Alnwick

[mr.hobblesworth]

To be fair, you were one of the posters who berated me for sharing that Brown had lost the dressing room in August (After the crawley win too) and I was accused of stirring and making rumours up. I am only saying what I was told by a player.

 

Have you got a quote from Smurf to back that up?

 

And to be fair, I did no such thing. I just looked back over my posts last August and said nothing of the sort. As for the Smurthwaite quote, I don't have one but he mentioned it in one of the Radio Stoke interviews after Brown went. Have a plough through those if you fancy.

[Jacko51]

I don't think anyone is going to admit to sighting jj Hooper,I know I wouldn't .

 

Smurf did. He brought Hooper to the first game of the season at Crewe and sat with him in the main stand - we were about three rows behind them. He then said that he took Hooper to Vale on the Monday, introduced him to Page and said "Here's your striker, Rob".

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Smurf did. He brought Hooper to the first game of the season at Crewe and sat with him in the main stand - we were about three rows behind them. He then said that he took Hooper to Vale on the Monday, introduced him to Page and said "Here's your striker, Rob".

 

To be fair he signed him off the recommendation of a high ranking official at Newcastle as he did with Streete and Alnwick. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad as the song goes. I wished 2 out of every 3 players signed by Page, Bruno and Brown weren’t bad!

 

 

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[geosname]

Workers work for money, footballers are workers... if a worker decides to change employers for a bigger pay packet can you blame them?

JA made a choice, good luck to him.

[mr.hobblesworth]

To be fair he signed him off the recommendation of a high ranking official at Newcastle as he did with Streete and Alnwick. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad as the song goes. I wished 2 out of every 3 players signed by Page, Bruno and Brown weren’t bad!

 

Didn't Smurthwaite also sign Campion? What about that much heralded development squad with people like Deen-Conteh?

[Fosse69]

Didn't Smurthwaite also sign Campion? What about that much heralded development squad with people like Deen-Conteh?

The squad with Hughill in?

[bycars rob]

The fact that Alnwick played in a cup semi final goes a long way to justifying his move to Rangers. He knew he would go there as number 2 as the previous number 2 had just been let go.

The mistake we made was not selling him but allowing Sam Johnson to go on loan just before we sold him as Halifax went up and we went down.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

What about that much heralded development squad?

 

Yep that one that generated Hughill

 

If we end up with £3 million sell on in January how many 100’s times over will it have paid for itself?

 

At least if you are going to bash the owner think your point through.

 

 

 

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[PV1973]

Of course the money was a big factor in him moving, but hes also moved to a massive club where the chances of him going from there to another big club are arguably higher than if he had remained with us.

 

Having that club, in addition to Newcastle on your CV looks very attractive and now theres the possibility of him going to Forest. I'd imagine he'd be pretty happy with his career choice if that move comes off for him.

 

Its all hypothetical of course but would A club like Forest have come in for him had he still been here?

[mr.hobblesworth]

I wasn't bashing the owner, I was bashing your stupid (and tediously predictable anti-Page)point that Smurthwaite has a 66% success rate with his signings.

[Santa]

Yep that one that generated Hughill

 

If we end up with £3 million sell on in January how many 100’s times over will it have paid for itself?

 

At least if you are going to bash the owner think your point through.

 

 

 

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George Foster.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

George Foster.

 

He didn’t fund it, in fact the owner paid Foster’s wages.

 

 

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[glenpvfc]

Of course the money was a big factor in him moving, but hes also moved to a massive club where the chances of him going from there to another big club are arguably higher than if he had remained with us.

 

Having that club, in addition to Newcastle on your CV looks very attractive and now theres the possibility of him going to Forest. I'd imagine he'd be pretty happy with his career choice if that move comes off for him.

 

Its all hypothetical of course but would A club like Forest have come in for him had he still been here?

 

I'd say you have got that backwards. You cement your place in a starting 11 and play well each game and someone higher up takes notice and you move up. Nobody can see if you're any good sat on a bench. Nobody should sign a player based on which club they are at, it should be because they have watched them and think they will do well at their club. Alnwick could have gone to Barcelona and it wouldn't make a bit of difference if he was sat on the bench/reserves not playing first team football.

[PV1973]

I'd say you have got that backwards. You cement your place in a starting 11 and play well each game and someone higher up takes notice and you move up. Nobody can see if you're any good sat on a bench. Nobody should sign a player based on which club they are at, it should be because they have watched them and think they will do well at their club. Alnwick could have gone to Barcelona and it wouldn't make a bit of difference if he was sat on the bench/reserves not playing first team football.

Why are Forest interested then? They're another big club IMO.

[Santa]

So we've gone from the chairman going over the manager's head to sign players (with mixed results), to the chairman simply funding them.