New Signing!!!

[Mr Rebel]

didn't Ishmail Mohammed play right back for us last league game last season against Beaconsfield as well?

[Sir Rebel1965]

It looks like most of the Chertsey team have moved on as a number have gone to Farnborough as that is where the money man/manager has gone.

 

Question might be will Chertesy have enough to make a team this weekend?

 

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

[Mr Rebel]

It looks like most of the Chertsey team have moved on as a number have gone to Farnborough as that is where the money man/manager has gone.

 

Question might be will Chertesy have enough to make a team this weekend?

 

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

 

great just in time from them to play St Neots

 

in fairness we do still have local players but yeah ashame especially with Mpi who you could see wanted to play for his home team

[Ian]

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

 

How do you know Mendy wasn't asked to play for Slough and decided not to? As for Mpi he was given opportunities and couldn't break into the first team. Or should we just leave our best players out to accommodate others, even if it's not in the best interests of the team?

[epicrebel]

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

 

How do you know Mendy wasn't asked to play for Slough and decided not to? As for Mpi he was given opportunities and couldn't break into the first team. Or should we just leave our best players out to accommodate others, even if it's not in the best interests of the team?

 

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

 

How do you know Mendy wasn't asked to play for Slough and decided not to? As for Mpi he was given opportunities and couldn't break into the first team. Or should we just leave our best players out to accommodate others, even if it's not in the best interests of the team?

Well said Ian

[3spirit]

As for Tony Mendy and Charlie Mpi - two more local lads slip through Batemans fingers.

 

How do you know Mendy wasn't asked to play for Slough and decided not to? As for Mpi he was given opportunities and couldn't break into the first team. Or should we just leave our best players out to accommodate others, even if it's not in the best interests of the team?

 

I understand what you're saying,Ian, but don't see the logic of Steve Bateman's thinking on Charlie Mpi.There's no denying that Danny B and Sean S are playing well and Ben Abbey has proved he's not over the hill by putting the ball in the net whenever he's played.

My question is, though,do you think Charlie Mpi had enough game time to prove he was better than any of our current forwards.

I think not ! For the two full games out of twenty appearances[18 as sub] Charlie Mpi started one game as a striker against a level above side,Chesham, which isn't a great benchmark for how Mpi would perform regularly in our division.

The other game he appeared as a striker was against North Greenford, where Bateman and Cummings couldn't make up their minds where they really wanted him to play and made him the scapegoat for the general all round poor Slough performance.

Mpi also played nearly a full game as a winger. Which he was average at.

Now for me, Byron Walton has got a bargain and if he leaves Charlie to play his natural game of allowing him to use his pace by planting the ball over the top for him to run onto and let's him chase players down,then I think Mpi will go on and prove Bateman/Cummings wrong. He's also at the right age to peak [24-25 ish] and with the right guidance could go on and play higher,whereas most of our players are coming down not up !

So a fair crack of the whip -I don't think so.

[epicrebel]

3spirit :-

 

Charlie Imp played in 22 games, started 4 ( and nearly a whole second half ) 3 of them on the trot, played 533 minutes = just under 6 games scored 1 goal.

 

I think Ians right on this one

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

I think Sam Bateman is important and should get some game time ASAP !!

[3spirit]

3spirit :-

 

Charlie Imp played in 22 games, started 4 ( and nearly a whole second half ) 3 of them on the trot, played 533 minutes = just under 6 games scored 1 goal.

 

I think Ians right on this one

 

Well if you are right?,Epic Rebel, even on your figures,that is still not enough game time to be able to prove yourself !

 

With the 4 capable strikers we had, we could easily have rotated all of them in certain halves and every game with differing combinations. Steve Bateman chose not to. He's the manager and has to make those decisions.

I just think that Charlie is a better player than Bateman clearly thought he was.

 

The proof will be in the pudding in how successful he is at SYCOB,if he can stay injury free and get's regular game time. He's started off all right scoring on his debut! and by all accounts setting up one!

We shall all have to wait and see,if we've let go a diamond or a dud.

[Ian]

3spirit :-

 

Charlie Imp played in 22 games, started 4 ( and nearly a whole second half ) 3 of them on the trot, played 533 minutes = just under 6 games scored 1 goal.

 

I think Ians right on this one

 

Well if you are right?,Epic Rebel, even on your figures,that is still not enough game time to be able to prove yourself !

 

With the 4 capable strikers we had, we could easily have rotated all of them in certain halves and every game with differing combinations. Steve Bateman chose not to. He's the manager and has to make those decisions.

I just think that Charlie is a better player than Bateman clearly thought he was.

 

The proof will be in the pudding in how successful he is at SYCOB,if he can stay injury free and get's regular game time. He's started off all right scoring on his debut! and by all accounts setting up one!

We shall all have to wait and see,if we've let go a diamond or a dud.

 

He may well turn out to be brilliant for SYCOB and I hope he does (although not at our expense).........but I still wouldn't put him ahead of Sonner and Burnell and risk losing one of them. Their goals records speak for themselves.

[epicrebel]

3spirit

 

I'm not saying Charlie isn't a good player all i'm saying is he had his chances to impress but he didn't take them.

 

His first 3 games started 1 goal, Danny and Sean's first 3 , 6 goal between them. Charlie came on in these 3 games as well and didn't score.

 

Also in them 3 games Charlie started, 2 of them Slough didn't score at all.

 

He will do very well at sycob that's the way they play ball over the top , but we don't ( also Tony Mendy same sort of player )

[Martin]

Exactly Ian. It is just one of those things, you have a front two who are firing and Ben Abbey who has been taking his chances very well therefore if you were in Charlie's position you either have to grit your teeth and bide your time or move on. At this level and given that he is only 24 I can understand the move.

 

Also Charlie's real strength is pace. The way we are set up and playing didn't really get the best out of that asset. He may find SYCOB are set up differently and are more inclined to play to his strengths and be more successful. Just one of those things.

 

You just have to look at Aylesbury, where Simon Martin has already scored 8 league goals. He is a good player but never looked prolific for us, so they must be playing in a slightly different style that suits him better.

[3spirit]

Exactly Ian. It is just one of those things, you have a front two who are firing and Ben Abbey who has been taking his chances very well therefore if you were in Charlie's position you either have to grit your teeth and bide your time or move on. At this level and given that he is only 24 I can understand the move.

 

Also Charlie's real strength is pace. The way we are set up and playing didn't really get the best out of that asset. He may find SYCOB are set up differently and are more inclined to play to his strengths and be more successful. Just one of those things.

 

You just have to look at Aylesbury, where Simon Martin has already scored 8 league goals. He is a good player but never looked prolific for us, so they must be playing in a slightly different style that suits him better.

 

 

In my mind,it's about faith and boosting a player's confidence at the right time.That's what a good man-manager does.

If you believe in a player and play to his strengths then usually they come good.

I can see Ian,Epic Rebel,Martin's and Steve Bateman's point that Danny Burnell and Sean Sonner have been playing exceptional together and so it doesn't warrant fixing/tinkering with team.

However,given the characters of both of them, you need a back-up plan because you know Danny and Sean are going to get suspended in different times of the season because of their constant moaning /bickering they do at referee's.

 

It's to our chairman's credit that we have a large squad. We were extremely fortunate to have two other exceptional forwards in Charlie Mpi and Ben Abbey at the club, but to my knowledge they didn't start a game together for whatever reason and we really don't know how good Charlie Mpi could be, because when we played him, Steve Bateman expected Charlie to be a Sean Sonner,which isn't Charlie's game..

Steve Bateman said in the Slough Observer that he had explained to Charlie Mpi that he couldn't accomodate him while three of his strikers were all banging in the goals, which is a fair enough comment but I still can't see why Charlie didn't start more games regardless of that fact, as that would be fair to all 4 strikers not just to 3.

So to my mind we've wasted a glorious opportunity to have an excellent young prospect within our team.

 

Anyway,our loss is Beaconsfield's gain.