Kitson V Sylvan Ebanks-Blake

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well it says he broke his leg in april.
so he wont be playing for anybody.
 
SwissBlade said:
I'd say neither, they're not the sort of players that we should be targeting down here
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If ebanks-blake is willing to take the kind of wages we'd be offering i'd have him. Fallen out of favour of wolves, but still got a one in three ratio at championship level and above.

had a couple of fallow years, but seemed to recovered his scoring touch last season.

2 year contract no probs.
 
and so starts silly season. I'm hoping we are going to give up on signing crocked never quite have beens and overpaid benchwarmers. While nothing on planet McCabe would surprise me I am guessing he is fed up of pissing millions down the drain every month.

We aren't fishing in these pools!
 
Bladesway said:
and so starts silly season. I'm hoping we are going to give up on signing crocked never quite have beens and overpaid benchwarmers. While nothing on planet McCabe would surprise me I am guessing he is fed up of pissing millions down the drain every month.

We aren't fishing in these pools!
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Ebanks Blake got 15 in 42 for an extremely shit championship side last season. If he fits into our wage structure (which I doubt) then I think we'd be mad not to take him on.
 
Highbury_Blade said:
Ebanks Blake got 15 in 42 for an extremely shit championship side last season. If he fits into our wage structure (which I doubt) then I think we'd be mad not to take him on.
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We had a kid (Blackman) doing better than that last season. Did EBB finish the season or did he get a long term injury (another). If we could afford his wages you would be paying to have him on the treatment table. We cannot go there again.

Its totally unrealistic that if Wolves can't keep him that we could. Maybe we have a look at Suarez and Messi while we are at it because we can't afford them either.
 
one small problem ,,,,,wages

Stephen Hunt for example , will he drop from the £15 k a week hes been on to get £1500 a week with us

Theres plenty becoming available , we might have to wait till some realise thewy wont be getting quite what they used to get, and their agents cant find them the kings ransom they have become accustomed too
 
Bladesway said:
We had a kid (Blackman) doing better than that last season. Did EBB finish the season or did he get a long term injury (another). If we could afford his wages you would be paying to have him on the treatment table. We cannot go there again.

Its totally unrealistic that if Wolves can't keep him that we could. Maybe we have a look at Suarez and Messi while we are at it because we can't afford them either.
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He broke his fibula at the beginning of April, so would probably be out until the start of the season at least, so i would imagine that takes him off our radar.
 



Good player but too injury prone Ebanks-Blake and at 27 its wrecking what was a promising career.
 
I'd take Ebanks-Blake any day for this leauge, has a good scoring record in the championship, I'm sure he be a great player if we could afford him.
 
Living In a Fantasy World said:
I'd take Ebanks-Blake any day for this leauge, has a good scoring record in the championship, I'm sure he be a great player if we could afford him.
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Aye will do well for us for 6 months then get crippled.

We need one big bit of cotton wool for him.
 
Pace, strength, looks to beat a man, and a cracking finish. Everything we don't have at this time (except miller but a little bit less on the strength side). Id have him anyday if he was willing to take the wage drop. Keep him fit he would rip this league apart.

He is exactly the build of striker we need this season. You need 2 good strikers minimum in this division to get anywhere or one good striker and a very good winger. Two strikers with pace to burn that run at their man rips the poor defenses apart.
 
Bladesman said:
Aye will do well for us for 6 months then get crippled.

We need one big bit of cotton wool for him.
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Injuries are always possible, Miller being an example it happens in football.
You got to take the chance with some players, especially if a player of his standard. He knows were the goal is and that is what we need.
 
Not sure about Ebanks-Blake. Seems to me to be one of those players who goals-per-chance ratio is a bit high (a bit like a poor man's Andy Cole).
 
Living In a Fantasy World said:
Injuries are always possible, Miller being an example it happens in football.
You got to take the chance with some players, especially if a player of his standard. He knows were the goal is and that is what we need.
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I agree there is a risk.

Its just we have in the past signed players that have a history of repeated injuries and then we are surprised when they get injured with us. Id not mind us taking the risk perhaps but we never have any cover for when it happens.
 
Living In a Fantasy World said:
I'd take Ebanks-Blake any day for this leauge, has a good scoring record in the championship, I'm sure he be a great player if we could afford him.
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I don't quite see how his qualities as a player would vary according to the state of SUFC finances?

Is it like Schrödinger's cat?
 
I remember Ebanks-Blake having a good game against us for Plymouth and thought he was exactly the type of player we should have been looking to sign at that time. Wolves took him and the next time I saw him they beat us 3-0 and he smashed one, possibly two in.
 
Oh I should add the chances of him coming here now are precisely zero.
 
I just don't think Ebanks-Blake would be a positive signing, he has made his money elsewhere, his career seems to be in decline and i just don't think that he has got that spark, or the desire is there any more.

I would be looking at a Grant Holt/Rickie Lambert type of player, someone who has spent a long time learning their trade in the lower leagues and would jump at the chance of playing for a bigger club, and grasp that chance with both hands. Michael Higdon anybody?
 
brownie said:
I just don't think Ebanks-Blake would be a positive signing, he has made his money elsewhere, his career seems to be in decline and i just don't think that he has got that spark, or the desire is there any more.

I would be looking at a Grant Holt/Rickie Lambert type of player, someone who has spent a long time learning their trade in the lower leagues and would jump at the chance of playing for a bigger club, and grasp that chance with both hands. Michael Higdon anybody?
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Shurrup fool he's got a bigger gut than Tango
 
brownie said:
I just don't think Ebanks-Blake would be a positive signing, he has made his money elsewhere, his career seems to be in decline and i just don't think that he has got that spark, or the desire is there any more.

I would be looking at a Grant Holt/Rickie Lambert type of player, someone who has spent a long time learning their trade in the lower leagues and would jump at the chance of playing for a bigger club, and grasp that chance with both hands. Michael Higdon anybody?
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Sorry Brownie, I can't agree. I'd rather have the 27 year old Ebanks-Blake, who has always impressed me when I've seen him play in real life and who has scored most of his goals, and a decent tally at that, in the top two flights of English football, than the 29 year old who had to leave Crewe because he couldn't get in ahead of Luke Varney and has ended up doing just ok for most of his time in Scotland (1 in 4 for Falkirk and just less than 1 in 3 for St Mirren), with the notable exception of last season where he did well.
 



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