Adelakun Trial Game

[mushRTID]

Always seemed likely he’d sign for another league 2 team and score plenty. Still a real shame how it’s all played out. He’d walk straight back into our side.

[Chris Black come back]

On a 12 month deal. If he does well he will be off again back to League One.

[ForsolongaRover]

Always seemed likely he’d sign for another league 2 team and score plenty. Still a real shame how it’s all played out. He’d walk straight back into our side.

I doubt whether our offer would be left on the table. The impression I get of McCann is that it would be “Take it or leave it”. Billy Sharp’s wages had to be found from somewhere!

[steve@dcfd]

He will score more goals than Gibson does for us unless he gets his game right. Adelaken is a strong and more powerful player and like Craig he will be missed this season

[drfchound]

Will he get the boo treatment when he plays against us?

[Usher wide.]

HK gave us the ‘feel good’ feeling as supporters while he was with us. I thank him for that & wish him nothing but the best for that as we’ve had plenty who have come & gone who didn’t, wherever his career takes him from here on in.

[dickos1]

He will score more goals than Gibson does for us unless he gets his game right. Adelaken is a strong and more powerful player and like Craig he will be missed this season

I don’t think he will,

[Padge_DRFC]

Will he get the boo treatment when he plays against us?

Coppinger could have left to play 3 games for someone before retirement and would get booed by some of our brain dead fans

[Reg of the Rovers]

Booing an ex player is just part of the pantomime of football, I actually think ex players like it as it means they've been remembered or had an impact. Some players will get a good reception whenever they come back (Alfie May), but those that leave after we've showed them support as fans and made a decent financial offer as a club, and that player leaves out of greed and ends up at a worse club I think deserve a good old boo! We're not round his house throwing bricks through his windows, he'll get booed for 90mins, which will probably spur him on to play better and wind us up more (e.g., Emmanuel Adebayor). I'll be booing anyway.

[drfchound]

Reg, does anyone on here know that he was made a decent offer and what it amounted to?

[Reg of the Rovers]

I thought Grant had been on record saying they'd made Haks an offer? I don't know the pounds and pennies, but my understanding is the club wanted to keep Haks and made efforts to do so.

I'm not really taking a moral or ethical stance, I'm suggesting that a player who was a big part of our team last year and who made the choice to leave us for elsewhere could reasonably be in for some light-hearted booing when he plays against us. It's not vitriolic hatred, but part of the pantomime of the game, in the same way Darren Moore got well deserved pelters when we played Port Vale. 

[DonnyBazR0ver]

How the hell is anyone going to know that?

Common sense tells us it's likely to have been a decent offer  aligned with the rest of the squad and the players we have signed.

Clearly, and taking into account the deadline, he and or/his agent thought they could do better. At no time did he say when asked, that he was keen to stay. He doesn't strike ne as the kind of player who would come back with his tail between his legs to ask if the offer was still open, given we signed Gibson too.

He snubbed us. We've moved on.

[Donnyjim]

he was an integral part of that fantastic run but remember that he tailed off towards the end.

[Chris Black come back]

A massive impact during his time with us but left owning probably the worst penalty a player has ever taken for us.

[ForsolongaRover]

he was an integral part of that fantastic run but remember that he tailed off towards the end.

It raises questions about his character doesn’t it? In turning down our offer which must have been better than he had to accept from Salford, he may well have continued in the same vein and may have continued to overrate his worth when he looked elsewhere. And as you say, his final games with us were a let-down in terms of both flair and effort. Potential employers would consider all this.

[Prez]

A massive impact during his time with us but left owning probably the worst penalty a player has ever taken for us.

Martin Woods, "hold my beer"