No getting around the fact that signing Joey Gibbs is already proving to be an awful decision, sheesh.
No getting around the fact that signing Joey Gibbs is already proving to be an awful decision, sheesh.
Originally Posted by SuperDyl
He was an awful signing from the beginning. Look at who else we can use in his position/s:
Heskey
Bridges
Goodwin
Hoole
Virgilli
Taggart
Brown
Cooper
Kale
That's 9 players we already have, plus Burns if we eventually sign him. Now, does Gibbs offer anything more than any if those players could? We should be looking at improving the squad, not getting players of the same skiłł season after season (the Tarek Elrich effect).
Anything less than a top class playmaker and centreback and we're ****ed and all three of them need to go:
Middleby - for signing GvE and general incompetence since he took over
van Egmond - for being shit and continually signing incompetent players plus his inability to sign top players
Deans - for being Deans
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
Welcome to my thoughts about re-signing bridges, twice
This is me thinking out loud here, but have a look at GvE's thought process for signing Alex Smith.
We have as midfielders:
- Kanta
- Zad
- Caravella
- Brown
- Brillante
- Cooper
- Pepper
- Oxborrow
Out of them you could say the attacking midfielders would be:
- Brown
- Caravella (if GvE wants him there)
- Cooper
- Bridges (including him for AM position)
Out of all those guys, the ones you would think don't have claim to a starting spot just yet would be:
- Oxborrow
- Cooper
- Pepper
- Bridges (IMO)
The rest have a decent stab at a starting spot.
So then you look at Alex Smith's qualities
- Made state league look easy
- Scores occasional goals
- Hard working midfielder
- Probably prefers #10, but would be better used in HAL as a box-to-box
Almost all of these qualities I believe Caravella has. I think we have Alex Smith already in our squad.
If GvE truly believed we needed another midfielder, why wouldn't he look at a cheap local who can score occasional goals, work hard, play for the shirt, and fit in with the playing group? I don't know - someone like Jobe?
We have a bunch of cheap kids on our books. I daresay, ignoring Heskey's wages, we'd be scraping close to the minimum cap spend as-is. Our remaining two squad spots were meant to be for a playmaker and a centre back, both meant to be high profile and "bring an x-factor" to the team. They were meant to be the icing on the cake - they were meant to take us from a scraping finals team to a top 2 team (I'm serious - GvE has had so long and so much support with his system that he shouldn't be considered successful with anything less). What exactly is GvE and HSG hoping to achieve by signing Smith? Do they expect to send out a Jets Insider email saying "we signed an A-League journeyman, if you haven't signed up to #standwithus yet then there's no way you can't now"? They'd get more returning members if they signed Jobe up again ffs.
And because I love the topic - Bridges needs to rip up his contract and let us sign a centre back, playmaker AND Burns.
In summation, tl;dr #bringbackgriffo #bridgesout
Who is the Alex smith rumour coming from? Caravella is not ur typical am, doesn't pose a goal scoring threat but I like what he brings for the deeper mid role. My only thinking with smith is that we may have more spots left than we thought or someone is leaving
ozsportsinsider on twitter.
Last season in various reports and interviews we were told that Chapman, Ox, Cooper, Duncan, Hoole & Brillante were all on the FT youth contracts, where I think the rules on allow 3 or 4 (I think 3). So I'm not sure even if HSG know which players contribute to our cap and squad spaces tbh. But I know that RM confirmed we only had 2 squad spots available currently - he's told us that several times. Bridges needs to free us up another spot.
Yeah remember RM saying we only had 2 spots. I do agree about bridges but seriously not gonna happen till next season. I think we will hear of someone leaving soon, maybe one of the under 20's might have impressed enough at the world cup
There was a goodwin rumour on Leeds Utd website or something... he seems most likely to leave.
WE DON'T DO WALKING AWAY !
We will need more cover at left back then. I wouldn't be surprised if heskey doesn't return either
I just hope Middleby doesn't have to pay Leeds too much to take him off our hands.
#middlebyinventedthereversetransferfee
Burns is official on a season loan
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/...an-Burns/71310
may i correct myself its to mid January
What i think our starting XI should be now
-------------------Biraz---------------
Brillante--Chapman--CB*--Goodwin
------------Zad----Caravella---------
---------------Brown------------------
----Taggart---Heskey----Burns------
*centre back to be signed
I thought it would be near impossible for them to stuff this up, but there you go
Korean club is not silly. If Jets want to keep him past this date it is within the transfer window where we will probably pay them three times what we should. Hopefully the people running the Korean club do a Middleby and give him to us for free.
There is only one Middleby, just like Kerry Packer could only find one Alan Bond to fleece.
Oh Middleby. You've done it again.
Tell you what, the Jets have really capitalized on 'Burnsmania' already.
Got a text message 30 mins after announcing we've signed a bloke on loan for 1/2 season to remind me to renew my seats.
Talk about striking while the iron is hot.
I'd best get my shit together.
Not a bad lineup...as long as Brown steps up
I hope he likes prison food.......and penis
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