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Good point, if he did so well at Salford why didnt they sign him ?

 

He was chased by a few clubs including Motherwell but for some reason chose Barrow

 

According to who ? Alan Nixon ?

 

Exactly

 

Yorkshire post report on his leaving Leeds United

 

Who is Alan Nixon?

 

A Joke-Fordy was right for a change

 

Back to the transfers.
Anyone think we should be shifting Staunton and Sikora and others out to the conference on loan.
Staunton is depreciating as we go

 

We’ve been linked with the likes of Moore and Dack, it means nothing if anyone half decent was him with him he wouldn’t have gone to Barrow simple as.

 

Lots of players move down to move up. We will see how Gotts develops but really it has nothing to do with us anyway we are well stocked in midfield

 

Yet that was one area Adams wanted to strengthen before the Angol injury.

 

Fair point but Adams said midfield was the area he wanted another body in and Cooke especially in the last couple of games as dropped deeper than the no.10 role.

 

Baffling, but i think Adams just wants height and size there at the minute. Staunton is probably 6ft, maybe 6'1 after standing by him before, where as the other lads seem to be a bit taller and a bit broader. Don't think Adams is too fussed over youth, but i think Staunton might see LB as an easier route into the first team. Played there a few times for the youth team too.

Adams comes across like Parkinson in that way. He preferred to use older average talent over the youth, until he was forced into. Like McHugh only got his chance after Davies got an injury, PP even used Luke Oliver before trying McHugh. Then signed Nelson, pushing McHugh back down the order from Jan onward. Did similar with McBurnie, only got his chance when Hanson was injured and Alan Connell didn't look up top it anymore, then signed Stead and Andy Gray. Seems like Adams prefers experience to youth too.

 

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I think that's a good idea but wouldn't it be better if the decision had been made by now surely those clubs now have their squads together

Won't that make it harder for them to get game time

 

I get that impression, he got a tad annoyed at the question, surrounding Robinson (not) being his no 1 target.
Personally I don’t blame him.

 

He said in all the time he has been a manager he has hardly ever been able to land his first choice

 

[QUOTE="Faithful Bantam, post: 544718, member: 201Don’t get me wrong - its more balanced, it’s better than last season and we brought players in early. All positives. But when you get a quality manager like Adams, I find it frustrating that we haven’t found that extra couple of hundred grand that would have added 2 more quality players to this squad. That’s probably all we’re short, and I think it may cost us. We’ve already had some bad luck/news in terms of injuries. If we loose one of the Cook(e)s, and one of Vernam or Gillead, we’ll struggle.[/QUOTE]

I share your concerns regards the strength in depth of the squad.
The blue-print for near certainty for promotion, should be to look at Bolton from January last season.
Facts are Mr Rupp doesn't want to invest the amount required to emulate them, that's an observation not a criticism.
We're looking at the alternative option of the cheaper Adams blueprint, relying on his abilities working with a lesser squad, luck with injuries ( yeah haha) , and maybe just maybe third spot, if not Wembley.
Hell of a gamble, but one we've to take without a deeper pocket of Mr Rupp

 

We need to be in L1 at least even based on simple things like budgets yes we are here on merit or failure but we can't just accept ongoing failure

No it won't be easy to get out and some seem to think Adams is guaranteed promotion which is silly but we are right to not accept L2 football this club shouldn't be doing this badly and we need to fix it asap Rupp Sparks and the rest are accountable