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Post by swarfiga on Aug 18, 2016 19:46:50 GMT
Predictable The Ownership have said the team will be made up of Local players, local talent they own the club not Todd. This is the trouble the owners are adamant that the Brits will all be local players (against Todd's wishes I suspect), so are we wanting to build a club for the town and the fans which will be competitive or are we going to build a club that is in effect just there to give local boys a game of hockey with no hope or chance of ever winning anything. The team should be there for winning not so some pals can get a game of hockey. I agree with the sentiment of using local talent, with talent being the key word, if they want to use local guys then get helping the younger ones properly, and pay them properly so they can be professionals because all that's going to happen is the best ones like Plews and Marr will get a chance to go somewhere else and get paid to play properly, so like iv said before its all fine and well saying local lads but put the * next to it (as long as you're cheap)
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Post by boschman76 on Aug 18, 2016 20:04:44 GMT
The guy who said why Chris why I can see where he is coming from why as a Brit would you put yourself through all that effort in preseason trying to get fit when you know deep down all you'll most of the season is sit on the bench or maybe get the occasional shift because the coach doesn't trust you or want to give you ice time he would rather burn out the imports .the amount of times I've seen us be cruising going into the 3rd period when you should be giving your Brits lots of ice time and rest the imports does our coach do that no he keeps pushing the imports that was ok twenty years ago when the games weren't so intense and physical but in the pro era you just can't get away with that and that's why I worry about the 3 over 35yr olds we have and how they will cope with all the ice time they will have to log
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Post by johndabomb on Aug 18, 2016 22:02:50 GMT
We could have had a brit core of Marr, Moore, Plews, C.Mitchell, Walker, L.Mitchell...
The fact that none of them featured for the Flyers is pretty alarming really.
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Post by k3vya on Aug 18, 2016 22:41:18 GMT
end of the day were playing 14 imports so most of the brits won't see ice time so it don't really matter what brits we have 14 imports 1is the nm, leaves 13 to have 3 full lines you require 15 so that 2 Brits an that's not counting injury cover. MOD COMMENT: Disagree all you want, but no need to stoop to insults.
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Post by coloradoflyer on Aug 19, 2016 5:21:52 GMT
end of the day were playing 14 imports so most of the brits won't see ice time so it don't really matter what brits we have 14 imports 1is the nm, leaves 13 to have 3 full lines you require 15 so that 2 Brits an that's not counting injury cover. you are a roaster folk like u not a clue Insults really why am I a roaster, I know you require 15 skaters for 3 lines I have been watching hockey since the 80's, 1 brit forward and 1 brit D, and may be 3 sat bench warming every week
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Post by Dirty Lyle on Aug 19, 2016 5:50:20 GMT
end of the day were playing 14 imports so most of the brits won't see ice time so it don't really matter what brits we have 14 imports 1is the nm, leaves 13 to have 3 full lines you require 15 so that 2 Brits an that's not counting injury cover.you are a roaster folk like u not a clue Totally out of order, Colorado is entitled to post his opinion and I'm willing to guess he has been to and contributed to the flyers a lot more than you, This forum should not be used for personal attacks its about opinion sharing (agree or disagree)
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Post by k3vya on Aug 19, 2016 6:06:08 GMT
end of the day were playing 14 imports so most of the brits won't see ice time so it don't really matter what brits we have 14 imports 1is the nm, leaves 13 to have 3 full lines you require 15 so that 2 Brits an that's not counting injury cover. you are a roaster folk like u not a clue Insults really why am I a roaster, I know you require 15 skaters for 3 lines I have been watching hockey since the 80's, 1 brit forward and 1 brit D, and may be 3 sat bench warming every week You say the Brits don't really matter, you have been watching hockey since the 80s The whole squad matters everyone has a part to play an what you have to mind is the squad trains together every time so yes it all matters who's there week in week out etc,
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 19, 2016 6:22:34 GMT
That's the problem too many fans still look at it like Brits and imports, no like it or not it's a professional hockey club now, the whole team should be pro and should all be up to the level, end of story.
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Post by coloradoflyer on Aug 19, 2016 7:08:34 GMT
back when I first started watching hockey the brits did matter as it was mainly them playing a long side 4 or 5 imports, now it has totally changed the arena teams with the money want as many imports playing as possible, and if you listen to these GM's they don't care about GB hockey all they care about is making money any way they can and right now that is import hockey. I can see this league going back down the same route the ISL went the bigger clubs will keep pushing to make it as many imports as you want a long side as many brits and what will happen same that happened in the ISL teams will just say we can't afford this anymore, hope am wrong but I want to see more brits playing at the top not less we have a great junior set up one of the best in Britain and in 5 full season we haven't even bothered our back side to use it or to get things in place so we can eventually start churning out some new latto's , haig's kings and the likes
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Post by regdunlop on Aug 19, 2016 7:15:08 GMT
This forum's becoming toxic. I'm taking nowt to do with it, and getting my hockey chat elsewhere
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Post by bobdee on Aug 19, 2016 9:01:50 GMT
back when I first started watching hockey the brits did matter as it was mainly them playing a long side 4 or 5 imports, now it has totally changed the arena teams with the money want as many imports playing as possible, and if you listen to these GM's they don't care about GB hockey all they care about is making money any way they can and right now that is import hockey. I can see this league going back down the same route the ISL went the bigger clubs will keep pushing to make it as many imports as you want a long side as many brits and what will happen same that happened in the ISL teams will just say we can't afford this anymore, hope am wrong but I want to see more brits playing at the top not less we have a great junior set up one of the best in Britain and in 5 full season we haven't even bothered our back side to use it or to get things in place so we can eventually start churning out some new latto's , haig's kings and the likes I also think more Brits should be developed for the top league. Without that GB are second division internationally. Develop our youngsters and give them a chance.
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Post by wantsabeard on Aug 19, 2016 12:33:52 GMT
You all worrying about Brooks logging minutes - he'll be one of the fittest guys on your team
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Post by pink on Aug 19, 2016 12:37:48 GMT
Ask any of the Kestrels if they want to train with the Flyers at the start of the season they will tell you no reason they just get dumped when the imports come in then they get **** on
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Post by icysmith on Aug 19, 2016 13:20:25 GMT
This forum's becoming toxic. I'm taking nowt to do with it, and getting my hockey chat elsewhere I was gonna tell you to man up But reading some of the guff written about Scoony and Wando.......you`re actually not far off the mark. No doubt it`ll be Tommys turn on Monday to get it tight when he`s announced.
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 19, 2016 20:34:43 GMT
Any chance it could be Colten Hayes?
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