I’ve heard that Kieffer Moore’s good, why don’t we sign him in January?

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   December 22, 2024 at 8:31 pm

   Thanks Paul as ever…
   For once I won’t subject you to the noise of the usual bees that come buzzing out from my bonnet: recent events of Fraser Forster on Thursday to Arijanet Muric yesterday… plus no doubt a plethora of eejits this weekend in the EFL and National Conference leagues, is starting to signify the death knell for ‘playing out from the back’ and kamikaze defending. (And how fitting it is that Guardiola and his tiki-taka seems to suddenly be in need of urgent remedial treatment.)

   No for once, I will stay silent on that. Instead I will so agree with you that we are doomed to be relegated. And here is for why…

   Our player recruitment this past year has been nothing short of disastrous. Our centre backs of Chambers and Daland are EFL Division 1 standard… and that is being charitable. Of the arrivals in the midfield and forwards, none of them are real quality. The best of the bunch is probably Willock… a player who has a few tricks up his sleeve, but was not the guy we needed… viz… a player who can put the ball in the net.

   No, the player I urged us in your columns to break the bank for when it became apparent he was leaving Ipswich, was then allowed to go to the Steel City. We should have outbid the Blades.

   I was surprised to find a fellow member of our MAYA community – someone whose opinions I respect so I won’t embarrass him here by naming him – saying that he did not want us to re-sign Kieffer, as he lacked the necessary ball control.

   Eh? Where did he get that from? We saw precisely how well Kieffer controls a football with that first goal yesterday, did we not? Superb stuff.

   I note that Kieffer has been accused of poor sportsmanship in celebrating his goals with his travelling fans yesterday, but hey, we always knew he was a mercenary ‘gun for hire’ character,did we not?

   Quite understandable really, when you consider he was playing for the likes of Truro, Dorchester, Yeovil and Forest Green until well into his 25th year… i.e. he is now trying to make up for all those years of lost wages.

   Amazing really that managers who are allegedly streetwise and knew the British lower divisions wanted to spend £15m of Vincent’s money on a less-than-prolific Argentinian striker having his first really decent season in Ligue 1… when players like Kieffer had been there all the time, performing so well below their radar.

   Thus trust me when I say ‘stop looking abroad for players’. Just develop a proper UK scouting system.

   So farewell then, Championship football. I look forward to playing Wrexham next season… methinks Phil Parkinson is a decent fellow, but not quite good enough to take that squad up.

   And gee, I remember some great games against Wrexham, and none greater than that epic struggle in the 4th Round of the FA Cup in January 1977 at Ninian.

   We went into a two goal lead with goals from David Giles and Peter Sayer… only for Liverpool born Graham Whittle to immediately pull one back.

   It was a tremendous end-to-end game, and just when we thought we were home and dry, Billy Ashcroft their very dangerous fellow Scouser centre forward, plundered an equaliser. I can still see part of the huge contingent of 5,000 away fans, who were housed in the grandstand toward the Grange End, all leap to their feet in ecstasy.

   Our hearts were broken… and I began to wonder if I could get time off work to travel to the Racecourse for the midweek replay. After all we were now in the 90th minute, and these were the days before ‘Fergie time’… let alone VAR taking games to 100 minutes.

   But then a miracle happened: straight from the kick-off, my favourite City player of that era (yes even over Willie Anderson) got the winner. John Buchanan. Gee, I so loved that man.

   What a game it was…!! Maybe not as memorable as my all time favourite when I was in the boys enclosure and we were 5-0 up against Liverpool at halftime. But as an ending to a game… only the victory against Scotland can match it… the game when were trailing and despondent in the 83rd minute, only for the late Ken Leek to pop up and score two goals out of nothing to send their Tartan Army home in stunned disbelief.

   TTFN,
   Dai.