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Young Leeds United striker joins. Looks like another young talent.

https://www.morecambefc.com/news/2019/j ... alby-loan/

Beat me to it Posh....

Welcome aboard Sam , get him wrapped in bubble wrap quickly before he gets injured

Not got much senior experience but a lot of positive comments about him. Definitely excited to see what he can do, and much needed!

Phew! Needed that, welcome Sam

Not got much senior experience but a lot of positive comments about him

Same could be said about Leif,never played first team for us, joins Leeds and 5 months later he's starting in the first team,
Good prospect if Jim plays him ?

glagys wrote:

Not got much senior experience but a lot of positive comments about him

Same could be said about Leif,never played first team for us, joins Leeds and 5 months later he's starting in the first team,
Good prospect if Jim plays him ?

Recent history suggests he'll be keeping the bench warm rather than warming things on the pitch.

With few strikers available now is the perfect time for Jim to gamble and give this lad a go. Can't do much worse than our existing so called goal scorers.

redrobo wrote:

glagys wrote:

Not got much senior experience but a lot of positive comments about him

Same could be said about Leif,never played first team for us, joins Leeds and 5 months later he's starting in the first team,
Good prospect if Jim plays him ?

Recent history suggests he'll be keeping the bench warm rather than warming things on the pitch.

I would agree with you, but I don't think we'll have an option but to give him a go. He might be the only forward with first-team experience on the bench tomorrow if we start with Ellison, Oates & Bennett.

Looking forward to seeing what he can do.

Wonder if there is some kind of agreement between both clubs following their signing of our young defender and now our loan deal for one of their development squad players? Have to be honest but I'm concerned that we've taken a development squad player with no experience of 'the mans league' just as we did with the last loanee from Wigan who hardly got a look in.

Tomorrow we will come face to face with our other former Wigan loanee and if my memory serves me well it took him some time to get established. Whilst i welcome Sam to our club, we need experience up top and Sam doesn't have that experience. Obviously i wish him all the best and hope he proves me wrong but I am concerned about his lack of experience particularly in the relegation scrap that will confront us until the end of this season.

I'm all for blooding youngsters but for me when we are in the position we are in, is now the best time to do it....of course he could be so enthusiastic to be an outstanding success

Have you got the extra brass to sign Chris Dagnall down the back of the sofa Neil?

Much needed striker needed, striker signed. Inexperienced in many ways, but that doesn’t mean sweet fa, until he has pulled on that shirt, and shown what he can bring to the party for us. Let’s make judgement then, on ifs,buts and maybes.
Welcome to Sam, hope things go really well for him, and ultimately MFC.
COYS.

SupermarketShrimp wrote:Have you got the extra brass to sign Chris Dagnall down the back of the sofa Neil?

He's got Chris Dagnell down the back of his sofa

Neil
It was only the other day you were wanting Jim to play some of our youngsters coming through and to give Ben Hedley a run in the first team. We've just signed an up and coming youngster from a good championship side and your worried he hasn't got any experience !!!!!!!!!

cragbankshrimp wrote:Neil
It was only the other day you were wanting Jim to play some of our youngsters coming through and to give Ben Hedley a run in the first team. We've just signed an up and coming youngster from a good championship side and your worried he hasn't got any experience !!!!!!!!!

Ben has already tasted EFL2 and done OK, the same with Jagne and Gomez BUT we are now in a relegation dog fight and need experience UP FRONT. I sincerely hope he provides the goals alongside Bennett, I just feel that we need experience at such a crucial time for our club.

redrobo wrote:

cragbankshrimp wrote:Neil
It was only the other day you were wanting Jim to play some of our youngsters coming through and to give Ben Hedley a run in the first team. We've just signed an up and coming youngster from a good championship side and your worried he hasn't got any experience !!!!!!!!!

Ben has already tasted EFL2 and done OK, the same with Jagne and Gomez BUT we are now in a relegation dog fight and need experience UP FRONT. I sincerely hope he provides the goals alongside Bennett, I just feel that we need experience at such a crucial time for our club.

Personally I'm glad we're signing promising youngsters.

Jim used to have a good track record of taking on youngsters and improving them but he seems to have moved away from this approach and is now taking on more and more "experienced" players.

Where are the youngsters in our squad that we can move on for a profit? We used to have lots, Devitt, Bakrhuizen, Mullin, Edwards, Redshaw, McGowan etc etc but the vast majority of our squad are now made up of players in their mid 20's and older who have done the rounds at other Conference / L2 clubs.

Sam Lavelle is the only one we have which is a real shame.

It was reported that Jim was looking to sign Rakish Bingham who did a last minute u-turn and decided to join Cheltenham instead. Bingham, whilst he has plenty of "experience" with Mansfield, Hartlepool and Hamilton his goalscoring record is terrible, I would have been really disappointed with that signing.

RR - Dalby got a good few L2 appearances in during his time with Leyton Orient before Leeds signed him. He has for more L2 experience than Callum Lang did at the start of last season, and that turned out well enough I believe. He’s quite a big lad too.

All this information is readily available with a quick look on his Wikipedia page, and from scanning through Twitter a little.

Genuinely hope my worries about his lack of experience come back to haunt me after he's scored a hat full of goals for our club...

I share your concerns RR but remember Callum Lang - he was an inexperienced teenager with no track record when we brought him in, but he went on to score the goals which arguably kept us up last season.

Let’s hope Dalby can do the same.

He has been a regular in Leeds under 23s and has been impressive according to my mate who is a deluded Leeds utd fan

Our top goalscorers for the past 2 seasons, their age at the start of that season, goals for us that season, and the number of L2 appearances (or higher level) before joining us:

2018 Callum Lang - Age 18 - 10 goals - 3 previous appearances for Wigan, all in cups, no goals
2017 Paul Mullin - Age 22 - 8 goals - 0 previous appearances (Huddersfield trainee), no goals

Sam Dalby:
Age 19 - 17 previous appearances for Leyton Orient, 1 goal

Maybe we should give the lad a chance. After all, he has more experience than our last two top goalscorers and more goals to his name!

redrobo wrote:

cragbankshrimp wrote:Neil
It was only the other day you were wanting Jim to play some of our youngsters coming through and to give Ben Hedley a run in the first team. We've just signed an up and coming youngster from a good championship side and your worried he hasn't got any experience !!!!!!!!!

Ben has already tasted EFL2 and done OK, the same with Jagne and Gomez BUT we are now in a relegation dog fight and need experience UP FRONT. I sincerely hope he provides the goals alongside Bennett, I just feel that we need experience at such a crucial time for our club.

I'm sure if you could rustle together a few hundred grand for Tom Pope then we'd be fine. Until that day we will have to play the hand we've got, not the one we want.

Ntini wrote:17 previous appearances for Leyton Orient, 1 goal

One goal in 17 appearances? He'll fit in fine!

Assuming that we pay towards his loan with us, now on the face of it appears to have been money wasted, but at the time we obviously thought it was worth the cost.

JB and Co see the players in training and have to make decisions based on what they see so we are told.