Platt wants to win games (6 Viewers)
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Sky Blue Kid
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Platt was never the best targetman, but he certainly was never the worst.
Nick
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To be fair, Boothroyd has been at Northampton for 27 games and won 8 and Thorn has been at city for 56 and won 12.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...ning-team-says-aidy-boothroyd-92746-31067908/
AIDY BOOTHROYD says Clive Platt opted to join Northampton Town and snub Coventry City's contract offer because he wanted to play in a winning team.
Last week, the veteran striker opted to move to Sixfields on a two-year contract and turn down the chance to stay at the Ricoh Arena for another year.
And Boothroyd - who signed Platt for the Sky Blues when he was the manager in 2010 - believes that winning games was the reason that Platt decided to sign for the Cobblers.
He told the Northampton Chronicle & Echo: "The first thing he said to me was that he wanted to be somewhere where he was playing in a winning team.
“His time at Coventry last season will have re-ignited his hunger to win things because they didn’t win a lot when he was there.”
He added: "He has spent a lot of time in the lower leagues but he made a big difference to us at Coventry and I think it is a coup to bring him here."
They were Boothroyds words not Platt, sounds like Boothroyd just having a little dig at the club because we sacked him maybe
AIDY BOOTHROYD says Clive Platt opted to join Northampton Town and snub Coventry City's contract offer because he wanted to play in a winning team.
Last week, the veteran striker opted to move to Sixfields on a two-year contract and turn down the chance to stay at the Ricoh Arena for another year.
And Boothroyd - who signed Platt for the Sky Blues when he was the manager in 2010 - believes that winning games was the reason that Platt decided to sign for the Cobblers.
He told the Northampton Chronicle & Echo: "The first thing he said to me was that he wanted to be somewhere where he was playing in a winning team.
“His time at Coventry last season will have re-ignited his hunger to win things because they didn’t win a lot when he was there.”
He added: "He has spent a lot of time in the lower leagues but he made a big difference to us at Coventry and I think it is a coup to bring him here."
They were Boothroyds words not Platt, sounds like Boothroyd just having a little dig at the club because we sacked him maybe
WillieStanley
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And not the first dig he's had at us either.
DH - Sky Blue
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It's Boothroyd making snide remarks which his record cannot justify. I'm sure Platt will enjoy the mentality of another 18 game winless run.
Nonleagueherewecome
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I'm pretty sure he's a Brummie-obviously going on the accent, but also I think he came through the youth system at Walsall.
Nonleagueherewecome
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Slightly harsh!
Nonleagueherewecome
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I think we've kinda started facing it now..who says we aren't prepared, eh?!
Marty
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Majority on here seem to think we'll be in the play offs.
Nonleagueherewecome
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I've been moaning about inevitable relegation for almost a year now, I don't honestly see any reason to change my viewpoint for this season. When I screamed "Plymouth! Luton!" around this time last year, people thought "nah, we're too big a club for that kind of fate". I think a lot more people are worried about that now than they've ever been.
Nick
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Based on what??
always looking to divide on here of late....such a happy, united set of fans we have!
considering we are shipping players at an alarming rate, have an embargo so we can not (even if sisu let us) replace them. I doubt that quote very much.
DazzleTommyDazzle
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There was a time when I thought your username was just showing your sense of irony.
Over the last 18 months, I've come to understand that it was a prediction.
lordsummerisle
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Platt was never the best targetman, but he certainly was never the worst.
That would be John Gayle.
Sky Blue Kid
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Our fans who think we are play off contenders are too complacent by half!...We will be lucky to stay out of the relegation fight.:facepalm:
Marty
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I went into this not long back. can't be bothered again. look through my posts if you like.
Marty
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Been saying it for ages too. I seem to get shouted down by the eternal optimists, I try to tell it like it is but I don't think people like that.
Otis
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Yup. He'll soon be running out of spade.
oldskyblue58
CCFC Finance Director
and being a one trick pony will need the spade to clear up .......... good for the garden though
Nonleagueherewecome
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That said, I can remember 5 or 6 times when great balls were put into him and he didn't even move into the position that, say Juke would have been in to be able to connect. For a big guy, he was bloody dreadful at scoring goals with his head. How many did we get from corners last year? He had zero goalscoring instinct whatsoever. I'm upset that he's gone as he won't be replaced and we needed an older player around the dressing room, and his hold up play was superb and an asset. But he had plenty enough service last season to more than double his tally-Lukas isn't prolific, but he scored plenty with us last season, at a better S/R than he did at 'Boro.
Sisu_Cockroaches
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Can we just stop talking about Clive Platt please, the guy has opted to play in Division 4 with a division 4 manager. Where he belongs. They finished 20th by the way. Talk about ambition from Clive Pratt.
Yorkshire SB
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echo this, plus he's been offered a two year deal, whereas we'll have only offered him a one year deal (surely?), at 34 I can see him retiring after his two years at cobblers