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Armagh Rover · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 5596 Location: Nottinghamshire

Dario Zanatta, signs pre contract
welcome back Dario

badpress139 · Joined: 19 May 2015 Posts: 2393 Location: Glenrothes

Really? No disrespect to the boy but I thought we would be aiming higher then that.

Vinnie · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:02 pm Post subject:

A player that struggles to get a start at Ayr Utd
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embow · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:16 pm Post subject:

From In the Past and Former Players July 2020

Armagh Rover · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 5596 Location: Nottinghamshire

There must be something the gaffer sees in him to bring him back.
We're aways saying to trust in the Management ,

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embow · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:40 pm Post subject:

Aye!
I have to admit to my gob being smacked as well 🥺
It's a strange one going on current form.
But happy to be proved totally wrong.
Over to you Dario, John and Paul.😊
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Strathallan Rover · Joined: 29 Nov 2014 Posts: 611

It's certainly a surprise. I never rated him when he played for us before and i don't think he's done anything worth noting since he left. It will be interesting to see how the management plan to play him. He's cut from the same cloth as Scott McBride and Dan Armstrong, looks like he's going to do something but creates nothing.

It might have been better to announce this signing AFTER we've sold season tickets. This will not excite the vast majority for the fan base.

Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4773

I can't help but wonder what impact on the morale of our current players the pre contract deals will have. The current bunch that we are relying on to get us promoted will be seeing their own chances of securing employment after May diminish as the budget starts be reallocated.
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StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 3844

Love to be proved wrong but echo most others, bizarre signing and even more bizarre that we have signed him on a pre contract before exploring other options...we don’t even know what division we will be in, can’t see the old firm shaking in their boots at someone who struggled to get a start for Thistle, Ayr and Alloa since being here before (and struggling)

Franco · Joined: 10 Oct 2019 Posts: 1077 Location: kirkcaldy

It's certainly a most unexpected signing ,especially as he's not exactly the first name on the Ayr teamsheet.
But I don't have the negative recollections of his time on loan with us that some do. As I remember him, he was an exciting player, on his day. Inconsistent, sure, but he was young and also wingers are prone to erratic form , especially in their early days.
JMcG and Smudger see something in him and , based on prior signings , that's good enough for me.
If current squad members won't put pen to paper or are spoken for elsewhere , we don't want to be in the position that some other teams have found themselves in ,scrambling around to put a team together, far less a squad.
John Sim and his trusted management team and Board know what they are doing , but they can't be expected to spell it out to the supporters all the time.

red zebra · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:08 am Post subject:

Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2477 Location: Aberdeen

Like Nando, Zanatta is a nice chap, but like Nando, seems a little shy of the skill-level required for Rovers position now - let alone if we did, somehow, get promotion!

If we do not get promotion, do we fight for it again next season, or do we look to just fight relegation and get a mid-table spot, like we did when McKinnon left? Hopefully not - because that didn't work out too well!

For all of Kennedy's imperfections, it is hard to imagine Zanatta coming near to matching him. Zanatta's signing seems a strange one - if not a backward step, in terms of what he could and could not add. Unless, of course, it is just to increase the size of the squad and fringe options. Even then, his will be a full time wage that will have to be paid each week. Will he end up out on loan? I think we could have - and should have - done better there, although I hope I am wrong.

scotty · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 8968 Location: Almost Dysart.

red zebra · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:07 pm Post subject: