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If we got Peter Crouch at his age I would be utterly distraught. That could be a season killer.

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Crouch lacks the mobility needed for our style of defence and attack. We need a mobile #9

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MetalLegNZ wrote:

Crouch lacks the mobility needed for our style of defence and attack. We need a mobile #9

They need pace and a good engine on them for the high pressing game.
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Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

RR
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Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

We were looking at players that could qualify for Guest Contracts whilst we waited for Krishna's citizenship. Now that we have the spot to use, I don't think we will be chasing a big name anymore.
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Balbi wrote:

Here's a list of Championship strikers who're out of contract by June 2019And League One. Could be one of these lads.

Of them I'd have Billy Sharp, or Peter Crouch. Probably looking at the over 30's for Championship, maybe 25+ for League One.

Billy Sharp would be fantastic. A more mobile McCormack. I’d prefer Fornaroli as a primary option because he’s a lot more than just a finisher, though it seems he’s training his way back into the city squad.

How good would Rojas be for Burns? Role seems made for him

Marquee
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over 13 years

Rossi is still available, might be cheaper now.

Legend
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over 16 years

hows Alex Jones doing?

Starting XI
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martinb wrote:

hows Alex Jones doing?

Bang average for Bradford it seems. 24 games in 2 seasons, only 5 goals

Unless you mean the podcast Alex Jones, he ain’t doing much better

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Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

Starting XI
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martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

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mrsmiis wrote:

martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

RR
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Colvinator wrote:

mrsmiis wrote:

martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

He played most of his career in the Premier League tho. You look at the strikers around the league, Keogh, O'Donovan, McCormack, Le Fondre & Toivonen have all played in the Premier League + Riera played in the La Liga. The standard for strikers is probably at its highest level yet.
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RR wrote:

Colvinator wrote:

mrsmiis wrote:

martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

He played most of his career in the Premier League tho. You look at the strikers around the league, Keogh, O'Donovan, McCormack, Le Fondre & Toivonen have all played in the Premier League + Riera played in the La Liga. The standard for strikers is probably at its highest level yet.

O'Donovan an interesting one, his last stint in England was in League Two. Wonder if there's any other decent strikers floating around down there these days? 

RR
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Colvinator wrote:

RR wrote:

Colvinator wrote:

mrsmiis wrote:

martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

He played most of his career in the Premier League tho. You look at the strikers around the league, Keogh, O'Donovan, McCormack, Le Fondre & Toivonen have all played in the Premier League + Riera played in the La Liga. The standard for strikers is probably at its highest level yet.

O'Donovan an interesting one, his last stint in England was in League Two. Wonder if there's any other decent strikers floating around down there these days? 

ROD is the obvious weak one, he barely had a career in England but Keogh/ALF/McCormack were all Championship regulars and Toivonen an Eredivisie regular. That is the kinda level we need to aim for nowadays.
Legend
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over 16 years

RR wrote:

Colvinator wrote:

RR wrote:

Colvinator wrote:

mrsmiis wrote:

martinb wrote:

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

He played most of his career in the Premier League tho. You look at the strikers around the league, Keogh, O'Donovan, McCormack, Le Fondre & Toivonen have all played in the Premier League + Riera played in the La Liga. The standard for strikers is probably at its highest level yet.

O'Donovan an interesting one, his last stint in England was in League Two. Wonder if there's any other decent strikers floating around down there these days? 

ROD is the obvious weak one, he barely had a career in England but Keogh/ALF/McCormack were all Championship regulars and Toivonen an Eredivisie regular. That is the kinda level we need to aim for nowadays.

I was just pointing out we have had league MVPs who came out of the lower leagues, with Krishna, Siggie and Riera coming from asbp or wateva it is.

Marquee
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over 13 years

Contrary to what the naysayers believe the A-League quality keeps improving and we may not cut it anymore without looking at at least one more quality import to match the Kurto ,  Taylor etc.  quality already present.  Guys like Singh will develop better next to guys like Krishna but we need more.

WeeNix
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Balbi wrote:

Here's a list of Championship strikers who're out of contract by June 2019And League One. Could be one of these lads.

Of them I'd have Billy Sharp, or Peter Crouch. Probably looking at the over 30's for Championship, maybe 25+ for League One.

Tbf most of those Championship strikers would improve us. On top of the two you've mentioned, I wouldn't mind Nugent or Hooper - both know how to score goals. 

One in a million
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about 17 years

I'd be very keen to see Crouch playing for us. It would make life very difficult for opposing defences and take the pressure right off our other front runners.

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over 5 years

TreeFiddy wrote:

Balbi wrote:

Here's a list of Championship strikers who're out of contract by June 2019And League One. Could be one of these lads.

Of them I'd have Billy Sharp, or Peter Crouch. Probably looking at the over 30's for Championship, maybe 25+ for League One.

Tbf most of those Championship strikers would improve us. On top of the two you've mentioned, I wouldn't mind Nugent or Hooper - both know how to score goals. 

No idea what nugent is like these days but hooper would be a fantastic addition. As long as his attitude was correct. From memory, it wasn't great towards the end of his celtic career. 

Budgie lover
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Balbi wrote:

Here's a list of Championship strikers who're out of contract by June 2019And League One. Could be one of these lads.

Of them I'd have Billy Sharp, or Peter Crouch. Probably looking at the over 30's for Championship, maybe 25+ for League One.

Billy Sharp is having a great season for Blades so far... can't seem him coming to the Nix!

HZA
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over 14 years

bump 

anything??

RR
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almost 16 years

HZA wrote:

bump 

anything??

Well Stephen Ireland has been released from Bolton, he played with Taylor at Newcastle. Not sure he is what we need & nothing saying we are chasing him.
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almost 7 years

Word on the trialists anyone? Would be ecstatic at TAHW going down even if he'd leave a hole in our team

Legend
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over 16 years

yeh, wondering if there are any looking at Rufer with red faces 

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over 5 years

Ireland is a bad egg

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almost 17 years

Better off finding someone from north euro leagues..watcjhng Pukki of Norwich..ex Finland.

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Boro4eva wrote:

Better off finding someone from north euro leagues..watcjhng Pukki of Norwich..ex Finland.

Players signed from Scandinavian Leagues don't really have a very good record in the A-League:

Aleksandr Kokko
Wayne Brown
Michael Jakobsen
Tobias Mikkelsen
Johan Absalonsen
Morten Nordstrand
Juho Makela

Only Absalonsen has really stood out. Also you asking someone to come from a Euro winter and play straight away in an Aussie summer.

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over 13 years

Hope what Taylor was saying about talking to lots of players are true. Interestingly yesterday Mulvey said the Mariners are going to strengthen in January but they won't get imports because it takes several weeks to get a work visa. Maybe NZ is easier but it hasn't been a problem for us in the past iirc.

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about 9 years

Ryan wrote:

Hope what Taylor was saying about talking to lots of players are true. Interestingly yesterday Mulvey said the Mariners are going to strengthen in January but they won't get imports because it takes several weeks to get a work visa. Maybe NZ is easier but it hasn't been a problem for us in the past iirc.

Maybe Mulvey was speaking in code, ie CCM can only afford NPL players to 'strengthen' their squad.

RR
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coochiee wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Hope what Taylor was saying about talking to lots of players are true. Interestingly yesterday Mulvey said the Mariners are going to strengthen in January but they won't get imports because it takes several weeks to get a work visa. Maybe NZ is easier but it hasn't been a problem for us in the past iirc.

Maybe Mulvey was speaking in code, ie CCM can only afford NPL players to 'strengthen' their squad.

They are probably gonna look to pick up some players on the outer at their A-League clubs. Luke DeVere is fit and can't make the Roar's travelling squad for example. If they came and asked us about Fox/Lowry, would we stand in their way?
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RR wrote:

coochiee wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Hope what Taylor was saying about talking to lots of players are true. Interestingly yesterday Mulvey said the Mariners are going to strengthen in January but they won't get imports because it takes several weeks to get a work visa. Maybe NZ is easier but it hasn't been a problem for us in the past iirc.

Maybe Mulvey was speaking in code, ie CCM can only afford NPL players to 'strengthen' their squad.

They are probably gonna look to pick up some players on the outer at their A-League clubs. Luke DeVere is fit and can't make the Roar's travelling squad for example. If they came and asked us about Fox/Lowry, would we stand in their way?

I hope we would stand in their way. We have to have a decent squad, not just a decent team.

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Wellington Phoenix Media Opportunity | Thursday 03rd January 2019

The Wellington Phoenix will make a new club announcement.
Date: Thursday 03rd January 2019
Available: General Manager David Dome and Head Coach, Mark Rudan


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2ndBest wrote:

Wellington Phoenix Media Opportunity | Thursday 03rd January 2019

The Wellington Phoenix will make a new club announcement.
Date: Thursday 03rd January 2019
Available: General Manager David Dome and Head Coach, Mark Rudan

Marquee signing ??

First Team Squad
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1.9K
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over 6 years
Legend
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14K
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over 16 years

anticipate 

I'd rather a game in this form and while I have a holiday, but hey!

What do we think?

Chant Savant
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almost 17 years

I miss the old days when the club would leak like a seive 24hrs before an announcement!

RR
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almost 16 years

Ranix wrote:

2ndBest wrote:

Wellington Phoenix Media Opportunity | Thursday 03rd January 2019

The Wellington Phoenix will make a new club announcement.
Date: Thursday 03rd January 2019
Available: General Manager David Dome and Head Coach, Mark Rudan

Marquee signing ??

More likely Gulley & TAHW
Appiah without the pace
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I'm only assuming it's a signing because Rudan is there and it's at their training ground. It's scheduled for 830am which seems a bit odd.

So perhaps more likely some squad NZ players.

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RR wrote:

Ranix wrote:

2ndBest wrote:

Wellington Phoenix Media Opportunity | Thursday 03rd January 2019

The Wellington Phoenix will make a new club announcement.
Date: Thursday 03rd January 2019
Available: General Manager David Dome and Head Coach, Mark Rudan

Marquee signing ??

More likely Gulley & TAHW

Good solid additions if that's the case. Timely with current schedule and players on yellow cards. Although am still keen to see Callan Elliot get a run at some stage and have been happy with what I've seen of Max Burgess.

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