Gary Hoopers been picked up to play a preseason tournament with Wrexham.
Looks like it's a sharks and giggles thing coz I doubt that Hooper would be up to a full season in league one given his last 3 seasons have been A league - > India - > Dubai - > English national league.
Awesome news. This is the type of small club our young gun nix players should ideally be signed. Awesome level at the Championship but a chance of minutes with a great coach.
Would be awesome if a Surman, Old or Alex ends up there.
Has Des worked with any of these 3 kids out of curiosity - was he still at the club when they joined the academy... and if so, probably a bit young to interact with him you'd think.
I'd be more looking at Just and others who were part of his side that he feels might add value from the U20 WC team he lead.
And well done Des Buckingham, one of football's nice guys. Looks like they struggled a bit when he first arrived, but as he says built into the season.
Jack Iredale came on at 65 mins for losers Bolton (2-0).
But if Sarpreet's struggled for 3-4 seasons now in the physical Bundesliga 2 - apart from one impressive half season at Jahn Resenberg (getting noticed by Werder Bremen) - then The Championship may not be the best league for him.
But if Sarpreet's struggled for 3-4 seasons now in the physical Bundesliga 2 - apart from one impressive half season at Jahn Resenberg (getting noticed by Werder Bremen) - then The Championship may not be the best league for him.
Yep also that. But if anyone is able to get a tune from old mate it’s got to be Des Buckingham, and I don’t think it was the entirely the physicality of the league tbh.
Who knows? Think Waine was also in that team. Here’s the team that kept Haaland scoreless. Odd now to think that defense did that! IMG_0014.jpeg298.15 KB With Mata and Wilkins on the bench.
Joe Bell another that Des might consider from a Kiwi viewpoint. Seems to be back playing well in Norway, and has always been rumoured as a Championship level prospect.
I'm guessing even if Empoli go down to Serie B, Libby still sees his future in Italia.
It won't be easy to stay up though, as one of the smaller clubs in The Championship. Just look at Waine's Plymouth who only just avoided the drop.
For all the admiration for Des, and the fairytale story of him being born & Oxford - they struggle early on, he'll do well to avoid the coach sacking merry go round, of club English football.
Well spotted. I presume South Sudan play their games at a neutral venue given the country is in a nasty civil war. And surprised they are playing Sudan, given there was a long running war before they were granted full independence.
Big Sudanese/Sth Sudanese community now in Melbs. With quite a few AFL and NBL basketballers (they tend to be tallest) now from that background, starting to pop up.
Oli Whyte has a Sth Sudanese team mate at Haka in Finland, but he's not in the above squad.
Mo Awad who bounced around various NZ & Aus clubs (may have trialled at the Nix??) is now playing in Malta, and has 8 caps for Somalia
