You're entitled to your opnion but to me its classic Alty fan stuff. We gone from giving players 10 minutes before we write them off to now not even seeing a photograph off them.
The lad has had two red cards in hs football league career. We dont know any of the circumstances of them but he is not a murderer.
When you are down at the bottom with no money you sometimes take what you are given.
I'll let him play a bit before deciding if he is a good or bad loan signing.
If he gets sent off 10 mins into Saturday for decking some then he was a terrible idea.
To me he looks big and strong and has some football league experience. I'll take that.
Strange to suggest, but I do actually agree with you. I'm more than happy to give him a chance to prove himself.
I'd leave it at that, but bearing in mind your comment as to not knowing what the cards were for, I did what homework I could before my initial post, so I do know what the red cards were for.
Here's a quote from the Bradford site:
"Bateson was handed his Bantams debut at Nottingham Forest's City Ground in Bradford's Carling Cup 1st round tie, unfortunately he marked it with a late tackle for a lunge on Forest's Nathan Tyson as City crashed to a 3-0 defeat".
And from the Bury/Accrington match report:
"Just 9 minutes later the Reds went down to nine men with Johnny Bateson being sent off for an adjudged dangerous tackle on Kyle Bennett."
So, my concern was based upon:
1. A red card on your professional debut for a lunge
2. A red card (with his team already a man down) for another dangerous tackle.
You still might think it a knee-jerk opinion or an over-reaction. Fair enough. I'll take that criticism on the chin. But I did at least take the trouble to look into this a bit first.