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Thread: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

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    Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Happened to stumble across this while perusing the Ipswich Town forum, trying to get further information about our new defender Mark McGuinness.

    Worked with MM and TC before.

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich...ardiff-8074082

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Let’s hope his arrows hit home

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five View Post
    Happened to stumble across this while perusing the Ipswich Town forum, trying to get further information about our new defender Mark McGuinness.

    Worked with MM and TC before.

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich...ardiff-8074082
    Mickey Mouse and Top Cat?

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five View Post
    Happened to stumble across this while perusing the Ipswich Town forum, trying to get further information about our new defender Mark McGuinness.

    Worked with MM and TC before.

    https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich...ardiff-8074082
    Odd one that, the club were making noises about putting a better structure in place around the recruitment process, but whats the point of that if the manager is going to bring in a guy he's worked with in the past and bypass it all - if that's what's happening .

    We've learned in the not too distant past that the manager having too much power isn't always a good thing. On the other hand if this guy is good then it might not be all bad.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    Odd one that, the club were making noises about putting a better structure in place around the recruitment process, but whats the point of that if the manager is going to bring in a guy he's worked with in the past and bypass it all - if that's what's happening .

    We've learned in the not too distant past that the manager having too much power isn't always a good thing. On the other hand if this guy is good then it might not be all bad.
    I'd agree.

    Although it sounds like a posher name for a scout.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Not a bad list of players he's been involved in signing

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by PontBlue View Post
    Not a bad list of players he's been involved in signing
    LOL Ipswich have signed a load of rubbish in the last few years

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    Odd one that, the club were making noises about putting a better structure in place around the recruitment process, but whats the point of that if the manager is going to bring in a guy he's worked with in the past and bypass it all - if that's what's happening .

    We've learned in the not too distant past that the manager having too much power isn't always a good thing. On the other hand if this guy is good then it might not be all bad.
    You've covered all the bases there!

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    LOL Ipswich have signed a load of rubbish in the last few years
    From that comment I think it's safe to assume you didn't read the list of players mentioned in the link.

    Some have gone on to have played a lot of Premier league football in recent years and another is regular international goalscorer Keiffer Moore.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Apparently, he's highly strung.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by B. Oddie View Post
    Apparently, he's highly strung.
    Hit targets constantly throughout his career though.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Great appointment, I’m all of a quiver.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Keeps turning up for work pissed. Can't get him off the Archer's.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    If I remember correctly from the reports, at the last fans meeting there was a bit of a spiky back and forth including on basis of needing a director of football.

    It's strange that club introduce football people in terms of that former Arsenal employee and now this with next to no announcement or explanation of their new role which might help us think there are football people involved.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by PontBlue View Post
    Not a bad list of players he's been involved in signing
    True but in all these cases you will be given a list of all his successful signings with no mention of the dogs and there will be a few dogs he recommended. That said it seems to be generally acknowledged that during MMs time with Ipswich they were very much a selling club and he had to manage on a shoestring budget selling anyone who could be solid for money and bringing in cheap signings or free transfers. He seems to have done this pretty well and if Bowman had a big part in this he has done a good job. I don't doubt he played a big part in getting McGuiness in as he was there when he played for Ipswich.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Let’s hope his arrows hit home
    We need Bernie the Bolt and Ann Ashton.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    LOL Ipswich have signed a load of rubbish in the last few years
    My thoughts exactly some fine players in that list I wonder if his first spot is the new defender we've just signed who had a loan spell at Ipswich ??

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    When we sacked Ian Moody, Crystal Palace were bottom of the league. In the January window they signed Scott Dann, Wayne Hennessey, Tom Ince, Joe Ledley and Jason Puncheon. Scott Dann is still there and they're still in the EPL. As the kids say: just sayin'.

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by PontBlue View Post
    From that comment I think it's safe to assume you didn't read the list of players mentioned in the link.

    Some have gone on to have played a lot of Premier league football in recent years and another is regular international goalscorer Keiffer Moore.
    LOL, I read it. The first thing that struck me was most of these so called success stories were in their mid to late 30s. One has even retired Hardly any examples of him signing young players, developing them and turning a profit.

    Adam Webster is one player they bought at a young age and sold for a healthy profit. One player.

    Please stop making out Kieffer to be an Ipswich town success story, he was originally plucked from obscurity by Gary Johnson at Yeovil. Went back down the leagues, got promoted with Forest Green, Ipswich gave him a second chance at a higher level but he played just 11 times for them without scoring, packed off on loan and moved on.

    Dig a little deeper - that’s the beauty of the internet - and Ipswich Towns signings have not been great in the period he has been involved in recruitment

    So they signed one or two loan players from prem clubs. Big deal. We signed Harry Wilson on loan, one of several we’ve had on loan from premier league clubs in recent times. I don’t think premier league loan signings are exclusive to this guy.

    This is nothing more than jobs for the boys. Something I had hoped we had seen the back of when we got rid of Colin.

    It’s only a consultancy basis so hopefully it doesn’t undermine the work our own recruitment team has been putting in last few years where weve been shifting away from the sort of signings Warnock was making,

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    Re: Dave Bowman, New Recruitment Consultant At Cardiff City

    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    We need Bernie the Bolt and Ann Ashton.
    Heinz the Bolt, Jackie Rae & Anne Aston even

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