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Who's hacked Fordys account?

 

No chance

 

New manager. It happens

 

Could have done with him 5 or 6 years ago, all now depends on his fitness, won't recognise half the team on saturday if all the new signings turn up .....

 

Exactly this. Horses for courses. Doncaster might not need that kind of player but we need some bite in our midfield and if Clayton has been brought in to provide that then it could be really good fit.

 

Dads army. I have less confidence in Hughes on the back of the decison's he's making in this window.

 

Not sure about that Mrs O, going by some of his other signings ....

 

No, but you can usually judge how good a Donner Kebab is by the colour of the Donner meat.

 

Short term deal is what stood out to me on this, if it doesn't work out then he is gone unlike Derbyshire and Oliver to name two.

 

Hughes obviously not impressed with our summer recruitment. This looks like a mini overhaul.

 

What did I suggest earlier?

 

Personally I rated Karl Henry, he didn’t dig up many trees on the pitch but he was a leader with high standards. Our form improved when he arrived and collapsed again when he left. You need players like that in the dressing room.

 

I think its all about finding that balance in midfield. Handing roles to players based on their strengths. For example, if you allow smallwood to solely stick to breaking up play, allow gilliead to cover the miles an shield the back 4, then Clayton can thrive if he’s allowed to solely focus on getting the ball up the pitch quickly to our attackers

 

Possibly. Or possibly he sees a lack of leadership in the team/squad and he's tasking Derbyshire and Clayton with bringing that in, after all, there aren't many leaders who are 21/22 years old!

He has also balanced those two signings with Nevers, Kelly, Costelloe so I think he'd argue that he's brought in experience and youth. In Kelly's case, someone who is our own player.

 

And I guess Hughes would say he's on a contract to the end of the season so if it doesn't work out then we're not committed.

 

Why are you comparing Waddle to Clayton? Ludicrous.

 

It all comes down to common sense. If you are going to buy or loan in a player, play to their strengths. From what i’ve read, Clayton’s main attributes are his professionalism, his leadership skills, an his ability on the ball. Quite a few Doncaster fans have stated that he was a good influence on the team and a good character to have in the dressing room. It is the type of player we need. A case in point being that we have yet to recover and win from a losing position this season. Seems to suggest there is a lack of leaders in the team to rally the troops when things aren’t going our way.

We also have not replaced Watt from the summer. Someone who can get the ball an spray it across the pitch, an get it to the feet of our attacking players before 2 defenders man up on them. We thought that player would be Smallwood but that’s not the case. Clayton is a similar kind of player to Watt, an if Hughes can provide a balance in that midfield, Clayton can be a success

Im not saying that its an amazing signing, ideally a box-to-box midfielder would of been more suitable. But its not as bad of a signing as being made out to be by some. We need to stop writing players off before they have even kicked a ball for us.

 

He said he hopes 'this place catches fire', referring to what good performances and wins going into the back end of the season would do to morale.
Unfortunate but quite clearly meaning something else.

 

I suppose your right. But then again, Lavery an Guthrie never spent a single minute in League One. Clayton was a mainstay in a Middlesborough team that spent the majority of its time in the Championship and a season in the Premier League

 

Are you aware @Fordy117 is adding sentences in your posts