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In the minority here but I think he showed glimpses of potential here and has obviously done well at Wimbledon I wouldn’t have been against giving him pre season. Good luck to the lad if he goes, just didn’t do it anywhere near often enough here unfortunately but will have a decent enough career.
 
mart said:
In the minority here but I think he showed glimpses of potential here and has obviously done well at Wimbledon I wouldn’t have been against giving him pre season. Good luck to the lad if he goes, just didn’t do it anywhere near often enough here unfortunately but will have a decent enough career.
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He played quite well when we went on that good run under Parkinson, but apart from that he was dross.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a stiffer midfielder play for us.
 
Scootsie said:
He played quite well when we went on that good run under Parkinson, but apart from that he was dross.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a stiffer midfielder play for us.
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He was bizarre to watch at times. He seemed to have a couple of minutes where he looked fairly quick and mobile in a game but then spent the other 88 minutes strolling round like an old age pensioner
 
kildaremackem said:
we cant know if coton did a good job or not because we know donald over ruled him and others on football decisions.
we can know coton's CV justified him getting the job, and the role hehas now at man utd where he manages more people than he did at safc indicates his standing in the game is very high indeed.

yes indeed..he and donald were awful..donald was wellmeaning at the start but very nieve, methven was incompetent from early on and very mendacious, totally out of his depth
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Both wanted the best I'm sure; why sabotage their own investment. I think Charlie took things too personally and got too emotionally involved and that manifested itself in saying and doing things that just came across a bit shit. That of course is my perspective from being very much on the outside looking in.
 
Nicky Winterwasp said:
Both wanted the best I'm sure; why sabotage their own investment. I think Charlie took things too personally and got too emotionally involved and that manifested itself in saying and doing things that just came across a bit shit. That of course is my perspective from being very much on the outside looking in.
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i think what yousay about methven also applies to donald, but when things didnt go perfectly to plan donaldbecame moremendacious..they were both staggeringly nieve..but methven was there to stopdonald being nieve and couldnt manage that
 
Mackem00 said:
Doesn't run like a footballer.
Doesn't kick a ball like a footballer.
Didn't even carry himself around the pitch as a footballer.

It's a no from me.
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But did well at Wimbledon and there were signs ( at times in his first season ) he might be ok …..eg his goal against Burnley ( iirc ) in the EFL cup game
 
Would often give the ball away and then follow it up with a rash tackle and a foul.

I thought he may have been a decent buy when you looked at where he had played, but its pretty obvious now that none of those clubs thought much of him and got shot as soon as they could.

We need to get away from players that offer the square route of f#ck all!
 
kildaremackem said:
we cant know if coton did a good job or not because we know donald over ruled him and others on football decisions.
we can know coton's CV justified him getting the job, and the role hehas now at man utd where he manages more people than he did at safc indicates his standing in the game is very high indeed.

yes indeed..he and donald were awful..donald was wellmeaning at the start but very nieve, methven was incompetent from early on and very mendacious, totally out of his depth
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Come on, he was here for about 2 years with the job of finding and signing players.
We can know if he did a good job or not.
He didn't.
Just because someone has high standing in the game, doesn't mean you can't look back at the job they did somewhere and conclude, aye, he was shit there.
 
I don’t think I have ever seen a player who telegraphs the intended destination of his passes as much as Dobson. Of course they then invariably end up somewhere else.
 
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kingmonkey said:
Come on, he was here for about 2 years with the job of finding and signing players.
We can know if he did a good job or not.
He didn't.
Just because someone has high standing in the game, doesn't mean you can't look back at the job they did somewhere and conclude, aye, he was shit there.
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but he wasnt allowed to dohis job of finding players..players he saidno to were signed
 
How have we managed to sign a player from a relegated Walsall team and given him so much money that he's now unaffordable to League 1 ? FFS he would have come for £50 a week.
 
sick said:
How have we managed to sign a player from a relegated Walsall team and given him so much money that he's now unaffordable to League 1 ? FFS he would have come for £50 a week.
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eh? he who says he is unaffordable to league one? one team cant afford him..
and walsall could affordhim
 
I'd keep him tbh, still young, worth another season.

If someone offers us our money back I'd let him go like.
 
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