Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:16 am  

Haven't heard anything about Finch for a while. Has his future been decided yet?
(apologies if it was posted a long time ago)

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:25 am  

Finch is going back to Australia.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:58 am  

Sheldon wrote:

1. fans always over rate players who are signing/playing for them.

Correct

Mrs Barista wrote:

That was under the previous regime, cockle. Fortunately for us our new owner's not talking about taking backward steps.

Lets make this simple. AP said your signings would be top class, in the same mould as Ellis. Out of your 3 signings so far, this is only true on one occasion.

Losing Manu and replacing him with Ellis IMO is not a step forward, more of a like for like. Manu has consistantly been your top attacking player and a player teams fear.

Again signing Arundal is more a like for like after losing Turner, but how Arundal goes, nobody is really sure. He looked good in his debut season but has spent the majority of this season injured.

Watts as most of us Rovers fans know he has the potential but as for applying that well, lets just say he has shown very little of it in his last two seasons. An improvement, who knows!

With the rumours surrounding the club regarding players wanting out, the running of the club been a shamble, it could well be a different FC side we see out next season. AP has alot of work to do regarding ingoing and outgoing players, I suppose we will see what true ambition he has in the next signings brought in.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:02 am  

Well there's a suprise, a Rovers fan knocking our new signings.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:06 am  

A unknown superstar wrote:

Well there's a suprise, a Rovers fan knocking our new signings.

I didn't really see his post as knocking our new signings. I didn't agree with everything he wrote but I can see his reasoning for some of them.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:09 am  

Rupert Pupkin wrote:

Correct

Lets make this simple. AP said your signings would be top class, in the same mould as Ellis. Out of your 3 signings so far, this is only true on one occasion.

Losing Manu and replacing him with Ellis IMO is not a step forward, more of a like for like. Manu has consistantly been your top attacking player and a player teams fear.

Again signing Arundal is more a like for like after losing Turner, but how Arundal goes, nobody is really sure. He looked good in his debut season but has spent the majority of this season injured.

Watts as most of us Rovers fans know he has the potential but as for applying that well, lets just say he has shown very little of it in his last two seasons. An improvement, who knows!

With the rumours surrounding the club regarding players wanting out, the running of the club been a shamble, it could well be a different FC side we see out next season. AP has alot of work to do regarding ingoing and outgoing players, I suppose we will see what true ambition he has in the next signings brought in.

Manu for Ellis = like for like, I laughed that hard when I read that I nearly wet myself and then stopped taking your post seriously.

However, everyone understands that Watts is a gamble, but provided the club have covered the bases with a tight contract, one they can't really lose imo.

With regards to Turner, apart from a 6 week period earlier this season, he has been nothing but average in his time at Hull imo, so Arundal won't exactly have to pull up any trees to be an upgrade.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:10 am  

Rupert Pupkin wrote:

Correct
Lets make this simple. AP said your signings would be top class, in the same mould as Ellis. Out of your 3 signings so far, this is only true on one occasion.

Got a link for that quote? He said in the Mail that we have two big signings yet to be confirmed. He never compared them or any of the players already signed but not yet named to Gareth Ellis.

Rupert Pupkin wrote:

Losing Manu and replacing him with Ellis IMO is not a step forward, more of a like for like. Manu has consistantly been your top attacking player and a player teams fear.

Bollox. Ellis is still one of the best back rowers in the world. Manu is a great player and will be sorely missed but no way can you say they are "like for like".

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:13 am  

[quote="chico's nose"]:lol: Manu for Ellis = like for like, I laughed that hard when I read that I nearly wet myself and then stopped taking your post seriously.quote]

Dont get me wrong, Ellis is a fantastic player, world class but your losing your most consistant player, your star player. Not too easily replaced, absolutley no gaurantee that Ellis is going to come in and perform as well as Manu has for you.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:14 am  

Turner is very overated. Three good games in three seasons.
Not upset at all at him going.

Re: Rumours Ad Infinitum : Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:16 am  

worry about your own team,there will be more jumping ship at the dobbins,and who have you signed mmmmmmmmmmmm