Rovers Linked with Irish Midfielder O’Callaghan

Rovers Linked with Irish Midfielder O’Callaghan

Don't no what to think of it really. A former Port Vale Player?

Whilst Bas Savage would be an ideal signing.

I've always been impressed with Savage, but never heard of O'callaghan. Was he released from those English clubs?

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Callaghan is excellent and he'd be a great capture.

On Bas Savage hes probably just as good as Zola to be fair.

savage is woeful, he scored something like 4 goals in the whole of last season!

Hopefully we stay away then, when he played agianst us for Brighton he was decent. obviously he has gone downhill since then, I was hoping we would be looking at better strikers anyway.

savage scored 10..

GRAVY

Zola only scored 5 or something.

so thers the answer..

GRAVY

He has always looked a threat against us (in the same way Zola posed a threat when he did play) but a Gillingham Fan I spoke to said that watching him play is comical.

We will just have to give him a chance if he does sign and wait and see what he's like!

Hello all. Thought I'd put my two-pence worth in, since Bas Savage & George O'Callaghan were both playing for Brighton last season.

Savage had scored 2 career league goals when we signed him from Gillingham for a year in Jan 07. At the time, Peter Schmeichel's goals per game ratio was better, so you can imagine the response a lot of the Brighton fans. However, as it turned out, something clicked for him with us and he became a bit of a cult figure. He scored 7 or 8 goals in the second half of the season & pretty much kept us out of the bottom 3. His moonwalking was probably the highlight of that season.

Last season, he was in and out of the starting 11, playing either up front or on the right wing & was most effective coming off the bench. He scored a couple of goals, but generally had less impact than the previous season. The club offered him a new 18-month contract in the Autumn, but he stalled & stalled, trying to get an offer over and above what he was worth. I think the moonwalking went to his head. Finally, our chairman withdrew the offer, revealing that Bas wanted to be the club's top earner. Our chairman doesn't like to be pushed about by players & their agents, so it was cheerio Bas. I'm led to believe he did something similar at Gillingham too.

I think he expected to be picked up straightaway, but instead he spent the next couple of months without a club. He's since said he was wrong in leaving us. Quite right - I think he'd built a rapport with our fans, despite being fairly awful, and he certainly wasn't going to get that at Millwall.

He is a big, gangly, awkward player, much of the time he bamboozles defenders because they don't know where his legs are going & neither does he. Bit of a lower league Paolo Wanchope. I've got to say, despite his cult status, I wasn't too distressed to see him go.

George O'Callaghan signed on loan for us at the start of last season. We'd tried to buy him, but rumours were that his agent was asking for unreasonable terms, so we loaned him hoping he'd come round. He looked a decent player in our team, didn't score any goals, but was tidy in midfield & looked like a leader, which we were badly missing. However, he came with a bit of a bad boy reputation (he describes himself as a cross between Joey Barton & George Best!) and things came to a head around New Year, when he criticised the board in the press over their handling of some player's contracts (including, presumably, that of Bas Savage). This came after a terrible 3-0 hammering at Milwall & the chairman was having none of that from a loan player. He went back to Ipswich, whose chairman apologised for the outburst, and they offloaded him to Cork.

I thought he was a decent enough player, but nothing spectacular, and since he had proved himself a bit of a chopper (as evidenced here - [www.clubfanzine.com]), I wasn't too sorry to see him go. Useful player, bit of an @#$%&.

Anyway, hope that's useful! Good luck for next season.

Thanks for that info mate!

It's good to hear different sides of the story regarding potential signings.

From that we seem to be looking at worse players than we have at the club now

?? Do we actually have ANY players at the club right now?

Adnan Ahmed Is still sat on the bench at Prenton Park right now. He Is pretty cold, If you were wondering.

he still wouldn't get on!

He started to warm up a few minutes ago but Ronnie called him back and told him to sit down and think about what he did.

Yeah most of the reports on Savage seem to be along the same lines as that. One of my friends is a Milwall fan at uni and he said Savage was woeful, looked like bambi on ice.

perfect replacement for zola then