wattsville_boy wrote:May I make the suggestion that Flynn may not have recently seen the five players before signing them. It's possible all were signed on previous reputations and not enough was done to find out how fit or how good they were playing immediately prior to signing them.
But all signings are a gamble, Sheehan may never be the player he was prior to injury - there are enough instances of that littering the annals of football. Hayes could have slowed as he ages and Osadabie may have not been training hard thus far this season because he perceived his face didn't fit at Cambridge. Reid may have been "bigged up" by Swansea in order for a trial at "mens football" to happen and perhaps Flynn didn't feel he needed to see Collins as he was familiar with his "past work" at County.
It is curious that Flynn signs these 5 and then doesn't use them. But the poor performance and result v Mansfield could lead to changes in match-day personnel. Apart for the home draw with Spurs what I have seen of County since the Leeds victory hasn't been right. Changes are overdue...
Its pretty outrageous that if true we signed all these players without seeing them play on previous reputations.
In all honesty I hope that is not a fact.
I got slammed on here when I said Hayes was a journeyman maybe over the hill, poor scoring record and injury prone.
Guess what hardly kicked a ball and he is injured again
Sheehan just doesn't look the part so did he deceive in a crap team last year.
Just look at Samuel our star player last year who cannot get a kick at Stevenage now.
Reid looked totally lost when he came on as did Osadebe.
Collins is like TOE not up to it.
Flynny has bombed out Jazzi, Williams and Jahrahldo without giving them a chance this season.
He needs to learn by his mistakes.
Everyone is praising Lennie but what is he actually bringing to the table, not a lot in our recent league matches it seems.
Flynny is still learning.
Lennie is way past that stage.