Hmmm. He does seem to have switched his Purchase Plan from Exciting to Solid.

I liked transfer windows when he who must not be named was here - we were often linked with players of skill, or potential, even if the standard was champs rather than prem.

Dann, Gutierrez, Whelan: well I'm sure they're all of the required standard but they're not really Next Step Up players, are they? Are they just a better class of Robinson, Andy Hughes, Thorne?

Well let's hope not. Also, with Dann, yes he does look solid and his partnership with Johnson at Brum looked very good. But both of them have been relegated a lot, with different clubs. That can't be entirely down to coincidence.

I'm less miserable about all of this than the above reads, by the way. Apols. I;m whelmed, that's all, and I was hoping for better than that. What a crap window this has been.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad on January 25th 2014 at 11:46:09

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Glen Whelan and Danns....good players. Whelan is very underrated and not your (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Jan 25, 10:49:34
- Whelan is a bang average defensive midfielder. If we need one, he'll do. (n/m) (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:16:48
- Hmmm. He does seem to have switched his Purchase Plan from Exciting to Solid. (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 11:46:09
  - It's like 2004 (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 25, 11:58:10
    - they aren't over the hill cloggers tho (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 12:01:04
      - loz was right below - this is not the time of year to be buying glittering youth and futur (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:02:33
        
        yes, he has a point, tho I'm not sure i completely agree about the time of year (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 12:04:08
        
        My point being - glitter and youth, at our level, will be an unknown to the league (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:07:57
        
        RvW hasn't been scapegoated... he has been rubbish. (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:18:10
        
        And you prove my original point - exciting players - that we can afford - by and large (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:21:40
        
        every signing is a gamble... forking out for a bunch average defensive players (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:24:57
        
        dion't we also have the 3rd worst defensive record? Not sure. thereabouts anyway (n/m) (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 12:30:09
        
        just looked it up: 5th worst (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:36:19
        
        He has been injured for three months - people ignore this (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:19:25
        
        he was crap before he was injured, really crap. (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:21:35
        
        He played about 5 games with the whole attacking third of the pitch to himself!!! (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:23:03
        
        well, yes, he wasn't used very well (n/m) (NCFC) - phrankin, Jan 25, 12:26:07
        
        and it's a fair point. My point is that if there are a dozen bang average teams (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 12:11:15
        
        Agreed. Neither am I... (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:12:01
        
        and also, I accept that Bang Average isn't really fair in 1 or 2 cases of the three mentio (n/m) (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Jan 25, 12:11:54
        
        Exciting players, not exciting youth - obviously Hoolahan is not youth, which is why Villa (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 12:09:31
    - What over the hill cloggers are we getting then? (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Jan 25, 11:59:40
- yeah, I rate Whelan quite highly, would be pleased to sign him (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Jan 25, 10:57:03
  - well, when i've seen him against us he's done nothing other clogg, i'm sure you will now (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jan 25, 12:44:43
  - Defense defense! (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 25, 11:04:41
    - poi (n/m) (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Jan 25, 11:05:14
- Yes we should have a really good championship side soon (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 25, 10:52:44
  - Whelan has played pretty much in the Prem hasn't he? (n/m) (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Jan 25, 10:57:11
    - ? No comparison (n/m) (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Jan 25, 13:53:07
    - So has Steve Morison (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 25, 11:07:37
- I am pleased. (n/m) (NCFC) - Thegelman, Jan 25, 10:50:09

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