David Bates

[graham]

The centre half we might be looking for .Ex-Rangers David Bates signs in three year deal from Hamburg.

[dazzy_deff]

2 minutes ago, graham said:

The centre half we might be looking for .Ex-Rangers David Bates signs in three year deal from Hamburg.

Welcome to three hours ago Graham.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Hamburg seemed a strange move at the time.

[Joe pike]

2 Gingers in one day.

Must have reached our quota.

[Ten Caat]

30 minutes ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Hamburg seemed a strange move at the time.

I thought they had bought him from sevco but actually he was out of contract. Was a strange one there....they took him on a 6 month development loan from Raith in July then handed him an 18 month contract in January when the loan was up.

Seemed to do well initially at Hamburg but they changed managers and the new boss didn't have him in his plans. Loaned to Sheff W and suffered a season ending injury in his first game (not a cruciate for once)

Anyway welcome aboard loon

[Crossbow]

As much as Longstaff looks like an interesting signing this signing needs to work. 

 

[Bournemouth Gee]

More firepower now so might take the pressure off a bit

[Joe pike]

18 minutes ago, Crossbow said:

As much as Longstaff looks like an interesting signing this signing needs to work. 

 

Personally I think he's Madison class.

[frankie_mac's_4]

3 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Hamburg seemed a strange move at the time.

It did to me also, he looked raw as fuck at the huns.

Good luck to the laddie, if he proves half as good as one previous ginger centre half we'll have done well

[Specky Ginger]

I think he chose to leave the Huns when his contract expired, rather than them freeing him. 

Apart from being a centre half, he was  decent filling in at right back during his time with the Rovers. 

Certainly a more accomplished right back than the boy you had at Stark's Park a couple of weeks ago. 

 

 

[RED_JOHN]

Hopefully he is better in central defence than his old teammate. McCrorie isn’t strong enough and mentally astute to be a good central defender. He’s still young though so has time to change that with the correct coaching.

[aberdeen1970]

35 minutes ago, RED_JOHN said:

Hopefully he is better in central defence than his old teammate. McCrorie isn’t strong enough and mentally astute to be a good central defender. He’s still young though so has time to change that with the correct coaching.

Are they not of similar age? 

McCrorie 23 and Bates 24?

[RED_JOHN]

3 hours ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Are they not of similar age? 

McCrorie 23 and Bates 24?

He’s still older ?

maybe former would have been more appropriate 

[Zeus]

Announcement incoming 

[thurso]

1 hour ago, Zeus said:

Announcement incoming 

Hopefully straight into team tomorrow mccrorie into midfield 

[sooth_stander]

40 minutes ago, thurso said:

Hopefully straight into team tomorrow mccrorie into midfield 

McCrorie, Longstaff and Brooner, behind Sammy, Ramirez and Watkins sounds decent.

[PondHopper]

This was much needed. 

[thurso]

47 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

McCrorie, Longstaff and Brooner, behind Sammy, Ramirez and Watkins sounds decent.

Watkins roaming in behind two strikers would be better 

[sooth_stander]

That’s Cormack announced the signing pending some paperwork coming through from Germany

[WesthillWanderersFC]

2 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

That’s Cormack announced the signing pending some paperwork coming through from Germany

Meh 

[BonnieDon]

A quality player. Delightful.

[Guest milne_afc]

6 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

That’s Cormack announced the signing pending some paperwork coming through from Germany

Yeah, that’s totally normal and doesn’t reflect his narcissism at all.

Well done Dave, you’re so good.

[Liam]

15 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

That’s Cormack announced the signing pending some paperwork coming through from Germany

Part of me thinks it's terrible for the chairman to be announcing signings before they are official….

 

The other part of me thinks this is the type of shithouse behaviour our club has been missing for the last 10 years ?

[Ernie McCracken]

17 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

That’s Cormack announced the signing pending some paperwork coming through from Germany

Was that his news he was going on about earlier? 

[Bournemouth Gee]

Totally master bates

[Redmist1903]

1 hour ago, Liam said:

Part of me thinks it's terrible for the chairman to be announcing signings before they are official….

 

The other part of me thinks this is the type of shithouse behaviour our club has been missing for the last 10 years ?

Is egotistical Dave even aware we have a media department for shit like this?

[aberdeen1970]

2 hours ago, BonnieDon said:

A quality player. Delightful.

I mean no disrespect but you announce every signing as being brilliant. 

 

[BonnieDon]

1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said:

I mean no disrespect but you announce every signing as being brilliant. 

 

I mean no disrespect to you but your opinion means shit.

[fine-n-dandy]

So, pros/cons

let’s hear it.

I encourage D Bates on this

[muttonhumper]

Well we definitely needed a defender.

So that's a pro.

Apparently he has 4 full Scotland caps.

You would hope that was a pro.

He's been in Hamburg for a few years. Plenty pros there...