You couldnt make it up....

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They don't actually have a first team back up keeper. They have a loaned first choice keeper and then have their U21 keeper as a sub, knowing that if the first choice gets injured they can bring another in.

It's a silly rule but I can see more and more clubs going that way. If anything you could argue its pretty clever of them.
 
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Goes to Peterborough ‘on emergency loan’ despite posh having x2 keepers on the bench and manages to help them with promotion.... Then the night before the play-off semi... Lincoln sign him ‘on emergency loan’ despite having another 2 keepers on their books.
 
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It sounds completely underhanded but must be in the rules. Are there no other keepers available? Why would they want to sign a keeper who let in 3 goals against them?
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Derek Forster became the youngest player ever to play for Sunderland and in a First Division match when he made his debut in 1964 aged 15 years 185 days.
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Against Leicester City at Roker on our first match in the old First Division, match ended 3-3 he stepped in for Monty and played a few games at the start of that season.I was at that match.
He was later sacked in 1973 for selling on his cup final ticket allocation.
 
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SAFCDRUM said:
It sounds completely underhanded but must be in the rules. Are there no other keepers available? Why would they want to sign a keeper who let in 3 goals against them?
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Was the one that got injured any good?
 
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Brilliant Tees, that actually made le laugh out loud ...

... was he the one who conceded 3 goals against Lincoln <laugh>
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Aye but he couldn’t be blamed for two of the goals, he made some fine saves and was really only beaten once.

One of the other goals came from a far post free header by someone left unmarked at a free kick and one from a penalty conceded by a defender.
 
I don't get it. I thought there was a rule that said a player couldn't play for more than two teams in the same competition and this will be his third stint with a league 1 club this season.

He started the season on loan at Donny, made over a dozen appearances before being recalled to Stoke where he also made over a dozen apps. Then went to Posh and made 6 apps. Now he will appear for Lincoln!
 
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Draig said:
Aye but he couldn’t be blamed for two of the goals, he made some fine saves and was really only beaten once.

One of the other goals came from a far post free header by someone left unmarked at a free kick and one from a penalty conceded by a defender.
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If that was Burge some people would be claiming he unsettles the defenders and is to blame for all three goals.
 
Draig said:
I don't get it. I thought there was a rule that said a player couldn't play for more than two teams in the same competition and this will be his third stint with a league 1 club this season.

He started the season on loan at Donny, made over a dozen appearances before being recalled to Stoke where he also made over a dozen apps. Then went to Posh and made 6 apps. Now he will appear for Lincoln!
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Shush! If you are correct and Lincoln win the play-offs and we come second, we can appeal to efl, they will cancel Lincoln’s promotion because they broke the rules and we go up in their stead!
 
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