Transfer Rumours January '22 Transfer Thread

Out of interest what sort of ago is a 2nd Year Scholar?

 

McCauley Snelgrove has rejoined Cleethorpes Town until the end of the season. Scored four goals in six games for them last time.
Still think he could have gone higher in the last window, but he’s certainly one to watch for the future.

 

Only played 180 minutes in those 4 games as well

 

You wonder why brid town aren’t getting any of our players
Seems an ideal link up

 

They have 2

 

Sounds like they might Need more and we really should be utilising them
tough times for Smurf
He’s a really good bloke and passionate about football
Big elvis fan too

Message from the Chairman
CHAIRMAN/KITMAN

PETER SMURTHWAITE

I just want to talk a bit about last Tuesday evenings game at Marske United because I did state that if we went into this NPL League as well as needing more money, we would need more help with the running of the club on match days because we only have a small group of volunteers. I did not expect that already having spent half the day on Tuesday sorting out football related matters at my office, I then had to arrange for the playing kit, warm up gear, bench coats and medical equipment to be collected from Bridlington and delivered to my office in Hull.

I left Hull at 4.00pm with that much gear in my car, I would not have been able to take any passengers for the two and half hour journey to Marske on a dark and damp evening. Having lived on Teesside for four years and worked there for ten years, I know my way around the area and when I joined the A174 road and saw the sign posts for Middlesbrough and passed the bright lights of large industrial complex of ICI Wilton it brought back memories. I thought of that well known musician Chris Rea who was born in Middlesbrough and recorded a famous song the “Road to Hell” to get me thinking what the Hell am I doing having to sort this gear out which I will need to hang up in the changing rooms and sort out when I get there before the players arrive. Not only that but with our secretary Gordon not being able to travel that night due to personal circumstances, I will also have to sort out the Team Sheet and the other relevant paperwork for the game. All this to do when most Chairmen are sat at the front of a 50 seater luxury coach relaxing and reading a book or the Financial Times ready to enjoy the game.

To be honest at my age now I am beginning to lose the energy to have to do all this at a supposed Senior Non-League Football Club we appear to be a “Small Town Team” playing in the “Big League”. What we really need are extra people who can volunteer to “shadow” the key jobs and stand in when the other officials are not available. Surely in an area with a population of 35,000 thousand people, it is not too much to ask and we are actively advertising for more volunteers to help our current loyal and dedicated volunteers. If you look at Tuesday we maybe had 14 people there and with no disrespect at least 12 of these people are of retirement age, where are the young people who could help?

A few fans have asked why we only have had two fit substitutes at our recent games. I can tell you Brett has spent a lot of time and effort trying to bring in “suitable” players and I myself have used my contacts to speak to the three professional clubs in the area to bring in some more loan players but with no success yet but that might change in the next couple of weeks.

It seems to me we don’t have enough players in Hull, East Yorkshire and Scarborough who are good enough and have the desire to play at this higher level of football. The standard of non-league and amateur football is not what it was 15 to 20 years ago which is reflected in the number of people playing the eleven a side game. We no longer have a Driffield League or Hull Amateur League and the Hull Sunday League down from 22 Divisions to 6 or 7 Divisions. I am on the Committee of the East Riding Saturday County League and when the season started in September, we had 92 teams but already at least 10 teams have folded. All this means there are less players to choose from who are capable of taking up the challenge of playing at the higher level choosing to go shopping, watching professional football or having weekends away.

Whilst I am discussing club matters I have to express my disappointment with the attendances this season which I was hoping to see them increase to an average of 350 with playing at a higher level of football. Unfortunately our average for league games is only 266 so far this season which is about what it was in the Northern Counties East League seasons. As I mentioned earlier with a 35,000 catchment area to only have less than 1% attend games is not good. Compare that with Whitby Town who average 558 from a 15,000 population being 4% and Scarborough average 1022 being 2% of the population. Last week’s attendance of 226 was particularly disappointing when we were playing the team who are top of the league who brought at least 30 fans who saw an excellent game and a great performance from our lads.

I know the weather was bad but football is a winter sport and we do have covered seating and standing areas for 1000 people unlike quite a few teams in this league and we have excellent parking facilities next to the stadium. It’s a shame more people don’t attend because the quality of the football in this league is very good. We have a lot of excellent and loyal fans in the 200 so I would ask you to tell your friends and colleagues there is a really good football club in the town so why not try coming to a game.

On a positive side income has increased from the Town Bar and I thank Becki, Chris and the staff for doing such a good job promoting and running the bar with a big increase in bookings since we opened. We also have increased revenue from the Supporters Trust and I thank all the volunteers who put in the hard work to raise funds for the club. Rest assured we will be doing our very best on and off the field to maintain our survival in this Division to try and build on it for the future.

Yours in Sport

Peter Smurthwaite

Chairman

 

I’ll never find reading statements like that easy, someone with genuine passion for a club like Brid just wishing it could rub off on others. Interesting the comment re local players not being good enough these days though

 

Top top bloke is Pete Smurthwaite.

When I got released by city at 16 I went to play for brid for a bit. Didn't know what I wanted to do with my football or life in general. Pete saw that I was a bit lost, and he took me under his wing. I had no way of getting to brid due to my age so he would pick me up for training and games. It's not like I was a star player or anything I was on the bench as a second choice keeper, so he was doing this out of the goodness of his own heart not to butter up a potential game changer for the club. He also offered me a job at PBS as he knew I was just dragging my feet doing nothing after leaving school.
I ended up on another career path and football wise I only ended up staying half a season. But the kindness of the man and passion for the game Pete has left a lasting impression on me. Top fella.

 

Funnily enough you’re a recently released star larker of hull city !! Surely you can’t pass up this opportunity? You have that passion and you can rub off on others
Let us know how you get on

 

In many ways this is nothing new, I started and ran a Sunday league team with a friend, and like with most clubs it was just the two or three that would do all the organising etc. Most just wanted to turn up and play, and that was it. It was the same when I got involved with my 2 daughters' gymnastics club, there were probably 6 or 8 people that did all the work out of 200 parents that had kids coming to the club.

In Pete's case, he has got to a time in his life where you just don't have the energy to carry on doing these things, let's hope his call for help bears fruit because he has done a lot of football in the area, and clearly needs sone help.

 

I live in Newcastle Chazz but I’ll let you know

On a serious note though, do Brid have younger sides beneath there first team as I know Scarborough do that and they pick up quite a few lads who get released at 16 and then stick them in there until they think they’re ready

 

Seems a shame, what with the area losing the other team (Trinity) fairly (90s maybe?) recently.

I think one of the main problems is that their own folk tend to glory hunt at clubs like Leeds, City and Norwich, instead of getting behind their own.

 

come on Acun, get him signed up in the summer

https://www.skysports.com/football/...dfielder-excluded-from-fenerbahces-first-team

 

Fallen out with every club he's played for and the German national team. No thanks

 

I agree, but I can’t see Acun seeing it like that. Would get a few more tickets sold.

 

You’re at every city game home and away tho aren’t you?

 

VPN + iFollow. Still done a lot of aways this season though but student budget doesn’t like train journeys across the country.

 

The 'commercial interests' quote might prove to be interesting if certain rumours about his relationship with Acun turn out to have some substance.