No More 30+ year old signings

[Maltesecanary 23]

Ben Knapper 👌

[cambridgeshire canary 7,799]

Cant wait for the ievitable 'we keep losing as the team lacks leadership and experience' comments near the end of the season

Edited August 7 by cambridgeshire canary

[MC_NCFC 268]

15 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Cant wait for the ievitable 'we keep losing as the team lacks leadership and experience' comments near the end of the season

Give it 3 weeks 

[Big O 287]

I don’t mind the odd experienced signing if we need one but they have to alongside players with potential and upside. 

[TheGoogler 604]

Like everything else, has to be a balance. I think McLean, Hanley, Duffy, Gunn, Barnes and Stacey is a good core of experience that doesn't really need adding to (unless a sale occurs). 

[Ernie Wise 112]

We would never have had the greatest ever NCFC player (in my opinion) if the OP had had his way back in 1975.

[TheGunnShow 7,377]

Considering that the three signings so far are in their early 20s, and it's looking like another early 20s and a late teens fellow (Amankwah and Nartey) will be coming in, I think it's reasonable to say that they're trying to make the team younger.

[Carrow89 186]

Last seasons cast of the Last of the Summer Wine were brought in to shore up the ship, so to speak. Only ever a short term measure, though I suspect Barnes and Duffy would not have signed for a year.

Good to see the new signings are for a longer period.

[Fen Canary 1,456]

44 minutes ago, Carrow89 said:

Last seasons cast of the Last of the Summer Wine were brought in to shore up the ship, so to speak. Only ever a short term measure, though I suspect Barnes and Duffy would not have signed for a year.

Good to see the new signings are for a longer period.

And it worked. Despite a horrendous injury list we scraped into the playoffs 

[horsefly 5,301]

[dylanisabaddog 6,148]

1 hour ago, horsefly said:

And Asa Hartford, Mick Channon and Martin O'Neill. Back in those days we attracted a higher quality of oldies. 

[Monty13 2,736]

12 hours ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Cant wait for the ievitable 'we keep losing as the team lacks leadership and experience' comments near the end of the season

Near the end? Very optimistic of you.

Edited August 8 by Monty13

[LaUnionCanary 150]

11 hours ago, Ernie Wise said:

We would never have had the greatest ever NCFC player (in my opinion) if the OP had had his way back in 1975.

Totally agree, our own MP stayed with us for five years. A pleasure to watch, even when he had a bad day ( heresy I hear you scream ) he was better than much that has followed.

[shefcanary 2,955]

3 hours ago, horsefly said:

Ah, that was the poster I had on my wall in the 70's!

[Lazza 63]

17 hours ago, Ernie Wise said:

We would never have had the greatest ever NCFC player (in my opinion) if the OP had had his way back in 1975.

Also not forgetting Huckerby in 2003 and Dublin in 2006.

[Dame to Blame 108]

18 hours ago, Ernie Wise said:

We would never have had the greatest ever NCFC player (in my opinion) if the OP had had his way back in 1975.

Exactly what a great player , and I for one wouldn't ever rule out going for an experienced player if available and can add something positive to the playing squad. What a daft outlook and even more daft to announce it to the supporters and basically back yourself into a corner.

[AJ 1,359]

Does that mean we're turning our attention to 40+ to save some money? 😅