Fans forum with Clough, 20 Mar - now available to watch

[St Hilary Stag]

If we can't make improvements to Bishop side of the ground, would lifting both stands behind the goals to make them double deckers!
If I can remember when they were built, it gives us that option....

[zod]

If we can't make improvements to Bishop side of the ground, would lifting both stands behind the goals to make them double deckers!
If I can remember when they were built, it gives us that option....

Certainly doable, but I feel the cost would be more than sorting Bishop Street out.

[victor A block]

Would just make the ground more unbalanced than it does now. The rotting shed has to go.

[Martin Shaw]

[Sneag]

If we can't make improvements to Bishop side of the ground, would lifting both stands behind the goals to make them double deckers!
If I can remember when they were built, it gives us that option....

Just extend them both to go the full width of the pitch like they do at grounds that weren't redeveloped by a corner cutting (literally) idiot.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

It was all videoed so it should be online later this week. The evening started with lots of questions that had been sent in from fans including from Yorkshire Stag.

Nigel Clough said he had an option for another year if the Stags are promoted. However he is 58 and he has had chats with his wife about their future plans.

We have a chance of signing Lewis Brunt on loan again if we are promoted unless he attracts interest from a lower end Championship club. Robert Huth is the loans manager at Leicester. Nigel said he had a great job because Leicester only have one player out on loan. Nigel said this was a major problem as clubs from higher up were not letting their players out on loan to get much needed experience in men's football.

He tried to sign Louis Reed a year earlier before he did but Swindon would not let him go. They then offered him to us in January 2023 for £25,000.

Stephen Quinn is unlikely to go into coaching because of his business/property interests. It would be great to keep him for another year. He had nearly retired after leaving Reading because of his knee. He thought he was finished. Chris Morgan phoned Nigel Clough up and asked if Quinny could come and train with them at Burton and he's virtually been with them ever since..

Stephen Quinn has a massive desire to win. He hates losing at anything. He is one of the best trainers. Lots of jokes about getting money off Stephen Quinn because of his silly bookings.

Lucas Akins is incredibly fit for his age and could easily carry on for 2/3 more seasons.

Ollie Clarke is the best tackler.

Jordan Bowery is going to sign another contract to stay at the Stags.

Very happy with the goalkeepers. Adam Collin is really good at recruiting at young keepers.

We are going to sign 5/6 players in the summer.

Louis Reed has scored with more headers than Aden Flint.

Aden Flint will not be going up front again this season. He made the wrong decision to send him up front at Swindon. I asked if Baily Cargill was a better option as he has scred more goals. Nigel said Baily Cargill had found the space to score goals because the opposition had been concentrating on Aden Flint. He didn't think Baily could play up front if necessary to try and get a goal as he had not done it before whereas Aden Flint had played up front in the past.

I asked why we had our top scorer DKD taking corners. Would it be better to have him on the edge of the area as he is good at scoring from that position. Nigel said DKD likes to take corners but we have lots of different players who can take them. He thought Stephen Quinn took the best corners but acknowledged we could do with a specialist set piece taker who could be one of the summer recruits.

The most improved player was now Will Swan who had a big task to improve on last season. It took him a while to get going again.

McKeal Abdullah is injured and out for the season.

George Cooper could not go out on loan this season because we had to keep him in our squad because of the rules on homegrown players. It was between him and Owen Mason. Richard Cooper said George Cooper had been injured but he had around 80 appearances under his belt in National League North and he would easily attract interest from clubs at that level. He is our oldest recruit from the youth team. He would get fixed up like Jason Law.

Well done to the SSA and Mark Stevenson for organising a great evening.

[acasman]

GRUFF. He was asked that question about his dad's advice going into last few games and he said probably not have a fans forum with 8 games to go.

[Spiritater]

It was all videoed so it should be online later this week. The evening started with lots of questions that had been sent in from fans including from Yorkshire Stag.

Nigel Clough said he had an option for another year if the Stags are promoted. However he is 58 and he has had chats with his wife about their future plans.

We have a chance of signing Lewis Brunt on loan again if we are promoted unless he attracts interest from a lower end Championship club. Robert Huth is the loans manager at Leicester. Nigel said he had a great job because Leicester only have one player out on loan. Nigel said this was a major problem as clubs from higher up were not letting their players out on loan to get much needed experience in men's football.

He tried to sign Louis Reed a year earlier before he did but Swindon would not let him go. They then offered him to us in January 2023 for £25,000.

Stephen Quinn is unlikely to go into coaching because of his business/property interests. It would be great to keep him for another year. He had nearly retired after leaving Reading because of his knee. He thought he was finished. Chris Morgan phoned Nigel Clough up and asked if Quinny could come and train with them at Burton and he's virtually been with them ever since..

Stephen Quinn has a massive desire to win. He hates losing at anything. He is one of the best trainers. Lots of jokes about getting money off Stephen Quinn because of his silly bookings.

Lucas Akins is incredibly fit for his age and could easily carry on for 2/3 more seasons.

Ollie Clarke is the best tackler.

Jordan Bowery is going to sign another contract to stay at the Stags.

Very happy with the goalkeepers. Adam Collin is really good at recruiting at young keepers.

We are going to sign 5/6 players in the summer.

Louis Reed has scored with more headers than Aden Flint.

Aden Flint will not be going up front again this season. He made the wrong decision to send him up front at Swindon. I asked if Baily Cargill was a better option as he has scred more goals. Nigel said Baily Cargill had found the space to score goals because the opposition had been concentrating on Aden Flint. He didn't think Baily could play up front if necessary to try and get a goal as he had not done it before whereas Aden Flint had played up front in the past.

I asked why we had our top scorer DKD taking corners. Would it be better to have him on the edge of the area as he is good at scoring from that position. Nigel said DKD likes to take corners but we have lots of different players who can take them. He thought Stephen Quinn took the best corners but acknowledged we could do with a specialist set piece taker who could be one of the summer recruits.

The most improved player was now Will Swan who had a big task to improve on last season. It took him a while to get going again.

McKeal Abdullah is injured and out for the season.

George Cooper could not go out on loan this season because we had to keep him in our squad because of the rules on homegrown players. It was between him and Owen Mason. Richard Cooper said George Cooper had been injured but he had around 80 appearances under his belt in National League North and he would easily attract interest from clubs at that level. He is our oldest recruit from the youth team. He would get fixed up like Jason Law.

Well done to the SSA and Mark Stevenson for organising a great evening.

Thank you Darren, we the poor appreciate your update.

[yorkshire stag]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

[lifestags]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

Its mad to think about how we were all obsessed over him,

Will Swan has more then made up for not getting him and probably saved us a fortune.

[yorkshire stag]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

Its mad to think about how we were all obsessed over him,

Will Swan has more then made up for not getting him and probably saved us a fortune.

just asking the question youth, no more no less !

[broomo]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

I still can't forget you saying us not signing a striker would cost us top 3.

Or others saying our rivals had strengthened and we had stood still.

Cole Stockton - 4 in 10 (pretty good)
Jack Marriott - 0 in 10
Will Swan - 8 in 10

[PEAR CIDER]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

I still can't forget you saying us not signing a striker would cost us top 3.

Or others saying our rivals had strengthened and we had stood still.

Cole Stockton - 4 in 10 (pretty good)
Jack Marriott - 0 in 10
Will Swan - 8 in 10

Whilst I agree, Swanny wasn't getting enough of a sniff. I was always an advocate of him getting a run of games, not just minutes here and there.

Its understandable why fans were calling for increased fire power.

[lifestags]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

I still can't forget you saying us not signing a striker would cost us top 3.

Or others saying our rivals had strengthened and we had stood still.

Cole Stockton - 4 in 10 (pretty good)
Jack Marriott - 0 in 10
Will Swan - 8 in 10

Them stats are crazy, no one is predicting that

[SelstonStag88]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

I still can't forget you saying us not signing a striker would cost us top 3.

Or others saying our rivals had strengthened and we had stood still.

Cole Stockton - 4 in 10 (pretty good)
Jack Marriott - 0 in 10
Will Swan - 8 in 10

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but back in January I don't think it was unfair for anyone to call for a striker, the club obviously agreed and went and signed Nicholls.

Swan was bang out of form and looked the shadow of himself albeit in cameo appearances but even in the papa johns where he was having 90 minutes he was woeful.

Delighted he is now bang in form and scoring the goals that should see us over the line.

[SelstonStag88]

Slightly misleading stats as Marriotts last 10 include 7 late sub appearances and only 3 starts.

[broomo]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

I still can't forget you saying us not signing a striker would cost us top 3.

Or others saying our rivals had strengthened and we had stood still.

Cole Stockton - 4 in 10 (pretty good)
Jack Marriott - 0 in 10
Will Swan - 8 in 10

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but back in January I don't think it was unfair for anyone to call for a striker, the club obviously agreed and went and signed Nicholls.

Swan was bang out of form and looked the shadow of himself albeit in cameo appearances but even in the papa johns where he was having 90 minutes he was woeful.

Delighted he is now bang in form and scoring the goals that should see us over the line.

Not really hindsight.

Even in January we were the divisions 4th top scorer.

We just needed games where it all clicked and thankfully it did.

I was always in the "Would I like one yes, do we desperately need one, no" camp.

31 in 10 since the close of the window.
A 9, 2 x 5's, a 4 and a 3.

[broomo]

Slightly misleading stats as Marriotts last 10 include 7 late sub appearances and only 3 starts.

Don't really care about his minutes, was more around has he strengthened them.

If he was scoring goals he'd get more starts.

[SelstonStag88]

Slightly misleading stats as Marriotts last 10 include 7 late sub appearances and only 3 starts.

Don't really care about his minutes, was more around has he strengthened them.

If he was scoring goals he'd get more starts.

Question then.


If and it certainly looks like it, we are promoted to L1.

All current strikers stay.

How many would you sign in the summer?

[broomo]

Slightly misleading stats as Marriotts last 10 include 7 late sub appearances and only 3 starts.

Don't really care about his minutes, was more around has he strengthened them.

If he was scoring goals he'd get more starts.

Question then.


If and it certainly looks like it, we are promoted to L1.

All current strikers stay.

How many would you sign in the summer?

If Nigel is looking to add 5 or 6 I don't think all strikers will stay. I'd expect us to try to offload 4 or 5 to make space.

Who they are is anyones guess but I suspect James Gale would have his work cut out to make the squad and possibly even the real Macca.

I'd try to sign 1 maybe 2 strikers/attackers and depending on the Quinn situation, see the left sided recruiting as crucial.

[SelstonStag88]

Slightly misleading stats as Marriotts last 10 include 7 late sub appearances and only 3 starts.

Don't really care about his minutes, was more around has he strengthened them.

If he was scoring goals he'd get more starts.

Question then.


If and it certainly looks like it, we are promoted to L1.

All current strikers stay.

How many would you sign in the summer?

If Nigel is looking to add 5 or 6 I don't think all strikers will stay. I'd expect us to try to offload 4 or 5 to make space.

Who they are is anyones guess but I suspect James Gale would have his work cut out to make the squad and possibly even the real Macca.

I'd try to sign 1 maybe 2 strikers/attackers and depending on the Quinn situation, see the left sided recruiting as crucial.

Fair enough

Maybe a discussion for another day...

Once that big P is against our names.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

was the name Lee Gregory mentioned at all ?

No Dave.

[Richard Cranium]

Dave was mentioned?

[Martin Shaw]

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[Martin Shaw]