Our manager says we'll be making an announcement regarding a keeper shortly. He thinks we will appreciate that signing a keeper to provide three week's cover is next to impossible.
I've news for him - he, we, need permanent cover. Covolan is volatile. Everyone except Cookie in the National League knows he is more temperamental than Nathan Ashmore. Covolan has a lot of talents as a keeper but decision-making isn't amongst them. We need a keeper who can come in and play well enough for Covolan to think I can't afford to let this guy get a run in the team.
I'm afraid if we throw in rookie youngster National League teams will target him mercilessly and some of them have some big strong guys up front. To succeed young Chadwick would need to be showing an impressive level of dominance at his current level. Is he? The risk is of a Swede at Oldham turning out to be a turnip.
By the way SGB, I didn't know BOK was an ace marksman with a blackboard rubber. I did however see a youngish English master named Hall I think launch a ferocious rubber in 4RP's form room at some miscreant. Unfortunately he wasn't as accurate as BOK and the rubber bounced off the lad's desk at a wild angle and smashed into the mouth of an innocent by-sitter. Blood and teeth! And no one complained.
One thing your friend BOK did do was punish my mate Vaughany several times. He used to get in trouble a lot, but it was only for a tiny percentage of the stuff he actually did wrong! At the old school BOK hauled him off to the French book room several times and either spanked him over his knee, or slippered him. Up at Brookside they gave him a new office to interview wrongdoers. Like you, my mate would hear nothing against BOK. He thought he'd always been fair with him, genuinely liked the man and wouldn't have hesitated to go to BOK for advice. The world has certainly changed. Good to hear it was your wife's throwing arm you fell for.
I've news for him - he, we, need permanent cover. Covolan is volatile. Everyone except Cookie in the National League knows he is more temperamental than Nathan Ashmore. Covolan has a lot of talents as a keeper but decision-making isn't amongst them. We need a keeper who can come in and play well enough for Covolan to think I can't afford to let this guy get a run in the team.
I'm afraid if we throw in rookie youngster National League teams will target him mercilessly and some of them have some big strong guys up front. To succeed young Chadwick would need to be showing an impressive level of dominance at his current level. Is he? The risk is of a Swede at Oldham turning out to be a turnip.
By the way SGB, I didn't know BOK was an ace marksman with a blackboard rubber. I did however see a youngish English master named Hall I think launch a ferocious rubber in 4RP's form room at some miscreant. Unfortunately he wasn't as accurate as BOK and the rubber bounced off the lad's desk at a wild angle and smashed into the mouth of an innocent by-sitter. Blood and teeth! And no one complained.
One thing your friend BOK did do was punish my mate Vaughany several times. He used to get in trouble a lot, but it was only for a tiny percentage of the stuff he actually did wrong! At the old school BOK hauled him off to the French book room several times and either spanked him over his knee, or slippered him. Up at Brookside they gave him a new office to interview wrongdoers. Like you, my mate would hear nothing against BOK. He thought he'd always been fair with him, genuinely liked the man and wouldn't have hesitated to go to BOK for advice. The world has certainly changed. Good to hear it was your wife's throwing arm you fell for.