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Paul McCallum

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Scoring for fun in the National League. Another 3 today.
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That’s the problem it’s the National League
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B.whitehouse+10more wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:00 pm That’s the problem it’s the National League
He couldn’t be worse than Pigott.
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cockhat wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:15 pm
B.whitehouse+10more wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:00 pm That’s the problem it’s the National League
He couldn’t be worse than Pigott.
Luckily we’ll never find out
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Been there, done it!
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NL level- end of
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He’s playing two levels below us, ffs. Get a grip.
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Sure, but 22 goals in 21 NL games is pretty impressive.
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Eastleigh is close to me so have popped there to see him play. Beats me how he scores so many because when I’ve seen him he is slow, lazy and cumbersome and a million miles from League 1 quality in my opinion. Maybe I’ve just seen him on his bad days but I would not be rushing to bring him in. Great in the National League, a style and level that suites his game.
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Has he returned the gym stuff he pinched in the mad Italian days? He is NL at best
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He’d clearly be an upgrade on Woe Piggott
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Seems to be an effective target man nowadays.
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Bergen wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:20 pm Sure, but 22 goals in 21 NL games is pretty impressive.
So he's spent 40% of the season injured? Some would say thats another reason for signing him!
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Sniffers never age or lose their predatory instincts for finding the onion bag…
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cockhat wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:15 pm
B.whitehouse+10more wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:00 pm That’s the problem it’s the National League
He couldn’t be worse than Pigott.
I'm not so sure about that .As others have said McCallum is playing two levels down in the National League . Put him in League One and I think he'd be lost .The trouble with Pigott is he's a player playing with no confidence at the moment . Although I've been a critic of his in the past I'm sure he's a much better player than he's currently showing us . He needs a goal to get him going again . The one thing I'm sure about is if any manager could help him get his confidence back it would be Richie .
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He's almost 31 and has played nothing but non-League since leaving us 7 years ago. He's having a great season and has scored at a fair rate for Eastleigh, Dagenham and Barnet, but people are being really silly.
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Mccallum wasn't great for us otherwise we would not have released him. If he was any good the likes of W£exham or Notts C would have signed him. Always looked slow & uninterested
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Exactly, can't knock his record but if he was as good as some people seem to be claiming, then better clubs would have come in to take him back up the pyramid while he was in his prime years. They didn't.
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He's a good lad, and sure he could do a job in League Two, but for a League One side looking up more than it's looking down? Sorry Paul.
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Re: Paul McCallum

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The England C squad to take on Wales in March has been named by head coach Paul Fairclough. The Squad:

Grant Smith - Bromley
Wyll Stanway - Chester City
Gus Scott-Morris - Southend United
Ollie Harfield - Aldershot Town
Tom Eastman - Dagenham & Redbridge
Jamie Grimes - Chesterfield
Myles Kenlock - Ebbsfleet United
Isaac Marriot - Altrincham
Ed Francis - Gateshead
Reece Smith - Maidenhead United
Dan Pybus - Dorking Wanderers
Callum Stead - Barnet
Emmanuel Dieseruvwe - Hartlepool United
Ollie Pearce - Worthing
Paul McCallum - Eastleigh :)
Callum Maycock - Solihull Moors
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I was just thinking if that England C squad was a League Two squad I wonder how well they would do . Could that squad win promotion ?
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Sam Ling played for England C so no it couldn’t
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Rich Tea Wellin wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:23 pm Sam Ling played for England C so no it couldn’t
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Always felt sorry for Sam Ling - good attitude and a trier. Lacked something, though.
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Dan Pybus spent preseason here 2022/23 after being released by Dunfermline Athletic. Signed for York City in Conference North (playoff winners) and now in Conference National with Dorking Wanderers.
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