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No one said it did. In fact georgeweahcousin has admitted that he used twitter to gain his comment about 90% of fans

That's not what was reported. Source?

Well we put a bid in for Fontaine so he must have been high up the list. Don't forget the Jemal business either. It's one of two big weaknesses in our squad still to be addressed if we are serious about a good season and promotion. I have to say that Cork aside and since Adkins has arrived, I've seen a lot of speculation linking us with quality and in the main we have signed a lesser player (or no player at all!). I fully expect to get abuse because of that opinion but I have roundly applauded Adkins and Cortese for our start to the season and Adkins is changing my mind and maybe he can be the long term solution but I do have to question how we seem to be going about some of our transfer dealings. Agents on twitter saying we are difficult to deal with, rumours that the Cork deal was almost derailed when his agent was kicked out of the board room (although it is a coup to get him), being linked to numerous players last January only to end up with loans and Forte on a four year deal, being linked with quality defenders to have them turn us down or us pull out at the last minute and p*ss them off (Ward and Gorkss) and then being linked with quality proven strikers like Rodriguez, Ebanks Blake and Maynard only to end up with??? As I said, abuse will be forthcoming from the same faces but I believe it is a valid point worthy of discussion no matter how well we are doing on the pitch (something I am very pleased with the club for I will again emphasise.)

I realise that but it seems we have lost out on at least two targets for whatever reason (Jemal and Fontaine) and turned down another who seems very capable (Gorkss). We may be onto our fourth of fifth choice soon and that isn't great.

Seems even worse now that we seemingly pulled out of the Gorkss deal (according to Latvian poster on here) and the person we pulled out for turned us down! Dearie me.

So no Gorkss or Fontaine and still an area of weakness in the squad. Not great...

That's just untrue. Just look at their forums. Most are indifferent, and when they are bothered, it's mostly because they think they don't have much of a replacement.

If so, that is even worse with Gorkss gone elsewhere. We could have really missed out here.

Why is it a blatant lack of football knowledge to look at the reactions from many Bristol City Fans and give an initial reaction as underwhelmed by a signing whilst being fully prepared for that opinion to change once they have had a few games under their belt for SFC? What is the point of a forum if you can't give your initial reaction to a signing? Why are you so aggressive toward any sort of negative opinion?

Probably this. They are rather meh signings if these are the two we go for with no one else.

Yes but are they unhappy because they rated him or because he was the 'best of a bad bunch' (quoted from a City forum.)

Why is it staggering to hope for the best?

OK so it looks very likely we have signed him. Lets move on and hope for the best. Just one more signing does everyone think? Hopefully a significant striker purchase.

Rodriguez would be cracking too. Or Ebanks Blake I'm not fussy.

I hope so. Getting in a cracking attacking option would soften the blow of losing Gorkss.

Not since Cortese has come in. In the last two years, signings that have been seen as a major loss and decent by opposition fans on average, have been decent for us. Opposition fans views have been a good barometer (see S****horpe fans reaction for Forte and Exeter for Seaborne also.)

Of course you factor it in, but reading other fans comments you get an overall flavour of their opinion of a player. One great way to do it is to search for the player on that forum, then you get unbiased views from a few months previously. Gorkss for example had fantastic reviews from November last year from QPR fans. Palace fans were gutted on their forum, as were Bristol Rovers forums. OK you may get the odd people who play down their importance or say they are not needed, but you can still get a decent flavour of a player, as evidenced by the reactions to the signings of a number such as Fonte, Lambert and Cork etc.

That could be true for them. The majority were gutted to lose him though. They still talk about it now if you go and read a few topics on Rodriguez to Southampton. The impression I got from their forums was that they were losing an important and decent player.

Fail.

Cork was one example. Fonte is another if u want to use that instead. I had nothing to go on other than what other fans had said and I thought it was an excellent signing. And so it has proved. An initial reaction is something very different from an opinion after watching him for twenty games of course but then if you want to say no comment until twenty games in then there isn't much point in a forum.

No it is an initial reaction which may be right or wrong. An opinion based on the available evidence does not have infallible proof.

No it is an INITIAL opinion, not one set in stone that cannot be changed once he plays for us. Do you understand the difference? By the same token, I was very pleased with the cork signing. What did I have to base that on? Little apart from what burnley had said and how his play was described as well as being burnley's player of the season. It's exactly the sane thing and yet no one questioned why someone was pleased with the signing simply because it was something positive that you wanted to hear.

No they didn't. The vast vast majority were absolutely gutted to lose him. He was their player of the season. I think you were looking at the wrong forums or talking to the wrong people.

I don't know for certain but what I do know is that listening to both sets of fans and the fact that gorkss played the majority of games for a championship winning side he looks the better bet. Could be wrong of course but this is an initial reaction. I was extremely pleased with cork this window and have been proven correct and I was also underwhelmed by the seaborne transfer and was called an idiot by some despite history proving that ward was the errrr choice.

Why not do that but also form an initial opinion based on those who have seen him play week in week out for five years? Put it this way, I would be feeling a bit better about rejecting better players and going for this one if we had similar comments from fans like crystal palace with fonte or cork with burnley.