General James Henry and Elliott Moore

unification said:
I doubt the latter would happen. Moore is the more likely candidate to move on for a fee after having his option enacted. Only a real moneybags side hoovering up every club’s best L1 players for a tilt at the title would pay tor a 33 year old veteran like Henry.

It’s a good feature to have in agreements with players regardless. We benefited from it with Liam Sercombe. He’d fallen out with MApp and had been dropped. We enacted the option for another year even know MApp had no intention of playing him the season after (MApp left that summer but that’s by the by) and Bristol Rovers purchased him for £150k. Good business.
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Yes that’s fair but as you say, a club like Wednesday or Ipswich might fancy Henry as part of a strong squad, so we’d definitely get a wedge if so, regardless of contract length or age.

Henry has proved he’s the real deal over successive seasons here so if someone wants him, would we sell him for less than £100k?
 
The mighty Aldo said:
Not even that,we can’t have Mous taking up a place in the squad.If he is in the squad I would suggest we are not serious about promotion.

Have him around coaching and part of the backroom staff by all means and as you say in the dressing room but this year we have to have two players fighting for every position
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Is Mous out of contract? Agree, I see little point with him being registered as a player.
 
Surprised about Henry, has kind of turned into a player in recent times who only plays well say at best one in every three or four matches. Fair enough if they're just considering him as a bench option, but somehow don't think he's on bench wages compared to the rest of the squad.

Despite all that, considering what he's done for the club a final year reward for his services aren't completely ridiculous and hopefully at the very least he shows a high level of professionalism and drive in training which some of the younger players benefit from.
 
Coffin dodger said:
Moore is good news, but I think we should have said thank you and goodbye to James, he'll be 33 by the start of next season and been out injured most of this year, he will spend most of next season sat on the bench or lying on the treatment table, just a waste of a squad place and a significant salary.
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recently it has been discussed about how letting Bulman go because of his age was a mistake.
Henry is a great asset to this team and age is in no way a factor with him.
Great bit of business.
 
The mighty Aldo said:
Not even that,we can’t have Mous taking up a place in the squad.If he is in the squad I would suggest we are not serious about promotion.

Have him around coaching and part of the backroom staff by all means and as you say in the dressing room but this year we have to have two players fighting for every position
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I wouldn’t register him to be completely clear. Ideally we’d have 4 CBs - Moore, McNally and two more, plus Sam Long that can play in a 3.
 
BrockBuster said:
Surprised about Henry, has kind of turned into a player in recent times who only plays well say at best one in every three or four matches. Fair enough if they're just considering him as a bench option, but somehow don't think he's on bench wages compared to the rest of the squad.

Despite all that, considering what he's done for the club a final year reward for his services aren't completely ridiculous and hopefully at the very least he shows a high level of professionalism and drive in training which some of the younger players benefit from.
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If we can keep him well conditioned to play against the opposition he'll be suited for - teams that sit deep and concede long shots and need pinpoint crosses to unlock, then he's definitely a useful option.

Bear in mind that Matty managed to reach 20 goals in a season where Henry wasn't at his best, and that the two were telepathic in the season and a half before that. Was probably Taylor and Baldock tugging on KR's sleeve asking if they can please please keep hold of the nice crossing man.
 
UTO said:
We put a contract on the table for Moore the same time as we first offered one to Sykes.
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Does this mean he is also yet to accept a new contract, and we have just triggered the extension clause in his current contract? I wonder if he could still potentially leave before the window closes then for a small fee with only 1 year left on his contract? Or do you feel he's going to see it out now we've triggered it?
 
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Personally glad to see Henry stay for another year.
From August through to early December this year, he was one of our key players. After a poor end to the 2020/21 season, he was back and much closer to his best.....hatrick against Lincoln, winner against Wednesday - he was a big part of a team that was squarely in the playoff places when he got hurt.
Yes, injuries then ruined the second half of his season, but it's not as if he's been a sicknote throughout his Oxford career.
Will be a great complementary option next season, as well as a good head to have in the dressing room.

Moore extension is obviously even better, and I do have some hope that he might be here long term.
I think he's a great League One central defender, but I have some doubts that he's going to follow the likes of Dickie, Atkinson & co. up the pyramid. Doesn't have the pace, and although he's not skill-free - he's not a natural ball-playing defender either. I'm sure his agent will test the waters, but I wouldn't have said that getting him to sign a long-term extension was out of the question.
(McNally is the one that will surely move on to higher things. Just hoping that we get to see him for one more season before that happens)
 
beyondthefourth said:
If we can keep him well conditioned to play against the opposition he'll be suited for - teams that sit deep and concede long shots and need pinpoint crosses to unlock, then he's definitely a useful option.

Bear in mind that Matty managed to reach 20 goals in a season where Henry wasn't at his best, and that the two were telepathic in the season and a half before that. Was probably Taylor and Baldock tugging on KR's sleeve asking if they can please please keep hold of the nice crossing man.
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One of the good things about James Henry is that he's the best at getting a goal out of not much, a daisycutter into the corner when surrounded by players on the edge of the box. Very useful against defensive teams like Cheltenham.
 
Wandering Yellow said:
He fits the bill to be in our squad then
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Slavic is a player that showed great potential but has recently had a run of bad luck with injuries. He’s been offered a short term contract so that he has the opportunity to show that they’re behind him. If it proves not to be the case then it’ll be a shame for both him and the club but at least he was given a shot at it. I can’t see any problem at all with that?

Otherwise we could have a possible scenario of a Matty Taylor situation where he drops down in to non league and works his way back up and we’re all asking ‘what if..?’
 
yellowbow said:
Slavic is a player that showed great potential but has recently had a run of bad luck with injuries. He’s been offered a short term contract so that he has the opportunity to show that they’re behind him. If it proves not to be the case then it’ll be a shame for both him and the club but at least he was given a shot at it. I can’t see any problem at all with that?

Otherwise we could have a possible scenario of a Matty Taylor situation where he drops down in to non league and works his way back up and we’re all asking ‘what if..?’
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I agree, was only jesting about our injury prone squad!
 
WRox said:
I wouldn’t register him to be completely clear. Ideally we’d have 4 CBs - Moore, McNally and two more, plus Sam Long that can play in a 3.
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I think Mous has to be a registered player to fulfil his role as PFA chairman…
 
Colin B said:
No he doesn't. He needs to have a professional contract, even if it's only £1 a year salary. He categorically does NOT have to be registered in the EFL squad.
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The club might want to take a look at me for one of these £1 a year contracts.

I'm nearly 50 and I've always been shite but I'm faster than Dave Woozley, have better positional sense than Alex Jeanin, and don't mind going in goal if the actual keeper gets sent off*. Could someone let the club know?


*this means we can have an extra winger on the bench rather than cluttering it up with keepers
 
MarkG said:
What's James Henry doing playing for Reading? I know we've triggered a contract extension, but might they try and poach him back.
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I don't think he's going to play in the Championship at this point in his career.
 
Just seemed a bit unusual for someone with only ten appearances to be on the pitch for a legends game. Perhaps from his time at the academy he still has friends at the club, and they were looking for active players to make up the numbers and also our season finished before Readings.

A bit like when John Durnin used to play for Liverpool in the Masters Football six-aside on Sky.
 
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