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Most liked posts in thread: Matty Foulds to Harrogate on loan (with Poll)

  1. Keefly Bantam

    Keefly Bantam Important Player
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    No such thing. Promotion is the aim and if being ruthless to get the best squad is what it takes then so be it.

    Glad MH is not nicey nicey with the players and trying something to improve the quality of the squad. Time will tell if it works but at least it seems he is happy to ship out those he doesn't think are good enough right now.
     
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  2. WilsdenBantam

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    Surprised by the melt down on Twitter, simply not up to the standard we need. Don’t know if the new guy will be but we’ll see. The melt down reminds me of when we got shut of Devante Cole.
     
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  3. JonButterfield

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    It's an unusual look to loan out a regular starter like that.

    However, I think it's the right move.

    For all the 'he never let us down' comments, he's a weak link in the back line for me, and that defence isn't doing well anymore. It used to have great stats earlier on in the season, but not so much anymore. It definitely needed freshening up, and Foulds isn't great going forward.

    Providing Boli is actually decent, and assuming Ridehalgh is back to fitness and ready to provide back up, I don't mind this move at all.

    Foulds didn't do anything wrong, and doesn't deserve to be denied first team football. Good luck to the lad, and again, we're sending first team squad players out on loan - which is GREAT! It shows the depth we have, and keeps them active at a relevant level.

    This isn't like sending Reece Staunton or Finn Cousin Dawson to toil away at some distant, very low level, which is what we're used to, it's the sign of a big club with a big squad flexing it's muscles IMO.
     
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    What position does he play, has he missed a glut of chances or given away a bag full of penalties.
    I would say Sparks is giving Hughes and his team all the tools and support he needs.
    Its down to the manager to make it work.
     
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  5. QCFC BANTAM

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    They should take a long hard look at their captain then for a complete abject delivery of set pieces. His free kicks and corners have been so way off the mark it is beyond belief tbh!!
     
  6. Faithful Bantam

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    Bizarre. Either there's been a fall out or Hughes is planning a drastic change of system to wingbacks and doesn't believe Foulds can play that way.

    Very strange, I think he's done well. Not great, but far from a problem.
     
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    Surprised but not unhappy. We desperately needed an upgrade and in particular a fullback who can get up the pitch and deliver a decent cross. Hopefully the new guy will give us what we need.
     
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    If anyone thinks changing left back will cure the current sides issues, then what have you been looking at all season?
    Left back has not been the problem
    Wakey wakey people
     
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  9. Rogered Tart

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    https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/23784623.matty-foulds-set-face-hometown-club-harrogate/

    Interesting interview with Foulds from Parker in the T and A. I always thought Foulds would have been the one to ask for a loan move but according to this the club told him he was going out on loan, a strange decision for a player who had played the last 18 games at left back and had come out of talks with the manager feeling that it was just 'healthy competition'.
    Its in the past now and the lad now has his permanent home at Harrogate Town, but i always felt the move was a strange decision from Hughes. The signing of Bola, albeit in hindsight, was a complete failure and the decision to oust Foulds left us with a player returning from injury in Ridehalgh as the only option.
     
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    Makes sense. He's got another year and Bola is the new starter as Hughes wants an attacking full back and that's just not Foulds game.

    No point him sitting on the bench for 6 months, might as well to go Harrogate and get 15/20 games under his belt under a new tactic, develop his game a touch and then go again next season. We get Ridehalgh back too for back up to Bola, win win for both parties.
     
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    No sure how you can see anyone as a stronger player that has hardly kicked a ball . Good luck to the lad and i hope he is an improvement on Foulds, but t is a big gamble from where i a sat. Bola is not proven at any level.
     
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    We ain't sending him to Harrogate to develop his game.
     
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    Truth be told, the only player that I don’t see being upgraded on, considering the league we’re in, is Lewis. Anyone else in the team is replaceable
     
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    I do not get this knocking of Sparks, i don't care how flash he might be. He and the commercial team seem to be doing a great job, which is helping fund Mark Hughes , like no other manager has been backed it seems.
    As i said down to the manager and players to make it work.
     
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    Hughes will have spoken to his agent and said you might as well move him on as he’s slipped down my pecking order. That’s how these things work. Foulds then has to decide whether to sit and rot - or ply his trade elsewhere, with a fresh start under a new manager with a clean slate.

    I don’t think a footballer wanting to play football deserves to be labelled someone with a bad attitude personally, as some other posters on here are saying.

    Foulds has a baby and commute is important. He’s moved sideways in L2 and still stays within commuting distance. All makes sense to me. I wish him well, but more importantly, hope Bola is up to the task given he’s only played a dozen games in his career at an age where many will have played 150 ish+
     
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    Seems someone hasn't got their story straight. I know that Foulds was gutted when he had to go, it certainly wasn't in his plans, it wouldn't be as a lad who had been a fan of the club and had always wanted to play for them. Putting that to one side, i thought he'd done more than enough to warrant being in the starting squad. Hughes thinking a change in left back was gonna somehow change our fortunes when in reality the problems lied elsewhere.
     
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    Are we being led by the nose? We keep getting conflicting information from ex players. Cricklow said Piera was ace in training and worked really hard and really warranted a place in the starting line up. Obviously he might be his mate but I am becoming concerned at the amount of players who apparently do not fit into Hughes plans especially as he signed them in the first place.
     
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    Thing is, I seem to recall that when Foulds first got in the team, he was very attack minded, even making runs into the opposition box
     
  19. Idlebantam

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    How will Foulds improve at Harrogate?

    If he was a kid looking for game time experience then yes, however, he has been playing regularly for us and surely would improve here if he is to improve at all. He has more likely hit his ceiling and Hughes thinks that too
     
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    That begs a philosophical question... If a cross finds Gilliead unmarked in the box, was it succesful?
     
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