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  1. nbu

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    Barnsley manager Keith Hill says Paul Digby is good enough to replace Jacob Butterfield but still looking at options in the transfer market.
     
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    And yet when we had the chance, we still only gave him a 2 year contract. Players like Digby that we should be tying up to longer deals, so we can get a fair bit for him when the inevitable happens.
     
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    I agree, hardly a gamble either with the wages he'll be on.
     
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    I do think Digby could make an impact this season but wouldn't have thought he would be a like-for-like swap with Butterfield.

    Hope the youngsters get a decent amount of game time this season
     
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    Agreed - I'd be signing the lad up to a 4/5 year deal before Christmas if I were Keef
     
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    Roughly translated as "don't expect anymore midfielders to be signed". Still we've got Perkins and Dawson to fall back on.
     
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    Or alternatively "we dont have any money to sign a replacement for Jacob until the tribunal so dont be surprised if we start the season with Digby".

    No problem with the manager biggin up the younger players but lets be reight, if we are to compete (which he constantly harps on about) we need more quality in midfield than we have currently.

    Worried.
     
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    Why worry? We've got Perkins and Dawson.

    From the little I've seen of Digby I've been very impressed but to throw him into a relegation battle would be unfair on the lad. Still, needs must.
     
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    Digby will be a great player for Barnsley and I am sure he will get 20 or so games this season.

    Our midfield looks creative enough in the wide positions (Jim O'Brien and Etuhu) but down the middle we look more like ball winners (Digby, Perkins, Dawson).....exception being Mellis?

    I think Mellis was always the replacement for Butterfield and Keith Hill will look to get a centre half + winger (cover for the 2 mentioned) and start with this.......see how we un-fold and then loan market if we need it?

    Personally still think we need another striker............FUTACS please !!!
     
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    Youngsters need to be in first team this year - potential is there! Let's use them
     
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    Good stuff

    Hopefully, we're producing more and more youngsters from our Academy who are capable of holding down a first team place on a regular basis and are of Championship standard (at the very least). I don't see how this can be viewed as a bad thing.
     
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    can't really see that butts was a creative going forward midfielder. Digs more a defensive midfield player


     
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    Hope we can sign Futacs and Treacy, two players we've been linked with, and a commanding centre half, not one as cover for Edwards, Foster and McNulty as Hill suggested yesterday. Unless at least one of those three step up to the plate big time this season, I think we're gunna have a flimsy back line again.
     
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    Re: Good stuff

    I've only seen Digby a few times, in the first team and in his own age group, but never did I see him as a Butterfield-esque player.

    Looks more of a deep-lying playmaker if anything. But KK sees him day in, day out. Maybe he knows more than I do. I fcukin' hope so.
     
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    Think we will still sign a cm.

    As said about, Paul Digby sits back and passes like pirlo did for italy.

    Stand off him and will pass you to death, go close him down and he'll go past you and start the attack that way.

    Dont think that comments in line with not another cm. He will have been asked about either jacob or digby and said that.
     
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    Digby is the second best young player I've seen at the WELL.......after Hirsty
    Digby is only still a young kid and if he keeps on improveing year on year like he has been doing then we have got a reight player on our hands.
    This player has the height, strength, speed, agility and football brain to be something special

    If Digby is able to improve his forward play, that is to say know when to appear in the oppositions box, then we have a player in a similar mould to Bryan Robson.
     
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    No pressure, then.
     
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    I don't think the manager is saying

    Digby is a clone of Butterfield, just that he's capable of being selected in the first team. If anything, I'd suggest Mellis is more likely to adopt the Butterfield role than anyone else currently in the squad. Assuming, of course, another midfielder isn't being lined up to be brought in.
     
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    are you seriously compairing digby to pirlo
     
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    type not ability fella. its eaaier to put a name than a list.
     
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