It was not the sort of trumpet-blowing line you expect from a new signing.

But when asked about City’s recent fall from grace, Barry Conlon was happy to have a dig at his own expense.

As physio Steve Redmond drove the big striker and fellow capture Peter Thorne to the Yorkshire Clinic for their pre-transfer medical, Conlon couldn’t help recalling some of the more illustrious names that had made the same journey just a few years before.

“You think of some of the players they were taking for medicals in the Premier League… now they are taking the likes of me!”

From Carbone to Conlon, Premiership to League Two in the space of seven seasons. But isn’t it refreshing to hear a new player speaking honestly and not claiming to be the next Henry?

Conlon has been around the block. In fact, he’s covered most of the map, with City now his 11th club at roughly the rate of one a year.

But he knows this division very well. A horses for courses signing.

Stuart McCall has confessed he has little knowledge of the level in which he will cut his managerial teeth. So it makes sense to bring in people like Conlon who do.

Reputations count for nothing. It’s about wanting to go out there and achieve.

And players making a name for themselves for what they do at Valley Parade and not anywhere else.