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Fresh report in The Scottish S*n says Jordan Turnbull recalled from loan at Partick to Coventry ahead of a move to Cobblers.

Coventry on their site say its a re call with a view to a permanent move. His Wikipedia page already states

Turnbull joined Scottish Premiership club Partick Thistle on a one-year loan deal on 31 July 2017.[12] Coventry opted to curtail the loan in January 2018, with Turnbull expected to move permanently to Northampton Town.[13]

Thoughts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42637586

Centre back who spent two full seasons on loan at Swindon from Southampton.....140 odd games under his belt..........

Based on jimmys interview I guess that means forward on loan then.

Lot of experience at League 1 for a 23 year old at CB. Was player of the year at Swindon first year on loan there. Southampton academy product. Not a bad option as a back up at least surely?

Is Jordan Turnbull the alter ego of Richard O'Donnell??!!!

19 full games in the Premiership plus two League Cup games this season...

If Coventry let him go out on loan having been relegated , why would that make him a good choice for us ?
Has he improved that much ?

Not sure he played in the Premiership.. I think the Scottish Premiership haha!

Slightly concerning reports from Coventry fans about him.

Mainly along the lines of he wouldn't get in for them. They of course have Rod who we let go for free!

Mind you, Partick Thistle fans are gutted he's gone.

So because Coventry got relegated that makes him a bad player does it???

If we go down does that make the likes of JJOT a bad player

Explain please?  ???

Well apparently he has cost us 150k.

Think that fella on Twitter is just another wannabe.

I don’t think I have ever seen a player with such negative reviews - I blo**y hope we’re not spending anything like that on him!

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#skint

We are now, we've just spent £150K....

You're a weird bloke. Don't follow the town if you don't enjoy it

No fee according to the local Coventry paper, just a later sell on clause. 

Obviously poor for Coventry but adequate for Swindon and ok if as cover perhaps. Wouldn’t drop Poole after the best game would you? With Pierre coming back I would it would have been better to loan a CB and get the forward permanently.

Well, if you then release them...kinda!

Very poor reviews of the lad of the coventry fans site, I will wait to see him before making judgement, but it's not encouraging

We released Rod, that didn’t make him a bad player just not what our manager at the time wanted. Maybe it’s as simple as the fact their current manager didn’t sign him and prefers his own signings. Maybe they decided they wanted rid at the end of last season due to his wages?

I’d be wary of reviews from Cov fans, he played for them during what was the low point in most of their fans life time, I doubt they have much good to say about most of their side last year. As has been said he was Swindon’s player of the year in league one so there must be something there.

As ever with any signing you will find good and bad reviews, why a number of people seem so desperate to write off every player, even before we’ve signed them is beyond me.

Wasnt Kassim also one of Swindons former players of the year? Just asking.

I don't think Kasim can be judged on the few performances he has played for us , I still think there must be a player in there somewhere.

A number of scouts have watched him and rated him very highly.

Didn't Ash Taylor get poor reviews from Aberdeen fans? He's turned out ok, just check out the POTS.

Turnbull executed a 'get out' clause in the summer as he wanted away from Coventry. This may account for their fans reactions to the lad.

Worst defender they've had since Diamond if memory serves correct.

I think he was, around the time he was linked with some prem clubs. Makes you wonder if it a belief/attitude issue with Kasim, or maybe he’s the sort that needs 5 or so games to hit a rhythm, who knows.

It all just goes to show that pre-judging any player is pointless. Different managers want different things from players/roles, players sometimes gel better with different team mates on the pitch. It’s not an exact science, if it was every club would nail every signing.

Some were disappointed we signed Facey because of his lack of experience, we’re now strongly linked to a player who has decent experience but we’re seemingly determined to prove he’s a bad signing before he’s confirmed.

;D I was following the town before you were born pal now jog on .

Shame you're such a miserable old sod about it then eh?  :-*

From compulsive googling it looks like there’s no fee unless sold on and we were looking at him in Summer too, so pre Jimmy

Does that mean he's a Melville special?

Looks like it dosent, if so there is no chance he will be any good

Eerrr have we signed this bloke yet?

We all know that Melville doesn’t sign players don’t we? He’s basically a chief scout, the manager has full say on signings. Jimmy might ask him to identify a new striker for example and Melville will provide a list of targets and reports and the manager will possibly go after one, even under this scenario I’d imagine the manager would still take a look himself.

I’ve no idea if Melville is any good at his job or not, who knows what gems he may have identified that our managers didn’t want. I really don’t think he is the root of all our problems post Wilder, the managers we’ve had probably are where we should look!

One things for sure, since he has been appointed (melville) we seem to have had an awful lot of s***e signings

You haven't been to the last 6 games or more. You are a Swindon Supporter; now that the great Matt Taylor is now with them I dont' blame you.

No argument from me there but he’s not forcing these signings onto our managers

When you've watch as much shyte Cobblers teams as I have you'll be a miserable sod as well  ;D
It's the hope that kills you.

What the f*** are you on about nevers?!?!?!?

You miss the point .
Coventry sent him out on loan .
Surely that means they didn’t want him having been relegated ?
Don’t get me wrong , I’m open minded but it doesn’t read well .

Yes, yes...but we didn't release Rod, having been relegated, was the salient point I was responding to!

I would argue that he's just a very visual target - we certainly bought a lot of crap pre-Melville as well.

Yep I get that just pointing out that players get released all the time and Rod hardly got released on he back of us having a successful season. O’Toole left Brizzle after relegation from League 2, it doesn’t mean he’s not good enough for that league, although admittedly I think they tried to keep him.

I think someone posted that leaving Cov post relegation was very much Turnbull’s choice.

You may have got it wrong too! At the end of season Turnbull opted on a get out clause on his contract. However he had no takers so ended up with PT. Incidentally they are very sad to see him go A few Cov fans think he might be ok in L1. Based on recent signings so far I prefer to believe he isn't a dud!

I've only just got around to reading the Coventry reviews. I've read far worse reviews of our recent signings!

I read one person say he's already had a better career than Rod Mcdonald will ever have. Seems to have more pace than Rod and can also cover at left back.

Definitely has good pedigree, and would expect him to be starting until Pierre returns.

Perspective guys...

We once signed Patrick Kanyuka!

You're half correct, well done.

Care to enlighten me any further? I'm a slow learner and need all the help I can get!

Just maybe the lad didn't want to play in League 2

Confirmed - Signed on a 2 & half year contract

JT joins on a two and a half yr deal

At least we're getting players in unlike some clubs.

Welcome Jordo..

Welcome and good luck.
 
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such bad reviews from a signings previous club (Cov) before!

True.

That said, they were in a bad way last season, a mess off the pitch, protests etc etc. Not sure it is a true reflection, considering the Partick fans really rate him, the Swindon fans really rate him and there is the odd Coventry fan that says don't listen to the rest he is decent.

is that 4 centre halves in place for next season now as well?!

Having encountered a fair few Coventry fans in my time (quite a lot of them growing up in Daventry and during my studies at university there), they generally are not the sharpest or most intelligent bunch so I wouldn't take their comments too seriously.

Wow, were the Cov reviews that bad? We routinely sign players that get panned by their former clubs fans. Some maybe justified, others not so much. It is why I've stopped bothering to read them.

1. You know nothing of a 'get out clause' other than reading a previous post on here.

2. You've been trawling through the Coventry City forum.

 :o

Coventry fans I know don’t rate him .
He was sub against us and they were awful .
Scottish football counts for nothing .
No one wanted to sign him pre season
Other than that I’m sure he’s fine

Maybe they would have been better if he played?

 ;D

Are you Beds in disguise?

Welcome Jordan.

Don't get the negativity whatsoever. We desperately needed a left sided centre back & we've acted swiftly.

Good age, plenty of experience as appose to an untried teenager from a prem/champ club...

We've got some absolute bells as so called supporters!  ::)

Does their name begin with E and end in E?

Almost correct.
It begins with D and ends with D. ;)

Troll - I’ll put TCobb onto you

Welcome jt

Jeez. Lets give the lad a chance.

Welcome Jordan.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how his partnership with Taylor develops. A young, experienced left sided defender who has worked hard to avoid playing in League Two. I'm also happy to see we have Taylor, Pierre and Turnbull on long term deals. I'm feeling much better about the clubs future.

The mixed reviews from previous fans usually mean the player is good... but there is a bitterness towards him.