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Title: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Dabbermoo on May 01, 2024, 08:33:12 pm
Would these 2 fit in? Would they be a worthwhile signing in anyone's opinion.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Chris Black come back on May 01, 2024, 08:39:48 pm
Fejiri did ok this season with 9 in 26 in all competitions, but didn’t play a single minute between December and April. Perhaps unfairly some clubs will shy away from him given his injury record, even if different injuries. 
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: mushRTID on May 01, 2024, 08:40:03 pm
Not for me.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Goole Rover on May 01, 2024, 08:44:20 pm
I agree.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: dknward2 on May 01, 2024, 09:11:56 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Sven Vath on May 01, 2024, 09:26:57 pm
all depends on which league we are in for starters 
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: ncRover on May 01, 2024, 09:39:29 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Campsall rover on May 01, 2024, 10:04:06 pm
Obsession with past players is a theme on this forum.

No they are the past. 
JM is well past his hey day which was with us for 3 seasons.

Feji I think has been released for a reason by a lower league 1 club.

Yes they made a mistake with Joe Ironside but then maybe he wanted a fresh challenge and wouldn’t sign a new contract, I don’t know.

Look forwards is my motto. The past is exactly what it is, the past.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Colin C No.3 on May 01, 2024, 10:06:54 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.

Tell you what.

As a good a player as Marquis was for us (& at that time we for him) it’s in the past.

If we had signed JM at the beginning of the season to ‘lead the line’ as Ironside has done, do you think he would have fulfilled that role better or worse?

I’ve never seen Joe throw his arms up or moan in a manner that can be interpreted by the supporters as Marquis did when he received a misplaced pass or indeed didn’t receive one.

Marquis did have one thing in common with Ironside, he never stopped running ‘for the cause’.

Was Marquis a better ‘natural goal scorer’ than Ironside, I would say you’d have to give him that……maybe’s.

Was he a better ‘team player’ than Joe….I’d say not in terms of holding the ball up & laying it off.

Opinion’s eh.

They’ll be the death of me!

Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: streathamdave on May 01, 2024, 10:07:04 pm
A past manager has done quite well coming back. Yes to JM would provide good competition. No to Fej.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: RoversInSpain on May 01, 2024, 10:10:45 pm
Apart from Grant and Cliff the past is indeed the past.
Not sure how Fej comes into any signing equation or thoughts we’d have.
Super John WAS just that, but not now, we have our eyes on Hak’s and a decent keeper don’t we?
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: colincramb on May 01, 2024, 10:12:23 pm
No to both. Would much rather have Matt Smith from Salford
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Campsall rover on May 01, 2024, 10:21:49 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
You know what our budget will be next season then?

Reynolds has already said he needs help with funding the club if they are going to progress further.
Mansfield will not a have a large budget by League 1 standards. Mid table max.
Stockport likewise I would imagine.

Rotherham will definitely be struggling to maintain a competitive budget for a top 6 league 1 position

Huddersfield and whoever else comes down will I expect have large budgets for League 1 .

I am sure if we go up our budget will be competitive.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: ravenrover on May 02, 2024, 12:11:41 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.

Tell you what.

As a good a player as Marquis was for us (& at that time we for him) it’s in the past.

If we had signed JM at the beginning of the season to ‘lead the line’ as Ironside has done, do you think he would have fulfilled that role better or worse?

I’ve never seen Joe throw his arms up or moan in a manner that can be interpreted by the supporters as Marquis did when he received a misplaced pass or indeed didn’t receive one.

Marquis did have one thing in common with Ironside, he never stopped running ‘for the cause’.

Was Marquis a better ‘natural goal scorer’ than Ironside, I would say you’d have to give him that……maybe’s.

Was he a better ‘team player’ than Joe….I’d say not in terms of holding the ball up & laying it off.

Opinion’s eh.

They’ll be the death of me!


Not a better taker of pelanties though!
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: aidanstu on May 02, 2024, 01:13:52 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
You know what our budget will be next season then?

Reynolds has already said he needs help with funding the club if they are going to progress further.
Mansfield will not a have a large budget by League 1 standards. Mid table max.
Stockport likewise I would imagine.

Rotherham will definitely be struggling to maintain a competitive budget for a top 6 league 1 position

Huddersfield and whoever else comes down will I expect have large budgets for League 1 .

I am sure if we go up our budget will be competitive.


This made me chuckle; had a swipe at somebody claiming to know Doncaster’s budget and then suggest you know those of half the league
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: silent majority on May 02, 2024, 01:29:07 pm
Obsession with past players is a theme on this forum.

No they are the past. 
JM is well past his hey day which was with us for 3 seasons.

Feji I think has been released for a reason by a lower league 1 club.

Yes they made a mistake with Joe Ironside but then maybe he wanted a fresh challenge and wouldn’t sign a new contract, I don’t know.

Look forwards is my motto. The past is exactly what it is, the past.

It's not just past players though is it?

Some still have an obsession over past owners and Chairmen.

Look forwards?

Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Campsall rover on May 02, 2024, 01:32:46 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
You know what our budget will be next season then?

Reynolds has already said he needs help with funding the club if they are going to progress further.
Mansfield will not a have a large budget by League 1 standards. Mid table max.
Stockport likewise I would imagine.

Rotherham will definitely be struggling to maintain a competitive budget for a top 6 league 1 position

Huddersfield and whoever else comes down will I expect have large budgets for League 1 .

I am sure if we go up our budget will be competitive.


This made me chuckle; had a swipe at somebody claiming to know Doncaster’s budget and then suggest you know those of half the league
No I never said I know, it was an estimate of where their budgets would sit in the league.
I have no more knowledge than anyone else.
Don’t try and be clever. I was replying to a statement that our budget would be the lowest of all the promoted clubs. That’s not a fact is it?
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: ncRover on May 02, 2024, 01:36:24 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
You know what our budget will be next season then?

Reynolds has already said he needs help with funding the club if they are going to progress further.
Mansfield will not a have a large budget by League 1 standards. Mid table max.
Stockport likewise I would imagine.

Rotherham will definitely be struggling to maintain a competitive budget for a top 6 league 1 position

Huddersfield and whoever else comes down will I expect have large budgets for League 1 .

I am sure if we go up our budget will be competitive.

I’m not claiming to know, I’m just using common sense.

Even if we’re in League 1, Stockport and Wrexham will likely have higher budgets than us next year. Wishful thinking to suggest otherwise.

Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: MachoMadness on May 02, 2024, 01:46:22 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.
You know what our budget will be next season then?

Reynolds has already said he needs help with funding the club if they are going to progress further.
Mansfield will not a have a large budget by League 1 standards. Mid table max.
Stockport likewise I would imagine.

Rotherham will definitely be struggling to maintain a competitive budget for a top 6 league 1 position

Huddersfield and whoever else comes down will I expect have large budgets for League 1 .

I am sure if we go up our budget will be competitive.

I’m not claiming to know, I’m just using common sense.

Even if we’re in League 1, Stockport and Wrexham will likely have higher budgets than us next year. Wishful thinking to suggest otherwise.


This is fairly uncontroversial, surely. Be surprised if we had a bigger budget than Mansfield too, but depends what TB's aims are and what budget he sets.

All of this is assuming we can finish the fairytale this season, of course.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: ncRover on May 02, 2024, 01:52:42 pm
We’ve moved on let’s leave these particular ex players in the past.

We need to be looking at top end league 1/ championship level players

Steady on. At the moment we’re still in League 2.

And If we go up we’ll have the lowest budget of the 4 promoted sides. Never mind whoever misses out on the L1 play offs or comes down from the championship.

Tell you what.

As a good a player as Marquis was for us (& at that time we for him) it’s in the past.

If we had signed JM at the beginning of the season to ‘lead the line’ as Ironside has done, do you think he would have fulfilled that role better or worse?

I’ve never seen Joe throw his arms up or moan in a manner that can be interpreted by the supporters as Marquis did when he received a misplaced pass or indeed didn’t receive one.

Marquis did have one thing in common with Ironside, he never stopped running ‘for the cause’.

Was Marquis a better ‘natural goal scorer’ than Ironside, I would say you’d have to give him that……maybe’s.

Was he a better ‘team player’ than Joe….I’d say not in terms of holding the ball up & laying it off.

Opinion’s eh.

They’ll be the death of me!

Peak Marquis was quicker which allowed him to sniff out more chances and offer different options to the midfielders.

Ironside is slow but he doesn’t need as many chances to score. And he is simply a better all round footballer. Better touch, pass and better in the air.

I agree with you. I didn’t like JM’s attitude towards the end. Not helpful. I hate playing with people like that.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: glosterred on May 02, 2024, 02:15:24 pm
A big fat no thanks for either of them from me


COYR
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: LincolnDonny on May 02, 2024, 03:27:43 pm
Hellz  bloody bells here we go again how many more ex players ….. some of you lot need bloody help!!!!!!
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Dabbermoo on May 02, 2024, 03:58:39 pm
Hellz  bloody bells here we go again how many more ex players ….. some of you lot need bloody help!!!!!!

So we can't discuss ex players in a forum without needing help but just remind me who is the manager and assistant manager at the minute
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Campsall rover on May 02, 2024, 04:47:15 pm
Hellz  bloody bells here we go again how many more ex players ….. some of you lot need bloody help!!!!!!

So we can't discuss ex players in a forum without needing help but just remind me who is the manager and assistant manager at the minute
The Manager and Coach are not kicking or heading balls on the pitch and running several miles each game.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Glyn_Wigley on May 02, 2024, 11:33:03 pm
Young players could be available because their potential has been misjudged.

Old players are usually available because they've been correctly judged.
Title: Re: Marquis and Feji available
Post by: Move DRFC on May 03, 2024, 01:11:00 am
Good luck to them but no. Shame for Fej because injuries are screwing his career he's a good player.

JM on the decline but was immense for us.