Why oh why are some fans on here about resigning Boydy for £120K - can they not read the economic climate or IOR prudence ?

Every since the 80's we have always talked about re signing former players and when we do they are past their best !

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I don't think we'd have to pay anywhere near £120,000 for Boyd he's out of contract in the summer. IOR's prudence? They sold him for £500,000 and could potentially get him back for a tenth of that, that would would be extremely prudent business.

He's 26 by the way, he has a long, long way to go before he is 'past his best'.

How is Boydy past his best? He's at the perfect age!

Granted if he was in his 30's then I could agree, he is the top scorer at his current club and this is despite the players around him. 25 goals a season is the difference between us scrapping against relegation and pushing for the playoffs. When you put it like that £120k is a snip.

People aren't obsessed, we just want proven players. How much more proven can you get than someone who scored 30 goals for us just 4 years ago? 80 career league goals in 172 starts is not to be sniffed at!

Does that mean everyone else we re-sign will be past their best?
I get your drift BalltoFeet and you may be right (I'd have him though)
but just because something has happened in the past - does that mean it will always happen in the future?

He signed a two year contract the other week pj.

Past his best?

well lets just say Boyd is a good league 1 player....we struggle to sign quality, and Boyd is quality. We are his home town club and we know he would re-sign under the right circumstances.

He brought us some of the best times ever, 10 goals in 8 games to get to the League 1 playoffs, 29 goals in a season including a hat trick against Sheff Wed.

He has bucket loads of skill and would guarantee 15 goals a season minimum, and with the right player along side him 20-25 goals a season. Not forgetting the 10-15 goals a season he sets up through intelligent play and bits of skill. he has all the showboating type skill to bring the feel good factor back and add another 500 onto the gates alone.

the only real negative is he doesn't chase defenders down and because of it appears lazy.

if we can sign a player of that quality, the question should be, Why shouldn't we pay £100,000 for him? ??

£100,000????? An Absolute bargain

How do you know this? If he did it hasn't been reported by anyone including Leyton Orients official website surely they would report the clubs top scorer signing a new two year deal?

I could not be in more agreement!!!!! I said what you just did, to Tax Paying Poolie and Chunky Monkey in the Mill House after the Yeovil game - they were a bit reserved but I was adamant about it!! If he did come back - I would be proved right and all those who don't want Boydy here will be proved wrong!!

In my opinion, we'd be hard pressed to spend a £120k on someone better at the moment who would actually sign for us.
Boyd knows the club, he knows quite a few of the current players, he knows Turner & Barron, he'd slot straight back in up front with Joel.

for all those who think otherwise - Hartlepool United simply could not sign a better player anywhere right now, taking our budget etc into account.
In fact - all those against, name me one striker they would have instead, a striker who we could actually have a chance of signing, not some fanciful attempt at something like Jason Scotland.
And I will shoot you down in flames.

I can't find any reports of his new two year contract with Orient. If that's true they won't be looking to sell him.

He could do a Bellamy I suppose.

Boyd is 26 so you are way off the mark.

Without reading too much into it, but does the fact that Michael Barron said openly on the PoolsWorld commentary that he's not sure it would be a good move for either party Adam coming back to Pools?

Personally, I'd rather have Boydy than say Duffy but as others have said it rarely works out. Paul Baker did well for us when he came back but Rob McKinnon and Joe Allon were shadows of their former selves when they came back. Granted McKinnon was only on loan and Joe scored some vital goals in our survival bid but I can't think of any ocassions its really worked.

Boydy has age on his side, undoubtedly can win a game on his own or turn a game with a bit of magic but that was 3 years ago, a couple of injuries ago and there isn't exactly a host a clubs chasing him.

I don't know whether its a good idea either way?

There is absolutely no way anyone could convince me that he would be anything other than an excellent signing. I would pay the plane fare for him to come back. He would be the ideal signing for us. He is exactly what we need at this moment in time. He would increase the attendence and score enough goals to keep us comfortable in the league at the very least.
He would be affordable, is not injury prone, can score goals with both feet and his head, is young enough to get value for money and is a local lad who would be committed to the cause

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When I saw the title of this post, I thought Obafemi had been exposed as a male 'escort'............again.