alex_farrells_left_peg
Vital Squad Member
If we can keep hold of him, I think he may just attain those heights.
Here's hoping.
Here's hoping.
I fear you may be right which is why I commented the way I did.... then again, I thought that about Hessy - even though we paid loads of money for him - but he turned out to have a blue heart. Hopefully Dempsey may end up getting one too!Can't see him being around for very long tbh.
His name (Hessy), as a player in the Gillingham FC hall of fame was written in stone a long, long time, and deservedly so however, Dempsey is the first midfield player, since Hessy, I have genuinely thought of who comes anywhere near close. I do agree that he will probably leave as soon as the contract ends.....just really hope he doesn't.too good for league one. He'll do his contract and move on a bit like Egan or Eaves. I am surprised he signed for us in the first place. Enjoy him while we can.
Not sure there will ever be another Hessenthaler and maybe there shouldn't. He can be the legend forever
His name (Hessy), as a player in the Gillingham FC hall of fame was written in stone a long, long time, and deservedly so however, Dempsey is the first midfield player, since Hessy, I have genuinely thought of who comes anywhere near close. I do agree that he will probably leave as soon as the contract ends.....just really hope he doesn't.
It has to be remembered that Hess was playing against championship players.Dempsey is still to prove himself at that level when he does maybe you can make comparisons. There is a massive gulf between the two leagues as Eaves found out.
That is true .But that was one heck of a side.I would argue that the side that won promotion and the side that lost to City were streets ahead of anything in league one right now. As much as the championship has gone forward league one has gone backwards. With worse sides coming up and down to our league than they would have done back then.The fact that a very ordinary but well managed Wycombe team got promoted last year I think possibly proves my point. Accrington could well follow them or come close this season.That is a very good point Chris.
Although I would say the difference back then (early 2000’s) was not as great as the chasm between those leagues today.
When we went up previously, we stayed there for 5 years in relative safety without spending too much on player transfers. In fact for the first year or 2 we challenged the top half.
If we went up now I think we’d come straight back down without a lot of hefty investment. Same for any club going up from Div1. A lot of bigger clubs than ours have come straight back down or struggled despite spending quite a bit on players.
If the squads are possibly about 20% bigger in the Championship due to the number of players on the bench these days.Transfer windows also mean that clubs need a few more players than they had back then.I seem to remember the Gillingham squads were no bigger than they are now but perhaps I am mistaken.The total number of players will be higher then as clubs could sign player for a single month on loan then so it is hard to make a direct comparison.Interesting points chris. Back then we were throwing around 500K on signing players but presumably everyone else was.
Now we can't do that but can others ?
The general pool of players must be of similar quality so why has the general quality of players in league one reduced ?
However, for me, Karl really does warrants the tag of top-midfielder, and I really enjoy watching the man at work. Hope he stays with us, he makes us a much much better team.
He might not want to stay if you can’t even get his name right Lancs