A couple of non league snippets

[Curtis]

Don't know if others have spotted it, but there appears to be a new topic posted by Spencer Day yesterday headed 'Loan/duel reg players'..... where he is trying to find free 30 day loans for a couple of young players.

[staines_rebel_Jr]

I'm a bit confused..... Enfield Town reported Anthony Mendy moved to Leatherhead, Leatherhead reported that Anthony Mendes had signed from Enfield Town.

 

Anthony Mendes started for Leatherhead yesterday and scored twice in their 3-1 win at Hendon (Brad Hewitt was playing for Hendon).

 

Presumably Anthony Mendy, Anthony Mendes and Tony Mendy are all the same player??

Tony has always been short for Anthony, and Mendes is probably just a typo.

[Bernie Gogan]

Mendy scored twice for Leatherhead.

[Reading Rebel]

Tony Mendy has only really been at two clubs for any length of time and that was at AFC Hayes and Chalfont St Peter's for which he did score a lot of goals.

 

He's had short spells at Slough, Maidenhead and Enfield and for whatever reason it never worked out at these clubs.

 

So far his goal scoring ability isn't proven above division 1 so it'll be interesting to see if he is a success at Leatherhead.

[Curtis]

Tony has always been short for Anthony, and Mendes is probably just a typo.

They appear to have made the same typo on the line up submission to Hendon yesterday as well then.....

 

http://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/21511

 

If so, could that potentially cause them a problem?

[Curtis]

Shaw Lane appear to have been kicked out of the FA Trophy for fielding a player who should have served a suspension..... error occurred apparently because they didn't register the player with the exact details he had registered with the previous club (and because of this they weren't fully aware of total accumulated yellows).

[staines_rebel_Jr]

They appear to have made the same typo on the line up submission to Hendon yesterday as well then.....

 

http://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/21511

 

If so, could that potentially cause them a problem?

 

Names often get miss-spelt on team sheets.

 

Secondly football web pages gets their information from various places and isn't official website for any league.

 

Finally and probably most importantly if you check the Isthmian League website under recent transfers they list "Anthony Mendy" transferred from Enfield to Leatherhead.

 

http://www.isthmian.co.uk/saturdays-transfer-list-34200

[staines_rebel_Jr]

As well as Tony Mendy it seems Danny Murphy has also joined Leatherhead.

[Neil Baker]

As well as Tony Mendy it seems Danny Murphy has also joined Leatherhead.

A different Danny Murphy however.

[Reading Rebel]

Names often get miss-spelt on team sheets.

 

Secondly football web pages gets their information from various places and isn't official website for any league.

 

Finally and probably most importantly if you check the Isthmian League website under recent transfers they list "Anthony Mendy" transferred from Enfield to Leatherhead.

 

http://www.isthmian.co.uk/saturdays-transfer-list-34200

 

 

Seems Leatherhead even have it as Mendes under their squad update news. 

Edited December 12, 2016 by Reading Rebel

[Glover]

George Hallahan leaves Basingstoke. Thought he looked a very decent player when he was on loan with us for a couple of games. Worth a go?

[Reading Rebel]

George Hallahan leaves Basingstoke. Thought he looked a very decent player when he was on loan with us for a couple of games. Worth a go?

 

 

Perhaps a good prospect for the future, not sure if he'd be the answer if we have aspirations of the play-offs and a possible push for the title?

[staines_rebel_Jr]

A different Danny Murphy however.

Too many Danny Murphy's. Our Murphy was also a left back who had played for QPR.

[3spirit]

Perhaps a good prospect for the future, not sure if he'd be the answer if we have aspirations of the play-offs and a possible push for the title?

 

George is a livewire instinctive striker and being young should be good on 3g. For me he would be a good alternative to Charlie Moone, now Lee Barney's out and could be good alongside Charlie as well in certain games

The thing, I think though, is that I would like to see a tall, strong powerful striker who is good with his head and who can ruffle the feathers of big defenders, someone like Keith Scott or Paul McKinnon were in their heyday . 

Not easy to find but that is what is missing from our attack and would offer our side so much.

Edited December 12, 2016 by 3spirit

[Reading Rebel]

George is a livewire instinctive striker and being young should be good on 3g. For me he would be a good alternative to Charlie Moone, now Lee Barney's out and could be good alongside Charlie as well in certain games

The thing, I think though, is that I would like to see a tall, strong powerful striker who is good with his head and who can ruffle the feathers of big defenders, someone like Keith Scott or Paul McKinnon were in their heyday . 

Not easy to find but that is what is missing from our attack and would offer our side so much.

 

 

Not a bad choice except not to get sent off on a regular basis like Keith Scott  

 

What about someone like Gary Abbott?  On his day one of the best forwards we've ever had at winning headers, shielding the ball and laying the ball off, the only thing missing with Abbo was pace.      

[staines_rebel_Jr]

There is a weird obsession in England with wanting big strong centre forwards who are good in the air. Players who are perfect for playing direct (sometimes route one) style football. Yet at the same time fans want to see good passing and entertaining football, so two often contrasting things. There are very few "big" centre forwards who are both good with their head and their feet so when they come along they are immediately snapped up by high placed clubs even if they are not the players the club actually needs.

 

 

A big centre forward really doesn't suit our style of play right now, with quick precise passing and using pace and ability to get through our opponents defence. We have scored quite a lot of our goals from low whipped in crosses with either our strikers or wingers volleying them in because these crosses are the hardest to deal with. Head height crosses are fairly easy to defend against if your defence is brave and has good communication, keeper can catch the ball above every one or the defender can head the ball away or over the bar. Low crosses are much harder to defend with defenders having to be careful not to deflect the ball into their own net or lay it back to an on coming midfielder. This is why having smaller, quicker more agile strikers is more use full as the can get ahead of their defender or react quicker to the loose ball.

 

 

Big centre forwards can be great as shown by Alan Shearer who is way out in front as top premier league goal scorer with 260 goals in 341 games but smaller quicker forwards like Fowler, Defoe, Owen and Aguero (112 goals in 162 games) can be just as good if not better.

[3spirit]

There is a weird obsession in England with wanting big strong centre forwards who are good in the air. Players who are perfect for playing direct (sometimes route one) style football. Yet at the same time fans want to see good passing and entertaining football, so two often contrasting things. There are very few "big" centre forwards who are both good with their head and their feet so when they come along they are immediately snapped up by high placed clubs even if they are not the players the club actually needs.

 

 

A big centre forward really doesn't suit our style of play right now, with quick precise passing and using pace and ability to get through our opponents defence. We have scored quite a lot of our goals from low whipped in crosses with either our strikers or wingers volleying them in because these crosses are the hardest to deal with. Head height crosses are fairly easy to defend against if your defence is brave and has good communication, keeper can catch the ball above every one or the defender can head the ball away or over the bar. Low crosses are much harder to defend with defenders having to be careful not to deflect the ball into their own net or lay it back to an on coming midfielder. This is why having smaller, quicker more agile strikers is more use full as the can get ahead of their defender or react quicker to the loose ball.

 

 

Big centre forwards can be great as shown by Alan Shearer who is way out in front as top premier league goal scorer with 260 goals in 341 games but smaller quicker forwards like Fowler, Defoe, Owen and Aguero (112 goals in 162 games) can be just as good if not better.

 

SRJ, your post makes a fair point.

 

The difference in what I'm saying is that we have a natural goalscorers in Charlie Moone and Lee Barney[who's not fit], we also have Gavin James who is strong and has pace[ who is not quite fit yet] and we have the raw talent of Elijah Adebayo, who is 18 years of age playing in a man's game,who has potential but isn't the finished article. So we need another forward that will bring something different to what we've already got

 

From the angle I'm coming from I'm not advocating getting in a Peter Crouch type striker.

 

I'm saying because of our lightweight presence up front ie Charlie Moone, Lewis Putman, Dobbo, Elijah. I would like to see a striker added who has a bit of steel to his game and is good in the air and on the deck ie someone who puts himself about.

I prefer a 6ft forward, to a 5ft nothing one, because they are usually more of a handful than the smaller ones for obvious reasons.

 

Playing on 3g is irrelevant.  

[staines_rebel_Jr]

Disagree again.

 

Firstly I agree that 3G is irrelevant as we will obviously have to play on grass as well (even though this season we will have played approximately 59% of our games on 3G) 

 

 

Big forwards will be more of a handful in physical sense of course but small strikers will cause more problems if they have good movement. Big strikers will be able to have a physical battle against defenders and may occasionally win but defenders in our league love and want a physical battle so you would be playing into their hands. You should watch Lee Barneys' movement in particular (when he is fit), he causes defenders absolute nightmares in games by ghosting away from them and getting himself into space between them and using his pace to get past. Most of Barneys' goals last year came when he got free from his defenders and they lost track of where he was, finding himself free, something that rarely rarely happens with big forwards who are always within touching distance of their defenders.

 

 

I guess we should ask Neil, Jon or Guy who all keep an eye on this forum what type of defender they would least rather defend against?

[3spirit]

Not a bad choice except not to get sent off on a regular basis like Keith Scott

 

What about someone like Gary Abbott?  On his day one of the best forwards we've ever had at winning headers, shielding the ball and laying the ball off, the only thing missing with Abbo was pace.      

 

Gary Abbot, yes he was class.  Prolific goal scorer too. What a fantastic non.league career he had.

I liked him particularly, when he played for Welling alongside the diminutive but an equal predator in the box, Terry Robbins.

[Stuntman Mark]

I think we'll sign Hallahan.