Moses Ogbu (Signed)

Quoted from Poojah

Funnily enough, I was speaking to someone recently who worked for the club at the time, who shared the full story behind the Makofo debacle. This, supposedly, is how it went down.

Apparently at the time, Town weren’t even sending a scout to watch every opponent due to massive budgetary restrictions following relegation from the league, instead relying on video alone for many games. As luck would have it though our next two opponents, Crawley and Kettering happened to be playing each other on a Tuesday evening and so the decision was made to send someone to the game.

Back in 2010 it wasn’t mandatory for conference clubs to employ squad numbers (and therefore names on shirts) and Kettering, one of the smaller clubs in the division, were still using the traditional 1 - 11 system for each match.

This led to a minor error being made on the teamsheet, with Makofo being attributed the number 9 shirt which in fact was being worn by Jean Paul Marna. As it would play out, Marna ran Crawley ragged that night, scoring a goal in the process. Confusion was then compounded by the fact that upon scoring, the Crawley PA announcer (equipped with the erroneous teamsheet) attributed the goal to Makofo.

The scouting report returned to Town with Makofo being given rave reviews on the back of Marna’s performance. Since Kettering were struggling financially at the time, it was decided that we should make a cheeky offer in the hope of luring Kettering’s star man on the cheap. A deal was quickly concluded, and Makofo was quite literally dropped off to sign as Kettering arrived for the game at Blundell Park a few days later.

It was only at this point, as it dawned on the scout who had attended the Crawley game that the player we had supposedly signed was still on the pitch wearing a Kettering shirt, that it came to light that a terrible mistake had been made - we’d awarded a lucrative 3 year deal to completely the wrong man. The rest is history.

Dark, dark days.

Quoted from Poojah

Funnily enough, I was speaking to someone recently who worked for the club at the time, who shared the full story behind the Makofo debacle. This, supposedly, is how it went down.

Apparently at the time, Town weren’t even sending a scout to watch every opponent due to massive budgetary restrictions following relegation from the league, instead relying on video alone for many games. As luck would have it though our next two opponents, Crawley and Kettering happened to be playing each other on a Tuesday evening and so the decision was made to send someone to the game.

Back in 2010 it wasn’t mandatory for conference clubs to employ squad numbers (and therefore names on shirts) and Kettering, one of the smaller clubs in the division, were still using the traditional 1 - 11 system for each match.

This led to a minor error being made on the teamsheet, with Makofo being attributed the number 9 shirt which in fact was being worn by Jean Paul Marna. As it would play out, Marna ran Crawley ragged that night, scoring a goal in the process. Confusion was then compounded by the fact that upon scoring, the Crawley PA announcer (equipped with the erroneous teamsheet) attributed the goal to Makofo.

The scouting report returned to Town with Makofo being given rave reviews on the back of Marna’s performance. Since Kettering were struggling financially at the time, it was decided that we should make a cheeky offer in the hope of luring Kettering’s star man on the cheap. A deal was quickly concluded, and Makofo was quite literally dropped off to sign as Kettering arrived for the game at Blundell Park a few days later.

It was only at this point, as it dawned on the scout who had attended the Crawley game that the player we had supposedly signed was still on the pitch wearing a Kettering shirt, that it came to light that a terrible mistake had been made - we’d awarded a lucrative 3 year deal to completely the wrong man. The rest is history.

Dark, dark days.

Quoted from Poojah

Funnily enough, I was speaking to someone recently who worked for the club at the time, who shared the full story behind the Makofo debacle. This, supposedly, is how it went down.

Apparently at the time, Town weren’t even sending a scout to watch every opponent due to massive budgetary restrictions following relegation from the league, instead relying on video alone for many games. As luck would have it though our next two opponents, Crawley and Kettering happened to be playing each other on a Tuesday evening and so the decision was made to send someone to the game.

Back in 2010 it wasn’t mandatory for conference clubs to employ squad numbers (and therefore names on shirts) and Kettering, one of the smaller clubs in the division, were still using the traditional 1 - 11 system for each match.

This led to a minor error being made on the teamsheet, with Makofo being attributed the number 9 shirt which in fact was being worn by Jean Paul Marna. As it would play out, Marna ran Crawley ragged that night, scoring a goal in the process. Confusion was then compounded by the fact that upon scoring, the Crawley PA announcer (equipped with the erroneous teamsheet) attributed the goal to Makofo.

The scouting report returned to Town with Makofo being given rave reviews on the back of Marna’s performance. Since Kettering were struggling financially at the time, it was decided that we should make a cheeky offer in the hope of luring Kettering’s star man on the cheap. A deal was quickly concluded, and Makofo was quite literally dropped off to sign as Kettering arrived for the game at Blundell Park a few days later.

It was only at this point, as it dawned on the scout who had attended the Crawley game that the player we had supposedly signed was still on the pitch wearing a Kettering shirt, that it came to light that a terrible mistake had been made - we’d awarded a lucrative 3 year deal to completely the wrong man. The rest is history.

Dark, dark days.

Quoted from Grimsby2012

Sorry but this takeover has to have something to do with these 3 signings..... We would normally be extremely lucky to even get 1 of them, but to arguably have 3 of the best strikers in the league? We must be having some form of transfer kitty increase with this takeover...

Quoted from headingly_mariner

I’m really pleased they’ve signed and think they are an improvement on what we had. Are they really 3 of the best strikers in this league? Ogbu is a complete unknown to English football and the other two are both proven at the level although questions about fitness and remaining ability are probably justified. If we play to their strengths they can surely be useful but let’s not get carried away. I can’t imagine we faced huge competition from clubs at this level to get them.
You only need to look at the striking options of some of the division’s other clubs to see where money is being spent.