Grant Holt - confirmed on loan

[Hoppo]

I see West Ham are looking to spend 7 mill On Riki Lambert.
If true puts our deal in perspective as being good value.

[Louzie0]

Our Grant is different and will be a winner.
West Ham?
Ridiculous comparison. I listen to Hammers all day. Bollux.

[richardhubbard]

I am struggling to see a player who our manager got good performances out of and having scored 1 in 3 being a mistake when our main reserve striker fucked with a broken leg.

We signed on loan , his shit he goes back in the summer, his halve decent we may sign him?

Who says we not going to sign more? The manager been linked with signing creative link player, let him do his job

[paul_e]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

[pauliewalnuts]

Proof that some people are terminally stupid. Tweeted to Holt by some moron Norwich fan in Sutton Coldfield, of all places:

[pauliewalnuts]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

Yeah, but Defoe had played and scored loads in the top flight by then. I think he means in a "never done it in the top flight, only the lower leagues sense"

[TonyD]

As said before it's about timing.  If we already had the required CB and CM signed, it would seem like maybe not to bad signing.

[paul_e]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

Yeah, but Defoe had played and scored loads in the top flight by then. I think he means in a "never done it in the top flight, only the lower leagues sense"

Not really because it's clearly referencing Holt who has played a similar amount of games and has scored a similar amount of goals in the premier league as Defoe had at that point.  Clearly there is a massive difference in age and I'm in no way comparing them as players, just comparing hte situation and providing a relevant example.

[pauliewalnuts]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

Yeah, but Defoe had played and scored loads in the top flight by then. I think he means in a "never done it in the top flight, only the lower leagues sense"

Not really because it's clearly referencing Holt who has played a similar amount of games and has scored a similar amount of goals in the premier league as Defoe had at that point.  Clearly there is a massive difference in age and I'm in no way comparing them as players, just comparing hte situation and providing a relevant example.

It's not really. I am pretty sure it's referencing Gary Penrice and Guy Wittingham, who we were discussing before.

[paul_e]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

Yeah, but Defoe had played and scored loads in the top flight by then. I think he means in a "never done it in the top flight, only the lower leagues sense"

Not really because it's clearly referencing Holt who has played a similar amount of games and has scored a similar amount of goals in the premier league as Defoe had at that point.  Clearly there is a massive difference in age and I'm in no way comparing them as players, just comparing hte situation and providing a relevant example.

It's not really. I am pretty sure it's referencing Gary Penrice and Guy Wittingham, who we were discussing before.

On a Grant Holt thread.

[pauliewalnuts]

When was the last player to be signed from a lower league club who turned out to be a top quality PL striker?
Ian Wright? There's got to be others since? Kevin Phillips is another...

Darren Bent?  Jermain Defoe (technically West ham were relegated when he joined Tottenham the first time)?

Yeah, but Defoe had played and scored loads in the top flight by then. I think he means in a "never done it in the top flight, only the lower leagues sense"

Not really because it's clearly referencing Holt who has played a similar amount of games and has scored a similar amount of goals in the premier league as Defoe had at that point.  Clearly there is a massive difference in age and I'm in no way comparing them as players, just comparing hte situation and providing a relevant example.

It's not really. I am pretty sure it's referencing Gary Penrice and Guy Wittingham, who we were discussing before.

On a Grant Holt thread.

Why don't you just ask saunders_heroes and see what he meant if it's that big a deal.

[ozzjim]

Jay Rodriguez has done well at Southampton and now got an England cap so has done well.

[PeterWithe]

Dion Dublin?

[saunders_heroes]

I was just trying to think of lower league strikers who turned out to be top class PL players. I couldn't think of many from recent years. I wasn't gonna use it as a stick to beat Holt with. Christ!

[ozzjim]

I was just trying to think of lower league strikers who turned out to be top class PL players. I couldn't think of many from recent years. I wasn't gonna use it as a stick to beat Holt with. Christ!

That would need to be one fucking big stick.