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  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    SDAddick said:

    My initial reaction to the little bits and pieces I've seen of him he looked decent, but he's a 30-year-old League One winger. It's a decent signing (and admittedly the type that could get us out of this division if we get it right), but I'm not quite as enthused as some on here.

    That said, I've just seen this and it brought a big smile to my face. Seems like a very nice chap. Hope he rises to cult hero status. Love the fact that if he wasn't a footballer he'd want to be a psychologist.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmdjYfB1l8k

    Ricky Holmes was a 28 year old winger who'd never played above league 2.
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Very happy with this signing. What the hell is going on!!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,509
    ForeverAddickted said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    I really do hope he's looking at goal scorers too. Watt leaving leaves us Mac and Novak. Nowhere near enough goals.

    Is Tony Watt leaving then?
    Was he ever really here?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,509
    Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:

    I hadn't read previous comments and it was a poor attempt at humour. No offence meant

    Said with my very best Brian Clough accent.

    "And let that be a good lesson to you young man."
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,106
    As others have said if he's signing as an addition to Holmes it's great news, but if it's just a replacement then it's a step back.
  • Gammon
    Gammon Posts: 339
    My Bradford season ticket holding mate is devasted and has echoed how we have given him big wages as they offered him big £.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,335
    Gammon said:

    My Bradford season ticket holding mate is devasted and has echoed how we have given him big wages as they offered him big £.

    It is the way of the world.

    It is also living somewhere that is not Bradford. I mean no offence, merely the cost of living is higher and wages are higher across all areas of the South.

    It is also where he is from so that and moving to a bigger club would also be in the mix.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,488
    Good signing.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,562
    Great signing, sounds like Millwall wanted him as well? Didn't realise he was 30, but he might actually be at his peak right now
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    As others have said if he's signing as an addition to Holmes it's great news, but if it's just a replacement then it's a step back.

    Even though I do agree with this, if Holmes is going anyway, signing Marshall is, in practice, even more important.

    I fear that Holmes will leave but mainly because the clubs courting him can offer him something that we, clearly, cannot.

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  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,589
    Keep Holmes and have the young lad from arsenal on the bench can see us creating a lot more chances
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,481
    cafc_harry said:

    SDAddick said:

    My initial reaction to the little bits and pieces I've seen of him he looked decent, but he's a 30-year-old League One winger. It's a decent signing (and admittedly the type that could get us out of this division if we get it right), but I'm not quite as enthused as some on here.

    That said, I've just seen this and it brought a big smile to my face. Seems like a very nice chap. Hope he rises to cult hero status. Love the fact that if he wasn't a footballer he'd want to be a psychologist.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmdjYfB1l8k

    Ricky Holmes was a 28 year old winger who'd never played above league 2.
    And I thought he was overrated when we signed him as well*! And damnit, that will come true one day as well!

    I actually didn't, but point taken.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    If the Bradford fan is right and we have Marshall good wages, then why not give that to Holmes and keep him as well?
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,914
    Bradford fans on their forum are overwhelmingly disappointed to see him go. One of them says:

    "Marshall was the major highlight of last season and I'll miss watching the twitchy little shit terrorise defenders. Great player to watch and a big loss. I make that 1-1 between us and Charlton now, since they did us a big favour by paying for Clarke, but they've just equalised by snaffling Marshall. Bastards."
  • Mark_West49
    Mark_West49 Posts: 410
    Sounds like a good signing (great name as well Mark!) and good luck. Despite the doom and gloom, things seem to be trickling slowly towards the makings of a good team. We were what, 12 or 13 points off the plays offs last season? Too many draws under both managers, but convert four or five into wins and we'd be there (albeit a long way off 1st & 2nd place).

    My only slight worry is that we should be constructing a team capable of promotion and then keeping us in the Championship in 18/19, and signing players like Mark doesn't necessarily tick all those boxes.

    Still, we can live in hope that Meire & Roland have long since gone by then.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    edited June 2017
    The fact their fans did not want Clarke and that KR never met with him and just chatted by phone, makes my blood boil. We have a manager with no work ethic to do due diligence because we have an ownership like that.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    This seems like a nice addition and I know everyone wants Holmes back, but having our best two at the front aged 30 to start a season seems like very short-term thinking.

    Especially given we could have David Ball, age 27, on a free. Ben Reeves, age 25, on a free. George Thomas, age 21, on a free, and without a single transfer fee add three good forwards, all of whom have years ahead, and all of whom scored 10-14 last season.

    I really wish we were building for the long-term.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,051
    NapaAddick said:

    This seems like a nice addition and I know everyone wants Holmes back, but having our best two at the front aged 30 to start a season seems like very short-term thinking.

    Especially given we could have David Ball, age 27, on a free. Ben Reeves, age 25, on a free. George Thomas, age 21, on a free, and without a single transfer fee add three good forwards, all of whom have years ahead, and all of whom scored 10-14 last season.

    I really wish we were building for the long-term.

    You mean until Christmas :smiley:
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,469
    NapaAddick said:

    This seems like a nice addition and I know everyone wants Holmes back, but having our best two at the front aged 30 to start a season seems like very short-term thinking.

    Especially given we could have David Ball, age 27, on a free. Ben Reeves, age 25, on a free. George Thomas, age 21, on a free, and without a single transfer fee add three good forwards, all of whom have years ahead, and all of whom scored 10-14 last season.

    I really wish we were building for the long-term.

    Have those 3 signed for anyone yet? Two older signings doesn't mean all signings will be old.
  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    I guess they have not signed yet, although Ball is rumored to be signing for Rotherham as soon as Monday.

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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,469
    http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/15353811.Abbott_says_Bantams_went__beyond_call_of_duty__in_trying_to_keep_Charlton_bound_Marshall/
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,998
    NapaAddick said:

    If the Bradford fan is right and we have Marshall good wages, then why not give that to Holmes and keep him as well?

    It might not be about wages though. IF Holmes wants Championship football, we can't offer that. It's like Lukaku getting twitchy because he wants CL football...
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,360
    NapaAddick said:

    I guess they have not signed yet, although Ball is rumored to be signing for Rotherham as soon as Monday.

    Good wages competing against league 1 clubs is very different to competing against championship clubs. Guarentee Holmes will be demanding far more than Marshall will be on.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,778
    Gammon said:

    My Bradford season ticket holding mate is devasted and has echoed how we have given him big wages as they offered him big £.

    I like opposotion fans being upset -nothing personal, but it is a positive about teh abilities of the player.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,510
    If Holmes goes, then we have Marshall as a replacement. If Holmes stays, they can both play in the same team. A number of those goals in Marshall's video, show him coming in from the right wing.

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,292
    http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/15353811.Abbott_says_Bantams_went__beyond_call_of_duty__in_trying_to_keep_Charlton_bound_Marshall/

    Now remember if he'd left us for more money he would be a greedy bastard but as he joined us it's to further his career at a bigger club : - )

    Just to clarify I have no problem either way, it's how football works, but there is often a double standard from fans depending on which end of the deal they are on.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,445
    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/15353811.Abbott_says_Bantams_went__beyond_call_of_duty__in_trying_to_keep_Charlton_bound_Marshall/

    Now remember if he'd left us for more money he would be a greedy bastard but as he joined us it's to further his career at a bigger club : - )

    Just to clarify I have no problem either way, it's how football works, but there is often a double standard from fans depending on which end of the deal they are on.

    This is the equivalent of the Yann story for me.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/15353811.Abbott_says_Bantams_went__beyond_call_of_duty__in_trying_to_keep_Charlton_bound_Marshall/

    Now remember if he'd left us for more money he would be a greedy bastard but as he joined us it's to further his career at a bigger club : - )

    Just to clarify I have no problem either way, it's how football works, but there is often a double standard from fans depending on which end of the deal they are on.

    I thought he was out of contract, and because of Bosman Marshall can exercise choice. Bradford fans can ask questions about his contract running out, as we were doing with Poyet.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,998
    seth plum said:

    Henry Irving said:

    http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/15353811.Abbott_says_Bantams_went__beyond_call_of_duty__in_trying_to_keep_Charlton_bound_Marshall/

    Now remember if he'd left us for more money he would be a greedy bastard but as he joined us it's to further his career at a bigger club : - )

    Just to clarify I have no problem either way, it's how football works, but there is often a double standard from fans depending on which end of the deal they are on.

    I thought he was out of contract, and because of Bosman Marshall can exercise choice. Bradford fans can ask questions about his contract running out, as we were doing with Poyet.
    It's the nature of modern football, give someone a short 2 year contract and there's a real risk of getting nothing after 2 years. Give them a 5 years contract, and there's the risk you get stuck with highly paid rubbish that you can't move on...
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,069
    NapaAddick said:

    The fact their fans did not want Clarke and that KR never met with him and just chatted by phone, makes my blood boil. We have a manager with no work ethic to do due diligence because we have an ownership like that.

    Rubbish. KR knows all about Billy Clarke. It may have been better to have met him than not, but it wasn't necessary.

    It's a totally different situation to 3 years ago, when we were signing foreign players no one knew much about.

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