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antipodeagle Flag Wellington 18 Feb 14 5.45am Send a Private Message to antipodeagle Add antipodeagle as a friend

Whether you like it or not, Sow's 'ere and not looking like a silk purse.

 
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BigTimeCharlie Flag Bogota 19 Feb 14 10.36am Send a Private Message to BigTimeCharlie Add BigTimeCharlie as a friend

Quote BelfastEagle at 17 Feb 2014 9.16pm

Campana was a worse signing.

Young player, obvious talent, resale value, has assisted a couple of goals for us this season... Yeah, I see your point there mate.

With regards to Sow, someone above used the word proven... 12 goals in the Swedish regional 3rd league a couple of years ago, 3 goals in the Moldovan league the season after. Now that's what I call pedigree!

Agree with the majority here, absolutely pointless signing, especially aged 23.

 
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BigTimeCharlie Flag Bogota 19 Feb 14 10.36am Send a Private Message to BigTimeCharlie Add BigTimeCharlie as a friend

Quote antipodeagle at 18 Feb 2014 5.45am

Whether you like it or not, Sow's 'ere and not looking like a silk purse.

Very good, btw!

 
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Hoof Hearted 19 Feb 14 10.40am

Quote antipodeagle at 18 Feb 2014 5.45am

Whether you like it or not, Sow's 'ere and not looking like a silk purse.


What a crackling porky pun, I'm pig sick I didn't trot it off first.

 
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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Feb 14 10.40am

Quote cols123 at 17 Feb 2014 7.14pm

Was signed as another body in attack after doing ok in trial/preseason games.

Got injured as soon as he signed, hasnt been fit since I believe

This.

Its easy to judge in hindsight. At the time he looked promising, but if he's injured he's injured, and it can take a long time to recover from an injury. Theres always a risk involved in signing any player that they'll be injured. Probably a good signing for us at the time

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Feb 14 10.43am

Quote BigTimeCharlie at 19 Feb 2014 10.36am

Quote BelfastEagle at 17 Feb 2014 9.16pm

Campana was a worse signing.

Young player, obvious talent, resale value, has assisted a couple of goals for us this season... Yeah, I see your point there mate.

With regards to Sow, someone above used the word proven... 12 goals in the Swedish regional 3rd league a couple of years ago, 3 goals in the Moldovan league the season after. Now that's what I call pedigree!

Agree with the majority here, absolutely pointless signing, especially aged 23.

Means nothing on its own, our top goal scorer last season was doing alright in the lower leagues, and Gayle, whos gotten a few and looked promising, was playing in non-league football.

Talent can be anywhere, and sometimes it pays to take a risk on a player you can get really cheap. Taken Calvin Andrew, much lamented, but in that Administration season his contributions were vital in keeping us up when Alan Lee was injured. Cheap as chips player who more than made up for his cost.


 

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akiisalegend Flag Croydon 19 Feb 14 12.37pm Send a Private Message to akiisalegend Add akiisalegend as a friend

Quote babylonjohn at 17 Feb 2014 8.46pm

Never saw Jack Hunt in a Palace shirt either did we.


To be fair I think thats harsh. Broke his ankle in pre-season and now gone out on loan to regain fitness as would be hard to dislodge our arguable POTY from right back.

When i'd seen hunt play for Huddersfield, granted only a few times, i thought he was quality

 
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Hansy Flag 19 Feb 14 1.00pm Send a Private Message to Hansy Add Hansy as a friend

Quote BelfastEagle at 17 Feb 2014 9.16pm

Campana was a worse signing.


Completely wrong. Never put a foot wrong in our games. Forgetting Grandin/Thomas etc?

 
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BigTimeCharlie Flag Bogota 19 Feb 14 3.01pm Send a Private Message to BigTimeCharlie Add BigTimeCharlie as a friend

Quote jamiemartin721 at 19 Feb 2014 10.43am

Quote BigTimeCharlie at 19 Feb 2014 10.36am

Quote BelfastEagle at 17 Feb 2014 9.16pm

Campana was a worse signing.

Young player, obvious talent, resale value, has assisted a couple of goals for us this season... Yeah, I see your point there mate.

With regards to Sow, someone above used the word proven... 12 goals in the Swedish regional 3rd league a couple of years ago, 3 goals in the Moldovan league the season after. Now that's what I call pedigree!

Agree with the majority here, absolutely pointless signing, especially aged 23.

Means nothing on its own, our top goal scorer last season was doing alright in the lower leagues, and Gayle, whos gotten a few and looked promising, was playing in non-league football.

Talent can be anywhere, and sometimes it pays to take a risk on a player you can get really cheap. Taken Calvin Andrew, much lamented, but in that Administration season his contributions were vital in keeping us up when Alan Lee was injured. Cheap as chips player who more than made up for his cost.



That was more to illustrate my issue with the word 'proven' in this case, but whilst I agree about sometimes taking a punt, with Gayle and Murray both had been prolific at a certain level, whereas Sow never has. He also didn't pull up any trees in pre-season for us either, so for me signing him has been a waste of both wages and a year of the bloke's career - even without hindsight that should have been obvious.

 
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Quote Hansy at 19 Feb 2014 1.00pm

Quote BelfastEagle at 17 Feb 2014 9.16pm

Campana was a worse signing.


Completely wrong. Never put a foot wrong in our games. Forgetting Grandin/Thomas etc?


He'd have to move his feet around a bit more to put one wrong.

Why there's still so much fuss about this guy, I have no idea...

 

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hursteagle Flag 20 Feb 14 1.09pm Send a Private Message to hursteagle Add hursteagle as a friend

I thought that the original idea of him signing was because we didn't have anybody who played like Chamakh on the books. And because IH wanted to build a team around Chamakh he thought it was important to have a similar player in the 21s.

Whether that's still the case though in another matter...

 
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Andy_G Flag Wimbledon 20 Feb 14 1.10pm Send a Private Message to Andy_G Add Andy_G as a friend

Quote olls at 17 Feb 2014 8.08pm

Aruna Dindane last year... Did he even get off the bench?!


Did he even get on the bench?

 

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