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+++++ Charlton Sign Alan McCormack +++++

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  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    You need a drink or 8, watching this mob
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,320
    dont mind if he has a drink after the game, just not before.

    Seems a decent signing but overshadowed in my mind by fraser going. Thats unfair to him but I fear the two events will be linked.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    Mike__CAFC - Lewington is not a great player. He is absolutely f***ing dreadful.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,460
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Clem_Snide[/cite]Bye bye Therry.
    Would bite your hand off now if that happened and it meant keeping Semedo.
    Gotta agree £500k and i'd say goodbye to Racinson.
  • [cite]Posted By: falconwood_1[/cite]" He moaned about the club's financial problems on Facebook too."

    What's wrong with that? If your company was screwed financially and missing your wages I imagine you wouldn't be quiet about it!
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,219
    Signing McCormack surely doesn't automatically mean Jose and Racon are off - we started last season with 5 senior centre midfielders (Bailey, Racon, Jose, Jonjo and Spring). However tight things get we'll need at least 3 midfielders + Stavrinou as a youngster on the books at the start of the season.

    Reality is all our players are available for purchase at a fair price and Racon and Jose are as attractive as any of our players to potential purchasers, but just cos we've signed a midfielder it doesn't automatically mean one is off.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,034
    not a bad signing imo. Gonna be shite football down the valley next season and we need a few kick bollock and bite players. Would rather this fella playing next to Semedo than Racon anyday.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    DOGS OF WAR!
  • Choice
    Choice Posts: 2,863
    Sorry but IMO this is crap just like the whole bloody day. What chance have we got now of mixing it with the better sides in League 1 let alone challenging for promotion. If we had signed him from the reserves of a decent championship team then fair enough but he has just been relegated to League 2 with Southend and they didnt even want to keep him.

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  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    [cite]Posted By: Choice[/cite]Sorry but IMO this is crap just like the whole bloody day. What chance have we got now of mixing it with the better sides in League 1 let alone challenging for promotion. If we had signed him from the reserves of a decent championship team then fair enough but he has just been relegated to League 2 with Southend and they didnt even want to keep him.

    :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: ( :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

    Yes they did want to keep him, its just that League 2 wage restrictions meant he had to leave or take a big pay cut.

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  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,759
    [cite]Posted By: Choice[/cite]Sorry but IMO this is crap just like the whole bloody day. What chance have we got now of mixing it with the better sides in League 1 let alone challenging for promotion. If we had signed him from the reserves of a decent championship team then fair enough but he has just been relegated to League 2 with Southend and they didnt even want to keep him.

    :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: ( :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

    Agree with the sentiment. However, I think Southend probably let him go for financial reasons.

    My uncle is a Southend ST holder and he says he will do a job for us, very much in the Bailey mode. Bit of a loose cannon and the consensus was he lost his way when his head was turned by Millwall's interest in January.

    I'll reserve judgement on this one.
  • GRAY9
    GRAY9 Posts: 1,090
    Know nothing of him but sounds like an old school Charlton player.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,587
    He exercised his right to terminate his contract with Southend due to the fact they failed to pay him on time which put them in breach of contract.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    [quote][cite]Posted By: GRAY9[/cite]Know nothing of him but sounds like an old school Charlton player.[/quote]

    But which school?

    Mark Kinsella or Darren Pitcher?
  • Stebo
    Stebo Posts: 790
    Midfielder Alan McCormack has become Charlton's second signing of the summer.
    The engine-roomer, 26, joins as a free agent after leaving Southend United by mutual consent following four seasons on the Essex coast.

    according to wiki he's 29. which one is right?
  • Folev the red
    Folev the red Posts: 2,087
    [cite]Posted By: GRAY9[/cite]Know nothing of him but sounds like an old school Charlton player.

    Hopefully your view of old school is the same as mine, and not like some of our most recent 'stars'.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,511
    [cite]Posted By: Stebo[/cite]
    Midfielder Alan McCormack has become Charlton's second signing of the summer.
    The engine-roomer, 26, joins as a free agent after leaving Southend United by mutual consent following four seasons on the Essex coast.

    according to wiki he's 29. which one is right?
    He's 26, fits in with him starting his career at Preston in 2002, and it's the date on other sites including Southend's OS.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,511
    [cite]Posted By: mart77[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Choice[/cite]Sorry but IMO this is crap just like the whole bloody day. What chance have we got now of mixing it with the better sides in League 1 let alone challenging for promotion. If we had signed him from the reserves of a decent championship team then fair enough but he has just been relegated to League 2 with Southend and they didnt even want to keep him.

    :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: ( :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

    Yes they did want to keep him, its just that League 2 wage restrictions meant he had to leave or take a big pay cut.
    http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~2077215,00.html
    Confirmed on there, he wanted to leave and Southend happily let him due to his wages.
  • Paddy Powell
    Paddy Powell Posts: 2,847
    edited July 2010
    [cite]Posted By: Stebo[/cite]
    Midfielder Alan McCormack has become Charlton's second signing of the summer.
    The engine-roomer, 26, joins as a free agent after leaving Southend United by mutual consent following four seasons on the Essex coast.

    according to wiki he's 29. which one is right?

    His Wikipedia page claims he is both 26 and 29!

    He's a 1984 birthday in the first line of the main article and a 1981 birthday in his 'stats section' on the right hand side.
  • Stebo
    Stebo Posts: 790
    yeah just found his southend profile page - he was born in 1984 whereas wiki says 1981.

    wiki got it wrong!!! next you'll be telling me that Paul McCartney isn't trying to takeover the club.

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  • [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]not a bad signing imo. Gonna be shite football down the valley next season and we need a few kick bollock and bite players. Would rather this fella playing next to Semedo than Racon anyday.

    I quite like Racon so I'll disagree with you on that point, BUT we didn't go up playing football, and we need battlers who will get stuck in at places like Carlisle. He sounds like he'll do that, I just hope he doesn't get many red cards
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Welcome aboard Mr McCormack.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,046
    This hasn't been an entirely promising day, but there's ages to go until the season's start...
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    I dont know what Parky could actually say re this guy in truth " ok chaps i know he is total sh*t and even Southend dont want him. But he can stand up and has a pair of boots. So he seems to fit in with CAFc at the moment"


    somehow i just dont see Parky telling it like it really is.
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    I think he will be a decent back up for semodo and racon. Cant believe this crazy day.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,935
    Sounds ok to me. Hope it doesn't mean more will be off though. He does like to play a CM at LM remember, so maybe Racon will move wide permanently.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,511
    [cite]Posted By: Danny Addick[/cite]He does like to play a CM at LM remember, so maybe Racon will move wide permanently.
    I think that's just down to circumstances, rather than a preference. Bouazza left not long after Parky took over, and he didn't get another left footed left winger in until Kyel Reid over a year later (except Luke Holden).

    Racon complained about playing left midfield so I doubt he'll play there.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,697
    edited July 2010
    elated as I was at the Docherty signing this one totally underwelms me.
  • D_F_T
    D_F_T Posts: 1,154
    Fuck sake, what a poxy signing. Is this supposed to help us get over losing Richardson?

    We're the fucking joke!
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,511
    [cite]Posted By: D_F_T[/cite]Fuck sake, what a poxy signing. Is this supposed to help us get over losing Richardson?

    We're the fucking joke!
    There will probably be more signings like this, players that we don't know much about. Judge them on the pitch, not how big a name they are. He might turn out to be as good a signing as Doherty.

    Who knew much about Kyel Reid this time last year? Not many but everyone would have him back given the chance.