George Wells

[Reading Rebel]

10 minutes ago, CookhamRebel said:

I'm surprised Wells has signed for Maidenhead, I don't think that's a step up....

It's a step up the pyramid and no doubt a step up in money. 

[Guest Wycombe Rebel]

Call me old fashioned but I’d always want to play for the club with the most history but that’s me!

[Reading Rebel]

9 minutes ago, CookhamRebel said:

Call me old fashioned but I’d always want to play for the club with the most history but that’s me!

Haven't Maidenhead got a lot history?

[Guest Wycombe Rebel]

Not compared to Slough

[Bernie Gogan]

Interesting observation that Maidenhead don't have as much history as Slough. Probably correct comparing on field achievements through history, but as a club they've been around a long time, still play at and own York Road an historic ground (irrespective of whether you like it or not!) and have been for a number of years in a higher league. than us. When our troubles from the Thorne era exploded they went in the opposite direction to us and that's the way it's stayed despite the gap narrowing a lot.

I will end up at York Road watching them at some point when I can't get to a Slough game and I will always regard George as "our" player, much like like I do with James Dobson.

[Reading Rebel]

7 hours ago, CookhamRebel said:

Call me old fashioned but I’d always want to play for the club with the most history but that’s me!

I'm sure the History of a club might play a small part in the modern day players thinking but I'm sure other factors will play a bigger part.

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

On 11/08/2020 at 14:48, Bernie Gogan said:

Interesting observation that Maidenhead don't have as much history as Slough. Probably correct comparing on field achievements through history, but as a club they've been around a long time, still play at and own York Road an historic ground (irrespective of whether you like it or not!) and have been for a number of years in a higher league. than us. When our troubles from the Thorne era exploded they went in the opposite direction to us and that's the way it's stayed despite the gap narrowing a lot.

I will end up at York Road watching them at some point when I can't get to a Slough game and I will always regard George as "our" player, much like like I do with James Dobson.

Fair comment, Keith. I would say that they appear to have been well run for a period of years now since, like us, facing near extinction and that we have been playing catch-up. That said, old rivalries don't die altogether and he's the first established Slough player I can think of who's moved to Maidenhead to "better himself" since Terry Wise in 1963.   

[Curtis]

I don’t know anything about the history of the Club, but knew Vaughan Powell when I was a kid and thought both him & Gary Attrell moved from Slough to Maidenhead in the 80’s.

[Rebellier]

58 minutes ago, Curtis said:

I don’t know anything about the history of the Club, but knew Vaughan Powell when I was a kid and thought both him & Gary Attrell moved from Slough to Maidenhead in the 80’s.

You may be right, but back then the move they made was hardly to better themselves!

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

3 hours ago, Rebellier said:

You may be right, but back then the move they made was hardly to better themselves!

There were a more than a few of those.

[3spirit]

Ben Jefford?

[Bernie Gogan]

Yes there were indeed. Players moved between local clubs regularly, and often they came to Slough to play at a higher level. 

[Reading Rebel]

2 hours ago, 3spirit said:

Ben Jefford?

I see he has an agent which is never a good sign and probably the reason for any last minute decision.