Breaking News Nathan Ralph signs

[woodbridge shrimper]

Not tall - only 5ft 9in

According his wiki page he is 6 ft so will add some height to our defence

 

[happydays]

He is 6ft

 

[Mad Cyril]

So all three signings played full seasons last year, and all three were POTY for their clubs. A very worrying trend. Something is wrong- I think Mr. Bond has gone off message and is not with the program..

This sounds like my Championship Manager signing policy.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Looks really good. Great spot by K.Bond and his contacts. Possibly spotted by Roger Cross(Chief Scout). Whoever, well done. Looks a great signing.

 

[Harry Bullocks]

Team taking shape...nice one

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Blimey, we beat off the challenge of Hull and Barnsley for his signature.

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Not tall - only 5ft 9in

Has a good leap on him then !

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

He is 6ft

Whatever............just hope he measures up to the task!

 

[enfieldblue]

good signing, but what's that bit about international clearance!!!!!!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

good signing, but what's that bit about international clearance!!!!!!

He's currently registered with the Scottish FA. The Scottish FA have to de-register him and the FA register him.

The same applies to Milligan as well. It's unusual to only have signed players in the last month who are subject to international clearance. The conspiracy theorists might start wondering if we're under a transfer embargo.

 

[Evening Echo]

SOUTHEND United manager Kevin Bond is backing new boy Nathan Ralph to be a big hit with Blues.

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[Garyt1969]

You would hope so as he just signed him to be that very hit

 

[Garyt1969]

Hart looked a better wing back or winger. Some of his defending was atrocious. Going forward particularly in the last month or two he was rightly MOM on a number of occasions. But hopefully Mr Ralph will give us the best of both worlds ; solid defensively and good going forward

 

[SeaSideDoughnut]

Some really shrewd, obscure signings from Bond. I can't imagine the rate of pay is that high in the SPL outside of Celtic and Rangers nor in the A-League for Milligan. With Kightly retiring, Hendrie etc being released I can't see us having the 5th highest budget which is good. We should've never been that high to begin with in my opinion.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Hart looked a better wing back or winger. Some of his defending was atrocious. Going forward particularly in the last month or two he was rightly MOM on a number of occasions. But hopefully Mr Ralph will give us the best of both worlds ; solid defensively and good going forward

If Sam Hart does return, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him used further forward.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Some really shrewd, obscure signings from Bond. I can't imagine the rate of pay is that high in the SPL outside of Celtic and Rangers nor in the A-League for Milligan. With Kightly retiring, Hendrie etc being released I can't see us having the 5th highest budget which is good. We should've never been that high to begin with in my opinion.

He hasn't played in the A-league for a couple of seasons now but his last contract in the A-League was as a Marquee player, clubs can only sign 2 Marquee players outside of the salary caps so they are generally on good money. That said he was at Hibernian last season so I'd imagine we got him on a reasonably priced contract

 

[blueveined]

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/...s-defender-leaves-dundee-for-southend-united/

 

[Pak Power]

Dundee fans seem to rate him, and have told us so

https://therealefl.co.uk/2019/07/10...signing-after-defender-arrives-at-roots-hall/

 

[Tommy2holes]

So all three signings played full seasons last year, and all three were POTY for their clubs. A very worrying trend. Something is wrong- I think Mr. Bond has gone off message and is not with the program..

Did Milligan win POTY at his club?

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

I followed him for journalistic reasons when at Woking.
He was mostly sound, but had the odd blip as one might expect in the National League, and with a team that nosedived in the second half of the 2017-18 season.
However, I did marvel how good his agent was when he got him a deal at Dundee.
That said, Ralph took a mental battering last season as well.
Two back-to-back relegations is hard on the soul, so with a modicum of luck, he won't have to suffer an unenviable hat-trick.