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Post by Valerioch on Aug 18, 2022 21:17:21 GMT 1
we ? I meant just you ? Nothing - he’s been 💩 since day 1! No, it was an opinion on Pyke, not fact. I don’t work at the club or know any insiders, so don’t know What I would say to support my opinion, is thankfully we managed to loan him out to the worst team in the 92 last season, and his record was crap there too. It’s painful watching him, not football league standard. A total waste of a wage from day 1 A minor inconvenience, but that is why you have a squad. As for Pyke… dog s**te unfortunately, and always has been for us. I highly doubt any other football league club wants him It was all over for Pyke and Cosgrove after their “efforts” at Wigan away. Great news they are both gone, but god are we light without a couple more in Agree on Pyke - **** him off with Cosgrove Pyke should follow him in to the building industry as he’s no footballer I thought Pyke was woeful and looks nothing like a league one footballer or striker. Hope we get him off the books to free up budget. I must’ve missed the bit where it became 1 post per page Stand by all those comments. Fair play for his work rate and commitment, but if he starts many games for us this season, we won’t finish where we want to
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Post by Pilch on Aug 18, 2022 21:25:24 GMT 1
we ? I meant just you ? I must’ve missed the bit where it became 1 post per page Stand by all those comments. Fair play for his work rate and commitment, but if he starts many games for us this season, we won’t finish where we want to he may well go into hiding again, who knows, but at the moment this season he has been excellent and still playing mostly out of position, his pressing on Tuesday was as good as I've see from any player in a while, he is good with his feet, quick and lively, should have scored but s**t happens, my point has always been the same about him, he arrived and impressed, got a bad injury and didn't get a look in after, or had still not fully recovered, let face it, had the first we'd heard of Pyke been in June this year after cotterill signed him , there would be a 14 page thread full of praise for him and the genius signing ;-) tell me I'm wrong
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 21:43:08 GMT 1
I must’ve missed the bit where it became 1 post per page Stand by all those comments. Fair play for his work rate and commitment, but if he starts many games for us this season, we won’t finish where we want to he may well go into hiding again, who knows, but at the moment this season he has been excellent and still playing mostly out of position, his pressing on Tuesday was as good as I've see from any player in a while, he is good with his feet, quick and lively, should have scored but s**t happens, my point has always been the same about him, he arrived and impressed, got a bad injury and didn't get a look in after, or had still not fully recovered, let face it, had the first we'd heard of Pyke been in June this year after cotterill signed him , there would be a 14 page thread full of praise for him and the genius signing ;-) tell me I'm wrong Well I'd say you are wrong, where are all the 14 page threads praising the signings from this summer? He played well on Tuedday but the fact is it's more minutes without a goal, he had one chance and completely missed his kick. I'm not saying he should be thrown out of the team based on missing that one chance but if he wants to remain in the team he needs to start scoring.
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Post by Pilch on Aug 18, 2022 21:45:40 GMT 1
he may well go into hiding again, who knows, but at the moment this season he has been excellent and still playing mostly out of position, his pressing on Tuesday was as good as I've see from any player in a while, he is good with his feet, quick and lively, should have scored but s**t happens, my point has always been the same about him, he arrived and impressed, got a bad injury and didn't get a look in after, or had still not fully recovered, let face it, had the first we'd heard of Pyke been in June this year after cotterill signed him , there would be a 14 page thread full of praise for him and the genius signing ;-) tell me I'm wrong Well I'd say you are wrong, where are all the 14 page threads praising the signings from this summer? He played well on Tuedday but the fact is it's more minutes without a goal, he had one chance and completely missed his kick. I'm not saying he should be thrown out of the team based on missing that one chance but if he wants to remain in the team he needs to start scoring. it was a dummy to set Udoh up ![8-)](http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/innocent/innocent0009.gif) bit like the quality ball he rolled in for Bayliss on Saturday
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Post by Valerioch on Aug 18, 2022 21:46:34 GMT 1
I must’ve missed the bit where it became 1 post per page Stand by all those comments. Fair play for his work rate and commitment, but if he starts many games for us this season, we won’t finish where we want to he may well go into hiding again, who knows, but at the moment this season he has been excellent and still playing mostly out of position, his pressing on Tuesday was as good as I've see from any player in a while, he is good with his feet, quick and lively, should have scored but s**t happens, my point has always been the same about him, he arrived and impressed, got a bad injury and didn't get a look in after, or had still not fully recovered, let face it, had the first we'd heard of Pyke been in June this year after cotterill signed him , there would be a 14 page thread full of praise for him and the genius signing ;-) tell me I'm wrong You’re wrong 😂
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Post by Pilch on Aug 18, 2022 21:52:31 GMT 1
he may well go into hiding again, who knows, but at the moment this season he has been excellent and still playing mostly out of position, his pressing on Tuesday was as good as I've see from any player in a while, he is good with his feet, quick and lively, should have scored but s**t happens, my point has always been the same about him, he arrived and impressed, got a bad injury and didn't get a look in after, or had still not fully recovered, let face it, had the first we'd heard of Pyke been in June this year after cotterill signed him , there would be a 14 page thread full of praise for him and the genius signing ;-) tell me I'm wrong Well I'd say you are wrong, where are all the 14 page threads praising the signings from this summer? there would have been had we signed anyone any good of half decent or even anyone
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2022 9:36:13 GMT 1
Well I'd say you are wrong, where are all the 14 page threads praising the signings from this summer? there would have been had we signed anyone any good of half decent or even anyone Dunkley, Bayliss & Dacosta have impressed so far but there's certainly been no 14 page threads on them. The jury is definitely out on Moore whilst Shipley has been disappointing (in my opinion anyway) Like I said Pyke played well Tuesday and has had a decent start this season which has been acknowledged by most fans but if he had been a new signing then I can't imagine people getting too excited about a striker who hasn't scored which is what they are ultimately judged on.
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Post by Pilch on Aug 19, 2022 9:43:40 GMT 1
there would have been had we signed anyone any good of half decent or even anyone Dunkley, Bayliss & Dacosta have impressed so far but there's certainly been no 14 page threads on them. The jury is definitely out on Moore whilst Shipley has been disappointing (in my opinion anyway) Like I said Pyke played well Tuesday and has had a decent start this season which has been acknowledged by most fans but if he had been a new signing then I can't imagine people getting too excited about a striker who hasn't scored which is what they are ultimately judged on. we've all been using the "x page" saying on here for years , first time i use it there is an inquest i'm surprised there's not a 16 page thread on it 😜
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Post by MetaShrew on Aug 19, 2022 11:50:00 GMT 1
Dunkley, Bayliss & Dacosta have impressed so far but there's certainly been no 14 page threads on them. The jury is definitely out on Moore whilst Shipley has been disappointing (in my opinion anyway) Like I said Pyke played well Tuesday and has had a decent start this season which has been acknowledged by most fans but if he had been a new signing then I can't imagine people getting too excited about a striker who hasn't scored which is what they are ultimately judged on. we've all been using the "x page" saying on here for years , first time i use it there is an inquest i'm surprised there's not a 16 page thread on it 😜 Better to judge players on xG ('Expected Goals') than xP ('Expected Pages on B&A').
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Aug 19, 2022 11:54:35 GMT 1
I can see an attempt to shift the narrative on Pyke, to one where he’s a quality player, an excellent signing by the previous manager who was desperately unlucky he got injured, and that all the fans who ever criticised him are wrong and clueless.
Credit where it’s due he played pretty well, but can’t see that he offers any sort of goal threat. But compared to what we saw last season he’s clearly been working hard over pre-season so let’s hope he continues to grow if he stays.
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 19, 2022 11:58:25 GMT 1
Pyke ran around and put himself about a bit, it's a massive improvement on anything he's done so far. A time will come when we come to expect an assist or even maybe a goal from a striker.
That said, Bloxham could run around for much less than the £2,000 a week Pyke is running around for, unless he starts providing assists and goals the good will for his running efforts will dry up.
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Post by Pilch on Aug 19, 2022 11:59:48 GMT 1
I can see an attempt to shift the narrative on Pyke, to one where he’s a quality player, an excellent signing by the previous manager who was desperately unlucky he got injured, and that all the fans who ever criticised him are wrong and clueless. Credit where it’s due he played pretty well, but can’t see that he offers any sort of goal threat. But compared to what we saw last season he’s clearly been working hard over pre-season so let’s hope he continues to grow if he stays. wouldn't you just hate pyke to become a decent player for us you'd probably be happier if united win the relegation decider on monday 😜
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 19, 2022 12:02:53 GMT 1
I can see an attempt to shift the narrative on Pyke, to one where he’s a quality player, an excellent signing by the previous manager who was desperately unlucky he got injured, and that all the fans who ever criticised him are wrong and clueless. Credit where it’s due he played pretty well, but can’t see that he offers any sort of goal threat. But compared to what we saw last season he’s clearly been working hard over pre-season so let’s hope he continues to grow if he stays. wouldn't you just hate pyke to become a decent player for us you'd probably be happier if united win the relegation decider on monday 😜 In the same way you'd be beside yourself if Cotterill has a good season?
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Post by Feedo Gnasher on Aug 19, 2022 12:19:37 GMT 1
I can see an attempt to shift the narrative on Pyke, to one where he’s a quality player, an excellent signing by the previous manager who was desperately unlucky he got injured, and that all the fans who ever criticised him are wrong and clueless. Credit where it’s due he played pretty well, but can’t see that he offers any sort of goal threat. But compared to what we saw last season he’s clearly been working hard over pre-season so let’s hope he continues to grow if he stays. wouldn't you just hate pyke to become a decent player for us you'd probably be happier if united win the relegation decider on monday 😜 To be honest it would be typical STFC if Pyke turns into a quality striker in this, the third and final year of his contract, we suddenly want to keep him and end up losing him for nothing. It’s more an indicator of how Bloxham hasn’t kicked on that Pyke’s currently being chosen over him. I also think a fit Bowman or O’Brien play over Pyke so I can live with him being 4th/5th choice over a season.
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Post by Pilch on Aug 19, 2022 12:24:33 GMT 1
wouldn't you just hate pyke to become a decent player for us you'd probably be happier if united win the relegation decider on monday 😜 In the same way you'd be beside yourself if Cotterill has a good season? i've always stood by whatever manager we've had criticised them where i felt i needed to took the p**s if i felt like it our current manager offers a lot of material for me 😜 most of all i just like reminding our fans that they often now accept something that they once stated was totally unacceptable and boy there is no end of material there to use 😆🙄🙄
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 19, 2022 12:25:26 GMT 1
wouldn't you just hate pyke to become a decent player for us you'd probably be happier if united win the relegation decider on monday 😜 To be honest it would be typical STFC if Pyke turns into a quality striker in this, the third and final year of his contract, we suddenly want to keep him and end up losing him for nothing. It’s more an indicator of how Bloxham hasn’t kicked on that Pyke’s currently being chosen over him. I also think a fit Bowman or O’Brien play over Pyke so I can live with him being 4th/5th choice over a season. It would be more STFC if we end up paying the full £600k in wages he's projected to earn, let him go to Accy or Cambridge on a free and then he bags 20 goals next season. That would be true poetic Salop.
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 19, 2022 12:29:56 GMT 1
In the same way you'd be beside yourself if Cotterill has a good season? i've always stood by whatever manager we've had criticised them where i felt i needed to took the p**s if i felt like it our current manager offers a lot of material for me 😜 most of all i just like reminding our fans that they often now accept something that they once stated was totally unacceptable and boy there is no end of material there to use 😆🙄🙄 For me having a 27 man senior squad, 9 of which are regularly unused and generally having no identity was hard to cope with. We have a tight knit squad of better quality, albeit a couple light in my opinion. We also have a 3-5-2 style identity to our play and a rock solid defence. We're not the finished article, but you can see genuine progression and a common goal. Under Ricketts it was completely random, he had an eye for the odd player but was out of his depth, I think it's telling he's not involved in the game currently. My Dad always said Gary Peters would've made an incredible chief scout, he just had no idea what to do with them once through the door. I think Ricketts was similar.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2022 12:29:57 GMT 1
With such a small (senior) squad we need all our players to be able to do a half decent job when they are called on to do so, Pyke is no exception.
Whoever plays for the Town I want them to do well.
Pyke is doing an ok job, hopefully he will get better over the coming weeks and months and start scoring some goals.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2022 13:05:08 GMT 1
Dunkley, Bayliss & Dacosta have impressed so far but there's certainly been no 14 page threads on them. The jury is definitely out on Moore whilst Shipley has been disappointing (in my opinion anyway) Like I said Pyke played well Tuesday and has had a decent start this season which has been acknowledged by most fans but if he had been a new signing then I can't imagine people getting too excited about a striker who hasn't scored which is what they are ultimately judged on. we've all been using the "x page" saying on here for years , first time i use it there is an inquest i'm surprised there's not a 16 page thread on it 😜 It's hardly a inquest. You suggested that had Pyke been a Cotterill signing this summer then there would be lots of praise, I'm just disagreeing with you and explaining why, it doesn't seem too radicial on a football messageboard.
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Post by chirkshrew on Aug 19, 2022 13:47:19 GMT 1
Christ, pykes been here now for 2/3 yrs, surely he owes the fans/club, half a decent season, and a few goals as well, but I won't hold my breath on that one.said when he signed he won't score 5 goals, and it's his 3rd season already------ we'll see 🤔🤔🤔🤦♂️
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