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Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:31 pm
by al_quaker
Darlo_CR wrote:
al_quaker wrote:Should be a good signing. Added bonus is that he seems to wind up opposition fans everywhere he goes

Also, timed perfectly so that even if the deal falls through at the last minute he won't be playing against us tomorrow :lol:
When he played against York the other week, there was a spat between him and Martin Gray. When he scored his second he ran over to the York bench and celebrated infront of MG, same again in January please!
Yeah I actually watched that video this morning :lol: :lol:

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:32 pm
by Darlofan97
al_quaker wrote:
Darlofan97 wrote:By the sounds of their manager's interview in the Birmingham Mail, everything has been agreed.
Yeah - I imagine it's all done but we've agreed to put the paperwork through after the game so that he doesn't play tomorrow. Probably fair enough
Agreed, not a chance Tamworth would let Styche speak to us otherwise.

Feeling much more positive after the previous 3/4 signings.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:33 pm
by leedscol
Tamworth manager “blown out of the water “ by our offer.What?

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:35 pm
by Darlofan97
leedscol wrote:Tamworth manager “blown out of the water “ by our offer.What?
Managing expectations.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:36 pm
by al_quaker
Darlofan97 wrote:
Feeling much more positive after the previous 3/4 signings.
Indeed - we've added some height, some pace, some width, and now (imminently) a presence up front. Wright has pretty quickly addressed our obvious points of weakness :thumbup:

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:37 pm
by Darlofan97
I see Jon Wornsop has been released by York City following the signing of Bartlett. Fairly good (and experienced) goalkeeper at this level. I wonder if Wright & White will be interested?

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:38 pm
by Quakerz
leedscol wrote:Tamworth manager “blown out of the water “ by our offer.What?
He's hardly going to say "Darlington offered him £100 a week more, plus a car share to training" to be fair.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:44 pm
by al_quaker
And we should really be able to blow Tamworth out of the water for one of their best players. Our budget is very good for this level, no matter how much our previous manager wanted people to believe otherwise.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:50 pm
by LoidLucan
Can't imagine we've ever had a Gibraltar international player in our squad...

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:52 pm
by Spyman
LoidLucan wrote:Can't imagine we've ever had a Gibraltar international player in our squad...
Scott Wiseman (although not sure he was capped at the time).

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:54 pm
by LoidLucan
I didn't know you qualified by going on holiday there :D

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:20 pm
by Darlo_Pete
LoidLucan wrote:I didn't know you qualified by going on holiday there :D
Apparently qualifies through a grandparent.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:24 pm
by norwich darlo
Darlo_Pete wrote:
LoidLucan wrote:I didn't know you qualified by going on holiday there :D
Apparently qualifies through a grandparent.
Any chance of some duty-free's next visit

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:44 pm
by H1987
:clap: :clap: :clap:

Debut in the Trophy perhaps.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:59 pm
by HarrytheQuaker
Darlo_CR wrote:
al_quaker wrote:Should be a good signing. Added bonus is that he seems to wind up opposition fans everywhere he goes

Also, timed perfectly so that even if the deal falls through at the last minute he won't be playing against us tomorrow :lol:
When he played against York the other week, there was a spat between him and Martin Gray. When he scored his second he ran over to the York bench and celebrated infront of MG, same again in January please!
Yeah can't wait for round 2ImageImage

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 5:21 pm
by e4sby
Username wrote:
e4sby wrote:I wouldn’t expect him to be playing Saturday...


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Why not exactly? Surely if he is our player they can’t stop that?
Like I said....


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Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:43 pm
by Darlo_CR
Looks like it could be one striker in, one striker out..

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:46 pm
by Darlofan97
Seems to be the suggestion, would be strange without bringing another one in, IMO.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:54 pm
by super_les_mcjannet
Darlofan97 wrote:Seems to be the suggestion, would be strange without bringing another one in, IMO.
Offer made a couple of weeks ago I believe, should be reasonable money that I would imagine Tommy will reinvest.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:58 pm
by Darlofan97
super_les_mcjannet wrote:
Darlofan97 wrote:Seems to be the suggestion, would be strange without bringing another one in, IMO.
Offer made a couple of weeks ago I believe, should be reasonable money that I would imagine Tommy will reinvest.
Fair enough, certainly not as much of a rash decision as some will make out if you look at the stats.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:06 pm
by QUAKERMAN2
super_les_mcjannet wrote:
Darlofan97 wrote:Seems to be the suggestion, would be strange without bringing another one in, IMO.
Offer made a couple of weeks ago I believe, should be reasonable money that I would imagine Tommy will reinvest.
Any clues, Tommy did say players may be leaving.Gillies or Caton possibly?

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Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:07 pm
by Darlo_CR
It looks as if it could be Cartman.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:16 pm
by al_quaker
Darlofan97 wrote:I see Jon Wornsop has been released by York City following the signing of Bartlett. Fairly good (and experienced) goalkeeper at this level. I wonder if Wright & White will be interested?
Gone to Southport

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:32 pm
by piggy
Darlo_CR wrote:It looks as if it could be Cartman.

His latest tweet would suggest that....

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:26 am
by Quakerz
No doubt many people will be gutted about this because for some reason he could do no wrong - but - let's be realists here, Evostik is his level. There's no shame in that and I'm sure he'll start banging them in again once he is back playing there.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 1:06 am
by Darlogramps
Putting the finances aside, if it's Styche in, Cartman out, that's an upgrade.

Given our previous for overspending, I was sceptical about signing Styche, although seeing a departure allays that a bit.

Better hope Styche doesn't get injured and isn't as inconsistent as his previous record suggests.

And if Styche starts slowly, brace yourselves for the "Cartman would've scored that" and the "We should never have let Carts go" comments.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:43 am
by wizardofos
I'm mystified as to how a part time player can manage a 6 hour round trip to train and play (he's listed on Wiki as being from Sutton Coldfield). Presumably that's at least twice a week.
With those sorts of distances and dedication he almost qualifies to be a supporter!

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:48 am
by wizardofos
Quakerz wrote:No doubt many people will be gutted about this because for some reason he could do no wrong - but - let's be realists here, Evostik is his level. There's no shame in that and I'm sure he'll start banging them in again once he is back playing there.
I doubt if one level different in the pyramid makes the difference between banging them in and scoring none. If he starts banging them in elsewhere it's probably because they play a system that suits his abilities.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 7:14 am
by AndyPark
Cartman will always stick cryptic tweets out to get people talking.

Re: Styche is our new striker!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:37 am
by Quakerz
wizardofos wrote: I doubt if one level different in the pyramid makes the difference between banging them in and scoring none. If he starts banging them in elsewhere it's probably because they play a system that suits his abilities.
One level in the pyramid often does make a difference between scoring and not scoring and the jump between the Evostik and NLN is quite large.

As for the "system that suits his abilities" I'm sick of hearing that one from all of his sycophants. He wasn't scoring when Beck was the focal point and his job would have been to get onto his knock downs, and he hasn't been scoring since we've tried playing a more passing game. So which system does suit his abilities then?

No, it's not the system, it's just he's less effective at this level against better defenders - no shame in that, it is what it is. Every player has their level.