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Post by Blazingfury1992 on Jul 3, 2009 17:33:38 GMT 1
From Shrewsweb "He's had a couple of clubs who have been enquiring but other than Blackpool there isn't anyone else who has been in touch with us about taking Chris Humphrey. www.shrewsburytown.com/page/NewsDetail/0,,10443~1713054,00.html They can take him and we can bag the compensation hopefully.
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Post by shrew4life on Jul 3, 2009 17:38:24 GMT 1
Take him, take him!
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Post by Dale on Jul 3, 2009 17:47:22 GMT 1
No way is Humphrey good enough to play at Championship level.
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Post by welshdan on Jul 3, 2009 17:54:47 GMT 1
No way is Humphrey good enough to play at Championship level. Shhh... dont tell them that He is at least championship level for me and worth at least £250k (Just in case any of the tribunal panel are reading this )
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Post by shrew4life on Jul 3, 2009 17:57:01 GMT 1
Thats surprising I thought that a certain other player would be joining the championship.
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Post by davycrockett on Jul 3, 2009 18:19:36 GMT 1
No way is Humphrey good enough to play at Championship level. With a bit of time and decent coaching i believe he will be
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Post by shrew4life on Jul 3, 2009 18:53:16 GMT 1
No way is Humphrey good enough to play at Championship level. With a bit of time and decent coaching i believe he will be If that coaching and time came when he was younger then yes. It's to late now, if your not good enough, your just just not good enough.
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Post by SouthStandShrew on Jul 3, 2009 19:21:32 GMT 1
More worried about the fact Dave Hibbert is still in Simpsons plans!
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Post by stockportershrew on Jul 3, 2009 19:46:54 GMT 1
No way is Humphrey good enough to play at Championship level. No but Blackpool will get relegated next year so he might get the odd sub appearance in L1 in 2010/2011
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Post by shrewblue on Jul 3, 2009 19:50:50 GMT 1
I too am worried Hibbo is considered one of our strike force
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Post by eclipsechaser on Jul 4, 2009 0:05:23 GMT 1
and Therein lies the problem !
Humphrey has to be taught what to do on the pitch .
In all the games I have seen him play ; He is a player that has very litle idea how to play football other than what he has read in a textbook or been taught .
I am sure he is a very nice lad and i am not knocking him personally but just making an observational comment about his skill level .
Unfortunately He bottled it big time at Wembley and if Leslie would have been available to play , then I would have subbed Hump at half time and then I reckon we had a 90 % chance of winning the play-off .
I prefer to mold raw talent than to abc the talent .....
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Post by Exkeeper on Jul 4, 2009 9:31:32 GMT 1
As with lots of other sports, you need a certain amount of instinct as well as talent. This can be developed by coaches. Without the instinct which you are born with, you will struggle. in other words, you cannot put a "football brain" where one does not exist.
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jul 4, 2009 9:33:00 GMT 1
It's to late now, if your not good enough, your just just not good enough. That is not true. Humphrey ahs already greatly improved his crossing. If someone could teach him a trick to beat a man then he would be lethal with his pace.
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Post by Young_Shrewster on Jul 4, 2009 9:43:25 GMT 1
It's to late now, if your not good enough, your just just not good enough. That is not true. Humphrey ahs already greatly improved his crossing. If someone could teach him a trick to beat a man then he would be lethal with his pace. Even at this level, you shouldn't have to 'teach him a trick' to get past someone. As it's been discussed, if your naturally good at football then you should be able to at least hit the target and take somebody on!
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Post by Matty on Jul 4, 2009 9:50:11 GMT 1
Keep Humphrey, excluding Wembley he was greatly improved towards the end of the season.
Dagenham anyone?
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jul 4, 2009 10:18:26 GMT 1
Even at this level, you shouldn't have to 'teach him a trick' to get past someone. As it's been discussed, if your naturally good at football then you should be able to at least hit the target and take somebody on! If you can't be coached to improvement then why does anyone do any coaching? Why is Ronaldo a better player now than four years ago? Why did Beckham practise free kicks? One thing you can't coach is pace, and Humphrey has that in abundance. His crossing is better and now he needs a trick to beat a man.
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Post by shrew4life on Jul 4, 2009 10:24:40 GMT 1
Even at this level, you shouldn't have to 'teach him a trick' to get past someone. As it's been discussed, if your naturally good at football then you should be able to at least hit the target and take somebody on! If you can't be coached to improvement then why does anyone do any coaching? Why is Ronaldo a better player now than four years ago? Why did Beckham practise free kicks? One thing you can't coach is pace, and Humphrey has that in abundance. His crossing is better and now he needs a trick to beat a man. They had natural talent and a footballing brain that was developed. Chris doesnt have any of those things, just pace. You can't coach instinct.
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jul 4, 2009 10:31:24 GMT 1
You can't coach instinct. No but you can coach good decision making and experience helps too. This is league two. How much "footballing instinct" did Dean Spink have?
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Post by shrew4life on Jul 4, 2009 10:53:06 GMT 1
Good point but surely some of the decision making would fall into the instinct part.
As for the last part, I can't comment on that it was before my time.
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Post by barrynic on Jul 4, 2009 11:13:41 GMT 1
You can't coach instinct. No but you can coach good decision making and experience helps too. This is league two. How much "footballing instinct" did Dean Spink have? Blasphemy, young man !!
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Post by jaytee on Jul 4, 2009 12:41:54 GMT 1
If someone could teach him a trick to beat a man then he would be lethal with his pace. I've been saying that for two years and nothing's happened.
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Post by micksturbs on Jul 4, 2009 12:47:12 GMT 1
So has Simmo, as an established/accomplished winger in his day himself, been spending a little time with 1 on 1 coaching with Humphrey? I would suggest not.
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Post by ssshrew on Jul 4, 2009 13:34:40 GMT 1
Well I wish both Blackpool and Chris would make up their minds what he is doing. If he is prepared not to go to Spain to train with the rest of the squad and wait for Blackpool who seem to be taking a very long time to make a decision - we must question his commitment to the Shrews anyway. (And I have always been keen to see him do well so this isn't a criticism of his style of play - I'm not qualified to judge).
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Post by eclipsechaser on Jul 4, 2009 13:45:47 GMT 1
If yopu take away Hump's pace , then what would you have left ?
His positional sense is not very good , His reading of the game falls into the same catagory .
To be fair Simmo has in the wrong position , which is too far back . Hump should be sitting on the full backs shoulder permanantly during the game .
Then he would beat anybody on a 1 to 1 to get to the through ball . That is where his pace would be best utilized .
When he gets shoved into ' limbo ' land , neither midfield or winger he is ineffective , as he is not a good tackler of the ball .
I would also tell him to work on his shoulder barge contact as even a slight breeze knocks him off the ball .
Come on Simmo , get the best out of him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2009 23:55:06 GMT 1
I think the fact that he's been starting more games each season, creating more goals and scoring more suggests he's improving.
Also the fact that two STFC managers and the current Blackpool boss consider him to of football league standard suggest to me he's got a future in the football league.
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Post by Shrewd Operator on Jul 5, 2009 1:28:21 GMT 1
If it wasn't for Humphey we wouldn't have even reached Wembley.
Humphey has always had potential to be a decent winger but hasn't improved as much as expected, His crossing has improved greatly since before christmas in my opinion. One performance that stands out especially is against Vale away he was absolutely unstoppable (the game when he should have shot)
With coaching i reckon he could be moulded into a good winger, One main thing he needs to be taught is to make a run so the passer can hit a ball for him to run onto instead of standing there like a doushbag and losing it.
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Post by barrynic on Jul 5, 2009 8:17:54 GMT 1
............also I would love to see him cut in and run at the opposition centre backs, they would not have a clue how to deal with him.
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Post by Blazingfury1992 on Jul 5, 2009 12:41:34 GMT 1
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jul 5, 2009 14:12:19 GMT 1
The loss of Humphrey wouldn't have a crucial bearing on the outcome of our season. On the other hand, if we were to let go a midfielder who can score double figures you would be left wondering...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 11:50:34 GMT 1
With confirmed interest in him from a higher league club, and with him not being part of the Spain trip it seems increasingly likely that he has played his last game for us.
Just a question of whether Blackpool are prepared to offer us enough, or to go to Tribunal. Of course, if they're not, then it puts Hump in a slightly difficult position, but I can't imagine a Tribunal coming up with a figure much more than 50K so I would have thought Blackpool would take the risk.
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