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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: DAB @ ALTY on February 01, 2011, 11:34:19 AM
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It now looks from the main website that we won't be seeing any more of Steve Foster
as he wants to be fully committed to Salford City.
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Fair play for his commitment to Salford.
However I am gutted, this guy showed some flair and I do believe from the glimpses we saw of him he has the capability to play much higer up the pyramid.
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On the one hand I totally agree that his commitment to Salford shows he has loyalty and a fine attitude. However, it still troubles me slightly that someone with a clear talent for scoring goals does not wish to prove himself at a much higher level. With all due respect, he's not getting any younger and I would have thought he would jump at the chance.
Nevertheless, good luck to him and Salford.
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This whole business with him as been really strange. Seems a lot of people's time has been wasted.
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I'm not having all this about 'good on him for his commitment', he has given up a chance to play in a national league and see if he can fulfil his potential.
Have fun playing in front of crowds of 100 Steve. I've nothing against Salford, but this is ridiculous.
What a shame he was too afraid to make the step up.
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The lads obviously got no bottle.
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.
He is in his comfort zone at Salford.
Shame for both us really..he obviously still has potential.
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This whole saga has been rather strange. If the lad is happy at Salford then good luck to him
Im just glad that King Kenny didnt offer 40 million for him. ;)
At least Foz is fit which is more than can be said for Carrol just now
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The lads obviously got no bottle.
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.
He is in his comfort zone at Salford.
Shame for both us really..he obviously still has potential.
I agree. Liam Brownhill all over again. Perhaps even worse in this case because he's getting to an age where he'll never get such a good opportunity again.
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The more I think about this, how frustrating must it be for Kenny and Bimmo trying to attract players to this club?
What a kick in the teeth, to have found a potentially lethal striker only to find he isn't willing to make the step up.
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I'd like to think this is like most other transfers - ie. Say one thing - and do the opposite 3.months later :)
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Exactly why we should not discount having a look at john grant,it cant do any harm
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We don't know Steve Foster's personal circumstances do we?
It may well be that his domestic situation and/or work situation played a significant part in the decision
It may equally be the case that things are as a number of you have described them
We just don't know
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suggest the club moves on. there are other people out there, our attention must turn to getting them in the red & white stripes.
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A statement I would expect to hear from the player at the moment, esp if Alty have not approached properly for him ? He would not want to burn any bridges before an offer being made maybe ?
I obviously don't know the situation between us, Salford and the player but I would imagine his best plan at the moment is to 'suck up' to the club he is at. Keep the fans happy who will be seeing more of him and then maybe take it from there ?
I CAN HOPE ;)
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Maybe the fact that he can only turn out for us twice is a bit pointless to him right now. Playing 2 games a week and training and working full time might not appeal that much.
Let's not jump the gun. He might come in the summer after finishing his commitment to Salford.
Having said that he might not want to come to alty. Heaven forbid somebody didn't want to play for alty!
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Lets just see what happens in the summer ;)
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in the summer not the point. we need striker now
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Remember George Melling from a year or three ago. Defender with potential to make it big at BSP level. Prefered to stay with his local team some leagues below us. Where is he now?
We need players with some ambition to make it to a higher level.
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Remember George Melling from a year or three ago. Defender with potential to make it big at BSP level. Prefered to stay with his local team some leagues below us. Where is he now?
We need players with some ambition to make it to a higher level.
I never rated George Melling as good enough to play at even BSN level - an honest player, but short of pace.
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If players have ambition and are good enough to play at a higher level the chances are they will be already talking to full time clubs so alty wouldn't get a sniff, as for players that want to stay down the pyramid because there comfortable and the wages we offer isn't luring enough then I can understand that too,
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Remember George Melling from a year or three ago. Defender with potential to make it big at BSP level. Prefered to stay with his local team some leagues below us. Where is he now?
We need players with some ambition to make it to a higher level.
Believe he's at Kendal Town.
I must say, although he seemed keen enough, I think even he realised he was too slow for it all at BSN never mind BSP.
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If players have ambition and are good enough to play at a higher level the chances are they will be already talking to full time clubs so alty wouldn't get a sniff, as for players that want to stay down the pyramid because there comfortable and the wages we offer isn't luring enough then I can understand that too,
Unless of course they have a decent day job paying a good wage already. There used to be lots of them around in the good old days ???
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i think its quite rare nowadays, thats why were struggling to find them
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Too true, but I think the major issue is part time players who can actually take lots of time off, often at short notice. Not so bad for the self employed but even then in a recession these blokes need to be careful. In the old NLP days with mostly local fixtures too it was less of a problem.
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The lads obviously got no bottle.
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.
He is in his comfort zone at Salford.
Shame for both us really..he obviously still has potential.
or maybe we just didn't put the money on the table?
After all, if i was expected to work longer hours in a more difficult job, i'd probably want a significant pay increase.
This is all purely speculation mind. He may have other personal reasons why he doesn't want to play for Altrincham.
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The lads obviously got no bottle.
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.
He is in his comfort zone at Salford.
Shame for both us really..he obviously still has potential.
I agree if it was just a job but the chance of playing football at a higher level isnt the same is it?
or maybe we just didn't put the money on the table?
After all, if i was expected to work longer hours in a more difficult job, i'd probably want a significant pay increase.
This is all purely speculation mind. He may have other personal reasons why he doesn't want to play for Altrincham.
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maybe the lad just wants to see out the season with salford, who cares? we asked, he said no, move on people
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maybe the lad just wants to see out the season with salford, who cares? we asked, he said no, move on people
Finally, someone speaks sense...!!
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For the amount of minutes played is Steve Foster the most talked about player ever?
Agree. 8 minutes as sub, how can you judge a player in 8 minutes,FFS.
He may have scored a lot of goals for Salford, but so had James McCarthy for Warrington and how many goals did we get from him. ??? ??? ???
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For the amount of minutes played is Steve Foster the most talked about player ever?
Agree. 8 minutes as sub, how can you judge a player in 8 minutes,FFS.
He may have scored a lot of goals for Salford, but so had James McCarthy for Warrington and how many goals did we get from him. ??? ??? ???
He didn't get enough time imo - was jimmy moved on while kenny or Graham in charge?
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For the amount of minutes played is Steve Foster the most talked about player ever?
Agree. 8 minutes as sub, how can you judge a player in 8 minutes,FFS.
He may have scored a lot of goals for Salford, but so had James McCarthy for Warrington and how many goals did we get from him. ??? ??? ???
He didn't get enough time imo - was jimmy moved on while kenny or Graham in charge?
For the amount of minutes played is Steve Foster the most talked about player ever?
Agree. 8 minutes as sub, how can you judge a player in 8 minutes,FFS.
He may have scored a lot of goals for Salford, but so had James McCarthy for Warrington and how many goals did we get from him. ??? ??? ???
He didn't get enough time imo - was jimmy moved on while kenny or Graham in charge?
Ken
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maybe the lad just wants to see out the season with salford, who cares? we asked, he said no, move on people
Exactly, can't believe there is a three page thread about a guy we saw for ten minutes
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Surely the fact that Ken has watched him and was keen to sign him tells us something? I reckon he knows a good striker when he sees one and he wouldn't have gone after a player if he didn't think he was capable of improving the squad.
No player is ever guaranteed to do well, irrespective of whether he comes from a Unibond club or a League 1 club. However, to completely dismiss the interest that was shown in him is a wee bit short sighted in my opinion.
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What I've learned from this thread is that apparently anyone who is any good in a lower league will already be talking to other clubs and we should never sign a lower league striker as Jimmy McCarthy wasn't any good.
I am sure we would have had the same response on here if we'd have signed Shaun Whalley from Hyde. Hyde are terrible but his 3 goals in 2 games (barring his sending off on Tuesday) may just turn their season.
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Maybe he read the AFC Wimbledon's manager's comments about his full time squad struggling to keep up with the fixture load and being on the road permanently....
I think we as Alty fans always recognise that an Alty player has the right to progress upwards (Ian craney, Chris Senior) so it is difficult to understand why a lower league player wont make the step up to Alty when he clearly has the potential,,,,problem is we are a part time team playing a full time schedule and as Kenny said a few weeks ago, players are saying why should I commit to the schedule for a hundred pounds more when I can play locally and have a social life and comfortably deal with my other job's hours?
What got me was hearing of Salford fans 'concern' about him turning out for Alty...seems they can't see both sides.
It's a short career and maybe Foz will regret not having memories of regularly playing in front of big crowds in football league stadiums....plenty of time for a social life when you are in your thirties....
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One thing is for sure.... We will never know if he would have been good enough cos he aint fkn moving anywhere
End of Topic (in my eyes).
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He may have scored a lot of goals for Salford, but so had James McCarthy for Warrington and how many goals did we get from him. ??? ??? ???
James McCarthy has not scored a lot of goals for Warrington. At 25 years old his goalscoring record wasn't great (and you would imagine unlikely to get better, you don't suddenly become a goalscorer). In fact Dario Gradi said as much.
Foster has scored a lot more goals for Salford, Witton, Hyde etc.
However, I agree with a lot of the general points on the thread, namely he's not coming so move on. I wish him well in fulfilling his ambitions in getting Salford into the EvoStik division one north play offs!!
Magic.
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Foster will have already experienced large crowds having previously played for AFC Telford, rest assured he has played already at higher level than Salford so perhaps his talent has somewhat eclipsed and he may have already missed the big step up opportunity earlier in his career.
He may be quite comfortable at the level he is at and hence does not want further upheaval.
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We also need to stop picking holes into players that don't feel its the right time for them to join alty, its their lifes circumstances that decide this, no player will ever 'bottle' coming to alty
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Turned down for unibond north. Brilliant.
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To be fair we judge most players as sh1t just from their wiki page. We've got every right to believe he is world class after 8 minutes an a YouTube clip! That's a lifetime in this forum.