Boss expects to wait on loan deals (From This Is Swindon Town FC)

THE NEWS WE`VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR : - SWINDON Town last night agreed a fee of £350,000 with Celtic for midfielder Simon Ferry and full-back Paul Caddis.

Caddis, 22, made 24 appearances for the first team at Parkhead, making his home debut when he marked Ronaldinho when Barcelona came to Glasgow in the last 16 of the Champions League in February, 2008. He also had a spell on loan with Dundee United la
ADVERTISEMENTst year.

Ferry, also 22, has been at Parkhead since 2005 but injuries saw him sidelined for nearly three years.

He failed to make the first team but spent last season on loan at Swindon, making 46 appearances for them, including the League One play-off final defeat to Millwall at Wembley.

They'll join former Celts Scott Cuthbert and Jon-Paul McGovern at the County Ground.

Swindon had earlier seen a second bid for the pair rejected.

umpcah wrote:
THE NEWS WE`VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR : - SWINDON Town last night agreed a fee of £350,000 with Celtic for midfielder Simon Ferry and full-back Paul Caddis. Caddis, 22, made 24 appearances for the first team at Parkhead, making his home debut when he marked Ronaldinho when Barcelona came to Glasgow in the last 16 of the Champions League in February, 2008. He also had a spell on loan with Dundee United la ADVERTISEMENTst year. Ferry, also 22, has been at Parkhead since 2005 but injuries saw him sidelined for nearly three years. He failed to make the first team but spent last season on loan at Swindon, making 46 appearances for them, including the League One play-off final defeat to Millwall at Wembley. They'll join former Celts Scott Cuthbert and Jon-Paul McGovern at the County Ground. Swindon had earlier seen a second bid for the pair rejected.

Oops - I didn`t say WELL DONE AF & DW !

umpcah wrote:

umpcah wrote: THE NEWS WE`VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR : - SWINDON Town last night agreed a fee of £350,000 with Celtic for midfielder Simon Ferry and full-back Paul Caddis. Caddis, 22, made 24 appearances for the first team at Parkhead, making his home debut when he marked Ronaldinho when Barcelona came to Glasgow in the last 16 of the Champions League in February, 2008. He also had a spell on loan with Dundee United la ADVERTISEMENTst year. Ferry, also 22, has been at Parkhead since 2005 but injuries saw him sidelined for nearly three years. He failed to make the first team but spent last season on loan at Swindon, making 46 appearances for them, including the League One play-off final defeat to Millwall at Wembley. They'll join former Celts Scott Cuthbert and Jon-Paul McGovern at the County Ground. Swindon had earlier seen a second bid for the pair rejected.

Oops - I didn`t say WELL DONE AF & DW !

Before anyone asks - This is an excerpt from Celtic news in " The Scotsman ". Happy Days are on the way for Town fans. COME ON YOU REDS !

A massive step in the right direction, at last. Maybe now we can all rest a bit easier.

umpcah , very well done. I'd just looked at the Scottish Sun and the Daily Record and they had both missed it. Good man, and yet again we read it elsewhere before its on here at The Adver.

Adver...for Christ sake, this was released at 9pm yesterday......don't you get newsfeed in Oxford?
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cheers for the update umpcah!

the wizard wrote:
A massive step in the right direction, at last. Maybe now we can all rest a bit easier. umpcah , very well done. I'd just looked at the Scottish Sun and the Daily Record and they had both missed it. Good man, and yet again we read it elsewhere before its on here at The Adver.

Yes we can all rest a bit easier ! I think it`s true to say that AF & DW are working tirelessly on the Town`s rebuild for the purpose of attaining Championship status. A turn-out of all the seasonticket holders on Saturday would be a good statement of support from the fans.

Stickshaker wrote:
Adver...for Christ sake, this was released at 9pm yesterday......don't you get newsfeed in Oxford? . cheers for the update umpcah!

Mon plaisir ! Je suis heureux !

Old news UMPCAH lol, check out my post on the Ball article ha ha...

Good news indeed!

avo wrote:
Old news UMPCAH lol, check out my post on the Ball article ha ha... Good news indeed!

Shall we tell The Adver ?

http://www.swindon.v
italfootball.co.uk/a
rticle.asp?a=206550

On another website now. Good times. Worth a quick read for anyone who does doesn't believe in AF.

I'm there on Sat. I bought a second ticket for the missus, but sadly she's not having a good time with life at the moment, so I may well bring my BIG Buddy along.

Pretty disgusted that The Adver didn't headline this though !!! goes to underline what a few have been saying for a while, shame. I've saved the Scotsman link in case we go back for more.

Ferry and caddis to sign by the weekend and available for the forest match...yippee. now all we need is a 20 goal a season striker to replace paynter and we will have a great chance. sure pruts will chip in with 8-10 too. great to have 5 great midfielders now. ferry just kept the game moving for us last year and is a great at keeping the ball and making us play controlled football, cant wait for this season now!!!

Good news , two much needed signings.For me the most urgent priority is to get a decent central defender in.Just a ppov,but I think we will have real problems if we don't get a centre half in who can concentrate for the whole 90 minutes.Otherwise DW/AF have done the business once again with limited resources acquiring quality signings.I'm not to bothered if we take a bit of time to get further strikers/midfielders in, but I reckon they need to get a quality central defender in asap, or even sooner!

Great News. Got my facts wrong about Ferry's contract the other day so delighted to be proved wrong!!
Just need the icing on the cake now.

stroudred1959 wrote:
Good news , two much needed signings.For me the most urgent priority is to get a decent central defender in.Just a ppov,but I think we will have real problems if we don't get a centre half in who can concentrate for the whole 90 minutes.Otherwise DW/AF have done the business once again with limited resources acquiring quality signings.I'm not to bothered if we take a bit of time to get further strikers/midfielders in, but I reckon they need to get a quality central defender in asap, or even sooner!

" a centre half who can concentrate for the whole 90 minutes " ? I assume this is a reflection on Morrison ! It`s fair to say that Sean has plenty to learn but he`s keen to learn and with good players around to show him the ropes together with good coaching I think he`s worth a run of gametime if there is no immediate alternative.

I like Morrison and he is getting better and better. Great in the air and yes as young defenders do, he makes the odd mistake but will be commanding at the back with Scott Cuthbert. Shame he did not get much of a chance last year but being out on loan would help him. Lets face it Greer made quite a few mistakes at the back last year too. LF is also a good solid Centre Half and much more comfortable there than at full back. Its a 20 goal striker to replace billy that we need or replace ward and perhaps Ball is the 20 goal man? Not keen on Perricard as his record shows he has never scored many goals at any level. I know people say he is like Heskey but I feel centre forwards need to be goal scorers and we need someone to take the heat off of Charlie Boy! Well done AF on signing Ferry and Caddis. Two young players and again they have spent wisely like the Cuthbert signing last year who is key to us being successful this year.

umpcah wrote:

stroudred1959 wrote:
Good news , two much needed signings.For me the most urgent priority is to get a decent central defender in.Just a ppov,but I think we will have real problems if we don't get a centre half in who can concentrate for the whole 90 minutes.Otherwise DW/AF have done the business once again with limited resources acquiring quality signings.I'm not to bothered if we take a bit of time to get further strikers/midfielders in, but I reckon they need to get a quality central defender in asap, or even sooner!

" a centre half who can concentrate for the whole 90 minutes " ? I assume this is a reflection on Morrison ! It`s fair to say that Sean has plenty to learn but he`s keen to learn and with good players around to show him the ropes together with good coaching I think he`s worth a run of gametime if there is no immediate alternative.

Your assumption is correct umpcah, and I agree that Sean has good potential.There probably isn't an immediate alternative so we are going to have to play him and hope that you are right about more experienced players showing him the ropes.Let's hope he learns very quickly.

Also, the article doesn't exactly state its Darby but does anyone else think that with Caddis and DW in the hunt for another right back that he is considering putting Kev in a more attacting role. I hope so because when he is excellent when he runs with the ball at his feet. Take away a lot of his defensive responsibilities and we could have a very good winger on ouir hands. Thoughts?

the_gloves wrote:
Also, the article doesn't exactly state its Darby but does anyone else think that with Caddis and DW in the hunt for another right back that he is considering putting Kev in a more attacting role. I hope so because when he is excellent when he runs with the ball at his feet. Take away a lot of his defensive responsibilities and we could have a very good winger on ouir hands. Thoughts?

I don't think DW is looking for a RB.Just a hunch, but I don't think we have a cat in hells chance of getting Darby back here.Darby is going to be very much in the hunt for a starting place for Liverpool this season.Don't doubt for a moment that he has a very big future ahead of him with LIverpool.Think he will play LB for them, and do it very well.As for us we have big Kev,Caddis, and I would have no qualms about playing Nathan Thompson at RB if needed he would cope no problem at all.

I see that Marlon King gets released from HM custody this week and is a free agent..... Would be worth a punt if he wasn't such a tw*t!!

I didn't think we had a chance of getting Darby but Liverpool are about to sign Luke Young so that'll limit his first team chances. Would love to have him back. Even without him we do have some very good right backs. I,ve not seen Thompson play but only heard good things. I just think if Kev was aloud to play in a mainly attacking role we'd have a very good weapon and something different to JPM - who is also very good.