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I think going overboard on signings, whoever makes them, is best avoided, and by going overboard I mean both positively and negatively. There is so much inconsistency at this level that a player who on paper looks a good signing because they've just had a good season elsewhere can turn out to be awful for us, or another player who has poor stats and looks a disappointing signing can go on to become a fantastic player for us.
You only have to look back a few months to the the amount of fans on here and on Twitter proclaiming it the best January window ever but was it, really?
We signed 5 permanent players in that window. One of them left within a few weeks, Vernham and Crankshaw have been disappointing so far, Foulds hasn't really featured yet so we have no idea whether he is a good signing or not, so the only one out of the 5 that seemed to strengthen us was Canavan.
We also brought in 4 players on loan. Huffer was emergency cover due to Rod's injury and was always unlikely to end up playing, Stevens did alright in the few sub appearances he made but nothing more than that, and did Burrell even play for us? If he did I can't remember so that says it all really. So, out of the 4 loans brought in only Cook actually improved us. That's a total of 2 players out of 9 brought in - not really the best January window ever at all was it?
For those that think I'm being negative, I'm not. There is still a chance Vernham, Crankshaw and Foulds could end up being decent players for us but right now, we don't know, just like we don't know how our new summer additions will fair. So I'm not going to build any of them up or slag any of them off until I've seen what they can do for us and how they perform under Adams. People that think that's being negative need to as Fordy would say, 'give their head a shake'.

 

When I started watching city in 1966 players were called John Hall, Ken Leek , Tom Hallett, Ian Cooper. Much easier in those days to remember names.

 

No idea who this lad is and he might turn out to be a cracking signing, but he's another one saying that the offer came out of nowhere. That doesn't suggest to me that our recruitment is going quite as much to plan as we are being told.

 

Good luck to him, I hope he turns out to be a great signing.

But to be honest I find this one a little puzzling, along with the Lee Angol signing these are the two signings I don't quite get. Let's be honest, if McCall had signed a centre back who was released from a National League team people would be asking serious questions. Adams has a good record so he deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt, but it still seems a bit odd.

 

Who had heard of John Hendrie when we signed him ? Leicester signed Vardy from non league.

 

He looks a big fiacre that’s for sure!

 

It’s one of the reasons I stopped posting on here. Imagine sitting in the pub with your mates and shutting down every opinion because your peers are being negative and don’t have the same footballing credentials as the manager. Seriously, just f off. Say what you want and if hindsight proves you wrong then so be it, it’s all part of the fun.

Too many fence-sitting fannies on here.

 

Why.? We have NO idea.

 

ha ha ha ha Blackpool a Championship club and Sunderland a top side in div 1 but he decided to join a bottom half Div 2 club. ha ha ha behave!!! Serious! Behave.

 

Yes, we get it, we have to place faith in Derek Adams, but you're going a bit overboard IMO.

He's not going to get every decision right, he's not a magician, this of all the signings we've made is the most questionable so people are going to question it.

Seems to be you're trying to shut down a lot of debate because you don't want any nay-sayers?

 

The main reason Stuart failed is probably the fact he tried to assemble the cheapest, youngest squad possible and refused to sign players in positions that needed reinforcing.

Last season we debuted a variety of 18 year olds, most of who weren't ready for regular first team football, but Stuart's squad was built on them. We were told numerous times that we were miles under budget and Stuart could have spent that money, but he continually refused to, citing free agents' lack of fitness and complaining that he was unable to identify the right players.

The club then reacted by hiring Turnbull, but it was much too late for Stuart, whose band of cheapies were struggling badly at the wrong end of the table.

That's all documented, and much more likely to be a problem than being friendly. For me, it doesn't matter if a manager is friendly, unfriendly, standoffish, waves his arms like an idiot on the sidelines, stands deadly still and doesn't move, shouts, doesn't shout, all of those sorts of managers have been successful in football so we know for sure it's not any of those attributes that cause catastrophic failure.

 

Interesting article in the YP if you haven't seen it.

Certainly this lad will have some backbone when you read what he went through at Macclesfield! I'm hoping he could prove to be a good under the radar signing.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/bradford-city-move-helps-fiacre-kelleher-stand-tall-again-3314387?amp

 

After tonight's game one thing is for certain,
we've not had as vocal a player since
Gary Jones.
He never stopped shouting and organising, great to hear.

 

Bloody hell.... can't we just sign a John Smith or Fred Bloggs?
All these feckin names to conjure with.

 

I know they kind of have to say certain stuff but it was good to read his interview - reckons he's vocal, likes the physical side of things and keeps on fighting.

Good luck to him.

 

I think he's a tick the box signing. I think he will be on the bench.

 

I wouldn't go down that road he has a poor history with regards bets does Mr Ford.

 

Top post.

I understand the desire to give every player a fair chance, and in reality even if fans are whinging about a signing from the off, only Adams can give them that opportunity.

It feels like on this forum at the moment a poster giving an honest appraisal of a signing (in their view) is being treated as an attack on the club, our manager and our transfer policy.

It's not.

 

The thing is that everyone has a right to have an opinion. Sometimes that opinion turns out to be right, other times not. Not a matter of sitting on fence fannies but at the moment none of us know how the season is going to pan out. We await it with hope, some of us with optimism and others not so sure. We have to remember we are a 2nd division club and players who can play at a higher level are likely to be doing so on higher than div 2 wages.