[Maddix]

I wouldn't let young Hirst anywhere near the pub leagues   he'd get the shit kicked out of him and almost certainly ruined by half arsed journeymen looking to prove they're hard and can spell their tattoo's almost right. At least in the Championship most teams try to play football and not murder the opposition so I'd rather he was blooded at this level from our bench. If he turns out to be shite then so be it. It's not as though it will cost us any points if he fails because no f'ucker else comes on and wins us a game anyway  

And yes Wereham, I have coached and played at semi professional level  

SEMI PRO isn't pro though Maddix ... I played semi pro, though never coached at ANY level, but played against ex pros and they were SO much better than anything I played against even though they were retired .. a MASSIVE difference between semi pro and pro !!

A fair point but it doesn't change my opinion that Hirst would be better off in our 1st team squad with the odd 20 minutes and still playing for the U23's midweek than getting crippled by has/never have been thugs in the pub league

That lad from Stocksbridge Park Steels was quite good at semi-pro though Vardy I think his name was released by one of the Sheffield clubs as not being good enough

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I'm not feeling the doom and gloom etc

It's not just the lack of new faces Chaz. Looking at our holiday tour in Portugal it seems obvious that CC intends to carry on with his 4-4-2, hope we can keep a clean sheet and FF score a goal, tactics that everybody had sussed last season and more scarily intends to make Poodle our new CB Other coaches are not stupid and will already have the game plan to beat us. Most of our opponents will have marked us down for a 'gimme' 6pts already. We are so predictable I know when I can go and make a cup of tea without missing anything during a game. God knows what 'the experts' have thought up to counteract us in the actual game.