charlie austin

[weybridgewanderer]

watching charlton v swindon

first time I saw this guy

looks pretty useful

[roadrunner]

watching charlton v swindon

first time I saw this guy

looks pretty useful

Hull have reportedly doubled their £600k bid for Austin. You'd hope Madejski would support the manager with a similar bid if we were interested.

[muddyfeet]

If we got Austin I would be very optimistic for the playoffs

[Kitson12]

If we got Austin I would be very optimistic for the playoffs

I'd be optimistic for even higher than that.

[who are ya?]

So what we saying then? Optimistic for mid table when we don't get him?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

If we got Austin I would be very optimistic for the playoffs

Haven't Hull already got Fryatt and McLean?

[roadrunner]

If we got Austin I would be very optimistic for the playoffs

I'd be optimistic for even higher than that.

Agreed. However, I feel we'll offer a permanent deal to Leigetwood and that will be it. I can hear it now, one of "the right players weren't available" or "we've got a strong squad that I'm happy with" and hope we can finish top six with a mid-table squad.

[muddyfeet]

So what we saying then? Optimistic for mid table when we don't get him?

Always thought we may be just outside playoffs or scrape into them - with Austin reckon we could get 3/4

[who are ya?]

If we got Austin I would be very optimistic for the playoffs

I'd be optimistic for even higher than that.

Agreed. However, I feel we'll offer a permanent deal to Leigetwood and that will be it. I can hear it now, one of "the right players weren't available" or "we've got a strong squad that I'm happy with" and hope we can finish top six with a mid-table squad.

That's exactly what will happen, transfer windows are about as exciting as a HB pencil at Reading lately.

[muddyfeet]

But for some reason i always remain hopeful we sign someone exciting each time they come around!

[biscuitman]

Hull have reportedly doubled their £600k bid for Austin.

If that's true, did Hull actually have any strikers in the summer/start of the season..?

[Handsome Man]

He looked good, but would only get a place on our bench. I'd love to see us buy him - he is certainly one for the future - but he is not going to affect our promotion chances.

[floyd__streete]

Hull have reportedly doubled their £600k bid for Austin. You'd hope Madejski would support the manager with a similar bid if we were interested.

I am sure that will have already priced us out of this particular market. We're probably looking at the likes of Erik Groeleken, Denis Lota and Lubomir Blaha.

[SpaceCruiser]

He handled for the first goal, I'm fairly sure.

Anyway, Swindon owes us for taking Simon Cox off us so cheaply, they should do us a favour and lower their demands. The swindling bastards.

[winchester_royal]

TBF, the kind of money being quoted is madness for a guy who hasn't blown League 1 away....

[floyd__streete]

TBF, the kind of money being quoted is madness for a guy who hasn't blown League 1 away....

30 goals in 50 games isn't bad . If that is failing to blow the division away then that makes Shane Long look like the big bad Wolf trying to blow down the third little pig's brick cottage.....

[Bandini]

^ Shane doesn't have a solid record of success at lower levels.

[Wax Jacket]

^ Shane doesn't have a solid record of success.

[winchester_royal]

TBF, the kind of money being quoted is madness for a guy who hasn't blown League 1 away....

30 goals in 50 games isn't bad . If that is failing to blow the division away then that makes Shane Long look like the big bad Wolf trying to blow down the third little pig's brick cottage.....

I never said it was bad. And I would love to see him come here, but at 1.5m it would be a MASSIVE gamble.

[Kitson12]

We signed Lita for £1m from L1 Bristol City, Austin has done more in L1 that Lita did, therefore £1.5m is worth the "gamble" as you put it.