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Post by htafcdan on Aug 2, 2024 12:12:06 GMT 1
can somebody please enlighten me on who castlehillterrier is🤣
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Aug 2, 2024 12:14:07 GMT 1
Sorry, I don’t get these Ward apologists. Part of the reason we got relegated is a lack of goals and a lock of depth. Ward didn’t score enough when he was on the pitch, but most importantly he didn’t get on the pitch enough. If we want to go straight back up, we need to stop carrying the players that don’t contribute to the team, Ward is front and centre a non-contributor. We need winners, players that expect to win every week, strikers that expect to score every week, first team players that get on the pitch every week. Ward is none of that. many on here will (and do) disagree. How many usernames have got? 😉
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Aug 2, 2024 12:16:56 GMT 1
Fuck me the annual Ward love in, he’ll have a mystery 3 month injury again come full time when we’ve drawn 1-1 with Stevenage.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Aug 2, 2024 12:19:01 GMT 1
can somebody please enlighten me on who castlehillterrier is🤣 He is the GOAT for inside info. Nagle and Edwards threatened datm with a court case if he wasn't banned
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Post by allan 1958 (OAF-WROY)(SSLFF) on Aug 2, 2024 12:31:59 GMT 1
Ok Thankyou Mr Cartwright. No for me too (aka Mrs cartwirght
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Post by Sio on Aug 2, 2024 12:41:37 GMT 1
And under NW for a few months. Would love to get a young fearless loan like Danny was 15 years ago, someone like that would be great for us now (as a striker and not a winger) Getting a new striker is so important for our season I for one am glad we are waiting to try and get what we want, if we want to challenge for top two this signing is the most important one. Debatable. How's it going anyway, Castlehillterrier? Long time no speak. Tries to pretend he's not the same poster and then calls Ward 'Danny'
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Post by theterrier42 on Aug 2, 2024 12:43:34 GMT 1
Bring back Dr Nose!
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Post by basil on Aug 2, 2024 12:45:25 GMT 1
Well let’s all hope he proves you wrong this season as it looks like he will be still here and hoping to contribute. He may not have got many goals but his work rate and effort on the pitch can not be questioned, as I said injuries are the main issue for him also playing as a lone striker is not easy, he should be better in a two this season and a strong option from the bench. What is the job of a centre-forward? Is it to put effort in or is it to score goals? Putting effort in is the bare minimum expected of a footballer. You can't praise someone for simply putting effort in! I'm not praising him, but if one of OUR players is doing his best then I WILL NOT slag him off. If anyone is looking for someone to vent their spleen at, look elsewhere, the guy that extended his contract, the guy that selects him to play.
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Post by htafcokay on Aug 2, 2024 12:47:29 GMT 1
What is the job of a centre-forward? Is it to put effort in or is it to score goals? Putting effort in is the bare minimum expected of a footballer. You can't praise someone for simply putting effort in! I'm not praising him, but if one of OUR players is doing his best then I WILL NOT slag him off. If anyone is looking for someone to vent their spleen at, look elsewhere, the guy that extended his contract, the guy that selects him to play. The guy that kept us up He's the last bloke I'll be slagging off, thanks.
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Post by htafc1045 on Aug 2, 2024 12:49:53 GMT 1
I think tbh the problem with Ward (on top of his ‘injuries’) is not his finishing, more his movement. When he gets into a scoring position, he is actually pretty clinical, he just doesn’t have that strikers instinct to get into the right position. A for Ward as a fourth choice striker would not be a problem for me, the problem is his massive wages that Neil ‘Ward’ Warnock gave him😂
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Post by teesdaleterrier on Aug 2, 2024 12:54:50 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them?
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Post by incognito on Aug 2, 2024 12:59:22 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? Ward's new contract was announced on 16th June. Cartwright didn't arrive until early July.
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Post by htafc1045 on Aug 2, 2024 12:59:55 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? Since Cartwright wasn’t employed when Ward got a contract extension… it’s safe to say it was Warnock🤣
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Post by melbourneterrier on Aug 2, 2024 13:04:09 GMT 1
can somebody please enlighten me on who castlehillterrier is🤣 You really don't want to know.
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Post by htafcokay on Aug 2, 2024 13:05:26 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? Since Cartwright wasn’t employed when Ward got a contract extension… it’s safe to say it was Warnock🤣 And hardly anyone complained. Which is always conveniently forgotten.
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Post by Convictatthemac on Aug 2, 2024 13:07:47 GMT 1
Since Cartwright wasn’t employed when Ward got a contract extension… it’s safe to say it was Warnock🤣 And hardly anyone complained. Which is always conveniently forgotten. I think plenty complained.
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Post by teesdaleterrier on Aug 2, 2024 13:12:02 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? Since Cartwright wasn’t employed when Ward got a contract extension… it’s safe to say it was Warnock🤣 Gotcha, I didn't realise. So was it Warnock or Cartwrights predecessor?
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Post by galpharm2400 on Aug 2, 2024 13:12:10 GMT 1
And hardly anyone complained. Which is always conveniently forgotten. I think plenty complained. Think many expected even with Warnock at the helm and Ward as our strikeforce we were going to struggle quite a bit..
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Post by jqhtfc on Aug 2, 2024 13:12:53 GMT 1
Wrexham leading the chase for cadamateri apparently
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Post by htafcokay on Aug 2, 2024 13:14:38 GMT 1
And hardly anyone complained. Which is always conveniently forgotten. I think plenty complained. Yes and we were told to stop being negative and that he'd be brilliant under Warnock.
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Post by htafcdan on Aug 2, 2024 13:16:15 GMT 1
Wrexham leading the chase for cadamateri apparently if we want him i think we get him
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Aug 2, 2024 13:22:58 GMT 1
I know people are, quite rightly, concerned about the injury records of our current group of strikers, however, one thing worth remembering is that if we get off to a good start, winning teams see far less injuries than struggling teams. In other words, players in a happy, winning camp will play through knocks they might not do in a team like ours the last couple of years.
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Post by teesdaleterrier on Aug 2, 2024 13:25:08 GMT 1
I know people are, quite rightly, concerned about the injury records of our current group of strikers, however, one thing worth remembering is that if we get off to a good start, winning teams see far less injuries than struggling teams. In other words, players in a happy, winning camp will play through knocks they might not do in a team like ours the last couple of years. This is a sad indicament of the modern day footballer
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Post by digs on Aug 2, 2024 13:27:43 GMT 1
Wrexham leading the chase for cadamateri apparently if we want him i think we get him Not if he wants to go all Hollywood,and go to places like Disney world,instead of Greggs in Cleck
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Post by fredcarno1 on Aug 2, 2024 13:32:30 GMT 1
Looks like we’ve reached the part of the transfer window when people try to convince themselves our perennial under achiever s, past it players and underwhelming youngsters are good enough to get the club some kind of success. We had the same last year with Hudlin and Simpson who were being heralded as worth being given a go in the side.
On Ward he’s perennially injured or not arsed to play if he decides he doesn’t like the manager, and his goals record over his career is absolutely pathetic tbh. We should have never resigned him in the first place and to give him a big money contract extension was an absolutely scandalous decision whoever made it.
Robbed a living from Town over the vast majority of the last 4 years yet still people are lauding him for ‘trying’. Sooner we’re shut of him the better.
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Post by theterrier42 on Aug 2, 2024 13:36:25 GMT 1
I know people are, quite rightly, concerned about the injury records of our current group of strikers, however, one thing worth remembering is that if we get off to a good start, winning teams see far less injuries than struggling teams. In other words, players in a happy, winning camp will play through knocks they might not do in a team like ours the last couple of years. Ward one of the bigger culprits of that while on the subject of him
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Post by Terriersmad on Aug 2, 2024 13:40:22 GMT 1
I know people are, quite rightly, concerned about the injury records of our current group of strikers, however, one thing worth remembering is that if we get off to a good start, winning teams see far less injuries than struggling teams. In other words, players in a happy, winning camp will play through knocks they might not do in a team like ours the last couple of years. This is a sad indicament of the modern day footballer It's gone on since time immemorial. It's not the 'modern day' footballer.
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Post by TTCMatt on Aug 2, 2024 13:40:50 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? It was Neil Warnock's decision to extend the contracts of Ward, Koroma and Ruffels etc. However, I wouldn't worry about Ward's wages and the nonsense a few people have put about them on twitter. Wardy has gone from being one of the higher paid players from when Phil H introduced a 10k pw ceiling to now being one of the lower paid senior players. Koroma on the other hand got a bit of a bump.
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Post by fredcarno1 on Aug 2, 2024 13:49:40 GMT 1
Genuine question, who's at fault for Wards lengthy contract and supposedly extortionate wages...Warnock or Cartwright? Who signs off contracts and rubber stamps them? It was Neil Warnock's decision to extend the contracts of Ward, Koroma and Ruffels etc. However, I wouldn't worry about Ward's wages and the nonsense a few people have put about them on twitter. Wardy has gone from being one of the higher paid players from when Phil H introduced a 10k pw ceiling to now being one of the lower paid senior players. Koroma on the other hand got a bit of a bump. To be honest whether Ward is on 10k a week or 5k a week it’s a piss poor return on investment.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Aug 2, 2024 13:50:28 GMT 1
Getting a lot of sh*t for this mate but i part agree.Really hope I'm wrong and we pull some stunners out the bag over the next few weeks (preferably before the season) but i am beginning to lose faith a little. Don't think nagle or the scouting team are to blame just think the window has stalled and we've perhaps not been as attractive as we first thought. Think we could get playoffs or near with the current team but need some new players to get autos. So he should be getting shit for this post, out of all the players he mentioned, the only one we know for sure we've been interested in is May, the rest is pure speculation, so he's basically getting his knickers in a twist over potentially nothing at all. Other thing is, it's because we clearly seem to be going for decent level targets, where we're competing with mid to lower Champ teams and Brum, so not the clear front runner. As others have said, loans are notoriously more tricky to get done early too.
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