Antwoine Hackford

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

I honestly don't get 1 month loans by the time you start getting used to new surroundings your off back to parent club.

Some of these work experience short term youth loans are to teams which don't train full time. Some of the players will continue to train at Shirecliffe for the vast majority of their loan & just rock over one day in the week. There aren't really that many new surroundings to get used to. The other players turn up after the tiling & shelf stacking.

 

[mancunianblade]

I honestly don't get 1 month loans by the time you start getting used to new surroundings your off back to parent club.

no surroundings to get used to is there? These are part time clubs with part time semi pro players, they likely train a few times a week at most in the evening. Wouldn’t surprise me if he only trains with them once and then the rest of the week he’s at Shirecliffe.

**See Phil beat me to it

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Wilder was team manager, wasn't he?

He will have had a portfolio from his scouts and advisors and his likely areas to prepare for the future as a PL club. Quite what the flying fuck he was doing buying Moussett to fulfil the striker's role when even at Bournemouth he was shy on goals and unable to finish a game is anyone's guess. I can't see HRH and his board being particularly influential on twisting his arm for that one, even at £10-11m, depending on who you speak to.

But elsewhere ... it's not just this cash acquisitions which confound the sensibilities of even the most mild-mannered football follower. Berge (unproven in the English leagues), Brewster (great at Swansea, unproven anywhere else), Burke (laughably shit), McBurnie (see Brewster), Bogle and Lowe (between them we've had about 40% of the return expected and only through Bogle) Robinson (jesus-tittyfucking-christ) ... but what the fuck was going on with Rodwell, Freeman and Robinson C and even the stupidity of spending all that on cack and not breaking the bank for a keeper tons better than Ramsdale in goal for us. I mean, given the logic surrounding the four areas of our team:

Goalkeeping: Was it wise to simply let Henderson go back without a robust bid to buy him back to a team he was comfortable in and pulling off some simply brilliant saves?

Defence: We let Stearman go on promotion. Is he not any worse than the shower of pretty Chad Valley LCBs we have had trying to cover for Jack? Stears was nails. He'd have broken his dick trying to keep a clean sheet. What's with all those signings anyway? Bryan (inconsistent and flakey) Robinson (fucking rubbish) and playing Stevens in an unfamiliar role even when he's on his way down in form?

Midfield: Letting Besic go? To me he was a player who could only get better with more games and more of an imposing, game-making midfielder who could attack, tackle and defend in equal measures. Yet we blew the bank on a nesh sicknote who occasionally turns on the flashes of capability, mainly these days to bid for a transfer we suspect. And why not get that engine room optimised? Norwood and Fleck, one would wish to understand, would be the anchor points in any progressive United side but they have been serially woeful across two seasons now, with no sign of replacing them. One would imagine they'd be first for the chop yet during Wilder's period we signed no one to threaten their positions instead caused Lundstram to chuck his dummy out by signing sicknote. The only midfielder we have had any return out of is - in limited terms - Osborn and even he is technically playing out of position and finds himself outmuscled.

Strikers: 'Just buy strikers'. He did, lots of them. I don't think between them they've topped twenty goals in three seasons, have they? To remain viable in any league that has to be a total for one striker in one season with two or three others on ten or above.

Wilder had his ambitions and was obviously persuasive on HRH to chuck the dice on future revenue (because I doubt he had the cash in his pockets at the time) to gamble on his gut feelings rather than bring in tried and tested PL out of favours and benchwarmers - preferably ones who can complete 90 minutes and have goals and playing ability in them at the top flight of English football.

So, in short, I disagree. It's his gig. He owns this until we actually start turning a corner then it becomes Heckingbottom's.

pommpey

You had me at 'Wilder'. By god, you give me the horn.

 

[Old Programme seller]

Imo I thought Duffy was poor in his final season very inconsistent

 

[EddieColquhoun]

 

[wadblade]

wishing him good luck

 

[DifferentClass]

Allus had a soft spot for the wombles.

 

[Sid1978]

GLTTL

 

[HarryHaslam]

Best of luck to him, that two years out really stopped all his progress and was only ever playing catch up from then on. Fingers crossed a couple of years with Wimbledon and he can get back to the promise he showed.

 

[S64 Blade]

Yeah the injury really seemed to half his progress! Wishing him the best of luck. Seems a good lad and he’s got a good move there!

 

[Bergen Blade]

He had some pace and scored quite a few goals at youth level. But I often felt he didn't get involved enough. He'd hardly touch the ball in some games, before scoring the winner. While some goalgetters are like that, it's not the best way for a young player to develop. Hope he does well at Wimbledon.

 

[Liaminho9]

Wimbledon saying it’s a free transfer
Probably arranged some sort of sell-on fee or buyback

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

GLTTL

 

[loyalblade95]

Wimbledon saying it’s a free transfer
Probably arranged some sort of sell-on fee or buyback

Compensation fee I'd imagine, given his age.

Good luck to him.

 

[Balham]

Compensation fee I'd imagine, given his age.

Good luck to him.

Unlikely; zero up front but probably some add-ons and almost certainly a 50%+ sell on clause.

 

[Nick Jansky]

I will always remember him for helping me get a vomiting girl into my car as the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2020 and fireworks started going off all over our village. It was surreal.

Two days later he made his PL debut.

 

[Snowflake]

I will always remember him for helping me get a vomiting girl into my car as the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2020 and fireworks started going off all over our village. It was surreal.

Two days later he made his PL debut.

Did she want to get in your car ?

 

[Houso]

I will always remember him for helping me get a vomiting girl into my car as the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2020 and fireworks started going off all over our village. It was surreal.

Two days later he made his PL debut.

Best of luck at Fleetwood Ched xx

 

[FTPE]

Best of luck to him, that two years out really stopped all his progress and was only ever playing catch up from then on. Fingers crossed a couple of years with Wimbledon and he can get back to the promise he showed.

He only came to my attention early doors because of your high praise, Im sure it was you that once referred to him as a generational talent. It's sad that he's not kicked on. There's so much for a young player to overcome at that age to make it to the very top. It's not over by any means, obviously, I just wish he'd carried on his early trajectory with us.

 

[robbiez666]

It's a shame we didn't get any money for him. Obviously been unlucky but played half a season last year.

 

[HarryHaslam]

He only came to my attention early doors because of your high praise, Im sure it was you that once referred to him as a generational talent. It's sad that he's not kicked on. There's so much for a young player to overcome at that age to make it to the very top. It's not over by any means, obviously, I just wish he'd carried on his early trajectory with us.

Don’t think I said a generational talent but that he could be our next superstar something along those lines, this was when he was 14. But I did stick my neck on the line and said he’d play for us at 16 and be our youngest ever player. He did play for us at 16 but missed out by a month or two on the youngest ever. The lad deserved it at the time because he was looking phenomenal in the academy. Shame the bad injury halted all his progress but hopefully he still has a good career because he’s young enough.