> I'm not sure any of our players cost much more than > £1m (£1.15m for > Cresswell?). Blackwell has spent a lot more than > most, but I've written > before that when you take into account the number of > free signings he's > made the average price is about £300k per player. > he's spent a lot on > players because he's had to sign a lot of players. > Of course, we could > have stuck with Jermaine Wright ... :)
Robbie Blake cost > 1 million also. Two one million pound plus strikers - not bad. No other team in the league can boast that amount of money on two strikers. then throw in Hulse and Healy and there's another million pounds worth of 'talent'. Why didn't he buy a fooking right winger ? The bloke is daft. > > I'm not sure that Blackwell regards his players as > the best there are, > just the best he could get. We moan about Crainey > and harding, but he > tried to sign Micky Gray, but we couldn't afford his > wages. Ditto Speed > and Flitcroft. He's tried to sign Michael Brown and > Robert Huth on loan, > but couldn't. He paid £250k for Crainey and double that for Harding and then didn't even give him much of a chance. Over half a million pounds worth of 'talent' at left back. Classic transfer dealings. > > By and large his signings have been good. Not all > of them, but the majority. Are you sure ? Which ones ? I'd say the following have been disappointing :- Crainey (exceptionally) Wright Ricketts Gregan Harding Blake Douglas Lewis (this season) Healy (this season - not entirely his fault granted) Moore - he paid 50k for this bloke !!!! Einarsson - conference standard player and for my money I'd add Butler to that list. In fact , who has been a raging success ?? Errm - the keeper has been ok but he's looking past his sell by date now. Hulse has scored some goals but has looked terrible for most of the second half of this season. Cresswell - has done ok but for > 1 million we should expect that. Derry - has done well and has been value for money. Not exactly great transfer dealings. . > > Maybe better players will be available to us this > summer after getting to > the play off final (better than anyone predicted > last August - FACT!). I > hope so Rich, but as you told me when you said we'd > only finish mid table > this season and I said we'd make the play offs: > "we'll see". Can you remember when I said we would come mid-table ? I remember saying that we should win the league. I remember saying that we will crawl towards the play-offs and that was when we were winning matches like Palace away and people were getting carried away with us catching the Blades. What a bloody good prediction that was. I remember saying that when Blackwell's luck runs out we will get shown up for what we are - a team of individuals with no cohesion, tactics or game plan. Well that came true as well didn't it in spectacular style in Cardiff. Mid table ? Don't remember saying that. I always thought we should have got auto promotion but then again with this donkey in charge I never really expected it. > > Cheers, > > Sean > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and > the list administrators accept no liability for the > personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > > Hello Andy, most observant of you! > ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist oh alright then :-)
