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Post by syg on Oct 13, 2018 18:06:20 GMT
I completely agree that Rory is a better player than than any of our strikers but it’s shameful that our useless owners could not or would not match terms offered to him by a Conference club Nothing Shameful about it. They are paying ridiculous money and are basically buying the title.
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Post by Okebournegas on Oct 13, 2018 18:59:41 GMT
I completely agree that Rory is a better player than than any of our strikers but it’s shameful that our useless owners could not or would not match terms offered to him by a Conference club Nothing Shameful about it. They are paying ridiculous money and are basically buying the title. Unfortunately that’s modern day football , you snooze you lose , we always seem to lose
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 13, 2018 19:10:51 GMT
I completely agree that Rory is a better player than than any of our strikers but it’s shameful that our useless owners could not or would not match terms offered to him by a Conference club Disagree. Apparently he is getting £3k+ a week at Salford which would probably put him as our highest earner. It was shameful how the owners refused to properly back DC in finding a replacement. Losing him and Ellis in the same window was risky enough.
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Oct 13, 2018 19:14:46 GMT
I completely agree that Rory is a better player than than any of our strikers but it’s shameful that our useless owners could not or would not match terms offered to him by a Conference club Disagree. Apparently he is getting £3k+ a week at Salford which would probably put him as our highest earner. It was shameful how the owners refused to properly back DC in finding a replacement. Losing him and Ellis in the same window was risky enough. and browner don’t forget him we miss him
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Post by socrates on Oct 13, 2018 19:17:52 GMT
I completely agree that Rory is a better player than than any of our strikers but it’s shameful that our useless owners could not or would not match terms offered to him by a Conference club Disagree. Apparently he is getting £3k+ a week at Salford which would probably put him as our highest earner. It was shameful how the owners refused to properly back DC in finding a replacement. Losing him and Ellis in the same window was risky enough. Did they refuse to back him though ? Is our budget any less or any higher than last season ? Do you know ? I’m honestly interested to know if they’ve backed him more , less or the same as other seasons because it’s easy to say they haven’t because we’re in the bottom four but that doesn’t mean they haven’t.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 13, 2018 19:17:54 GMT
Disagree. Apparently he is getting £3k+ a week at Salford which would probably put him as our highest earner. It was shameful how the owners refused to properly back DC in finding a replacement. Losing him and Ellis in the same window was risky enough. and browner don’t forget him we miss him True, just thinking of our forward options. We lost our 2 best strikers in the same window and f**ked about with replacing them. The LB situation is an all new matter in itself. That was a cock up.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 13, 2018 19:19:53 GMT
Disagree. Apparently he is getting £3k+ a week at Salford which would probably put him as our highest earner. It was shameful how the owners refused to properly back DC in finding a replacement. Losing him and Ellis in the same window was risky enough. Did they refuse to back him though ? Is our budget any less or any higher than last season ? Do you know ? I’m honestly interested to know if they’ve backed him more , less or the same as other seasons because it’s easy to say they haven’t because we’re in the bottom four but that doesn’t mean they haven’t. I'm basing it on the fact we lost Gaffney for a fee, signed Reilly for peanuts. Then list Ellis for a decent fee and scrambled about to sign a striker on the cheap. Eventually Payne at the last minute and a loaner striker. DC isn't completely blameless at all. But he certainly hasn't been helped. The top of the club have set the tone and it's trickled down.
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Oct 13, 2018 19:23:09 GMT
3 good players gone in one window ! Um lucky we did not lose any more in previous transfer windows did we ! What’s that 5 good players gone
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Post by socrates on Oct 13, 2018 19:23:58 GMT
Did they refuse to back him though ? Is our budget any less or any higher than last season ? Do you know ? I’m honestly interested to know if they’ve backed him more , less or the same as other seasons because it’s easy to say they haven’t because we’re in the bottom four but that doesn’t mean they haven’t. I'm basing it on the fact we lost Gaffney for a fee, signed Reilly for peanuts. Then list Ellis for a decent fee and scrambled about to sign a striker on the cheap. Eventually Payne at the last minute and a loaner striker. DC isn't completely blameless at all. But he certainly hasn't been helped. The top of the club have set the tone and it's trickled down. We’ve lost three good first team players in Ellis Gafney and brown and signed Rodman Payne upson Mathews the and left back forgotten his name . I’d imagine our budget is higher now than last season if any diferent not less. When we lost Taylor DC brought in first Luke James and when that didn’t work out Tom Nichols. Obviously when a club like ours sell a player for £700,000 we’re not going to go out and spend £700,000 on a replacement but but DC has signed many players in the last two years and wages don’t come cheap.
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Oct 13, 2018 19:25:47 GMT
I'm basing it on the fact we lost Gaffney for a fee, signed Reilly for peanuts. Then list Ellis for a decent fee and scrambled about to sign a striker on the cheap. Eventually Payne at the last minute and a loaner striker. DC isn't completely blameless at all. But he certainly hasn't been helped. The top of the club have set the tone and it's trickled down. We’ve lost three good first team players in Ellis Gafney and brown and signed Rodman Payne upson Mathews the and left back forgotten his name . I’d imagine our budget is higher now than last season if any diferent not less. When we lost Taylor DC brought in first Luke James and when that didn’t work out Tom Nichols. Obviously when a club like ours sell a player for £700,000 we’re not going to go out and spend £700,000 on a replacement but but DC has signed many players in the last two years and wages don’t come cheap. We let Moore and Broom go too.
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Post by lmgas on Oct 13, 2018 19:28:38 GMT
Rory was good enough for league 1 but needed to be kept in the side and supported. He scored six goals last season from very few starts. The signing of Nichols pretty much finished his time with us which is a shame because Gafney scored more was stronger held it up better and was better in every kind of way possible than Nichols has been for us. Big mistake forcing him out the way we did and good luck to him we’ll probably see you at the Mem before long Rory and you’ll probably score to show the doubters wrong. This. My biggest disappointment is DC's persistence with Nichols (and James before him). Not only is Nichols useless in terms of scoring but his inclusion has led to the loss of players like Gaffney and Telford. We'd be much better served if we'd managed to retain these two (especially given the loss of both Bodin and Harrison). What do you think our league position would be with Gaffney and Telford leading the line? Who knows which other players sitting on the bench or playing in the development team might of shone in the meantime if they'd also been given a chance!
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Post by socrates on Oct 13, 2018 19:30:02 GMT
We’ve lost three good first team players in Ellis Gafney and brown and signed Rodman Payne upson Mathews the and left back forgotten his name . I’d imagine our budget is higher now than last season if any diferent not less. When we lost Taylor DC brought in first Luke James and when that didn’t work out Tom Nichols. Obviously when a club like ours sell a player for £700,000 we’re not going to go out and spend £700,000 on a replacement but but DC has signed many players in the last two years and wages don’t come cheap. We let Moore and Broom go too. Exactly , so even more wages saved to be spent on the budget of new players.
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Post by lmgas on Oct 13, 2018 19:40:28 GMT
We’ve lost three good first team players in Ellis Gafney and brown and signed Rodman Payne upson Mathews the and left back forgotten his name . I’d imagine our budget is higher now than last season if any diferent not less. When we lost Taylor DC brought in first Luke James and when that didn’t work out Tom Nichols. Obviously when a club like ours sell a player for £700,000 we’re not going to go out and spend £700,000 on a replacement but but DC has signed many players in the last two years and wages don’t come cheap. We let Moore and Broom go too. Was never a fan of Moore, but was surprised at broom going as he appeared to just be getting somewhere. Didn't dc say he was the one player he thought might come back to bite him? It does seem a mistake given how things have worked out, but if he was here he'd probably be warming the bench whilst others struggle for form anyway!
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Post by Gas-Ed on Oct 13, 2018 19:49:59 GMT
Gaffney would walk into this side. Our lack of goal threat will send us back to league two. I don’t see us turning this around with a complete lack of investment.
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Post by slimbridgegas on Oct 13, 2018 20:42:36 GMT
He's found his level and good luck to him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 20:48:35 GMT
We let Moore and Broom go too. Was never a fan of Moore, but was surprised at broom going as he appeared to just be getting somewhere. Didn't dc say he was the one player he thought might come back to bite him? It does seem a mistake given how things have worked out, but if he was here he'd probably be warming the bench whilst others struggle for form anyway! Where is Broom now and how is he getting on? I always viewed him as someone with a great attitude but limited abilities - probably destined for conference label at best in the longer term.
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Post by socrates on Oct 13, 2018 20:52:18 GMT
He's found his level and good luck to him. He scored goals for us in league 2 and league 1 and never looked like a conference player to me in that time. He’s gone there because he’s on good money they’re a team on the up and he’ll score goals and play regularly for them. Fair play to him and a big loss for us. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s one of the top scorers in league 2 next season whilst we’re still struggling to find a striker that can get more than 10 in the same division.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 20:55:01 GMT
Looking at the Salford match on the BBC website I noticed Della-Verde was playing for bottom of the table Braintree. I remember many on here saying that was one DC mismanaged and let slip through his fingers. Is Frimpong at Braintree the same guy that featured for Arsenal first XI in the prem quite a bit a few years ago?
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Post by lpgas on Oct 13, 2018 21:04:09 GMT
Yeah was doing so well for us and then we dropped him for Nichols and we haven’t been the same since. Sold our best two strikers and kept our worst one. well sold r best players last 3 windows you can’t keep doing it is the reality How do you stop players from wanting to improve themselves and their wages? You cant.
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Post by lpgas on Oct 13, 2018 21:06:31 GMT
I don't think Salford will be staying very long in the National League with the amount of money they're spending on the squad and stadium. I can see why Rory chose to step down two leagues with their potential and a decent pay rise. I didn't see much to cheer about him myself, as a L1 player, but he should do really well there. Good luck to him. Think about this, how many games did he start for us last season? So far I think he has missed ONE at Salford
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