Former Shrimps Thread

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Big V has scored for Gillingham today 3-1 up at half time

[glagys]

Kev comes on for Amond

[Westgate Wanderer]

Mullin scores 2 more

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Jason Oswell playing for Telford tonight in the F A Cup

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Ryan Edwards scores for Dundee united tonight in league cup

[Shrimp Girl]

And Steve Old scored two in East Kilbride's 6-1 win over Gretna.

[tim-sanchez]

Devitt joins Newport on loan until January

[MFC-Manc]

Devitt joins Newport on loan until January

Devitt was a great player, very talented and I expected him to move up a few levels, but he just seems to wander from club to club.....
Would love him back at Morecambe

[Westgate Wanderer]

Devitt joins Newport on loan until January

Devitt was a great player, very talented and I expected him to move up a few levels, but he just seems to wander from club to club.....
Would love him back at Morecambe

Too many injuries probably curtailed his career sadly. Also when a player shines at MFC then leaves they never seem quite as good!

[Bare bum]

2 more for Mullers at Scunthorpe (so far)

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Mullin scores again for Cambridge,2 for Matty Lund for Rochdale and 1 for Patrick Brough for Barrow tonight

[Sakhalin Shrimp]

Tanner scores for Carlisle tonight against.......us.

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Tanner scores for Carlisle tonight against.......us.

His first bloody goal for Carlisle too.

[RapidShrimp]

Jack Sampson joins Conlan at Fylde

[Little Shrimp]

Richard Brodie came on last night for Skelmersdale in the FA Cup against Harrogate.

JB's Fylde currently level with Exeter 1-1.

[Shrimp Girl]

Adam Campbell puts two past Swindon, Darlington currently leading 1-2

[Westgate Wanderer]

Devitt scores for Newport to knock out Orient.

[marky No.1]

Michael Howard scores the penalty for Marine that knocks Colchester out

[Westgate Wanderer]

Oliver scores the winner for Gillingham against Woking!

[Bara brith]

Harvey Bradbury playing for Oxford City in the fa cup against Northampton Town

[Posh]

Jack Sampson joins Conlan at Fylde

And

Alex Whitmore
Chris Neal
David Perkins

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Oliver scores the winner for Gillingham against Woking!

It doesn’t surprise me. Vadaine is a confidence player in the extreme reflecting the success of the team.

At York he’d be immense in some games when they were doing well but then as they headed for relegation is head dropped below ground level.

I remember Cambridge away in his last season and he was slow, lethargic and barely involved. Ritchie Bennett came on and he worked his nuts off and held up their back line. Yet you watch Vadaine at Gills and he plays like Bennett did and gives them a ton of options.

An enigma.

[Little Shrimp]

Oliver scores the winner for Gillingham against Woking!

It doesn’t surprise me. Vadaine is a confidence player in the extreme reflecting the success of the team.

At York he’d be immense in some games when they were doing well but then as they headed for relegation is head dropped below ground level.

I remember Cambridge away in his last season and he was slow, lethargic and barely involved. Ritchie Bennett came on and he worked his nuts off and held up their back line. Yet you watch Vadaine at Gills and he plays like Bennett did and gives them a ton of options.

An enigma.

A large part of it is that we just played him in completely wrong.

When it comes to winning aerial duels and bullying defenders in the air, there are few strikers better than him at this level. The trouble was we never had anybody around to utilise the space he'd create as he was a very isolated frontman in quite a negative team.

He was far more effective when partnered with Collins, who scored so many goals due to either being partnered with Bennett or Oliver. Oliver/Campbell as a front two was a partnership that JB probably should have given a proper chance to.

At Northampton, he generally had more players around him to basically reap the benefits of his 'donkey work', and I presume it's probably similar with Gillingham. Whereas Stockton has been more successful with us operating as a lone target man, as he's a player who is better able to trap the ball and hold it up for a few seconds while team mates arrive up the pitch.

[BerlinWaller]

The difference between then and now is that we have players within 10 yards of Cole feeding off his knock downs and hold up play. Oliver was so isolated it was untrue. He was dealing with punts forward and 2 centre halves on his case everytime. LS is spot on again, V was misused in a horrible system.

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Paul Mullin is Sky Bet player of the month for October in league 2