January
With losing all the Arsenal loan signings including
Fran Merida as he signed a season long loan deal before the parent club link was announced we jus't couldn't afford his 2Kp/w wage wish is shame as he did very well for us and I hope he makes something of himself on this save and isn't left to rot. I did however make 2 signings, 1 of which I feel is a fantastic coup for the club.
Rhys Murphy has signed for us
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. Basically we will owe Arsenal 150k after he plays 50 league games and the 150k if he makes an appearance for England
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(highly unlikely). He has been vital so I am delighted with this piece of business.
I also signed young centre back
Mathew Roome on a free transfer from Villa. Needed the cover as I will look to offload
Bennet next season.
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FA Cup 3rd Round
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Pleased to get to the 4th round of the cup and it was another routine victory for us in this competition. We are drawn against Middlesbrough in the 4th round so that should be a vert difficult challenge.
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Very dissapointing considering we beat them at their ground. We never got going and even big
Stevie Lovell's goal didn't do much to push us forward in the game. We need to be better.
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Difficult to stomach. We were so close to doing the double over them and once again we switched off very late on and they made us pay dearly. Very hard to take but I am pleased with the effort shown.
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Another 3-2 and this time it's gone against us
Rhys Murphy and
Laurent Robert once again showed how crucial they are to our plays. But our defending is really letting us down. We're not doing the basics and all these late goals have cost us dearly.
JPT South Final First Leg
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Very exciting game in a competition I am not too fussed about. I gave a lot of the players who have played less a chance in this game and we did okay. The second leg is perfectly poised.
FA Cup 4th Round
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We were batteted here and the lads didn't show any desire to win the game and progress in this competition. It is a shame because I thought if we gave them a real go our front line could cause some problesms but we were lacklustre to say the least today and Middlesbrough made us pay dearly.
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After such an awful month its not nice to get back to winning ways with a good performnce against strugglers Tranmere.
Rhys Murphy showed why we brought him and that is because he scores goals. Hard to find someone so good at this level and he is definately our talisman even though Mifsud has also been fantastic.
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Oldham are a good side and off the back of win this result isn't too bad even though I would hve obviously liked to win. Neither team created much and it seemed to be a more of slog in the midfield. After some poor results a point here isn't bad considering Oldham are doing very well.
Monthly Overview: One of our most dissapointing months of the season. A little light is shed onto it through the two signings we made which I am quite pleased about. Also
Steve Lovell is proving to be decent cover nd
David Noble is coming into his own and is probably going to be our future captain.
The 4 points at the end of the month were invaluble, not only in points but in morale aswell. Being poor in the league games and getting thrashed by a championship team isn't the best for team spirit but I'm pleased in the way we picked ourselves up and found some decent form.
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