Simon Walton signs

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:05 pm

6ft 1 in midfielder 10 previous clubs aged 24 released from his contract by Plymouth.

This is his ex (Nicola Tappenden) you wont get to see her, ex big brother

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:12 pm

She pops over from time to time...

Class act Walton like. Mr, not Mrs.

Rinkender · **Joined:** Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:36 pm **Posts:** 796

Is it Sandy Shore?

Splod · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:29 pm

Seems to be have been well liked at Plymouth

http://www.pafc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0 ... 78,00.html

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Well happy with that like

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12380

Mark Tinkler mark 2 ????????????? I really hope so. Same pedigree. This could be a masterstroke by Cooper.

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:46 pm

Once sent off in a friendly for Leeds against Valencia at the age of 16 , so looks like gets stuck in

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:56 pm

24 and off the back of his best season. Promising character wise that he clicked after being made captain you'd hope that suggested had leadership qualities something that we lack.

He's obviously always been someone who's been considered a talent a lot of money has been paid for him.

To get him in a free seems a very shrewd move :clap:

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:01 pm

Quick check done 38 yellows 6 red, in 167 competitive games, U16 U17 and U19 England International

PJ_Poolie · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 6:04 pm

The article on Plymouth's site seems to suggest that he's matured in recent years.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

On paper looks a really good signing.
Can't wait to see him play!!

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Happy with that

halfmanhalfbanana · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:08 pm

He looks a good signing and he's going to give us some toughness in midfield. Not surprising like he's from dirty Leeds! refred

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:51 pm

That reminds me: Muttley, did you ever find out what happened to all the fish and rabbits?

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:03 pm

fuck me, thats our 2nd signing and not one person has moaned about either of them. Got to be a Bunker record!!!

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:03 pm

he is friggin rubbish. fact

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:07 pm

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Sounds good.

balltofeet · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:36 pm

No doubt combataive in midfield but it shows how tight finances are for Pools and our limitations in the transfer market as we look to prune the wage bill. We sign someone from a virtually bankrupt League 2 near trap door club. Mind you the last League 2 midfielder we signed was bad.................. Paul Murray. Lets hope he can win tackles and pass it simpy and sit in the middle allowing Sweeney the room to run into the box

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:42 pm

balltofeet wrote:

No doubt combataive in midfield but it shows how tight finances are for Pools and our limitations in the transfer market as we look to prune the wage bill. We sign someone from a virtually bankrupt League 2 near trap door club. Mind you the last League 2 midfielder we signed was bad.................. Paul Murray. Lets hope he can win tackles and pass it simpy and sit in the middle allowing Sweeney the room to run into the box

he's played the vast majority of his games at Championship level, for several different clubs. The only reason he found himself in league 2 was down to his club nosediving from the Championship, plus a nasty knee injury.

It would appear he was a bit of a loose cannon but has matured in the last year or so. He has good pedigree and is a good age. Considering our 1st choice was Tommy Miller, i'm pretty happy to get this lad in, especially if Cooper can get him playing to his full potential.

AberdeenPools · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:08 pm

A much better signing than Tommy Miller I think.

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:46 pm

And in his own words "I can take a fee kick" ok he may be bulling himself up but that is something we need

Tex Ritter · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:47 pm **Posts:** 943

Decent credentials. Now lets have Big Steve. Knowing Pools it will be someone completly different.

joemaxi · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:00 pm

Christ knows we need some decent Dead ball deliveries. Been piss poor for the last couple of years.

mick ronsons mullet · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:48 pm **Posts:** 679

Much more of a preferable signing than Tommy Miller, who i wasnt keen on at all really. These are the sort of players we should be looking to pick up, mid twenties and coming off the back of a good season. As far as our signings go, they look good really when you consider Carisle, who just made the play offs have only signed Caddamatteri and Edwards from Notts County. I'm a lot happier with our two really. And i'm going off the signing of Steve Howard now the more it drags on. Maybe we should just sign another winger to go on the opposite flank to Franks and go with Poole and James. It makes a lot of difference a signing. And one or two more in, and im quite looking forward to the season starting.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

Waghorn would be definitely one to take a risk on, a really exciting signing and surely would also sell a few more season tickets.

doubledecker · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:52 pm **Posts:** 497

Plymouth fans reaction seems mixed, I have an open mind.

chessington · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:48 am

doubledecker wrote:

Plymouth fans reaction seems mixed, I have an open mind.

Not read any comments but i'm sure there will be a lot of sour grapes being that they are losing one of there better players. Pools fans would never slate a player after he left of course......

I'm finally excited about the new season but then, I got excited when Dean Gibb said that he was going to play for England bbolt

dykey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:42 am

Is it true if has moved back to be near the sextuplet's

parmo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:44 am

it's like any signing outside the top leagues... they are inconsistent to some degree, and that's why they aren't top league players themselves!! We are in the same boat as every other team at our level really... it's always a punt and sometimes you get more good 'uns than bad 'uns.. and that's what we will have to hope for with this season's signings.
I think it's fair to say we had more of our fair share of bad 'uns in recent years (Behan, Larkin etc) hopefully Cooper is the man to slowly put this right

Freaky Teeth · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:52 am

The thing is that in the past, the players we've signed that we expect to be great have flopped. And the ones we expected to be not so good have come good. Not all of them, but a good chunk.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

Its interesting that we are signing a passionate player who seems to be on the way up as opposed to last payday merchants. The player obviously sees Hartlepool as a step up from Plymouth, not too often in history that you could have said that.

Looks a decent capture.

Freaky Teeth · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:21 am

MadJohn wrote:

United wrote:

The thing is that in the past, the players we've signed that we expect to be great have flopped. And the ones we expected to be not so good have come good. Not all of them, but a good chunk.

2005 should have taught any last doubters that you can't judge a Pools player until you've seen him play regularly in a Pools shirt. Williams, Llewellyn, Bullock and Proctor all had championship pedigree to some degree and their capture looked likely to give a significant boost to a side that had finished sixth. There are some encouraging signs in Walton's career history, and there are some not so good ones. I'm looking forward to seeing him play.

They're exacty the players I'm talking about.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:58 am

MadJohn wrote:

United wrote:

Williams, Llewellyn, Bullock and Proctor all had championship pedigree to some degree and their capture looked likely to give a significant boost to a side that had finished sixth.

I'm not being funny here but who the fook was Williams?

AberdeenPools · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:56 pm

Darren Williams.....mention of his name sends a shudder down my spine. What an horrendous season that was after such highs of the previous few. Martin Scott squandered such an opportunity to take us where we'd never been before.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:16 pm

Well I can remember some pretty obscure players from the past but I swear, even after reading his profile on ITMC, that D. Williams has completely vacated my memory.

Tex Ritter · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:47 pm **Posts:** 943

Chip Fireball wrote:

balltofeet wrote:

No doubt combataive in midfield but it shows how tight finances are for Pools and our limitations in the transfer market as we look to prune the wage bill. We sign someone from a virtually bankrupt League 2 near trap door club. Mind you the last League 2 midfielder we signed was bad.................. Paul Murray. Lets hope he can win tackles and pass it simpy and sit in the middle allowing Sweeney the room to run into the box

Limitations in the transfer market ? He was their captain, and top goalscorer, and by the sounds of things almost single handedly kept them in the Football League. From what I was told other sides in our league were keen on signing him.

In terms of where he's come from and what he's done he sounds a similar sort of signing to Michael Nelson, i.e. more than capable of stepping up a division.

I'd MUCH rather sign the best player in a team from the league below who is young and hungry, than a hasbeen at the fag end of his career from the league above.

You mean like Watson or Gabbadini.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

Yep both scored a lot of goals at higher league clubs, which is why I think Howard would be a great signing.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

Absolutely! Both are very rose coloured glasses. Watson played one season followed by a cameo in the second whereas Gabbiadini only played a dozen full games. Neither stack up to the likes of Effion Williams.

Tex Ritter · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:47 pm **Posts:** 943

Mr Irrelevant wrote:

Absolutely! Both are very rose coloured glasses. Watson played one season followed by a cameo in the second whereas Gabbiadini only played a dozen full games. Neither stack up to the likes of Effion Williams.

Not always a regular effion. And thats not a critisizam.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:59 pm

Eifion Williams will forever be one of my favourite Pools players, if only for his 2 goals at the Echo Chamber, and the first goal at Cardiff. But he was much more than that.

poolie1966 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:55 am **Posts:** 1182

I won loads of cash thanks to Effion. Always took us to win 2-1 with him to be 1st goalscorer, the amount of times it came up & I won was unbelievable !!

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:04 pm

poolie1966 wrote:

I won loads of cash thanks to Effion. Always took us to win 2-1 with him to be 1st goalscorer, the amount of times it came up & I won was unbelievable !!

On checking, with the aid of ITMC, I reckon that happened 6 times in the 6 seasons he was with us, you must have had a lot of losing bets Mr '66.

balltofeet · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:32 pm

There is no doubt he was Plymouth's best player last term, but a few goals were penalties. My biggest concern is at 13 stone I just wonder how much of a burst of pace he has and his disciplinary record suggests he is combatative so maybe a good protection player for Sweeney's runs.

Spender · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:45 pm

balltofeet wrote:

There is no doubt he was Plymouth's best player last term, but a few goals were penalties. My biggest concern is at 13 stone I just wonder how much of a burst of pace he has and his disciplinary record suggests he is combatative so maybe a good protection player for Sweeney's runs.

PENALTIES????

Well we can write them off, obviously penalties don't count. I mean just ask Ritchie Barker. Only goals from open play count. Penalties?? Pah!! :roll:

poolie1966 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:55 am **Posts:** 1182

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

poolie1966 wrote:

I won loads of cash thanks to Effion. Always took us to win 2-1 with him to be 1st goalscorer, the amount of times it came up & I won was unbelievable !!

On checking, with the aid of ITMC, I reckon that happened 6 times in the 6 seasons he was with us, you must have had a lot of losing bets Mr '66.

It seemed more than 6 times that I won, but if you are sad enough to check how many times it was I will take your word for it

misterb2001 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:13 pm

balltofeet wrote:

There is no doubt he was Plymouth's best player last term, but a few goals were penalties. My biggest concern is at 13 stone I just wonder how much of a burst of pace he has and his disciplinary record suggests he is combatative so maybe a good protection player for Sweeney's runs.

I'm not really interested if he's nippy, i'd rather he can pass a ball forward with some accuracy

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:42 pm

poolie1966 wrote:

BillinghamPoolie wrote:

poolie1966 wrote:

I won loads of cash thanks to Effion. Always took us to win 2-1 with him to be 1st goalscorer, the amount of times it came up & I won was unbelievable !!

On checking, with the aid of ITMC, I reckon that happened 6 times in the 6 seasons he was with us, you must have had a lot of losing bets Mr '66.

It seemed more than 6 times that I won, but if you are sad enough to check how many times it was I will take your word for it

With Inthemadcrowd it wasn't difficult to check, but I agree, I am a little sad for checking!!

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

your probably sadder mr 66 for making it up.

Tex Ritter · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:47 pm **Posts:** 943

Chip Fireball wrote:

Tell you What Tex, as well as Gabbiadini, remind me how well this lot did and how many games they got through:

Nobby Solano
Rune Lange
Robbie Elliott
Alan Thompson
Craig Hignett
Darren Williams
Steve Howey
Scott Walker

Even Widdrington was only managing to play half a season.

Terrible illness Alzheimers Chip.

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