Billkmc
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Posts: 1,365
EIHL Team: Fife Flyers
NHL Team: Calgary Flames
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Post by Billkmc on Sept 4, 2021 21:57:31 GMT
Conner Bleackly, John Furgele, Mike McKee and Paul Swindlehurst have all been rumoured on this thread I’d love us to sign swindlehurst but I thought I read on THF that it was off, McKee would be a good big body at the back end so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that they happen.
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Post by teamshaky on Sept 5, 2021 6:17:50 GMT
Conner Bleackly, John Furgele, Mike McKee and Paul Swindlehurst have all been rumoured on this thread I’d love us to sign swindlehurst but I thought I read on THF that it was off, McKee would be a good big body at the back end so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that they happen. Curtis Leonard was mentioned aswell but they only rumours, Bleackley would be a great signing aswell, they all would be.
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Post by fifeflyer11 on Sept 5, 2021 9:33:30 GMT
Imants Lescovs new D man thoughts on him?
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Post by teamshaky on Sept 5, 2021 9:47:00 GMT
Imants Lescovs new D man thoughts on him? Going by stats only he looks a skilled D man, probably good on PP as his points seem to be high, top scoring D man in most of his team's, not sure how good the league's are he has played in but they are below EIHL level especially this season, a brief visit to KHL though. We won't know how he copes with the physicality of EIHL until he/if playing here, he a decent enough size hopefully his transition good from D to forward, something we really lacked in our last season, probably recommended by Birzins I guessing.
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Post by stewartgibson on Sept 5, 2021 10:27:19 GMT
Imants Lescovs new D man thoughts on him? read reports on him, good offensively but defensively a liability
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Post by stewartgibson on Sept 5, 2021 12:46:35 GMT
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Post by waterboy on Sept 5, 2021 13:08:03 GMT
Imants Lescovs new D man thoughts on him? read reports on him, good offensively but defensively a liability Few vids on YouTube give a similar impression. Frustrated forward who takes chances to break up with the play. One vid shows him being pushed off the play very easily. The goals he scores let’s just say the goalies could have done better. Seems a decent player going forward. Defence mmm wait and see, could just be the games he was in as it didn’t come across as a high standard. The stats/time in the Alps league points to a decent player.
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Post by stewartgibson on Sept 5, 2021 13:29:05 GMT
read reports on him, good offensively but defensively a liability Few vids on YouTube give a similar impression. Frustrated forward who takes chances to break up with the play. One vid shows him being pushed off the play very easily. The goals he scores let’s just say the goalies could have done better. Seems a decent player going forward. Defence mmm wait and see, could just be the games he was in as it didn’t come across as a high standard. The stats/time in the Alps league points to a decent player. i dont think his style will suit this league one bit. To me it looks like we’re starting to panic sign. With him, Naslund and isaacs down the right side of our defence i think we look poor but thats just my opinion
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Post by teamshaky on Sept 5, 2021 14:47:00 GMT
Few vids on YouTube give a similar impression. Frustrated forward who takes chances to break up with the play. One vid shows him being pushed off the play very easily. The goals he scores let’s just say the goalies could have done better. Seems a decent player going forward. Defence mmm wait and see, could just be the games he was in as it didn’t come across as a high standard. The stats/time in the Alps league points to a decent player. i dont think his style will suit this league one bit. To me it looks like we’re starting to panic sign. With him, Naslund and isaacs down the right side of our defence i think we look poor but thats just my opinion I was hoping we were going to sign 15 imports this season since the bench has been reduced therefore reducing the team budget for all teams this season,it has been mentioned on this forum, Isaacs can play on Wing aswell so would be a decent signing if used in this role, but apart from that I think the league standard has upgraded considerably to a level that Isaacs could struggle, as for Naslund I will wait to see him play before I judge but I do get where you coming from.
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Post by thebluewellies on Sept 5, 2021 14:58:30 GMT
Isaac’s hasn’t been good enough for a few seasons, no where near good enough for the standard that seems to be set this year. He would be a very poor lazy signing in my opinion but one TD is perfectly capable of making
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Post by stewartgibson on Sept 5, 2021 15:03:57 GMT
i dont think his style will suit this league one bit. To me it looks like we’re starting to panic sign. With him, Naslund and isaacs down the right side of our defence i think we look poor but thats just my opinion I was hoping we were going to sign 15 imports this season since the bench has been reduced therefore reducing the team budget for all teams this season,it has been mentioned on this forum, Isaacs can play on Wing aswell so would be a decent signing if used in this role, but apart from that I think the league standard has upgraded considerably to a level that Isaacs could struggle, as for Naslund I will wait to see him play before I judge but I do get where you coming from. in a season where we literally cant afford another 10th place finish, i think we’re taking far too many risks in our recruitment. What happened to signing players like Rioux, Paquet, Haines, Delahey, Cohen, Keller, Caister etc. I just dont understand the recruitment in our defence the past couple of years.
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Post by teamshaky on Sept 5, 2021 15:17:08 GMT
I was hoping we were going to sign 15 imports this season since the bench has been reduced therefore reducing the team budget for all teams this season,it has been mentioned on this forum, Isaacs can play on Wing aswell so would be a decent signing if used in this role, but apart from that I think the league standard has upgraded considerably to a level that Isaacs could struggle, as for Naslund I will wait to see him play before I judge but I do get where you coming from. in a season where we literally cant afford another 10th place finish, i think we’re taking far too many risks in our recruitment. What happened to signing players like Rioux, Paquet, Haines, Delahey, Cohen, Keller, Caister etc. I just dont understand the recruitment in our defence the past couple of years. I share your concerns but let's hope our last few imports and Brit D man are high level, at this point we can only hope, but it's Fife and at this point every year the fans optimism is far higher than what we get, I so hope I am wrong.
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Post by boschman76 on Sept 5, 2021 18:30:21 GMT
Will be interesting to see how the big arena teams cope with the new covid passport rules coming in at the end of the month in terms of the amount of support they get through there doors
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Post by purgatory on Sept 8, 2021 10:03:57 GMT
John furgele has signed for a echl side so fire won't be signing him
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Post by flyer007 on Sept 10, 2021 15:08:31 GMT
Swindlehurst is now a police constable so he won’t be coming to Fife.
1 week to go and we look so ill prepared. I fear it’ll be like Season 1 and Greg Chase will be like Siddal and Hamilton and Chuck it after a few months when he realises the incompetence of the club.
The sad thing is with proper investment and proper drive to make the club the best it could be we could be really successful. It is sad looking across the Tay and seeing what we could have and more if only we put the effort in across the organisation.
I would say thank you to Tom and Jack for all they have done but we need fresh blood at the helm. A new coach under the same circumstances isn’t going to make a difference.
Such apathy across the fanbase for the start of the season.
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