Josh Wright signs for Billericay Town

I doubt JY will care. He said at the forum it wasn't his decision to let Josh go.

He wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I would be more inclined to think those that call a player who has played 450 senior games in the FL (as high as the Championship) a 'non league player' don't know much about football.

He's Billericay Dickie.
What a blockhead.

I grew up in Billericay and have fond memories of 3 Wembley appearances watching them score plenty of goals.
Disappointed Josh Wright has joined them. Would have preferred him to have joined Colchester United.

Well there was a certain level of politics involved and JY made it clear he thought Josh could do a job but he had been told to move him on.

From what I saw he wasn't any worse than many of the people who get a game at Crawley these days.

Of course he couldn't join a league club as he wasn't released until after the deadline.

If true that only suggests the owners don't really have a scooby doo what they are doing.

In January 2021 we gave Josh a 2.5 year deal and club website said:

Technical Director, Erdem Konyar, said: “Josh is an exciting signing who has a genuine potential to raise the levels and expectations of the collective. His familiarity and existing relationship with our manager underlines an existing connection which can only be beneficial for the club.

“Personally I’m delighted with the consistency in our recruitment and strategies this season. Together with the gaffer we are consistently raising the standard. Long may it continue.”

However only 6 months later he was apparently so far down the pecking order that he couldn't get in the squad ahead of the players we have now so we had to reach a settlement and let him leave?

Seriously, what type of business gives someone a 2.5 year deal, the Technical Director calls him an "exciting signing" and then decides only 6 months later the person is not needed? It's not like the club signed loads of quality names, could he have been any worse than half the players we have now? If he was that bad, why did we sign him? Or just that the club screwed up on the finances and needed to free up budget to sign some of the other 16 midfielders (yes, 16!!) listed on the club website?

You cannot have watched the games last season and come to that conclusion. With Wright we averaged 0.5 pts a game and 2.2 pts without him. Coincidence? No he was horrendous, shocking…the only reason he got a game was the special relationship when Yems. Don’t forget he came into the side on the back of a 10 game unbeaten run.