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Post by hammstrasse on Aug 5, 2023 19:26:56 GMT
This was Ash Taylor exposing our full back by being unable to control a simple pass from our forever going backwards captain.
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goddeano
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Post by goddeano on Aug 5, 2023 20:26:55 GMT
The only appropriate response: Sorry, but the much maligned Luke Hendrie is much faster than that and more willing to close a player down and he wasnt even on the bench today. Something is seriously rotten with this squad. I'm not saying relegation material, but mid table mediocrity written all over it.
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Post by leaguetwomainstay on Aug 5, 2023 20:38:18 GMT
The Ash Taylor signing needs justifying. We need to identify what process we followed that resulted in us signing such a glaringly bad footballer and giving him a two year deal. We need to recognise what led us to dropping such a bollock and make sure we don’t repeat it in future. And we need to get rid of him sharpish. It was such an obviously bad signing it almost seems like sabotage. The recruitment has just not improved with Gent 'running' things. I know his hands are tied with Rupp and all but his there is NO proof he even scouts the players. www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2022/may/gent-to-lead-city-recruitment/We are told we need players who are the right age but sign players like Smallwood, Oliver, Derbyshire, Clayton and McDonald. We say we need to get value for our investment but sign proven injury prone players like Chapman, Walker, Halliday, Clayton, Stubbs and McDonald. We say we will be smarter in the loan market but for every Critchlow, Banks and Wright there is a Harratt, OShaugnessey, Pereira, Nevers, Costelloe, Bolja. We sign players like Young, Odusina, East, Kelly and Oduor who were or appear woefully short of the quality needed. We sign players like Taylor, Osadebe, Halliday and Clayton who get nothing but bad reviews from their current fans. Players like Banks, Wright, Nevers, Oduor and Oyegoke have has mediocre loan spells at our level or league one. This season only Pattison on paper looks a good signing. Smith is a complete unknown. Finally Sparks keeps blowing the trumpet of Gent scouting all areas of football but our signings under the Gent regime had us signing players from these leagues. This includes youth loans to other lower league teams. League 2 - 12 League 1 - 7 Championship - 4 (Inc pereira) Premiership - 3 (Inc Lewis who Hughes knew) Spl - Walker returning Ireland- Kelly India - Derbyshire ( who Hughes knew) Some of the young loan players had played against our youth or in the tinpot Cup. Hardly a scouting masterclass. In summary our recruitment is shit.
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Post by Mossley Bantam on Aug 5, 2023 20:53:32 GMT
The only appropriate response: I couldn't think of anything else to respond with!
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Post by Parsifal, Holy Grail Bantam on Aug 5, 2023 20:59:18 GMT
The only appropriate response: I couldn't think of anything else to respond with!
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Post by Parsifal, Holy Grail Bantam on Aug 5, 2023 21:01:22 GMT
The Ash Taylor signing needs justifying. We need to identify what process we followed that resulted in us signing such a glaringly bad footballer and giving him a two year deal. We need to recognise what led us to dropping such a bollock and make sure we don’t repeat it in future. And we need to get rid of him sharpish. It was such an obviously bad signing it almost seems like sabotage. The recruitment has just not improved with Gent 'running' things. I know his hands are tied with Rupp and all but his there is NO proof he even scouts the players. www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2022/may/gent-to-lead-city-recruitment/We are told we need players who are the right age but sign players like our running in treacle captain, Oliver, Derbyshire, Clayton and McDonald. We say we need to get value for our investment but sign proven injury prone players like Chapman, Walker, Halliday, Clayton, Stubbs and McDonald. We say we will be smarter in the loan market but for every Critchlow, Banks and Wright there is a Harratt, OShaugnessey, Pereira, Nevers, Costelloe, Bolja. We sign players like Young, Odusina, East, Kelly and Oduor who were or appear woefully short of the quality needed. We sign players like Taylor, Osadebe, Halliday and Clayton who get nothing but bad reviews from their current fans. Players like Banks, Wright, Nevers, Oduor and Oyegoke have has mediocre loan spells at our level or league one. This season only Pattison on paper looks a good signing. Smith is a complete unknown. Finally Sparks keeps blowing the trumpet of Gent scouting all areas of football but our signings under the Gent regime had us signing players from these leagues. This includes youth loans to other lower league teams. League 2 - 12 League 1 - 7 Championship - 4 (Inc pereira) Premiership - 3 (Inc Lewis who Hughes knew) Spl - Walker returning Ireland- Kelly India - Derbyshire ( who Hughes knew) Some of the young loan players had played against our youth or in the tinpot Cup. Hardly a scouting masterclass. In summary our recruitment is shit.
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Post by Parsifal, Holy Grail Bantam on Aug 5, 2023 21:03:45 GMT
The Ash Taylor signing needs justifying. We need to identify what process we followed that resulted in us signing such a glaringly bad footballer and giving him a two year deal. We need to recognise what led us to dropping such a bollock and make sure we don’t repeat it in future. And we need to get rid of him sharpish. It was such an obviously bad signing it almost seems like sabotage. The recruitment has just not improved with Gent 'running' things. I know his hands are tied with Rupp and all but his there is NO proof he even scouts the players. www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2022/may/gent-to-lead-city-recruitment/We are told we need players who are the right age but sign players like our running in treacle captain, Oliver, Derbyshire, Clayton and McDonald. We say we need to get value for our investment but sign proven injury prone players like Chapman, Walker, Halliday, Clayton, Stubbs and McDonald. We say we will be smarter in the loan market but for every Critchlow, Banks and Wright there is a Harratt, OShaugnessey, Pereira, Nevers, Costelloe, Bolja. We sign players like Young, Odusina, East, Kelly and Oduor who were or appear woefully short of the quality needed. We sign players like Taylor, Osadebe, Halliday and Clayton who get nothing but bad reviews from their current fans. Players like Banks, Wright, Nevers, Oduor and Oyegoke have has mediocre loan spells at our level or league one. This season only Pattison on paper looks a good signing. Smith is a complete unknown. Finally Sparks keeps blowing the trumpet of Gent scouting all areas of football but our signings under the Gent regime had us signing players from these leagues. This includes youth loans to other lower league teams. League 2 - 12 League 1 - 7 Championship - 4 (Inc pereira) Premiership - 3 (Inc Lewis who Hughes knew) Spl - Walker returning Ireland- Kelly India - Derbyshire ( who Hughes knew) Some of the young loan players had played against our youth or in the tinpot Cup. Hardly a scouting masterclass. In summary our recruitment is shit. The recruitment has just not improved with Gent 'running' things. I know his hands are tied with Rupp and all but his there is NO proof he even scouts the players. www.bradfordcityafc.com/news/2022/may/gent-to-lead-city-recruitment/We are told we need players who are the right age but sign players like our running in treacle captain, Oliver, Derbyshire, Clayton and McDonald. We say we need to get value for our investment but sign proven injury prone players like Chapman, Walker, Halliday, Clayton, Stubbs and McDonald. We say we will be smarter in the loan market but for every Critchlow, Banks and Wright there is a Harratt, OShaugnessey, Pereira, Nevers, Costelloe, Bolja. We sign players like Young, Odusina, East, Kelly and Oduor who were or appear woefully short of the quality needed. We sign players like Taylor, Osadebe, Halliday and Clayton who get nothing but bad reviews from their current fans. Players like Banks, Wright, Nevers, Oduor and Oyegoke have has mediocre loan spells at our level or league one. This season only Pattison on paper looks a good signing. Smith is a complete unknown. Finally Sparks keeps blowing the trumpet of Gent scouting all areas of football but our signings under the Gent regime had us signing players from these leagues. This includes youth loans to other lower league teams. League 2 - 12 League 1 - 7 Championship - 4 (Inc pereira) Premiership - 3 (Inc Lewis who Hughes knew) Spl - Walker returning Ireland- Kelly India - Derbyshire ( who Hughes knew) Some of the young loan players had played against our youth or in the tinpot Cup. Hardly a scouting masterclass. In summary our recruitment is shit. Absolutely spot on. And how much money has all this wasted, and will do in the future due to ridiculous contract lengths?
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Post by leaguetwomainstay on Aug 5, 2023 21:12:52 GMT
Yeah the contract length thing baffles me. We have Sparks saying we are relaxed about renewing contracts for Cook or Lewis too. If Cook was 25 to 30 he would have gone this preseason of that there is no doubt. Lewis will be gone at the end of his one year option.
Look at January last year, we lost Wright which was costly and brought in Nevers. We needed more help up front and brought in Costelloe. We lost Foulds and replaced him with Bolja, effectively leaving us with only Ridehalgh.
This was as criminal as Tordoff, if we had pushed the boat out for a quality striker, left back, winger and attacking midfielder we could have got third. In the end we scraped in the playoffs.
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