it's a 17 year old rookie 'keeper, no harm in having a look you know
I find that a very strange move indeed.
Agreed. He is a 17 year old 'keeper, taken on trial. No harm in having a look and thinking of the future. Just because the signing isn't exciting and doesn't signal the saving of our season, doesn't mean it is a bad move.
So why get rid of perfectly young keeper last year?
Plus we already have 3?? They should be spending more time looking for outfield players espeically attacking ones.
I was surprised when they let Quirke go, he looked alright from what I had seen of him. But let's be objective. He played 4 games for Coventry (coming on as a substitute in at least 1, maybe 2). He was released in the summer. Since then he has been without a club. Today, he is rumoured to have been taken on a trial basis by Yeovil Town (admittedly, only on the Football Rumours site, which is often toss). Since his release around 6 months ago, he would have put himself in the shop window at every opportunity, but remained without a club. The powers that be at CCFC (including managers, coaches and, of course, Oggy) did not think he was good enough. They saw him at every training session. They may be wrong (remember Sturridge), they may be right. But we can assume they based the decision on a lot more knowledge of Quirke than we have.
The fact we have three 'keepers is almost completely irrelevant. What if this kid grows up to be the next Schmeichel? People would bemoan us not having a look when we had the chance and probably state something along the lines of 'no, typical City, we kept faith with Lee Burge and what happened to him?!'. At the end of the day, he is a 17 year old 'keeper, not a marquee signing. Keep that in mind and take it for what it is.
Are we really going over the whole Quirke thing again?
I was surprised when they let Quirke go, he looked alright from what I had seen of him. But let's be objective. He played 4 games for Coventry (coming on as a substitute in at least 1, maybe 2). He was released in the summer. Since then he has been without a club. Today, he is rumoured to have been taken on a trial basis by Yeovil Town (admittedly, only on the Football Rumours site, which is often toss). Since his release around 6 months ago, he would have put himself in the shop window at every opportunity, but remained without a club. The powers that be at CCFC (including managers, coaches and, of course, Oggy) did not think he was good enough. They saw him at every training session. They may be wrong (remember Sturridge), they may be right. But we can assume they based the decision on a lot more knowledge of Quirke than we have.
The fact we have three 'keepers is almost completely irrelevant. What if this kid grows up to be the next Schmeichel? People would bemoan us not having a look when we had the chance and probably state something along the lines of 'no, typical City, we kept faith with Lee Burge and what happened to him?!'. At the end of the day, he is a 17 year old 'keeper, not a marquee signing. Keep that in mind and take it for what it is.
I was surprised when they let Quirke go, he looked alright from what I had seen of him. But let's be objective. He played 4 games for Coventry (coming on as a substitute in at least 1, maybe 2). He was released in the summer. Since then he has been without a club. Today, he is rumoured to have been taken on a trial basis by Yeovil Town (admittedly, only on the Football Rumours site, which is often toss). Since his release around 6 months ago, he would have put himself in the shop window at every opportunity, but remained without a club. The powers that be at CCFC (including managers, coaches and, of course, Oggy) did not think he was good enough. They saw him at every training session. They may be wrong (remember Sturridge), they may be right. But we can assume they based the decision on a lot more knowledge of Quirke than we have.
The fact we have three 'keepers is almost completely irrelevant. What if this kid grows up to be the next Schmeichel? People would bemoan us not having a look when we had the chance and probably state something along the lines of 'no, typical City, we kept faith with Lee Burge and what happened to him?!'. At the end of the day, he is a 17 year old 'keeper, not a marquee signing. Keep that in mind and take it for what it is.
So why get rid of perfectly young keeper last year?
Plus we already have 3?? They should be spending more time looking for outfield players espeically attacking ones.
You make me laugh sometimes. I am almost sure now that you are a WUM. You say AT is a crap manager. You say AT is crap at everything. You say who has he ever scouted. They take a look at a young player. He could be a star in the making for all we know. You only ever go on about negatives, and try your best to find negatives in anything positive. We bring in a 37 year old experienced defender. He is too old. We bring in a 20 year old striker. He is too young. What age should we look at?
I’m a WUM??? Behave eh.... No I am a realist who hates seeing what Thorn and SISU combined are doing to this club.
We are in the worst league position since i was born. It’s the worst football I’ve seen since I’ve been born. Yes SISU have been the main problem but they have only covered the cracks in Thorn’s Management.
I can’t believe you think a player of 37 who has played just 2 games all season is a good signing? It’s bad enough when a player has no pre season in his prime but at 37? It’s going to take him at least 5 games to settle down, we haven’t got the time to give players time to get match fit.
Secondly on the 20 year old, he might be a prospect but prospects are not what we need at present He’s here for just over 3 months to gain experience, is he really going to be bothered about this club if we go down, no.
Now if you know anything about football, you’ll know that players are found by scouts. Now what bothers me, the scout are looking at players which are not needed. Quirke in my eyes was perfectly capable back up as a keeper gets released. Now i’d rather our scout time was spent scouting for players in positions we are in need of. Wingers and creativity in midfield.
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