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Post by giff on Nov 22, 2018 15:23:24 GMT
I know one of our recruitment team at that time was a tea lady at the club, just happened to spot Nigel Martin in goal for St Blazey when she was on a camping holiday.
See, even in those days our recruitment team worked in their holidays, I think Nigel went on to play several games for England, bet she got a new tea pot as a reward for spotting him, yeah dark old days.
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Post by dinsdale on Nov 22, 2018 15:24:35 GMT
His first signing was his own son.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 17:00:42 GMT
I would imagine the majority of our summer targets were agreed before Widdrington joined, and over the longer term we will begin to see the effect of having a more established recruitment team Why would that be he started work on 1st of May and I think all close season signings were made after that date.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 17:35:25 GMT
His first signing was his own son. That always strikes me as a bit unprofessional, nepotism in the game has rarely turned out to speak for the father's objectivity: Pulis and son, Alex Bruce following Steve from club to club for example. There are enough clubs in the land for sons to branch out on their own once they are in their mid to late teens.
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Post by brfcdom on Nov 22, 2018 19:28:17 GMT
I would imagine the majority of our summer targets were agreed before Widdrington joined, and over the longer term we will begin to see the effect of having a more established recruitment team Why would that be he started work on 1st of May and I think all close season signings were made after that date. There is no chance targets would've only been decided after that point. May have had some input, but DC would've been working on summer recruits ages before then. I'm sure it was also said Widdrington couldn't recommend players to us, that he already had recommended to Coventry, so an element of him needing to find further players too
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Post by irene on Nov 22, 2018 20:02:36 GMT
You honestly think that DC was responsible for signing Gavin Reilly and that he’d personally watched him in competitive action in the Scottish Championship equivalent of Conference North because I don’t believe it I reckon Widdrington was solely responsible for that and has more influence than we think
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Post by gashead1981 on Nov 22, 2018 20:15:34 GMT
Well DC is Widdringtons boss, or so DC intimated, as he said it was important to get the right person in that he could trust and work with. I would think that DC names a bunch of players for TW to watch, and also TW should be out getting his own list of future stars.
I wish TW would give Jody Jones a call and get him in in January.
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Post by pirate on Nov 22, 2018 20:23:45 GMT
Well DC is Widdringtons boss, or so DC intimated, as he said it was important to get the right person in that he could trust and work with. I would think that DC names a bunch of players for TW to watch, and also TW should be out getting his own list of future stars. I wish TW would give Jody Jones a call and get him in in January. As much as I like Jodi Jones, I can't see why he would leave a historically big club for us. Maybe last season or the season before we might have had a chance, but now Coventry are at the same level I just don't see it happening.
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Post by warehamgas on Nov 22, 2018 20:32:33 GMT
It is a long term project esp after years of no real system. Guess after last night questions were bound to be asked. Apart from the obvious need for strikers who can score after seeing the 15 minute collapse yesterday I would like to see someone who can lead, boss the players and manage a game in the closing stages. Not much eh? UTG!
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Post by pirate on Nov 22, 2018 20:37:28 GMT
It is a long term project esp after years of no real system. Guess after last night questions were bound to be asked. Apart from the obvious need for strikers who can score after seeing the 15 minute collapse yesterday I would like to see someone who can lead, boss the players and manage a game in the closing stages. Not much eh? UTG! Someone like Blackpool's Jay Spearing would be absolutely ideal. He's not going to leave them for us now of course, I just wish we went in with a tempting offer when he was without a club for months. A quality player and leader.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Nov 22, 2018 21:35:12 GMT
Too soon to judge the man.
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Post by pirate on Nov 22, 2018 21:36:28 GMT
I would like to see someone who can lead, boss the players and manage a game in the closing stages. Not much eh? UTG! Thinking about this, the lad Bryn Morris would be good for us. Only 22-years-old, but plays with great maturity. I wanted us to sign him last season and again in the summer, but he moved on loan to Wycombe from Shrewsbury. Morris has represented England at U16, U17, U18, U19 and U20, captaining the team at each level. After signing him, Gareth Ainsworth said: "He’s an excellent box-to-box midfielder who can do both sides of the game, breaking up play and linking up with the attack." His loan expires early January and it would be worth making enquiries about him. Failing that, the 22-year-old former A.C. Milan youth captain and Italy youth international captain Alessandro Mastalli would be a very good signing. A combative, box-to-box midfielder who can do a bit of everything. I don't know if he would be interested in a move to this country, but he would certainly suit the English game. He's currently playing in front of an average crowd of about 2,000 at his current club and probably earning a lot less than he could get in League One. Worth an enquiry IMHO.
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Post by lpgas on Nov 22, 2018 22:28:45 GMT
I think the only player Widdrington brought in was Bonham. The others DC saw on You Tube
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 23:32:35 GMT
Why would that be he started work on 1st of May and I think all close season signings were made after that date. There is no chance targets would've only been decided after that point. May have had some input, but DC would've been working on summer recruits ages before then. I'm sure it was also said Widdrington couldn't recommend players to us, that he already had recommended to Coventry, so an element of him needing to find further players too I don't believe you are correct, clearly Amadou Bakayoko was on both ours and Coventry's list and the common factor is Widdrington. DC never tends to moves early so what evidence do you have that DC was working before the end of last season on the signing made in the period May to August this year. If you were right then you are suggesting our signing were not recommended by Widderington and what we have is all down to careful early planning by DC. This does not make any sense to me sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 23:33:23 GMT
I think the only player Widdrington brought in was Bonham. The others DC saw on You Tube We were interest in him last season so he was know to DC.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 0:42:51 GMT
There is no chance targets would've only been decided after that point. May have had some input, but DC would've been working on summer recruits ages before then. I'm sure it was also said Widdrington couldn't recommend players to us, that he already had recommended to Coventry, so an element of him needing to find further players too I don't believe you are correct, clearly Amadou Bakayoko was on both ours and Coventry's list and the common factor is Widdrington. DC never tends to moves early so what evidence do you have that DC was working before the end of last season on the signing made in the period May to August this year. If you were right then you are suggesting our signing were not recommended by Widderington and what we have is all down to careful early planning by DC. This does not make any sense to me sorry. f**k me if his fingerprints were found to be all over Bakayoko Widdrington would be walking the plank I can tell you.
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Post by gashead1981 on Nov 23, 2018 23:05:41 GMT
Well I’ve just watched the Coventry game this evening at the Ricoh and they had a few good players that stood out more than when they played at the Mem a few weeks back.
Luke Thomas (on loan from derby) was outstanding on the right wing, Tom Baylis was dominant in the middle, Chaplin and Clarke Harris were a good pairing up top. I don’t know how many of those Widdrington was involved with.
They were terrible at the back tho.
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Nov 24, 2018 8:54:01 GMT
Would seem to be a total waste of money. Another waste of money a CEO who most of us thought was brought in to oversee stadium and training ground matters. However all we get from him is one page in the match day programme talking about that days game,previous games and our next opponents. Not a mention about any other matters that might be of interest to the fanbase as a whole. Surely our Chairman could easily cover all of the above and although not a favourite of some, at least he cannot be called the invisible man as it would seem our CEO is. We were not looking for a CEO in the first place. Starnes himself is reported to have told a lad on the other forum after the QPR game that he was looking for a job and as Wael is a mate of his Wael created the role of CEO - to do God only knows what seeing as we already have a chairman and a president but it certainly doesn't seem like he was head-hunted because he managed to build a stand at Home Park. He told this lad he had so far done a lot of community work so I am wondering if we are mis-reading his title and it is in fact Community Engagement Officer...
We were not looking for a CEO in the first place. Starnes himself is reported to have told a lad on the other forum after the QPR game that he was looking for a job and as Wael is a mate of his Wael created the role of CEO "
LOL, Really!!!! Funiest post I've read on here for a while.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 10:05:26 GMT
We were not looking for a CEO in the first place. Starnes himself is reported to have told a lad on the other forum after the QPR game that he was looking for a job and as Wael is a mate of his Wael created the role of CEO - to do God only knows what seeing as we already have a chairman and a president but it certainly doesn't seem like he was head-hunted because he managed to build a stand at Home Park. He told this lad he had so far done a lot of community work so I am wondering if we are mis-reading his title and it is in fact Community Engagement Officer...
We were not looking for a CEO in the first place. Starnes himself is reported to have told a lad on the other forum after the QPR game that he was looking for a job and as Wael is a mate of his Wael created the role of CEO "
LOL, Really!!!! Funiest post I've read on here for a while.
Our players have to pick dog**** off the training pitch before they are able to start training, when you take that into account creating a job for a mate sounds exactly like the sort of thing that happens at the new 'professional' Bristol Rovers. Up the crazy gang etc...
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Post by paulpirate on Nov 24, 2018 10:25:45 GMT
We were not looking for a CEO in the first place. Starnes himself is reported to have told a lad on the other forum after the QPR game that he was looking for a job and as Wael is a mate of his Wael created the role of CEO "
LOL, Really!!!! Funiest post I've read on here for a while.
Our players have to pick dog**** off the training pitch before they are able to start training, when you take that into account creating a job for a mate sounds exactly like the sort of thing that happens at the new 'professional' Bristol Rovers. Up the crazy gang etc... fox sh**
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