Ladeeez and Gennnulmen, for the very last and final time, in memory of Dean Ashton

I give you:

Tricky Hawes making a pillock of himself about the Ashton signing!

In a very humourless fashion I would just point out that
bigger clubs than us are being rumoured to be offering bigger fess than we could afford on Ashton. So I do feel slightly vindicated there.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 14th 2004 at 15:27:29

Of course it's not bloody Ashton If it had been him you'd have seen me backpedalling frantically long before now, believe me.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 14th 2004 at 11:12:18

Incidentally I'm right and Old Git and SCC25 are wrong. In that it's not Ashton.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 8th 2004 at 16:45:27


no chance of himcoming ere
to far away to move to
bigger clubs in for him
to much wedge out of price range
shame we didnt go for him in the summer when he would have been cheaper
be intresting to see how he does in the prem innit

Posted By: c_gaz on December 6th 2004 at 13:07:07

Indeed. Was obvious last week, is obvious this week. Shame SCC25 and Old Git aren't around. Or maybe they've given up on this one now.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 6th 2004 at 13:08:37


You keep banging on about how we'll get Ashton. But we won't. So you're not always right.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 16:26:23

He's signing for spurs you buffoon, which was all I ever said was happening (ie he was bound to sign for a bigger club than us). And I'm quite looking forward to reading your grudging acknowledgement that I was Right and you were Wrong.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 16:38:31


it's not often you're vindicated so soon after a board disagreement. You I notice have backpedalled faster than Lance Armstrong on a rewound video. Earlier this week you were convinced he would sign for us. What's changed?

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 16:43:43

which one of us tends to be right? I'm telling you - no Ashton.... ;o)

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 14:37:12


oh, and on Ashton the idea of him coming to us remains as laughable as it was when people first mooted it.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 11:13:19


I suspected that the lurkers would have some more sense on this. thank you. Summer: Safri, Jonson, Charlton, Docherty, Helveg. January: Ashton? Dawson? Reid? Yeah right.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 11:23:04


I'm pretty cheerful. Actually feeling quite optimistic about our chances but we won't be beating off clubs like Spurs, Everton, Liverpool to sign the most highly-rated championship players in jan. At the moment a few folk on this board are higlighting the most promising two or three players in the championship (with the exception of Bent, for obvious reasons) and speculating we might get them in Jan. We'll be going for players with lower profiles than that.

TH

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 11:32:21


We never had a cat in hell's chance for Ashton The only puzzle is why people on here started talking about it. He's probably the first fizzy league player in the queue for the premiership, and was never about to jump ship in jan to a club expected to shortly leave it.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 08:59:19


Is your nickname Eeyore?

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I'm not being gloomy, just demonstrating a little realism There's plenty of strikers out there we could realistically aim at who could do a job. (I think we've been a little unlucky that both Macken and Johannson have finally broken into their first teams, for example, but we realistically had a chance of getting either of them.) But Ashton happen to be one that was, is and will be out of our league. There probably isn't another nationwide striker who's as highly rated as him. Not one. Therefore he will not go to a relegation-favourite who don't have much cash to spend.

TH

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 2nd 2004 at 11:09:23


way out of our price range. (n/m)

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on December 1st 2004 at 17:58:53

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nope - SCC 25, December 1st 2004 at 18:31:53
yep. - Tricky Hawes, December 1st 2004 at 19:00:46
come back to me in January nm - SCC 25, December 1st 2004 at 19:07:34
You come back to me at the end of January. nm - Tricky Hawes, December 1st 2004 at 20:55:27
deal nm - SCC 25, December 1st 2004 at 22:45:18
not sure how much do you think ke would cost... - loz, December 1st 2004 at 18:01:58
there'll be a number of prem clubs after him. - Tricky Hawes, December 1st 2004 at 18:11:32
Well im not sure most other clubs... - loz, December 1st 2004 at 18:22:27
If we could get him for a million... - Jono, December 1st 2004 at 18:27:55
he could cost anything up to about 3 million i reckon...n/m - Alan, December 1st 2004 at 18:52:52

Posted By: Old Git, Jan 24, 09:37:34