Is it brighter on the other side?...

[Chris]

Josias Carbon: Yet to be given his debut by Staines in the league. Has thus far only played Capital League games

 

Glen Harris: Pretty much a sub now and does not always get on for Hampton

 

Mark Avery: Dropped and now a sub for Oxford City

 

Andy Ballard: Started the season on the bench for Abingdon and is now nearly always taken off at some stage in the match.

 

Ian Hodges is probably the only one who has been a success since leaving the Rebels so far...

[BFR]

Michael Parkin - now first choice at Hitchin who have started the season well. Admittedly his reasons for leaving were different to those listed above, but nice to see him doing well

[Barry Scott]

First three are indeed puzzling, but Ballard was pony.

[Guest]

i cant believe those 4 have used like that

 

it was the same when alex haddow left. rarely playing.

 

how do main players for us end being subs for other sides??

[Chris]

Saulsbury's been on the bench for Brackley as well!

[Martin]

It tends to be that they go to "big spending" sides. Staines, Hampton and Eastleigh all spent fair amounts of money and presumably have decent sized squads with competition for places. We tend to have a first XI and then squad players. One of the main reasons I was opposed to Al's move to Eastleigh was that their manager said he would be competing with two other players for the left side role. He did well for Salisbury last year but last time I looked he was on the bench for them.

[Woody SUFC]

Or is it slough fans over estimate their own players?

 

No Never!!!

[BFR]

Got to agree with you Woody. I mean that Hodges guy was rubbish and couldn't score for toffee. Haddow was useless and should never have been nominated for player of the round in the FA Cup, let alone have a VIP day out in Cardiff. We really over-egg our players!

[Woody SUFC]

Is that the 80k Slough fanss over egging Haddow Yes? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[BFR]

The nominating panel for the FA over-egged him, we merely helped out afterwards!

[Barry Scott]

In Woody's defence, considering some of the dross that has turned out for us in the past anyone can look a star player.

[Matt]

Wouldn't say we over-estimated Carbon either. He was fantastic for two seasons, then not so great last season. Think of all that service provided by Haddow and Carbon from the wings...

[Martin]

And obviously Alan Devonshire (England and West Ham) is an infinitely worse judge of a player than the mighty Woody who famously got total body cramp when Chopper Harris scored the winner against Walsall.

[Guest]

Aves has been injured!

[GarySTFC]

Well, Mavis aside, we've progressed further than the rest of the players in the FA Cup as Billericay beat Hampton 4-1 on pens. Harris subbed off in second half, Hodges injured in warm up before match.

[Ted]

And even Maidenhead winning the replay doesn't put Metcalfe into the next round as he has left Maidenhead.

[Matt]

Quote:

Gary-STFC said:
Hodges injured in warm up before match.

I do hope it wasn't his poor nose...

[BFR]

Mike Parkin and his Hitchin side won a penalty shoot-out against the might Saffron Waldon to advance to the next round. Good luck to him

[GarySTFC]

Carbon's now at Wealdstone...