The Squad for 2017/18

[Rockford's Love Child]

Going off topic, interesting developments at the club today with Shaw's departure confirmed and four new associate directors appointed. I don't know what all that means in practical terms.

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

Matt Jones has confirmed on Twitter that Wirral Live made a loss, hence Shaw's departure.

 

[Boz]

A loss shows an error of judgement somewhere. Would be interesting to know the extent of it and how the three gigs compared. He also tweets that the club want to have a similar event next year. I'm not so sure about the merits of that

 

[drwhoman]

On BBTC comments about FGR I think it might be argued that they were always going to struggle in terms of the NL until Dale Vince arrived in around 2010 (?). He gave them financial stability and hence they were able to recruit a better Manager and players. The annoying thing is that FGR are a wealthy man's plaything whatever he might say to the contrary. Yes- we have Palios, who is not poor, but we do have a long history and tradition.
We still await the two or three signings we need unless MM is going to give several of the younger players a go in pre-season. I would imagine that the likes of Gumbs and Duggan are at such an age that they will either make it or not. They are not scholars any more.

 

[bring back the cowshed!]

On the face of it, it seems a good idea to use the stadium for this after the end of the season. But you've got to get the right acts, charge appropriate prices and get the tickets sold. I know that sounds obvious, but clearly somebody screwed up with at least one of those.

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

I still can't believe that Shaw was just left to get on with it on his own. If he was, you could say it was negligent on the part of the owners.

 

[bring back the cowshed!]

On BBTC comments about FGR I think it might be argued that they were always going to struggle in terms of the NL until Dale Vince arrived in around 2010 (?). He gave them financial stability and hence they were able to recruit a better Manager and players. The annoying thing is that FGR are a wealthy man's plaything whatever he might say to the contrary. Yes- we have Palios, who is not poor, but we do have a long history and tradition.

I absolutely agree. FGR are at best an advertising tool for Vince, whereas Mark Palios is not intending to lose money in the long run. He wants to turn Rovers into a going concern he can sell on to another responsible owner.

 

[bring back the cowshed!]

Going off topic, interesting developments at the club today with Shaw's departure confirmed and four new associate directors appointed. I don't know what all that means in practical terms.

I think the new appointments would be called non-executive directors in other companies. I expect their role is to advise the board on its non-football commercial activities and possibly to mentor the full-time staff responsible for the relevant income streams. At least, I think that might make sense.

BTW, the new website looks a lot smarter than the old one although it contains much the same stuff at the moment and will take me a while to get used to. I find it very poor on club statistics. You can't even find out basics like appearance and goalscoring stats.

 

[drwhoman]

A good thought BBTC. Just an idea but would there be any point in whitereview contributors compiling a list of what we would like to see on the OW which would then be sent as a submission to the club?

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

BBTC, I understand the role of non exec directors, I just don't know what particular skills those individuals bring and why they have been chosen.

 

[Boz]

I see Paul Mullin has ended up at Swindle.

 

[Ian]

Think the website looks nice, but functionality is poor. The front page is too busy and there are awful delays scrolling up and down. Other pages with lesser content are easier to navigate. Bit too fancy for its own good.

Still wondering how Wirral Live made a loss. Tickets sales were decent over the three days weren't they?

 

[frenchrover]

See we've signed George Waring from Stoke on a 2 year deal. A striker at 6' 4'' should be a handful in the box but has only scored 7 in 55 league outings whilst on loan at various clubs. Has played for Micky before at Shrewsbury but failed to score there. Not a niche signings but maybe one to develop?

 

[Boz]

Waring doesn't set the pulse racing and he didn't get on the score-sheet at all last season. On the books at Stoke and came through the youth system at Everton, so has a reasonable pedigree though. Probably his role will be limited to back-up, a 2 year deal seems a tad generous.

 

[Ian]

I'd agree about him being backup. Maybe they see potential in him.

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

This seems a decent signing to me. He can provide back up to cook in the target man role, but it is now clear that cook is first choice next season. We have plenty of goals in the team already, waring will give us something different.

 

[bring back the cowshed!]

I agree that this is a good signing. He may have had offers from league clubs. It's a bit of a gamble, but less so because Micky knows him and presumably can see potential. He's not exactly prolific, so I don't see him as back-up for Cook, but I think he'll be an impact player, especially initially. As RLC says, he offers something different.

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

I think he will be back up to Cook in as much as he plays a similar role, not that he has a great goalscoring record. Although having said that, he has been playing at a higher level so could be prolific in the National League.

 

[drwhoman]

Good news. Sounds as if he has just the sort of physique that might work well in the National League.

 

[bigmart]

competition for places is healthy so hopefully a good signing