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

AddickUpNorth said:

In that Cawley tweet it says Ged Roddy and his recruitment team - who exactly is his team if it’s not Gallen and it’s not Adkins? Is Gladys the tea lady recommending players because ‘he looks like a nice boy’? 

DamoNorthStand said:

stoneroses19 said:

F*** sake, do we really need to start posting Driesen tweets again?!!!

Hate to say it but he’s bang on the money with that one.

SamE7 said:

FishCostaFortune said:

I feel pretty sure Sandgaard mentioned in an interview that it was himself, Roddy, Gallen and Adkins who identified and agreed on players. I believe he said that all 4 had to agree on a player before they went for him, which set my alarm bells ringing because Sandgaard should be nowhere near deciding if a player is or is not good enough to play.

I imagine that Sandgaard's part in agreeing is the financial side of things. Not their quality.

Croydon said:

johnnybev1987 said:

Wow probably not the thread, but fuck me this is depressing 3 games in and people are writing of the new players. 
McWhatever - He was player of the year for Portsmouth, new players in front of him and probably still needs to settle
Dobson/Clare - Personally i feel people have been overly critical, they have the potential to be a great partnership although we need a chief play-maker to pass too
DJ - Semi new, one game he is awful by the fans standard and the next he is dangerous and we should be passing to him more, ie. a typical winger
Kirk- No judgement yet, 30 minutes and clearly Gunter isn't the best person to play in front of and get the ball forward. 

Facts, we still need a LB urgently, CAM urgent unless Gilbey is back very soon! We need a pacey striker to play off Stockley, as good as he has been he just doesn't have the pace so becomes predictable. Our bench is just shocking, at no point did i think we can bring on xx and they will change the game, Kirk aside. Also Back up Keeper or someone to battle McWhatever. 

TLDR- 3 games in lets not write players off, 2 weeks to go fingers crossed we get another 3/4 players in of the required quality

Goalkeepers don't need time to settle to know where in the goal to stand. Dobson and Clare a 'great' partnership? What evidence have you seen that suggests that? 

johnnybev1987 said:

Croydon said:

johnnybev1987 said:

Wow probably not the thread, but fuck me this is depressing 3 games in and people are writing of the new players. 
McWhatever - He was player of the year for Portsmouth, new players in front of him and probably still needs to settle
Dobson/Clare - Personally i feel people have been overly critical, they have the potential to be a great partnership although we need a chief play-maker to pass too
DJ - Semi new, one game he is awful by the fans standard and the next he is dangerous and we should be passing to him more, ie. a typical winger
Kirk- No judgement yet, 30 minutes and clearly Gunter isn't the best person to play in front of and get the ball forward. 

Facts, we still need a LB urgently, CAM urgent unless Gilbey is back very soon! We need a pacey striker to play off Stockley, as good as he has been he just doesn't have the pace so becomes predictable. Our bench is just shocking, at no point did i think we can bring on xx and they will change the game, Kirk aside. Also Back up Keeper or someone to battle McWhatever. 

TLDR- 3 games in lets not write players off, 2 weeks to go fingers crossed we get another 3/4 players in of the required quality

Goalkeepers don't need time to settle to know where in the goal to stand. Dobson and Clare a 'great' partnership? What evidence have you seen that suggests that? 

Of course they do, they need to build a partnership with the defence. They need confidence and to settle in the new club/environment, not saying every keeper needs it but its 3  games and he clearly did enough for Portsmouth and they were sad to see him go. 

Dobson, works hard, gets everywhere. Sometimes he might not be seen as much but i think he could be vital this season. Time will tell..

Clare has some touches of quality and drives us forward, again i dont think either have been standout yet but i can see them forging a partnership in the middle but we need someone to compliment them.

well see, too early to write them off in my opinion

Swisdom said:

So do we have any idea who Steve Gallen was scouting last night?  He was definitely off watching someone.  If, as rumours suggested, he was at Crewe then it was a wasted journey watching Dale as he was "sick" apparently

Addicks59 said:

If Roddy has taken over from Steve which has been rumored then it is clear he is not good enough at his job we never had this problem before and to be fair to Steve look at some of the players he recruited Cullen bellicose are but a couple of realy good players.

RedRobin said:

The amount of players we’ve seemingly missed out on is a joke. Scott Twine was shoulders above Albie last night, crying out for a player like him but apparently we were not in for him. Whoever is in charge of recruitment at the moment is having a mare and I highly doubt it’s Gallen!!! 

king addick said:

LargeAddick said:

king addick said:

There are 43 games left...chill the fuck out.

I will admit that we have moved too slowly it seems but the fact is there are still 2 weeks left to strengthen. Obviously earlier is better..no escaping that. 

What I dont like is the shit TS seems to be getting...the guy is out there and excitable for sure but he wants what is best for this club and when was the last time we had that?

Dobson and Clare are good players...3 games dont automatically make them bad without redemption and now it seems there condemned. 

Just put your adult pants on and support the team. I am confident it will get better but unfortunately there isnt any patience.

Ipswich threw money at players and it hasnt been the start they hoped... 

there has been no evidence of that so far.

But have 43 games to change opinions but the simple fact is that even if they won player EFL players of the year, people on here would still find things to criticise...they are very much scapegoats at this point.

CafcSCP said:

ForeverAddickted said:

golfaddick said:

I'm amazed people keep talking about we have 2 weeks to bring players in.

It's now too late.

We've had 3 months to sign players. Anyone decent who would make us a top 6 side has already been signed up.......or will cost more than TS is prepared to throw at it.

The only players coming in before Sept 1st will be loans & freebies. The loans will be mainly untried & untested like Levitt and the freebies players who have not done a pre-season so will take weeks to get match fit.

So we dont bother to bring anyone f**king in???

Cullen and Bielik were both signed after the start of a season weren’t they? Not sure golfie has this right.

Redmidland said:

My twopenath (sp) for what it's worth. With the recruitment yes TS did say 4 of them involved, my guess is that TS looks purely at the financials of a deal and on advice of the other 3 either says yes spend x amount or not. Just my thoughts.
Secondly I understand everyone getting 'twitchy' at the performances to date coupled with lack of depth in the squad.
However, as a few others have said, Ipswich have got 16 new players, some of which people on here wanted us to get, and spent a few bob, but they are in exactly the same position we are...with 1 point and -2 GD.
3 league games in is far to early to write people and teams off!
I think I read somewhere on social media last night that the year we got promoted with CP we won just 1 of our first 6 games!
I can't remember if that's true or not, but if it is, it does put things into a bit more context?

Redmidland said:

My twopenath (sp) for what it's worth. With the recruitment yes TS did say 4 of them involved, my guess is that TS looks purely at the financials of a deal and on advice of the other 3 either says yes spend x amount or not. Just my thoughts.
Secondly I understand everyone getting 'twitchy' at the performances to date coupled with lack of depth in the squad.
However, as a few others have said, Ipswich have got 16 new players, some of which people on here wanted us to get, and spent a few bob, but they are in exactly the same position we are...with 1 point and -2 GD.
3 league games in is far to early to write people and teams off!
I think I read somewhere on social media last night that the year we got promoted with CP we won just 1 of our first 6 games!
I can't remember if that's true or not, but if it is, it does put things into a bit more context?

Redmidland said:

Fair enough @ForeverAddickted, like I said I can't remember and thought it strange, but someone posted it, but as I'm getting older I can't remember where I read it!!! ☹️