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At least the ludicrous talk on here of Adams either walking or getting sacked can end now. What on earth would that have achieved?

 

We don't (and didn't) have the right personnel at the club to enable players like McBurnie to develop the way he did - he looked out of his depth playing for us in league one at the time, Swansea had the right structures and environment in place to nurture and develop him. If he'd stayed with us he'd have ended up being released and drifting into non-league rather than making us any money.

 

'We will make the announcement in October' they said. FFS, can't this club get anything right?????

 

Its not Sparks thats done this, its Adams. Sparks was singing Turnbulls praises during his tenure. Its clearly Adams that has taken this approach.

 

Have not been on for a bit but follow the site when I can, nuff to say the usual suspects continue to post the usual comments - lets just say its consistent and in some ways nicely reassuring! Had a half knee replacement operation and removal of some loose bone - recovering but it's slow progress for those who are interested

Was at Woking v Chesterfield last night, grubby wet night. Chesterfield were extremely physical and moody, Rowe only came on for last 15mins and very quiet and Tishimanga was kept under wraps but you could see his talents in his movement Woking played them off the park for the last hour and I would recommend our new scouts keep a watch on young Tahvon Campbell - he is 24 so not a kid and plays across the front line

Apart from the usual issues we have at City hope you are all keeping well

 

Amazing news.

Just shows what a shit show we have become when we are rejoicing that we have employed a scout.

Something that fundamentally every bloody team in the country should have anyway

 

At least Ryans learning by his mistakes, now he just needs to stop making them in the first place.

 

I think it’s a bit old fashioned, standing in a field in the freezing cold watching reserve level football. We need to move with the times......
What We need is a ginger bloke with an IPad!! That would work!

 

Probably brought it forward due to the mass hysteria after Crankshaw left. Onwards and upwards i suppose but yet another transfer window wasted due to the incompetence of the club.

 

Sounds positive. Although they'll have to be accustomed to finding nuggets for the bargain price of nothing, and as soon as Adams leaves we're back to square one....

 

Looks like a vert good move on paper. Actually using scouting software, rather than Turnbulls word of mouth approach seems much more modern. Wouldn't be surprised if the new scouting software and data analytics we use is the one (or very similar) to the one the P'boro chairman talks up on his pod given him and Sparks seem pally. And Adams already has a pre existing relationship with all.

Roscrow has been scouting or working in different areas at Swansea since 2009. Millar looks to have been one of the main men at Ross co under Adams as well as Aberdeen during their good times over the last decade or so and was the man who found Adams Graham Carey, along with a few others. Cant find a great deal on Young other than he worked with Adams twice before.

 

It’s the sort of thing I would have expected Turnbull to have put in place.

 

On reading this, it kind of makes me facepalm a bit. "We've now got scouts covering England, Ireland and Scotland". Shouldn't we have had this in place for years? Forget about the interview that DA had with Sparks (and presumably Turnbull), what exactly did Turnbull say in his interview to sell himself as the "Recruitment Manager"? Somehow, seemingly just saying he's going to have a look at YouTube and his former clubs, seems to have got him the job. And we wonder why we're dropping like a stone due to lack of squad depth and the ability to win games? No wonder DA is angry and wants things done his way.

Also underlines my feelings that Ryan loves a fanfare and an opportunity for an announcement, over the actual workings and dirty hands running of a football club.

As pointed out, this is all well and good, but comes months late. We've now put something in place, that cannot be used until January. When most of the available players have already joined new clubs. When we're languishing in mid table or worse. AND....we've heard it all before. Ryan would have been all over that Mark Ellis USA scouting network. He'd have loved it. Look what happened to that. And that fella Archie. Again, trumpets and klaxxons and we're going up as Champions.

And yeah I get it - setting this system up now, means we can identify players and hit the ground running for the next transfer window. But how many times have we heard that before?

 

At the start of the season we we’re playing well and creating lots of chances. Let’s hope when the injured are back we can return to that level again.

 

If any of these bods can unearth a John Hendrie, Greg Abbott or Martin Singleton then we will all be happy.

 

Sparks made me laugh on Twitter saying that Adams was brought into sort out longstanding footballing issues within the club. Turnbull was his Vision and his appointment!! What other “long standing issues” have been resolved? Baffling

 

happy with the change but think its fairly stupid we waited until after the transfer window closed to do it, and now have even more dross on the books that will need shifting. I thought the Turnbull appointment was a good idea but appointing DA who doesn't seem down to work like that was then pretty stupid. Happy we're backing DA though and if the little bits of rumour on here about unhappy players are true I hope we back him again, otherwise it will be our 6th manager in however long which is no way to succeed if you aren't Chelsea.

 

What you mean by selling players to fund the backroom staff!!