League 1 General Chat Thread

[Gi Dalor]

Any inside knowledge on what's going on with Benjamin Taminu?
a) No work permit
b) Not registered in time
c) No first touch
d) Not even close to match fitness. (This is actually what I think the problem might be. I know I might be being unfair on the Tanzanian league, but I think we don't realise how fit footballers need to be, so I'm guessing the club have him training separately until he can get up to the baseline for shuttles or whatever. The guy just hasn't played a full 90 minutes in a long, long time).
e) Just not good enough to get in the team.
f) Needs to learn English lower league style of play

The Nigerian fans are pretty salty about his callup, and quite a few saying that it's down to corruption; that's someone's getting a cut of his appearance money. Both Taminu and Eguavoen (the national coach) seem aware of the controversy. Must be nice to have the Super Eagles as your feeder team that you can send players out on loan to.
But yeah, given the discrepancies on the transfer fee;
g) Money Laundering

It would appear that it is indeed d). A member of the Super Eagles is struggling to be fit enough to even train with the rest of an EFL League One team, and a 6.5 hour flight to Lagos, sitting on the bench, flying to Libya, being locked inside an airport overnight with no food and drink, flying back to Nigeria and then back to London probably hasn't done a great deal to help, either physically or mentally.
Crawley probably hope that he's not called up again in November.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

I'd definitely want to check his passport. 22 looking like 42

 

[SF_]

Ha, just Googled. Not a chance he's 22.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Ha, just Googled. Not a chance he's 22.

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Some proper Benjamin Button stuff going on there if true

 

[Carver]

Just to scare those at the bottom of the league who could end up like us and Forest Green.

 

[Gi Dalor]

I'd dismiss it as a silly conspiracy theory, but

 

[denzel ecfc]

Just to scare those at the bottom of the league who could end up like us and Forest Green.

TLDR, does he mention Port Vale at all? They seem to be doing OK.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

TLDR, does he mention Port Vale at all? They seem to be doing OK.

We came straight back up as well.
In fact, the last two times we have been in L2 (from relegation and promotion) we have got to L1 at the first attempt.
Its a piss poor league, but a more enjoyable one as we are a top L2/lower L1 side

 

[Trapdoor]

We came straight back up as well.
In fact, the last two times we have been in L2 (from relegation and promotion) we have got to L1 at the first attempt.
Its a piss poor league, but a more enjoyable one as we are a top L2/lower L1 side

We took a long while to get back last time, but we were never at real risk of dropping out of L2 (again). I think this is narrative is pretty much nonsense to be honest.

 

[denzel ecfc]

We took a long while to get back last time, but we were never at real risk of dropping out of L2 (again). I think this is narrative is pretty much nonsense to be honest.

It's also a fact that relegated sides often start poorly as they have gone through a lot of change in pre season.
I think Carlisle will be OK.

 

[Super_horns]

Sad news for Steve Bruce and his family.

RIP Young Madison.

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