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either darren moore or elliot ward for drfc next season.
Something makes me wonder if we ever had any intention of signing him.He has ambition, wants to push on in his career, yet joins a team that finished below us in the league.Strange.
Would be interesting to know how the Mick McCarthy - Dingles link worked in all of this - McCarthy being an ex Dingle.
Elliot Ward it is then.I know a lot of people thought Shackell was our best option out of them two, but I always preferred Elliot Ward. Hope we manage to sign him now. It'd be a free transfer and he's absolutely quality!
BessieBlue wrote:QuoteWould be interesting to know how the Mick McCarthy - Dingles link worked in all of this - McCarthy being an ex Dingle.Nevermind ex-dingle...Mick McCarthy is a PERMANENT dingle, being that he is born and bred in Barnsley.This is gutting, Shackell is a great player and for him to turn around and join our local rivals is disappointing. It shows to me that we have problems in the transfer market. He's been here all season yet signs for another club less than 2 weeks after the end of the season. If we keep waiting around we won't sign Sharp, Ward or anyone else and we'll be stuck signing League 2 players to fill our squad, and see where that gets us.I don't expect we'll be able to sign Ward either...the way SOD carries on in the media you wonder if we have more than 20 quid to chuck at players, and Ward is allegedly on quite a high wage at Coventry.
5minstogo wrote:QuoteSomething makes me wonder if we ever had any intention of signing him.He has ambition, wants to push on in his career, yet joins a team that finished below us in the league.Strange.When he aggravated that groin injury against Florist I never forgot the look on his face and he stormed down the tunnel without any contact with the bench.I know he may well have just been gutted at the reoccurence of the injury but I could'nt help worrying he was mad at SOD n ROK for playing him too soon after the op.I was shocked when he was named in the team.I thought at the time IF he was angry at SOD n ROK we may never see him in a Rovers shirt again.Its one of the rare occasions that they got a decision wrong and to be fair they admitted that.Did we really want to sign him or are they just saying that we did to try and appease the disappointed fans.I Look on the bright side we had a very decent season despite having long spells without Shackell and without stock.The team coped without them.We've got Shelton who I thought we would not see again and we still might get King Billy and even Gillett?
I'm not worried in the slightest. I trust Sean O'Driscoll 100% but if we end up getting relegated then it was fun while it lasted. You can't complain really. We have overachieved massively in the last few years and it won't go on forever.
I think we will be ok WE will sign players what will be better then Shackell and the mighty ROVERS will be in top 6 next season where the dingles will be in the bottom 6 once again showing a player should have stopped with the ROVERS
\"he was a £500,000 buy from Norwich - so that transfer fee puts it well out of our transfer capabilities.\"
pkt_drfc wrote:QuoteI think we will be ok WE will sign players what will be better then Shackell and the mighty ROVERS will be in top 6 next season where the dingles will be in the bottom 6 once again showing a player should have stopped with the ROVERSI cant see many defenders out there being better than Shackel;he was quality.And you say the Dingles will be down there? I think they will have a good season now that Robins has a chance to bring in his own players.Weren't our fans (last summer) saying that Forest would struggle when we were arm wrestling with the Forest fans over Mills?It only takes a couple of good signings to make real progression, in this league.I really liked Shackel, and it has saddened me that he has left especially as he has left to go to the Dingles
I said all along on season tickets that if the fans didn't buy then the signings would not come. The fans as yet haven't bought in great numbers and subsequently neither will the signings. It's tough luck and we'll have to accept it, simple as that. Barnsley had 10,000 season ticket holders last year and they've probably had more renew, it's tough luck but that's life.