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Adver says he may join us if Forest sign David McGoldrick. Riddled with injuries lately but would be a good loan signing for the season?

Also WDP says we had a £250,000 bid for Jermaine Easter turned down.

No no no no no no no no no fucking no, thank you.

No thanks.  Certainly wouldn't be on my wish list.

Oh i dont know Sturrock does well with the Scotsman in the side ... Peacock Easton Sturrock jnr

I know it's poor on my part, but I can't quite even place who is is/what type of player.

http://www.nottinghamforest.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10308~10137,00.html

big centre forward-->hoof the ball to and try to hold it up

Ta, though we'd have gone for someone quick and annoying personally as we already have Corr. 2 big front men may work I suppose...

Im concerned it would eliminate our midfield as Id like to think we were past the days of hoofball  :(

Too injury prone to take a risk. What if Corr's back goes again ?

he may not play alot IF we get him, how many of our last day signings played a big alot last year,He may just give our strikers the kick up the ass they need though.

Worst player ever to play for Scotland. Well after Stockdale, Kyle, Elliott, Holt....

The way Sturrock likes to play: Using the wings to whip balls into the box, suggests that he is exactly the type of player he'd go for. (Whether he's good enough I'll leave up to you)

I'm relieved that Wycombe turned done our bid. £250,000 is a helluva lot of dosh to risk on a fourth division footballer with only one good season under his belt.

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10840

for comparison

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=24357

suggest more than one good season.

So you're a better judge of a player than Sturrock then?

I would have thought Sturrock had just about done enough by now to have earnt just a modicum of trust from the fans.

I've heard of the bloke but couldn't tell you anything about him to be honest. But if Sturrock thinks he's good enough then that will do for me.

I wouldn't be surprised if he goes to Carlisle though.

i agree with ost.if sturrock thinks he's good enough then we have to trust him

Just a reminder, most of you slagged Corr off before he'd even kicked a ball so at least give him a chance... If he signs that is!

Ah the old "you must be stoopid you disagree with Sturrock " line.

Man that gets on my tits!

I have no opinion of Doobie though.

Just a reminder, most of you slagged Corr off before he'd even kicked a ball so at least give him a chance... If he signs that is!

why say the same thing 5 minutes later?

Corr sucks

Did I say that? I don't think so.

I was just saying I don't want Dobie here, my opinion is that he's an injury prone waste of space who couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

If Sturrock wants to sign him and think's he'll benefit us then that's up to him.

A bit like barry corr then

Apparently if he signs he will be number 18...with a bullet :wink:

I work with a forest fan. He says that Dobie would be an excellent signing. He has just caught the forest problems.

most forest fans fucking hate him with a passion and would gladly kill him if it meant Colin wouldnt pick him in the team!!

dont most forest fans hate calderwood too?

tbh, most forest fans hate everyone - but I've never ever heard them say a good work about Dobie. They would be well chuffed if he left

Yeah that what the forest fans told me to  :x

I just knew you would say that. I was waiting for it 8)

Well, let me tell you what gets on my tits. Whenever we sign a player (I know we haven't signed Dobie yet and may not) some one, or more usually several people, will say, "Oh no! Why did we sign him? He's crap!" or something along those lines before he's even kicked a ball.

As for the bit about being stupid to disagree with Sturrock. Well, to a degree, I think that some one who has done absolutely nothing in football effectively saying that a person who has one of the best records in the game doesn't know what they are doing, is indeed quite stupid.

OK, so the next response is, "Yes football is all about oinions....etc" Indeed it is. But if some one like Sturrock signs a player who you may not rate, surely you should be thinking "Oooooh, well I never really rated him but obviously Sturrock has seen something that perhaps I have missed" rather than just dismissing that player out of hand.

I know you've decided you don't like Sturrock but you can't argue with what he's done and people should trust his judgement a lot more than what they do. I'm not saying he's always right but you must  accept that he knows a hell of a lot more than the 'average Jo'. Or perhaps you don't and you just think he's very, very, very lucky :shrug:

I dont think we will get him anyway

Neither do I!

Plus he is not a target man as some have said I think they must be getting him mixed up with someone else.  He is quite quick, works the channels although he is good in the air, he wouldn't be a bad signing as he's more experienced at playing at this level, he's more experienced in scoring at this level and he's more deadly in the box than what we have so I wouldnt complain too much for once  :shock:

Cannot see us getting anyone- no other clubs seem to have a problem tho

oh fuck off bart you cunting bastard :wink:
 :D i thought i'd join the others in abusing you

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23257&start=15

I started a thread just for you Bart - nice to see you havent let me down.

I doubt he's on now as McGoldrick has gone to Port Vale

That's what i'm thinking/hoping too.

I have no idea how we managed to sign a single player this season?

What with us being a football club and everyone in the league knowing that we try to avoid having a full team of players at all costs.

It's just completely and utterly mind-bogglingly over-whelming. I may just have to explode instead of solving this Vorderman-esq imponderably  impossible puzzle.

How other clubs have signed tripe we could have had is also beyond me, so much quality we've missed out on, so much time to have signed them. - Surely Sturrock can be forced to sign players whether he likes it or not?

I don't know why we can't just sign every single player out of contract and every player - that could come to us - was forced to sign, regardless of their own feelings and opinions.

I remember this time last season when you pointed out we'd failed to sign Simon Yeo, Jesus, it still hurts me now, that made me puke for days and I almost gave up football watching forever.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Come on then Brat who have we missed out on that would enhance this club and not be out of a realistic price range ..maybe we should have put in a sneaky bid for Yakubu . Knob head. i actually think that you enjoy doom and gloom.

Thierry Henry, obviously, dick head  :roll:

Lee Barnard, Darren Byfield, David McGoldrick to name but three?

Both unproven byfield gone to the championship

Would you rather have any of them up front rather than SturrocK?
So they would enhance the team !

i honestly dont know if they are any good so i dont know. Byfield yes

Byfields a cunt and I wouldnt want him in my team.


....and who is to say we ever had any chance of getting Barnard or McGoldrick?

irrelevant if he is a cunt or not he would score goals for us

Exactly, McGoldrick wanted to be near his midlands based family, and Sturrock may not have wanted Barnard. My spurs fan mate thinks he's shit anyway.

the fact is there are players available.some known names others we've never heard of.sturrock has been looking for weeks and for some reason nobody has come in yet.
will those that slate bart continually be happy if we have no new forward by the end of today?

I don't give a fuck whether we get another forward. I think we'll cope for the season as we are. We create alot, and we still have 3 strikers who haven't played yet (bar substitutions) who could do a job.

Who says a loan will be better than Kaid and Arrieta?

Im sorry but I really beg to differ.  Previous games have showed that yes we are creating a lot but the balls haven't ended up in the back of the net - thus needing a somewhat clinical finisher (well as clinical as you can get for league one).

we've still managed to score 4 goals in the 3 league games we've played.

I still think we need another striker upfront....but with Corr out injured and seemingly a good striker.....we dont need someone long term, that why I think we'll get someone in on loan for 3 months. Then that will be terminated/extended depending on Corr

I still wish we'd snapped up Adam Boyd on a free...

Yes I will, if the only players that Sturrock could have brought in are no better than what we have got. Id rather get someone in, but we dont want Sturrock to do what Gorman did towards transfer deadline in the premiere league by bringing in shite players like McAvennie, Sanchez a nd Kilcline to name but a few.

but maybe sturrocks hands are tied due to lack of funds,not lack of players?

maybe Sturrock resigned yesterday

all i can say is i've been totally impressed by our chelts and luton performances as a whole... whereas for as long as i can remember id say "played well shit" if someone asked me how we got on... we didnt even win at cheltenham but we performed... in that sense i think we'll cope this year without another signing although it's always fun when we do get anyone.

thumbs up from me for dobie though- got more pedigree than the rest of our strikers put together.

I still think we need someone long term personally.  I think Corr will be great injury permitting but we need someone to play off him.  Yes we have started the season well but lets not get carried away if we had a decent front man we would have 9 points sat on the board.

A striker is a must for us to push on now, the one thing I am finding hard to understand is if we have bid £125k/250k for Easter why are we not bidding money for other strikers surely hes not Sturrock's only permanent target.  

I remain hopeful we will pull a striker out the hat before midnight  :?

Well i wont be losing any sleep over it thats for sure. What is the point of panic buying and paying over the odds for a striker that hasnt exactly set the world on fire and no team in their right mind is going to release someone this early in the season.Strange things have happened,Last season Blair could do no wrong and was a welcome addition to the squad and 3 or 4 games in you would think that he was the anti christ! Get real people, this is Swindon Town not Real Madrid.

I'm sure Ashley Grimes is available on loan  :?

should have signed Kenny Deucher, also McLean would have been good.

Why? he didn't do much for Northampton last season.

Agree to an extent Foggy but last year he was more of an impact sub who made a good impression more often that not.  This year he has been our main striker and has looked largely anonymous for the first 3 games but to be fair looked much better against Cheltenham.

I don't think it will be too hard to sign better than what we have as we have a welsh non league player, an experienced foreigner whos never played in England, the managers son who has'nt played much throughout his career and an injury hit striker who we are all pinning our hopes on.  Personally I would settle for anything to make the squad stronger, sod this lets trust his judgement.  We need a striker now......... I'm not a patient man  :D

Sam Parkin didnt do much for Northampton.

If he was that good he wouldn't have gone to St. Johnstone on loan.

I dont think that the intention was to ever use him as the first choice striker to be honest, The role has been forced upon PS by lack of funds, player availability and the board room shernanigans. If we do sign a forward i would imagine that Blair will return to the bench.

Yes it has been an enforced decision unfortunately.  My main worry is that Barry Corr gets injured again and we are left with a very thinbare attack.  We just need another body to add some strength to the squad and more competition in that area.  I think we should be using this great start as a spring board to push on now and I think another striker is pivotal in this.

we've made a great start with a makeshift forward line.but we need to take it up a notch by getting in another forward.the rest of the team is looking spot on.
its not a case of panic buying either as targets would have been sought out weeks ago.
if brez had gone as planned then a deal would have been done by now,i'm sure of it

So you're going for quantity over quality?

Poor argument. Arrietta's hardly played, neither has Mohhammed.

We've got enough players to fill the spot, what we haven't got is the quality we want.

If Sturrock can't get someone he thinks will improve the squad, then he might as well get no one.

Anyone would think, with the comments on here, that buying a 20 goal a season striker is a piece of piss, what we need to remember is that we are a league 1 side and players won't be queuing up to come here. At least not the type of player we want.

Is the deadline 5pm or midnight for this transfer window.......looking ominously like for once Bart will actually be correct.

Not a poor argument at all I think if we can get someone in who has experience of scoring and playing regular in English football then he is already ahead of the current players we have.

If your trying to say that there is no striker out there who is available that Sturrock can get that would benefit the team then you must of been drinking.  Its either time for him to lower the standards on his targets or to let us all know that the board are putting restraints on him because its difficult to see any other explanation.

Adam Boyd still remains the big one that got away in the summer whilst we were twiddling our thumbs.  Buying a 20 goal a season striker is hard but buying a striker that will improve the team is alot easier.

It's midnight but we had to have signed someone by midday to make them available for tomorrow so looking like no new faces for Crewe home game.

We should listen to bart more we could all learn something :--

Well given you posted that 4 and three quarter hours AFTER the deadline for player availability for tomorrow, its blindingly obvious  :soapy tit wank:

 :mrgreen:

Very annoying :x

Valid point  :oops:  :D

Well he has been in some big money moves at some CCC clubs. Hmmmm....