JerryDungle wrote:

Pointless signing.

 
How come?

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LarsErikKjell wrote:

JerryDungle wrote:

Pointless signing.

 
How come?

 
I can’t see what a striker that’s floated about the dregs of England, scoring a minimal amount of goals has to offer us that justifies him taking a squad place away from one of our younger players. There’s a reason he’s without a club at this stage of the season, and that reason usually is that he’s pish. As is Tony Watt btw, who’s made a career off the back of one goal, and who I also would rather we didn’t sign.

I really don’t see why losing Sow has blindsided people so much and sent them into this mad panic to sign anybody and everybody. We got on perfectly fine without him for the first half of the season, and it’s been clear ever since he’s signed that his body isn’t up to professional football anymore.

We’re really only down Nicky Clark, and even he had missed chunks of the season through injury prior to breaking his foot.

JerryDungle wrote:

LarsErikKjell wrote:

JerryDungle wrote:

Pointless signing.

 
How come?

 
I can’t see what a striker that’s floated about the dregs of England, scoring a minimal amount of goals has to offer us that justifies him taking a squad place away from one of our younger players. There’s a reason he’s without a club at this stage of the season, and that reason usually is that he’s pish. As is Tony Watt btw, who’s made a career off the back of one goal, and who I also would rather we didn’t sign.

I really don’t see why losing Sow has blindsided people so much and sent them into this mad panic to sign anybody and everybody. We got on perfectly fine without him for the first half of the season, and it’s been clear ever since he’s signed that his body isn’t up to professional football anymore.

We’re really only down Nicky Clark, and even he had missed chunks of the season through injury prior to breaking his foot.

I can see your point, however from the times I watched him at Hamilton, he can offer us something different in the final 3rd. We badly lack pace at times, he has that. He's good at holding up the ball, he's decent in the air. Appere seems to be preferred in the wide areas instead of up top. 

This is the sort of panic signing that you make when you've screwed it up.  However, gives us some cover and gives the lad a chance to show what he can do (assuming it is a to the end of the season job) so in the circumstances (assuming we are not missing a better emergency signing) it is probably all good.

Finn Seemann wrote:

This is the sort of panic signing that you make when you've screwed it up.  However, gives us some cover and gives the lad a chance to show what he can do (assuming it is a to the end of the season job) so in the circumstances (assuming we are not missing a better emergency signing) it is probably all good.

 
Tried to sign him last January apparently

LarsErikKjell wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

This is the sort of panic signing that you make when you've screwed it up.  However, gives us some cover and gives the lad a chance to show what he can do (assuming it is a to the end of the season job) so in the circumstances (assuming we are not missing a better emergency signing) it is probably all good.

 
Tried to sign him last January apparently

 
That’ll be like when Raymond tried to sign Alex Nicholls the window before getting him.

Finn Seemann wrote:

Didn't try very hard then...
 

Cheltenham Town must have outbid us    To be fair, maybe he was wanting to stay south close to family at the time.

My memories of him are as a pacy player who didn't always take the ball with him, and the two play-off matches in our first season down here under Raymond, where he troubled Edge and Durnan (although Wato troubled Durnan just as much).

 

Lets just watch and see what happens. He cant be any less use to us than Sow and Clark will be till the end of the season. Nothing to lose really.

We needed someone. We have (thankfully) signed someone. 

It's not a 'pointless' signing at all. If Shankland had gotten injured then you would have seen real panic as we would have only had Louis left as a forward.

Fwiw i thought Bingham was ok at Accies.

Let's see how he does. He has a few weeks to impress us enough to hopefully win himself a longer deal. 

Good luck to the lad.

kdyteejay wrote:

LarsErikKjell wrote:

JerryDungle wrote:

 
I can’t see what a striker that’s floated about the dregs of England, scoring a minimal amount of goals has to offer us that justifies him taking a squad place away from one of our younger players. There’s a reason he’s without a club at this stage of the season, and that reason usually is that he’s pish. As is Tony Watt btw, who’s made a career off the back of one goal, and who I also would rather we didn’t sign.

I really don’t see why losing Sow has blindsided people so much and sent them into this mad panic to sign anybody and everybody. We got on perfectly fine without him for the first half of the season, and it’s been clear ever since he’s signed that his body isn’t up to professional football anymore.

We’re really only down Nicky Clark, and even he had missed chunks of the season through injury prior to breaking his foot.

If its a signing until the summer, he gives a bit more adequate cover for when Shankland is away with Scotland or if (god forbid) he gets an injury.

Anytime I saw him play for Hamilton he seemed a handful and scored a few decent goals.

13 games left, we just need to get through them and he might help us do that.
 

Totally agree 100% this.

Quite a few of his goals are through one on one's with keepers looking at his highlights.

No sure how many he missed though on lowlights not available to also see.
Only Shankland has been better at that over the last few years.

Maybe better Bingham comes in under appreciated than a marquee signing. Let him go in under rated and dae his thing.
 

LarsErikKjell wrote:

From a random boy on Twitter (who sees himself as a bit of a Scottish football 'expert' but he is also a Celtic fan so I'm not so sure)

Rakish Bingham is an interesting signing for Dundee Utd, a striker not renowned for scoring but seldom plays with best teams in the League, record with low scoring Accies isn't the worst when broken down

Games: 97
Starts: 65
Goals: 16
Minutes: 5794
Mins per Goal: 362 (4 games)

He's a player I always felt could do a job at a higher level than Hamilton, very quick, strength, bravery & his movement was always really good, favours the side foot finish and isn't afraid to use both feet, he's not Shankland but has attributes suited for an attack minded side.

Ah, Michael Stewart.