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If you were McCarten, why the hell would you want come back?

 

lol

Before the Edin apologists say "Wyke" it needs pointing out that even Stevie Wonder could have seen Wyke was a player worth looking at. He was banging in goals for fun for Carlisle and had a release clause for peanuts that meant you were getting a player at a half or third of his true value. Even then we played our hand badly and sold him on the cheap due to our form nosediving, him having a spell out of the side, not getting his move in January and then being flogged at a cut price as he entered the last year of his contract.

Didn't Abbott get sacked from Thackley? How was he let loose in charge of our recruitment? How can he have out-survived Stuart when he was one of the men supplying him with duds? Don't care whether he had a budget to work to or not, we should still be more competitive than we have been this year, with 10 points from 17 games or whatever the pathetic total is (daren't look).

 

If he’s running the show for them then great, let’s try get him flogged in January and use the money to bolster our defence.

 

Agree. Happy to let McCartan go.
Sign ball who is looking a player.
Really important we keep hold of OB and Payne.

 

We should get back to em. 75k in Jan or 50K, but they have to take Brunker too.

 

McCartan signed for three years so he’s still got 18 months left on his deal. If he was worth 75k in the summer then we don’t want to be bending over and accepting any less. His stock has risen again now he’s a valued member of a promotion chasing team. Tell them they can sign him for 75k, plus 75k if they go up, or we’re recalling him!

 

I agree. Lovely goal yesterday but we need more that a lucky wonder strike. We need a hard working player, who plays for the full 90. He used to fade when he played for us, I thought it was lack of fitness, but clearly he is fit now, plus he doesn’t want to come back so the last thing we need is a sulky player who will not like the fitness regime that is now the norm here.

 

Nonsense.

 

What the hell happened to the low basic, high bonus wage structure he introduced?

Just shows how he seriously lost the plot last year. What was Abbott’s role in all this? He should have left sooner and let the fans know exactly what that idiot was doing to our club.

What a mess we are in...

 

Who has said he isn’t willing to come back. He has said he is enjoying his time at Lincoln but what else would you expect him to say? That he wants to come back from a team he is contracted to for another 6 months.

 

I really hope that the salaries are wrong otherwise we have no chance of getting rid before the end of their contracts.

 

He is a cheaper and agree inferior version of Payne from what we saw last season. If we are allowed to send Payne back it will he a case of releasing wages to fund ( the difference between Payne and Mccarten wages) and bring in players Hopkins actually wants.

 

End of conversation then. There's really no point.

 

Yes but he wouldn’t come on the pay we would offer?

 

I rate McCarten and said so when he was struggling for game time, he looks a good footballer to me. Lincoln are going up, crowds are high and I bet it's a reet noisy and happy atmosphere. Come on, what's in for him to come back to this mess?

It's looks like McCarten and Nicky Law might well be a division above us next season, if Poleon, McMahon, Morais and Vincleot were, I'd laugh my dick off.

 

Fair comment @heavensentcitygent with regards your first comment.

Unfortunately when Phil Parkinson walked out the manager who brought players in because of their character was first out of the door, luckily Stuart had been left some of those said players Darby, McMahon, Meredith, McArdle, Clarke, Morias, Hanson.
He then added his own tried and tested Law, Doyle, Vincelot, Dieng, Gilliead, brought Cullen back, convinced Marshall he was wanted at Valley Parade, but at the moment our recent recruitment is looking poor, even with our long injury list.

 

Of course Hopkin can recall McCarten but if he's not wanting to come back it will be under duress and any manager will say,if a player doesn't want to play for you,let him go.

We're better getting our money back if possible and reinvest in someone better.

 

First season the team was effectively already in place. the following pre-season was Abbott's and Rahic's chance to fully stamp their authority on the squad. They brought in Reeves, McCartan and Poleon and the season capitulated after Christmas.