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Good luck to him always gave 100% to Pools.

Aye - hope he proves the Pools management wrong (though I suspect the only reason he got released was that there was so little room for manouevre with the contact situation of the rest of the squad).

100% grafter but not a very good footballer in my opinion 15 goals in 109 gayes would hardly have me excited as a Morecambe fan.

Agree with all the above. Scored a couple of important goals for us but nothing like enough although he was often played out wide.

I blame the gayes too.

He'll do a job for any lower league club without setting the world alight.

He's been given a 2 year contract by a Football League club. Enough said, I would have thought

Maybe they should have polled the opinions of knowledgeable Pools' fans first? It's just so darn hard working out who's knowledgeable and who isn't.

Pools gave numerous players 2 year contracts whilst still a league club, suppose they were all good enough too??
Nice try at being a smart arse though.

Ooh - touchy. As it happens, I agree with your previous comment 100% - Rhys Oates is a decent lower league player. He deserves his chance at Morecambe.

going to be a long hard season for morecambe if oates is the tpe of signing for them. if he does well though its shows pools coaching isn,t up to much.

Best of luck to him, hope he sorts his fitness out

When isn’t it a long hard season for Morecambe, surely they can’t keep just staying about up?

I'm confused, is it Mad John or the gayes fault? We need answers.

He came with potential, but never realised it. Admittedly he'd run and run and run, but so did our dog, but I still had him put own.

BRILLIANT!!!!

Nah, Definitely had him put down. Remember walking back with his lead and collar, people must have thought I had an invisible dog.

I’d do the same if my dog had a similar goal scoring record to Rhys Oates.

My dog was a keeper, he had a brief career cut short tragically by an injury sustained chasing a bloke on a bike, I forget the team, it ended in ...Rovers.

Analysing his goals per game when he wasn’t playing in his preferred position is a bit of a waste of time. I liked him. If other players had put in as much effort as he did we would have been comfortable. Thing is they didn’t. That’s what makes the difference at lower league level. Wish him all the very best and thanks for never giving up when it was clearly very frustrating at times for him. That says a lot about him and with different coaching, more committed team mates and a change of environment he will have a reasonable career I’m sure.

It’s a good job we aren’t relying on your opinion then I suppose. If you thought he had no tactical ability and couldn’t kick a ball why would he be useful? You applied for a job at the Mail? You should do you’d do well there.

It was trapping a football that was his weakness rather than being able to kick it. Personally I liked him though - probably in the minority but I actually thought he was more effective when he played wider. Was a bit of an outlet and was quite effective running at full backs.

I'd have kept him but equally understand letting him go under circumstances, can imagine him playing the wide target man sort of role at Morecambe like Ellison has for years.

Rhys wasn't exactly the most technical of players and that made him pretty unpredictable but I almost think that's why he was useful. Half the time I don't think he knew what he was going to do, never mind the opposition. Sometimes he'd run straight into the defender, others he'd run straight by people and manage to take it half the length of the pitch.

A moment in the second half at Tranmere summed him up for me, he got it on the halfway line, ran post everyone to a one-on-one position only to fluff his lines. Good luck to him though, he always ran himself into the ground.

Humour can work occasionally when your trying to deflect attention away from yourself sometimes Phil yeah. Make it funnier though that would be my tip. Anyways im over it now. Hope you are too. I ordered a Chinese takeaway from gatesheed tonight to mourn his leaving us, Shrimps with freed Reece.

I'll join you in the minority there, CT. My earlier comment about him playing wide was aimed more at the amount of goals he scored which is how 'strikers' tend to be judged.