The Bury summer signing uberthread. WARNING - Contains tinpot material

OK, put another way, another tick off the 92

Chris Lucketti seems imminent, other than Dean Kiely he's my all time hero from when I was growing up. Mixed feelings on how this will effect my viewing of him.

Confirmed in BT

Best of look to Lucketti at Bury. Disappointed to lose Alexander’s number 2 but hope he does well.

Bottega Don said:

Best of look to Lucketti at Bury. Disappointed to lose Alexander’s number 2 but hope he does well.

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Best defender I have ever seen in a shakers shirt, really hope it works out as a manager for us.
One thing for sure, I would not like to be a Bury defender if they dont at least bloody well try with this guy in charge.

Well what a season! Let's hope that this summer we can change this Fred to a summer sale uberthread and get rid of twats like Maguire. Seriously he has to go down pound for pound as our worst ever player.

What do we think of Lowe? Is he the man to keep us in League 2 next season? Given the fact we probably only won 10 or so games since Sep 2016 I can't see any other goal for next season. It really is going to take something to shift this losing mentality.

Thankfully I didn't go last night but it seems it was yet another farce. Rumours that the twat Maguire has been told to stay away from the club ... lets hope that is true he is poison.

Another defeat ... equalling our record number of defeats for a season with 5 games still to go.

stevie_howard said:

Thankfully I didn't go last night but it seems it was yet another farce. Rumours that the twat Maguire has been told to stay away from the club ... lets hope that is true he is poison.

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What's he done now?

I'd have Maguire back in a heart beat

OUFC Dan said:

I'd have Maguire back in a heart beat

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Me too. Absolutely quality for us and the heartbeat of the team.

Don't know what's gone wrong at Bury, but good players like him don't become bad players overnight. Looks like a case of bad man management by the various Bury managers this year?

eric read said:

Me too. Absolutely quality for us and the heartbeat of the team.

Don't know what's gone wrong at Bury, but good players like him don't become bad players overnight. Looks like a case of bad man management by the various Bury managers this year?

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He has been dog shit all year, didn't want to be here from the start and only signed because of the stupid money we offered. Poison in the dressing room and you can have him.

eric read said:

Me too. Absolutely quality for us and the heartbeat of the team.

Don't know what's gone wrong at Bury, but good players like him don't become bad players overnight. Looks like a case of bad man management by the various Bury managers this year?

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He is unfit, overweight, cant pass, cant head, cant shoot, cant cross, can't take set pieces, can't or won't run, gobshite. One of the most disappointing signings I can remember us making. I would say I'd give him a lift to your ground but the effort of lowering himself into a car may prove to much for him.

stevie_howard said:

He is unfit, overweight, cant pass, cant head, cant shoot, cant cross, can't take set pieces, can't or won't run, gobshite. One of the most disappointing signings I can remember us making. I would say I'd give him a lift to your ground but the effort of lowering himself into a car may prove to much for him.

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But that's where you're wrong, and what I don't understand.

He CAN do all of those things, and did them with aplomb for us, so why is he not doing them for you? The bloke has got more ability than most in this league, and when he was with us was able to grab a game by the scruff of the neck and almost win it singlehandedly. His set pieces alone are some of the best I've ever seen (and I've seen us in the top league and seen us win what's now the Championship).

Seems to me it may be a man management thing from Clarke/Lowe and whoever else you've had managing you this season. I think the truth is that he never really wanted to leave us, other than to be closer to home, but Appleton going and then the imbecile that replaced him left Maguire with a difficult decision that he probably never wanted to make, and that all parties now regret.

Having said all of that, I'm amazed that he doesn't even get in your team and doesn't seem to have been a regular all season. What a waste.

stevie_howard said:

He is unfit, overweight, cant pass, cant head, cant shoot, cant cross, can't take set pieces, can't or won't run, gobshite. One of the most disappointing signings I can remember us making. I would say I'd give him a lift to your ground but the effort of lowering himself into a car may prove to much for him.

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Sounds a class above, hope we announce him.

eric read said:

But that's where you're wrong, and what I don't understand.

He CAN do all of those things, and did them with aplomb for us, so why is he not doing them for you? The bloke has got more ability than most in this league, and when he was with us was able to grab a game by the scruff of the neck and almost win it singlehandedly. His set pieces alone are some of the best I've ever seen (and I've seen us in the top league and seen us win what's now the Championship).

Seems to me it may be a man management thing from Clarke/Lowe and whoever else you've had managing you this season. I think the truth is that he never really wanted to leave us, other than to be closer to home, but Appleton going and then the imbecile that replaced him left Maguire with a difficult decision that he probably never wanted to make, and that all parties now regret.

Having said all of that, I'm amazed that he doesn't even get in your team and doesn't seem to have been a regular all season. What a waste.

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We wont see him in the team again thank god as hes been told to stay away, hope to fuck its true.

stevie_howard said:

Well what a season! Let's hope that this summer we can change this Fred to a summer sale uberthread and get rid of twats like Maguire. Seriously he has to go down pound for pound as our worst ever player.

What do we think of Lowe? Is he the man to keep us in League 2 next season? Given the fact we probably only won 10 or so games since Sep 2016 I can't see any other goal for next season. It really is going to take something to shift this losing mentality.

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Strangely I am looking forward to next season. I think if the youth are brought through and we make some good honest signings rather than big headed mercenaries then it might just be a bit more enjoyable coming to Gigg Lane again.
I think and hope that our complete joke of a chairman and his stupid, delusional dreams are now dead in the water and he just aims at running us like a normal football club now. No more embarrassing PR, no more talk of Bury 'belonging' in the championship and we should risk our future to get there all because he is 'driven.'
Let us do what we have been harping on about. Get the young lads through, give them a pre season amongst a small selection of remaining first team player, let Lowey and Schuey drill their mentality in them and I think we will be okay next season. And by okay I mean avoiding a Chesterfield.

PS Howard take a look at Mansfield's view on that twat Flitcroft.

Looks like it hasn't taken them long to suss the twat out, same as at Swindon. Looks like we'll be seeing the fat Bolton bastard again next season.

As for our own mess ... I really don't know what we need to do. Should Lowe stay? Or do we need a complete clean sweep? Note that Lowe was there in the summer ... was he part of the recruitment process or was that disaster purely down to Clark and Day's ego's? Realistically who can we get rid of who is under contract? Who will take the likes of Bunn, Maguire, O'Shea, Dawson, Aldred, Edwards, Thompson etc? The only glimmer of hope is the likes of Styles in midfield who seems to have slotted into midfield just like he did under Brass last season. But why was he ignored for so long? By Clark, by Lucketti and until very recently by Lowe? Things have certainly improved with him in the team.

Presumably the likes of Cameron and Jones will leave due to their injury problems which is a shame given their commitment to the club over a long period of time. O'Connell is in the same boat. The fact is that no club can afford to carry players with their history of injuries. Zeli is also expected to be on his way to Walsall and Tutte will probably leave looking for first team football.

We could be left with a base squad looking something like:
Murphy (? as out of contract)
Cooney
Shotton
Leigh
Skarz
Styles
Dai
Danns (age and money may be an issue)
Reilly (proabably worth another go given his form at Gillingham(
Mayor
Adams
Beckford

That leaves us with a maximum of 12 players who have first team experience. Only 7 who have played 15 games plus. That would suggest another huge overhaul? Can we handle or afford another huge turnover of players? Then again ... can we afford not to?

One thing is for sure the manager situation needs to be clarified as soon as possible so as to give us the longest and therefore best chance of achieving security next season.

stevie_howard said:

Looks like it hasn't taken them long to suss the twat out, same as at Swindon. Looks like we'll be seeing the fat Bolton bastard again next season.

As for our own mess ... I really don't know what we need to do. Should Lowe stay? Or do we need a complete clean sweep? Note that Lowe was there in the summer ... was he part of the recruitment process or was that disaster purely down to Clark and Day's ego's? Realistically who can we get rid of who is under contract? Who will take the likes of Bunn, Maguire, O'Shea, Dawson, Aldred, Edwards, Thompson etc? The only glimmer of hope is the likes of Styles in midfield who seems to have slotted into midfield just like he did under Brass last season. But why was he ignored for so long? By Clark, by Lucketti and until very recently by Lowe? Things have certainly improved with him in the team.

Presumably the likes of Cameron and Jones will leave due to their injury problems which is a shame given their commitment to the club over a long period of time. O'Connell is in the same boat. The fact is that no club can afford to carry players with their history of injuries. Zeli is also expected to be on his way to Walsall and Tutte will probably leave looking for first team football.

We could be left with a base squad looking something like:
Murphy (? as out of contract)
Cooney
Shotton
Leigh
Skarz
Styles
Dai
Danns (age and money may be an issue)
Reilly (proabably worth another go given his form at Gillingham(
Mayor
Adams
Beckford

That leaves us with a maximum of 12 players who have first team experience. Only 7 who have played 15 games plus. That would suggest another huge overhaul? Can we handle or afford another huge turnover of players? Then again ... can we afford not to?

One thing is for sure the manager situation needs to be clarified as soon as possible so as to give us the longest and therefore best chance of achieving security next season.

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https://burymeinexile.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/2017-2018-a-total-shambles-but-can-bury-recover/
A decent summary here.
I would wager Dawson will remain. We can only hope that a proper pre season behind him will get him fully fit. I'd give O'Shea a pre season as well.
I think that our first choice goalkeeper will be a new signing plus Murphy.

In defence it will be Cooney plus a new rb. Cbs Thompson and O'Connell and Shotton. Cameron I wager we will keep as well.
Lb Leigh and Skarz.

Lm. Adams, Mayor and probably lumbered with Bunn.
Cm. Dai, Styles, Dawson, Burgess and Danns.
Rm. O'Shea deserves a chance IMO. Adams can play on either side.

Cf. Need several new signings

I doubt Lowe had anything to do with the signings, everyone knows Clark's record in the market is embarrassing. And Day has an awful record for just giving into incompetent manager's demands where signing players is concerned. There are questions over Lowe don't get me wrong, but as our chairman is a total joke, he won't go for a recognised face like Alexander and instead choose to headhunt some novice who has links to Huddersfield Town, we may end up seeing Micky Wadsworth or Lou Macari appointed or someone else who the idiot declares he has personally headhunted before promoting and offering endless praise to himself for it.

For this reason I think we are best settling for Lowe for now.

That squad above is entirely made up of guesswork so I don't know if it is those who will stay. Imo though, that above has the makings of a decent team if certain players can be relied upon to be more fit etc. It has a decent blend of youth and experience and there are a couple of other highly rated young lads who are not on the list.
For me what must not happen is another 20 first team players signed with all expecting to play whilst Day declares we will win league two by March with a hundred points before a ball has been kicked.

We should be going for players who are young and hungry, lads released by United, City etc, not a 35 year old player who won the golden boot ten years ago.

If Day can't learn his lesson from this season we may as well give up now.

Won't any signings be dependent on players going out 1st, especially the big earners?

Marked Ox said:

Won't any signings be dependent on players going out 1st, especially the big earners?

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In normal cases I'd say yes, but not where the ridiculous Stewart Day is concerned. If you need a pointer as to how ridiculous he is a year or two ago he said Chesterfield with their new ground were what we aspired to be like.
Last season on a radio phone a Bury supporter asked Day how the project is self sufficient. (Take into account record breaking losses every season since Day arrived.)
In Day's own words the project is self sufficient because of the away followings in the championship, he then referenced Leeds taking eight thousand fans to Ewood Park. And that was the extent of his answer. Work that one out for yourself. And that is without referencing the fact that both Bolton and Blackburn recently had an aggregate of 36000 away fans over a season, that is less than 2000 a game.

King Kev said:

In normal cases I'd say yes, but not where the ridiculous Stewart Day is concerned. If you need a pointer as to how ridiculous he is a year or two ago he said Chesterfield with their new ground were what we aspired to be like.
Last season on a radio phone a Bury supporter asked Day how the project is self sufficient. (Take into account record breaking losses every season since Day arrived.)
In Day's own words the project is self sufficient because of the away followings in the championship, he then referenced Leeds taking eight thousand fans to Ewood Park. And that was the extent of his answer. Work that one out for yourself. And that is without referencing the fact that both Bolton and Blackburn recently had an aggregate of 36000 away fans over a season, that is less than 2000 a game.

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Even with a nutty chairman which he clearly is from the above, how would you get around the salary cap without those players going?

Marked Ox said:

Even with a nutty chairman which he clearly is from the above, how would you get around the salary cap without those players going?

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He appears not to give a flying shit for rules

KeithH said:

He appears not to give a flying shit for rules

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Ah, that would solve that then.

KeithH said:

He appears not to give a flying shit for rules

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Or anything bar his ego. I can't believe fans still support him.
Another WUP served to the club and not a word on the matter from the self confessed greatest chairman in Bury's history. Also not a word on the matter from the Day lover brigade. That ridiculous little virgin Shaker Ryan is nowhere to be seen.

SF_ said:

Don't worry about Beckford scoring goals, worry about him getting on the pitch.

He's started 8 games in 2 years, the man is haggard.

Still love him though.

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Told you.

From what the Oxford fans have said about Maguire, I can also say about Ajose and, especially, Ince. He was absolute class as a defensive midfielder on loan for us last season - in a dreadful side.

Looks like you should be questioning the management side of things if so many decent players, apparently, can’t be arsed at Bury.

Indian Dan said:

From what the Oxford fans have said about Maguire, I can also say about Ajose and, especially, Ince. He was absolute class as a defensive midfielder on loan for us last season - in a dreadful side.

Looks like you should be questioning the management side of things if so many decent players, apparently, can’t be arsed at Bury.

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Oh trust me, that has been questioned many times.

Ajose has had a bad attitude all season since a supposed altercation with Lowe in training after he was told he was performing shite - which he was. The same reason Charlton allowed him to leave on loan. I believe he sorted himself a bit after we got rid of him in Jan with Karl before he moved on and is now in and around the first team.

Ince is an odd one. There has been at least three games where he has looked relatively useful ( that’s a plus for anyone in the team this season) for the rest he’s looked sloppy and disinterested.

There’s definitely something gone on with the players and coaching staff, probably when Lee Clark and his team were here. We just don’t know what.

Having a 30+ man squad with lack of depth in one area and being top heavy in another and a manager that was clueless tactically and just deluded was always a recipie for disaster.

T.A said:

Ajose has had a bad attitude all season since a supposed altercation with Lowe in training after he was told he was performing shite - which he was. The same reason Charlton allowed him to leave on loan. I believe he sorted himself a bit after we got rid of him in Jan with Karl before he moved on and is now in and around the first team.

Ince is an odd one. There has been at least three games where he has looked relatively useful ( that’s a plus for anyone in the team this season) for the rest he’s looked sloppy and disinterested.

There’s definitely something gone on with the players and coaching staff, probably when Lee Clark and his team were here. We just don’t know what.

Having a 30+ man squad with lack of depth in one area and being top heavy in another and a manager that was clueless tactically and just deluded was always a recipie for disaster.

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We could be here all century listing the bad things that happened this season and listing the reasons why. For me the foundations were laid in August with Clark's ridiculous transfer policy, awful management of his players, his turgid, negative football. And a joke of a chairman just sitting back and allowing it to happen before providing a further 10-12 games for the damage to set in and stain itself on the club.

I pity Carlisle fans if they are to end up with this parasite as manager next season.