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Post by tessier26 on Sept 23, 2021 20:39:08 GMT
Is it just me or are we missing Clarkey badly? We haven't replaced him with anyone of the same class and sniping ability. I've not been a regular at games since around the 2011-12 season. It's been weird for me coming back and watching a team of all new players with only a couple of faces i recognise. I like the stand out class players like Ling, Beauregard, Tessier, Galbraith etc. Do we have anyone like that this season? Matt Lane looks tasty this year though. And i don't think Wallace is a patch on Corey Neilson. We should never have let him go.
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Post by bobness on Sept 24, 2021 7:44:30 GMT
Any EIHL team will struggle to replace a Brit at that level. Steelers will have the same problem with Dowd, Belfast had it with Shields (and effectively haven't, although they brought in Ciaran Long, he's being played on 3/4th line). I'm not sure your opinions on Neilson are widely held by posters on here, shall we say. The wider question is what will the GB side look like in 5 years?
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Post by iginla on Sept 24, 2021 8:05:38 GMT
Is it just me or are we missing Clarkey badly? We haven't replaced him with anyone of the same class and sniping ability. I've not been a regular at games since around the 2011-12 season. It's been weird for me coming back and watching a team of all new players with only a couple of faces i recognise. I like the stand out class players like Ling, Beauregard, Tessier, Galbraith etc. Do we have anyone like that this season? Matt Lane looks tasty this year though. And i don't think Wallace is a patch on Corey Neilson. We should never have let him go. You’re certainly right about Clarkey,they have never replaced him. There were only two options to try do that though. Either use Clarkey’s top wage to throw big money at Dowd and try prise him away from Steelers which was unlikely to ever happen,or throw Clarkey’s money on top of a normal imports wage at a different quality of import from well above the pond Panthers normally fish in. Unfortunately Panthers have done neither and just banked Clarkey’s wage and took the pisss as usual !
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Post by tessier26 on Sept 24, 2021 8:25:01 GMT
Is it just me or are we missing Clarkey badly? We haven't replaced him with anyone of the same class and sniping ability. I've not been a regular at games since around the 2011-12 season. It's been weird for me coming back and watching a team of all new players with only a couple of faces i recognise. I like the stand out class players like Ling, Beauregard, Tessier, Galbraith etc. Do we have anyone like that this season? Matt Lane looks tasty this year though. And i don't think Wallace is a patch on Corey Neilson. We should never have let him go. You’re certainly right about Clarkey,they have never replaced him. There were only two options to try do that though. Either use Clarkey’s top wage to throw big money at Dowd and try prise him away from Steelers which was unlikely to ever happen,or throw Clarkey’s money on top of a normal imports wage at a different quality of import from well above the pond Panthers normally fish in. Unfortunately Panthers have done neither and just banked Clarkey’s wage and took the pisss as usual ! I've always thought Neil Black is tight with spending.
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Post by iginla on Sept 24, 2021 10:22:45 GMT
You’re certainly right about Clarkey,they have never replaced him. There were only two options to try do that though. Either use Clarkey’s top wage to throw big money at Dowd and try prise him away from Steelers which was unlikely to ever happen,or throw Clarkey’s money on top of a normal imports wage at a different quality of import from well above the pond Panthers normally fish in. Unfortunately Panthers have done neither and just banked Clarkey’s wage and took the pisss as usual ! I've always thought Neil Black is tight with spending. Oh I agree entirely,I’ve said it for years. But he will be because the vast majority of his Panthers fans put up with being fleeced to the hilt,served up any old rubbish and being 3rd,4th or usually 5th best ! 🙄
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