A big young striker who's started scoring goals - the sort of player who will likely be out of our price range if he has an even better season next year. Glad we appear to be looking a bit further afield than we have done in recent years.
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
It is. But the model we seem to be following is basically either one big gamble or quite a lot of smaller ones depending on how you look at it - a big name coach (for this level) who will bring on talented younger players and hopefully recoup or even profit on them as the team progresses. Small, Ramsay and now (possibly) Bair seem to be indicative that taking punts on youngsters with potential will be at least a proportion of the business we do - for better or worse.
Ideally we do also need at least a few proven quality players at their peak but those are going be expensive so probably not the main focus.
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The answer to your question is that it might piss off the player who may think we have a bunch of pervs for fans.
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The answer to your question is that it might piss off the player who may think we have a bunch of pervs for fans.
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The answer to your question is that it might piss off the player who may realise we have a bunch of pervs for fans.
Fixed it for you
(Just for clarity this is absolutely a joke and I know that most fans are actually completely decent people. Well... mostly decent. Well...)
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The answer to your question is that it might piss off the player who may realise we have a bunch of pervs for fans.
Fixed it for you
(Just for clarity this is absolutely a joke and I know that most fans are actually completely decent people. Well... mostly decent. Well...)
The pictures and comments/posts of his other half are inappropriately weird and I hope the mods delete them. @aliwibble Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
I’d say comments stopped short of distasteful. As to putting up the photos in the first place I’m open to your argument.
But also genuine (not rhetorical) question… please someone explain how speculating and posting photos on our niche forum could derail the possible transfer?
The answer to your question is that it might piss off the player who may think we have a bunch of pervs for fans.
Mmm except that there are pervs everywhere and the related posts are from a subset of a subset of fans. And I would say the comments are very tame compared to what very many women suffer from. Also noting that she has a public account that she doesn’t seem to mind literally billions of people to look at. I do not feel that strongly about the whole affair - I just find myself with a few minutes to kill and thought I’d kick this about.
Sounds to me that Charlton “like” Bair but that’s about as far as it’s got. Certainly not close or better than 50/50 if that. If there is a striker close to signing it’s not him. Godden perhaps ?
It is. But the model we seem to be following is basically either one big gamble or quite a lot of smaller ones depending on how you look at it - a big name coach (for this level) who will bring on talented younger players and hopefully recoup or even profit on them as the team progresses. Small, Ramsay and now (possibly) Bair seem to be indicative that taking punts on youngsters with potential will be at least a proportion of the business we do - for better or worse.
Ideally we do also need at least a few proven quality players at their peak but those are going be expensive so probably not the main focus.
I wouldn't call Bair a punt, it's how making any striker signings at this level works. Look up all the top L1 strikers over the past few seasons. There is exactly one of them who has multiple consecutive 20 goal seasons at the same level and he already plays for us. 20 goal a season strikers in L1 almost always either get promoted or signed to a higher level. When it comes to strikers you're always having to make a choice between gambling on a striker who has just had a good season which can go either way (Lyle Taylor or Nicky Ajose) or signing one from a higher level who has hit a bad patch but could recover (Yann Kermorgant or Freddie Ladapo). Every striker is a gamble, especially as they tend to be the most expensive players. Just got to cross our fingers that he's been identified by Jones as one that suits his style so we can get the best out of him
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Can't beat Coldharbour Estate, I remember it well...🙄
Anyway, if he joins then good luck to him. I wonder what Championship clubs were looking at him. Looks like a big lump who started slowly at Motherwell but gives 100% effort, is willing to learn and keen to improve and has done.
Ideally we do also need at least a few proven quality players at their peak but those are going be expensive so probably not the main focus.
His Mrs ain't bad either.
(Just for clarity this is absolutely a joke and I know that most fans are actually completely decent people. Well... mostly decent. Well...)