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I wish to disagree – but am wholly unable to do so.
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Spot on, Fe.
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Can’t recall a summer when our signings last came in at a reasonable point of the close season.
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UTI, I have never once attacked another member of Bru on these pages.
It’s a record I’d quite like to keep.1 user thanked author for this post.
I think Huddersfield fans have valid complaints against the retiring Mr Moss.
We’d certainly have felt cheated.2 users thanked author for this post.
Eisa got crocked at Bradford shortly after he arrived, Cass.
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Bishop positives?
Arguably the best defensive CM I’ve seen for the Iron.
1) Nearly as good as Ticker Taylor at winning a ball without making a tackle. His timing at stealing-ball was superb.
2) When tackles were needed, the timing there was top notch.
3) He rarely wasted a ball.
4) He showed generalship – lifted those around him.
5) His reading of a game was coolness and intelligence combined.
6) His covering in front of our box was terrific.I used to spend large portions of a match just watching what he was doing. I probably gave him our MOTM in 50% of the games played.
Only once saw him play a stinker and, if memory serves, could it have been against Wigan at GP?A gem! But we got rid just at the right time, TBH. He played okay at Mansfield but he aged at Field Mill.
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If Cox could get so little out of the Shrews trio after Hurst had proved what they could do – that was quite enough for me. Good players going backwards.
There never was a single moment when I stopped attempting to value Cox – but the ex-Shrews formed a big part in formulating my overall negative opinion.2 users thanked author for this post.
He scored 11 in 66 games for us, IA.
Let us not forget how many of those were in League One AND how many games was he played wide? (An exercise in futility if ever there was one.)Played as a CF – he would surely have notched better than his 1/6. Maybe up to 1/4 or better.
That would have been quite enough to have kept us up, IMHO – especially in a lower division.1 user thanked author for this post.
With the benefit of hindsight, Mick – we were doomed as soon as we were left unable to make four/five good signings in January.
The words… “if necessary” are going to echo throughout my brain for years to come!In any case, our January incomers, over a number of years, have rarely been up to all that much.
The trouble is that, without the excuse of an embargo in place, for many years, our signings have tended to arrive extremely late in each and every pre-season. A BAD sign!
Do you recall the good old days when most of us had a little bit of optimism at the start of a new campaign? – Sigh.
I used to put on my annual bet on us gaining promotion. Haven’t for quite a long time.1 user thanked author for this post.
Notts County looked decent enough but, as always let’s be honest, the Cod ‘eds looked a force to be reckoned with.
Congratulations to Hurst for what he has done there and was doing for us before …A side issue. Hurst brought in the Shrewsbury Amigos and got something good out of them with the promise of much more to come.
Under Cox – all three regressed. Eisa lost his discipline; MacAtee became third rate; Gilliead’s skills were allowed to disintegrate when there was almost no movement of players around him.
Hurst has rescued MacAtee at Cod ‘ed Corner. I’d wager that both Eisa and Gilliead would have gone onto better things too.
This guy is a pretty good manger, IMHO.16 users thanked author for this post.
How many times does it have to be stated that fans have been paying their money out for year after year with zero evidence that it has been well used?
They are getting literally nothing back from their ticket monies – certainly not entertainment.
In what other spheres of life would these fans have happily chucked in good money after bad?UTI, I have known a few gamblers in my life who have ‘chased their losses’ and got into serious trouble. Total losers, bless ’em – it strikes me that you seem to be advocating a very similar course of action for fans who quite reasonably think ‘many times bitten, many times shy’.
If there are buyers in the wings – how’s about a little pump-priming from the owner? – Let it be known that for this coming season (only?) – he will ensure a player budget of £1.5 million to guarantee that the Iron will be able to compete fully.
This is a double whammy as it will show potential buyers that the club is able to put out a team that will not take us down the toilet and it might encourage those ornery season ticket holders to dig deep too.
(It worked for Roosevelt.)The problem has been that there have been so very few intelligent, decent signings in May and June over quite a number of years. Thus, people keep their hard-earned money in their pockets as a direct consequence. They have not been incentivised. They know, all too well, that late signings equate to dogend signings.
If this radical tactic were to be employed just this once … it could change the whole picture. ‘A gamble’ you say?
Well, the fans are being asked ‘to gamble’ – yet again! If half decent players start arriving over the next two or three weeks – they may well commit one more time.7 users thanked author for this post.
Sorry to get a tad political but doesn’t all this rather smack of Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’ strategy?
(There are some who doubt the attribution of this idea to Vladimir Ilyich himself – but it is just so very Leninesque that I possess few doubts that this was indeed, his baby.)
He both scorned and valued those quarter wits who had so easily and naively fallen for all of his propaganda. They were incapable of grasping that it would either lead to their own destruction or to an end product which would be totally out of synch with their desired outcomes.The old teacher in me feels the need to say: DISCUSS in the context of SUFC over recent years!
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Thanks for that, CC.
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