Did we want Nicholson at all??

[bigbear 0]

Is Roeder turning against another member of staff.  Bryan Gunn hasn''t been in the scouting role long, but he seems to be looking aroud a bit.  He was reportd to have stated that with the Barry Nicholson debate, he was pretty much a certainty and was just about ready to pack his bags to come here.  Then Roeder states that we''ve never been interested in him and there''s no way he is coming here.

Which is actually the truth?  Is Gunn telling porkies and doesn''t actually know what he is doing, or does Roeder know whats going on and doesn''t like the player and is calling Gunn a liar, when he is?

Roeder is, at the moment doing the same thing as Worthington did.  Where he says he needs loads of players to make it ''his team'', yet all he does is get rid of players without replacing them.  Worthless said that however many he gets rid of in terms of numbers, he will replace but with better quality.  Roeder has done the same, saying that 12-15 players will be off and we need 8,9 or 10 to replace them.  So far, all the players have left the club, with no replacements.  He must start getting players in now, including trying to get season long loan players.  They need a good pre-season together, as we all know that at least 1 of them will be out for 3 months at least, so we will at least have the numbers there, and they may have the time to start gelling as a unit.  Normally, it''s last minute, the players haven''t got a clue who the others are, and they are rubbish, then 1 or 2 of them get injured!!

[colneycanary 0]

Maybe its a player Bryan Gunn would like us to sign being scottish and eveything but Roeder doesn''t fancy him or has other idea''s. I should imagine Gunny got a bit of a telling off from Roeder for coming out and saying he was one of our targets.

[bigbear 0]

You''re probably right, but I''m just amazed that there has been such a lack of communication between the 2 of them, surely Gunn can give a report, then Roeder says no, end of story.  Not for Gunn to then come out and say what he did, and then for Roeder to say what he did also.

 

[missing in action? 0]

big gun said he was someone we LOOKED at but roeder obviously hadnt decided him as a target.

[Branston Pickle 4,150]

I was wondering about this the other day - it did occur to me that the quotes attributed to Gunn may have been quite old ones - they did after all mention GR being on holiday which we know he isn''t.  We have been mentioning on here that a lot of old quotes seem to be getting reused almost as if they are current (eg quoting GR on Sibierski based on his EEN column of some time ago), and this could have been a victim of that sort of thing: perhaps we had a look at the guy Nicholson, with Gunn making his comments at that time, but moved on.  IMO it fits more than the two falling out within days of Gunn being appointed in his new role. 

[The Voice of the Thorpe Area 0]

It''s all very simple. Gunn, in his capacity as a scout (or whatever it is) has looked at Nicholson. However, Roeder has decided not to pursue the player.