Nasher

Nearly. Gone to Hawks at 38.

Seems amazing to me that clubs get to their picks and still have to argue about who to take. You'd think that they'd be prepared with a complete wishlist and just cross players off as they go.

So far so good :nervous:

Sweet :D

Oh ffs, how much guff? It's going to take years to get to pick 9.

Do we really have to wait until 7:40? My nerves for the site can't wait that long.

Interesting that he's nominated financial terms. It either means he's already agreed to join someone, or he's not desperate to play and will only go (and therefore turn his life on its head, as presumably he is employed and so on) if it's worth his while. Nice pickup!

Changed some stuff last night. Hopeful rather than confident. Trying not to think about it to be honest (And yes - I intend on being about at the time)

If I remember correctly, before we poached him Burgs also had a pretty similar strike rate with phantom drafts, and for the same reason of just good journalism and use of contacts.

Don't think we were devastated to lose Hannath particularly, either, from a purely football perspective.

I think it's fair to say that this thread is both never going to be about Neville Jetta again, and is never going to cross the boundary back in to civility again, so I call time.

In my case it's because I find it alarming that he is passing on opinions to players expressed online when players are told explicitly to avoid these places. Also, I find his attitude of "I talk the players and you don't, therefore you don't know anything" is irritating and deserves to be called upon.

Wait, you told Dawes that people on Demonland were potting him? Oh dear. The more I read your posts the more I reckon you're borderline dangerous to this playing group. There's a good reason why the players are told to avoid these forums.

People make claims about information all the time without giving any details about where it comes from. It's then up to the reader to decide how much weight to put on that post. Surely it's obvious why people can't say where they get their information from sometimes.

It's because he thinks that because he attends training and chats to the players, he's one of the boys and knows all the issues going on at the club. In his mind, if he hadn't heard it, it mustn't have happened. I wouldn't normally like to criticise people who go out of their way to report on things (like training) that I have no access to, but the poster you're responding to is completely deluded about his place in the world.

I wouldn't have thought I was saying anything particularly controversial there, given that he's been on the list for 5 years and never came close to cementing his place. I'm not being critical, I've already stated in this thread that I like the guy and his attitude for the game, I just don't agree with hanging on to NQRs forever. Spots on the list are valuable - even on the rookie list - and should be treated as such.

I think it's somewhat wasteful to give the spot to a player who we're (I'm) already pretty convinced won't make it. But by the same token, due to the qualities he has, I wouldn't begrudge a player like Jetta the opportunity at one last ditch effort under a competent coach.

I've read this thread start to finish, and I conclude that anyone who thinks Ben-Hur has bagged Neitz has a severe reading comprehension problem.

And they're all under a tarp so you can't tell which is which.

HAHA, what a trip down memory lane. Can you remember who posted that?

Whether or not we could do worse is not the question.

Done. Short and painless - yay

Indeed, I thought it was inevitable that one of he or Nicholson would go. He was a player I always wanted to make it, as he played with the right type of aggression and, as you said, heart. Didn't really have the tools in the end - no shame in that. Really nice bloke too apparently. Thanks Nev.

Thanks - but don't clap too much, all I did was stay up really late on Tuesday night before throwing my hands up in the air and saying "don't have time for this, get the hosts to fix it"!

I'm going to take the site offline again for 5-10 minutes (and that's all - promise!) this afternoon to take a backup in case it all goes to poo again, around 3:30-4:00pm. I wouldn't normally take the site offline to run a backup but I'm reaallllyyyy nervous about trying to do a heavy database operation (like dumping its contents) while the site is live given the debacle of the last couple of days.