Hammond: His lower-league career history

[Sean Thornton]

Forgot about him

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I wish I could.

 

[Gordon cowans]

Each to their owns opinion but from whst ive seen from this season (the worst in decades)if i was to pick a worse starting 11 from my years watching he would sadly be in it

 

[finlaytheblade]

It's like life really. Some people work hard and become successful, others work hard and don't. Some are so talented they don't need to work that hard. Some enjoy working hard and just do it regardless, others don't but push themselves to succeed and may take the foot off the pedal when they have and are financially secure.

Football would be a simple game if it were played by robots but it's not, it's played by people and people can be unpredictable, unreliable, lazy and mental.

That Bush blade philosophically somes up the human race.

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

He divides opinion certainly! 95% of Blades think he's terrible & 5% think he's average (on a good day).

Yes, he's a 'Premiership player' by virtue of being a squad player at Leicester & part of the miracle that they experienced to stay up last season.

But....he looks like a bang average, jobbing, lower league midfielder, and has done since his first game for us. We are told he wasn't fully fit when he joined? Ok, but presumably he's up to speed now? Unfortunately, that speed is very very slow, & when combined with obviously limited technical ability, it makes for the type of performances we get from him week in week out.

Perhaps we are expecting too much? Well, maybe so, but for a loan player on Premiership wages, then aren't we entitled to get more value for our money?

The truth is, Dean Hammons always has been a lower league player as a simple search of his career history shows.

He started out at Brighton, when they were a bit shit in Leagues 1, with a couple of seasons in Championship (20th, & then relegated & bottom in 2005-6) In 2007-8, Brighton finished 18th in League One. For two years they were managed by Dean Wilkins (note the name), the brother of Ray 'the crab' Wilkins. Presumably the square passing instincts ran in the family?

In 2008 Hammond moved to.......COLCHESTER! They finished mid table League One.

After one season, he was signed by Southampton (now managed by Dean Wilkins), & still in League One.
Southampton's rise through to the Prem is well documented, & it could be argued that with the amount of future superstar Saints players either there, or to be signed, or coming through the ranks (Lambert, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Schniederlin, Puncheon, Fonte,etc) the phrase "right place, right time" could well be applied..... Some say this is also applies in Adkins case, as he joined shortly after?

Fast forward to today & we have the same Dean Wilkins as coach, & our Nigel as manager, still believing that a primarily League One career player can still hack it at this level, at the age of 33, when the game as a whole has moved on in leaps & bounds since he was trundling around (in his prime) at Brighton, Colchester & Southampton.

Surely to God, we can't actually sign him this summer.....can we?

"Bang average"

 

[William Henry Foulkes]

I don't really understand how he's been labelled a PL player when he's played there about twelve times. IMHO you're a PL player if you play a significant part of your career there, not just a few games.

The hype didn't help and Adkins talks far too much, he needs to STFU a bit, but my mate who is a Leicester fan was texting me to say what a good signing he'd be for us so it's not just Adkins who rates him.

There's an argument that he might not now be good enough and although I don't believe it to be the case, I won't argue against it, against people who've seen him play every game, as it's subjective as much as factual but to start pretending he's always been a bit crap is, in my opinion, disingenuous thundercuntery.

It's bang average disingenuous thundercuntery.