Couldn't disagree more. Connolly is not a Murray/Locadia. We'd be a man down for defending corners etc and he'd get bullied out of the game and cameo roles of 10-20 minutes is going to hamper his development even more so than playing PL2
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[Albion] Aaron Connolly interview.
- Thread starter AmexRuislip
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Couldn't disagree more. Connolly is not a Murray/Locadia. We'd be a man down for defending corners etc and he'd get bullied out of the game and cameo roles of 10-20 minutes is going to hamper his development even more so than playing PL2
ewe2
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Maguire Drew's (spelling ) career has stumbled,being out on loan. He was,and maybe still,i dont know,a very promising striker,but it seems will not make the highest grade.
dejavuatbtn
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Just stick him in the team for a couple of games. He’s not going to do a lot worse than others are doing and looks like he might be the bright spark we need up front. We have a history of letting decent strikers go before giving them chance.
#IanMuir
You think he'd do better than Glenn Murray? Blimey.
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HellBilly
Tranmere
dejavuatbtn
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Brighton, until uncle Frank took him away with him.
dejavuatbtn
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I don’t see why he shouldn’t get a game with Murray, after all, he would be three times quicker getting into the box.
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HellBilly
I tend to agree with you, I saw him play in the first team against Barnet in the cup, I think it was last year or the year before, anyway he got bullied by the Barnet defence,Hopefully he has come on since then.
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HellBilly
Yeah I know, I think he even scored for Tranmere against us one cold Friday night up on the Wirral 1992, I later saw him in a bar in Ashotn-In-Makefield and called him a traitor....
- Jul 7, 2003
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Anyone suggesting Connolly is a potential Murray replacement presumably hasn't seen the young lad play. He's quite short, much smaller than Murray, so presumably could not play that holding the ball up role that Murray does so well.
Clearly he knows where the goal is, so with a player like Connolly, the trick is to accommodate him in a formation/ playing style that plays to his strengths in that respect. But that is why he isn't going to get swapped straight in for Murray any time soon, and it's not because the club don't rate him.
Clearly he knows where the goal is, so with a player like Connolly, the trick is to accommodate him in a formation/ playing style that plays to his strengths in that respect. But that is why he isn't going to get swapped straight in for Murray any time soon, and it's not because the club don't rate him.
- Jul 7, 2003
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I imagine the club see Maguire-Drew as the sort of player a L2/ National League club will pay a few quid for at some stage, unless his contract expires. He's twenty one already and he's never been knocking on the first team door. Higher level than a Joe Gatting, say, or maybe a George Barker, but never going to play Championship football or above unless something very surprising happens.
Alternatively the team could play to the strengths of the players that are selected, instead of attempting to turn them into a poorer version of who is already in the squad.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Well that was kind of my point in the next sentence, wasn't it?
dejavuatbtn
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I’m sure he appreciated that, given that he was given little chance of first team football here and didn’t want to leave.
Charlies Shinpad
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Great player and scored hatfuls for Tranmere
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HellBilly
He did actually as I passed him a JD on ice, at the same time.
- Jun 27, 2012
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In the last 10 years i can't think of any. Who did you have in mind ?
