Every signing getting slaughtered.

strikers who have hit 20+ in league the last few years are certainly better than all our forwards apart from Cole

 

I remember Mads Anderson was far from impressive when he started for us. I saw Pinnock's first game at Guiseley in a pre-season friendly and he was pretty poor. Hourihane was "crap if you remove his goals". The list is long...

 

Not sure what the point of this kind of post is tbh. Yes I agree they can turn out good eventually 1-2 years later. We had been supposedly been making a squad to get promoted this season. The amount of players we have brought at that same time makes that pretty much impossible in my opinion.

 

We've had to sell good players to avoid accumulating further debt and release loan signings. Why should it be surprising we've had to bring in a bunch of new players? This is the position we're in. It's far from ideal but it's how it is. Sunderland and Wednesday spent how many years in this division before going back up and racked up how much debt in the process?

As I said, these new players can take time to come good which makes writing them off or bigging them up after a couple of games waste of time.

 

It's a difficult league to get out of. Sunderland, Ipswich, Wednesday, Sheffield United to name but a few have all taken multiple seasons to get out.
I think because we've, in recent times got out of it within a couple of seasons or immediately have left a false expectation that it's going to be easy.

 

He was, but who knows what would've happened had we not signed Solbauer that season. Where is our equivalent signing this summer?

 

And let’s not forget how poor Solbauer was to start with. His debut at Portsmouth was very poor.

 

He had a poor debut, but Mads looked out of his depth for months.

The fact that we are still apparently looking for a centre back, suggests the feeling is we haven't adequately replaced the two we lost from last season's starting 11. This despite the fact that we have signed three centre backs, two right backs and moved last season's RWB into the back 3.

On the original thread title, it's wrong to slaughter individuals, but the club's window overall doesn't appear to be overly logical this year. Which is a shame, because they did a very good job last summer.

 

I guess we can't be sure if there were other players the club went for but didn't get. I think Thomas is a big miss, but of course it seemed very unlikely we'd keep him anyway.

 

Not so long ago kitchen was being slated his attitude rash tackles ect but they forget he's still only a kid he was in and out of the team regular games time and we have a player ,so fickle are a lot of fans Anderson, was the same when he came ,solbar to some extent, choose who ever we sign out whatever league get behind and support them and before posting crap in the early days think how much of wally you look a couple of years later moaning

 

Some of the comments today about McCart has proved you to be 100% correct.

 

I'd guess that pretty much every single player in the Wembley team last season had been written off and slated when they joined. Specifically Andersen, Kitching, Norwood, Phillips, Williams, Cole, Russell but definitely others as well.

 

I’ll always judge a player in a reds shirt some players just don’t fit some clubs.

Torres at Liverpool completely different player to Torres at Chelsea.

I remember 1 or 2 of Hammill’s previous clubs fans saying he was one of the worst players they had think it might have been Middlesbrough. You get the point.

 

Dingles.

 

Most on here thought that last season and we fell at the final hurdle.

 

TBF, throughout our history the only players that have had worse criticism than the signings have been the ones we've produced ourselves - Liddle or Eaden anyone?

 

Can anyone recall us signing a player from a bigger team

Try 1969 since I started going , always been the same following smaller teams.

 

I think we’ve signed youth prospects from a fair few, Mowatt, Leeds, Kane, Liverpool, Morris, Norwich…

 

not slaughtered any of the signings but still baffled by the Watters signing. We had a season to look at him and saw he didn't really pull up any trees and still bought him. The coaches must see something there but I've not.

 

we werent utterly obsessed with being the youngest team in the world before 2014