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Ross Stewart


chriswallace85 said:
Evidently a lot easier said than done though.

Let's be realistic, a fit and well Ross Stewart on proper Championship money would be worth twice what we received for him. Southampton took a big gamble spending what they did on him, but with their parachute payments and player sales in excess of £60m last summer, they could afford to.

The chances of us getting anything like a player of Stewart's quality within then £0-£10m price range were always very very slim.
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Think that’s the thing though, most fans aren’t concerned about the fit & well part, we all look at what he can do fit. He most certainly wasn’t fit. Speakman said at the fixture breakfast he’d not get a full preseason, it sounded as if he’d miss the first 2/3 matches & get on the bench. We sold him & his first football match was our reserves in November.

Add that to the bit that he was open to moving, how much was he actually committed to us once his agent turned down whatever contract offer it was.

There’s certain points above we’ll never know, but you’ve got to assume to club took a view on it.

If fans opinions ran the club, he’d still be here now on a massive wage & we’d all still be shouting to spend shit loads of money on a new striker.
 
Still think he will come good. Probably a much better medical setup down there. Surprised our club doctors didn’t try to patch his Achilles tendon up with a sticky plaster
 
Hucknalls Fluffer said:
My favourite player of the L1 years
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I loved him, but I think we look at it with rose tinted glasses a bit. He played one full season, was top scorer. Leading up to Christmas he was struggling a bit & think it was the penalty at Doncaster gave him a bit of a spurt. He then struggled a bit going into the spring & think it was a couple of goals against Cambridge seemed to give him that push going into the play offs. He played practically every minute & at times seemed to be carrying the weight of that. Think that was one of 3 seasons in his career he’s played more than 25 matches.

It wasn’t all plain sailing for him even in League One. His 13 matches in the championship were mostly excellent like.
 
I think Southampton paying a quoted £12m will go down on one of those “all time worst transfers” lists
 
Longy said:
Think that’s the thing though, most fans aren’t concerned about the fit & well part, we all look at what he can do fit. He most certainly wasn’t fit. Speakman said at the fixture breakfast he’d not get a full preseason, it sounded as if he’d miss the first 2/3 matches & get on the bench. We sold him & his first football match was our reserves in November.

Add that to the bit that he was open to moving, how much was he actually committed to us once his agent turned down whatever contract offer it was.

There’s certain points above we’ll never know, but you’ve got to assume to club took a view on it.

If fans opinions ran the club, he’d still be here now on a massive wage & we’d all still be shouting to spend shit loads of money on a new striker.
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Aww there's not a doubt in my mind we did the right thing.

I'm just saying replacing a player of that quality with the amount of money we had was nigh on impossible. We had to try something else, and it didn't come off.
 
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R5Skywalker said:
Aye I agree mate. I think we were lucky to get rid of him when we did for that much. Reckon his career is going to be stop/start now for the foreseeable.
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Longy said:
We’re all quick to jump on the absolutely shite things we’ve done, especially in the past six months, but let’s give ctedit where it’s due, it ended up being a very good call.

You can argue he should’ve had a contract signed before that Fulham game, but even as a severely injured player, the mantra on here was “give him what he wants”. We’d have been stuck with probably the highest paid player on the books, not kicking a ball & not playing for two years. Our stance will definitely have changed once that injury happened.

Not signing a replacement was the worst decision
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One other thing I’ll mention while I seem to be a Kristjaan Speakman fanboy :oops:

It was Denver Hume refused & contract & the daft bastard then got injured. We kept him on for rehabilitation & he eventually signed a new contract & we sold him weeks later for a few hundred thousand.

We get frustrated about not signing a striker or midfielder we all crave, but there’s examples of business we’ve done that appears to be quite prudent, normally outgoing. Lihadji or whatever he was called was another one.

Still wish we’d sign a couple of decent players who are proven like :lol:
 
chriswallace85 said:
Aww there's not a doubt in my mind we did the right thing.

I'm just replacing a player of that quality with the amount of money we had was nigh on impossible. We had to try something else, and it didn't come off.
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Aye. Mowbray talked in the same talk in about the job was to find Stewart no.2 from another Ross County if he went. He did go & se didn’t find anywhere near that player.

Hopefully Hemir & Mayenda show in years to come we pulled one out of the bag, but we needed the Sunderland Ross Stewart, not the Ross County one when we had zero other options.
 
Baz said:
I honestly think he's done.
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Easy for us all to comment on a player isn’t it. (Not aimed at you Mate in the slightest but your post which I have to agree with).

It’s the thoughts of the player and his family. Must go through hell to wake up every Morning with some challenging thoughts. Looks like he has a good family around him.

Very good friends with a Dad of a lower league player that endured two long term career threatening injuries. Never been the same and missed out on a big move to Sheffield United because of it. They all went through hell and back, notwithstanding that in the lower leagues they don’t get the club support due to finances.
 
Charmless Man said:
Two serious injuries in a row might see him return a shadow of what he was.

Which is a massive shame as there was potentially a premier league player there.
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Definitely a Scotland player anyway. This tournament would have been his best shot at international fitba
 
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