Incoming? Darragh Lenihan

[HeCanDoMagic]

A singular 'fact'. Not 'facts'.

Sorry, that one small singular fact of our manager confirming his number one target throughout the summer has been signed.

 

[Slim Man]

Sorry, that one small singular fact of our manager confirming his number one target throughout the summer has been signed.

Do you believe Chris when he says there's 'nothing in it' when responding to Radio Sheffield, then signing the same player a week later?

Managers tell mistruths in interviews. The tooth fairy isn't real. Your mum and dad used to hide your presents in the spare bedroom and take them down on Christmas Eve night.

 

[LJBlade]

Maybe conjecture but a very reasonable one at that if you ask me.

I happen to think despite what Wilder said in a post signing interview Leonard and Holmes were his main targets this summer. Judging on how early we started and the saga that has ensued since I think it's likely.

My opinion I must add but I certainly don't think a manager telling a mistruth is earth shattering stuff.

There hasn't been any saga other than the one created on here

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Do you believe Chris when he says there's 'nothing in it' when responding to Radio Sheffield, then signing the same player a week later?

Managers tell mistruths in interviews. The tooth fairy isn't real. Your mum and dad used to hide your presents in the spare bedroom and take them down on Christmas Eve night.

We didn't have a spare room so that's yet another presumption you have wrong.

I don't believe everything a manager says, but when a he explains that a target, from the very beginning of summer, has been signed for a substantial fee, from a divisional rival, with the minimum of fuss, and states it was our number 1 target, I tend to believe them.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Sorry, that one small singular fact of our manager confirming his number one target throughout the summer has been signed.

In honesty I'm with a few on here.

I interpreted his No1 target to be by position rather than player. His number one target was a centre half, rather than Stearman.

Could be wrong mind.

 

[Pinchy]

You've took the mantle of forum bellend in your stride to be fair. Oh, and forum telltale.

The first remark is water off a rhino's back. The second is baffling. Do elaborate...

 

[Slim Man]

There hasn't been any saga other than the one created on here

Haven't you seen the constant interviews from their side?

 

[Slim Man]

The first remark is water off a rhino's back. The second is baffling. Do elaborate...

The amount of times you mention foxy is quite astounding. But funny to watch at the same time.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

In honesty I'm with a few on here.

I interpreted his No1 target to be by position rather than player. His number one target was a centre half, rather than Stearman.

Could be wrong mind.

 

[Chali 2na]

Maybe conjecture but a very reasonable one at that if you ask me.

I happen to think despite what Wilder said in a post signing interview Leonard and Holmes were his main targets this summer. Judging on how early we started and the saga that has ensued since I think it's likely.

My opinion I must add but I certainly don't think a manager telling a mistruth is earth shattering stuff.

Yes, I think your opinion is perfectly reasonable.

I worry that you're falling down the trap of using your (fairly logical) assumption, as the centre to your whole argument.

And as for judging which of our targets are priorities based on how long the sagas have gone on: don't.
They are merely just more publicised than other targets, there's no reason to think that they're priorities based on that.

 

[Slim Man]

In honesty I'm with a few on here.

I interpreted his No1 target to be by position rather than player. His number one target was a centre half, rather than Stearman.

Could be wrong mind.

Me too.
Genuinely can't see how Stearman could've been our number one target, he isn't what we was.

 

[Slim Man]

Yes, I think your opinion is perfectly reasonable.

I worry that you're falling down the trap of using your (fairly logical) assumption, as the centre to your whole argument.

And as for judging which of our targets are priorities based on how long the sagas have gone on: don't.
They are merely just more publicised than other targets, there's no reason to think that they're priorities based on that.

I've never actually seen the interview with Wilder where he announces Stearman was our number one target but would you find it unreasonable to think maybe a centre half was our number one target, not just Richard Stearman?

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

I'm going on his radio interview... if that's a genuine quote and not the usual media misquote, then I'm mistaken.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

I'm going on his radio interview... if that's a genuine quote and not the usual media misquote, then I'm mistaken.

From our official website pal.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

I've never actually seen the interview with Wilder where he announces Stearman was our number one target but would you find it unreasonable to think maybe a centre half was our number one target, not just Richard Stearman?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Sorry but you must have edited that,lol

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

From our official website pal.

Can't argue with that then

I like the added height to the team...didn't actually realise how tall he was.

 

[JayGreen17]

I've never actually seen the interview with Wilder where he announces Stearman was our number one target but would you find it unreasonable to think maybe a centre half was our number one target, not just Richard Stearman?

That's exactly what was implied, in the interview he said centre back was his priority, not specifically Stearman.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

I've never actually seen the interview with Wilder where he announces Stearman was our number one target but would you find it unreasonable to think maybe a centre half was our number one target, not just Richard Stearman?

So you dismiss a fact you've never actually sought to confirm or even consider?!

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

That's exactly what was implied, in the interview he said centre back was his priority, not specifically Stearman.

Not it wasn't. "Richard was our number one target" - pretty simple.

 

[Seph_Blade]

Can you all swap phone numbers and argue with each other over text or something....f*ck me. We might have a chance of having an interesting forum that way instead of handbags from behind a keyboard on EVERY F*CKING THREAD!

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Can't argue with that then

I like the added height to the team...didn't actually realise how tall he was.

Yeah - the experience is vital too especially for our defence.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Can you all swap phone numbers and argue with each other over text or something....f*ck me. We might have a chance of having an interesting forum that way instead of handbags from behind a keyboard on EVERY F*CKING THREAD!

Having posted 30 times in 2 and a half years, you're hardly the contributor!

 

[Seph_Blade]

Having posted 30 times in 2 and a half years, you're hardly the contributor!

No, I like reading mainly. However every single thread is someone arguing with someone else over 20 pages now so the good stuff gets lost.

 

[Pinchy]

The amount of times you mention foxy is quite astounding. But funny to watch at the same time.

I still don't inderstand you. I alerted the site owner with a view to establishing a permanent home for an eminently sensible contribution from Grizzly blade. It was a light-hearted suggestion, not intending that he should do so (he won't) but to emphasise the cogency of Grizzly's contribution. I have occasionally done so previously. What is the 'telltale' aspect to that?

As a point of information I can assure you that I have never once reported any other contributor, notwithstanding that I get more abuse than most. I deal with it myself.

If you've had your knuckles rapped (and I've no idea if you have but it sounds like it) it's nothing to do with me. Do you really think that's my style? It would be like Marvin Hagler asking a referee to stop an opponent from hitting him. Unimaginable.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

No, I like reading mainly. However every single thread is someone arguing with someone else over 20 pages now so the good stuff gets lost.

This thread is quite tame tbf.

 

[DronnieBlade]

Leonard is a more box to box, athletic type than we have. Would allow us to change things up, scores a few goals and can put a foot in. Don't be deluded and think Coutts and Fleck are going to run it like they did last year.

Lenihan at 5mil may be steep but the Venkys have a track record of getting what they want. See The sales of Cairney, Rhodes, Gestede, Duffy and Hanley for proof of that.

So you're suggesting we don't trust our manager but you think we'd better off missing out on his main targets? Brilliant logic that mate.

Coutts and Fleck ARE going to run it like last year. They will prove to be amongst the best CM pairs in the division.
It might, at times, mean sacrificing a player in the Duffy type role for a genuine DM to bolster the middle of the park.
But I'll stand by my ascertion as regards our 2 middy maestros.

UTB

 

[Seph_Blade]

This thread is quite tame tbf.

Yeah i agree tame boring arguments, which they've had on the Ryan Leonard thread, the Ricky Holmes thread, and now this. Just swap numbers and sort it out between you! The rest of us don't care and would like our interesting, at times quite funny forum back.

 

[Chali 2na]

I've never actually seen the interview with Wilder where he announces Stearman was our number one target but would you find it unreasonable to think maybe a centre half was our number one target, not just Richard Stearman?

Not unreasonable at all.

Though at the same time, I wouldn't assume it's fact.

 

[Chali 2na]

Coutts and Fleck ARE going to run it like last year. They will prove to be amongst the best CM pairs in the division.
It might, at times, mean sacrificing a player in the Duffy type role for a genuine DM to bolster the middle of the park.
But I'll stand by my ascertion as regards our 2 middy maestros.

UTB

Define: "Run it"