[tomjoad]

Irish playing in Holland?

[CFC91]

 tomjoad, on 17 June 2025 - 02:30 PM, said:

Irish playing in Holland?

Ado Den Haag

[sewey89]

RichThomps1, on 17 June 2025 - 02:21 PM, said:

Go on

GSM. Southend.

[Westbars Spireite]

 Exharboroughspireite, on 17 June 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

Lee Bonis is someone who has come up today. From same bloke who sent me Hemmings about two weeks ago.

Interesting one. Never heard of him before but should be plenty good enough.

 sewey89, on 17 June 2025 - 02:32 PM, said:

GSM. Southend.

I’d be very happy with him. Under contract for another year so doubt they’d be giving him away.

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: Today, 02:36 PM

[RichThomps1]

 CFC91, on 17 June 2025 - 02:31 PM, said:

Ado Den Haag

Fee involved?

[CFC91]

 CFC91, on 12 June 2025 - 01:25 PM, said:

S&D can have that one. Ridiculous signing for this level


Yep and his name hasn't appeared on this thread yet which is a promising sign

5 days. Not bad

[Trigger]

 sewey89, on 17 June 2025 - 02:32 PM, said:

GSM. Southend.

I read mk Dons wanted him too somewhere the other day

[Trigger]

 Exharboroughspireite, on 17 June 2025 - 02:24 PM, said:

Lee Bonis is someone who has come up today. From same bloke who sent me Hemmings about two weeks ago.

Presumably, will grigg is his idol with the Northan Ireland link😄

[BreadNoButter]

 dtp, on 17 June 2025 - 01:49 PM, said:

Fully agree.

I might be in a minority but I certainly wouldn’t pay a fee for him. Yes, he crossed the ball with a frequency but his crosses to assists ratio was quite low from what I recall. Secondly, he was not particularly reliable from a defensive point of view.

If we are to bring in a new LB he needs to be better than Gordon and I don’t think Sparkes is.

Crazy opinion that… you might say mine is crazier but imo Sparkes was a million times better than Gordon, don’t rate Gordon at all. Doesn’t want to attack defenders, as though he’s got no confidence he can. Defensively he’s not bad, but attack wise we can do better LB
The amount of times Sparkes was able to get decent crosses in aswell

[RichThomps1]

 BreadNoButter, on 17 June 2025 - 02:49 PM, said:

Crazy opinion that… you might say mine is crazier but imo Sparkes was a million times better than Gordon, don’t rate Gordon at all. Doesn’t want to attack defenders, as though he’s got no confidence he can. Defensively he’s not bad, but attack wise we can do better LB
The amount of times Sparkes was able to get decent crosses in aswell

The amount of times we scored from those crosses was?

[jonnythespireite]

BreadNoButter, on 17 June 2025 - 02:49 PM, said:

Crazy opinion that… you might say mine is crazier but imo Sparkes was a million times better than Gordon, don’t rate Gordon at all. Doesn’t want to attack defenders, as though he’s got no confidence he can. Defensively he’s not bad, but attack wise we can do better LB
The amount of times Sparkes was able to get decent crosses in aswell

I agree with this entirely. A much more of a Cook type of full back. Great delivery. The 'poor defensively' view is based on him being poor in the last few minutes at Walsall when chasing the tie as opposed to his overall contribution albeit hampered by injury.

RichThomps1, on 17 June 2025 - 02:51 PM, said:

The amount of times we scored from those crosses was?

well when there's no one anticipating them (see Pepple who has no movement in the box) and with the master poacher Grigg out the side not many.

[Webster]

Sparks possibly the best left back we have had at town for a while or indeed Shinner ? They both seem to have so much time to do things.

The fee Posh paid Exeter though and wanting no doubt a large % back it did seem bonkers he would return here unless the deal was right. Obviously moving back, Down south and home would also appeal .

[hilly81]

Sparkes is a miles better player than Gordon. It's not even close. Gordon isn't a bad player by any stretch of the imagination but he didn't show anything like his early season form after returning from injury. I'd hope he is backup for left back next season.

[Misnomer]

 hilly81, on 17 June 2025 - 02:56 PM, said:

Sparkes is a miles better player than Gordon. It's not even close. Gordon isn't a bad player by any stretch of the imagination but he didn't show anything like his early season form after returning from injury. I'd hope he is backup for left back next season.

Same....

[dtp]

BreadNoButter, on 17 June 2025 - 02:49 PM, said:

Crazy opinion that… you might say mine is crazier but imo Sparkes was a million times better than Gordon, don’t rate Gordon at all. Doesn’t want to attack defenders, as though he’s got no confidence he can. Defensively he’s not bad, but attack wise we can do better LB
The amount of times Sparkes was able to get decent crosses in aswell

Ok. You have an opinion. So do I.

However, to say Sparkes was a million times better than Gordon is quite a mathematical exaggeration.

IMHO the first requirement of any full back is to have an ability to defend. In that respect Gordon was better.

As previously stated, getting crosses in is one thing, those crosses resulting in assists is another. Maybe the statisticians amongst us will clarify the number of assists both players had last season?

For me, Jack Sparkes would be better played further forward that full back when we play a back four. However, we have players for that role.

[gordon_brittas]

If the Sparkes to BR is true, which it looks like it is, looks like the club has taken a zero tolerance approach to players agents dicking the club around. Whilst I support the club wholeheartedly, as agents are a leach of the game, it’s got me worrying whether there is not much chance seeing Markanday return, bearing in mind we know his agent is a dick after the Orient move.

[RichThomps1]

 gordon_brittas, on 17 June 2025 - 03:05 PM, said:

If the Sparkes to BR is true, which it looks like it is, looks like the club has taken a zero tolerance approach to players agents dicking the club around. Whilst I support the club wholeheartedly, as agents are a leach of the game, it’s got me worrying whether there is not much chance seeing Markanday return, bearing in mind we know his agent is a dick after the Orient move.

The orient move was nothing to do with his agent

[gordon_brittas]

 RichThomps1, on 17 June 2025 - 03:07 PM, said:

The orient move was nothing to do with his agent

Not what I heard. Agent was looking at any club in order to cash in.

[Webster]

In the play off 2nd leg if Sparks wax fit i woukd have started him playing infront of Gorden to bang crisses into Pepple or Griggor both.

[hilly81]

gordon_brittas, on 17 June 2025 - 03:05 PM, said:

If the Sparkes to BR is true, which it looks like it is, looks like the club has taken a zero tolerance approach to players agents dicking the club around. Whilst I support the club wholeheartedly, as agents are a leach of the game, it’s got me worrying whether there is not much chance seeing Markanday return, bearing in mind we know his agent is a dick after the Orient move.

Sparkes is also from Exmouth so he may want his next move to be much closer to home which is fair enough.