Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
Yes. We know that they do recruitment via data and stats.

Can you hand on heart promise that if the lad from Gateshead had signed for a team like Chesterfield, you wouldn't be complaining that we'd missed out on just the kind of player we should be looking at while sorting out the managerial vacancy?
100%. I'd never heard of him, hadn't noticed a buzz around the mention of his name on here before he signed (which is not to say there wasn't a thread about him before he signed if somebody wants to try and make me look stupid with a link, I'm saying I hadn't noticed one) and I would have brushed it off without comment as Chesterfield signing a striker from a part time league had anybody bothered to bring it up had they got him instead.

All well and good if the owners have unearthed a gem but I don't see how him being a decent signing or not changes the fact that Shaun Derry wasn't happy with having to defer to a transfer panel in 2014/15. Perhaps he's changed his mind since he last spoke on MC and now loves the idea.