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Platt leaves U's for Coventry

5:26pm Wednesday 28th July 2010


Striker Clive Platt has left Colchester United to join former manager Aidy Boothroyd at Coventry City.

The 32-year-old has quit the Weston Homes Community Stadium to join the npower Championship club.

Platt signed for Colchester in the summer of 2007 for a then club record fee of £300,000.

He was sent off in his first game, a friendly against Bolton Wanderers at Layer Road but scored on his U's league debut at Sheffield United.

Platt clocked up nearly 150 league and cup appearances for Colchester, scoring 27 times.

He was a regular under Boothroyd for Colchester last season.

And the lofty front-man clearly made a big impression on the former U's boss, prompting him to lure him to the Ricoh Arena.

For more on this story, see tomorrow's Gazette.


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haggydaggy, mersea says...
6:00pm Wed 28 Jul 10

Can't stop laughing, not only have Coventry got Boothroyd but they have signed Platt........ha ha ha!
27 goals in 135 games sorry but that's not good enough, but then at the sky blues the ball will be banged up to clive plank anyway!
Who we going to get in then?? I see Lisbie has gone on loan to Millwall.

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crazy comments, clacton says...
6:02pm Wed 28 Jul 10

Great news Hooray Hooray Hooray,
Best news ive heard for ages.

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e8joe, colchester says...
6:25pm Wed 28 Jul 10

Its party time at the WHCS no hoofroyd and now no one to hoof it too and we got a fee for both!

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Ozzie, Colchester says...
6:39pm Wed 28 Jul 10

Whilst I agree that the club will not be sorry to see Clive leave, I am a little concerned at the lack of replacement cover for those leaving - we now don't appear to have a target man,unless the combination of Odejayi and Gillespie are used up front - with the two wide men, Vincent and Hackney employed to supply quality crosses into the box. We are still short of a good finisher, a Jamie Cureton-kind of forward that will score given half an opportunity. Trundle was available as he was released by Swansea - tried and tested, prolific forward - maybe worth a look - now at a non-league club in Wales. Or did we buy the unknown guy I keep hearing rumours about from Burton Albion? Either way, we need to score more goals than we did last night, particularly considering the amount of chances that were created in and around the box. Will Mr Ward surprise us and bring in a quality forward that can score plenty of goals and make us some money when he leaves us for another club? Up the U's!

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Feisty CBC, Colchester says...
10:00pm Wed 28 Jul 10

crazy comments wrote:
Great news Hooray Hooray Hooray, Best news ive heard for ages.
Totally agree :) Brilliant!

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Ontheball, Colchester says...
10:20pm Wed 28 Jul 10

Great news. Now all we need is for Ward to bring in a proper striker with a goalscoring ratio that will help us get into the upper half of the table.
Gillespie and Odejayi just aren't doing it, so we need fresh blood up front before the start of the season, if possible.

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What's The Story?, Colchester says...
11:33pm Wed 28 Jul 10

But ontheball, Kayode was a one in three striker last season, so there's plenty to think he'll do the same again!

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crazy comments, clacton says...
8:44am Thu 29 Jul 10

I never went last night to Chelmsford but a friend of mine did. He reckoned Sam Coracan looked very promising and Thomas Bender is definetly one for the future. Thats good news for the club. Lets hope Heath is either put out on loan or sold because with Magnus,Reid and Baldwin plus Bender or Beavers who can operate from there,we have enough central defenders.

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crazy comments, clacton says...
8:51am Thu 29 Jul 10

Ontheball wrote:
Great news. Now all we need is for Ward to bring in a proper striker with a goalscoring ratio that will help us get into the upper half of the table. Gillespie and Odejayi just aren't doing it, so we need fresh blood up front before the start of the season, if possible.
I see Izale Mc Leod was released recently. Had lots of injuries the last two years but could be worth a trial. Never done no good at Posh or Charlton so could be a waste of time but who knows. Did score lots of goals once.

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The Enforcer, Colchester says...
9:29am Thu 29 Jul 10

Yay the donkey has gone. Worst player at CUFC for years. Coventry fans.....gutted!

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totallyfootball, Colchester says...
10:39am Thu 29 Jul 10

I see Hoofroyd has said that he wants to sign Marlon King when he gets out, sorry but there is no room in football for animals like him, give one of the kids from the academy a chance instead. He will still think he has done no wrong and will demand millionaire status, lets hope the FA will leave him to rot.

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Dug, Brightlingsea says...
11:04am Thu 29 Jul 10

All I can say is I'm extremely pleased! It also gives me less reasons to moan at our games.:)

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zz1p, Colchester says...
12:06pm Thu 29 Jul 10

I absolutely concur with the majority view that we are better off without CP. I have seen more movement in scaffolding than from him as our no.9.
Unlucky Coventry LOL!

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No.1, colchester says...
7:40pm Thu 29 Jul 10

Poor old coventry, least we were mid season before it went t.i.t.s up not right at the start.

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Sanj25, Colchester says...
12:04pm Sun 1 Aug 10

Thank god...£300,000...wh
at a waste of money!!!

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