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Rodley Mariner
October 15, 2014, 9:57pm
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Quoted from chaos33
?I don't get that?

What do you mean?

How did he come by all those footballers in our squad? Ebay?


I'm not sure I get it either. Could we organise some kind of speed-dating event with loads of strikers and PH?
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October 15, 2014, 10:17pm

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All I know is- this clubs fast becoming an embarassment


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Because we've tried to sign a striker and haven't? Christ, I think GTFC have suffered slightly more embarrassing things than that.


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I must have this wrong and I'm happy to be corrected (on this one occasion) but I thought we were in between transfer windows? Half of these striker threads are on about us buying players or the fact we have money for a striker. We can't buy one at the moment can we?

We're stuck with loan players, who would only be allowed to come by their clubs if they were to play games.
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Quoted from Abdul19
God knows, might've been someone else from Falkirk, not sure?

Stokes was there but on loan from Arsenal - they flogged him for £2m when it finished.

On a similar note, is it true we tried to sign Gary Lineker back in the day?!


I think Leicester wanted £80k for Lineker but we had Kev Drinkell at the time and it was deemed that GL was no better than what we had. Think this was referred to in the Geoff Ford book.


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To my mind you've either got to go for a costly striker of ruthlessly stick to an affordable budget where you play the youth when your first choice players are unavailable. We seem to do neither. We don't get the top players for the level we're at, but neither do we run a tight ship financially.

Two years ago after we signed Hannah on a "permanent" deal, he was left out of the team and then we brought LJL in (despite him obviously being no better from day one). If I recall we had plenty of forward players at the time, so we'd brought in a squad quality player for no good reason. If Hannah wasn't good enough, why was he brought in permanently? If he was good enough why wasn't he played? It all calls into question the judgement of the management*. Wasted money.

* and I know we had Shouty as well as Shorty then but they always claimed they made decisions jointly.


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Quoted from Abdul19
Because we've tried to sign a striker and haven't? Christ, I think GTFC have suffered slightly more embarrassing things than that.


Not just the trying to sign a striker for the last few months......I'm on about the whole thing from top to bottom

Never known things as shambolic as this period,, need a striker, don't need a striker, ah fu.k we do,  nah fu.k it , I'll go with the two crocs I've wasted money on.......

Don't need to go on anymore really do I


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Quoted from ackomariner
All I know is- this clubs fast becoming an embarassment


we've been an embarrassment for 10 years!


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Quoted from Abdul19
God knows, might've been someone else from Falkirk, not sure?

Stokes was there but on loan from Arsenal - they flogged him for £2m when it finished.

On a similar note, is it true we tried to sign Gary Lineker back in the day?!


I seem to remember we made an approach,

BUT

At the time Lineker was still fairly young and certainly no better than what we had at the time,

I never thought at the time Gary would turn into the goal machine and England star that he later became,

Neither did our manager.


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The Lineker thing completely passed me by but I seem to remember us trying to get Paul Mariner from I think Plymouth in the early 80s.


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