That’s fairly typical of defensive midfielders. If they’re doing something in one place, they won’t be doing it somewhere else. It’s hard to say what the tactical instructions were set at for the team, so it’s hard to say whether he was good or bad. What happened later indicates he was good enough to gain another contract.
Having watched the games, I can confirm he was bad from around February. He wasn’t alone in that.
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Horses for course’ s ain’t that why you have a manager . That’s what I’ve always thought ..loads of players should have been pulled a times and weren’t .comes down to this for me poor management
I don’t doubt the style of football played a part but it was almost certainly the money that moved him and he is never going to say that.
Would Stirk be one of those that refused to sign a contract extension?
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Really, why does anyone care about the performance of a Chesterfield player???
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Ryan, who ?
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So, it turns out that Stirky was less than happy with Walsall’s style of play and wanted something different.
Didn’t we all!
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Hopefully one of ours puts one on him before that happens. Snake.
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I’ll be willing that to happen! Trouble is, we haven’t really got anyone who is that hard? Can we re-sign John Keister for a month, just to (literally) do a marking job on Stirk!! I want him to know that he’s been in a game on 6th September.
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But I ain’t going off to support Chesterfield!!
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This article makes you wonder if some players were/are unhappy with the style of play despite him going for more money.
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It may be. I suspect they were more happy when they were winning with that style.
When it works, the idea of getting the ball forward quickly and pressing is very hard to counter provided that the players are fit enough to keep it up. We were not and, when that happens, it can descend into just kicking the ball forward. And when we did try to play keep-ball in the odd game in the bad run, the players were not sharp enough to do it because they had not practiced enough. That split second of indecision is enough to lose the ball.
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Psychologically, it must be a style that produces extremes. Exhilarating when you dominate a game with so little possession. But when it doesn’t work, it must feel like you spent the whole 90 minutes chasing shadows.
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Who F%%KING cares, he’s f%%ked off couldn’t give a s%%t about him close the thread and move on ffs
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Don’t care why he has gone or where he has gone. Just delighted he has gone.
UP THE SADDLERS
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Yes this thread has probably run it’s time Simon, please close it down.
We’ve all cried our eyes out enough now, please don’t put us through this another minute longer, I beg you … 
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Fook him, hope he get’s booed every time he touches the ball when he rocks back up at our place.
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Always reluctant to close threads, but if there’s nothing else to say on the topic, just don’t say anything more on the topic.
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Forrest Gump says “Fook Ryan Stirk … and that’s all I gotta say about that”