PETER HOUSTON once thought Owain Tudur Jones was out of his league when he was manager at Dundee United - so the Falkirk manager was thrilled to make the out-of-contract midfielder his ninth signing of the summer yesterday.
Jones was released by Hibernian ahead of Monday's transfer deadline after it became clear he would not be part of new head coach Alan Stubbs's plans for the coming campaign.
The Wales internationalist moved to Easter Road from Inverness Caledonian Thistle last summer but the switch failed to go according to plan. The 29-year-old will now seek to rekindle his club career at SPFL Championship rivals Falkirk after Houston moved quickly to snap him up. Jones first caught the eye of the Falkirk manager when he played for Wales against Scotland in the Carling Nations Cup tie in Dublin in May 2011. "He played centre-midfield and played really well," said Houston.
"So, it was a surprise to me that within a few months he ended up at Inverness. I was the United manager at the time and I never thought a player like that would become available. He's nearly 30 years of age, he's got good experience, he's a good passer of the ball.
"And he's still got plenty of legs left. For whatever reason he wasn't getting a game for Hibs. He'll certainly get an opportunity here. The rest is up to him."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article