spudeeelad
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EIHL Team: Manchester Storm
NHL Team: Tampa Bay Lightning
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Post by spudeeelad on Feb 11, 2013 15:25:24 GMT
I think this is nonsense. There are plenty of good players out there from Kirkaldy, even fairly young ones like Adam Walker, but they earn decent £££ and the people at Fife aren't willing to pay £££. I apologise if I upset you spud but that was suppose to be a tongue in cheek dig at the owners lack of spending not a dig at the British players. Obviously I hasn't came across that way. Fair enough. Although I wasn't offended. I apologise for misunderstanding the context of your comment, it's not always easy to get context when you're reading it rather than hearing someone's tone and seeing their facial expression.
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Billkmc
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Posts: 1,383
EIHL Team: Fife Flyers
NHL Team: Calgary Flames
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Post by Billkmc on Feb 11, 2013 16:39:21 GMT
I apologise if I upset you spud but that was suppose to be a tongue in cheek dig at the owners lack of spending not a dig at the British players. Obviously I hasn't came across that way. Fair enough. Although I wasn't offended. I apologise for misunderstanding the context of your comment, it's not always easy to get context when you're reading it rather than hearing someone's tone and seeing their facial expression. Nae probs
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ronniemac
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Posts: 1,520
NHL Team: Chicago Blackhawks
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Post by ronniemac on Feb 11, 2013 17:09:44 GMT
Neil Smith is living in London and has a vets practise there, if you want further info ask his cousin, he works part time as a security man at Braehead Arena ironically in the away / Fife corner, you will recognize him as they are facially alike.
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Post by flyer24 on Feb 11, 2013 20:40:14 GMT
This is exactly why we need a 5 or 10 year plan. It maybe we have one, although I doubt it. We need to load the team with 11 quality Imports at the moment, and get 2 or 3 EIHL experience brits in the line up. Look at the league standings, if we hadn't been running on such a short, and inexperienced bench, I reckon we'd be 5th, maybe even 4th, with some points to spare. It is right and proper to aspire to having within our line up local talent, of that there is little doubt. But you can't just throw a bunch of SNL guys into Pro Hockey and expect them to be game changers. I'd say run with 11 for the next 3 seasons, then after year 5 in the league, aim to drop to 10, with maybe the plan to drop to even 9 after 10 seasons. Whatever the plan happens to be, you need to have experience and talent now, and with those guys on board, the younger players will learn their trade. We need to recall, the EIHL isn't a development league, it's a pro league. If we want to treat it as development, then fine, but set the expectation with the fans and sponsors so they know our aim each year is to fight like hell for 8th, cause that's the best you'll get. Can you either put a bid in to buy the flyers and put your thoughts into action or give it a rest? No offense but you sound like a broken record.. even more so than the coaches in their interviews. Every time i come on this i read the same drivel from you.. Do you never get bored?
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Post by daviejojo on Feb 11, 2013 20:42:27 GMT
All relevant to the debate, and i never get bored ;-)
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Post by daviejojo on Feb 11, 2013 20:42:51 GMT
PS - if i had the funds, the bid would be in
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ronniemac
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NHL Team: Chicago Blackhawks
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Post by ronniemac on Feb 11, 2013 21:24:08 GMT
It never makes money ............. will be for sale sometime soon then you would think so better start saving or find that Euro ticket. ;D ;D
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spudeeelad
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Posts: 949
EIHL Team: Manchester Storm
NHL Team: Tampa Bay Lightning
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Post by spudeeelad on Feb 11, 2013 22:00:24 GMT
This is exactly why we need a 5 or 10 year plan. It maybe we have one, although I doubt it. We need to load the team with 11 quality Imports at the moment, and get 2 or 3 EIHL experience brits in the line up. Look at the league standings, if we hadn't been running on such a short, and inexperienced bench, I reckon we'd be 5th, maybe even 4th, with some points to spare. It is right and proper to aspire to having within our line up local talent, of that there is little doubt. But you can't just throw a bunch of SNL guys into Pro Hockey and expect them to be game changers. I'd say run with 11 for the next 3 seasons, then after year 5 in the league, aim to drop to 10, with maybe the plan to drop to even 9 after 10 seasons. Whatever the plan happens to be, you need to have experience and talent now, and with those guys on board, the younger players will learn their trade. We need to recall, the EIHL isn't a development league, it's a pro league. If we want to treat it as development, then fine, but set the expectation with the fans and sponsors so they know our aim each year is to fight like hell for 8th, cause that's the best you'll get. Can you either put a bid in to buy the flyers and put your thoughts into action or give it a rest? No offense but you sound like a broken record.. even more so than the coaches in their interviews. Every time i come on this i read the same drivel from you.. Do you never get bored? You seem to misunderstand why some people post things repeatedly. It's usually because they care about the club dearly and wish they could help. I have done the same myself in the past and I do my bit, ironically, for another club (Telford Tigers) by sponsoring them with a patch on their shirt. EDIT:- Deleted previous post as it was a duplicate of this one
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Post by flyer24 on Feb 12, 2013 17:23:09 GMT
Can you either put a bid in to buy the flyers and put your thoughts into action or give it a rest? No offense but you sound like a broken record.. even more so than the coaches in their interviews. Every time i come on this i read the same drivel from you.. Do you never get bored? You seem to misunderstand why some people post things repeatedly. It's usually because they care about the club dearly and wish they could help. I have done the same myself in the past and I do my bit, ironically, for another club (Telford Tigers) by sponsoring them with a patch on their shirt. EDIT:- Deleted previous post as it was a duplicate of this one I'm unsuprised at your reply as i can tell you, like DavieJoJo, have plenty free time as you spend your life on an internet forum.... for another team? Sounds like fun. continue.
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Post by heggig on Feb 12, 2013 18:37:09 GMT
Sounds like taking an interest in hockey in general.
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spudeeelad
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Posts: 949
EIHL Team: Manchester Storm
NHL Team: Tampa Bay Lightning
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Post by spudeeelad on Feb 12, 2013 21:12:31 GMT
You seem to misunderstand why some people post things repeatedly. It's usually because they care about the club dearly and wish they could help. I have done the same myself in the past and I do my bit, ironically, for another club (Telford Tigers) by sponsoring them with a patch on their shirt. EDIT:- Deleted previous post as it was a duplicate of this one I'm unsuprised at your reply as i can tell you, like DavieJoJo, have plenty free time as you spend your life on an internet forum.... for another team? Sounds like fun. continue. For another team, maybe. But IHUK is one big family. Most of my forum time is actually done in work time, not my own personal time
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Post by daviejojo on Feb 13, 2013 11:09:05 GMT
I'm unsuprised at your reply as i can tell you, like DavieJoJo, have plenty free time as you spend your life on an internet forum.... for another team? Sounds like fun. continue. For another team, maybe. But IHUK is one big family. Most of my forum time is actually done in work time, not my own personal time Snap from me, own time stuff :-) It's all part of the debate, how boring would it be if everyone agreed and was happy with everything ;D
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Post by sparkymark75 on Feb 13, 2013 11:09:52 GMT
I'm unsuprised at your reply as i can tell you, like DavieJoJo, have plenty free time as you spend your life on an internet forum.... for another team? Sounds like fun. continue. For another team, maybe. But IHUK is one big family. Most of my forum time is actually done in work time, not my own personal time You've obviously never posted on the Stars forum ;D
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spudeeelad
Junior
Posts: 949
EIHL Team: Manchester Storm
NHL Team: Tampa Bay Lightning
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Post by spudeeelad on Feb 13, 2013 11:26:49 GMT
For another team, maybe. But IHUK is one big family. Most of my forum time is actually done in work time, not my own personal time You've obviously never posted on the Stars forum ;D Lol! Indeed I haven't. I only signed up to the original Fife forum to check out what the opinions of the Fife fans were on joining EIHL and I found that the Fife forum was far more active than my own team's forum (mostly due to the fact half the fanbase being unable to sign up due to requiring a work style email address. The usual hotmail, gmail etc aren't accepted) and so have stayed on this forum. Plus people on the Fife forum actually do what a forum is for - debate things. On my team's forum you get burned if you're not in the happy clappy bunch who must praise the club, coach and players after every game, decision etc regardless of outcome. We got beat 9-4 on Sunday and the general consensus on our forum is 'we didn't deserve that, we played well, the score doesn't reflect the game' etc. How you can be seen to play well and get beat 9-4 is beyond me, particularly when you're 3rd and the winning team is 8th. If we played well the scoreline would have been the other way around.
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finchy
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Posts: 1,567
EIHL Team: Fife Flyers
NHL Team: New Jersey Devil
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Post by finchy on Feb 13, 2013 11:27:18 GMT
For another team, maybe. But IHUK is one big family. Most of my forum time is actually done in work time, not my own personal time You've obviously never posted on the Stars forum ;D Dundee Stars fans are one big family- literally
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