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#incoming (Macaulay Gillesphey signs)
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PL2 3DQ":vrp6nar2 said:
He looks good in that showreel. Calm and composed, happy to carry the ball forwards, not afraid to use his weaker foot and able to ping a cracking long diagonal ball. Judging from the positions he was taking up he looks well suited to playing on the left of a 3 man defence.
slingsby_pobble":ebo8j8zl said:
I’m not more knowledgable than you, but at the moment…
Cooper
Wilson Scarr Gillespie
Edwards Randell Grant
Camara Mayor
Ennis Jephcott
Will change a lot between now and then, though.
I have had a nosey at the Brisbane Roar forum which is called the Orange Army- i could only find 2 comments about Macaulay in the couple of pages i looked at
And Gillesphey was terrible tonight. He has always looked vulnerable when players run at him, tonight he added a degree of what looked like “couldn’t give a fudge”. Especially poor effort when Ibini scored. (that was posted one month ago)
So looking at our squad I think we lose:
Gillesphey (Back to England, hopefully League 1), (that was posted 2 days ago)
Make of that what you will but i will look forward to seeing what he is about
And Gillesphey was terrible tonight. He has always looked vulnerable when players run at him, tonight he added a degree of what looked like “couldn’t give a fudge”. Especially poor effort when Ibini scored. (that was posted one month ago)
So looking at our squad I think we lose:
Gillesphey (Back to England, hopefully League 1), (that was posted 2 days ago)
Make of that what you will but i will look forward to seeing what he is about
I know the You Tube video clip is edited to demonstrate the guy's good points, but nevertheless, he appears to be able to do everything young Watts was not very good at. If MG can repeat those skills regularly, I feel he will be quite an asset to Argyle. Let's hope so, and move on to other gaps in the squad.
When I left school I worked at CE Curtis builders merchants (now Bradfords). The boss there believed that unusually spelt surnames were the result of a poorly educated person registering the birth. Years later I was on a ship and a guy called Grork joined. I asked him where the name came from. He said he was descended from a family called O'Rourke and that somewhere along the line the registrar couldn't read someone's poor writing. Its a good example as you can see how it could have happened. The O and apostrophe mistaken for a G.The Doctor":2vb5dy60 said:
Dublin Green":39vbk9sn said:
It seems Brisbane Roar managed to find a nice wedge to persuade his defensive partner Tom Aldred to extend but couldn't put much together to make him a decent offer. Looking at Aldreds history, it seems he is a lower league player in the UK which I guess could be used to gauge how good/bad Gillesphey is considering he hasn't played much in the UK. The thing is though, Roar, play in a league which someone else has said is full of teams which Argyle should easily beat and yet they appeared to want Aldred more :think:
I know we need to see him first before commenting on his ability but the fact that Roar seem to prefer Aldred more than Gillesphey is not a good start imo.
I would say 100 league games by the age of 23 at Carlisle would suggest he has something about him and now in his prime years he should cope with League 1 OK.
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So we've signed two out of three defenders who were recently voted Player of the Season at their respective clubs, Wilson at Ipswich for the season just finished and Gillesphey at Brisbane in September last season. Not bad.
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Pottypilgrim":3vlu0msp said:
They were both offered terms. How could you possibly know the details of the relative contract offers? Or are you just twisting the facts you don’t have, to be critical before he’s even kicked a ball because you have an issue with our recruitment strategy?
Maybe after two years on the opposite side of the world to his family in a global pandemic, he just fancied coming back to England to play?
cheshiregreen":3q3b95vn said:
IMO the A league would be comparible to the lower half of League 1 and below. Several teams have some very good players and hopefully Gillesphy will prove to be one of them.
You often accuse Ryan Lowe, and me, on one occasion, of saying ‘what we want to hear’. It seems to me that, in your posts, you are doing exactly the opposite. By searching for reasons why Gillesphey is not a good signing you are finding information that ‘we don’t want to hear’.Pottypilgrim":30d9udec said:
We know that you are not RL’s biggest fan but I prefer the fact that Brisbane Roar’s supporters voted Gillesphey their Player of the Season in 2019/20, not Tom Aldred.
