidence might be better at this level. Need a Hogg replacement and need a striker as not confident on Healeys injury record but there's no one really behind him. Il put mi tin hat on I like Matos, young and lots to learn but certainly gets stuck in. You need that in this division.
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Post by Captainslapper on Jul 25, 2024 9:22:01 GMT 1
Chelsea wouldn't loan him out to a League 1 club I wouldn't have thought. They'd want him at a better championship side than the one he was in last season.
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Post by alanalanleeee on Jul 25, 2024 9:23:53 GMT 1
I’m going away with work until Monday so won’t be keeping up to date with town stuff. If I don’t see any signings when I’m back I’ll do my best not to be disappointed. How many do you reckon is realistic to hope for over the next 5 days? 1? 2?
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 25, 2024 9:31:42 GMT 1
I’m going away with work until Monday so won’t be keeping up to date with town stuff. If I don’t see any signings when I’m back I’ll do my best not to be disappointed. How many do you reckon is realistic to hope for over the next 5 days? 1? 2? The season is creeping up fast and we still haven't got a striker in, we've lost our only pacy CB to a long term injury, we've still relying on Hogg to anchor the midfield and I still expect some departures. You'd hope we'll see two or three minimum over the next week or so to give the new players time to work with the group before the season starts.
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Post by htafcokay on Jul 25, 2024 9:42:11 GMT 1
I’m going away with work until Monday so won’t be keeping up to date with town stuff. If I don’t see any signings when I’m back I’ll do my best not to be disappointed. How many do you reckon is realistic to hope for over the next 5 days? 1? 2? The season is creeping up fast and we still haven't got a striker in, we've lost our only pacy CB to a long term injury, we've still relying on Hogg to anchor the midfield and I still expect some departures. You'd hope we'll see two or three minimum over the next week or so to give the new players time to work with the group before the season starts. That squad needed serious reinforcements and it hasn't happened.
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