Shani Tarashaj was unused sub for Frankfurt on Tuesday night in last game before the Bundeliga winter break.
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...you would have to think he'll be a 'return to sender' loan.
Some nice comments about Griffiths from that Cheltenham Forum, although there are also less positive ones on there
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Cheltenham Town - Russell Griffiths played whole match in 1-2 home defeat to Barnet
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Straight down the other end Akinde hits the post for @BarnetFC! His shot from an angle beat Griffiths but not the woodwork
55: @BarnetFC hit the post! Griffiths gets down to his left to push away the first shot and Gambin, following up, hits the post #CTFC
Fan comments
"No more time for excuses. Griffiths has to go."
"Although I believe Griffiths is a liability, some of the abuse he received by some 'fans' today was unacceptable."
"Griffiths took a lot of flak from the C&G today and I'm not convinced but you can't win games with the way we are defending and it's dragging the rest down."
"I want to support Griffiths, I really do, but you cannot get away with constantly pushing the ball into danger. He did it again after they scored their second and, but for the player scuffing it wide, we should have gone 3-1 down. I'd certainly play Calum Kitscha on Friday night, if only to take the heat off Russ."
Brendan Galloway was an unused sub in WBA's game.
Luke Garbutt was not in matchday squad for Wigan.
Cheltenham Town - Russell Griffiths played whole match in 1-2 home defeat to Barnet
OS Match Report
Twitter stuff
Straight down the other end Akinde hits the post for @BarnetFC! His shot from an angle beat Griffiths but not the woodwork
55: @BarnetFC hit the post! Griffiths gets down to his left to push away the first shot and Gambin, following up, hits the post #CTFC
Fan comments
"No more time for excuses. Griffiths has to go."
"Although I believe Griffiths is a liability, some of the abuse he received by some 'fans' today was unacceptable."
"Griffiths took a lot of flak from the C&G today and I'm not convinced but you can't win games with the way we are defending and it's dragging the rest down."
"I want to support Griffiths, I really do, but you cannot get away with constantly pushing the ball into danger. He did it again after they scored their second and, but for the player scuffing it wide, we should have gone 3-1 down. I'd certainly play Calum Kitscha on Friday night, if only to take the heat off Russ."
Brendan Galloway was an unused sub in WBA's game.
Luke Garbutt was not in matchday squad for Wigan.
TheBlueGibbon
Player Valuation: £40m
22/23 I think
I wonder will he be kept here next season what with Oviedo's injury record and Baines' age?
But if he cant get in the Wigan squad, hmm...
You'd imagine this is more to put him in the shop window than prepare him for action with us.
Yes probably.
We've got a few players like him tbh. Leandro, the young(ish) striker we've got with the nice hair, Henen, the Swiss lad warming the bench in Germany, all 22/23 years old and all not looking like they'll be in the first team any time soon. You could even put people like Pennington in there (sorry Mikey). Guys of that age need to be playing regularly really and they won't be doing so for us.
You could easily see 10 players moved on in January without it impacting our first team at all, it's just a case of who would have any of them.
I was just thinking of that Leandro.
You wouldn't put money on him getting a senior appearance.
I think part of it is just luck - bad or good - at the crucial stage of moving between youth and senior squads. A run of injuries at the wrong time (Pennington, Browning, Garbutt?) or a loss of form and thus momentum (Garbutt, Galloway?) and your chance of making it, slim though it statistically already is, becomes immeasurably harder.
I also frequently remember the tale of Gus Caesar from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. Sometimes you make it all the way through, you've been a star for the youth teams and the first team is just within your grasp - and you finally discover you aren't quite as good as you believed you could be (Grant, Baxter, Ledson, Anichebe, etc.).
I also frequently remember the tale of Gus Caesar from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. Sometimes you make it all the way through, you've been a star for the youth teams and the first team is just within your grasp - and you finally discover you aren't quite as good as you believed you could be (Grant, Baxter, Ledson, Anichebe, etc.).
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I think they will be sold leaving us with Galloway and Baines + a new LB signing.
If you look at the squad, you've got Pennington, Leandro, McAleny, Niasse, McGeady, Gibson, Grant, Kone and Garbutt that are over 20 years of age and haven't made a senior start this season. We could lose all of them and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the first team imo. We've accumulated a massively bloated squad in recent years, with a lot of that pretty low quality. I've given a bit of slack to Browning and Dowell, who also haven't made any appearances this year, and who knows about Tarashaj and Henen?
A good January for me would be some good quality bought in (maybe 3 players), and at least 10 shipped out.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
There are about 10/11 backup players at this club who won't contribute much or even play for this club (not good enough?). And the club is paying them wages week in week out. It must be real hard to get rid of them.
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