[Valley Blues]

Siberian Spireite, on 20 February 2016 - 12:59 AM, said:

As I wrote above, if Holt disappoints, then the situations, and presumably the reactions, will be similar. If he doesn't, they won't. It's comparing apples with pears to compare opinions of SEB at Town now to opinions of Holt at Rochdale now.
Compare threads on SEB when he arrived to what fans of CFC or RFC are saying about Holt now, and they'll be similar.

And I'm talking about Grant Holt and not Olly Holt , before anyone at the club considers barring me from entry tomorrow.

I agree with you. I was pleased at the acquisition of SEB. The point I was getting at was that the thread was started saying Holt is a decent signing and another post proclaimed they would have him here. That is perhaps the opinion of two people but the general consensus is that SEB and Herd, and Novak to a lesser extent although I personally really like him, have been massive failures. On this basis, I was simply questioning how folk here can form the opinion that Holt would be a good acquisition after seeing what we've seen this year. I'm perhaps playing devils advocate slightly.

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Valley Blues, on 19 February 2016 - 11:06 PM, said:

So what would be the reaction if DW bought Holt in?? 35 years old and played very little in the last couple of seasons. I've got no issue with the age thing, Jack Lester is my all time Chesterfield hero. I just find it amusing how we have thread after thread saying how we are tossing massive wages away ( speculation ) on players like SEB yet Rochdale have someone who ' can do a job' in Holt. How much are they paying him?? No one knows but it's not an issue because he's not our player.

How is this signing different to SEB?? Both have performed admirably at a higher level but had little football prior to their respective signings. From afar, SEB could 'do a job' yet he's been largely ineffective.

The difference between this signing and SEB is that we have had seven months to judge him. Holt is coming in with a clean slate I suppose, maybe a big difference is that Holt knows what football is like at this level.
Holt may turn out to be a massive disappointment but we can only judge him on face value at the moment.