[SIGNED perm] Mattie Pollock

Hearing we're in for Mattie Pollock from Grimsby, 6"3 defender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie_Pollock

Been described to me as:
Nowhere near 1st team, big strong lad, poor mobility but big potential

 

As in nowhere near the Grimsby first team? Could still be an upgrade in fairness.

 

Only 19 so another one for the future?

Some kind of strategy may be emerging.

But he's British and never played for Udinese B so I'm out.

 

Smells fishy.

 

Played 44 times in the league for them tbf! While Baah and Doig might come in and be squad options for us next season, surely this lad would be loaned out to League 1/the Champo?

 

Isn't this another one that Cristiano Giaretta follows on Instagram?
Already signed Baah, so who knows..

 

What a laughing stock we are allowing ourselves to become.

 

Not if he's coming in to replace any of the U23s that have been shifted on.

 

Clueless

 

@DrewH got there three weeks ahead of you on that:

http://wfcforums.com/index.php?threads/kwadwo-baah.58316/page-3#post-2997226

Still, probably warrants it's own thread though if this rumour has legs (even if pollocks don't).

 

When we were first linked with him I made this post:
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Seems to have been alright in a terrible Grimsby side with a 6.98 whoscored rating. However the season seemed to catch up with him and he got dropped in February.

Grimsby fans don't seem blown away by him, suggest he's calm and has potential, but also a bit "agricultural", slow and chunky. Fair to say he's one who'd either start off in our reserves or on loan if he signed.

"Waterfall and Pollock are more agricultural in their approach to defending and the two as a pairing was just too basic for my liking. "

"Where were you saying this? Everybody on here was frigging themselves senseless over Pollock at the start of the season and every time I suggested he's not that good I got about 20 red crosses."

"Personally I think it would be wrong, and unfair, to write Pollock off yet or be too heavy with criticism.
He's a 19 year old lad. Still developing his game as he gains experience.
He plays in a position where it is rarer for young players to be thrown into the side in their teenage years. He has played all of his football in a team that's either been an average lower half team or a team that's struggled massively at the bottom. And he's still only made about 50 EFL appearances.
Still plenty of potential with him. We're very quick to go over the top with praise just as we are quick to write him off and claim that he's not that good all of a sudden.
Young players can be inconsistent as they're still developing. It wouldn't have helped him being in such a poor team this year that lacks leadership."

"Pollock is still developing and has an obvious flaw in his game"

"Agreed. I just hope that we don't feel obliged to keep waterfall due to payoff cost if we got rid, and thus allow Pollock to leave. Although they are v similar Pollockis still a teenager and still developing and is already the calmer, less error prone defender (and scores goals). He would definitely be great for marshaling some of the big lump target men in the NL. "

"Waterfall & Pollock are equally interesting. Given the success of Menayese & Hewitt it's difficult to see us needing both of them (W&P), as they seem very similar (unless of course Pollock can lose a bit of weight and develop a turn of speed"

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1616143808/s-10/
https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1618951962/s-80/
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http://wfcforums.com/index.php?threads/kwadwo-baah.58316/page-3#post-2997337

 

Yep Giaretta is following Baah, Pollock, Doig and Simeu.

 

Probably the only Pollock Grimsby will produce post Brexit.

 

Never mind the Pollocks.

 

We re one week after the season ending , can we have a bit of common sense before we all start ranting and raving because we ve not signed anyone yet .

 

What rating on Whoscored.com does Gino base all his signings on ?

I've heard from reliable ITK sources that anyone above 6.95 he will offer a deal . If it’s over 7.035 he will offer a 5 year deal to.

Can any of the forum ITKers confirm ?

 

We released quite a few u23s so I assume he is just a replacement (who maybe they see has the potential the step up).

I think the Pozzos transfer business is generally useless but dont really see this particular is making us a laughing stock.

 

There's not really any downside to this (unless he starts for us!), reckon he's loaned out rather than in the U23s though as surely someone who's played regularly at League 2 level won't be happy with U23 football

 

No player called Pollock is ever going to be good, it’s a fact and you all know it.

 

U23 football is completely pointless.

 

Good point. Other than his dad Jamie, that is, who played in the Premier League for Man City, Bolton and Boro.

 

As if we needed it proof that it will never happen again then.

 

Is he related to Graham/Graeme?

 

Ashley Fletcher hasn't averaged above a 7 and got a 5 year deal so your source is incorrect.

 

Sam Dalby did it when moving from Orient to Leeds; seems to... have worked out wel...l for him...

ermm, oh.

 

Anyone called "Mattie" is immediately a ****.

 

It's inevitable that anyone with the name Pollock would get called Pillock by everyone at school. The psychological damage lasts a lifetime.

 

Thought he played cricket.

 

Sounds like complete pollocks to me.

 

We've given up signing the sons of famous footballers as that didn't work, and we're now going to try signing people with the same name as famous cricketers instead.

 

I’d be genuinely pleased if we bought someone with an over 7 average. They’d get a 35 year deal.

 

Yeah I would assume that is the case.

 

Christ, cheer up Malts ! You seem to be on a real downer. What’s wrong with hoovering up a few young prospects in Mid May ? You seem to be treating each suggested signing as a planned first team starter next season. The playoffs haven’t even finished yet .

 

And his uncle Shaun who was an excellent all-rounder for South Africa