[intercity0wl]

http://www.skysports..._6286510,0.html

[TheGodfather]

That's a fucking brilliant bit of business for them

[beano]

Wow

[domSWFC]

Wow, I would have thought a fair few Premiership sides would have liked to have signed him. Great bit of business by Bristol City. Hate to say it but if we may have got more for Grant if we kept him for a bit longer because Celtic were chasing Grant and James weren't they?

[intercity0wl]

TheGodfather, on 30 July 2010 - 03:30 PM, said:

That's a fucking brilliant bit of business for them

Agree dont think they will mind one bit they failed with an enquiry about Grant

[Otto_Man]

Wow, James and Nicky Hunt in one day, that's a good day's business!

[Skyline]

Jesus christ.... I saw the thread and was expecting a "Dennis James" or something stupid!

[depeched]

When my friend Tom from Hatfield (nee Welwyn Garden City) meets David James' mum in the local Asda again I'll get him him to ask her what she thinks of her son's move to Brizzle C.

:-)

NB: DJ was born in Welwyn Garden City.

[owler66]

burnley got the better deal.

[cardiffowl06]

:blink:

What a coup.

[Furious George]

40 year old keeper.

Since when did David James become a good capture?

He's moved to a team in the same division.

If anything it shows what a bad state Englands goalkeeping situation is in.

[i used to be sc_owl]

Wonder how much Bristol have had to stretch to afford him....

[TheBoyBeevers]

Furious George, on 30 July 2010 - 10:45 PM, said:

40 year old keeper.

Since when did David James become a good capture?

He's moved to a team in the same division.

If anything it shows what a bad state Englands goalkeeping situation is in.

He might occasionally make crazy, crazy decisions, but IMO they've just signed the best English goalkeeper in the country.

Which is a pretty remarkable acheivement given that they finished in midtable last season and would have been significantly lower had it not been for Nicky Maynard.

[Furious George]

TheBoyBeevers, on 30 July 2010 - 10:58 PM, said:

He might occasionally make crazy, crazy decisions, but IMO they've just signed the best English goalkeeper in the country.

Which is a pretty remarkable acheivement given that they finished in midtable last season and would have been significantly lower had it not been for Nicky Maynard.

Like I said, a sad state of affairs for English goalkeeping.

[TheBoyBeevers]

Furious George, on 30 July 2010 - 11:08 PM, said:

Like I said, a sad state of affairs for English goalkeeping.

Speaking from an international point of view, with David James as England's number 1 i agree.

Speaking from a Championship point of view, James is going to be the best keeper in the division by quite some distance- Andy Lonergan is the current holder of that title, and James is absolutely miles better than him, 40 years old or not.

This post has been edited by TheBoyBeevers: 30 July 2010 - 10:40 PM

[Furious George]

TheBoyBeevers, on 30 July 2010 - 11:40 PM, said:

Speaking from an international point of view, with David James as England's number 1 i agree.

Speaking from a Championship point of view, James is going to be the best keeper in the division by quite some distance- Andy Lonergan is the current holder of that title, and James is absolutely miles better than him, 40 years old or not.

He's a Championship keeper anyway, with Portsmouth.

Sorry - disagree entirely he's the best keeper in that division by miles. I'd have Grant over him any day of the week, and I don't rate Grant that highly.

I think the shock here is that he's signed for a club like Bristol who we think are below us stature wise.

[TheBoyBeevers]

Furious George, on 30 July 2010 - 11:45 PM, said:

He's a Championship keeper anyway, with Portsmouth.

Sorry - disagree entirely he's the best keeper in that division by miles. I'd have Grant over him any day of the week, and I don't rate Grant that highly.

I think the shock here is that he's signed for a club like Bristol who we think are below us stature wise.

His contract expired with Pompey at the end of last season on June 30th though- so he was never a Portsmouth player in the championship.

I was sure he'd end up in the Premiership or at Celtic- he's in a different league to Grant IMO. Not only is he a far more talented goalkeeper, but he's also played international football, he's played for Liverpool, West Ham and Aston Villa in the top division and he's been pretty successful at most places he's been. He's got the Premier league record for most clean sheets as well. He's got more than 700 appearances, almost all at Premier league level.

How can you compare Grant to all of that?

[Furious George]

TheBoyBeevers, on 31 July 2010 - 12:18 AM, said:

His contract expired with Pompey at the end of last season on June 30th though- so he was never a Portsmouth player in the championship.

I was sure he'd end up in the Premiership or at Celtic- he's in a different league to Grant IMO. Not only is he a far more talented goalkeeper, but he's also played international football, he's played for Liverpool, West Ham and Aston Villa in the top division and he's been pretty successful at most places he's been. He's got the Premier league record for most clean sheets as well. He's got more than 700 appearances, almost all at Premier league level.

How can you compare Grant to all of that?

I wasn't comparing them. I said I'd prefer Grant over James. (I love how we're having two seperate arguments at the moment by the way).

My point was however, all this James bumming about him signing for Bristol City is crap. He's not that good. It's just that Bristol City are a lot better than we are. That's the struggle.

[TheBoyBeevers]

Furious George, on 31 July 2010 - 01:20 AM, said:

I wasn't comparing them. I said I'd prefer Grant over James. (I love how we're having two seperate arguments at the moment by the way).

My point was however, all this James bumming about him signing for Bristol City is crap. He's not that good. It's just that Bristol City are a lot better than we are. That's the struggle.

:biggrin:

I don't think James is world-class or owt. I just think he's still (even at 40) much better than a cold tuesday night away at Scunny!

[TheGodfather]

IMHO FG is wide of the mark. James is still a very talented 'keeper (and has been criminally underrated throughout his career too) and will be the standout man between the sticks in the Championship even at his age


But football is all about opinions, so I guess we shall just have to wait and see

[Mole]

What's a gigning??

[igm1]

Just going to ask the question, where have Bristol City come from?

They were w@nk and they seem to have moved up from nowhere.

[Brownlad]

gery good gigning

[depeched]

Fact of the matter is that England have only done (relatively) well for the past 45 years or so because they've had good GK's.

The fact that DJ (nudging 40) was considered for the World Cup pretty much says it all.

I still say England will be in 'Pot 3' come the 2018 World Cup draw.

Perhaps DJ will still be around to 'do a job' ?

:-)

[markowl]

Brownlad, on 31 July 2010 - 02:43 PM, said:

gery good gigning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/images/2006/10/09/ray_allen_203_203x152.jpg

[Otto_Man]

Furious George, on 31 July 2010 - 01:20 AM, said:

I wasn't comparing them. I said I'd prefer Grant over James. (I love how we're having two seperate arguments at the moment by the way).

My point was however, all this James bumming about him signing for Bristol City is crap. He's not that good. It's just that Bristol City are a lot better than we are. That's the struggle.

A month ago he was England's first choice goalkeeper, now he's not as good as Lee Grant :laugh:

[Furious George]

Otto_Man, on 02 August 2010 - 10:16 AM, said:

A month ago he was England's first choice goalkeeper, now he's not as good as Lee Grant :laugh:

Way to take it out of context.

Who would you prefer at S6 now - a 40 year old David James (with I imagine spectacuar wages) or Grant?

[Wednesday-Wonderland]

Not really surprising, Coppell was never going to take another Championship job without being assured that he'd be able to buy his way out the league.

[Otto_Man]

Furious George, on 02 August 2010 - 01:14 PM, said:

Way to take it out of context.

Who would you prefer at S6 now - a 40 year old David James (with I imagine spectacuar wages) or Grant?

It's difficult to answer that FG as we're not playing in the Championship, nor when we were, challenging at the right end (which I fully expect Brizzle to be doing next year), but in our current predicament I would have been more than happy to get £1m for Grant and replace him with the current England number 1 (regardless of which division we were in)

[IWEDFM]

Awesome signing

I don't know how they pulled it off but kudos to them because James is too good for the Championship

Bristol have made some good signings this summer so could well be a promotion candidate