Irish striker - Noel Hunt

[Pak Power]

But Cambridge didn't offer Barney £2k per week (allegedly) did they?

 

[Kev29]

But Cambridge didn't offer Barney £2k per week (allegedly) did they?

He has done ok though..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ants-cut-gas-electricity-did-leave-weeks.html

 

[Jai]

Noel Hunt would be an excellent signing for a club like SUFC.and it would show you supporters that RM and PB were very serious about not just maintaining DIV1 status but challenging for promotion.:happy:

Sorry, I'm pleased about the fact we're going for Hunt but I'm afraid League One is a lot tougher than it once was. Preston had Joe Garner and Jermaine Beckford and still had to make do with the playoffs. I think promotion is out of the question, let's nip that in the bud straight away.

 

[flangejackrabbit]

I also believe we will really never know with Barnard as in my opinion he was never really given a chance once he came back from loan at Stevenage,Barnard himself said he was fit and keen and didnt think he was given any sort of extended run to prove himself.

I'm not sure of this, I felt with the injuries he lost that extra half-yard of acceleration which was the main thing that made him at all dangerous in the box.

 

[OldBlueLady]

He has done ok though..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ants-cut-gas-electricity-did-leave-weeks.html

Indeed, he's been very sensible with his money.

 

[Firestorm]

Its a limited recollection but I'll try
non league striker signings

Failed succeeded

Layne Eastwood
Welch Garner
Salter Hooper ?
FLood Tes Bramble
Dean Holness Rawle
Alex Burns

hardly convincing either way

 

[fbm]

Its a limited recollection but I'll try
non league striker signings

Failed succeeded

Layne Eastwood
Welch Garner
Salter Hooper ?
FLood Tes Bramble
Dean Holness Rawle
Alex Burns

hardly convincing either way

I think Alex Burns came from a scottish team. There's also Scott Forbes plus more...

A few years back I did do some research over this very subject an went back to the 1970's, logging every single non league player we'd signed. A success was if they became regulars here for a long time or if they moved on up; failure was playing occasionally and then dropping back.

It was almost exactly 50/50 so it really is a coin tosses chance of picking up a non league gem or a donkey.

 

[Angell Delight]

Sorry, I'm pleased about the fact we're going for Hunt but I'm afraid League One is a lot tougher than it once was. Preston had Joe Garner and Jermaine Beckford and still had to make do with the playoffs. I think promotion is out of the question, let's nip that in the bud straight away.

If this was last year I'd 100% agree with you. If sides like Bristol City, MK Dons and Preston were still in L1 we'd have absolutely no chance of promotion. Zilch. Nada. But those three sides have left L1 and been replaced by significantly weaker teams IMHO, Blackpool will probably have another season of struggle as they're still run like a circus. Also Millwall don't look like they'll be anywhere near the quality of the likes of last seasons promoted teams. Wigan look the most likely to mount some kind of a challenge but even that's far from certain, their gates were poor in the Premier League so they won't get too many through the turnstiles in L1. None of these teams should hold any fear for us, and even the best team to miss out promotion last year Swindon have had a firesale this summer. You'd expect Sheffield United to be favourites but that's the only real stand-out team for me, and even they aren't a patch on Bristol City, MK Dons or Preston. There's nothing to be scared of in this league and I believe we've lucked out in terms of coming up at the right time. If we could sign Hunt, McLaughlin and :pig: and make a couple of other quality additions there's no reason why we can't be sniffing around the play-offs.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

If this was last year I'd 100% agree with you. If sides like Bristol City, MK Dons and Preston were still in L1 we'd have absolutely no chance of promotion. Zilch. Nada. But those three sides have left L1 and been replaced by significantly weaker teams IMHO, Blackpool will probably have another season of struggle as they're still run like a circus. Also Millwall don't look like they'll be anywhere near the quality of the likes of last seasons promoted teams. Wigan look the most likely to mount some kind of a challenge but even that's far from certain, their gates were poor in the Premier League so they won't get too many through the turnstiles in L1. None of these teams should hold any fear for us, and even the best team to miss out promotion last year Swindon have had a firesale this summer. You'd expect Sheffield United to be favourites but that's the only real stand-out team for me, and even they aren't a patch on Bristol City, MK Dons or Preston. There's nothing to be scared of in this league and I believe we've lucked out in terms of coming up at the right time. If we could sign Hunt, McLaughlin and :pig: and make a couple of other quality additions there's no reason why we can't be sniffing around the play-offs.

That is a good analysis .......... but I could use the same picture to say that will make things more difficult for many teams.

My (crazed) reasoning is that when you don't have some "stand out" teams then the rest of the league spends time taking points off each other leading to a team that is in mid-table suddenly finding themselves in the relegation scene when they have a bad run for 3 or 4 games. That leads to management sackings and clubs spending cash come December and suddenly teams that were going down are moving up and other clubs are sliding into the abyss of relegation.

Oooohhhhh .......... it's going to be very interesting. :smile:

 

[bess30]

Back page in echo might have more news on this in morning? Rumours sugest he was down meeting brown Friday night

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Barry Corr and Gary Hooper are examples of how it can go. Corr didn't set the world alight for anyone else came here and had a pretty good goal scoring record with us. Hooper scored goals for everyone else but us.

Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, that is a risk. We could sign someone with an exceptional scoring record and he may not fit how we are playing at the time and struggle to score.

Your constant arguments on this situation, Williams and 442 are getting boring and repetitive mrsblue, please stop ruining threads with your constant drivel.

Hooper worked out.

We made a huge profit on him.

 

[amsemp]

Hooper worked out.

We made a huge profit on him.

Do you know how much exactly we made? £175k transfer fee + ?% sell on fee to Celtic and then another percentage of the sell on fee from Celtic to Norwich? Must have been an absolute fortune.

 

[LCBB72]

Do you know how much exactly we made? £175k transfer fee + ?% sell on fee to Celtic and then another percentage of the sell on fee from Celtic to Norwich? Must have been an absolute fortune.

What happend to it .

 

[Angell Delight]

Do you know how much exactly we made? £175k transfer fee + ?% sell on fee to Celtic and then another percentage of the sell on fee from Celtic to Norwich? Must have been an absolute fortune.

I believe it was around £600k total when he joined Celtic. We may have made a little bit more when he joined Norwich but if we did then it won't have been much. Any percentage of that fee would have been tiny. Still £600k for a player signed on a free transfer is still very good business. I just wish he'd been able to force his way into the side while he was here.

 

[Ricey]

I believe it was around £600k total when he joined Celtic. We may have made a little bit more when he joined Norwich but if we did then it won't have been much. Any percentage of that fee would have been tiny. Still £600k for a player signed on a free transfer is still very good business. I just wish he'd been able to force his way into the side while he was here.

If he had of played and scored more in our championship season we may have stayed up.

 

[amsemp]

What happend to it .

I believe it was stored just next to the Eastwood money :winking:

 

[Beefy]

If he had of played and scored more in our championship season we may have stayed up.

He was what, 18 in the Championship season? It was his first year as a Professional and I don't think it was fair to have any expectation that he'd come in and score the goals to keep us up (he'd have had to score a lot to outscore the three we were shipping at the back most games).

He scored some big goals that season though - not least the ones to beat Leeds and earn us a home draw against Manchester United.

The next season without eastwood was when we missed a trick in not playing him.

 

[DTS]

He was what, 18 in the Championship season? It was his first year as a Professional and I don't think it was fair to have any expectation that he'd come in and score the goals to keep us up (he'd have had to score a lot to outscore the three we were shipping at the back most games).

He scored some big goals that season though - not least the ones to beat Leeds and earn us a home draw against Manchester United.

The next season without eastwood was when we missed a trick in not playing him.

Agreed totally. We needed Paynter, Harrold,Bradbury and even JCR to do more not Hooper. Hopper was tipped by Spencer Prior to be better than Freddy so the writing was on the wall but for one reason or another we didnt see much of him,

 

[GregStarz]

My friend who's a huge Ipswich fan reckons he's to good for League 1 and believes he's on around £5k-£7k a week.

If we get him I'll be very surprised, and happy!

 

[Medway Blue]

My friend who's a huge Ipswich fan reckons he's to good for League 1 and believes he's on around £5k-£7k a week.

If we get him I'll be very surprised, and happy!

If we can get him down to £3k per week I think it'd be a decent deal for the club but if we were to get relegated, we'd need him off the wage bill


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