roversfan99

Time is ticking to get all the players in for the deadline already pushed back by a week. Regarding Mumba, his name has repeatedly been suggested over a number of years. Im not convinced firstly what his best position is, and also that he would be a particularly good signing.

I was going to ask why his name was just left like a bad smell with absolutely no further information or source. Seemingly embarassment as to what that source is.

There is a fairly pointless article in the LT about how well Cleary did last night despite with quotes from him and Ally McCoist despite the article admitting from the start that we are unlikely to go back for him. Also describes him as a "terrific teenager" before saying that hes 21.

With the striker situation, I think the squad wasnt built to play with 2. Ismael did in particular endorse Morishita (and also De Neve) to play out wide but one isnt a winger and one isnt a footballer so those plans had to change.

Gardner Hickman is not particularly good but we need him in the squad. Garrett is not of an equal standing. Although registering Garrett would surely defeat the purpose anyway.

But equally, that opens up the possibility for example of no one leaving and then if we had that attitude, we will go down with no new signings. We can consider it at 24 because Hedges we will be paying but he wont be able to play either way.

Yeah this 25 man squad thing is a bit of a red herring. We need 3 or 4 in urgently regardless. As long as we do it properly this time unlike the grossly unprofessional shambles when Sigurdsson was ditched after the window had closed. We have a number of non contributors, whether that be players that arent good enough (De Neve, Henriksson, Tavares, Kargbo) players who will miss the majority of the season (Hedges) or players who have been made redundant by the formation change (Pickering, Ribeiro). As long as we tell players there is a chance that they wont be registered in advance to try and nudge them out, if they choose to stay then thats on them and they take the risk.

Its being painted as if we are the only team to have suffered injuries. Lots of teams have numerous players out. And some of our absentees havent been out for that long.

I definitely do not think that every player we have is shit. Although its symptomatic of these owners that a lot of shit players have been here.

Even factoring in the fact that we do have some shit players in the squad, and obvious imbalances. I do think we could be doing a bit better, yes. As we do have a handful of good players and the league especially near the bottom is really poor. Eustace wouldnt be 20th.

All of the usual excuses coming up. Injuries, abandonments, bad luck, if we had more goals. He obviously is well down the list of problems but he is a problem nonetheless.

They wont.

Good riddance to a terrible excuse for a striker.

We are well past the point where we need to "target" players. We need them signed. Although O'Rourke seems particularly active at the moment in linking us and numerous other clubs with various players which suggests agents at work.

I think it shows how low standards are that I quite regularly see the defence of Ismael that the players at least havent all give up.