DEAL OFF - Bradley Wright Phillips

[The whole year inn]

I like that we prey on teams that are desperate for money

Reminds me a bit of the Doyle transfer - Cork needed cash and fast

[Royal Lady]

Signing a striker for £300k and then saying "this is as good as it possibly could have got" just tells you everything about RFC these days tbh.

I'm not knocking the signing per se, just making the point that we wouldn't have been thinking this a few seasons ago.

My point still stands. It is very sad to think that "this is as good as it possibly could have got" when we buy a striker for £300k.

[brendywendy]

id prefer it to think of it like this:


1.5 million for young and unproven 2nd top scorer in 3rd tier
300k for less young, but more proven, 1st top scorer in 3rd tier.

viewed like that it makes total sense, and doesnt cause me to have a "wheres the ambition" aneurism

[Ian Royal]

Signing a striker for £300k and then saying "this is as good as it possibly could have got" just tells you everything about RFC these days tbh.

I'm not knocking the signing per se, just making the point that we wouldn't have been thinking this a few seasons ago.

My point still stands. It is very sad to think that "this is as good as it possibly could have got" when we buy a striker for £300k.

And I'd say buying a League One's top scorer and a player with limited Championship & Premier League experience for £300k is awesome. The size of the fee is immaterial (as has been shown so often by us) it's the quality you get for it on which you judge.

[Royal Lady]

I didn't mention ambition.

[brendywendy]

I didn't mention ambition.

i didnt say you did, and wasnt referring to you with that aneurism comment, i was saying it would stop me having one, by viewing the transaction as above instead of "BWP for 300 k???!!! pffft, we should be buying austin for 1.5"

just saying it makes total sense to me, and if i were manager, id be making exactly the same choice as brian.
im sure we could have stretched to 1.5. we just chose not to, cos we didnt think he was worth it.

much love. mwah

[Ian Royal]

I didn't mention ambition.

i didnt say you did, and wasnt referring to you with that aneurism comment, i was saying it would stop me having one, by viewing the transaction as above instead of "BWP for 300 k???!!! pffft, we should be buying austin for 1.5"

just saying it makes total sense to me, and if i were manager, id be making exactly the same choice as brian.
im sure we could have stretched to 1.5. we just chose not to, cos we didnt think he was worth it.

much love. mwah

I'm not so sure we could have stretched, though you are right. Why on earth pay 5 times as much for a player with maybe more potential, but less experience and roughly the same current record?

[79Royal]

Signing a striker for £300k and then saying "this is as good as it possibly could have got" just tells you everything about RFC these days tbh.

I'm not knocking the signing per se, just making the point that we wouldn't have been thinking this a few seasons ago.

My point still stands. It is very sad to think that "this is as good as it possibly could have got" when we buy a striker for £300k.

Haven't we been thinking like this for years now? And isn't that why so many people want Madejski out?

[brendywendy]

i have no idea how many people really want him out, but i wouldnt take the people who shout loudest on hobnob to be any kind of majority


i do know that the alot of people who want him out want him out for spurious reaons

[muddyfeet]

We haven't signed anyone vaguely exciting for awhile, I come back from a wkend away and we are apparently signing two new players!
We all would have preferred Austin and we won't be the only club who have been priced out. I trust McD and his signings and he must see some potential. We really need a back up striker for long now mooney and rasiak are gone so I'm quite happy if this goes through

[Mid Sussex Royal]

How long will this take?...if the fee and terms were agreed yesterday and he was having a medical today, anyone know when it will be confirmed, or does he need scans and that?

I'm guessing at maybe the complication of a. Holding press conferences on a Sunday and b. Getting the permission from the bodies on a Sunday as well. 11am tomorrow maybe, would seem sensible?

Hopefully..............unless micky mouse has messed up again.

[brendywendy]

you mean like how he messed up buying all those players for peanuts, and selling them for millions.

yeah, hammond out

[tomrfcurz]

you mean like how he messed up buying all those players for peanuts, and selling them for millions.

yeah, hammond out

No he means when Madejski took donkeys to step up to the asking price or at least a reasonable price for Tommy Smith then we were too late as Portsmouth had got wind he was available for the right offer

[soggy biscuit]

Plymouth MUST raise £500k by the end of January. Otherwise it's goodnight to Cornwall's 2nd biggest club.

Am I missing something or did Plymouth move into Cornwall overnight?

[brendywendy]

you mean like how he messed up buying all those players for peanuts, and selling them for millions.

yeah, hammond out

No he means when Madejski took donkeys to step up to the asking price or at least a reasonable price for Tommy Smith then we were too late as Portsmouth had got wind he was available for the right offer

yes. cos it makes sense to carp on about 1 occasion where a transfer didnt take place due to multitudinous reasons, mainly to do with last minute bids from a premiere league club.
hammond could have sorted it on the first day of the window, but if pompey had said, actually- we'd quite likie to buy him, hed still ahve gone.


and even if it is all hammonds fault for not getting smith(who has never looked worth buying to me anyway), why focus on that instead of the great players he has got for us, and huge huge transfer surplus over his tenure

[soggy biscuit]

Signing a striker for £300k and then saying "this is as good as it possibly could have got" just tells you everything about RFC these days tbh.

Jesus Christ you are depressing

[tomrfcurz]

you mean like how he messed up buying all those players for peanuts, and selling them for millions.

yeah, hammond out

No he means when Madejski took donkeys to step up to the asking price or at least a reasonable price for Tommy Smith then we were too late as Portsmouth had got wind he was available for the right offer

yes. cos it makes sense to carp on about 1 occasion where a transfer didnt take place due to multitudinous reasons, mainly to do with last minute bids from a premiere league club.
hammond could have sorted it on the first day of the window, but if pompey had said, actually- we'd quite likie to buy him, hed still ahve gone.


and even if it is all hammonds fault for not getting smith(who has never looked worth buying to me anyway), why focus on that instead of the great players he has got for us, and huge huge transfer surplus over his tenure

I ain't moaning, i don't see that there's been any hiccups, just explaining that fans can be very 'selective' over what's remembered, unfortunately for Mr Mad and co that's how it always will be and RFC fans may think the worst with a deal falling through that is promising, such as Smith. However, as you say there is no real need to think about that; let bygones be bygones as they say

[Pseud O'Nym]

No he means when Madejski took donkeys to step up to the asking price or at least a reasonable price for Tommy Smith then we were too late as Portsmouth had got wind he was available for the right offer

No they didn't, they had a court lift an order that stopped them from buying anyone. I would have thought it was pretty blatantly obvious that the deal was set up long before that day, Russo and Smith's agent dragging their heels up to the last minute in the hope that Pompey would win their case. Do you seriously think that such deals are done in a few minutes?

[winchester_royal]

Only Reading fans could moan about signing the current top scorer in L1 for a knock down price....

[Hoop Blah]

Fairly decent signing for a reasonable price too.

Not a player I'd get excited about watching from what I've seen of him in the past but I do think he can be a good foil for Long. He's got pace, can beat a defender with a little bit of trickery or movement and knows where the goal is. Not quite the raw finisher that would compliment Long the most, or the big physical target man that I still think we could do with in the squad but gives us the extra strength and options we're crying out for.

Not sure I agree we've snuck this under other clubs radars or that he's more proven than Austin, but decent enough signing all the same.