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Post by rowleyscfc on Aug 6, 2024 8:17:30 GMT
Let’s see where we are the close of the transfer window. Recruiting for character and building a solid spine is where we are - it’s the sprinkling of talented player(s) (possibly young and on loan) to add to what we have will probably make or break our season but that is likely to come later in the window? Fingers crossed. A sensible post at last! There are weeks left in the window. You don't just get your priority signings in and then fill around them; that would be great if feasible. Getting your priority positions filled doesn't happen in an organised, timely, and easy manner. Also, if a deal comes up and it's a 2nd or 3rd choice, do you hold off and risk losing out, or do you buy? Throw in all the lunacy of transfers, medicals, last minute hijacking of deals and ta-da! the plan is out the window. Trust the process. And if they arse it up, then have a whinge😉🤣 Feel closer than ever to the whinge, hope we pull our fingers out in the next 3 weeks |
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 6, 2024 8:33:40 GMT
A sensible post at last! There are weeks left in the window. You don't just get your priority signings in and then fill around them; that would be great if feasible. Getting your priority positions filled doesn't happen in an organised, timely, and easy manner. Also, if a deal comes up and it's a 2nd or 3rd choice, do you hold off and risk losing out, or do you buy? Throw in all the lunacy of transfers, medicals, last minute hijacking of deals and ta-da! the plan is out the window. Trust the process. And if they arse it up, then have a whinge😉🤣 Feel closer than ever to the whinge, hope we pull our fingers out in the next 3 weeks Summer is hilarious. With lack of actual football all we have is a moanathon about everything. Starts with kits being too late, then the kits are shit, then the keeper kits are late, then too expensive for hard working parents, then Wigan will sign a player and people get sand in their fannies about us not doing anything, then we sign someone and they are shit. The odd gripe about season ticket renewals. Then season cards haven't been delivered. Then too many foreigners or not enough foreigners. This season we've the added bonus of people moving seats, safe standing, footpath relocation, new fangled fanzine, just to spice it up a bit. I'm sure all clubs are the same and every day I vow not to waste my life on here. And every day I log back on. |
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Post by rowleyscfc on Aug 6, 2024 8:46:34 GMT
Feel closer than ever to the whinge, hope we pull our fingers out in the next 3 weeks Summer is hilarious. With lack of actual football all we have is a moanathon about everything. Starts with kits being too late, then the kits are shit, then the keeper kits are late, then too expensive for hard working parents, then Wigan will sign a player and people get sand in their fannies about us not doing anything, then we sign someone and they are shit. The odd gripe about season ticket renewals. Then season cards haven't been delivered. Then too many foreigners or not enough foreigners. This season we've the added bonus of people moving seats, safe standing, footpath relocation, new fangled fanzine, just to spice it up a bit. I'm sure all clubs are the same and every day I vow not to waste my life on here. And every day I log back on. Sometimes a little moan is relieving. We get no business done this week and then beat Coventry on Saturday and everyone will be saying we don't need sign anyone, we're as fickle as they come. |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Aug 6, 2024 8:48:51 GMT
I think a brief interview with him where he can trot out the usual cliches about how we're working hard to secure our targets and allow the supporters to put a voice and a personality to the face is probably needed right now......
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 6, 2024 8:52:38 GMT
Despite being at Hull for years, he seemed invisible in the media there. Very much seems to be a background operator who likes to stay away from the microphones, the opposite of Jared.
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Post by baconburger on Aug 6, 2024 8:52:47 GMT
Summer is hilarious. With lack of actual football all we have is a moanathon about everything. Starts with kits being too late, then the kits are shit, then the keeper kits are late, then too expensive for hard working parents, then Wigan will sign a player and people get sand in their fannies about us not doing anything, then we sign someone and they are shit. The odd gripe about season ticket renewals. Then season cards haven't been delivered. Then too many foreigners or not enough foreigners. This season we've the added bonus of people moving seats, safe standing, footpath relocation, new fangled fanzine, just to spice it up a bit. I'm sure all clubs are the same and every day I vow not to waste my life on here. And every day I log back on. Sometimes a little moan is relieving. We get no business done this week and then beat Coventry on Saturday and everyone will be saying we don't need sign anyone, we're as fickle as they come. Surely anyone who said such a thing would have to be clinically insane. |
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Post by nonameface on Aug 6, 2024 9:04:26 GMT
It was reported that if deals got released too early in the media that he may back out of doing business, but Sam Gallagher transfer seemed to role on for ages. It’s that lengthy bit of time that suggests Leris sale may be happening.
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Post by questionable on Aug 6, 2024 9:17:27 GMT
It was reported that if deals got released too early in the media that he may back out of doing business, but Sam Gallagher transfer seemed to role on for ages. It’s that lengthy bit of time that suggests Leris sale may be happening. I’d guess that nobody else was in for him or remotely interested |
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Post by rowleyscfc on Aug 6, 2024 9:35:28 GMT
Sometimes a little moan is relieving. We get no business done this week and then beat Coventry on Saturday and everyone will be saying we don't need sign anyone, we're as fickle as they come. Surely anyone who said such a thing would have to be clinically insane. 85% of Stoke fans are tittering on the edge of clinical insanity tbf, I mean we're still turning up even after the last 7 seasons |
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Post by baconburger on Aug 6, 2024 9:37:24 GMT
Surely anyone who said such a thing would have to be clinically insane. 85% of Stoke fans are tittering on the edge of clinical insanity tbf, I mean we're still turning up even after the last 7 seasons Point taken. Insane or addicted we certainly don’t do it for the fun element. |
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Post by Old School Stokie on Aug 6, 2024 19:29:01 GMT
Think I'm in "Desolution Row" this season - Just wish Times they were a changing before I'm Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door!!
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Post by Jimm on Aug 6, 2024 21:42:18 GMT
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Post by Gods on Aug 6, 2024 22:30:23 GMT
Think I'm in "Desolution Row" this season - Just wish Times they were a changing before I'm Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door!! They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown, the beauty parlour is full of sailors, the circus is on town. |
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Post by moon on Aug 7, 2024 9:02:10 GMT
Think I'm in "Desolution Row" this season - Just wish Times they were a changing before I'm Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door!! They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown, the beauty parlour is full of sailors, the circus is on town.
Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles, and puts her hands in her back pocket, Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning, "You belong to me, I believe"
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend, You'd better leave"
And the only sound that's left, after the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row
That song is perfect, Dylan at his very best.
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Post by idle on Aug 7, 2024 9:17:36 GMT
Despite being at Hull for years, he seemed invisible in the media there. Very much seems to be a background operator who likes to stay away from the microphones, the opposite of Jared. Jared? I thought it was Ricky Martins face I saw plastered all over last season |
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Post by Gods on Aug 7, 2024 10:47:41 GMT
They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown, the beauty parlour is full of sailors, the circus is on town. Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles, and puts her hands in her back pocket, Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning, "You belong to me, I believe"
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend, You'd better leave"
And the only sound that's left, after the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row That song is perfect, Dylan at his very best.
I love that song, it's a thing of aching beauty, takes hold of you and doesn't let go! |
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 7, 2024 11:36:40 GMT
Early signs are he is a downgrade on well-groomed, slick Jared who at least found us the likes of Junho and Burger. Looks like we are back to mostly shopping in the Championship/L1.
It's too early to say for sure now and we need to review after the window closes.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Aug 7, 2024 11:41:17 GMT
He needs to improve a vast amount on what he's done so far.
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Post by LGH87 on Aug 7, 2024 14:58:34 GMT
He needs to improve a vast amount on what he's done so far. Has he done anything? Bocat was a Dublin target. Johansson was one of the most coveted keepers in the league and had been tracked by our GK coach for over a year. Ben Gibson & Gallagher are proper championship fodder that anybody could've found. |
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Aug 7, 2024 17:23:37 GMT
He needs to improve a vast amount on what he's done so far. Has he done anything? Bocat was a Dublin target. Johansson was one of the most coveted keepers in the league and had been tracked by our GK coach for over a year. Ben Gibson & Gallagher are proper championship fodder that anybody could've found. It’s not just finding its securing them , it’s like saying Keeley lost the race at 400m right now there’s weeks to go even in his first window |
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Post by baconburger on Aug 7, 2024 17:33:13 GMT
Has he done anything? Bocat was a Dublin target. Johansson was one of the most coveted keepers in the league and had been tracked by our GK coach for over a year. Ben Gibson & Gallagher are proper championship fodder that anybody could've found. It’s not just finding its securing them , it’s like saying Keeley lost the race at 400m right now there’s weeks to go even in his first window So who does the securing, the HoR or the SD because if it's the HoR something has changed in the allocated responsibilities since the last Q&A. if it's changed that much you've got to ask what the SD actually does?? |
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Post by viewfromthecrowsnest on Aug 8, 2024 10:46:13 GMT
On the basis of the fact we have signed no-one that actually improves the squad since this chap left, I post a photo to remind everyone of the fact, this chap has signed the three/four most exciting players since we were relegated. Now we are back to signing wardrobes and cloggers. |
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Post by rowleyscfc on Aug 13, 2024 8:15:27 GMT
This humble pie tastes fantastic, Sorry Lee I wasn't familiar with your game
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Post by baconburger on Aug 13, 2024 8:18:05 GMT
This humble pie tastes fantastic, Sorry Lee I wasn't familiar with your game If these links/rumours come off. He ain’t there yet for me. |
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Post by walrus on Aug 13, 2024 8:23:52 GMT
This humble pie tastes fantastic, Sorry Lee I wasn't familiar with your game If these links/rumours come off. He ain’t there yet for me. At what point does the responsibility for signings shift from the Head of Recruitment to others though? With Dublin it was clear that his remit was simply to identify players that could be useful signings. The actual negotiation of transfers was not something he got involved with. Is that the case for Darnbrough too? And if so, isn’t whether they come off irrelevant? |
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 13, 2024 8:24:10 GMT
On the basis of the fact we have signed no-one that actually improves the squad since this chap left, I post a photo to remind everyone of the fact, this chap has signed the three/four most exciting players since we were relegated. Now we are back to signing wardrobes and cloggers. Aged well |
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Post by baconburger on Aug 13, 2024 8:27:31 GMT
If these links/rumours come off. He ain’t there yet for me. At what point does the responsibility for signings shift from the Head of Recruitment to others though? With Dublin it was clear that his remit was simply to identify players that could be useful signings. The actual negotiation of transfers was not something he got involved with. Is that the case for Darnbrough too? And if so, isn’t whether they come off irrelevant? Don’t know I was hoping for that sort of thing to come out in the forum but imo it was quite low on detail (for Anoraks) and pitched towards people who are heavily swayed by personality. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2024 8:34:17 GMT
You might aswell close this thread and any thread relating to Jared Dublin. According to Walters at the fans forum, when he stopped talking about stroking cats, he said it was more down to the scouts so either of these characters are quite irrelevant it seems.
Of course my bullshit radar was going off in the red zone but that's another story entirely...
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Post by somersetpotter on Aug 13, 2024 8:37:04 GMT
If these links/rumours come off. He ain’t there yet for me. At what point does the responsibility for signings shift from the Head of Recruitment to others though? With Dublin it was clear that his remit was simply to identify players that could be useful signings. The actual negotiation of transfers was not something he got involved with. Is that the case for Darnbrough too? And if so, isn’t whether they come off irrelevant? how was that clear? I'm sure I saw stuff RE Burger/Bae where they referenced Dublin a lot during the phases where they needed convincing to join. |
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Post by walrus on Aug 13, 2024 8:39:17 GMT
At what point does the responsibility for signings shift from the Head of Recruitment to others though? With Dublin it was clear that his remit was simply to identify players that could be useful signings. The actual negotiation of transfers was not something he got involved with. Is that the case for Darnbrough too? And if so, isn’t whether they come off irrelevant? how was that clear? I'm sure I saw stuff RE Burger/Bae where they referenced Dublin a lot during the phases where they needed convincing to join. Oh okay, maybe I’m wrong then. It does seem like player identification is a non-issue if we’re looking at the domestic market as players based in England are surely all on our radar already, so it would make sense for the HoR to take an active role in negotiations. |
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