...fair point. Also, perhaps he recognised that Baines was starting to get injury prone and thought he would get game time here (just as Galloway did last season).
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...fair point. Also, perhaps he recognised that Baines was starting to get injury prone and thought he would get game time here (just as Galloway did last season).
Yeah Galloway kind of pinched his spot really
...and the irony is that neither appear to be in RKs thinking.
If Oviedo goes one of them will have to be for the foreseeable
I do think that has more to do with Koeman liking Oviedo as opposed to him disliking them though
Koeman has shown with lads like Holgate, DCL and Davies that he's prepared to give younger players a chance thus far
Not sure there is anything to back up this is there? He'd outgrown the under 23s and surely the thinking was he needed game time which he was unlikely to get at us. Talking apout Galloway rather than Garbutt
...you might be right, Matey. My thinking is that a coach keeps his best players. Baines has been struggling with fitness so you don't send out your preferred cover on loan. My assumption (which might be wrong) is that he preferred Oviedo as his back up. I assume RK doesn't rate Galloway too highly, which is probably supported by his lack of game time at West Brom.
I have to say, I liked Galloway and would've kept him but the game is all about opinions and RK appears to think differently.
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You keep an interest on our young lads on loan Eggs.
I've just been posting in the Tarashaj thread and it occurred to me that a large number of the lads we send out on loan get injured shortly into their loan spell. Happened to Tarashaj and Garbutt this season (Galloway too if you believe Pulis's explanation for dropping him from the squad) and last season to Garbutt, Ledson,McAleney, Henen, Rodriguez and Grant. Just bad luck do you think, maybe different training routines, or something else?
sharkey1001
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With Galloway, I can imagine Pulis having a Moyes-esque regime of hill runs and waits all day.
It's also possibly the step up from training for fairly irregular games with the youth teams to the more intense pressure of the lower divisions. But some of the 'injury'-related absences have not been because of overwork, for example, with Tarashaj who had a fairly big problem with his tonsils.
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Cheers. didn't know that. Just assumed it was an injury.
...I read your Tarashaj post. I hadn't noticed that level of injuries. Thinking about it, none have been particularly serious. Ledson, McAleney and Grant in particular were stepping up to open age football. The competitive nature of league football and playing against physically stronger individuals might go some way to explaining it. Just a thought.
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You're probably right. It's just that so often the lads don't end up getting the experience they've been sent out for.
...the other thing regarding that is that they are joining teams where winning matters and where points are important. If their coach doesn't pick them it's because they're preferring somebody else. I think there's only Liam Walsh who appeared to be the first name on the team sheet for his manager.
thisGRAEME
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...Sometime poster, saw a rumbling of Motherwell taking an Everton player on loan, anyone got anything?
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