chip fireball wrote:
boyd had the best goals per game record across his entire pools career of any recent player at the club. and thats before you include the assists.
and that holds true
even if you ignore 2004/05 completely! Boyd has always scored goals for us when given the opportunity, it's just been a question of getting that opportunity.
He didn't get a look in at the start of 2001/02, with Turner preferring a combination of Humphreys, Henderson and Lormor. When that didn't work he went out and signed Gordon Watson. Boyd finally got a chance as a sub in late September. He scored. Two games later he got his first start of the season against York. He scored twice. But two games and one more goal later he was benching again, and didn't start another game until February. He then got another chance and scored 4 in his first 3 games. But four goalless games saw him dropped for the rest of the season, with Turner signing Eifion Williams.
2002/03 was similar. Watson and Williams were established and Boyd had to wait until Watson broke his leg before getting a chance in the league. He started the next three games, scoring in all of them. He then didn't score in the next two away games and found himself out of the side under Newell for
four months, with Marcus Richardson getting his shirt! When finally recalled in February he scored on his first appearance and added another at Darlington before being dropped again.
We then changed manager, and Cooper clearly didn't trust Boyd at first. His handful of subs appearances barely amounted to one full game. He didn't get a start until after he'd been to Boston and back. He then scored a small matter of 41 in 67.
perhaps someone could send this to danny wilson. with accompanying dvd. with a copy to timmy and tax payer.
whatever you think of him as a person or a player he has the knack of putting the ball in the back of the net at div 3 and 4 level. and at 25 years of age he has to be worth 175,000 imho.