Reply With QuoteNice, he'll see some good competition and get first team minutes
Marcus Haber to St. Johnstone on loan
Marcus on a season-long loan to St. Johnstone of the Scottish Premier League.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ne/8872922.stm
Nice, he'll see some good competition and get first team minutes
St.Johnstone have 6 first team strikers under contract and he's the 7th. He's gonna have to fight hard for his minutes and score some goals (which haven't been forthcoming of late) or he'll be back in NASL D2.
St. Johnstone are a good footballing side under Derek McInnes but have a feeling they are going to struggle a bit this season. Hope I'm wrong for Haber's sake. He needs some good, competitive action.
It's interesting to note that Haber will be playing with former TFC player Collin Samuel.
Marcus scores in first match - "Despite fighting back through goals from M Haber and N Main, Saints lost 3-2 to a Man Utd XI this afternoon."
good - we were in danger of having no canucks in the SPL this year - I think it's a good style of football for him but wonder if a loan to Lg 1 might not have been better as I can't see him getting that many first team minutes - this would have been a good move for Jackson, for instance, but I'm not sure if Haber is at this level yet
"The bright spot in a match that would soon descend into a friendly fairytale farce was the cool finish from new signing Marcus Haber which brought St Johnstone back into it. A through ball into his path from Craig and the Canadian striker, who was signed on a season-long loan from West Bromwich Albion on Friday, raced up field and one-on-one with Johnstone, calmly slotted home.
That was in the 63rd minute and four minutes later Haber was then upended in the box and St Johnstone were afforded the chance to level."
http://sport.scotsman.com/english/St...?articlepage=2
Even though most teams in the bottom half of the SPL would probably struggle at League One level? St Johnstone play in a town called Perth with a population of only 50,000 or so surrounded by a rural farming area and have a hardcore support of about 2000. They are comparable in financial terms to a strong Conference or weak League Two club in England in other words. Hereford United come to mind as an English club from a similar sort of town, who are roughly comparable in stature within the game. Although he will be playing in a top-tiered league, Scotland only has a tenth of the population of England so the SPL is not directly comparable to the Premiership (only two clubs Rangers and Celtic could survive at that level and with each passing season that's becoming a lot more open to debate than it used to be). St Johnstone, like Exeter City, were probably carefully selected as a place where WBA management think he should be able to start regularly.Originally Posted by nolando
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It'll be a good experience for Marcus. No St. Johnstone aren't exactly giant killers (as has been mentioned, they're one of those clubs which rely on the traveling supporters for probably 1/2 their annual gate revenue) but they'll be facing some pretty hard competition over the season and Haber can only benefit from that. It's good that the loan is for the full season for the odvious reason that it becomes worth while to work Haber into the attacking plans. That is to say the club can see real returns on the benefit of Haber succeeding on the pitch. He isn't leaving come Christmas and they're left starting from scratch.
Think the majority of British clubs would absolutely love to have Celtic's gate revenue. Also think most EPL clubs couldn't fathom operating on what the club receives in TV revenue and the gap keeps widening. Strange situation but it is what it is.
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