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Re: Still a case to be made

By StirlingBoro9125/7 19:23Thu Jul 25 19:23:57 2024In response to Re: Boro Legend! Bring him home Revs

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I get what everyone said about flattering to deceive and that he's not even cutting it at the Irish league level but I still think there's a case to be made for him.

Look how many 'rejects' we used to take under GW in the 2000s that played out of their skin and ended up in higher divisions.

I know he was only 17 but wasn't Boyd dropped from Charlton's academy.

I'm not trying to say Kennedy is anywhere near that level but he was a great player with us and at one point looked like he'd be the next Freeman, and make the jump up to the Championship (still don't know how Luke didn't become a lower-table PL regular).

Yes, it does seem like he's been a bust at the Irish league level but raw talent doesn't just fade away. It can get buried for a number of reasons. If he could some-how recapture that form he showed in bursts with us he'd be a great filler and rotational player.

From what I remember (and I could be mixing him up with someone else here) he was only moved on to the Irish leagues because he dropped off a bit and fell out with the club.

If he could genuinely return and make a happy home for himself here I think he'd be a worthwhile addition.

At the end of the day he's a free-agent and Irish league reject so, even for a club of our size, he'd be relatively cheap salary-wise.

Give him a 1 year contract and if he's not working then loan him out for 6 months in January to run down his contract and save us paying the second half of his contract.

He might flop but how many flops have we turned around? Genuinely think we need to get back to that ethos and approach. Rejects that Revell can turn around, augmented with more experienced (at this level and above) talent we can nab on a cheap or free deal.

We're not a club that can be buying, or scooping up on a free, loads of players from the leagues around us if we want lots of depth.

We need more recruitment from the top-end of the non-league that we can develop and rotate in the ones that work when our main starters need a break. That way we can start to have a squad approaching the size that top-end clubs at our level, and some Championship clubs have.

Then again I may be chatting absolute pish and be wearing my nostalgia goggles when it comes to Ben...

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