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With Rathbone on Monday and Done on Tuesday, which player will be announced as signing their contract extension today? I am going for Wilbraham on a one year deal.
It appears that these extensions are being drip fed up until the early bird season ticket deadline on Sunday in an attempt to 'drum up interest'.
I seem to remember Keith Hill once commenting that he'd learnt through his experience with Diba where, despite being full of potential at 16, he was always on the bench for the first team and never got any game time, something that stunted his development. I half thought that this was the reason for Wade going out on that shortlived loan to Barrow.
Do we expect any of these to resign! Aaron Wilbraham, Kgosi Ntlhe, Jimmy Keohane, Aaron Morley,
Getting rather close to the contract end date.
With them being back for Pre-Season tomorrow we'll probably find out the last ones to sign at that point.
Kgosi is the only one I think might get more money elsewhere. The other three might only move on if they want a better chance of first team football. I hope they all sign up though.
Also, I fully expect the Trust to address the issues raised in this thread at their meeting tonight and for their own disappointment, on behalf of the supporters they represent, to be reflected in the minutes that will follow.
That we see examples of such charges continuing this week after the situation has been raised on here, directly to the club and via the Trust (see Trust Quiz Night thread) is exactly why those same supporters feel let down.
This isn’t the first time where something is said and it doesn’t happen, so it will be interesting to hear what both organisations - the Trust and the Club - have planned to restore some faith in agreements such as the Memorandum of Understanding and the processes it clearly lays out. https://www.rochdaleafc.co.uk/news/2019/january/memorandum-of-understanding/
The announcement of the youth team players signing professional deals?
Tavares must have signed with him being used to model the kits and signing autographs on the family fun day. I cannot see any reason that the others have not signed.
Normally I would surmise that Wade will be on a pittance and that it's just another body for the squad. However, the fact that he's been offered a 3 year deal leads me to believe they've seen something in him. To go from hardly ever offering 3 year contacts to two players signing one in the space of a few days also feels weird to me. Oh well
Normally I would surmise that Wade will be on a pittance and that it's just another body for the squad. However, the fact that he's been offered a 3 year deal leads me to believe they've seen something in him. To go from hardly ever offering 3 year contacts to two players signing one in the space of a few days also feels weird to me. Oh well
A three year low cost contract on a young goalkeeper seems pretty sensible to me. The only issue is getting him game time. Hopefully he plays in all the checkatrade games.
On more news not sure today is the last day to hear anything they could drag it out until tomorrow. I am surprised they've not announced the four youngsters though. Unless they've had offers, if players not signed up from the youth team have found clubs then it's likely the ones we have offered contracts to have clubs interested in them other than ourselves.
Normally I would surmise that Wade will be on a pittance and that it's just another body for the squad. However, the fact that he's been offered a 3 year deal leads me to believe they've seen something in him. To go from hardly ever offering 3 year contacts to two players signing one in the space of a few days also feels weird to me. Oh well
I reckon the three-year deals are safeguarding profitable assets (in the opinion of the club) and offering the player security in return. A minimum-fee release clause lets the players know the handcuffs are made of velvet, so to speak.
According to the official site the players have returned to training today. Strictly speaking the ones who haven't signed for 2019/20 will still be under contract for another four days so should be in attendance?
I reckon the three-year deals are safeguarding profitable assets (in the opinion of the club) and offering the player security in return. A minimum-fee release clause lets the players know the handcuffs are made of velvet, so to speak.
That is of course the most likely theory. However, I was alluding to the fact that we don't really have form for offering 3 year deals to anyone, nevermind a player who is decent but not integral and a young keeper who hasn't made a senior appearance yet
People should just go out and have a beer in the sunshine* and stop worrying about wtf has signed and who hasn't
* i have
VERY good advice. I'm going to do that in a bit. I've been in Milano all week and it was 41C today (106F in old money). Enough to drive anyone to drink! Still too hot to go out yet. It was 32C @ midnight last night. It beats the week I spent in Northumberland though. 11C and the wettest day since records began for that part of the world. This planet's all ****ed up.
VERY good advice. I'm going to do that in a bit. I've been in Milano all week and it was 41C today (106F in old money). Enough to drive anyone to drink! Still too hot to go out yet. It was 32C @ midnight last night. It beats the week I spent in Northumberland though. 11C and the wettest day since records began for that part of the world. This planet's all ****ed up.
Can't beat a proper British summer's day, never mind all this foreign sunshine
You shouldn't have overheated in your robes, but bloody hell, 32C at night is a bit much
VERY good advice. I'm going to do that in a bit. I've been in Milano all week and it was 41C today (106F in old money). Enough to drive anyone to drink! Still too hot to go out yet. It was 32C @ midnight last night. It beats the week I spent in Northumberland though. 11C and the wettest day since records began for that part of the world. This planet's all ****ed up.
Yeah, but Northumberland is a lovely place.
When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?
True. On a gorgeous day, being on the beach at Low Newton is like being in the Caribbean, if not better. You can't get a crab butty and a pint in St. Lucia
VERY good advice. I'm going to do that in a bit. I've been in Milano all week and it was 41C today (106F in old money). Enough to drive anyone to drink! Still too hot to go out yet. It was 32C @ midnight last night. It beats the week I spent in Northumberland though. 11C and the wettest day since records began for that part of the world. This planet's all ****ed up.
There is nothing wrong with the planet other than the media reporting every raindrop and as a flood and every sunny day as some sort of catastrophe. But of course, if you watch Sky and the BBC everything is the worst "since records began" the problem is that the records were and now are unreliable because millions of tons of concrete and buildings have surrounded the weather stations. Many were once in fields and are now next to roads, new buildings or in car parks, little wonder the numbers have changed. Oh, and when exactly did records begin? "Considerable structural damage occurred across England & Wales, with large loss of standing timber (much as 1987/Oct). Estimates of total loss of life are around 8000, which makes it much worse than the October 1987 event. The heavy lead on the roof of Westminster Abbey being ripped off and carried well clear of the building. The Eddystone lighthouse (newly built/2nd time) was destroyed, and its designer/builder (Henry Winstanley) was killed as he was on site at the time." This is from November 1703
""Hot Tuesday": many heat-wave deaths in England (temperature details not known .. but must have been 'notable'!!)" 1707
Winter 1708/9.." This was a severe winter: the frost lasted for over three months (December - March) and the temperature fell (location unspecified) to 0degF (or -18degC). A notably foggy period in December 1708 (from 15th to 24th/OSP). The Thames frozen in London. Reputed to have been more severe, and more destructive and continued longer than in any year since 1698. Cold/severe winter, by CET series. (1.2 degC or about 2.5C below all-series mean, which is a lot for the three months as a whole.) More info here: http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/geography/weather.html
And I read in a book about early travellers (before any of this climate change stuff) that whalers in the early 1800's reported seeing Greenland without any snow. Unheard of. This phenomenon only lasted a few years before reverting back to normal. Fake news of course.
The worm of time turns not for the cuckoo of circumstance.
There is nothing wrong with the planet other than the media reporting every raindrop and as a flood and every sunny day as some sort of catastrophe. But of course, if you watch Sky and the BBC everything is the worst "since records began" the problem is that the records were and now are unreliable because millions of tons of concrete and buildings have surrounded the weather stations. Many were once in fields and are now next to roads, new buildings or in car parks, little wonder the numbers have changed. Oh, and when exactly did records begin? "Considerable structural damage occurred across England & Wales, with large loss of standing timber (much as 1987/Oct). Estimates of total loss of life are around 8000, which makes it much worse than the October 1987 event. The heavy lead on the roof of Westminster Abbey being ripped off and carried well clear of the building. The Eddystone lighthouse (newly built/2nd time) was destroyed, and its designer/builder (Henry Winstanley) was killed as he was on site at the time." This is from November 1703
""Hot Tuesday": many heat-wave deaths in England (temperature details not known .. but must have been 'notable'!!)" 1707
Winter 1708/9.." This was a severe winter: the frost lasted for over three months (December - March) and the temperature fell (location unspecified) to 0degF (or -18degC). A notably foggy period in December 1708 (from 15th to 24th/OSP). The Thames frozen in London. Reputed to have been more severe, and more destructive and continued longer than in any year since 1698. Cold/severe winter, by CET series. (1.2 degC or about 2.5C below all-series mean, which is a lot for the three months as a whole.) More info here: http://www.pascalbonenfant.com/18c/geography/weather.html
Fair enough. It's an opinion but I'm going to give more weight to David Attenborough, a life long naturalist. The Barrier Reef is well overrated too.
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