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Rafferty

Rafferty

oli_oconnell said:
I’ve explained why.

But I’ll expand.

I think he was poor physically, no running power, little strength, little pace, aerially small. Didn’t add anything to the side in this regard and it’s a big reason (imo) why he was shifted to LB - can come inside and combine easier there rather than being isolated and having to go outside players on the right.

I was think he was very conservative as a player - defensively didn’t engage in many duels at all, backed off opponents and let them gain ground regularly before engaging, generally on the back foot.

Didn’t really add anything technically either for me. No quality in attacking areas and didn’t really contribute to progressing the ball when deeper either through cute passing or dribbling.

Essentially I think he offered very very little and when he played I think we carried him. Hence I think he was a waste of a signing and as a result a waste of £700,000.
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Fair enough, but apart from all that?
 
Doppelganger said:
I don’t want to argue with you on this. For what it is worth, you are one of the better posters on this Forum; but to attack me for something I did not do - that is to use someone else’s post citing Raff’s wages as £10k a week as the basis of my support for Raff’s time as a back-up player at PNE - is completely untrue. I did no such thing. This is a speculative figure you introduced into your reply to justify your criticism of him.
I’ve seen two posts citing Raff’s wages as £4k pw, and £10k pw, both of which I suspect are well wide of the mark. He was signed as a back-up player from Rochdale, no doubt with the potential to earn more money if he were to successfully establish himself in the starting eleven. What his contract actually was worth is pure guesswork, but it seems to me that if he was given a contract of £2k per week (£100k) pa, that was a pretty decent deal. At tops, I would not expect him to offered any more than £3k per week (£150k pa). If I am right, we got a fair deal, given the level of wages we pay out for regular players in our starting eleven. Anything above the rates I have surmised has to be brought into question, which is a long way from your supposition that I was happy to justify his performances on £10k per week.
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You seem confused about what I have posted. Suggest you go back and read my posts again.

I haven't "attacked" you at all. You came blundering into the discussion claiming what I said was "a bit harsh", but my post was purely speculative and making a very simple point, based on information posted by someone else.

I pointed this out to you, and you then outrageously claimed I'm not allowed to speculate without demonstrating what I'm speculating about is true - which is really the opposite of speculation.

Since your post was clearly horseshit, and since you are clearly in no position to tell me what I can and can't post about anyway, I invited you to buzz off and read the posts making the claims about Rafferty's wages that seemed to have got your knickers in such a twist.

But now here you are, claiming you've been "attacked", and assuring me you don't want to argue about this. Let me put your mind at ease on that score - throughout this whole discussion, I have not at any stage given a shiny shit what you think about Rafferty or his wages. So don't worry, there is no "argument" here, because I'm simply not interested in having one.

If you think those two posts talking about Rafferty's wages are wide of the mark, why don't you go and reply to them? Why are you mithering to me about them? I genuinely couldn't give a fuck what your best guess at Rafferty's wage is, so please spare me any more of the speculation you claim other people cannot indulge in.
 
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