Reply With QuoteAlnwick?Originally Posted by jon1959
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They are trying to sign another goalkeeper on emergency loan to cover for Horvath's suspension.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sp...-middlesbrough
Alnwick?
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...thyr-town-loan
Will Spiers has joined National League North side Merthyr Town on loan until December 31st, 2025.
The defender, who joined the Academy at the age of seven, made his First Team debut in our recent Vertu Trophy fixture against Newport County.
Merthyr Town currently sit 10th in the National League North table, having secured promotion at the end of last season.
We wish Will all the very best during his time with the Martyrs.
Not a bad move for Spiers, what’s happened to Cody Twose this season?
Roko Simic (Velikonja mk2) just scored for SC Karlsrhuer. I have have an alert on my phone for this precise moment, I’m assuming all city fans also have this setup.
Hasn’t gone off all season mind
I had to switch the velikonja one off back in the day, he’s bag so often I’d never get a moments peace
Fake news? A 4-1 win but he's not down as one of the scorers as far as I can see. He did score one in August, maybe your phone was watching a replay of that?
The Velikonja alert was an issue, yes. Mine played Simply the Best every time he scored and I couldn't work out how to turn it off. That got a bit awkward when he was at Lierse, there are a couple of funerals I'd still rather not talk about.
You are correct sadly. Turns out the App sloppily merged the “He got subbed on” alert with the Karlshruher goal alert and I got carried away
So in much lesser news, Roko Simic got subbed on late in a game - which is a lot more believable than him scoring in hindsight
Started for Merthyr today, did a decent job at right back/right midfield, substituted with about ten minutes left.
Extra time assist for Reindorf today helping Newport into round 2.
With BBM wanting to play wide men and happy to use youngsters, there must be some mixed feelings for Spiers, Wigley and Jefferies being sent out on loan but hopefully they will all benefit from it.
I think the plan was to send Nyakhuwa too until Tanner got injured and it probably would've done him good (Luey Giles too) but he's having to learn on the job here while getting limited pitch time and that's often the issue with younger players.
Isaac Jefferies seems to be doing well at TNS and has said he's happy to be playing regular senior games, hopefully Spiers will see it the same way. The Newport game didn't quite go his way and it must've been felt that he needed a bit of 'toughening up' in the men's game. We called him back for an u-21 game in the week so we're keeping him in the loop here.
Keep us in touch with his progress.
Nice bit of play by him. He seems to be moving across the front line, in and out of the starting line-up too, but he features every week so it's definitely progress from his spell at Bristol Rovers. Although it would've been hard to go backwards from there.
A clean sheet for Ethan Horvath as they drew 0-0 at WBA and a start for Roko Simic as Karlsruher beat top of the table Schalke 2-1. Jesper Daland's Fortuna Dusseldorf play at lunchtime.
Ethan Horvath included in the Championship Team Of The Week (or at least one of them) and praised by his manager!
https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foot...m-news-5386395
Ok, my Simic scoring alert has gone off twice in the last 20 mins.
I ignored the first one thought it was just on the glitch again but something big might have happened.
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Live scenes from Loan-watch towers.
Came on at half-time, scored 2 goals and has an 8.1 rating!!! Still lost the game 3-2 though.
Jesper Daland also seems to be doing ok in Germany. Starts every game for Fortuna Dusseldorf (who won 2-1 yesterday). Finishes them too which isn't always the case for City centre halves.
Not much else of note going on lately, other than Roko 'Seismic' Simic's efforts today. Michael Reindorf continued his Final Destination type elimination of first team managers this week, adding David Hughes to Erol Bulut, Omar Riza and Inigo Calderon. Quite a body count for only 15 months as a senior player.
The latest lamb to the slaughter is Christian Fuchs at Newport. He started with a 3-0 defeat at Oldham and, fatefully, brought Reindorf on. The die is cast, just hand in your resignation tomorrow and move on.
It’s turning out to be an absolute pig of a loan deal that. I wonder what he is learning in a team benefit of confidence, rooted to the foot of the football league, without a consistent manager and only coming on for the last 20 mins
More scintillating Simic updates;
12 noon: In stating line up vs Bochum
12:45: Subbed off 45’
Giles and Spiers got half an hours game time as they came on as subs in Eastleigh’s win at Boston’s today.
They like our Academy products there. Kieron Evans, Lloyd Humphries and James Waite all started.
I just posed this on X but didn’t realise Humphries was one of ours, not a name I remember.
I've forgotten most of the things I knew about him but maybe TOBW can help out a bit. He was a good player and very distinctive, he had no hair even when he was coming through the Academy. Injuries slowed his progress here and he never got close to the first team even though we didn't release him till he was into his 20s. I've a feeling he had a brother in the Academy who was a keeper but I may be imagining that.
Scott Bartlett is Eastleighs manager. Former FGR & WsM manager, moved to Eastleigh in September. He’s always had a good relationship with City and in his 6 years @ WSM I’m pretty sure he regularly loaned in City youngsters.
Humphries scored a superb goal Jn what I think was the first game I saw him play - an under 18 match at Leckwith one Saturday lunchtime. He was always able to strike a ball well, but he wasn’t a regular goalscorer as he seemed to occupy more of a Ryan Wintle role. I:ve not checked, but I have a suspicion he was an unused sub for the FA Cup loss at Gillingham a few years ago- if he wasn’t a sub that day, I’m pretty sure he was in the party which travelled to it.
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