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nickbrod wrote:Not surprised Campbell has scored a shed load of goals playing for Jarrow Roofing. If he doesn't nail down a starting place he'll be hammering on the manager's door.
"I felt he'd be good for us," said KT as he unrolled the new signing!

Bliddy 'ell, Nickbrod - you'll be slated for that ..........

More positive news from the club in relation to deals for the non-contract players. CH certainly seems more upbeat at last.

http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 78212.aspx

Not surprised Campbell has scored a shed load of goals playing for Jarrow Roofing. If he doesn't nail down a starting place he'll be hammering on the manager's door.
"I felt he'd be good for us," said KT as he unrolled the new signing!

The real good news would be we finish the season in a play-off place and win the previously named " FA Amateur Cup" .

Dont go there because you will be disappointed and possibly doubly so.

CP Gull said:

Certainly seems to know where the back of the net is - scores all FIVE here! Including a rather decent fifth one from the halfway line!

Judging by the standard of play, he should feel at home down here. :}

He can score when one-on-one, round the keeper, find tight angles - not to mention a very well taken pen!

ferrarilover wrote: worse than a night down the pub with Hector and Brucie.

Matt.

I know worse . . . . standing either side of a pisstaker at the urinal and suffering first degree splashback.

"You will know them by their actions" . . . .

. . . . preceded by you will know them by their intentions.

Carry on KT.

People had a look at him and he was **** tuppence ha'penny, worse than a night down the pub with Hector and Brucie. :devil:

Matt.

CP Gull wrote:Confirmed on the BBC site ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31500592

Seems to be true - potentially a good signing in my book. Nice to see that he notched one (within 2 minutes of coming onas a sub) at Home Park earlier in the season for Oxford, in one of only three appearances for them. Seems Oxford have been a little bit naughty here, as according to his previous club - Jarrow Roofing - he was loaned to Oxford in November with a view to a permanent transfer (and more importantly to them an agreed fee) to be paid to them when the transfer window reopened in January and it seems as though Oxford reneged on that arrangement and tried to renegotiate the deal ....

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/loc ... -1-7079369

Weren't we linked with a bloke from Jarrow Roofing a couple of years ago?

Edit: Yep, whatever happened to this guy?

http://forum.torquayfans.com/viewtopic. ... row#p50775

Have noticed over the last couple weeks the club has become more proactive in the use of social media, and in terms of bringing in extra revenue have thought assets like no10's have been hopelessly under used, so nice to see on FB about a curry night coming up, so yes, is Kelvin Thomas beginning to have an influence on things.

I don't just think the supply to the front line is the only issue, admittedly I haven't been to as many games as I would have liked, but seen enough to form an opinion, I think one of the biggest problems has been a difference in style of play, at the start of the season the ball was coming out from the back, other teams were struggling to cope with the speed of our passing and movement, as the pitch's have got heavy we've got sucked into knocking long, which doesn't suit the likes Bowman, and there's no need to that, seen enough F.A Cup games played on pitch's worse that ours by lower league teams who've managed to play football through out, with out feeling the need to hoof it.

We are a conference team now, and the club hasn't got money to buy our way out of all the issues regarding the overall quality of the squad, CH will have to improve some of the players we've got, however seen enough games this season where the goals scored to chances ratio has not been good enough, so a step in the right direction.

Perhaps CH has seen the video and expects him to score all his goals from the half way line... thus rendering the need for supply redundant!

Pleased we have signed somebody, but I thought the issue was not that we couldn't score, but more that we struggled to supply our forward line?

Presume neither Reid nor Campbell are FA Trophy cup-tied so could figure in one or both Wrexham games.
I, too, hope our three non-contract players are being looked after properly especially Gueguen.b

Very confusing story here, but I think I can just about figure out what has happened ..

It seems Campbell(26) was signed on a 2 year contract last summer by Jarrow Roofing and so when Oxford Utd came calling in November after he had scored a shed load of goals for the Northern Premier League 1 side, he signed "on loan" from them (because it was outside of the transfer window) with, at least as far as Jarrow were concerned, a deal struck that Campbell would sign a permanent deal until the end of this season with Oxford when the transfer window reopened in January - also given that he was under contract, a transfer fee was agreed.

Now, what happens next gets a bit more confusing as the North East media seem to suggest that Oxford decided they wanted to change the terms of the deal, presumably not keen to pay the "agreed" transfer fee. It was suggested that as a permanent deal hadn't been completed he would therefore return to Jarrow Roofing as he was still their player. Whether he ever left Oxford to return to Jarrow is unclear but either way it seems he never played for them.

To the surprise of Oxford fans, it seems that he is indeed THEIR player now - makes me wonder whether the Football League got involved as there is no way we can loan a loan player from Oxford if he is still registered on a contract with Jarrow! So, however the dispute was resolved remains unclear but one thing I think we can safely assume is that he is contracted to Oxford United and not Jarrow Roofing anymore. I imagine, given the comments on the OS that we are paying some if not all of his wages (they talk of finding some "funds") and that Campbell may well be made available as a free agent in the summer as surely a return to Oxford looks unlikely.

It represents a good opportunity for Campbell to play at a higher level than he has been used to, albeit not In the Football League. He certainly seems to be a "natural" goalscorer!

Certainly seems to know where the back of the net is - scores all FIVE here! Including a rather decent fifth one from the halfway line!