My hope of unloading Jalal on Maidstone to get Grant Smith doesn't look likely now they have signed Ross Worner from Sutton. He's better than Joe Anyon, but I'm glad we haven't signed him!
We all now want to know about Dancing's Saturday night in June.
Strictly - well Stacey's got a chance. I think Joe will win; women vote, even teenagers want to mother him, and they know he'll cry on his gran' (his tie-dyed partner is his only problem). Faye is the best dancer but may be too good, which also applies to Ashley who is an excellent dancer, but she has a huge mouth (and needs to tone down the lippy) and won't be allowed to win due to xenophobia kickin' in amongst the voters, Laura is a moderate dancer, but seems nice, has only one arm and her over-cute Aussie partner melts most hearts. Charles was a way better dancer than Laura, but being a middle-aged black man from Casualty still flashin' his six-pack wasn't good branding.
Muggleton, wouldn't be on my bench. I just think you either have to say his throw is so good, we'll plan round it and make something of it ......... and decide that overall that outweighs his other deficiencies and makes him more of a threat than most of our current players, OR say he's a poor footballer, who can throw it, but we never look scoring from it, so we'll release him. But Solihull caused a big Blackpool team problems from a long throw nowhere near as good as Muggleton's to players who didn't have a height advantage over the defence. I can't help asking myself with the big players we have available how on earth we manage not even to disturb the opposition with this tactic. Every team we play seems just to stand one player in front of Denton and another behind him ....... and it somehow works. I'd stick a bunch of big lads in together with Denton in the middle. As the Muggle is throwin' a couple of em would peel off leavin' Denton a bit of free space, whilst also causing confusion as defenders attempted to track them.
As for Salford, this may sound like cheating but I'd target two of their players - Wiseman and Piergianni - both are very easy to wind-up and prone to be sent off. If we hustled Piergianni at dead balls and throw-ins and stopped him marking Denton as he wanted he'd soon throw a punch IMO.
I do, however, have to agree that in the current circumstances Santa may indeed be our main hope. He has been extra-ordinarily loyal in his current position, but if he could be persuaded to consider management then he'd be the ideal replacement for MA, though I've no idea how we'd accommodate the reindeer and the elves. And of course we'd never be able to call off a match due to snow again.
We all now want to know about Dancing's Saturday night in June.
Strictly - well Stacey's got a chance. I think Joe will win; women vote, even teenagers want to mother him, and they know he'll cry on his gran' (his tie-dyed partner is his only problem). Faye is the best dancer but may be too good, which also applies to Ashley who is an excellent dancer, but she has a huge mouth (and needs to tone down the lippy) and won't be allowed to win due to xenophobia kickin' in amongst the voters, Laura is a moderate dancer, but seems nice, has only one arm and her over-cute Aussie partner melts most hearts. Charles was a way better dancer than Laura, but being a middle-aged black man from Casualty still flashin' his six-pack wasn't good branding.
Muggleton, wouldn't be on my bench. I just think you either have to say his throw is so good, we'll plan round it and make something of it ......... and decide that overall that outweighs his other deficiencies and makes him more of a threat than most of our current players, OR say he's a poor footballer, who can throw it, but we never look scoring from it, so we'll release him. But Solihull caused a big Blackpool team problems from a long throw nowhere near as good as Muggleton's to players who didn't have a height advantage over the defence. I can't help asking myself with the big players we have available how on earth we manage not even to disturb the opposition with this tactic. Every team we play seems just to stand one player in front of Denton and another behind him ....... and it somehow works. I'd stick a bunch of big lads in together with Denton in the middle. As the Muggle is throwin' a couple of em would peel off leavin' Denton a bit of free space, whilst also causing confusion as defenders attempted to track them.
As for Salford, this may sound like cheating but I'd target two of their players - Wiseman and Piergianni - both are very easy to wind-up and prone to be sent off. If we hustled Piergianni at dead balls and throw-ins and stopped him marking Denton as he wanted he'd soon throw a punch IMO.
I do, however, have to agree that in the current circumstances Santa may indeed be our main hope. He has been extra-ordinarily loyal in his current position, but if he could be persuaded to consider management then he'd be the ideal replacement for MA, though I've no idea how we'd accommodate the reindeer and the elves. And of course we'd never be able to call off a match due to snow again.