Toby Mullarkey has joined Crawley Town

We are going all out passing footy next season - and I'm sorry but that is not Toby's strength
Great business for the club - he's neither a really good right back or centre back; we can get much better

Quoted from 141255

Decent profit made for what we paid for him! Great business from the club

Without being told the numbers it’s difficult to know what to make of this. Sign someone for nothing and sell them for £10k
might be a decent profit is some peoples minds.

If we're going to a back 4 (are we? Dunno!) he would've been basically useless anyway. Good luck to the lad, can't knock his effort.

I think some are slightly underrating him. He was pretty good in a back 3, largely solid and decent on the ball. Seems like a good pro and he obviously looks after himself. I'd agree though that he didn't stand out enough for anyone to think he was destined for the league above, but I've a hunch that he'll cope with the step up just fine.

Quoted from Dogger Bank

Not sure about that. I can remember Notts County away last season and their winger Jones had the better of him most of the game. Similar in other games with quick players. Maybe a little unfair on Mullarkey but I don't think we should be too despondent, there are better defenders out there than him. Fair play to him though with a move to League 1, however I can see Crawley struggling this coming season.

What I was saying was that when he was at Rochdale and they came to Blundell Park, he was the best player on the pitch for that game. Grimsby v Rochdale.

Quoted from MarinerDevil

I think some are slightly underrating him. He was pretty good in a back 3, largely solid and decent on the ball. Seems like a good pro and he obviously looks after himself. I'd agree though that he didn't stand out enough for anyone to think he was destined for the league above, but I've a hunch that he'll cope with the step up just fine.

Part of one of the worst defences town have had, club record home defeats, a defender who couldnt really defend.

Underrating him we are not

Quoted from Hagrid

Part of one of the worst defences town have had, club record home defeats, a defender who couldnt really defend.

Underrating him we are not

I'll just point out that Mullarkey didn't play in the Doncaster or Stockport home defeats and we didn't change to a back 3 until the FGR game in March. Our defence in the 1-6 Walsall defeat was a back 4 of Mullarkey, Waterfall, Maher and Glennon. Three of those were discarded because they weren't good enough, and we were clearly struggling with the defensive shape and the ultra-possession tactics at the time.

I'm not saying he was outstanding or anything, but you can't write him off for being involved in one horror defeat when his defensive partners were either rubbish or past it and he wasn't playing in his best position.

Surprised he has agreed to the move given it was rumoured he initially turned us down for Rochdale due to location and being based in the North West.

On the face of it, seems like good business by the club.

Not in the slightest bit bothered that he's gone. Good luck to him and I hope it works out for him better than it did here, but I suspect he would mostly have been sitting on the bench if he'd stayed, so opening up a slot in the squad is a good thing.

Quite frankly I prefer my town players to go bald gracefully and accept the hand that the Lord has dealt them. Mullarkey is, I’m afraid to say, a “bald denier” and I would not be able to offer him my full support going forwards. This move is best for all parties.