Hanlon

[mpc123]

Hanlan hasnt played many gsmes recently, we saw he could make a difference once he had a few games. Sharp I think did well.

Every professional player in all of the leagues are rubbish occording to you lot. There are not many players even in the premership that play well every game.

Just how people are nowadays I suppose. Moan moan, slag off, when they come good never agree they said they were rubbish. A strange world.

OK then. We give in. Hanlan is absolutely brilliant, and we've no chance of going down whatsoever, because the squad is oozing with quality all the way through.

Is that alright for you?

There is an inbetween you know.

[ncRover]

Halan will join a growing pyramid of subpar to inadequate forwards we've signed over the last decade.

Reo Griffiths. Rakish Bingham, Kwame Thomas, Aidan Barlow.... how long do you want to go on.

Got to look at the recruitment. Probably a 50/50 between not having a high enough budget for good strikers, and just bad decisions.

He’s definitely a better footballer than the four you’ve mentioned.

The issue for me is, I don’t know what type of centre forward he’s meant to be. How do you use him?

Can anybody compare him to another striker they know of?

[TonySoprano]

Halan will join a growing pyramid of subpar to inadequate forwards we've signed over the last decade.

Reo Griffiths. Rakish Bingham, Kwame Thomas, Aidan Barlow.... how long do you want to go on.

Got to look at the recruitment. Probably a 50/50 between not having a high enough budget for good strikers, and just bad decisions.

He’s definitely a better footballer than the four you’ve mentioned.

The issue for me is, I don’t know what type of centre forward he’s meant to be. How do you use him?

Can anybody compare him to another striker they know of?

Thing is, he really isnt better than those four is he ?

Your question has already been answered, kwame thomas. 

[StocksArmy]

I bet that any poster sticking up for Hanlan and saying he is good enough for this league and our club wouldnt gamble their life on it if it came down to it. Hes a garbage Theo Robinson and thats saying summat.

[DonnyOsmond]

Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.

Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.

He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.

[Chris Black come back]

He’s not a centre forward. That’s pretty obvious. He’s a wider forward player. Under no circumstances should he be played through the middle on his own. A waste of his time and our time.

[mpc123]

Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.

Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.

He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.

God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.

[Ian Nimmo]

He’s not a centre forward. That’s pretty obvious. He’s a wider forward player. Under no circumstances should he be played through the middle on his own. A waste of his time and our time.

He doesn’t have the skill to play a wider forward role.

[Pancho Regan]

If we’re going to slag him off at least spell his name correctly.

[grayx]

If there’s a worse player than Hanlan in this division I’d love to know who it is

You really dont need to look far.

[drfchound]

He's an awful player, absolutely clueless.

Its like going down to 10 men when he comes on. He deserves to be nowhere near a professional football pitch.

On the other hand, bradford could bring on paul mullin off the bench who was excellent,  says it all.

Mullin did enough to earn a red card today.

[Rupee92ONLY]

He’s rubbish. He wasn’t much good in that little spell he had earlier in the season either, people just totally overrated him/it as we’d been SO ineffectual up top for weeks.

Of all the bad signings we made in the summer, this one is far and away the worst… Because there was no excuses to not know what we were getting. It was all there. And we signed him to be first choice!

He’s resulted now to what I like to call ‘the Toyosi Olusanya tactic’ which is to just give away a foul or stray offside so that you aren’t exposing yourself by trying to do something you can’t. It’s just pure masking and dodging at this point.

I believe he was quite an expensive free agent too. Dreadful business.

[mpc123]

He’s rubbish. He wasn’t much good in that little spell he had earlier in the season either, people just totally overrated him/it as we’d been SO ineffectual up top for weeks.

Of all the bad signings we made in the summer, this one is far and away the worst… Because there was no excuses to not know what we were getting. It was all there. And we signed him to be first choice!

He’s resulted now to what I like to call ‘the Toyosi Olusanya tactic’ which is to just give away a foul or stray offside so that you aren’t exposing yourself by trying to do something you can’t. It’s just pure masking and dodging at this point.

I believe he was quite an expensive free agent too. Dreadful business.

Playing on the shoulder of the defender you will be offside often. Adeleken was offside several times trying to make a curved run, why not mention that? Hanlan isnt rubbish, he isnt a world beater but not rubbish.

[grayx]

Did Gibson do anything when he came on?

Didn’t notice he came on tbh.

[IDM]

Is it just me, or do some folks put far more importance on things which, in the big scheme of things (and unless your livelihood depends upon the success of Doncaster rovers), don’t really matter at all.?

I blame social media, and the fickleness of folks to follow whatever batshit is written online, leading to  over exaggerated opinions. 

Far too much unwarranted anger - some folks really need to get a life.!!

Rant over.!

[Nudga]

Is it just me, or do some folks put far more importance on things which, in the big scheme of things (and unless your livelihood depends upon the success of Doncaster rovers), don’t really matter at all.?

I blame social media, and the fickleness of folks to follow whatever batshit is written online, leading to  over exaggerated opinions. 

Far too much unwarranted anger - some folks really need to get a life.!!

Rant over.!

So you're having a rant over other people having a rant?

Joke btw

[DonnyOsmond]

Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.

Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.

He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.

God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.

In the summer we signed...

Grehan
Gotts
Hanlan
Middleton
Pearson
Lo-Tutala
Ajayi
O'Riordan
Crew
Olusanya

Only two of which have added value, in O'Riordan and Gotts, who we took 4 months to work out his best role.

We have a handful who are potentially alright but don't fit into a McCann team like Olusanya, Middleton and Hanlan.

Then we have a load who haven't been good enough, in Grehan, Pearson, Ajayi, Crew and Lo-Tutala... The latter two you'd hope they would have pushed on after previous quality loan spells but unfortunately not the case.

2 out of 10 is a horrific ratio. Hopefully January is a better figure but we'll see after a few months.

[Chris Black come back]

It wasn’t a great summer of business was it? And that’s factoring in us doing most of our business early doors, rather than scrapping around at end of the window. We need to do much better this summer.

[ForsolongaRover]

Biggest thing rovers need to look at is Lee glovers position at the club come the end of the season and get someone else in.

Isn’t he McCann’s man? He isn’t going to want to give away that responsibility and power to a club chosen appointment.

He needs to see his mates will be his downfall though.

God knows how you have got to that. The recruitment isnt bad.

In the summer we signed...

Grehan
Gotts
Hanlan
Middleton
Pearson
Lo-Tutala
Ajayi
O'Riordan
Crew
Olusanya

Only two of which have added value, in O'Riordan and Gotts, who we took 4 months to work out his best role.

We have a handful who are potentially alright but don't fit into a McCann team like Olusanya, Middleton and Hanlan.

Then we have a load who haven't been good enough, in Grehan, Pearson, Ajayi, Crew and Lo-Tutala... The latter two you'd hope they would have pushed on after previous quality loan spells but unfortunately not the case.

2 out of 10 is a horrific ratio. Hopefully January is a better figure but we'll see after a few months.

It’s rather telling that so many threads eventually revert to criticism of poor recruitment which is indisputably proved by the number who don’t make the grade and are discarded. It makes you wonder why the competence of the “recruitment department” is not more scrutinised by the press. Why isn’t such a failure rate examined and explanations sought? Loan players go back to where they came from with no comment as to why the club made the mistake of signing them in the first place; its almost as though the club expects us to accept that it’s just a lottery with no assessment of potential really made.

[Chris Black come back]

Hanlan and Middleton are both good League One players. Yet we’ve signed them and either don’t play to their strengths, or they just don’t fit into our system. Middleton especially has been tracked by McCann for several years. Yet he never plays with wingers who go on the outside. Mystifying.

[Ian Nimmo]

Sorry but Hanlan is definitely not a good player in L1, if he was then he would be starting every game. His time here and his past career have proven that.

[IDM]

Hanlan has been playing for, and repeatedly signed by, league 1 clubs for years.

He may not be above average at this level, but plenty in the game clearly think, and thought, that it’s his level.

[Ian Nimmo]

Yes but many of those have found that he has not performed for them, and some have been critical of him.
I don’t think it will have helped the fact that he suffered a serious ACL injury in Nov 23 and spent 11 months out till Oct 24.
Following his return he played 29 games and scored 4 goals, before we signed him.
Sorry but he was signed has our main man to lead the line, this was a very big risk, and one that clearly has failed.

[bobbymax]

I posted pre-signing that he couldn't hit a barn door. If I knew that, why didn't the recruitment team?

[ss1953]

In the games I have seen him, I felt his first touch let him down and he prefers to shoot with his right foot.

Perhaps the coaching team should give him some personal coaching in these areas to help him improve. Only practice helps you improve.

[ncRover]

Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.

Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.

Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.

Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.

                       Clark

Sterry    Byrne / Pearson    McGrath    Senior


                             Gotts

                 Bailey                 Clifton

                              Lee

                Molyneux        Adelakun

[TonySoprano]

Hanlan has been playing for, and repeatedly signed by, league 1 clubs for years.

He may not be above average at this level, but plenty in the game clearly think, and thought, that it’s his level.

Not since he did his acl

[TonySoprano]

Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.

Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.

Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.

Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.

                       Clark

Sterry    Byrne / Pearson    McGrath    Senior


                             Gotts

                 Bailey                 Clifton

                              Lee

                Molyneux        Adelakun

"Hanlan needs goal scorers around him" 

So he needs players around him to do HIS job for him?

He's an absolute passenger, and a liability.

[mpc123]

Hanlan needs goalscorers around him.

Now that there’s 3 of them around him (Adelakun, Lee, Molyneux) he could come in handy as a player who runs the channels / occupies defenders to make more space for them to thrive.

Lee has only played as a striker in a 3-5-2 at Wrexham even when he wasn’t in his main role as a midfielder. He isn’t a plug in and play solution as a striker.

Maybe McCann could go for a 4-4-2 diamond if BH, FO and BS aren’t on the pitch. With Mols and Haks as split strikers.

                       Clark

Sterry    Byrne / Pearson    McGrath    Senior


                             Gotts

                 Bailey                 Clifton

                              Lee

                Molyneux        Adelakun

"Hanlan needs goal scorers around him" 

So he needs players around him to do HIS job for him?

He's an absolute passenger, and a liability.

I don't agree

[Shawn_drfc]

With Hanlan, he has traits that people would see and say he will be a good player.

From time to time he pulls out something and you say that's why we signed him.

However his lack on consistency is because he lacks the instincts and Football IQ on the pitch.

Not being in the right position or not following up on something because he is ball watching.

Best one was taking two players on and the doing a pass so bad it went out for a throw.

He will put the ball in the net from time to time, but he won't be able to give you the consistency to be the number 9 we need to be competitive in League 1.

Watching someone like Street or Frankie play in comparison is night and day in regards to the instincts that are needed to be a good number 9 in this league.