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...signed for Rovers.  Scored 18 last season for Orient - I think that will turn out to be a good short-term signing.

I thought so too. I wouldnt have minded him here for the season in all honesty

Buckle has gone for experience... Harrold, Bevan, Gill, Virgo, Stanley. All steady signings.

Why aint we going in for decent strikers?

Who says that we're not?

Ha

Love you bart

I would have been happy with McGlesih. Horses for courses and all that.

SIGN SOME STRIKERS TOMORROW YOU CUNTS. IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD!

I think they might be trying to.  Perhaps they know who they want.  Or perhaps PDC will decide to come out of retirement.  Alternatively, they genuinely don't know we don't have any - in which case an email to Mr Watkins is needed - pronto.

That's my concern :hmmm:

Probably the sort of player we could do with... hopefully we'll make a similar swoop

He's already signed for wovers though

He said a similar swoop, not the same one.

Jeez he's almost as old and almost as fat as me, good signing? Bet he barely scores anything. Far better out there.

It was an attempt at humour jonathon.

A failed one, so it would seem.

Yes. 18 goals in L1 is rubbish. He's all washed up.

Please fuck off, thanks.

McGleish was one player i was hoping we'd consider. Maybe we did, who knows. still, loads of players still out there.

Exactly right, who the fuck knows the quality of striker we are trying to sign? I am confident that PDC knows some very good strikers that WILL sign for us.

He's not stupid. I think he'll feel his squad is coming together, but the attacking department is the one area that needs the most attention. The problem is, so is everyone else... which is often why these players are the last to arrive.

Look at Donaldson and Le fondre, both certs to leave but not sorted where yet.

Still a lot of transfer activity ahead.

I'd be happy if we had – realistically – two newbies, two experienced if poss, or one experienced the other a (season-long) loanee perhaps, plus the lad from Livi and one other, whether that's Knight or someone else.

I've always wondered why LeFondre has never moved on, something very strange going on there.

McGleish is in his twilight, he's had 1 season in the sun I don't think he'll recreate it, if I'm wrong though, it's a master stroke by Buckle!

Unfortunately that's a nice little group of signings that Rovers have made, they are going down the "been there done it before route".  A safe, less risky route than we are going down.

Dont know which is going to work best but its looks like Rovers could be up near the top of the league.

100 odd goals in 250 Apps.

Derby and Leicester were both looking last year but from the odd bits i have seen on messege boards talk is that his fitness is very suspect and may struggle at a higher level to maintain it.
Thats not to say in lge 2 he wont score for fun but you want more than a lge 2 striker if you are paying big bucks.

Not sure how their policy will compare, but certainly agree they'll be in the top seven.

Spent part of the morning with an avidf rovers supporter season ticket holder, share holder the lot.

He is totally pissed off with the signings made by them so far.  He sees it as Division survival not promotion.That includes the Management appointment.

He believes that we have been very clever in our appointments. Getting our players from across Europre not across Devon like them.

Apparently the move to a new site at UWE is dependant on London 2012 money!

I agree with you but that doesn't mean they'll gel and play well together as a team.  Here's hoping they don't  :D

How funny...the grass is always greener...

Doesnt surprise me this. Safe options taken by Buckle. Which team is going to be more interesting to watch...no brainer....

I'm surprised that Joe Kuffor is still there. Mind you I was surprised he stayed there in the division above. He surely could do better.

I'm glad we haven't taken the same approach as Rovers, they have signed plenty of average players.

In terms of players who other clubs have signed, there's only one I would really have liked to see at Swindon and that is Danny Schofield, who has signed for Rotherham today. I think he will be excellent at League 2 level.

You mean sign experienced players with proven track records at this level?

Im not saying our collection of new lads from all corners off the world wont be succesfull, they could be world beaters for all we know but the Rovers transfer policy seems pretty sensible to me. 

What Abrahammer said.

Not knocking PDC's appointment, but up until he was announced I would have been happy with someone like Buckle as manager and the route he is going down.

I'd have been happy with Scott Mcgleish - not any of the others thought.

Why is it that when another team signs another player some of our fans always claim we should have signed them? And yet despite this 90% of them players turn out to be shit for the clubs they go to anyway. Can't we all just be patient and stop moaning for once?

I kind of felt the same when I saw Neil Harris had gone to Southend. Think a player who leads from the front would be excellent for us next season.
Rovers are buying established league 1 and 2 players. We've only purchased 1 so far in Joe Devera. Also how much does our manager actually know about what it takes to get out of league 2 as well? So I think people will moan until they're proven wrong, which hopefully will happen. Then if they're like me they'll say 'I told you Paolo knew what he was doing...I never questioned anything he did'.

They'll still moan even if proven wrong. Some of our fans will moan all the time no matter how well we are doing. There is always something to moan about for some of them.

i knows its not the same but di canio did play in the italian 4th division so he must have an inckling  ;D

I just wonder how much shit there is that can be whinged about. If we'd signed McGleish this forum would be kicking up a fucking stink. He's an old fat shitcunt.

If we signed the players Rovers signed, this forum would be in meltdown. Not that it isn't currently of course.

I just wish people would stop finding fault and negatives to get their knickers in a twist over. This place sometimes feels like it's populated with the footballing equivalent of Daily Mail readers. Of late we're making thisis look rational, intelligent and considered.

No one seems to have anything good to say anymore. There's little that's constructive, mindful, balanced or rational. It's pretty fucking debilitating for the forum and fan morale as a whole in my mind. It's patheticaly sad how people want to deconstruct before something has even been constructed. I despair.

Is there a more melodramatic fan base than ours?

Totally agree with all that. This forum has gone way downhill in the past few months. It's just moan moan fucking moan all the time.

Signing McGleish is not a forward thinking move at all, hes 37 and can't have more than 1 season left in him, hes only ever been average as a player, never really had a good season.

Wovers are signing a job lot of average players and I wouldnt want any one of them to come to us.

I fully agree, just because we havent gone out and bought shed loads of Serie A players and ex West Ham players or the loanees from AC Milan or Spurs doesnt mean we arent actively searching for players, hopefully of a much higher standard than players such as Scott McGleish.

The thing is that when one or two people moan on here it does set up a precedent for others to moan, yes we have always had a core of whinging cunts but now it seems at least 50% are here for the whinge.

Barry's spot on to mention the daily mail.

So many people lately seem to take a comment as gospel without actually considering it first. Then it just gets whipped up into a frenzy of negativity and sticks as though it is fact, getting repeated again and again.

Disagree, we do get an element, who moan because the reasoned debate doesn't confirm their prejudices, but otherwise I'd say the forum was in good health for what has been these last few weeks a close season.

Fucking hell I didn't realise he's 37! glad we were no where near signing him! signing a player that age when we're in a 'rebuilding' position would be a massive step backwards

FFS, I'd say this forum has turned into a fucking tree hugger.

Try to debate 4 keepers meaning one is leaving - "stop moaning".
Try to debate overuse of agent (or not) - "stop moaning"
Try to debate why we haven't signed any strikers - "stop moaning"
Try to debate why a serial screw up like Leon Knight is at the club  -"stop moaning"

It like a fucking hippy colony has taken over the TEF and subjecting us to kind of "life is great " whacky backy.

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Try to spread peace and love - "stop moaning"

It's the lack of reasoning batch.

Lack of strikers, for example, does not create a debate. It creates a fucking meltdown thread where we aren't going to score any goals and the club is at its lowest point in history and we aren't even trying to get in anybody of any quality.

That's not a debate, it's a clusterfuck.

Its a sad state of affairs when you can't debate whether a player a competitor signs could have done a job for us.

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Exactly.

The happy clappers and the doom mongers are both getting on my fucking tits

There is no middle ground, you must hate everyone.

I look nice today.  I have a beer.  I'm having sausages later.  All good.

Hope that helps.


Oh, and I have suspicion that we may just surprise a few people on here this season.  The reds are going...up?

I'd suggest signing someone who out scored all of our post-January striker put together was a forward move.

Short term move, yes but also a forward one.

So did Chris Zebroski and so did 90% of strikers in the league, so thats crap.

Fuck me you got out of bed the wrong side this morning you are really :fishing: today.

Not much of a benchmark to go by though DV

Sorry I must have missed the bit where Zebroski played in L1 last season?


Not really no.

But right this second, it would be a forward move on our part.

Hopefully not come August - but now...

Sorry I must have missed the part that you SPECIFIED L1 last season I thought you meant a goalscorer like we need.

 yeah next time specify  :D