Jackal
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Jackal reacted to Millenniumram in Jason Knight - joined Bristol City
Those damn “minor knocks” - always see you end up in another teams medical facility
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Jackal reacted to jono in Sonny Bradley - signed on a two-year-deal
From my Luton supporting nephew who has been there from Championship to Conference and to the PL, marrying Katie along the way.
“Katie’s favourite football song about a player…..
Oh sonny Bradley, you are the love of my life, oh sonny Bradley, I’d let you shag my wife, oh sonny Bradley, I want s*** tattoos too 🎶
Katie has said he is very handsome. Other than that, he will do a job. Proper ball playing centre half. Has the turn of pace like a cruise liner, but will do a job for you lot. Proper, proper leader
But most importantly, Katie thinks he is very good looking “
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Jackal reacted to Ambitious in Mark Harris - joined Oxford United
He’s tall, direct and quick. Wales fans seem to like him well enough. I genuinely can’t remember him in the slightest, never heard of him before yesterday, but seems to be a player who may have something but hasn’t put it together. Every signing we make is going to have some underwhelming undertones to his career to date - it’s difficult to sign a player in the third division and that not be the case. We just have to give them the opportunity to prove us wrong.
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Jackal reacted to NottsRam77 in Mark Harris - joined Oxford United
Its a squad game though isnt it
maybe if we were to get him hes coming im under the role of option striker and if he can win a place then happy days
if ur old enough to remember jim
smith had trollope and sean flynn as back ups to powell and RVdL .. neither were getting in ahead of those two but when the toils of the season kicked in and injuries and suspensions kicked in you need a squad who are willing to play that second fiddle role but step up and give their all when required
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Jackal reacted to bimmerman in Krystian Bielik - Joined Birmingham on a 3 year deal
You know what's gonna happen now right?
He'll stay injury free for a season and a half, boss the championship and get a 20 million move to some lower end prem team.
It's the 'Derby Mel Morris Way'
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Jackal reacted to May Contain Nuts in Conor Washington - signed on a two-year-deal
If we'd already secured our main striker for next season the response to Washington would be different.
Until there's some tangible evidence of a player coming in who clearly improves our overall outlook, who we can trust to lead the line, to be our main scorer and act as a figurehead for our attack, then of course there will be those who'll be somewhat less-than-impressed when the players we are linked with don't fulfill that criteria no matter what they themselves bring to the team.
It's alright telling people to have patience, to trust that we have suitable targets in mind and that it will all fall into place etc, but we've been here before, with that 'final piece of the jigsaw' more often than not eluding us.
We're not looking to build a team to hover around the middle of the table for most of the season, seeing slow and steady progress and maybe hoping to sneak into the playoffs, we're looking to build a team that hits the ground running and at the very least looks to have secured a play-off spot with a few weeks of the season remaining.
Just because there's still a long, long way to go before the window closes it doesn't mean that people won't get fidgety, rightly or wrongly.
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Jackal reacted to Day in Alfie May - joined Charlton
Depends, he might like a cheap pint after work and a pea mix from the chippy.
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Jackal reacted to CBX1985 in David McGoldrick - joined Notts County
We had Rooney as manager, and Lampard. They had great pull bring people in but were ruinously expensive themselves. We moved - in my view, rightly - in a different direction: one of being sustainable.
Is Warne as much of a pull as either of those, or who else Morris would have employed? No. Once you go for a more normal manager - i.e. not a Champions League winner - then you have to accept you are not going to gain the pull of someone who is. But, we are not likely to go bust again by doing this.
On the other matters. We took people like DM on one year deals; others on loan spells. The risk of that is always they leave at the end of the season to meet their own priorities for that (we would love if a world class player was a fan of ours and instead of finishing their career early, or at a smaller Premier League club, they dipped to play for us - kudos to DM for that). Or because they play so well someone higher wants them (back).
Alternately, we could sign players on five year deals that get crocked and we have years paying them off holding us back - ala Bielek.
We nearly didn't have a club twelve months ago. Clowes bought the club despite never wanting that position. If he thinks Warne is the man for the job that is good enough for me: he has certainly paid for his right to make the call.
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Jackal reacted to OoooMarkWright in David McGoldrick - joined Notts County
Fair play to McGoldrick, following his heart and not money to play for his boyhood club. If I was good enough, I’d love to have done the same.
Massive loss to Derby, he carried us a lot last season. Although, I doubt he’d have the same season again at 36. Will miss his class, guile and goals. Very tough to replace. Over to you Warne…
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Jackal reacted to Abu Derby in Ruben Rodrigues - Joined Oxford United
Is he Spanish? Get him in if so. We haven’t had one of those since All-Bent-Toes-A was here.
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Jackal reacted to MACKWORTHRAM in David McGoldrick - joined Notts County
He'll need that when he's earning less money at Notts County
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Jackal reacted to jono in Jason Knight - joined Bristol City
I get (annd agree with ) so many of the well reasoned comments and stats that others have raised. He hasn’t been as influential as I thought he would be over a season. BUT ! If the chips are down there if there is one player in our squad that I would want, anywhere on the pitch, it is Jason Knight. He is a fighter of the first order and gutsy beyond measure.
Great pity if he goes but if he does then we just carry on and hope the fee is useful.
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Jackal reacted to Srg in Jason Knight - joined Bristol City
Played as a number 10, that, for me, isn’t his best position. He needs to be box to box in a 3. Can’t be solely responsible for creativity in a team like ours as a 10. For all his attributes, he’s not creative.
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Jackal reacted to MaltRam in Haydon Roberts - signed for Bristol City
He is. With Derby. Whoop whoop.
(I hope)
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Jackal reacted to Comrade 86 in Krystian Bielik - Joined Birmingham on a 3 year deal
The world cup is long over and all he's doing is hawking his services. He never had any intention of playing for Derby again once we were relegated.
I guess a few are confused on here; for clarity, he's contracted to Derby County and should be preparing to return to the club that paid his wages and medical bills. He should be preparing to return to the club he chose to sign for, ready for pre-season, like every other Derby player, not prattling on about his prospects and keeping his options open. He hasn't and he won't, but I and others are supposed to be fine about it because he is a footballer and has 'higher ambitions'.
Big woop 🙄
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Jackal reacted to one_chop in Charlie Lindsay - Rangers - signed for u21s
A friend of mine has a so called modern caravan with a toilet and a fixed bed. Regarding the toilet, I've no desire to be sat on a bucket in a cupboard. Give me a house any day of the week.
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Jackal reacted to Gaspode in Sonny Bradley - signed on a two-year-deal
Can't think of a better reason for him to want to come to us - most folk can't wait to get away from Hull....
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Jackal reacted to Gee SCREAMER !! in Clark Robertson - Joined FC Ashdod
More a tugboat turning in the fog from what I've seen. He was basically signed by clubs as he'd get 9 goals a year from corners rather than anything else. Them day's are gone.
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Jackal reacted to Gerry Daly in Alfie May - joined Charlton
I like his name, he sounds like a footballer
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