Oakleyson Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/News/Stor...,890623,00.html You have to ask why would we reveal interest if this was true and run the risk of upsetting the player or alerting others .... ? According to the everso reliable Team Talk web page ... so must be true. City Prepare Henderson Swoop Bristol City player-boss Brian Tinnion has admitted he is interested in signing Gillingham striker Darius Henderson. The 23-year-old forward has scored five goals in six games while on loan at Swindon this season but has recently returned to Priestfield after his one-month deal with the Robins expired. Swindon have since had two bids for the former Reading forward rejected and Tinnion says he has been monitoring the situation carefully. "As yet we have not made a bid for Darius Henderson but we are currently in the process of preparing an offer," he said. "We are interested and have had him watched this season. We actually tried to get him before he went on loan to Swindon but missed out that time. "I am not expecting anything to be sorted in the next few days but we will talk to Gillingham soon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBCFCUK Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I hope so he could be a great signing for city and is a target man and he also scores goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadratinmycider Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Are there any target men that we haven't "prepared an offer for"!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matalan31 Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I hope so he could be a great signing for city and is a target man and he also scores goals. ← i reckon that we should give miller heffernan gillespie and roberts a bit more time before we go signing anymore strikers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matalan31 Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Are there any target men that we haven't "prepared an offer for"!! ← no i don't think there is actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenun Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/News/Stor...,890623,00.html You have to ask why would we reveal interest if this was true and run the risk of upsetting the player or alerting others .... ? According to the everso reliable Team Talk web page ... so must be true. City Prepare Henderson Swoop Bristol City player-boss Brian Tinnion has admitted he is interested in signing Gillingham striker Darius Henderson. The 23-year-old forward has scored five goals in six games while on loan at Swindon this season but has recently returned to Priestfield after his one-month deal with the Robins expired. Swindon have since had two bids for the former Reading forward rejected and Tinnion says he has been monitoring the situation carefully. "As yet we have not made a bid for Darius Henderson but we are currently in the process of preparing an offer," he said. "We are interested and have had him watched this season. We actually tried to get him before he went on loan to Swindon but missed out that time. "I am not expecting anything to be sorted in the next few days but we will talk to Gillingham soon." ← A big turnaround from this article then? http://www.bcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsD...~562020,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 One word (if this story is indeed true): Injuries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATT BCFC Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Hes a very good player We do need a target man BUT we could also do with a centre defender to sort out the set piece problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn slice Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Hes a very good player We do need a target man BUT we could also do with a centre defender to sort out the set piece problem! ← and a new keeper needed.good shot stopper but does not command is box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich-TWSC- Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Gillingham won't accept for intial bids etc... Swindon can probably afford £30,000 + Apps and Future % and so on. Swindon bidded more than they paid for him but as he's scored 5 in 6 they want some £££. Understandable... But bad for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pewsham Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I think Henderson would make a very useful signing...I also think a good defensive coach and a commanding "Shaun Taylor" type central defender should be high on the priority list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilksy Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I don't rate Henderson at all, dunno how he's scoring at Swindon. The bloke was useless at Reading, is 5th choice striker at Gillingham, and he's regularly injured too. Is that really the sort of player we want, especially if the club want to push for promotion ???? I know we could do with a big man, but should we buy a player that has only been any good in a months loan at a different club ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenun Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 This story is now on the BBC Website, so it MUST be true. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ham/3666310.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBCFCUK Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I read in a paper this weekend that gillingham would accept a fee for around 75,000 which is cheap i thought as we were going to sign brooker for 250,000 and henderson would be a great signing i hope Tinman trys to sign him and quick before the swindon scum do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne allisons tongues Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 75K seems cheap to me. We seem to be conceding goals to a lack of height at set pieces. Loss of Peacock and Carey two reasonably tall players and replaced them with Smith and Lita. Lita will score more than Peacock no doubt but we have let in i think 8-10 goals from setpieces this season which cancels out the goals he has scored for us this season. Wilsons tactics may of been boring at times but he knew the strenghs of the team and used the players accordingly. We seemed more compact as a team and not attacked so easily down wings. Hopefully any tall striker will help out defensively and with some strength hold the ball up and bring in the wide guys a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arpaul Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 BUT we could also do with a centre defender to sort out the set piece problem! ← How can the defence that was the best in the Division become so poor so quickly ? The personel (except Carey) is the same. Could it be with something to do with the lack of ability on the coaching staff/management team ? The Tinnion/Millen dream team would not be on any of the 91 other league teams short lists for managerial vacancies. No wonder we're looked upon as a footballing backwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne allisons tongues Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 We have tw defenders in our backroom staff so don't understand the lack of defending. Maybe something to do with no target man to play against in Training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_funk Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 he seems to be quiet injury prone. is he going to be another matthews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 You don't "prepare a swoop", you just swoop, before someone else does. What a daft way to go after a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobo Dave Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Don't think we should waste our money - Henderson isn't exactly a proven goal-scorer he is !! Just because he's scored a few on the trot this season for Swineton, doesn't mean it will continue, he record shows that. Sounds like desperation to me !!! We've got enough strikers, two we signed during the off-season, and they haven't really been given a fair chance to prove themselves yet (Heff & Gilly). Leroy is doing very well, Roberts is (hopefully) sorting himself out, and then there's Miller. Don't bother with Henderson, I think he'll be a bad signing, and a knee jerk re-action, who we'll be stuck with for years on the treatment table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathy33 Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Perhaps we should see if Devon White wants to come out of retirement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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