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Do Birmingham have money?

Not really no.

Do Birmingham have money?

£8mill transfer kitty in January according to their forum, so yes.

Thats the first time I've seen him play and have to say I was very happy with what I saw.
His control is good, passing excellent, and workrate high (especially given his lay off and coming straight back in).
Looked very good, well done Caddis.


The sooner we can make him our player on a more permanent basis the better.


caddis is to good for us at the mo, he would be brilliant in a good team.


Top player. And never found wanting for commitment and running.
Always positive with the ball at his feet, never shirks a challenge and because of that he's a real crowd pleaser.
If only we could inject the tireless passion of this guy into the other 20 lads in the squad!


What i liked about Caddis was that he tried to play the ball out of defence and his overlapping runs were superb


Caddis was superb and 10/10 for Clarke for spotting him.


Caddis was 100% brill today (on my TV)...as he has been when I've seen him before like.


caddis is quality we better sign him up before someone else does dont think he put foot wrong all game and when he runs with the ball he makes things happen if only he had a left footed twin


He's just an out and out full back which is always great to see. Bombs up and down the flanks, tough tackler and puts in a nice cross. I thought his positional play was a bit off sometimes on Friday but overall a top display. Looks like a Stephen Carr type player which can't be a bad thing.
Sign him up Clarky - they can keep Rooney!


we just have a straight loan with swindon whereas they have the option to purcase rooney at the end of the loan we are effectivley putting caddis in the shop window for other teams to swoop in and get him from under us

maybe we can have Redmond in return.

Oh and a lot of their fans raving about him, played 5 games and they have not lost one of them, 3 wins and 2 draws so far.

Sign him up Clarky - they can keep Rooney!

They can have caddis for free, provided they take rooney back.

Actually he's not had fair crack. But I think we need a different type of striker.

Ever get the feeling we're being financially ransacked for personal gain

Not giving Caddis a bit of slack after the birth of his child was and remains PdC's single biggest mistake.

Funny how his baby was no longer a problem for him once he moved.

inclined to agree with this...but he wasn't the only player with a baby and partner, both Ferry and McCormack had young children and didn't complain.

PdC still learning about management, sometimes he gets it right (Clarke), sometimes he gets it wrong (Caddis) - my big concern is that his man management skills don't seem to be getting any better. Lots of mates who have been more than me this season think the players are scared of making mistakes and that is affecting the team in general.

Remember towards the end of last season when a few of our players were interviewed

Question to Caddis - what will promotion/the title  mean to you?

"About 7 grand"

I think that sums it up   (I think that was the gist of the conversation)

Funny how his baby was no longer a problem for him once he moved.

On the plus side, IF Caddis did want out then at least he hasn't flopped at Brum. We can get as much cash as we would have got had we sold him in January had he stayed, maybe more.

He has another year after this one.

He has another year after this one.

He has another year after this one.

Maybe Brum cut him a bit more slack? Maybe the kid was a bit easier to deal with? Maybe his missus was better able to cope by herself? And maybe he just fell out with Di Canio and wanted a move? We don't know, we won't know, fact is the two of them fell out. Could the player have handled it better (as others did)? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. Could the manager have handled it better? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. Of the two of them, it's more the manager's job to be able to handle those situations, so I'd tend to regard the whole sorry saga as a failure on Di Canio's part. Others will disagree because they like the overall way the manager is running the team. Fair enough. But we don't need to keep sniping at the player's personal life like this, he was a good player and a good captain till he fell out with his boss.

Does he. Oh OK. Kaching indeed!

We have to sell though

There's no way back for him here as we know.

Caddis can go fuck himself.

Not giving Caddis a bit of slack after the birth of his child was and remains PdC's single biggest mistake.

A theory yes but Ritche played his best football for us IMO when he had Caddis playing behind him and then bombing forward.  This gave the left side of the opposition team something extra to think about and freed up more space for Ritchie.

Thompson (and especially Devera when he filled in) doesn't offer the same attacking threat which had meant a number of teams have doubled up on Ritchie this season and stifled his contribution on occasion.

That's the evidence I've seen to back up the theory in my mind.

Sadly your first point is bang on, with the exception of the driving one

We seem to be coping alright without the cunt

A theory yes but Ritche played his best football for us IMO when he had Caddis playing behind him and then bombing forward.  This gave the left side of the opposition team something extra to think about and freed up more space for Ritchie.

I've said it plenty of times before, so I'll say it again. The triangle of Caddis, Ritchie and Ferry was vital last season and when one of them had a poor game, so did the rest of the team. Opposition either couldn't handle the threat down the right flank or overcompensated and allowed us to shift play down the left with equal effect. The season we missed out on the play-offs we had an excellent combination in the Amankwaah/McGovern partnership, they clicked and covered each other extremely well.

As leefer says, the team as a whole needs to gel in order to be successful but it's vitally important that individual units work together; it's all composed of players who work together in areas of the pitch - you don't need your right back to have a great partnership with your left winger for example.

IMO, Caddis is the best full back I've seen at Swindon.

Last season was a division lower,there is no way you can compare it to this season.

Ritchie has 8 goals this season.

Caddis was Ritchie.

I seem to be in the minority but i dont reckon he was any great shakes.

Ricky was the only truly great Shakes

Ritchie's doing fine without Caddis this season.  What the team needs is someone decent to get on the end of his deliveries into the area. 

Last season was a division lower,there is no way you can compare it to this season.

Agree with this, we need strikers that can finish way more than we need a Caddis.

Nahki Wells?

Nahki Wells?

He'll be going to a better club than us.I understand Paolo looked at him last season but we didn't make a move.

Amended.