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Confirmed Signings

Discussion in 'Non-League Football' started by B2TF, Feb 17, 2022.

  1. Chief Rocka

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    The annual FC Halifax scarper in full swing, does anyone wanna stay?
     
  2. AJS

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    We offered contracts to six out of contract players. To this date, three have chosen to leave and the one that chose to stay (Cappello) is a squad player at best.

    The only two we are waiting on, Cooke and Keane are both squad players at best also. So yet again, it’s another rebuild to go along with the players we chose to release.
     
  3. TheShayWay

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    Just exposing the shoddy attack covered up by these 2 and others in the back line last year.
     
  4. TheShayWay

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    Basically it's the same every year. We offer contracts to most out of contract. The ones that stay are the ones no one else in the league would touch with a barge poll. The ones that leave won't stay for the money we offer.

    Chairman has no ambition though. He'd rather be in the conference north with no over night stays and less expenditure. Bloke hasn't even put season tickets on sale yet.
     
  5. GTFCfish

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    Yeah especially considering we paid 100k for him 12 months ago. :laugh:
     
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    If it makes you feel better, neither have we
     
  7. Haxby Reds

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    Well you must be doing something right because you finish top 7 every year on crowds of 1000.
    Maybe I should start the relegation thread for 24/25 early.
     
  8. Son of Cod

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    Someone on our forum reckons you've doubled whatever we paid, so who knows?! Good signing all round for all parties, hope he does well for you. Shame it didn't work out for him for us.
     
  9. AussieShaymen

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    We've got a manager who's been involved in this league for the last 6, and now 7th season, either as manager or assistant manager to a consistent top 10 side in this league.

    Those other two, are just miserable Yorkshireman who are never happy. Where i do agree with them is that our chairmen, while a nice enough guy, shows absolutely no ambition to make the club look professional in the slightest.

    Millington year on year is expected to work miracles with next to no resources. To get around the almost annual player exodus, we are giving out 3yr contracts to u23 players that no one has heard of that have been injury prone their last couple of years of academy football, or one year removed in men's football.

    The likes KTS, Hoti, Adan George are on all long contracts. The first two had good seasons last year and if they maintain that level this season, I expect we will sell them this season.
     
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  10. Haxby Reds

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    Every year I think you are going to struggle,probably because I read this forum.
    Personally think you are very well club that finishes higher than you should on revenue.
     
  11. AussieShaymen

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    I agree. We have a bottom 4 budget and are in bottom half of attendances. And I know we are reformed, but we have an ex league club mentality even though it's been a generation since we were in the league.

    One of these years we will struggle. And I won't be shocked. To be fair, i just want us to improve off the pitch. We can't do the basics right. We have next to no full time staff off the field, and they are expected to do 20 different jobs. No online ticketing, no season tickets on sale yet. This is a yearly occurrence for us. We are always so reactive and never proactive its unbelievable.
     
  12. Bottega Don

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    None of the Halifax fans having profile pictures makes it incredibly hard to distinguish which one is which, one of them is incredibly negative but I have no clue which one
     
  13. AussieShaymen

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    TheShayWay. His negativity on this forum is eerily similar to a poster on our own forum. So I have my suspicions they are the same person. He's not necessarily wrong having that opinion.

    However I find it interesting that despite the fact we have maintained a top half finish in every season(6 season) that Millington has been involved at the club either as manager or assistant. There are people that want him gone. Especially with our budget..
     
  14. TheShayWay

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    We made the play offs last season based off a solid defense. 2 key parts of that have just walked out of the door. That defense covered up the frailties at the other end of the pitch last season throughout the entire campaign.
     
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    You haven't because of your chairman being a basket case in normal circumstances you'd have them on sale before the season finishes. This is how amateur we are every season off the pitch
     
  16. AussieShaymen

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    you mean like Debrah, Maher, Bradbury, Senior, Warren, Benn, etc. Do I need to go on. And yet we seem to replace them....
     
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    ShayWay is the really negative one. Aussie Shaymen is more on the positive side, and I’d say I’m somewhere in between!

    We do it tough, especially off the pitch. But it’s draining every season losing our best players on a free or for minimal compensation.
     
  18. TheShayWay

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    OK so we can replace the defense. Who's scoring the goals?
     
  19. Philliggi

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    Its nice to see halifax know how to drain something!!!
     
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    Highly doubt the pitch will be any better this time around. Rather than sorting the drainage, they’ve just relayed the pitch. So the moment bad weather comes around, we are back to square one.

    Sounds like the plan is to raise funding and grants to install a hybrid pitch for the 25/26 season.
     

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