The Breakfast Debate

milkyboy said:
You think the manager reads your letters and signs players you’ve ‘scouted’ off the back of it fella? With all due respect I hope our scouting network was more sophisticated than that... though given past regimes who knows!

Matt Smith terrorised Liverpool in a televised cup game, nobody had seen him before, everyone knew about him then... He became a ‘hot property’ for a short while afterwards.
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I will show WJ the letters when he returns from his cruise if you wishj
 
milkyboy said:
You think the manager reads your letters and signs players you’ve ‘scouted’ off the back of it fella? With all due respect I hope our scouting network was more sophisticated than that... though given past regimes who knows!

Matt Smith terrorised Liverpool in a televised cup game, nobody had seen him before, everyone knew about him then... He became a ‘hot property’ for a short while afterwards.
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I know they read my letters as they replied to me
 
leeds60 said:
The players I suggest are not out of pay scale for instance I wouldn't suggestTerry too old and too expensive
I have a few players after I had written to the manager brought to the club
Adam Smith who I was impressed with at MKD and Matty Smith who I watched playing at Oldham
Others I recommended were Jamie Murphy at Shef U he went to Brighton
Knockheart when he was at Leicester andc Taylor when he was at Oldham Warnock wrote to me saying he had watched him bujt it was always wrong place wrong time .Simon did get Adam and on his 24 birthday we signed Matty
So I have a decent track record I also liked the look of a central player playing for Blackburn but when I asked Chris Hutchings about him he said when they had him on loan he was just alright.
The lad has just appeared recenmtly on sky sports so I will try and remember his name but he was loaned to Ipswich when Chris was assistant to Jewel KEITH Andrews
Does that convince you
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Well considering we have been out of the premiership for 13 years, spent 2 in League 1 and 7th being the highest we've managed since coming back up from the 3rd tier I'd say you need to up your game <laugh>
 
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leeds60 said:
The players I suggest are not out of pay scale for instance I wouldn't suggestTerry too old and too expensive
I have a few players after I had written to the manager brought to the club
Adam Smith who I was impressed with at MKD and Matty Smith who I watched playing at Oldham
Others I recommended were Jamie Murphy at Shef U he went to Brighton
Knockheart when he was at Leicester andc Taylor when he was at Oldham Warnock wrote to me saying he had watched him bujt it was always wrong place wrong time .Simon did get Adam and on his 24 birthday we signed Matty
So I have a decent track record I also liked the look of a central player playing for Blackburn but when I asked Chris Hutchings about him he said when they had him on loan he was just alright.
The lad has just appeared recenmtly on sky sports so I will try and remember his name but he was loaned to Ipswich when Chris was assistant to Jewel KEITH Andrews
Does that convince you
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I am only surprised that you haven’t mentioned most of this before.
 
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leeds60 said:
I know they read my letters as they replied to me
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I’m sure they did, it’s considered good practice. My point was whether they made their player purchase decisions off the back of your scouting recommendations. I’d kind of hope they watch a few games themselves.

You’ve Suggested joe Bryan from Bristol City.. not a bad suggestion and we were linked with him over the summer... he was in the championship team of the season... Dwight Gayle. They’re not really left field suggestions.

It’s a bit like me writing to Apple and suggesting they bring out a new iPhone.
 
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milkyboy said:
I’m sure they did, it’s considered good practice. My point was whether they made their player purchase decisions off the back of your scouting recommendations. I’d kind of hope they watch a few games themselves.

You’ve Suggested joe Bryan from Bristol City.. not a bad suggestion and we were linked with him over the summer... he was in the championship team of the season... Dwight Gayle. They’re not really left field suggestions.

It’s a bit like me writing to Apple and suggesting they bring out a new iPhone.
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All I can tell you is they must have considered them
 
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