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Steven Fletcher

Post by boatshed bill » Fri Sep 08, 2023 5:44 pm

Signed for Wrexham. 36 years old now, he will score plenty of goals at that standard.
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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by bobinho » Fri Sep 08, 2023 5:51 pm

Great player for us. Proper decent footballer him. Good luck to the lad.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by 4midable » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:04 pm

Hel bag there

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Dark Cloud » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:08 pm

Excellent player Fletcher and has had a very good career. A very, very good signing for us and he could possibly have kept us up, but for that weird hand injury sustained when on international duty with Scotland which kept him out at the most vital of times and that really did cost us dear.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by gandhisflipflop » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:33 pm

We’d had stayed up if he could finish. Missed some sitters for us and was overrated by fans. His ‘first touch’ masked a lot of his poor attributes
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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Burnley1989 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:34 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:33 pm
We’d had stayed up if he could finish. Missed some sitters for us and was overrated by fans. His ‘first touch’ masked a lot of his poor attributes
As his whole career showed
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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:43 pm

Hardly a prolific goal scorer throughout his career but in league two he should be handy to have, even at 36

Good luck to him

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by dougcollins » Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:46 pm

One of those ex Claret strikers that everybody liked - but, as with Juke, the stats are less than impressive.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by ClaretTony » Fri Sep 08, 2023 7:00 pm

Scored eight goals for us but six of them came in defeats

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Bordeauxclaret » Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:29 pm

Very good player for us.

Big plus from that season.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Casper2 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:51 pm

bobinho wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 5:51 pm
Great player for us. Proper decent footballer him. Good luck to the lad.
Great , is pushing it , what does that make Casper and Fletcher for instance?

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by dandeclaret » Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:13 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:33 pm
We’d had stayed up if he could finish. Missed some sitters for us and was overrated by fans. His ‘first touch’ masked a lot of his poor attributes
We'd have stayed up with VAR.... the amount of onside goals he scored that were wrongly ruled out for offside was unbelievable.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Claretforever » Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:25 pm

His touch was like Velcro. He was the first player I felt that it didn’t matter how hard the passes were to him, or how distant they were from, he seemed to control them. His scoring record wasn’t as impressive but I liked him.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Cheshireclaret » Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:44 pm

I still find it astonishing that a professional footballer playing at Premier League and International level can only kick a football in the direction he intends with one of his two feet. Great is not a word I’d use to describe him - adequate, perhaps.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by boatshed bill » Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:49 pm

Cheshireclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:44 pm
I still find it astonishing that a professional footballer playing at Premier League and International level can only kick a football in the direction he intends with one of his two feet. Great is not a word I’d use to describe him - adequate, perhaps.
I suppose it's better to be good with one foot than to be average with both :D

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Devils_Advocate » Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:55 pm

Burnley1989 wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:34 pm
As his whole career showed
What a load of rubbish. He scored 8 in 35 in a relegated team which apart from Chris Wood has probably only been bettered (post 70's) in a single season by Barnes in his career best purple patch.

After leaving us he hit double figures in his next three Premier League seasons which seems to be the benchmark we measure Wood by in being probably the best goal scorer we've has in the last 30-40 years

Fletcher was absolutely class and much more than just a goal scorer and its no surprise that amongst the squad of emphatic overachievers Coyle took into that Premier League season he was the one player in demand when we went down

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Red Fox Rocks Socks » Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:40 am

Claretforever wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:25 pm
His touch was like Velcro. He was the first player I felt that it didn’t matter how hard the passes were to him, or how distant they were from, he seemed to control them. His scoring record wasn’t as impressive but I liked him.
Ings was the best I recall from that era when we first went up/went back up. He demanded it driven at him and first touch was immaculate.

Trips was similar but with more floated passes out wide. He’s pull it down like it was on a piece of string over his shoulder.

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by morpheus2 » Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:42 am

boatshed bill wrote:
Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:49 pm
I suppose it's better to be good with one foot than to be average with both :D
I'm not a mathemagician but I calculate that average + average = good, and that good + bad = average. therefore you are wrong, right?

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Re: Steven Fletcher

Post by Swizzlestick » Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:42 am

Was a fantastic player for us.

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