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ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:36 am

Pre-season underway in 1991 and another signing for the Clarets

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https://www.uptheclarets.com/casper-mak ... son-starts

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by Silkyskills1 » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:09 pm

Mike Conroy, Steve Harper. Were we really thinking that either or both of them.could make a.significant.difference?

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by elwaclaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:38 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:09 pm
Mike Conroy, Steve Harper. Were we really thinking that either or both of them.could make a.significant.difference?
Steve Harper more than Mike Conroy at the time. Harper gave us a torrid time the season before.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:13 pm

elwaclaret wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:38 pm
Steve Harper more than Mike Conroy at the time. Harper gave us a torrid time the season before.
Hadn’t he? Conroy was an unknown to us but Harper had been outstanding against us for PNE.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:46 pm

Ah! the pre-Bosman days, week to week contracts well players haggled over a new deal.

Conroy and Harper were great captures on frees, especially the latter, who at those levels always looked a class act.

Casper assembled a decent squad, the problem was he couldn't get them playing, and it was only when Mullen take the reins that they really showed their abilities to the fullest extent.

Interesting that PNE were trying to get players off their wage bill, and the ones they wanted rid off were still contracted so they couldn't be easily moved on, different days indeed.

150k for Warren Joyce would have been a fortune for us back then, if we'd have forked out the readies would he have been our record signing at the time?

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by claretabroad » Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:53 pm

I have a soft spot for Steve Harper. Like all wingers he was inconsistent but every season there was a 5 game purple patch where he was very good. One of the best goals he scored was against Aldershot and it subsequently got wiped from the record books.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:11 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:46 pm
Ah! the pre-Bosman days, week to week contracts well players haggled over a new deal.

Conroy and Harper were great captures on frees, especially the latter, who at those levels always looked a class act.

Casper assembled a decent squad, the problem was he couldn't get them playing, and it was only when Mullen take the reins that they really showed their abilities to the fullest extent.

Interesting that PNE were trying to get players off their wage bill, and the ones they wanted rid off were still contracted so they couldn't be easily moved on, different days indeed.

150k for Warren Joyce would have been a fortune for us back then, if we'd have forked out the readies would he have been our record signing at the time?
Conroy cost us around £40,000. Bosmans weren’t free back then.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by elwaclaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:38 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:13 pm
Hadn’t he? Conroy was an unknown to us but Harper had been outstanding against us for PNE.
Please read my comment again Tony.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:41 pm

elwaclaret wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:38 pm
Please read my comment again Tony.
Not sure why you want me to read it again, I was agreeing with you.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by elwaclaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:42 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:41 pm
Not sure why you want me to read it again, I was agreeing with you.
Oh ok sorry.








How unusual :D

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by Papabendi » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:03 pm

I remember Steve Harper being very much maligned then being one of our best players a level up. A strange one.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:04 pm

Papabendi wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:03 pm
I remember Steve Harper being very much maligned then being one of our best players a level up. A strange one.
Very much maligned for whatever reason

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by Peter Loo » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:13 pm

Talking of JM back there has he settled for retirement with no connection with the professional game or is he advising /coaching anywhere has anyone heard.

Nothing to suggest he’s active on wiki for some time.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by FeedTheArf » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:30 pm

I like these articles but any chance the title could have ARCHIVES or FLASHBACK or something similar at the start?

I’m that desperate for a signing I didn’t read it correctly on NewsNow and thought we’d signed a player! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:33 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:11 pm
Conroy cost us around £40,000. Bosmans weren’t free back then.
One of the best £40,000 ever spent then :)his goals were essential towards firing us to promotion.

Just reading his bio, I never realised he'd played for Blackpool, Burnley, & PNE, that must be a rarity.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:38 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:33 pm
One of the best £40,000 ever spent then :)his goals were essential towards firing us to promotion.

Just reading his bio, I never realised he'd played for Blackpool, Burnley, & PNE, that must be a rarity.
Others that come to mind who have played for all three are Tony Ellis, Gary Parkinson, David Eyres and Clarke Carlisle.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by Aclaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:42 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:33 pm
One of the best £40,000 ever spent then :)his goals were essential towards firing us to promotion.

Just reading his bio, I never realised he'd played for Blackpool, Burnley, & PNE, that must be a rarity.
And just 1 team missing from that list......he never did manage to play for Accrington !

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by NottsClaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:59 pm

Was it the next season we played Moscow Dynamo in a pre-season at the Turf, surely can't have been this one if we're off to Russia? We got hammered. They were brilliant, or that's how I remember it anyway, they looked like they were playing at a different speed to us.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:47 pm

NottsClaret wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:59 pm
Was it the next season we played Moscow Dynamo in a pre-season at the Turf, surely can't have been this one if we're off to Russia? We got hammered. They were brilliant, or that's how I remember it anyway, they looked like they were playing at a different speed to us.
You are spot on, summer 1992 and we lost 4-2.

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Re: ARTICLE: Casper makes second signing as pre-season starts

Post by Garnerssoap » Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:56 am

Great perm

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