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There obviously can be good players playing for under performing clubs it’s an 11 player game everybody seems to rate Cook and he played for two poor teams last season

 

There you go
https://www.iron-bru.co.uk/forums/topic/gilliead/

 

You're not very good at presenting facts accurately.

There's 21 posts on that thread and they go off at a tangent. 6 are positive about Gilliead and 2 say he's better than league 2.

Its hardly the unanimous endorsement of a good proportion of Scunthorpe season ticket holders or regular followers. When you say "they think he's better than league 2" (implying many/all) why not say "some"?

 

Exactly Wilsden and top posts on this topic by Kevin.
Spot on about Scunny, new assistant Manager is TMac! From Darlo youth coach to Scunny assistant. Hope he does well but shows where they are. The well appears to have dried up. Another Swindon?

 

Your first couple of lines sum up exactly why I though Connolly was a good player for us (I know I won't let it drop). People went on about no end product, but if you've chased a lost cause and harried a defender into making a mistake or giving away a corner and we score, thats an assist in my book. I'll shut up about him now.

 

Your young enough to remember the current French manager playing more than 100 times for France and winning just about everything in that time. He wasn't a flair player and probably had a smallish number of assists. However, he was highly respected throughout the game and especially liked by his colleagues who called him the water carrier. Gilly is that kind of player, the type we have sorely missed. He will not simply be a squad player.

 

The water carrier.

 

We would say work horse. How many times have we seen our defenders clear the ball only for it to come straight back. Gilly can hold and carry the ball thus relieving the pressure.

 

Your reply is rather sneering and insulting. How is talking about styles of play comparing the abilities of 2 players. Gilly does indeed play wide right, just the same as Deschamps did.

 

Deschamps was a defensive midfielder, he sat just in front of the defence. Not a wide right player.

 

Hence the water carrier tag. Don’t think I’ve heard that term used for a winger ever. Phillips last night carried out that role perfectly. If we do have a water carrier in our team, I expect it to be Songo when he signs.

 

Yes


GILLIEAD RETURNS AS SIXTH SUMMER SIGNING

 

And me

 

Was on twitter at 17.49

 

Another one that wasn’t guessed or rumoured too?

The club have buttoned it down well.

 

We certainly have lots of competition for the two wide attackers in a 4231 or 433 formation. Lee Angol can also play in that role.
Seems to me we need another central striker though. We have no backup for Cook. Angol is a front facing striker with quick feet, not a target man.

 

Young lad then so not the same player imho., who else was it Scunny got from us who scored more for them than our entire team put together? What the heck was his name?

 

If he can set chances up like he did for Eisa that night he'll do for me.

 

So that's competition on the wings sorted.

Satisfied with that, squad player with ability.

Our first XI looks decent, worried our second XI might struggle for goals though.