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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Chris Black come back on December 23, 2025, 02:17:11 pm
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Free Press saying that Lasagne, Crew, O'Riordan and Ajayi are all going back. TLT is staying.
We are making four signings, two likely permanent and two loans. Two of those arriving 1 January.
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McCanns interview says its a mixture of players to improve us now and in the future.
Personally feel they all need to improve/help us now.
2 of them signed up ready for 1st Jan.
The other 2 maybe a little longer, he worded this 'due to the structure of where they are coming from'.....abroad?
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McCanns interview says its a mixture of players to improve us now and in the future.
Personally feel they all need to improve/help us now.
2 of them signed up ready for 1st Jan.
The other 2 maybe a little longer, he worded this 'due to the structure of where they are coming from'.....abroad?
Guessing Ireland
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Sounds like there could be a chance that O'Riordan is available on Boxing Day and maybe 29 December.
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Sounds like there could be a chance that O'Riordan is available on Boxing Day and maybe 29 December.
Hes available up to and including the Luton game.
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One of them agreed for 1st January is a “project” and likely to go out on loan. Ffs
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An early statement to appease the restless natives?
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Darren Robinson will be one of them
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Darren Robinson will be one of them
No he's says in the free press they are working hard to agree with his agent so he's not 1st very aggressive midfielder
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I was hoping and expecting Darren Robinson to be one of the permanent signings, but having read the DFP article, he's additional to the four but we haven't yet closed out the deal. I really hope he signs as I was impressed with what I saw of him for NI 21s in two games. Relatively speaking, he contributed alot more than Crew in his games for Wales U21 in the same international break. Possibly competition for this lad.
Of course, the only disappointment is O'Riordon but we knew this was likely so hopefully McCann has prepared for that.
Of course, there could be more movement as the window progresses so there's no doubt going to be more speculation.
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One of them agreed for 1st January is a “project” and likely to go out on loan. Ffs
I think that’s a bit of an unfair reaction. We need signings that can improve the first team immediately but we shouldn’t lose sight of investing in the future. We can’t afford to just buy players in their prime.
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One of them agreed for 1st January is a “project” and likely to go out on loan. Ffs
I think that’s a bit of an unfair reaction. We need signings that can improve the first team immediately but we shouldn’t lose sight of investing in the future. We can’t afford to just buy players in their prime.
No problem, I’m fine with you thinking it’s unfair.
I personally think we need 2 or 3 to come in immediately and try and keep us in the league.
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Darren Robinson will be one of them
No he's says in the free press they are working hard to agree with his agent so he's not 1st very aggressive midfielder
He’s got 6 months left on his contract at Derby County and to quote myself
“Darren Robinson, will be one of them” I didn’t say he was going to be the first one.
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Robinson sounds like an aggressive DM, will probably help to reduce players running through us. Only question mark is if he's ready for League One, and who does he get in ahead of?
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Another name in to throw into the hat is Callum Marshall, he’s only made two appearances for West Ham this season and is hardly making the the bench, scored double figures on loan for West Brom last season ( including cups )
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Another name in to throw into the hat is Callum Marshall, he’s only made two appearances for West Ham this season and is hardly making the the bench, scored double figures on loan for West Brom last season ( including cups )
Im not familiar with him but any player who played or scored as much as that in the Championship last year isn’t going to be coming here.
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Ooooops my mistake, he played and scored those goals for Huddersfield last season. Yes, I’m big enough to admit my mistake
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As usual Grant spelling it out exactly how it is - FWIW I have complete confidence in him, the backroom staff and Board to continue our upwards trajectory through 2026 and beyond.
Merry XMAS and keep the faith......
RTID
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Robinson sounds like an aggressive DM, will probably help to reduce players running through us. Only question mark is if he's ready for League One, and who does he get in ahead of?
The Irish Premier Division is a lower standard than League One and he struggled for game time in it this season. The chances of him being ready are slim.
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Robinson sounds like an aggressive DM, will probably help to reduce players running through us. Only question mark is if he's ready for League One, and who does he get in ahead of?
The Irish Premier Division is a lower standard than League One and he struggled for game time in it this season. The chances of him being ready are slim.
Anyone can see we need some players in who are experienced at League One but that's no what Doncaster Rovers do, is it? So we're left signing lads who we hope will turn out to be half decent. Likelihood we'll be slagging him off come March-April time but I guess as it looks a likely signing we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and pray it goes ok.
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Let's see who these players are. They should be players better than what we have. They should be League one standard at least as we've only got 2/3 in the first team. Do we want to be a team that's above average in league 1 or team that struggles to score and defence is to leaky. Will the development player be better than the ones we have now who apart from the odd one struggle to get in lower league sides. So we see who we get but we are still negotiating with an U21 Irish player not going out there paying a transfer fee and wages for a recognised league one player.
So we will see what January brings, they should be players that will improve the first team not squad or development players.
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We need to be signing players of the ilk of Lorent Tolaj if we’re serious about Championship football.
Port Vale managed to scout him when he was at Aldershot, where were our scouting team looking at that point?
Vale recognised his potential and wrote a minimum transfer fee of £1.2 million into his contract.
Plymouth met that clause & thus far he’s scored 10 goals in 14 games for them, 3 of those at the Eco last Saturday.
Grant said in his post match interview ‘Tolaj can spin a player like that & has pace. We knew about him, he’s a top, top player. Probably the best striker in the division.’
Shame we didn’t ‘know about him’ when he was banging in goals for Aldershot or couldn’t raise the money to meet the release clause when he was at Vale.
He’s 24 & will be playing in the Championship or higher before we get anywhere near.
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Street when played in that position is as good as him. Hanlan is coming good for the level now we understand how to use him, not at the same level but more than good enough, as recent form proves.
Going forward is not really the priority I’m sure we can all agree that. We are really lightweight and naive in midfield and defence.
We don’t need the best in the league either, “nice to haves” but not realistic, we just need capable at the level right now and possibly more leadership types.
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Unfortunately not seen Grant Mcann on the list of those leaving, maybe I missed that announcement?
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We need to be signing players of the ilk of Lorent Tolaj if we’re serious about Championship football.
Port Vale managed to scout him when he was at Aldershot, where were our scouting team looking at that point?
Vale recognised his potential and wrote a minimum transfer fee of £1.2 million into his contract.
Plymouth met that clause & thus far he’s scored 10 goals in 14 games for them, 3 of those at the Eco last Saturday.
Grant said in his post match interview ‘Tolaj can spin a player like that & has pace. We knew about him, he’s a top, top player. Probably the best striker in the division.’
Shame we didn’t ‘know about him’ when he was banging in goals for Aldershot or couldn’t raise the money to meet the release clause when he was at Vale.
He’s 24 & will be playing in the Championship or higher before we get anywhere near.
After I backed Port Vale at 33/1 at a real street bookmaker -( first time in years I went in a bookmakers ) and split the amount on 3 seperate slips - so they would eventually have enough cash to pay me out - I followed Vale like a hawk and I didn't think he was that good.
I never gave it a thought where he had come from.
I remember Aldershot beating somebody in some Cup and a few of you saying sign some Aldershot player
Right here are the facts
In 2024-2025 fa cup first round we have Swindon 4 Aldershot 7 and he scored a hattrick -SO THE WORLD AND HIS DOG OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN ABOUT HIM ---
ROUND 2 they draw 2-2 against Stockport and amazingly somehow win the replay 1-0
Round 3 lose 4-1 at WBA
I have a feeling he wasn't the one people were going on about signing (in our dreams) on this forum
However looking at his wikipedia page the world and his dog should have wanted to sign him given his Crufts Pedigree at our level
"Lorent Tolaj (born 23 October 2001) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL League One club Plymouth Argyle. He represented Switzerland internationally up to under-19 level. He scored eight goals in one match to set the record for the most goals scored in an under-19 Euro qualifier."
reading his wikipedia page is a must
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorent_Tolaj
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Street might have scored at the same rate as Tolaj in league 2 but there is zero evidence he would do it in league 1. Lincoln’s top scorer has 4 goals. If Street would score 10 in 14 they’d put him up front surely.
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Sounds like there could be a chance that O'Riordan is available on Boxing Day and maybe 29 December.
Hes available up to and including the Luton game.
I ask a simple question , in that if O'Riordan IS going back to his parent Club would he really be up for 2 do or die situations playing for us , a Club he is leaving
I remember when we drew Spurs in Cup and had a dip in form and some on here suspected our players ( or at least some ) had their eyes set on that prize , so is this return of O'Riordan not a very similar situation
It may be that McCann doesn't pick him and my question becomes irrelevant anyway
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
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Robinson sounds like an aggressive DM, will probably help to reduce players running through us. Only question mark is if he's ready for League One, and who does he get in ahead of?
The Irish Premier Division is a lower standard than League One and he struggled for game time in it this season. The chances of him being ready are slim.
I wouldn't be so sure if he's been here training and so forth.
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He’s been here a while, wasn’t he seen wearing a Rovers tracksuit at the Stockport match
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O'Riordan won't play in either game not a chance. He played against Cardiff as though he's been told don't risk anything. We'll need to play Pearson until January with McGrath
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
When Grant told Bailey to get in the box more he didn't mean the defensive one
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
Just because he was a good CB in League Two doesn't mean he will be good in League One...
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
As I said in another thread, he's the best CB at the club IMO.
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
Just because he was a good CB in League Two doesn't mean he will be good in League One...
Well none of the others are at the moment, that's for sure.
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
As I said in another thread, he's the best CB at the club IMO.
Our best run and football came when bailey played at the back with Anderson,I would put him at the back tomorrow
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I just hope we don’t continue with our age old strategy of signing small players. It’s obvious we lack height, strength, power and pace all over the pitch. I’m sure McCann has a policy of not signing anyone taller than himself.
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
[Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
Fair point. Do you know if the club have changed what they do re loans or lost some credibility as for a few years now we have far too many misses than hits. To the point where I’m not sure it’s worth it and would rather see a DRFC youth player given the chances.
Personally think we should have a policy of not signing loans who haven’t played a senior season.
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Id drop Bailey in Defence..
As I said in another thread, he's the best CB at the club IMO.
Our best run and football came when bailey played at the back with Anderson,I would put him at the back tomorrow
If we are going to stay up, that has to start with us stiffening the defence.
I agree. Bailey is the best defender in the club. He has to be moved to centre half.
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Well I hope fans don’t start moaning at one of the signings possibly incoming as it would definitely be for the future if it is who I think and it happens
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Bailey McCann
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Bailey McCann
Is this something you’ve heard or making a prediction?
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Now that, even if he is a worldbeater, would be a very, very dangerous thing indeed...
BobG
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I just hope we don’t continue with our age old strategy of signing small players. It’s obvious we lack height, strength, power and pace all over the pitch. I’m sure McCann has a policy of not signing anyone taller than himself.
Almost every player he’s signed is taller than himself
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Still has several years left on his 4.5 year deal. Would have to be a loan. Good record in the past, either way.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Still has several years left on his 4.5 year deal. Would have to be a loan. Good record in the past, either way.
I’m just trying to console myself that we have some established and proven L1 players lined up to come and help us.
I’m probably miles off but it’s the kind of signing we need (x 3 or 4!)
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Bailey McCann
Is this something you’ve heard or making a prediction?
Just social media rumours so probably nothing in it.
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Bailey McCann
I heard that a couple of months ago
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
I heard Lincoln were interested again... but he would be a good loan for us if we could attract him...
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There is a perfect example of where our problem lies.
Signed for Huddersfield 12m ago for a reported £3m fee......and cant get in their team. 7th in the league.
We cant compete with that level of spending and resource.
I will be happy with 20th place, notably we will lose a lot of games to be 20th. Im fine with that.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Seen him on highlights before and he looks electric.
But looking at his record it seems the way to get the best out of him is in a front 2, which we don’t play.
And at Lincoln, James Collins is out for the season so they’ll want another forward in. Taylor will also have a better working relationship with Skubala because he got the best out of him, whereas McCann barely played him at Posh. And they are 2nd in the league.
Millenic Alli is barely getting a look in at Luton and is exactly the kind of quick, goal scoring left winger our system needs. Ex-Halifax player, played with Jack Senior.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Seen him on highlights before and he looks electric.
But looking at his record it seems the way to get the best out of him is in a front 2, which we don’t play.
And at Lincoln, James Collins is out for the season so they’ll want another forward in. Taylor will also have a better working relationship with Skubala because he got the best out of him, whereas McCann barely played him at Posh. And they are 2nd in the league.
Millenic Alli is barely getting a look in at Luton and is exactly the kind of quick, goal scoring left winger our system needs. Ex-Halifax player, played with Jack Senior.
Fair comments
Iv just been looking at established players not making teams as I think that’s what we need, not more kids.
Alli was brilliant at Luton away, we struggled to handle him.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Seen him on highlights before and he looks electric.
But looking at his record it seems the way to get the best out of him is in a front 2, which we don’t play.
And at Lincoln, James Collins is out for the season so they’ll want another forward in. Taylor will also have a better working relationship with Skubala because he got the best out of him, whereas McCann barely played him at Posh. And they are 2nd in the league.
Millenic Alli is barely getting a look in at Luton and is exactly the kind of quick, goal scoring left winger our system needs. Ex-Halifax player, played with Jack Senior.
Been a big fan of Alli since his Halifax days. Agreed he'd be good for us. Middleton looked completely disinterested yesterday.
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I wonder if Joe Taylor could be on our list.
Huddersfield fans think he may possibly be on the move. Apparently didn’t get on the pitch even when winning 5-0 and out of favour.
I think Grant has managed him before.
Seen him on highlights before and he looks electric.
But looking at his record it seems the way to get the best out of him is in a front 2, which we don’t play.
And at Lincoln, James Collins is out for the season so they’ll want another forward in. Taylor will also have a better working relationship with Skubala because he got the best out of him, whereas McCann barely played him at Posh. And they are 2nd in the league.
Millenic Alli is barely getting a look in at Luton and is exactly the kind of quick, goal scoring left winger our system needs. Ex-Halifax player, played with Jack Senior.
Been a big fan of Alli since his Halifax days. Agreed he'd be good for us. Middleton looked completely disinterested yesterday.
I dont think middleton has enjoyed any part of being down here and i can see him finding a move back upto scotland in January.
Unfortunatly he may of hoped to have been in a team fighting at the top end of the league and not the bottom
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By my reckoning if we were to sign Robinson from Derby it would have to be on a permanent deal . EFL only allow four loanees per season from English clubs and we have already had four .
So January loanees will necessarily have to be from non English clubs .
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By my reckoning if we were to sign Robinson from Derby it would have to be on a permanent deal . EFL only allow four loanees per season from English clubs and we have already had four .
So January loanees will necessarily have to be from non English clubs .
You can have no more than 4 loans from the same club
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By my reckoning if we were to sign Robinson from Derby it would have to be on a permanent deal . EFL only allow four loanees per season from English clubs and we have already had four .
So January loanees will necessarily have to be from non English clubs .
not quite right there, that's from a single CV lub
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
The bad ones would be going back , they shouldn’t have been here in the first place . Someone has not done their due diligence. Crew I was surprised as to how off he was but the rest were just embarrassing. Yet the same person (s) who selected those will be having another try .. ffs . Q) will the season ticket prices be lowered next season?
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I ruddy hope not!
BobG
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
The bad ones would be going back , they shouldn’t have been here in the first place . Someone has not done their due diligence. Crew I was surprised as to how off he was but the rest were just embarrassing. Yet the same person (s) who selected those will be having another try .. ffs . Q) will the season ticket prices be lowered next season?
so you say shouldn’t been here in 1st place but then say your surprised how much off Crew has been!!!that’s it with loans especially young players as you don’t know how well equipped to mens football till they are involved,most thought Ajayi was a good loan signing at the start of the season and lasagne was just a gamble that hasn’t worked out.
It’s the permanent signing that really need to work and for what ever reason Glenn Middleton hasn’t
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
The bad ones would be going back , they shouldn’t have been here in the first place . Someone has not done their due diligence. Crew I was surprised as to how off he was but the rest were just embarrassing. Yet the same person (s) who selected those will be having another try .. ffs . Q) will the season ticket prices be lowered next season?
so you say shouldn’t been here in 1st place but then say your surprised how much off Crew has been!!!that’s it with loans especially young players as you don’t know how well equipped to mens football till they are involved,most thought Ajayi was a good loan signing at the start of the season and lasagne was just a gamble that hasn’t worked out.
It’s the permanent signing that really need to work and for what ever reason Glenn Middleton hasn’t
The worst thing about the Crew and TLT signings is that they have played for us before. The fact that the football department didn’t know that they just aren’t good enough is a bit embarrassing really.
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Just an advert for not relying on loan players. Only good one isn’t playing because his club want him back.
Surely that’s a good advert? The bad loan players are going back, if we'd have bought them we'd be stuck.
The bad ones would be going back , they shouldn’t have been here in the first place . Someone has not done their due diligence. Crew I was surprised as to how off he was but the rest were just embarrassing. Yet the same person (s) who selected those will be having another try .. ffs . Q) will the season ticket prices be lowered next season?
so you say shouldn’t been here in 1st place but then say your surprised how much off Crew has been!!!that’s it with loans especially young players as you don’t know how well equipped to mens football till they are involved,most thought Ajayi was a good loan signing at the start of the season and lasagne was just a gamble that hasn’t worked out.
It’s the permanent signing that really need to work and for what ever reason Glenn Middleton hasn’t
The worst thing about the Crew and TLT signings is that they have played for us before. The fact that the football department didn’t know that they just aren’t good enough is a bit embarrassing really.
they was though all be it in a lower division,Crew had a great end to the season once he got into it,and no one was moaning about TLT yet a lot though teddy was poor