I've always taken the view that we were lucky to get three good seasons (and some transfer money) out of a quality of player we could never reasonably have expected to get after relegation to the NPL, so I widh him all the best at Ashton United. (Incidentally, I thought Colclough's goal had a touch of Hulme about it v KL. We seem to have done ok in the long run).
People will always make mistakes. I suppose one could say that Chris senior made a mistake going to Darlington, or Keith Curle going to Chester City. Still, Hulme had his shot at full time football, and that's what he wanted, wasn't it?
And I see Watmore scored a corker the other night. Definitely one that got away from us in terms of sell on fee, the way he had been playing against the likes of Arsenal.
I'm not quite sure how going on to score the 119th-minute winning goal for Darlington in the 2011 FA Trophy Final at Wembley constitutes a bad career move.
Yes, that certainly has to be set against Darlington going bust! What actually did happen to him after Darlington by the way? And what's he up to these days? And is there still a possibility of Darlington moving back to that white elephant stadium or are they at the rugby ground for the long term?
On the subject of Chester City, I used to work with someone called Peter Sutcliffe (not
that Peter Sutcliffe!) who played for them in (I think) the early 80's, and there was a story that Kevin Ellison was about to start a factory shift before Newport came in for him. I suppose a lot of these players must drop out of the game.