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Jamille Matt on loan - update: extended to end of season
- Thread starter Argy1e
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These players are just humans like ourselves. They have emotions and they feel pain. I have not had much one to one time with modern players but I enjoy a very close friendship with many of the players from the period 1958 to 1964. I was quite shocked that some of them still carried some emotional scars from their playing days. One told me that the barracking he received meant that he came to hate playing at Home Park and even went as far as to ask to be left out of the side. Talking to me about it 50 years on he was welling-up. Okay he was young and inexperienced but even some of the older, more battle-hardened players told me that at the time they were badly affected by the criticism. One very experienced player from the first Allison era told me that he had played all over the world with his international side. He felt that if there was a more unforgiving crowd than the one at Home Park then he never had the misfortune to play in front of them. "There was one particular fellow in the Devonport End. He gave me dog's abuse every home game I played, starting at the kick-in we used to have in those days. He said the most dreadful things and I was determined to see his face. I clocked him about the third time I heard it. Then, blow me down, a few weeks later I see the tw*t in the Mount Pleasant one night and he wants to shake me by the hand, buy me a drink and tell me how much he supports the team. I am afraid he got told (shall we say) to get lost. I know the supporters paid their money and were entitled to their opinion, but with people like him it is little wonder we started to struggle for a few seasons. You just hated your home games, the place where you should have been looking forward to playing. Some fans will never understand how much affect they can have on their team by getting behind them, especially when things may not be going so well." In fairness, there are others who felt it was water off a duck's back but I was shocked at the level of long-term damage that was done to a few players.demportdave":2fkdwu3o said:
Great news this is, Matt and Reuben are a right handful because they can't just double mark the player that the ball is constantly being played to, they're both great at receiving the ball and they can both play off each other much better than Brunt and Reuben ever did.
My hopes, expectations and spirits have just soared, Reuben and Jamille, no central defensive partnership will relish facing them, COYG.
Really encouraging news. It's up front that we need to get it right now. I would like to see Wylde (rather than Carey) wide on left and supplying good crosses for the two of them.
cheshiregreen":3shyptnu said:
Nardiello is clearly nowhere near match fit. Anyone can see that.
Can't they?!
loyal1970":2vx21sh6 said:
I'm sure Fleetwood benefit from the deal and Matt is probably keen for a move/deemed surplus to requirements but I'm prepared to thank anyone for providing services of a player we desperately need!
I once thanked Exeter for Jamie Mackie too.
Wagga_Wagga":1otuhxci said:
It is difficult to make out, for when I saw him run on as a sub, his legs seemed to move quickly but he did not cover much ground in the time. It does not necessarily make him a bad player for the great Tynan was no Wylde on 2 feet.
Quintrell_Green":2vxkzzy3 said:
No player will get match fit when not in the match day squad.
All the more curious that Nardiello was not given some game time in this week's development game.
