Rumours Rumours - Summer 2021 edition (Deadline Day from p814)

Sage said:

This has got to be up there with one of the worst threads of all time

JamesSeed said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

JamesSeed said:

addick1956 said:

Oggy Red said:

addick1956 said:

Oggy Red said:

addick1956 said:

Cafc43v3r said:

addick1956 said:

Cafc43v3r said:

addick1956 said:

Maccn05 said:

And I stand by that. If we signed a striker tomorrow with the same stats in L2 everyone would be going nuts but because NA says he’s good we take it as gospel…. So yeah happy clappers.

TBH I’m bored of your constant put downs on anything I post and to others. Even on Twitter where I don’t follow you you interject on a thread with another sarky, patronising  comment… why bother? Insecurity maybe? Lack of self worth? Need to feel important?

Feel free to not interact with my occasional posts, I’ll do the same and you can concentrate on your silly tables 👍🏼 

You are of course correct.  If we had signed a L2 forward with such stats there would be uproar. I got the same criticism for saying 'if they are good enough they are old enough'.

If you disagree the insults abound , ageist, IQ insults etc. Not one person but a whole tribe so to speak.  I think they hope to just make one give up. Don't give up. 

If Davison had been bought from FGR or on a free imagine the protests.
That doesn't make him a bad player of course. 

However I can't see how a bloke scoring 32 goals in L2 isn't better than one who scores 5/6 pro rata.  

Or a the players we were in for in January are suddenly a bit meh. 

Have you ever watch Mullin play?   I don't mean his goals on Quest or YouTube I mean actually play. 

 Why can you never make a point, just ask 👉less questions. 

Quest doesn't count, You tube is off limits and as you ought to know because Mullin was only at Cambridge for 1 season . A season nobody could attend in essence. 

So what do you think and what does it matter ?

32 goals against 5 or 6. Not much in it yet the 16 Aneke scored is a huge total apparently.  

And you challenged my IQ ? Fxxxing cheek. 

I ask because you seem convinced that he is good enough for league 1 and a promotion chasing league 1 club at that.  I wondered what great insight you had to why this would be the case.

I also have to ask why you keep banging on about him.   This time last year he was released by Tranmere because he wasn't good enough.   We had no interest in him, neither did Sunderland, Wigan, Ipswich, Portsmouth etc. 

You claim to not be able to see why he isn't highly thought of, I suggest the reason you can't see it because you haven't look any where other than the top goal scorers table. 

There you go,  failing to answer a question but inventing another to answer yourself or to justify the first silly question. 

I never said he was good enough  for League 1 or that he wasn't . However he is proven at that level now and Davison didn't exactly set headlines. 

We don't know what interest he had. Wrexham are obviously paying well to attract ayers from a division above though. 

Try answering questions.  Start at 11 plus level and see how progress can help to stop making assumptions that don't exist .

Addick1956 got out of bed on the wrong side again. Hey mate, perhaps try being a little less aggressive to people?

It's just a football forum, a place to exchange opinions - not a place where you have to be right at all costs.

 When you consider the nonsense I am accused of yet others say the same and get no comments. How is that aggressive . You must have had a sheltered life mate.

It's not even what you say.

It's the way you say it.

 I get criticism for every view I print. Further, others print the same views and, guess what, nothing. 

Further some just like to insult people. Some also insult  others but not as regular. I wrote a quote, ,'Ifyou are good enough you are old enough ".

An old maxim that stands the test of time. However because I printed a list of people from the 50's,  R2D2 , otherwise known as Cafc43v3r decided to tell me that 50's players were rubbish in effect as today they could not hack it in the super fit run 100 kilometres a game blokes. Then he starts other arguments and insults  me. Naturally I will retaliate if proved. I fail to see how it is my fault when this joker , who insults others too, gets away with it. 

Would you settle for ‘if you are good enough (and strong enough), you are old enough’, as a compromise? That’d be great. 👍

Jimmy Seed was a great manager, but I read that he believed that starving players of the ball in the week in training made them want it more on Saturday. It wasn't because he wasn't a great manager, his record speaks for itself, but that was the view in football at the time. 

I recall having a friendly argument with my father in law, that having a winger who never went into his own half would be a disaster in the modern game, but that was the view of how they should play in times gone by.

Football has moved on and if you transported an average player from today into the 50s, they would be a superstar. It is just the way football has developed and isn't a slight on the players that went before. They are all part of it moving from point A to point B and onwards.

Yes, the game’s certainly developed along with the strength, fitness and technical ability of the players. In fifty years time though they may be even fitter and faster and more skilful than they are now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the likes of Messi and Ronaldo and Josh Parker etc as they’re the best available right now ;-)
Not 100% sure how much JS actually starved the players of the ball, but they certainly did far less work on technique than they do now. 

blackpool72 said:

Morning all. 
Any chance we can put yesterday's bollox to bed and get this thread back on track.
Cheers. 

Addicks59 said:

Here is a rumor for you pick the bones out of this we have signed a striker believed to be Randall from Plymouth.  Also we are close to a CB.Enjoy this one bully boys I may be old but I have respect and just for the record my name is not Colin I wish everybody on here enjoy the new season and continue to support our great club.

Callumcafc said:

Or maybe if it’s a striker from Plymouth, we’re talking about Jephcott?

Callumcafc said:

Or maybe if it’s a striker from Plymouth, we’re talking about Jephcott?

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

Not sure Exeter would be willing to lose Joel Randell, Randall Williams & Josh Key in one summer.

Money talks though. Sunderland are due to sign Josh Key from them this week for £1m.

Oh Eddie Youds... said:

I'd say most of our signings have been much nearer the £300k mark so it would be a big statement for us to table a £1m package for a marquee player.

Thomas is due in London & likes a show though...

Maybe Sims will be unveiled as the poster boy of our new kit tomorrow & Joel Randell will be presented 'Ronaldo Style' doing keepy uppies in front of 200 roaring members at the open training session on Fri!

...with Addicks to Victory belting out in the background!