Alex Hunt

I thought Gibson looked better than Jackson which is far more of a comment on the latter than it is the former.

Quoted from Vance Warner

Look at where those players are now and you have your answer. We were relying on Spokes and Rose to play centre midfield in a relegation battle and now they’re playing two levels below.

Yeah Rose and Gibson were utter shite, spokes the same but v young so may be able to develop into a National League level player in time. We were trying to play him at league 2 level!

This is the perfect example of how players get better when they aren't playing in some people's eyes - Gibson was utterly out of his depth at the bottom of league 2. He moved to bottom of national league with whoever it was we loaned him to and failed completely. He is at his level at Stourbridge were his physical attributes are enough to score some goals, he has no talent at all and is brainless to boot.

jackson and gibson were absolutely crap.

Gibson an idiot to boot

Then we had Sissay As well who i think made 2 apperances?

Quoted from Hagrid

jackson and gibson were absolutely crap.

Gibson an idiot to boot

Then we had Sissay As well who i think made 2 apperances?

Oh god sissay I forgot him, so bad Clee town didn't want him and Holloway had signed him up for the fringe of a league 2 squad!

I think this is the issue, we weren’t in great shape and then expected players who had barely kicked a ball in anger in the league to be the saviours of our season.

We’re they entirely crap? Who knows, perhaps with better management and a positive squad doing well they may have been on the fringe but in truth all three of those named were shite…that will be my memory of them. Shite. In a long list of players we’ve wasted money on who were shite…

Back to Alex Hunt and I agree with PH in not meeting Sheffields attempt to up the terms for the loan agreement. Hunts contract was up this summer and Hurst had expressed an interest in signing him permanently. Obviously PH would have been aware of what Hunts salary was (we were paying a third of it anyway) so he would also have a rough idea of what it would take to sign him permanently. IMO Sheffield were always going to extend his contract ( which they now have done) and I think they saw our interest as an opportunity for us to pay his full wage ( while we were actually training him) until his new contract. started. He would have been a good addition but I would rather that commitment in money went to a more realistic permanent signing. As another point I would doubt Oldham are paying his full salary.

He has gone on loan elsewhere - thanks for what he did - move on !

Watched Hunt today. As usual he looked really tidy, mobile, skilful in an Oldham side that were absolutely dreadful, and I mean, way worse than us. Inexplicably he was subbed early in the second half after looking their best player, and they continued to the end of the game with absolutely zero threat, and Harrogate smashed them 3-0 very comfortably. He may be gaining experience at a higher level than us, but the team he’s playing in is utterly gash, and negativity and hopelessness and anger spills from their fans. I still regard it as a big mistake that we didn’t do some sort of deal with Wednesday to retail him.