[bluepooch]

Sorry for the Red Herrings.
So Dimaio released and a free agent coming tomorrow
Jack has signed virtually a whole team this window ;
Ramsdale
Nelson
Whitmore
Hines
Kay
Mottley Crew
Dodds
Brown
Smith
Free Agent

[Dancingwilldoit]

Mottley Crew - like it Blue.
See your need to keep the double barrel thingie going with Free Agent

I must admit not one of yesterdays signings exactly has me excited but if they help keep us in lge2 they will get my support.
One things for sure, Saturdays starting 11 will be interesting.

Interesting that Wiseman has gone on loan to a higher lge.
Sad to see Dimaio go. I thought there was a player in there and with the right coaching he could have been another Morsy but a struggling lge2 outfit isn't the kind of environment to better your skills. I wish him well wherever he goes and his tweet last night proves there is such a thing as loyalty. https://twitter.com/dimaio31?s=09

[Devongone]

Giles Coke is the Free Agent then. Long time since he played. I'm amazed we ditched Connor Dimaio, but he'd been pally with Diego hadn't he? They're the two who did extra training on penalties with young Parkin, that led to his Derbyshire Senior Cup heroics ........ Frankly I'd have kept Dimaio and forgotten about Coke. But hey Jack is trying to do the impossible - save us for nothing.

So Diego has gone from Bristol City to free agent. Career in ruins. I'm sorry for the lad. I'm sure the cruciate has been the big factor in his decline, but in a way he reminds me of his dad. Cosi was a proper player, but if you'd have asked me where to play him, that wasn't easy. He was good on the wing, tricky and could cross, but he wasn't the quickest. Inside he was decent in midfield, as an inside forward type, even striking, he had a lot of skill, could do everything, decent shot etc., competitive, not scared of anything, was always worth a place, but wasn't devastating. Didn't have a big weapon, like searing pace, but you could have played him at a higher level and he wouldn't have looked out of place. And Diego, what is his position, out wide, inside, behind a striker? Is it just that his whole game is now just below League level? If I were him I'd be tempted to try lower leagues in Italy .... if his grandad or someone got him speaking the language (I don't think Cosi really does, much as he loves the country). Sad though. Wish him and Dimaio success.

As you asked Blue - Danny Rowe would have been the best signing ever. He's most pundits' idea of the best player in non-league football. I'd have guaranteed he'd get minimum 12 before the season ended, but he seems committed to Fylde and their Chairman has the money to keep him.

I think Jack feels Wiseman let him and the club down. So do I. He should have been a mainstay for the younger players, not the idiot getting himself sent off and suspended. Hope he does a job for Rochdale. He's capable. But Themaclad warned us on here about his faults when we signed him.

I think Jack is trying to add a bit of nous and craft with Louis Dodds, a few goals and a few assists. Could be a good move. A kick-start to the closing years of his career. Suppose he'll drive from Stoke where he lives every day. (Can't imagine why anyone would voluntarily live in Stoke, people are fine, but the place is a recipe for depression.)

Noticed Shrewsbury again were using the benefits of Hurst's non-league experience. They snatched winger Abou Eisa from Wealdstone. He'll probably be the most-overlooked signing of deadline day BUT he has been getting rave reviews and MOM's for weeks now. He is a brilliant little gamble. I hope he pays off for the Shrews and gets them promotion.

Bob's has immediately cast George Smith as a left back. That's only our 8th this season by my reckoning, two of whom played for England in that position and were still not regarded as left backs by Bob's. Why they think left back is the key to saving us is beyond me. I always thought left back was the easiest position to play on the field.

I enjoyed your blue herrings Pooch. They added to deadline day.


Just noticed that Oladapo Afolayan who I have kept going on about at Solihull Moors signed for WEST HAM for an undisclosed fee. Now I think the lad is in his final year at Loughborough University, and I think he'll benefit massively from going full-time ........ I'm just not convinced a big club is a good idea. How will he get a chance? A Chesterfield would have played him; West Ham, under Moyes, who can guess?

[bluepooch]

I forgot about Talbot which makes it a full team of 11 signed in January.
I've no idea how much these players cost but you have to say Jack can have no excuses about not being backed and now its up to him.
I see Fat boy Evans has been doing what he likes best ,signing plenty of in an attempt to get success , including Miller from Peterborough .What happens to the players he signs because they cant all play ? do they disappear into a players graveyard ? Otherwise he must have one of the biggest squads in the lower leagues just like he did at Rotherham when he signed 80 players in 3 seasons and eventually the owner got fed up of him pestering to sign every player available.If you can bring in better quality players than the other teams it covers up his inadequacies as a manager,he knows this and that's how he has survived .The one exception was Leeds who weren't quite the biggest fish in the pond and he got found out .

[Dancingwilldoit]

One thing that worries me slightly in all of this is Dennis's state of mind. He goes off to another (bigger) club pushing for the playoffs in the next lge up, passes medical, gets offered a bigger salary then a taxi turns up to bring him back to hell on earth. Its like Bullseye and Jim Bowen - "Now take a look at what you could have won...........".
At times he only seemed half interested before all this so what's he going to be like now apart from mighty peed off?

[spireitematt]

One thing that worries me slightly in all of this is Dennis's state of mind. He goes off to another (bigger) club pushing for the playoffs in the next lge up, passes medical, gets offered a bigger salary then a taxi turns up to bring him back to hell on earth. Its like Bullseye and Jim Bowen - "Now take a look at what you could have won...........".
At times he only seemed half interested before all this so what's he going to be like now apart from mighty peed off?

Chesterfield have probably done a gentlemen's agreement with Bradford about him signing for Bradford in the summer.

Reminds me when Ross Barkley had a medical at Chelsea last year in the summer then decided to stop the medical and walk out but that was over a long-term injury or something.

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Bradford don't sound happy.

[spireitematt]

Apparently he owes them money for Pizza and ice cream.

[Devongone]

The gist of Bradford City's moan is that they expected us to sell them our main striker cut-price despite the fact we hadn't succeeded in recruiting the replacement we expected (Clarke-Harris?)

Aubyemang wasn't allowed to move to Arsenal until he was replaced by the loan Batshuayi. No one suggested that was unreasonable. The price for us was our league place ......

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The goals Ricky Miller has grabbed in the last two seasons make me envy Mansfield despite their foul and ugly manager. But Ricky didn't get anywhere at Peterborough, which amazes me.

By the way, very Yorkshire that Bradford City put £5 million on Charlie Wyke's head and wanted Dennis for less than £200,000 and weren't even loaning us a player for the season. Cheaper at Morrison's.