Talk about not giving the guy a chance!!!
Firstly, the short term contract should tell us everything. It may be that the true intended target has not come off in this window, we may never know. Secondly I am impressed that so many of you remember him that well and can pass critical judgement on him. Why don't we give him a few games before we condemn him, base the comments on evidence not assumptions.
Gareth Macauley is 38 and he would still get in our team according to some. Give him a chance guys, we know its not the long term solution and we all have our opinions about how the club is being run, but its not Mears fault is it..........
and before you hit the keyboard in anger, no I am not comparing Gareth to Tyrone, the point was about the age |:)
Spot on mate.
In all honesty, we probably wont see him play for us again (you would assume in a back four that Dawson and Tosin will be picked over him), if we are looking to move to a 3-5-2 formation then injury permitting, he isn't going to be taking Phillips place anytime soon, if Phillips does get injured I imagine we would shift to a 4-4-2 and use Daws or Tosin there anyway.
I have said it time and time again, some people just love to moan and pick faults. The guy has clearly been signed as a cheap back up as we aren't able to get out priority targets. If you look at the right backs we have been linked with, i.e James/Stacey then you can tell that DM wanted a younger fullback, so the fact that we have resorted to Mears, for me clearly shows we aren't able to get anyone in so we have just got some 'experienced' cover in until January.
Could that have been more effective to sign Crainie? Maybe so, but im guessing Mears is on a lower wage and more accustomed to the wingback role (going from comments on here and from people who were at the game) he seems to have a good engine on him.
Again though, I will be very surprised if he makes a league appearance for us.