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Good signing for me. He's won promotion, scored goals and physically for a short lad he's very strong and can hold the ball up.

Still plenty to offer at this level. FFS even Porter look OK in patches at this level.

Welcome home Billy.
 
I'm baffled by the detractors on this forum. If you're not happy with this signing you need a sanity check.

This is the best striker we could possibly dream of signing for this level. There is no one else better that anyone in this division could realistically sign. Proven goal scorer, particularly at this level and particularly under Adkins.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!!!!
 
Hope this is nonsense. Done is miles ahead of Sharp, we don't need him. If we're going to sign a striker, at least sign somebody of equal or more ability than our current ones. Not best pleased if this goes ahead.
 
Patrick Suffaux said:
I'm baffled by the detractors on this forum. If you're not happy with this signing you need a sanity check.

This is the best striker we could possibly dream of signing for this level. There is no one else better that anyone in this division could realistically sign. Proven goal scorer, particularly at this level and particularly under Adkins.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!!!!
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Done is better than Sharp and Wigan and many others possibly think it's realistic for them to sign him, albeit because of their parachute payments but nevertheless they could sign him. So there's one, could be many more also that i'm not particularly aware of.
 
If we're only spending £500k on him then I can't really have any complaints but I don't think he's what we need. People are saying he's a 'fox in the box' but we've already got that in Done.
 
I can't see where Sharp fit's into our attacking options. McNulty, Done, Higdon, Adams with a potential return for DDG means we are already strong up top.

If signing Sharp means we'll lose Done and/or Murphy, we'll regret that.

If signing Sharp means we're getting rid of Higdon, i'll do a happy dance.
 
WhiteHawk said:
If we're only spending £500k on him then I can't really have any complaints but I don't think he's what we need. People are saying he's a 'fox in the box' but we've already got that in Done.
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The only time he got over 16 goals in a season was his 2 seasons at Scunthorpe 8 years ago. Since then he's been far from prolific, struggling to get above single figures since he left Doncaster 3 years ago, and then factor in his increase in age and we can consider ourselves ripped off.
 

Deadly_D'Jaffo said:
I can't see where Sharp fit's into our attacking options. McNulty, Done, Higdon, Adams with a potential return for DDG means we are already strong up top.

If signing Sharp means we'll lose Done and/or Murphy, we'll regret that.

If signing Sharp means we're getting rid of Higdon, i'll do a happy dance.
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IMMEDIATE DISCLAIMER - all my opinion.

McNulty - Not Good Enough
Done - Excellent and has a role next season
Higdon - Certainly not good enough on evidence of last season
Adams - not really a striker
DDG - has not yet shown he's any sort of answer

So, for me, we have one striker who is of standard to score us the goals to take us up. I see Sharp as a much better version of McNulty, so we will improve with his signing. And we still need one other striker.

We're certainly not "already strong up front".
 
Houso said:
IMMEDIATE DISCLAIMER - all my opinion.

McNulty - Not Good Enough
Done - Excellent and has a role next season
Higdon - Certainly not good enough on evidence of last season
Adams - not really a striker
DDG - has not yet shown he's any sort of answer

So, for me, we have one striker who is of standard to score us the goals to take us up. I see Sharp as a much better version of McNulty, so we will improve with his signing. And we still need one other striker.

We're certainly not "already strong up front".
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We need to improve there but we're not desperate enough to go for Sharp. We need to look beyond former players and get somebody with a decent record in this league that's ideally been achieved more recent than 8 years ago.
 
barnyblade said:
We need to improve there but we're not desperate enough to go for Sharp. We need to look beyond former players and get somebody with a decent record in this league that's ideally been achieved more recent than 8 years ago.
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Out of interest, do you think Adkins is getting Sharp because he's a former Sheffield United player? Or, perhaps more likely, because he's a player who he knows VERY well and trusts to score goals?

His past spells with us are genuinely of shit all significance.
 
Don't see this an exciting signing at all. Billy's a blade & I'd love him to do well & prove us wrong at the lane but it just doesn't seem like it's meant to be. He's been with us twice & not done much at all.
Hope Adkins gets the best out of him.
 
Houso said:
Out of interest, do you think Adkins is getting Sharp because he's a former Sheffield United player? Or, perhaps more likely, because he's a player who he knows VERY well and trusts to score goals?

His past spells with us are genuinely of shit all significance.
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The comment about former players was independent of Adkins intentions.

I'd be concerned if a manager signed a player because he knew him well. How well did that go last season? I doubt Adkins mates at his age can do a job for us in this league also somehow.

Trusts to score goals? Have you seen his record in recent years? Nothing short of appalling and I'd be worried also if NA trusts somebody with that record.
 
Sothall_Blade said:
A genuine 4-3-3 with Done, Sharp and Murphy up front. Plenty of goals in that lot.
Sharp to stay central and do what he's good at with Done and Murphy providing the pace and creativity he possibly lacks.
A solid midfield three behind them with two box-to-box midfielders and a strong holding midfielder.
Maybe Basham, Coutts and Wallace unless we can sign an improvement.
Overlapping full backs given license to get forward in that system. Two from Brayford, Freeman, Harris and Woolford.
Just need two strong centre backs as everyone knows and we're not far off a very good team at this level.
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I personally wouldn't have signed Sharp, but if he'd be a forced first name on the team sheet, that's what I'd try as well. A couple of injuries, with the likes of Reed, Scougall and Flynn coming in could make it a rather light weight team though.

People go on about 4-4-2 and think it's just about finding two decent midfielders. That is hard enough and we saw how Basham and Coutts struggled to cover enough space as Swindon ran straight through us in the Play Offs. But you do need the right kind of wide men as well to get away with having a man less than most teams in the middle of the park. With our mix of forwards and wingers (Flynn, Murphy, Adams, Done) as wide options it's not certain that they'd work well in a 4-4-2.
 
barnyblade said:
The comment about former players was independent of Adkins intentions.

I'd be concerned if a manager signed a player because he knew him well. How well did that go last season? I doubt Adkins mates at his age can do a job for us in this league also somehow.

Trusts to score goals? Have you seen his record in recent years? Nothing short of appalling and I'd be worried also if NA trusts somebody with that record.
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So why did you put it? The whole Bladey Bladeness is clouding the subject.

99% of Blades are delighted with Adkins appointment, so maybe we should trust the man's judgement when it comes to players he's worked with in the past. And on that note, why on earth are you concerned that he may have signed him because he knows him well, i.e. knows the systems he plays well in, the players he does best alongside, knows how to motivate him etc.

And unless Adkins has managed Sharp at this level in the last few seasons, his lack of goals doesn't tell the full story.
 
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Deadly_D'Jaffo said:
I can't see where Sharp fit's into our attacking options. McNulty, Done, Higdon, Adams with a potential return for DDG means we are already strong up top.

If signing Sharp means we'll lose Done and/or Murphy, we'll regret that.

If signing Sharp means we're getting rid of Higdon, i'll do a happy dance.
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who,s to say we will sell any of the players adkins wants to keep he has come in to get us up not to contnue to flounder in this division. If any are sold it is because adkins feels the player doasnt fit into his plans or the price is too good to refuse(every player has a price on his head and that includes messi) and would use the money to strengthen the team not weaken it.
 
barnyblade said:
Done is better than Sharp and Wigan and many others possibly think it's realistic for them to sign him, albeit because of their parachute payments but nevertheless they could sign him. So there's one, could be many more also that i'm not particularly aware of.
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Totally different kind of player. Barely comparable and Sharp has scored a lot more career goals, not sure on your logic here.
 
WhiteHawk said:
If we're only spending £500k on him then I can't really have any complaints but I don't think he's what we need. People are saying he's a 'fox in the box' but we've already got that in Done.
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Why do people see Done that way?! Just because he can score goals it doesn't make him a poacher. Steven Gerrard scored loads of goals.
 
Houso said:
Out of interest, do you think Adkins is getting Sharp because he's a former Sheffield United player? Or, perhaps more likely, because he's a player who he knows VERY well and trusts to score goals?

His past spells with us are genuinely of shit all significance.
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He didn't do great in his spell under Adkins at Reading though. His last attempt at "coming home", to Doncaster, was also unsuccessful.

To be fair, I think it's possible to compose a team that will create many chances for Sharp, but we'd either have to sign quite a few more brilliant players or the current players would have to 'gel' in a way that seemed very unrealistic under Clough last season.
 
Bergen Blade said:
He didn't do great in his spell under Adkins at Reading though. His last attempt at "coming home", to Doncaster, was also unsuccessful.

To be fair, I think it's possible to compose a team that will create many chances for Sharp, but we'd either have to sign quite a few more brilliant players or the current players would have to 'gel' in a way that seemed very unrealistic under Clough last season.
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As I've mentioned in previous posts in this thread Bergs, they're very different situations.

Do you know how badly Barnsley supporters rate Done? Yet he drops a division, is deployed in a system that suits him and he scores a hatful. When circumstances change and stars align, players can change immeasurably. Higdon could indeed this season be transformed under a manager who knows how to use a target man better.

To my mind, if McNulty can get into double figures in a season in this league, then Billy can do the same and then some. But then McNulty may also improve significantly too. The difference in this post being that I rate Sharp, and I do not rate McNulty.
 
Houso said:
As I've mentioned in previous posts in this thread Bergs, they're very different situations.

Do you know how badly Barnsley supporters rate Done? Yet he drops a division, is deployed in a system that suits him and he scores a hatful. When circumstances change and stars align, players can change immeasurably. Higdon could indeed this season be transformed under a manager who knows how to use a target man better.

To my mind, if McNulty can get into double figures in a season in this league, then Billy can do the same and then some. But then McNulty may also improve significantly too. The difference in this post being that I rate Sharp, and I do not rate McNulty.
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The part in bold is something I've been saying as well. Blades fans don't know that Axel Smeets was a decent right back.

It'll be interesting in any case, I'll be looking forward to seeing how Adkins plans to set us up with or without Sharp.
 

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