Benson & Glennon

One of many..

Ollie is a wily old fox.

He has gone public on this for a number of reasons

1 it’s sorted. They are coming
2 it’s a smokescreen, they were never coming but it avoids criticism for not getting someone else
3 it’s a wake up call to Burnley or the two chaps to make their minds up.

I am sure there are many more reasons why Ollie is reported to have made a call, but time will tell.

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Not for me - ultimately what was he?
No goals in him
Bits and pieces player
L2 run of the mill
One of ,any who ply their trade at that level

I think if you are serious promotion contenders you can do better than Jake -great pro and good lad that he is[img][/img]

I think he had one of the highest ave crossing accuracy stats in Lg 2

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Not for me - ultimately what was he?
No goals in him
Bits and pieces player
L2 run of the mill
One of ,any who ply their trade at that level

I think if you are serious promotion contenders you can do better than Jake -great pro and good lad that he is

Thats like saying Claude Makelele was no good cos he didn't score goals.

Hessenthaler's job was to sit in front of the back 4, break up play, win the ball and keep it. I thought he did it very well. I think he was one of the top players (if not THE top player) in League Two for number of tackles won last season. And I think playing in a Holloway team with better movement off the ball he'd be capable of doing more on the ball too.

Holloway's already said he won't be going back to sign players we've let go anyway though so he won't be coming back.

Because of Hess’s injury v Stevenage, we never got to see him and Benson together. In the Exeter warm up, I commented that i hadn’t seen a Town player with a better first touch since Trevor Whymark. Bensons ability alongside Hess’s engine would be mighty in L2.

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Not for me - ultimately what was he?
No goals in him
Bits and pieces player
L2 run of the mill
One of ,any who ply their trade at that level

I think if you are serious promotion contenders you can do better than Jake -great pro and good lad that he is

excellent assessment, agree entirely

Absolute madness that people didn't rate Hess because he didn't score enough goals.

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Absolute madness that people didn't rate Hess because he didn't score enough goals.

Maybe more to do with him passing forwards about once every three games. His break up play was superb, but he was far more capable of playing football than what we saw for the most part. Maybe it was Jolley's tactics, but watching Hess pass the ball sideways and backwards under zero pressure was painful to watch.

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Maybe more to do with him passing forwards about once every three games. His break up play was superb, but he was far more capable of playing football than what we saw for the most part. Maybe it was Jolley's tactics, but watching Hess pass the ball sideways and backwards under zero pressure was painful to watch.

That was it Jolleys tactic under Ollie he would have been told to pass it forward or drive on with it.

We shall never know now.

I didn't not rate him cos he didn't score goals
I think he was overrated and some people on here were way over the top about him, when all he contributed was tidying up work
I will qualify it by saying in our current midfield (Hess/Clifton/Hewitt/Wright/Tilley) I would not be confident at all it's a midfield that gets you promoted or in play offs

But if we get Benson and another crafty midfielder then I'd be happy for him to have been retained

I guess for me Hess is one of many L2 workmanlike midfielders - and you can't have too many of that type if you want to be at top end of table