It might not be about what wage was offered in these two contracts he was offered........ But the lack of opportunities that he has been given. Even my nan should make the starting line up over Batt.... So I'm sure he turned down these two offers as he wants to progress as a player. I'm not sure I'...

Stevens deserves opportunities more than Batt does. MA will do anything he can to avoid giving young players a chance. Every first team player, no matter how poorly they have been playing, will be given chances ahead of our youth players no matter what. I don't get how people can defend playing Batt...

I feel that last season has made people too readily accept MA messing things up this year. When you look at the sheer volume of errors he has made, and yet we're still not that far off the playoffs, you realise how much better things could have been this season. Points wise we are closer to the pla...

I feel that last season has made people too readily accept MA messing things up this year.

When you look at the sheer volume of errors he has made, and yet we're still not that far off the playoffs, you realise how much better things could have been this season.

MA is anti-youth. He repeatedly claims he isn't, and hypes our young players constantly, but the facts speak for themselves. MA always defaults to his favoured cloggers no matter how many injuries we have. With Stevens you could make the excuse that Akinde, Gash and McLean were ahead of him, though ...

Playing average at Hendon isn't and shouldn't be a benchmark. The quality and style of football will be so different to what the youngsters have played at up to this point. The idea of these loans is to give the players an understanding of the physicality of the men's game and part of the learning ...

Randall is the centre mid with technical ability we've been crying out for. You don't realise quite how poor Weston is until you see Randall alongside him. I can't fault anyone for effort, Weston and Champion excepted. Batt had his best game for us by a country mile. Injuries and Champion's really p...

I don't think I've ever seen a manager single handedly destroy our chances of winning through poor substitutions like MA did today. What should have been a comfortable win was ruined by MA whose logic was bordering on deranged today. To take off Hackett when he was just getting into the game, Gash ...

I don't think I've ever seen a manager single handedly destroy our chances of winning through poor substitutions like MA did today. What should have been a comfortable win was ruined by MA whose logic was bordering on deranged today. To take off Hackett when he was just getting into the game, Gash ...

I don't think I've ever seen a manager single handedly destroy our chances of winning through poor substitutions like MA did today. What should have been a comfortable win was ruined by MA whose logic was bordering on deranged today. To take off Hackett when he was just getting into the game, Gash ...

I'd love to know the thinking behind keeping Lisbie for six months, getting him back to full fitness and then releasing him at exactly the time that McLean's contract is up and both Akinde and Gash are carrying injuries. Why not keep him another two weeks until we could replace McLean and get Gash ...

For all his physical presence and nuisance value Batt simply is not up to it. His shooting is poor his ball control worse and on occasions he seemed to be falling over himself just trying to run! Special praise for the dog though. By leaving out tomlinson and stevens from the match day squad he lef...

More nonsense from MA in the post match interview. He says that Gash was unfit, Akinde had hamstring trouble all week and that Batt was only fit for a 60-70 minute shift, yet despite that two of them started and Matt Stevens wasn't even the squad despite MA specifically saying earlier this week that...

buzzinbee wrote:

hoppy wrote:And was Matt Stevens involved in this mornings Youth match against Gillingham? Or has he been sold to Wolves or Peterborough?

Yes he was playing for the U18s

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattystevens ... 8712934400

How ridiculous.

It's been a revolving door with the summer signings. In and out by January. At least there seems to be a willingness to create pathways for the talented development squad players which were blocked by the Summer signings. The release of tamille roache before the end of his contract was not as big a...