crawley win race to sign striker

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Evans gets his man at the second attempt

Crawley Town have signed Jamie Day from Rushden and Diamonds on a free transfer.

Boss Steve Evans had a bid to sign the 25-year-old who can play at either left-back or left midfield rejected in January but has returned to Nene Park to land his man at the second attempt.

The England C international has experience of playing in League Two having been part of the Peterborough United side which won promotion from the division in 2008.

 

[Ernest]

Certainly splashing the cash, hope it doesn't end in tears and administration

 

[chez]

That's a great signing for them. He was very good against us last season. Looks like they are just as serious about promotion this season as they were last.

 

[Giraffe]

Like it or not Crawley are going to be a proper force in football. They will absolutely piss league two.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Possibly, but why not post on their Board?

Because, as mentioned already, he was absolutely brilliant for Dagenham against us last season. It is way more interesting than most the shit on here.

 

[peterward]

That is a brilliant signing, that is.

This..... great signing, should be a cracking derby match if they can get promoted again to League 1..................... .. against Palace

 

[Marc1901]

This is what Daggers fans think of it.

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[Diego Napier]

that.......thought we found him impressive so got to be good for crawlers.

No, some people thought he was impressive based on one game but not all of us, including the Bristol City posters. Glad he's gone to Crawley, not good enough for us.

 

[SamPeters18]

a couple of good signings for Crawley good luck to them next season

 

[Scotty Mac]

they are going to WALK league two

 

[Art Vs Science]

Buying promotion is a dangerous game though. It is not about idividuals, it is about the team as a unit and little bit of luck.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

That's an impressive signing.

Really starting to hope we draw Crawlscum in one of the cups now and at home, would be a right tasty little affair.

 

[Giraffe]

Blimey Daggers really hate Boston and Gary Evans don't they. Understandable really the man is a disgusting individual.


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What really turned things nasty though was what happened after the end of the 2001/02 season. On the 24th May 2002 the press reported that the FA had descended on York Street in what some papers reported was a "military style" operation also involving simultaneous raids on several players homes. Over the following weeks it became clear that Boston United had been falsifying contracts and running a cash economy within the club to allow it to sign and play players that it couldn't possibly afford to otherwise, effectively winning the Conference title of the back of a tax fiddling fraud.

By the 26th June the FA had enough to issue charges against Boston United as a club, as well as charges against Chairman Pat Malkinson and Manager Steve Evans. A campaign was started to dock points from Boston retrospectively and therefore award the Daggers the Conference title and automatic promotion. Most Boston fans at the time wanted to stick their head in the sand and cite that the title was won fair and square on the football field and heated battles were fought on the Daggers forum and the main Boston one, Pilgrims Patter.

As always seems to happen though, despite the severity of the charges against them, a fudge ensued. Boston United's new owners claimed total ignorance of the goings on under the previous administration and eventually suspended Evans in early July. The FA announced on the 19th July that they were fining Boston £100,000 and docking just four points, but only in the coming season, after they took their place in the Football League, a decision met with wide outrage, right up to an Early Day motion being raised in Parliament.

Evans himself protested his innocence to anyone that would listen but was eventually found guilty of most of the charges against him, and was banned from football for 20 months. Boston went on to struggle on in the bottom division of the Football League under Evans' former assistant Neil Thompson with little money or credibility. The day after Evans ban from football ended, Thompson was sacked by another owner, property developer and Evans "friend", Jon Sotnick, and Evans was reinstated as manager.

Although the long arm of justice moves slowly, Evans and Malkinson both ended up being charged with tax fraud and were found guilty at Southwark Crown Court in January 2006, both escaping with non-custodial sentences, Evans only after pleading in tears with the judge, and Malkinson due to old age and ill health. Despite the conviction, Boston Chairman at the time, Jim Rodwell, allowed Evans to keep his position to further shame the club.


Evans at Bow Street Magistrates, c. Boston United FC - The Original Website

Daggers manager, Garry Hill, gave his reaction at the time of Bostongate, as the whole affair inevitably became known, saying basically "What goes around, comes around." Although Garry was long gone when the sorry affair finally reached its conclusion, he will have not missed the irony of Boston's abject five season stay in the Football League coming to an end with defeat at Wrexham exactly one week after the Daggers finally lifted the Conference trophy.

In a final twist, Boston tried to cheat the system one last time by declaring themselves in administration with just five minutes left in that last Football League game at Wrexham, in order to incur the ten point penalty for doing so when it didn't really matter.

The Football Conference, already less than impressed with the way they had been conned back in 2002 were not having any of it though and relegated Boston straight through the Conference proper to the Conference North, only to then be booted out of there at the end of their first season down to the Unibond when they could not come out of administration in time, a drop of three divisions in two seasons. They still ply their trade in the Unibond League, a once proud club brought to its knees by Steve Evans in the end.

Evans himself meanwhile, is manager at Blue Square Premier club Crawley Town, another club run by men of loose morals and he continues to be as obnoxious as ever and a laughing stock to anyone that cares about football.

These days Boston United fans have come to terms with the way that their club was used and abused by Evans and co. The ever entertaining Pilgrims fanzine site Impstalk is always a good read and their club history page gives an amusing Boston view of events back in the dark days.

 

[chucky1973]

Blimey Daggers really hate Boston and Gary Evans don't they. Understandable really the man is a disgusting individual.


Quote:
What really turned things nasty though was what happened after the end of the 2001/02 season. On the 24th May 2002 the press reported that the FA had descended on York Street in what some papers reported was a "military style" operation also involving simultaneous raids on several players homes. Over the following weeks it became clear that Boston United had been falsifying contracts and running a cash economy within the club to allow it to sign and play players that it couldn't possibly afford to otherwise, effectively winning the Conference title of the back of a tax fiddling fraud.

By the 26th June the FA had enough to issue charges against Boston United as a club, as well as charges against Chairman Pat Malkinson and Manager Steve Evans. A campaign was started to dock points from Boston retrospectively and therefore award the Daggers the Conference title and automatic promotion. Most Boston fans at the time wanted to stick their head in the sand and cite that the title was won fair and square on the football field and heated battles were fought on the Daggers forum and the main Boston one, Pilgrims Patter.

As always seems to happen though, despite the severity of the charges against them, a fudge ensued. Boston United's new owners claimed total ignorance of the goings on under the previous administration and eventually suspended Evans in early July. The FA announced on the 19th July that they were fining Boston £100,000 and docking just four points, but only in the coming season, after they took their place in the Football League, a decision met with wide outrage, right up to an Early Day motion being raised in Parliament.

Evans himself protested his innocence to anyone that would listen but was eventually found guilty of most of the charges against him, and was banned from football for 20 months. Boston went on to struggle on in the bottom division of the Football League under Evans' former assistant Neil Thompson with little money or credibility. The day after Evans ban from football ended, Thompson was sacked by another owner, property developer and Evans "friend", Jon Sotnick, and Evans was reinstated as manager.

Although the long arm of justice moves slowly, Evans and Malkinson both ended up being charged with tax fraud and were found guilty at Southwark Crown Court in January 2006, both escaping with non-custodial sentences, Evans only after pleading in tears with the judge, and Malkinson due to old age and ill health. Despite the conviction, Boston Chairman at the time, Jim Rodwell, allowed Evans to keep his position to further shame the club.


Evans at Bow Street Magistrates, c. Boston United FC - The Original Website

Daggers manager, Garry Hill, gave his reaction at the time of Bostongate, as the whole affair inevitably became known, saying basically "What goes around, comes around." Although Garry was long gone when the sorry affair finally reached its conclusion, he will have not missed the irony of Boston's abject five season stay in the Football League coming to an end with defeat at Wrexham exactly one week after the Daggers finally lifted the Conference trophy.

In a final twist, Boston tried to cheat the system one last time by declaring themselves in administration with just five minutes left in that last Football League game at Wrexham, in order to incur the ten point penalty for doing so when it didn't really matter.

The Football Conference, already less than impressed with the way they had been conned back in 2002 were not having any of it though and relegated Boston straight through the Conference proper to the Conference North, only to then be booted out of there at the end of their first season down to the Unibond when they could not come out of administration in time, a drop of three divisions in two seasons. They still ply their trade in the Unibond League, a once proud club brought to its knees by Steve Evans in the end.

Evans himself meanwhile, is manager at Blue Square Premier club Crawley Town, another club run by men of loose morals and he continues to be as obnoxious as ever and a laughing stock to anyone that cares about football.

These days Boston United fans have come to terms with the way that their club was used and abused by Evans and co. The ever entertaining Pilgrims fanzine site Impstalk is always a good read and their club history page gives an amusing Boston view of events back in the dark days.

Talk about drag up the past.........I really dont see the relevance of this post? And whose Gary Evans? A brother?

 

[Samej]

hi everyone i thought i'll let u all know about this

Crawley Town have made their first signing of the summer by beating off stiff competition to land striker John Akinde from Bristol City.

Bournemouth, Wycombe Wanderers, Dagenham & Redbridge and Gillingham were all believed to have been interested in securing the 21-year-old who has agreed a two-year deal at the Broadfield Stadium.

Akinde joined Bristol City for £140,000 from Ebbsfleet in 2008 but only made 16 appearances at Ashton Gate and was sent on loan to Wycombe Wanderers, Brentford, Bristol Rovers and Dagenham and Redbridge where he scored ten goals in 42 league appearances.

So Crawley are signing players of the same calibre as ours are we realy expecting to compete in the Championship

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

They also announced they have SMASHED the 1000 season ticket sales. For how long will the big spending be sustainable.

Oh wow, so home attendances will be at least 1001 now. Still, I suppose Gillingham and Southend will double their attendances. I don't mean to be patronising, and wish Crawley well (so long as they're not challenging us), but their home support, from a town of 80,000 or whatever it is has been truly dire. Surely not all the kids there grow up as Palace or Chelsea fans.

 

[NMH]

Some of you are a bit cynical about the locals from up the road.
I wouldn't see a problem with watching them occasionally, if The Albion don't have a fixture or are too far to travel (i.e. a workday evening where it would require the day off to go).

They might be interesting to watch, and even excite some of the sort of atmosphere we used to get in the 70's lower divisions.

Their signings sound like they have the right ambitions - and finding someone decent on a free isn't exactly trying to 'buy the title' is it?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Hope they do well and stay a league club for ever. Don't want them catching us up though and don't think they will. Expect them to get promoted this season if honest but then find their level and flop between L2 and L1. Think we'll settle down as a mid to upper half Champ team for a while. Good times for Sussex

 

[Phil B]

Certainly splashing the cash, hope it doesn't end in tears and administration

Jamie Day was on a free transfer.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Jamie Day was on a free transfer.

He will have been getting a signing on fee though, and I would guess his wages aren't free..