Ex-Notts Player Signs For...

Joss Labadie signed for Solihull also, Kwame Thomas signed for Aldershot

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Originally Posted by BanjoPie

Joss Labadie signed for Solihull.

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He should give them a bit of bite in midfield.

Nathan Fox, academy graduate who made his debut to in the Munto season (and Sven predicted great things for him) played for Telford against us tonight.

Gateshead currently have 6 ex-Notts players in their 1st team squad

Archie Mair
Kenton Richardson
Ed Francis
Adam Campbell
Lewis Knight
Regan Booty

So Archie Mair is there for the season. It must have been covered on here before and I've missed it, but does anyone know why we weren't in for him? Presumably we were after sometimes who's played more first team games?

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Originally Posted by cher1

So Archie Mair is there for the season. It must have been covered on here before and I've missed it, but does anyone know why we weren't in for him? Presumably we were after sometimes who's played more first team games?

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the only thing I can think of is that we wanted a permanent signing, and Archie just wasn't available for that to happen

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Originally Posted by PTID1862

the only thing I can think of is that we wanted a permanent signing, and Archie just wasn't available for that to happen

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I was a bit surprised to see him go to Gateshead, I thought Norwich would have wanted him to go to an EFL club next. Maybe Gateshead gave some sort of guarantee that he will be first choice, because he needs regular games in order to progress.

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Originally Posted by PTID1862

the only thing I can think of is that we wanted a permanent signing, and Archie just wasn't available for that to happen

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That's what I assumed as well, last thing we need is get reliant on a loan keeper only for him to be recalled like Patterson was. Also I'd imagine Norwich want him to play more games than we we'd be offering. Be interesting to see how Archie gets on this season though.

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Originally Posted by cher1

So Archie Mair is there for the season. It must have been covered on here before and I've missed it, but does anyone know why we weren't in for him? Presumably we were after sometimes who's played more first team games?

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He wanted first team football and we wanted a keeper with EFL experience. Would also imagine it would only have been a loan and we probably wanted a permanent senior keeper

Yes, for all those reasons...
And who knows, maybe Norwich were ready to let him move on (they had about 6 keepers when I last checked their website) but seeing him pull off those amazing saves (see avatar) on such a big stage might have convinced them to keep him on their books.

I think the worst is over for Slocs in terms of nervy mistakes (the worst happened, we got away with it, put it behind you) and aside from those his sweeper-keeper play last season was really good

Btw, so many of our goals conceded from mistakes are due to players receiving the ball in our own half being flat-footed, static and then picked off or forced into an errors. Solve that and we'll eliminate a big % of those type of goals.