Undr the Cosh - Matt Rhead
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Wasn't KA on gardening leave at the time? From what I remember the prospect of signing Parkin was a carrot being dangled by Trew and co's hopeless takeover attempt...
NottyImp
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Hopeless? But look what he achieved at Notts County. Oh....
MaineRoad_96
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I think Parkin would have been an excellent signing for us at the time, and could potentially have been the difference between play-offs and automatic promotion.
lindumimp
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Shouldn't that be in green? :-)
Impaired
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Recently read Jon Parkin's autobiography. Apparently we tried to sign him twice, and he also trained with us pre-season when Simmo was Manager. A player who has his critics but I would have loved to have seen him at Sincil Bank following his Macclesfield spell. He unfortunately couldn't balance the demand of being a professional sportsman at a higher level with his love of pies and booze, and became a journeyman!
The Electric Banana
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I definitely recall KA being pressed about the rumours/prospect of signing Parkin and he replied along the lines of "we put our best offer in, but it isn't going any further as we don't have the money" He was definitely at the helm at that point in time. I recall the Echo at the time reporting that bid was rejected out of hand.
I have no doubt that Trew did dangle 'that' carrot in his ill fated take over attempt, but I can't remember it myself.
I think KA was still in charge but yep, a pr stunt is how i remember it. We may as well have put in a bid for Alan Shearer!
I even seem to remember a figure of £150K was bandied about.
Yeah, he trained here at the beginning of pre-season but went to FGR(?).
Mattytindraws
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From memory, weren’t we trying to flog Gareth McCauley to Crewe (?) at the same time with the intention of using that money to fund a bid for Parkin. Big G didn’t want to go though thereby rendering the plan doomed from the start.
Plus Championship Hull wanted him. In my opinion he was never going to come here.
The cynic in me suggests we knew he wouldn't come here and it was bollocks to add to the other bollocks.
Most people in football knew that Billericay and Tamplin were total nut cases and bad news and DC, Rheady and his agent thought the deal offered by them was a great deal and too good to turn down. None of them must have a brain cell between them to even think it would have a happy ending. It makes you wonder about the intelligence and common sense of a lot of people involved in football.
bristolimp
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if he got paid a signing on fee, 3 months wages and a contract cancellation fee - not that daft!!
Agreed. And it's not just the cynical part of me that agrees!
Yes and played a handful of games in 6 months, 35 years old and tarnished his reputation and can’t get another club. Very daft, borderline professional suicide and stupidity of the highest order.
