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Post by toddy1953 on Nov 29, 2018 23:28:01 GMT
I bet the players never picked the dog/fox sh** up when we trained at Eastville Park, they just ran though it, slid through it, stamped out the remnants from their studs, whilst crossing the road back to the stadium, all jumped into a bath and washed the rest of it off of them, then off to the True Blue Club for a few beers. Then on a Sat run through any leftovers on the greyhound track & bang in 5 goal. We are the Gas we eat sh** Ironic how on a thread about our head if recruitment, we end up talking about sh**
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Post by rosssgb on Nov 29, 2018 23:46:53 GMT
Ironic how on a thread about our head if recruitment, we end up talking about sh** Isn’t it just. Anyone know if he’s still at the club?
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Post by gasify on Nov 30, 2018 7:42:16 GMT
We aren't the only ones with training ground problems recently. Huddersfield manager David Wagner: "We had a gym which was used by the community as well. So if there was a lady on a bike and my player says 'I have to make a pre-activation because I have training' and she says 'oh, I have 10 further minutes to go' then he was not able to use it. "In the summer, there were the old ladies playing croquet on our training pitch and the groundsman said to me we were not able to use this part of the training ground because they play croquet there, or the gentlemen were playing bowls on the ground as we walked through. "This was anything but how I expected a professional club that had played since 2012 in the Championship, how it should look like." Thank you Pirate. That has made me laugh. I know that Jonny Wilkinson used to imagine Doris reading a newspaper behind the posts when he took a kick. Huddersfield have an actual Doris on a bike!
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Post by utg12 on Nov 30, 2018 12:04:40 GMT
Mate, I won’t claim the place is the bees knees nor will I claim it’s comparable to some professional facilities but it’s won awards for best pitch etc beating the likes of league clubs training grounds in the past... it’s not as bad as is being made out The pitches maybe good but don’t Rovers only have access to one? Portakabin for a managers office, physio setting up in one of the changing rooms and taking down his posters at the end of the week so it can revert back to a changing room for the weekend. Sorry it’s a joke. This is true. 1 pitch. Portakabin. Not secure. Have a small store but can't leave all kit and equipment there. Look. It is bad. We can agree on that. It's not disasterous but it is poor. And the bigger picture is having all teams trainingg in the same place. We'll get into the 20th century one day. Forget the 21st.
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Post by aforce on Jan 22, 2019 11:02:30 GMT
What is this bloke doing? It was crystal clear we needed forward thinking players as soon as the season started. They should have been lined up for jan 1st. But here we go again 20 days into transfer window and nothing but excuses about “hard window”, “noyone wants to come because of relegation fight” “inflated prices”. We are on course to do join yet another panic buying frenzy at the end of the window, while clubs around us already have people in the door. What is the point of a head of recruitment ?
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Jan 22, 2019 11:12:49 GMT
Unless I have missed something all this bloke has done is get his son a contract?
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Post by pirate on Jan 22, 2019 11:15:06 GMT
Unless I have missed something all this bloke has done is get his son a contract? Might have had something to do with the Joe Martin signing too.
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Post by aforce on Jan 22, 2019 11:16:34 GMT
Sure he tried to sign bakayoko who can’t get a game at coventry
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Jan 22, 2019 11:18:10 GMT
Unless I have missed something all this bloke has done is get his son a contract? Might have had something to do with the Joe Martin signing too. [br wow 2 one his son ! Amazing that’s worth his wage then lol 😂 Money well spent
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Post by peterparker on Jan 22, 2019 11:24:50 GMT
What is this bloke doing? It was crystal clear we needed forward thinking players as soon as the season started. They should have been lined up for jan 1st. But here we go again 20 days into transfer window and nothing but excuses about “hard window”, “noyone wants to come because of relegation fight” “inflated prices”. We are on course to do join yet another panic buying frenzy at the end of the window, while clubs around us already have people in the door. What is the point of a head of recruitment ? GC said they were in talks with 3 players (presumably frow TW lists) but they fell through for various reasons
Tommy Widdrington can't magic up money, or stop a club playing a player we were on the verge of signing
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Post by Captain Jayho on Jan 22, 2019 11:43:36 GMT
What is this bloke doing? It was crystal clear we needed forward thinking players as soon as the season started. They should have been lined up for jan 1st. But here we go again 20 days into transfer window and nothing but excuses about “hard window”, “noyone wants to come because of relegation fight” “inflated prices”. We are on course to do join yet another panic buying frenzy at the end of the window, while clubs around us already have people in the door. What is the point of a head of recruitment ? GC said they were in talks with 3 players (presumably frow TW lists) but they fell through for various reasons
Tommy Widdrington can't magic up money, or stop a club playing a player we were on the verge of signing
True, but if TW can't find players to fit the club's budget then it's a waste of time paying his wages isn't it? The budget issue is not his fault but wtf are we doing paying him to come up with players we have no chance of signing.
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Jan 22, 2019 11:43:51 GMT
I personally can’t not see the point in this bloke wage why bother?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 12:03:38 GMT
Unless I have missed something all this bloke has done is get his son a contract? Might have had something to do with the Joe Martin signing too. His contact book sounds more like a copy of Viz.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 12:05:57 GMT
What is this bloke doing? It was crystal clear we needed forward thinking players as soon as the season started. They should have been lined up for jan 1st. But here we go again 20 days into transfer window and nothing but excuses about “hard window”, “noyone wants to come because of relegation fight” “inflated prices”. We are on course to do join yet another panic buying frenzy at the end of the window, while clubs around us already have people in the door. What is the point of a head of recruitment ? GC said they were in talks with 3 players (presumably frow TW lists) but they fell through for various reasons
Tommy Widdrington can't magic up money, or stop a club playing a player we were on the verge of signing
If his previous targets were the likes of Martin and Bakayoko it's probably for the best that they all fell through. I'd rather take a punt on Pirate's suggestions than let the berk who tried to spunk 200k on Bakayoko have another crack at it.
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Post by Wimborne Gas on Jan 22, 2019 12:26:49 GMT
GC said they were in talks with 3 players (presumably frow TW lists) but they fell through for various reasons
Tommy Widdrington can't magic up money, or stop a club playing a player we were on the verge of signing
If his previous targets were the likes of Martin and Bakayoko it's probably for the best that they all fell through. I'd rather take a punt on Pirate's suggestions than let the berk who tried to spunk 200k on Bakayoko have another crack at it. We'd need a big squad!
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Post by theduke on Jan 22, 2019 12:31:11 GMT
If we went down then this is the type of job position which disappears and TW could have few complaints based upon what we've seen this season.
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Post by axegas on Jan 22, 2019 12:45:07 GMT
So sack him and then what? Be the only club in the league without a chief scout? There’s been two or three threads on this topic over the last week or so, it’s getting boring now. People just need to have a little bit of patience and let the man get on with his job, there’s still a fair bit of time left in the window to sign players.
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Post by Okebournegas on Jan 22, 2019 13:20:15 GMT
So sack him and then what? Be the only club in the league without a chief scout? There’s been two or three threads on this topic over the last week or so, it’s getting boring now. People just need to have a little bit of patience and let the man get on with his job, there’s still a fair bit of time left in the window to sign players. You’re having a laugh aren’t you , patience ? We have been screaming out for improvements all season long , yet here we are on the 22nd of January and guess what ? Still no improvements in through the door , this is simply inexcusable and incompetence of the highest order , surely you cannot honestly believe that everything that can be done to get our targets in is being done ? I love the gas and always will but we are an absolute joke in pretty much every department, this club does not deserve us as fans !!!!
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Post by axegas on Jan 22, 2019 13:40:16 GMT
So sack him and then what? Be the only club in the league without a chief scout? There’s been two or three threads on this topic over the last week or so, it’s getting boring now. People just need to have a little bit of patience and let the man get on with his job, there’s still a fair bit of time left in the window to sign players. You’re having a laugh aren’t you , patience ? We have been screaming out for improvements all season long , yet here we are on the 22nd of January and guess what ? Still no improvements in through the door , this is simply inexcusable and incompetence of the highest order , surely you cannot honestly believe that everything that can be done to get our targets in is being done ? I love the gas and always will but we are an absolute joke in pretty much every department, this club does not deserve us as fans !!!! Nope, definitely not “having a laugh”, just don’t think it’s very fair to put the head of recruitment in the spotlight and say stuff such as “all he has done is sign his son” when we are in the middle of a transfer window and he could still come up trumps. You’re right in the fact that it is inexcusable that we haven’t signed anyone thus far, we need reinforcements and we need them fast but I’m sure it’s not for the want of trying. Sometimes clubs only release certain players for a transfer towards the end of the window when they’ve got replacements, we could just be in the queue, that’s what I’m pinning my hopes on anyway. Come February 1st and we haven’t signed any players, I’ll be part of the angry mob like everybody else.
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Post by Okebournegas on Jan 22, 2019 13:47:00 GMT
You’re having a laugh aren’t you , patience ? We have been screaming out for improvements all season long , yet here we are on the 22nd of January and guess what ? Still no improvements in through the door , this is simply inexcusable and incompetence of the highest order , surely you cannot honestly believe that everything that can be done to get our targets in is being done ? I love the gas and always will but we are an absolute joke in pretty much every department, this club does not deserve us as fans !!!! Nope, definitely not “having a laugh”, just don’t think it’s very fair to put the head of recruitment in the spotlight and say stuff such as “all he has done is sign his son” when we are in the middle of a transfer window and he could still come up trumps. You’re right in the fact that it is inexcusable that we haven’t signed anyone thus far, we need reinforcements and we need them fast but I’m sure it’s not for the want of trying. Sometimes clubs only release certain players for a transfer towards the end of the window when they’ve got replacements, we could just be in the queue, that’s what I’m pinning my hopes on anyway. Come February 1st and we haven’t signed any players, I’ll be part of the angry mob like everybody else. The problem is , everyone else around us has improved their squads now , they seem to have no issues in getting players in , yet we always do and we always get fed the same old bullshit about it being a “difficult window” I want to so badly be wrong but I can see no one if any quality coming in , if we manage to get someone it will be a youngster with no proven pedigree , when we are crying out for someone to come straight into the team and score some much needed goals , I still think we need a striker, midfielder and a commanding big strong centre back.
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