With 8 wins, 9 draws and 9 defeats, at this halfway point we are an average championship side.
It seems we are getting hints of interest for 3/4 of our players and the sources look plausible.
We are probably skint and holding a tight ship so that means we don't have the funds to majorly improve our squad and also that we are more likely to accept 2 bob offers for our 1st team players.
Our owners are dodgy and can't be trusted.
Great result yesterday but we remain a team under the relegation radar.
I think we will be ok but you just never know.
Let's take caution.
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I know it could be seen as silly Football Manager talk but for example if we could move on Sullivan, Taylor, Hollands and Wagstaff/Green whilst bringing in two proven Championship players, we'll have done very well IMO. Even BWP moved on in favour of a more proven forward at this level could be possible if the right deal comes around but for me, it's not a priority.
More worried about the last one
Too right , after all the is he going / isn't he going debacle of last Summer , its better not to worry about it , and whatever will be , will be.... i almost said we're going to ..... but can't bring myself to say it after years of heartbreak.
I can't see any of our important players moving on, or only doing so if it is a very good offer that any other Championship club in a similar position would not turn down.
I don't really get where this air of inevitability comes from about us selling players this window? We are an average side in the Championship with players that on the whole are Championship players at best. The only person I can see being a dead cert for the Premier League is Chris Solly. And even he doesn't have much of a high profile outside of our club.
I wouldn't be surprised if agents, scouts etc read forums like these and used them as a tool to generate "talk". A couple of very good, stand-out performances and heavy praise on Charlton Life for Bradley Pritchard - and all of a sudden people are talking about him leaving. We don't do ourselves any favors really.
We would have sold Stephens in the last window if we were that hard up for cash. Not much has changed (to my knowledge) since August.
Expect Green or Wagstaff to go and maybe a couple in.
Tom you often talk a lot of sense , we should have been talking Leon Clarke up rather than trash talking him.
I'll settle for that, looking at where we finished up in league one 18 months ago.
Plenty on here were worried about us becoming a league two side.
If we sell then we sell. Its happened before and will happen again.
Don't expect marquee signings either. Would be nice but can't see it happening but a couple of clever loans can make a difference. Look at what Wood and Campbell did for Smallwall and Ipswich.
In this situation the relationship between the Manager and the Board/Owners is critical. The Manager needs to fully engage with the financial objectives of the owners and work with them to ensure the right balance between raising money/reducing losses and maintaining a competitive squad. If he digs his heels in with the narrow objective of simply keeping his best players, the owners may well ignore his input and make mistakes. Avoiding relegation is now the key objective.
Fantastic result yesterday.
In some ways what happens this month could clarify greatly whether or not we are in a certain creek and have a paddle or not.
Sometimes it's good to review worst case scenarios. I trust Powell with the capital T but the owners appear to be unpredictable on their redundancies.
We are not out of the forthcoming relegation battle yet and if the Owners want to raise/save money during January then the make up of the squad will no doubt need skilful management. Let's not forget that the margins between success and failure can be very narrow indeed.
Well, to be honest, neither is any club from 8th postion onwards ...
Look at how the 'back to basics' team has played in the last 2 games. There's no reason why we can't.