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I imagine we’ll get a big list printed out of all out of contract national league and national league north/south players, stick it up on the wall and then chuck some darts at it.
“I’ve hit 6 strikers again”
“Ah well never mind sign them up”
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Some things don’t change in football, whoever we sign and however many experienced players the new budget allows, the spine of the team must be experienced, younger players can fill in the gaps and we have some good young players particularly at full back. We need to learn from previous mistakes of signing untried and tested players who have no or little league experience down the teams spine. I’m guessing squads will be universally smaller next season due to Covid and budget issues, so there will be a few old heads needing clubs like ours, not convinced with young Swann seeking them out we will be very successful in getting the right ones.
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If they have footballing skills – that would be rather nice but not essential.
If they don’t have footballing skills, how the hell have they made it up through the academies and youth teams. We’ve released young players with greater skill levels than some we have under contract now! I play on. Sunday evening with guys who have a better first touch than Loft, and retain the ball better than Hippolyte.
Football agents are like the stereotype used car dealers. “Got a lovely little runner here. Only 25,000 miles on the clock and four new tyres”. I bet young Swann just takes it for a quick test drive without even looking under the bonnet or checking for rust! That or takes the modern approach and buys online having just seen a two minute video clip.
Might as well set up a “Vinted” type website for clubs who want to get rid of/buy players.
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It has got that bad they have been checking the lists again. The reason was after a ‘planning’ meeting when someone said – any ideas. They checked notes and someone had written D I T T O.
They are trying to find out who is the agent for D I T T O !!
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Things went downhill after the defeat to Rotherham in the playoffs, it would have been interesting to know what we would have done if we had got promoted that season, we probably wouldn’t have sold Townsend, Wallace and Holmes etc, so apart from the extra revenue would we still have thrown the towel in because we did that summer and UTI99 has kept dropping the budget since.
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It’s OK having a Summer like last season and get rid of the high earners and replace them with lower non league players, but what do they gain when you have to sign quality players in January to get us out of trouble.
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The club owner has a strategy ! Really – he does !!
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Why would Toney want to join us?. He must have known he wasn’t well liked here.
Evidence? A few dick heads behind the Donny Rd End don’t constitute a majority dislike from the Iron faithful, he was head strong and arrogant at times but a lot of good players are. He’s a good player and goalscorer who I believe did a good job for us when he was here.
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Awaywego thinks Iron supporters are the worst in the country. In his mind all Scunny fans hate all of the players!
As I said at the time of the penalty incident, I’d rather see a player fighting to take a penalty than one who dodges the responsibility.
And as for not wanting to stay here, I seem to recall his family coming down to watch him and when interviewed his mother said how much he was enjoying his time here.
Once again, following on from those three seasons near the top of L1 we had built up a reputation for developing quality players. That’s why we attracted loanees like Toney, Crooks and Yates. Now we’ve sunk to the depths it’s the likes of George Miller and Tyler Cordner.
If anything the recruitment strategy has to be better than it was four years ago.
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Clearly, there are basic levels of competency: trapping the ball, accuracy in passing, not gifting possession, grit, determination and a little vision.
This seems to be a word for word opposite of the criteria we have been using.
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