Everyone except Ozzy Lewie Booth Spoony Hanlon GOC and Stack can GTF
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Thread: top three players we need to GTF
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28-12-2011 11:42 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
GGTTH
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29-12-2011 03:19 AM #33
For me its
Galbraith-Towell and Sproule
Pallson is very close to being in that top three, where is the Palsson who we sing around this time last year ????
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29-12-2011 03:32 AM #34
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You can have this post for this thread as well.
When Galbraith first arrived at ER he was quick and aggressive and willing to take people on. Like Wotherspoon, Hanlon, and Booth when they first broke into the first team, he looked like a really good prospect. Not a single one of these players has progressed the way you would have hoped. The first three have become regular targets of the boo-boys, and after a couple of rippings at LB Booth has had to be dropped.
There is a critical point in a player's career round about the late teens when they have to make the step up from youth football to senior football. If they miss that window of opportunity and don't make that step up successfully, then the chances are they will never realise their potential.
I can't imagine anything more likely to destroy a young player's confidence than playing his early games in the first team surrounded by useless journeymen, struggling to avoid defeat week after week after week and constantly on the back foot. It must really sap your mental energy.
A couple of years back Hibs had a squad of youngsters that was good enough to win the double. Barely a single one of them has made the step up to the first team; most have disappeared off the radar.
If over the past few years Hibs had consolidated a few of the wage packets that have been spent on the (How many - 100? 150?) beefy pros who would "do a job" and who have come, gone, and disappeared without leaving a trace of their passing, and if Hibs had invested that same money in a far smaller number of proper footballers - like Latapy and Sauzee when we were in Div 1 - so that when a youngster came into the team he would find himself playing alongside one or two genuine talents, then perhaps Galbraith, Wotherspoon, and Hanlon might have progressed better, and maybe one or two others like Damon Gray and Kurtis Byrne might have succeeded in making the step up.
But that would have been a 'strategy'. I don't think we do 'strategies' at ER.
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29-12-2011 07:35 AM #36This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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29-12-2011 07:36 AM #37This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-12-2011 07:36 AM #38This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-12-2011 07:41 AM #39
I have to disagree about Sproule first time round. IMO he was worthy of his place in our squad, he contributed goals and assists. He was top of the assists before he left if i remember correctly, and chipped in with around 10 goals too. He got me off my seat much more than he does now, and agree it was a huge mistake to bring him back.
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29-12-2011 08:02 AM #40
He got you off your seat alright but inevitably you sat back down shaking your head when he tripped over the ball or ran straight into touch ! He was awful first time round and I doubt he was top for assists. I would MAYBE be happy to see him come on as a sub late on when his pace would trouble tiring defences but not convinced he is all that fast now either.
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29-12-2011 08:16 AM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He contributed first time round, he's not now.
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29-12-2011 08:26 AM #42
The most he ever scored in a season for us was 8 and he currently has 3 so his goals to games ratio is roughly the same. It's easy to remember him fondly but he was just as pish first time round - only difference was he was mainly a sub and as I said earlier he could maybe get away with that again. Expensive sub though!
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29-12-2011 08:33 AM #43
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Funnily enough, the jamrags never rated Ivan very highly either.
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29-12-2011 08:33 AM #44
Am i only allowed 3 :(
Stevenson Sproule and 1 from this lot Hart Gailbraith O Hanlon Stack, Towel Griffiths
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29-12-2011 08:43 AM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Sproule was lucky to play in a very good team first time round. He is contributing nothing this time.
GGLast edited by Mikey; 29-12-2011 at 08:55 AM.
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29-12-2011 08:44 AM #46
Little harsh on Ivan. He was deeply flawed but as a return on 5k he was fantastic. He was also vital for the days we didn't play so well as he was always a way to force teams back or change a game if necessary. By his final season he'd become overly predictable though and it was the right time to call it a day.
He's sadly far closer to that 5k value now than the 500k player he became.
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29-12-2011 09:19 AM #47
Hart is a must to go firstl, in fact just get rid of the whole defence and start again.
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29-12-2011 10:53 AM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-12-2011 11:12 AM #49
You could pick ANY 3 from 20.
So lets get rid of the 3 Highest earners, this will at least free up some cash.
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