Someone is having a medical

[jackal2]

Last Chance Saloon for him then. If he fails in the Conference, his career is pretty much over. He clearly has talent though and I think we are entitled to be excited about this one. Maybe our ownership will motivate him a little.

I hope that's the case!

On paper, this one rings alarm bells. The lad gets several international appearances for a good European national side in his early years but then his career drifts so much that Motherwell release him without barely an appearance to his name, and with 'Well fans on social media saying stuff like this:

https://twitter.com/21Maxwell/status...85629879037954

The name of the league might be Scottish Premier, but the standard outside of Celtic and Rangers is little better than League Two/Conference level these days, as illustrated by Kristian Dennis signing for St Mirren, so if Sloth was considered a passenger at Motherwell then you have to wonder how this will pan out?

I think it's fair comment based on the evidence to say something has gone badly wrong with this lad's career, and if it's his attitude then you hope he's looked in the mirror and knows it's got to change big time.

Like you say, Last Chance Saloon - time to roll your sleeves up, Casper. One thing I'll guarantee - Notts fans will give a chance to any player who puts in 100% effort, so start from there and the rest will follow.

[KCNotts]

So...starting 11...

People seem to be going for this 4-2-3-1 at the minute, not sure why seeing as Ardley has never used it, so I’m going for a 4-3-3!

.....................Slocombe......

Brindley..Rawlinson..Lacey..Mccory

Reeves.........Doyle.........Rodrigues

Roberts.......Wootton.......Enzio

Or, in a 4-2-3-1....

...................Slocombe.......

Brindley..Rawlinson....Lacey....Mccory

................Reeves.....Doyle......

.......Roberts.....Sloth........Rodrigues...

......................Wootton....

Only concern is a lack of fire power up front really but we have some strength in depth now for other positions.

Looks decent. We need a LB, some competition on the wings, a striker and probably a young CB on loan again.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Motherwell had high hopes for him, that was until he decided to go AWOL. Turns out he decided to take a holiday, without telling the club, he was missing for weeks. Having spoken to Leeds fans it seems the boy has talent, but 'only when he can be bothered' Btw he's 28, so he's definitely not a promising young player, he should be in his footballing peak. I sincerely hope i'm wrong, but i have a terrible feeling about this signing. Leeds paid 600k for him, but if he couldn't motivate himself to play for them in the Championship, it will be tough to motivate him for Notts in the National League.

Ardley seems to chat to the players before they sign, I'm going to assume he's meticulously researched him and spoken to relevant people. Sometimes, things don't always work out but I have faith that Ardley has done his research

[kill_the_drum]

It’s signing players like this that I’m glad we have Doyle and JOB.
I can’t see them allowing anyone to have an inflated ego. And making a huge assumption it sounds like that has been this guys stumbling block.
Let’s hope we get this guy playing to his potential.

[jackal2]

Motherwell manager's parting words on Sloth: https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2020/...es-motherwell/

“Sometimes in football, things don’t work out for any number of reasons,” manager Stephen Robinson said.

“But Casper has been professional throughout his time here and has continued to apply himself.

“His presence has also helped push on younger players in his position to excel. We wish him well for the future.”


Professional and applied himself - not something a manager usually says about a player with a fundamentally bad attitude. Makes you wonder what went wrong if he's got the ability.

[Elite_Pie]

Professional and applied himself - not something a manager usually says about a player with a fundamentally bad attitude. Makes you wonder what went wrong if he's got the ability.

Conversely, how many times do you hear a manager describe a departing player as "he had ability, but was bone idle and a bit of a prima donna".

[jackal2]

Conversely, how many times do you hear a manager describe a departing player as "he had ability but was bone idle and a bit of a prima donna".

Yes I thought someone would make that observation in reply!

Obviously it's not considered good professional etiquette to slag off a player who leaves*, but if there's not much nice to say then it's often just a case of "wishing them well for the future" and little more. There would be no particular reason for a manager to say praiseworthy things at that stage unless the observation was genuine. It's not like they're going to get any more out of the player.

* A notable exception was when Boston manager Steve Evans took striker Phil Gray on loan (I think from Oxford) back in their Conference-winning season but terminated the loan early. Evans' comment - not untypically for him - was something along the lines of "Phil wanted to go and we were glad to see him go!"

[Freeman25]

I think Carl Heggs (sorry for reminding people he existed) had some rather choice words about a fair few of our players after his short spell here

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Right summary!

LB Tutonda/Miller
CH Graham
Winger Buckley
Striker Cole/Scully

Tony Scully was past it the first time he joined, never mind 15 years later...

[countygump]

Tony Scully was past it the first time he joined, never mind 15 years later...

His lad from Lincoln, but you knew that anyway, CBP, you little bogger.


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