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He could sling a decent cross in and plant an effective long ball and score the occasiuonal long range belter, but he typifies the daftjohn approach to football ownership, cost 5M and left for nowt.

It was rumoured at one point that Wolves were willing to pay upto 10M for him, pure guesswork on my part but Il wager DJ wanted at least 10X his value and the Wolves interest cooled somewhat   :Chansiri:

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On 28/09/2025 at 11:43, Ante's Bubbly said:

 

The best left winger we've had for some years. Some foolishly tried to compare him to Sam Hutchinson, which I always thought was a bit strange. If we wanted a hot headed rough tackling often injured defender, then Adam Reach was not your man. If you wanted a left winger who could pick out a player making a run into the box, score a few goals, take free kicks and also do a decent job in several other positions on the pitch, then Reach was definitely your man. Its such a shame that our bad owner had spent all our money when Reach was here. If the rest of the team had been anything like as good as Reach, we would have breezed promotion instead of struggling to survive.

Correct, he was a victim of his versatility a lot of the time. 

 

At left back or CM it was a waste of his abilities and instead shone a light on his weaknesses. Very good and consistent left winger.

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On 28/09/2025 at 11:37, McRightSide said:


To be fair, Palmer does similar most matches … did it again yesterday 

 

Correct

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He was quality. He couldn’t tackle for s**t but neither could Ryan Giggs and noone complained about him. 
 

Anyone who says Adam Reach was a poor player for us knows nothing about football. 

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3 minutes ago, ruscol85 said:

He was quality. He couldn’t tackle for s**t but neither could Ryan Giggs and noone complained about him. 
 

Anyone who says Adam Reach was a poor player for us knows nothing about football. 


Shame he didn’t fulfill his potential 

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8 minutes ago, SallyCinnamon said:


Shame he didn’t fulfill his potential 

It is. Probably that year he played every position other than the one he was bought to play that did him

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On 02/10/2025 at 15:31, coe_22 said:

Is he still neshing every 50/50 tackle? 

 

I remember quoting the actual stats about the number of tackles that Reach made in four or five games on the trot during which he actually made more than the average number of tackles that our players made, which upset a few, who then, pathetically tried to compare him with Sam Hutchinson!

 

Adam Reach was a clever left winger who was always challenging Bannan for the number of assists and goals scored, all of which were crackers, at a time when Bannan still took every free kick and corner! He did not go in for late tackles or crunching tackles that would have got him booked, crippled or sent off, which would put him in that group with 95% of football players, apart from the fact that he could do everything else, which not so many can. 

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On 02/10/2025 at 22:36, @owlstalk said:


 

Hes not a defender to be fair


he’s not but I still like my players to have a bit more heart. I’m old school in that I want every Wednesday player fighting for everything. I can’t accept anything other than 100% commitment and shirking physical challenges isn’t acceptable to me personally.
 

There’s no question the lad had some talent and he scored some quality goals for us though. 

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To put some kind of numbers on it, in the two seasons in a row, where Reach played a more defensive role he completed an average of 1.6 & 1.7 tackles per game. This season we have acknowledged high tacklers like Inglesson, Bannan and Amass on 1.8, defenders like Max Lowe on 1.6, Valery on 1.3, Weaver & Cadamarterie on just 1! I have not heard anybody describing any of this lot as nesh!

 

In two seasons in a row where Reach had a more attacking role, he made 15 goal contributions, 8 goals and 7 assists one season and 4 goals and 11 assists in the other.

 

So the Reach knockers are still just plain wrong. Whatever reasons they have for knocking him, football wise they are still looking silly. As an old attacking player he still has a higher tackling rate in a physical league, at Lincoln, than our much fancied young centre half. 

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3 hours ago, Sticky belly said:


he’s not but I still like my players to have a bit more heart. I’m old school in that I want every Wednesday player fighting for everything. I can’t accept anything other than 100% commitment and shirking physical challenges isn’t acceptable to me personally.
 

There’s no question the lad had some talent and he scored some quality goals for us though. 

 

You must have given Windass loads of stick then?

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