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Title: Curtis Main
Post by: the vicar on January 07, 2016, 04:40:33 pm
DF says he is fit and back in the squad but has he ever been fit is so fit for what   :chair: :thumbdown:
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Monkcaster_Rover on January 07, 2016, 04:42:34 pm
Could be shit or bust for Curtis, this. Personally I hope he turns it around and proves us all wrong as he has shown us he has real quality, in bursts.

Come on Curtis lad make us scran our own words.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: PDX_Rover on January 07, 2016, 04:47:51 pm
Will be interesting to see if he can cut it under a better man manager... I hope so.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 04:50:20 pm
Williams couldn't buy a goal under Dickov.

Let's see if Main shows the same improvement that Williams has under DF.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: the vicar on January 07, 2016, 04:53:10 pm
I hope he proves me wrong, but chickens and headless come to mind
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 04:55:30 pm
People said the same about Williams playing in a system that seemed to discourage shots on goal.

We'll see.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Jonathan on January 07, 2016, 05:04:31 pm
Williams couldn't buy a goal under Dickov.

Let's see if Main shows the same improvement that Williams has under DF.

Absolutely. Let's give him a chance. I'm sure we'd all prefer him to succeed than fall flat (I hope so anyway). New manager, new start for him. He has more chance of stepping up to the plate with our support than with our derision.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: IDM on January 07, 2016, 05:09:47 pm
I hope he proves me wrong, but chickens and headless come to mind

Have a look here, after 49 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA)

More of this please!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Dare to dream! on January 07, 2016, 05:12:44 pm
He's clearly got ability and I think if we persevere with him he will turn out into a good player.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: murham on January 07, 2016, 05:16:53 pm
Confidence fellas confidence the game is built on it

Let's give the lad a chance and hopefully he will pay us back
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: RedJ on January 07, 2016, 05:21:43 pm
I wonder how Theo would've done under Ferguson...
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: roverstillidie91 on January 07, 2016, 05:26:01 pm
Just get behind him, never heard anything so ridiculous. It is like fans are wanting him to fail.

Fresh start and all that, he could turn out to be a steal if he starts scoring. Only good to keep Tyson/Williams on their toes.

Support the club but also support the players on the pitch.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 05:27:31 pm
I wonder how Theo would've done under Ferguson...

Fergie is good but I don't think he's a miracle worker...
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: RedJ on January 07, 2016, 05:33:05 pm
I wonder how Theo would've done under Ferguson...

Fergie is good but I don't think he's a miracle worker...

I too thought he was shite, but he did show flashes of quality. Rare, granted, but I think there is something there. Just very, very, very, very, very, very deep down.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: IDM on January 07, 2016, 05:55:38 pm
How many goals last season?
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: the vicar on January 07, 2016, 06:39:36 pm
Just get behind him, never heard anything so ridiculous. It is like fans are wanting him to fail.

Fresh start and all that, he could turn out to be a steal if he starts scoring. Only good to keep Tyson/Williams on their toes.

Support the club but also support the players on the pitch.
I don't want any rovers player to fail  only you you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear now can you
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Upton Rover on January 07, 2016, 06:45:32 pm
I really do think the lad will do good with DF hes shown that he as the ability. Just seems to try to hard. Resulting him looking very average. Lets get behind him and see what he can do.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: glosterred on January 07, 2016, 07:54:18 pm
I think Curtis is one that needs shipping out on loan to get some decent game time and hopefully his confidence back.

COYR
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: bobjimwilly on January 07, 2016, 08:04:56 pm
Should flog Main if possible; not good enough for this league.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: roverstillidie91 on January 07, 2016, 08:23:11 pm
Sorry.. that wasn't an opinion directed at you shall I add in reply to your comment. I get what you mean but as the emphasis is on attacking football I think he will thrive.

Just get behind him, never heard anything so ridiculous. It is like fans are wanting him to fail.

Fresh start and all that, he could turn out to be a steal if he starts scoring. Only good to keep Tyson/Williams on their toes.

Support the club but also support the players on the pitch.
I don't want any rovers player to fail  only you you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear now can you
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: drfchound on January 07, 2016, 08:24:16 pm
I hope he proves me wrong, but chickens and headless come to mind

Have a look here, after 49 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA)

More of this please!




What really brassed me off that day was the way in which the BC players taunted the fans with their goal celebrations.
Especially that first one.
Surely refs should book players for those kind of actions.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: The Red Baron on January 07, 2016, 08:58:07 pm
As the referee was the useless Stuart Attwell, it's no surprise he let them get away with it.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: drfchound on January 07, 2016, 09:03:04 pm
That explains that one then.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DearneValleyRover on January 07, 2016, 09:25:26 pm
It will be interesting to see how he does now he's fit because I don't think he ever has been since he joined, Dickov wasn't one for the training ground.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2016, 10:09:07 pm
I hope he proves me wrong, but chickens and headless come to mind

Have a look here, after 49 seconds in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqImuBlN1WA)

More of this please!

The lad has quite exceptional ability, but he's clearly never been crafted into a footballer. If Ferguson could pull that one off, we'd have a gem on our hands.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 10:11:38 pm
Indeed. He's so naturally talented it hurts to watch sometimes because he makes so many technical mistakes that should have been beaten out of him already.

If anyone will make a man of Main it'll be Fergie. The question is will Rovers fans give him time?
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Bentley Bullet on January 07, 2016, 10:21:24 pm
I've been watching darts on telly today. It broke my heart thinking that I'd missed the boat by packing the game in. I think back to the half a dozen times when I hit 180 during my 25 years of playing the game.

That proves to me that I had exceptional ability, but I'd clearly not been crafted into a darts player!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Filo on January 07, 2016, 10:22:36 pm
Indeed. He's so naturally talented it hurts to watch sometimes because he makes so many technical mistakes that should have been beaten out of him already.

If anyone will make a man of Main it'll be Fergie. The question is will Rovers fans give him time?

You like Curtis?
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 10:26:20 pm
I've seen worse players at Rovers.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Mike_F on January 07, 2016, 10:29:47 pm
One Rovers fan will give him all the time he has left after getting his signature tattooed on him in the Summer. What a numpty! 😉
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: RedJ on January 07, 2016, 10:30:37 pm
I've been watching darts on telly today. It broke my heart thinking that I'd missed the boat by packing the game in. I think back to the half a dozen times when I hit 180 during my 25 years of playing the game.

That proves to me that I had exceptional ability, but I'd clearly not been crafted into a darts player!

Watching BDO darts makes me think I could still make it. :laugh:
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 07, 2016, 10:35:07 pm
One Rovers fan will give him all the time he has left after getting his signature tattooed on him in the Summer. What a numpty! 😉

Our fans are amazing, aren't they?
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Mike_F on January 07, 2016, 10:37:52 pm
I must admit I was quite amazed by it!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 07, 2016, 10:57:30 pm
f**king hell!

I'm all for marking your beliefs to market, but there are limits!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: les@donr on January 08, 2016, 12:38:18 am
I hope I'm proved wrong but Main could prove to bea luxury player we can do without like Forrester.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Sammy Chung was King on January 08, 2016, 12:59:37 am
''It has never been proved that Ferguson can walk on water'', but if he can get Main performing, i will start to believe it!. He might end up our secret weapon!. :unsure:
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: les@donr on January 08, 2016, 01:05:46 am
''It has never been proved that Ferguson can walk on water'', but if he can get Main performing, i will start to believe it!. He might end up our secret weapon!. :unsure:

Sammy, I hope you are right. Curtis want to do well at Rovers and has his heart in it, unlike Forrester. However, does he fit into Fergie's system and has he the talent to unseat either Williams or Tyson? Time will tell. I can see him going out on loan to get some first team football, maybe in Lg2, and then see how he does to decide if he is in Fergie's plans for next season.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Sammy Chung was King on January 08, 2016, 01:19:41 am
''It has never been proved that Ferguson can walk on water'', but if he can get Main performing, i will start to believe it!. He might end up our secret weapon!. :unsure:

Sammy, I hope you are right. Curtis want to do well at Rovers and has his heart in it, unlike Forrester. However, does he fit into Fergie's system and has he the talent to unseat either Williams or Tyson? Time will tell. I can see him going out on loan to get some first team football, maybe in Lg2, and then see how he does to decide if he is in Fergie's plans for next season.

He can do things off the cuff that are outstanding, then at other times he doesn't look a player. My reasoning on it, he has spent far too much time training and not playing first team football, he is a touch behind players of the same age.
 The things you pick up with experience, he hasn't and that's why he plays well one minute terrible the next. Like any player he needs faith shown in him, i am just not sure how he can force his way into the side, unless hoping it doesn't happen we get a terrible injury run with the strikers.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: roversdude on January 08, 2016, 05:16:19 am
Accrington could be a good move for Curtis then move up to Rangers
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: drfchound on January 08, 2016, 11:39:51 am
I've seen worse players at Rovers.




Lewis Guy.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Copps is Magic on January 08, 2016, 11:44:04 am
Lewis Guy has become the go to example of a player who failed to deceive but you can't take that performance away at Derby from him. He was great that day.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 08, 2016, 11:47:10 am
Copps

That is precisely why so many of us have that opinion of him. He DID have a lot of talent. But he wasted it because he had a heart the size of a pea and preferred to look for the dive as a first option every time he got into the box.

Even if he had been consistently brilliant, I would still have despised him for the diving aspect to his game.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: drfchound on January 08, 2016, 11:48:13 am
True, and he scored against Cardiff the following game, then didn't even get close to scoring until he was left out 20 games later.

I still laugh when i remember his wide eyed interview on the telly after that Derby goal.
He looked like a little boy who had just won first prize in something or other at school.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: RoversAlias on January 08, 2016, 12:18:34 pm
To be fair, Guy was clean through on goal away at Barnsley before Darren Moore rugby tackled him.

Bizarrely, his red card enabled us to go on to lose 4-1 in that game. If only Lewis had gotten through and slotted home...
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: IDM on January 08, 2016, 12:59:32 pm
Lewis Guy destroyed Port Vale away too, where we won 3-1
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Yorkiered on January 08, 2016, 04:54:46 pm
Maybe I should give Curtis and shove in the right direction and suggest he has a Loxodonta's touch!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: les@donr on January 08, 2016, 06:47:32 pm
Where is Lewis Guy, I knew he played for Franchise for a while, but don't know if he is still at a club?
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: neil grainger on January 08, 2016, 07:13:16 pm
I've always had faith in Curtis and I believe he will prove his doubters wrong.

Rovers fans can be very critical. Consistently good, prolific strikers are few and far between and are seldom going to pitch up at clubs like ours.
Curtis has got ability, he can score goals, but like the majority of footballers (and in particular strikers) he needs confidence. And he needs support, so let's do our bit and give him it!
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: DRFC on January 08, 2016, 07:14:04 pm
Amen, Neil.

 :aok:
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: drfchound on January 08, 2016, 07:40:58 pm
Where is Lewis Guy, I knew he played for Franchise for a while, but don't know if he is still at a club?




I googled "Lewis Guy Footballer" and my computer crashed.
Anyway, i have it back on again and apparently he is at Chorley now in the National League North.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: les@donr on January 08, 2016, 07:47:30 pm
Where is Lewis Guy, I knew he played for Franchise for a while, but don't know if he is still at a club?




I googled "Lewis Guy Footballer" and my computer crashed.
Anyway, i have it back on again and apparently he is at Chorley now in the National League North.

Cheers, Hound. I thought he would be higher up the pyramid. Talent wasted.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on January 08, 2016, 10:12:39 pm
Maybe I should give Curtis and shove in the right direction and suggest he has a Loxodonta's touch!

Nice one. Me and thee deserve medals when we go up this year. We've both taken one for the team and been made to look dicks for it.

http://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=254774.msg583351#msg583351
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: Sammy Chung was King on January 09, 2016, 01:48:20 am
I remember seeing him walking towards the changing rooms at Belle vue, before one of the big cup games, he had on a wool coat, the club had some sort of deal with somebody from Bawtry, he looked like a tailors dummy!.
 All you could see in the semi darkness, was a midget with a set of teeth that would put any hoss to shame and as white as Simon Cowells, bouncing across the rutted belle vue carpark, everytime he dropped into a hole i could only just see him!.
Title: Re: Curtis Main
Post by: les@donr on January 09, 2016, 01:51:21 am
BST, you were right at the time of writing. I also shared your concern for our club. Amazing how a new manager can turn us around from a bunch of wailing Ezekiel's into the Donny Rovers Gospel Choir, singing Oh, Happy Day :)