Runaway mad signings

Here is a list of signings that Runaway made while with us that have gone on to better things.

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Billy Clarke without a club last time I checked.

Well done Ian  

It was not about making a team ,,( unless you mean darts team ) It was all about saving fentys money  and praying the season got ended early. What a blotched plan

I mean if you want to sum it up and go into the details its quite grim. A few have been alright though

1) Anthony Glennon - gone on to feature in Burnley's first team.
2) Josh Benson - see above.
3) Billy Clarke - joined and now released by Bradford
4) Bradley Garmston - Hasn't had a club in over a year
5) Elliot Grandin - see Garmston
6) James Tilley - went off the boil, now at Crawley
7) Bilel Mohsni - went to Barnet, lasted five minutes now in the second tier in Saudi Arabia.
8 ) Ira Jackson Jr - still with us but transfer listed.
9) Montel Gibson - still with us but on loan at Stourbridge
10) George Williams - still with us but transfer listed.
11) Alhagi Touray Sisay - Free agent
12) Danny Rose - still with us but transfer listed
13) Sean Scannell - still with us to much surprise.
14) Luke Spokes - still with us
15) Filipe Morais - still with us but transfer listed
16) Danny Preston - back at Forest hasn't played since he went back.
17) Owura Edwards - broke into the Bristol City first team briefly.
18 ) Terry Taylor - finished the season strongly with Burton and helped keep them up.
19) James Morton - played 2 minutes in 3 months on loan at Gillingham, back at Bristol City must be in the wilderness.
20) Kyle Bennett - Free agent
21) Owen Windsor - Lasted a game with Newport, back at West Brom
22) Virgil Gomis - Free agent

Quoted from Gainsbro_Mariner

I mean if you want to sum it up and go into the details its quite grim. A few have been alright though

1) Anthony Glennon - gone on to feature in Burnley's first team.
2) Josh Benson - see above.
3) Billy Clarke - joined and now released by Bradford
4) Bradley Garmston - Hasn't had a club in over a year
5) Elliot Grandin - see Garmston
6) James Tilley - went off the boil, now at Crawley
7) Bilel Mohsni - went to Barnet, lasted five minutes now in the second tier in Saudi Arabia.
8 ) Ira Jackson Jr - still with us but transfer listed.
9) Montel Gibson - still with us but on loan at Stourbridge
10) George Williams - still with us but transfer listed.
11) Alhagi Touray Sisay - Free agent
12) Danny Rose - still with us but transfer listed
13) Sean Scannell - still with us to much surprise.
14) Luke Spokes - still with us
15) Filipe Morais - still with us but transfer listed
16) Danny Preston - back at Forest hasn't played since he went back.
17) Owura Edwards - broke into the Bristol City first team briefly.
18 ) Terry Taylor - finished the season strongly with Burton and helped keep them up.
19) James Morton - played 2 minutes in 3 months on loan at Gillingham, back at Bristol City must be in the wilderness.
20) Kyle Bennett - Free agent
21) Owen Windsor - Lasted a game with Newport, back at West Brom
22) Virgil Gomis - Free agent

Wow. Benson almost got sent back to Burnley by Holloway a week before he made his debut too!

The first three on that list, Glennon, Benson and Clarke were all decent, or even ‘very good’ in the case of the first two. Garmston is probably the anomaly of Holloway’s pre-pandemic recruitment, but even Grandin looked a good player in the flashes I saw of him and I maintain that Tilley has promise.

It’s what happened next that galls me. Whatever changed before and after Covid, our wretched recruitment last summer coupled with the near non-existent pre-season for a group of players who hadn’t played a competitive game in six months absolutely reeked of a man who no longer wanted to be here and had stopped caring.

I won’t speculate on here as to what precisely changed during that period, I’m sure everyone is capable of working that out for themselves. But I will not have it that Ian Holloway was not capable of keeping this club in the football league - there is stop much evidence to the contrary.

He just didn’t want to.

Interesting that Clarke is a free agent again. With the way our strike force is shaping up he would be a useful addition.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

Interesting that Clarke is a free agent again. With the way our strike force is shaping up he would be a useful addition.

I don't think for a minute that Billy Clarke fits in with the Hurst culture that he speaks of.

I'd completely forgotten about Garmston. He was better than Preston, Bunney and Habergham.

Worst manager in our history

Quoted from Poojah

The first three on that list, Glennon, Benson and Clarke were all decent, or even ‘very good’ in the case of the first two. Garmston is probably the anomaly of Holloway’s pre-pandemic recruitment, but even Grandin looked a good player in the flashes I saw of him and I maintain that Tilley has promise.

It’s what happened next that galls me. Whatever changed before and after Covid, our wretched recruitment last summer coupled with the near non-existent pre-season for a group of players who hadn’t played a competitive game in six months absolutely reeked of a man who no longer wanted to be here and had stopped caring.

I won’t speculate on here as to what precisely changed during that period, I’m sure everyone is capable of working that out for themselves. But I will not have it that Ian Holloway was not capable of keeping this club in the football league - there is stop much evidence to the contrary.

He just didn’t want to.

That's the bit that gets me the most.  The absolute contrast of it.  From a guy who brought genuine improvements into our side and got the team playing with a bit swagger and belief to the absolute shower that saw us relegated.