Apparently he had keyhole surgery so hopefully in a few weeks.
It would be good if he could play sixty minutes of the Spurs game. We have not retained the ball very well in the last couple of matches and we will need to pass through midfield much better against Tottenham.The sooner he is fully fit and back the better. An on form Banks adds so much class to the team and improves us immeasurably!
I hope you are right, RLC, but he has played for Hereford and Torquay, so may not be averse to moving south again. Assuming the wages we are offering are similar, you would hope we had the edge. Both sides are in the promotion race but Exeter are selling their prize asset while we are hoping to hang onto ours. Also, I would think any lower league player would be impressed by the fan base and infrastructure of our club, not to mention MP's ambition.According to BBC Scotland, Exeter and ourselves have both had bids accepted and it is up to Bowman to decide where he wants to go. He hails from Carlisle, so hopefully he will want to stay closer to home.
Possibly, but we will have the cup money. They lost in the first round.I think Exeter will be able to offer better wages than us, particularly now they have the Stockley money, and I would expect him to go there to be honest.
The cup games have not made us 750,000 (yet).Possibly, but we will have the cup money. They lost in the first round.
We'll see what happens. I would not expect Bowman to be the replacement for Stockley and they will still have plenty of money left, so they will be after more players.The cup games have not made us 750,000 (yet).
In any case, Exeter's wage budget will almost certainly have been higher than ours to begin with. They have benefited from three years of Football League money which we lost and they have consistently been at the top end of this division for a number of seasons now.
We surely haven't bid for a player knowing we can't better his wages, so presumably average SPL wages are lower than League Two, which says not a lot for the state of Scottish football. Things must have changed a lot in the last ten years, as Steve Jennings left Rovers (then in League One) for Motherwell in 2009.I obviously hope he comes here, but the Motherwell chairman said he was offered 'wages we could not match'. It does not seem likely that we have outbid Exeter and an SPL club.
But who knows.
We might only have matched his current wages, given that he was likely to be offloaded by Motherwell in the summer anyway. He is not getting in their team at present.We surely haven't bid for a player knowing we can't better his wages.