Craney??????????

It makes me smile how people's opinion's change so quickly. The majority of people making comments regarding our major slump last season cited Craney and Roberts leaving as the main reason (as did the so-called experts).

I agree that Craney did struggle in the first few games just to get up to the pace of it, but then started to show his true quality which is why Swansea paid all that money for him.

However they go in 6 or 7 goals from a midfield player after only a third of the season is good going at any level. This is excellent news for us and once again Coley & Eric have come up trumps.
 
i cant believe some of you.

Harris was MOM against Wycombe, and has done nothing since.

Proctor goes missing in games.

And Carden is not fit yet.

This is a fantastic coup - the central midfield has been poor part of the team. (Why not play Branch there?).
V.good deal by Coley.

Lots of options this year - and only 5 points from the top and 4 of the big boys out the way.
Bring on Bury.
 
Brilliant news!!:D Another step in the right direction ! It just shows how far Eric and Coley will go to keep pushing this club forwards. If only the public of Accrington would get behind the team and push the attendances up to a level the club's continued hard work deserves !!:(
 
Brilliant news. When Craney left last year it ripped the heart out of the team. We went 11 games (9 in the League) without a win and it nearly cost the club its League status.

Obviously it'll take a few weeks for him to get match fit, but, back in his proper position, as an attacking midfielder, rather than wasted in a defensive role, like he's been at Swansea, Ian can only improve the balance of the side.

After the despondency of a few weeks ago news like this gives one hope for the future.

Well done Coley! Well done Eric!

Now all we have to do is hold on to the rest of our better players.
 
Paper Boy said:
The majority of people making comments regarding our major slump last season cited Craney and Roberts leaving as the main reason .
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Roberts leaving was the main reason. Results took a downturn straight away. Craney leaving just made things worse - especially after David Mannix showed himself a more than adequate replacement but then got crocked on his debut at Grimsby.
 
Haggis316 said:
David Mannix showed himself a more than adequate replacement but then got crocked on his debut at Grimsby.
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He played a full 90 minutes for the club in a 2-0 defeat and from that you can tell he was a more than adequate replacement for a player who was second only to Paul Mullin in the scoring charts during our promotion season.

If you can accurately judge a player off so little evidence you're in the wrong job mate. Move over Fergie.
 
Thin Monkey said:
He played a full 90 minutes for the club in a 2-0 defeat and from that you can tell he was a more than adequate replacement for a player who was second only to Paul Mullin in the scoring charts during our promotion season.

If you can accurately judge a player off so little evidence you're in the wrong job mate. Move over Fergie.
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in fairness, Mannix was the only one to come out of that game with any credit and had shown himself to be a class well above anything else on that particular field that particular day
 
DAV007 said:
i cant believe some of you.

Harris was MOM against Wycombe, and has done nothing since.

Proctor goes missing in games.

And Carden is not fit yet.

This is a fantastic coup - the central midfield has been poor part of the team. (Why not play Branch there?).
V.good deal by Coley.

Lots of options this year - and only 5 points from the top and 4 of the big boys out the way.
Bring on Bury.
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I think we must have been watching different games! Andy Procter has covered every blade of grass in the games I have seen this season (and last). On the evidence of last Saturday's match, Graham Branch is one-footed and far far too slow for central midfield.
 
Interesting news indeed :) Glad to see the midfield maestro making a return to the Stanley fold - hope he settles in quick n easy and starts scoring from the corner flag again (or to be honest scoring from anywhere as long as he does or sets up a few for Evil ;) )... Got him until Jan (unless Swansea pull the plug) - thatll do me. Great that Coley could do a deal and get him back here..... :D

Jimbo T :horn8:blower
 
Thin Monkey said:
He played a full 90 minutes for the club in a 2-0 defeat and from that you can tell he was a more than adequate replacement for a player who was second only to Paul Mullin in the scoring charts during our promotion season.

If you can accurately judge a player off so little evidence you're in the wrong job mate. Move over Fergie.
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That was in the Conference.

I saw Mannix at Grimsby and I saw quite enough of Ian in the League to form my own opinion as to what might be needed to constitute an adequate replacement. I have been watching football since 1966.

Perhaps we should both enrol on the Swansea message board and continue our debate there.

Where do I sign????
 
Ian Craney...Should he stay or go?
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Get rid 90%
Keep him 10%
Looks like they don't want him down there
 
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