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No Deal for Thomas, Crowe Can Stay With Braintree
Thursday, 4th Feb 2016 14:08

Town boss Mick McCarthy says he currently has no plans to offer on-trial winger Jerome Thomas a contract. TWTD revealed that the 32-year-old former Arsenal, Charlton, West Brom and Crystal Palace man was training at the club last week but he has now moved on.

“I won’t be doing anything with him at the moment, he’s a free agent anyway, so if there’s anything I need to do [I can do it whenever],” McCarthy said. “He’s gone home.”

With the injured Dean Gerken expected to be fit ahead of the Hull City match two weeks next Tuesday, McCarthy says he has no plans to bring keeper Michael Crowe back from Braintree, with his first month with the Iron up.

“We can now put him on a 28-day loan with a 24-hour recall,” he added. “If they want him that is what I will do but then if we have an emergency we can call him back.”

Braintree boss Danny Cowley is keen to keep Wales U21 call-up Crowe at Cressing Road.

“The game against Welling [on Tuesday] was the last of Michael’s one-month loan deal, but we have spoken to Ipswich about it," he told the Colchester Daily Gazette. “So we are hoping to extend it and we are seeing what they have to say.”


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OwainG1992 added 14:15 - Feb 4
Well there we are. I would prefer some younger loanees to come in.
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ihatenorwich added 14:26 - Feb 4
Thank god for that.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 14:27 - Feb 4
Right so we haven't signed him, all that moaning for nothing again.

Sometimes players will come trials some will sign, some wont. Lets sign them first then moan, its the natural order of things.
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Surco72 added 14:56 - Feb 4
I think you will find the criticism was due to the clubs lack of activity in the transfer market in January while the only player linked was a 32 year old who hasn't played regular football for years . As I see it is still the case .
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phillo added 16:31 - Feb 4
Not sure we really needed him - is he better than AMN & Fraser ? Would have only been back-up & hopefully with McG and Bish back soon if we have issues with wide players we can alter shape a little & accommodate ........... seems silly to waste wages on a backup player at this stage.
See whats available from Prem clubs when loan window opens & spend the money there .....
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dugoutdave added 17:48 - Feb 4
phillo - to be quite honest in my opinion given the last few games anyone would be better than AMN. I doubt at times his commitment, certainly his lack of strength is a weakness (see what I did there!) and his ball control is terrible. He was all over the place on Tuesday and not in a good way! Hopefully he can improve but not sure about him at all or what he brings to the table.
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jas0999 added 17:53 - Feb 4
Not good enough now and would have been yet another cheap sub standard option.
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wayway added 20:26 - Feb 4
I reckon he was asking for more than the minimum wage
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ArnieM added 22:21 - Feb 4
so as usual then a lot of flaaaaaaapin by some on here about nothing.
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