kevinhectoring

wayne rooney. it’s time to admit it   
 

I'm not sure Notts County link has anything to it. I could be wrong, but I just don't see it for a few reasons: 
1) County have put some effort in to developing younger players, i.e. Rodrigues, Langstaff, Scott, etc. They do have a couple of players over 30, but I feel like McGoldrick doesn't fit their current recruitment model. Obviously, McGoldrick IS McGoldrick which leads me to my next point. 
2) David McGoldrick at Derby County can probably earn somewhere in the region of £500k next season. Notts County's highest earner is probably sat somewhere around the £200k mark. They may pay him more, but ultimately he's going to be taking roughly 50% wage cut to join a newly promoted team to League 2. 
3) McGoldrick supports Notts County as a club, sure, but the club and the people within the club are two very different entities. In reality, who a player supports, has very little bearing on any decision on their future. How well would he get on with the players, managers, etc. 
To me, it seems very unlikely that he would turndown £10k a week (roughly) here after arguably his best season in professional football for 4-5k a week at Notts County. Again, I could be wrong but I think it's a bit of a fantasist suggestion that's grew legs. 

He will not joining notts county he will signing a new contract here.

I’m purely guessing on this basis and D.M being a fairly smart guy, being as he can negotiate for himself, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to imagine after all these years, he might know a friendly journalist to run a story of notts county being interested.
He may well still want to sign for us, best season ever, the hat tricks, all other things considered ; it still wouldn’t be a bad tactic, part of playing hard ball as you go into negotiations.
Anyway, still think he’ll sign 🐑 

he’s classy when he’s on it but his intensity is so so patchy. it improved end of season.  A player like that saps energy out of a team and unsettles other players. I am surprised Warne has so much faith in him - he cuts right against the approach Warne claims he wants 

Warne loves intensity but he also loves a set piece and Hourihane, for any faults, can put in a decent corner/free kick. Would be interested to see our Xg from set pieces last season compared to goals scored because Warne seemed to think we should have scored a lot more 

he’s classy when he’s on it but his intensity is so so patchy. it improved end of season.  A player like that saps energy out of a team and unsettles other players. I am surprised Warne has so much faith in him - he cuts right against the approach Warne claims he wants 

I'm a bit more in favour of the Burley and Clough way.  This is the offer, let me know in a couple of days, it has an expiration.

http://thera.ms/wass245
 
after 14 years Darren as gone wonder if this is part of the great reset 

He’s been a monumental player for us. I think those who think he’s average at this level, or at championship level, should probably give their heads a bobble. 

He’s from south london 

I’m not sure I follow your logic either. Every season for every club since I first watched footy could have been different were it not for a ref decision here or there or a save or a missed open goal. Twas ever thus and ever will be.
The plain fact is that we weren’t good enough to go up this year. We challenged but fell short. The proof lies in the table. Lots of reasons for that chief amongst them in my view - you may not agree - the effects of the financial and disciplinary issues we’ve faced. Our club has been decimated from the academy upwards and Clowes, rightly i think, decided after his internal review that the issues on and off the pitch needed time to fix, thus the 4 year contract for his chosen manager and the 5 years to get established in the championship goal.  They go hand in hand.
I suspect that he runs his, very successful, business in the same way. Building (excuse the pun) it over time. He’s not the type, it seems to me (and I’ve never met him) to chuck a load of money at something for instant success, rather he wants to build a club on firmer foundations over time, thus 4 years and 5 years. Logical. And, in my view, sensible, especially given what went before him. But demanding patience from those of us that watch. If we go up next year then great; if it’s the year after then not as good but so be it.

don't follow your logic. Nor do I understand why anyone would say it will take time when we might well have gone up this year if a red card or so had fallen differently 
Sooner the better   don't know how that can be debatable 

I’m impatient, sorry. I’ve now been to Fleetwood - it wasn’t on my bucket list - and the novelty has worn off. And I have no desire to go to Stevenage because tho I have no idea what style of football they play I think I’ll find it even more tiresome than driving on the A1. 
 
I can’t remember exactly what words were used, but I wonder whether Clowes’ squidgy statement was off the cuff or premeditated. I’d say it’s purely an exercise in managing the expectations of the fan base, and it enables us to fail to get promotion soon and not regard it as what it is: failure. We should not be in this division and going to quaint grounds to sit in crickety stands to watch indifferent footie on a bad pitch in a cold wind loses its appeal quite quickly. MORE TO THE POINT, if we fail to get promotion soon, we risk being seen as a div 1 club by all and sundry, and we ourselves risk falling into that state of mind, and it is a state of mind that will keep us there. We lose our best players (bye bye Jason, Eiran) and we find it harder and harder to recruit anything but clodhoppers.
(It’s particularly irritating at the same time to see our noisy neighbours cling on in the PL - there is a prospect they may be there as long as we could be in div 1)
So putting aside whether Warne was the right choice - I think he’s just about OK, no more - imo the length of his contract was bat$hit crazy. 
 
So yes, Mr Clowes’ statement can be interpreted in different ways - that was his intention. But I wish he’d settled on a manager who would take a 3 year appointment and had said, in words of one syllable: our goal is to be back up in three (3) years
 

He’s from south london 

So, promotion next season it is! 😉

He’s from south london 

Back to Derby then (the club who gave him his first senior debut).

He’s been a monumental player for us. I think those who think he’s average at this level, or at championship level, should probably give their heads a bobble. 

Bardic, brammie.  Beautiful 

He’s been a monumental player for us. I think those who think he’s average at this level, or at championship level, should probably give their heads a bobble. 

1. McFarland v Benfica.  1972.
2.Mackay v Chelsea 1968.
3. Hector v Liverpool 1969.
4. George v Real Madrid 1975.
5. Micklewhite V Man Utd. 1989.

such as ‘40% of the time he’s frustrating’, or ‘is he injured, Owen, I don’t know...’.    Fair enough you might stay, he didn’t pick Didzy so why should they get on. But managers need to be careful what they say about players in public and Warne is sometimes not.  It’s a bit too much all about him and his hats. 
 
That said, he’s told us he’ll only recruit players if the personal chemistry with him is  right. So in time you’d expect a group that will be as tight as (reportedly) the Rotherham group was.
Didzy is - in div 1 - a star. I don’t think stars fit very easily into Warne’s World - and that’ likely to be a glass ceiling on his potential as a manager 

Darn yer knit picking. Nothing makes me angora 

What a comeback, oddly enough I thought they would do it.
I hope they go up now, especially for Moore. Not bothered what they sang at a match, we would do the exact same thing.
Good luck Owls!