| Josh Harrop 17:23 - May 20 with 1013 views | itfc_bucks |
Destined to be a quiz question.
I'd completely forgotten about him. Sounds like a properly crappy story though, gotta feel for the bloke. |  | | |  |
| Josh Harrop on 17:33 - May 20 with 974 views | MattinLondon |
Both Town and Preston don’t really come out of that story in that good a light.
I wonder how many players during the Evans era failed to make ten league appearances for us (including sub appearances). Those stopgaps must have cost the club a small fortune in wages when added together. |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 18:23 - May 20 with 921 views | CrayonKing |
Fans complain about players having no loyalty but that story demonstrates exactly why. When it suits the club they have no loyalty either. |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 19:57 - May 20 with 802 views | MattinLondon |
| Josh Harrop on 18:23 - May 20 by CrayonKing |
Fans complain about players having no loyalty but that story demonstrates exactly why. When it suits the club they have no loyalty either. |
And let’s be honest, most fans do not have that much loyalty to players either. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 20:41 - May 20 with 749 views | itfc_bucks |
| Josh Harrop on 19:57 - May 20 by MattinLondon |
And let’s be honest, most fans do not have that much loyalty to players either. |
I sort of get that and sort of disagree.
Take Delap for example - well bid him farewell this season and gleefully accept the 20+mil profit on him.
See JD leaving last summer, out of contract, on a free, a good servant for the club despite the way he was treated by that plum Lambert. Pretty sure he goes with the good blessing of most of not all of us.
But the transient loanee population from the depths of the ME era? Not so much.
It's swings and roundabouts, I guess. | | | |
| Josh Harrop on 08:05 - May 21 with 491 views | SamWhiteUK |
| Josh Harrop on 20:41 - May 20 by itfc_bucks |
I sort of get that and sort of disagree.
Take Delap for example - well bid him farewell this season and gleefully accept the 20+mil profit on him.
See JD leaving last summer, out of contract, on a free, a good servant for the club despite the way he was treated by that plum Lambert. Pretty sure he goes with the good blessing of most of not all of us.
But the transient loanee population from the depths of the ME era? Not so much.
It's swings and roundabouts, I guess. |
The profit gets bigger every time I read it. We'l be lucky to walk away with much more than 10 or 12 mil, won't we? |  | | |
| Josh Harrop on 12:03 - May 21 with 350 views | Radlett_blue |
| Josh Harrop on 17:33 - May 20 by MattinLondon |
Both Town and Preston don’t really come out of that story in that good a light.
I wonder how many players during the Evans era failed to make ten league appearances for us (including sub appearances). Those stopgaps must have cost the club a small fortune in wages when added together. |
This is a side of football that we don't often hear about as the media is obsessed with the PL big names. Harrop made a brave decision at 21 to turn down an extension at Man U in favour of making a career at Preston & he had a good first season, but then got an ACL injury & it was all downhill from there. The club wanted to shift him, he was desperate to start playing again so he tried when he really shouldn't have done. We didn't know Town had idiotically signed a crock so have derided Harrop, when he was probably a decent guy, trying to do his best.
Unsurprisingly, football fans are not very loyal to expensive signings which don't work out, such as Tom Adeyemi & Cameron Stewart. |  |
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| Josh Harrop on 12:18 - May 21 with 308 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Josh Harrop on 12:03 - May 21 by Radlett_blue |
This is a side of football that we don't often hear about as the media is obsessed with the PL big names. Harrop made a brave decision at 21 to turn down an extension at Man U in favour of making a career at Preston & he had a good first season, but then got an ACL injury & it was all downhill from there. The club wanted to shift him, he was desperate to start playing again so he tried when he really shouldn't have done. We didn't know Town had idiotically signed a crock so have derided Harrop, when he was probably a decent guy, trying to do his best.
Unsurprisingly, football fans are not very loyal to expensive signings which don't work out, such as Tom Adeyemi & Cameron Stewart. |
So many of our players were failed massively by the club in that era. Cut after cut after cut off the pitch, a real lack of medical, strength and conditioning expertise and no leadership.
The irony of it was we had a decent squad by L1 standards and a healthy wage bill. Rather than throwing mud at the wall by way of journeyman and loan signings in the hope something stuck, we would've been much better off investing it in support staff and giving the players the tools to do their job and helping them get into the right condition. Its like trying to build a house with no foundations. Its little wonder we started fairly fast in those league 1 campaigns before going to sh1t. Some of the stories from the players under Lambert are absolutely unbelievable. |  | | |
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