So theres been no bids so what exactly is there to talk about?
I like Holmes but he's 31 in the summer and has never played above L1 level. I don't think they'll be too many interested Championship clubs apart from Sheff Utd
So once again KR is spouting his mouth off only to find that his targets are no more than punts. The only decent striker that he has intimated (not named by the way) is Moore, and I don't reckon we had spent £750k in any case. Armstrong scored 5 goals last season and just 1 this season. And he's only 20.
I'm still waiting for him to name the "in form" striker that he said that we were going to sign - not youngsters with no experience - we have plenty of those..........and it showed tonight.
So once again KR is spouting his mouth off only to find that his targets are no more than punts. The only decent striker that he has intimated (not named by the way) is Moore, and I don't reckon we had spent £750k in any case. Armstrong scored 5 goals last season and just 1 this season. And he's only 20.
I'm still waiting for him to name the "in form" striker that he said that we were going to sign - not youngsters with no experience - we have plenty of those..........and it showed tonight.
Oh my goodness me, can you please give it a rest with this negativity towards KR? What more do you want him to do? The striker we were going to sign that was in form, scoring and has experience was Eoin Doyle. He now has a blood clot which means we won’t be able to sign him. Not that we would have done anyway unless it was agreed a few weeks ago because we know Roland would’ve just pulled the plug on it like he has with others already.
Yes you can say he knew what he was getting into by coming here and whatever else, you’re right, he said it himself, so many people told him not to touch it, but he came with the attitude of why not? Why could he not come here and turn things around as long as he was able to just get on with the job he needed to do? And for that I respect him, he has more balls than a lot of managers in my opinion.
He’s extremely frustrated because he wants to succeed, he wants us to succeed, but right now he is getting held back in every way possible that could bring us forward, make us better and progress. At the same time he doesn’t know if he is going to lose any of his best and influential players when we need to be strengthening instead. The man is crying out for the takeover to happen.
I respect your opinion mate, I do, and I apologise if have snapped at you, but he really is doing his best for us right now and wants success here. Because believe me, things could be a lot worse than they are, if it wasn’t Karl and it was someone else in charge, we could easily have no manager as well to add to everything else that is falling apart with our beloved club. And as much as you may not like him, I am certain that would only make things 10x worse.
Just pissed off that we are so close this season & I fear that any takeover will be too late and/or all the best players would have gone and we will be left in this division for yet another season.
If Holmes or even Konsa is sold under the new owners, then we know the score right then and there in terms of ambition. They are the only two Championship quality players we have. So ambition clearly will not be a priority if the new owners see them off as their first acts in charge.
In fairness even if we had a decent owner who was willing to put his hand in his pocket for permanent or loan signings, i still don't think we'd have got Armstrong. He's from Newcastle and has played on loan at Coventry, Barnsley and Bolton so has never played down south. Given a choice of us or Blackburn (who are miles ahead of us in the league), he was always likely to choose them anyway.
If Holmes or even Konsa is sold under the new owners, then we know the score right then and there in terms of ambition. They are the only two Championship quality players we have. So ambition clearly will not be a priority if the new owners see them off as their first acts in charge.
I'd say it depends on whether that money gets reinvested in a decent playing squad. We sold a promising young player in Jenkinson which allowed Powell to put together the league winning side in 2011/12.
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
If KR just shut his mouth he’d be accused of being a yes-man and taking Roland’s dollar (the same accusation has been levelled at many other employees).
He wants to do his job to the best of his ability with the backing of an owner that will fund some new signings whilst we have a horrific injury list.
He’s not everyone’s cup of tea but he’s our manager, the best we’ve had for a while and fwiw, I think he’d get us promoted with a bit of backing. As it currently stands he’s has promises broken, is looking over his shoulder and is on the back foot. What do you all expect him to be doing
This is just Robinson trying to show us he is on our side, he was naive to think Roland would keep to his word and now he is seeing the lies for all they are worth. He is also showing the rest of football he is a trier and when he fails here and leaves at the beginning of Feb (with Roland still here) he is looking for a new job. I don't normally like all his talking but think he should raise the issues he is working in under this joke ownership
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
So it seems Karl can’t win . The guy is telling the fans how it is . Why would you want him to keep his gob shut ?
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
So it seems Karl can’t win . The guy is telling the fans how it is . Why would you want him to keep his gob shut ?
certain things there's no need to say as fans hang off of them, don't say stuff you cant do, we all know what roland's like hes not going to change.
as ive mentioned its not just karl
weve got an owner that doesnt care a manager that has only 1 formation SOME players that don't really care
add them 3 up and were gonna win sweet fa
in other news
neil harris was at the game last night according to twitter watching ricky holmes and josh ruffels of oxford.
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
So it seems Karl can’t win . The guy is telling the fans how it is . Why would you want him to keep his gob shut ?
certain things there's no need to say as fans hang off of them, don't say stuff you cant do, we all know what roland's like hes not going to change.
as ive mentioned its not just karl
weve got an owner that doesnt care a manager that has only 1 formation SOME players that don't really care
add them 3 up and were gonna win sweet fa
in other news
neil harris was at the game last night according to twitter watching ricky holmes and josh ruffels of oxford.
Those getting pissed off with Karl I don’t blame them I’m one of them, the guy seriously needs to shut his gob as mentioned before fans of clubs take direction from there manager and if we’re annoyed and confused by him how the fuck are the players meant to understand.
3 weeks ago “ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements” Last night “Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
So it seems Karl can’t win . The guy is telling the fans how it is . Why would you want him to keep his gob shut ?
certain things there's no need to say as fans hang off of them, don't say stuff you cant do, we all know what roland's like hes not going to change.
as ive mentioned its not just karl
weve got an owner that doesnt care a manager that has only 1 formation SOME players that don't really care
add them 3 up and were gonna win sweet fa
in other news
neil harris was at the game last night according to twitter watching ricky holmes and josh ruffels of oxford.
When KR said we wouldnt sell anyone unless we had replacements he probably thought takeover would have been complete by now
Now he is probably thinking it wont be done anytime soon, and RD will probably sell players and pocket the cash
In fairness even if we had a decent owner who was willing to put his hand in his pocket for permanent or loan signings, i still don't think we'd have got Armstrong. He's from Newcastle and has played on loan at Coventry, Barnsley and Bolton so has never played down south. Given a choice of us or Blackburn (who are miles ahead of us in the league), he was always likely to choose them anyway.
And spent the first half of the season at Bolton, so a very easy personal move for him. A 5 foot 8 striker, so not sure how he would fit into KR's system anyway, surely his biggest priority would be someone over 6ft to replace/cover for Josh
Alex Neal was also in directors box area last night.
Holmes to Preston maybe
more likely tbh, and thats being banded around social media.
Still not convinced anyone can be sold while club up for sale. Maybe they hope to buy him once sale is complete, but that would depend on new owners who you would hope wouldn't want to sell the club's best players.
Holmes hasn't really been one of our best players since October though.
Just pissed off that we are so close this season & I fear that any takeover will be too late and/or all the best players would have gone and we will be left in this division for yet another season.
I completely understand and feel the same. The last thing I want is for us to be in this league again next season. Unfortunately, RD has fucked us over yet again when we probably were in the best position we could’ve been at this stage to move forward and have a right go at getting out of this division. That’s not Robinson’s fault, he deserves credit in my opinion for working a mini miracle to even put us in that/this position when he has RD not interested and now pulling the plug on deals that we desperately need.
Again, unfortunately with us, it seems like when we get what we want and have needed for so long, (Roland selling) it will probably be too late to actually be effective for this season. In my opinion, that would be all his own doing, and doing on purpose for one last time.
Yesterday's SLP states that Kyle Taylor from Wimbledon and James Hanson of Sheffield United were another set of strikers the manager was interested in.
Lyle Taylor has a 1in3 record with the Wombles so looks ok - Hanson moved to Bury on the 3rd January so doubt that 1) he wanted to move south (was with Bradford previously) and 2) was never really on the radar as Bury had it all sown up when the window opened.
Lyle Taylor has a 1in3 record with the Wombles so looks ok - Hanson moved to Bury on the 3rd January so doubt that 1) he wanted to move south (was with Bradford previously) and 2) was never really on the radar as Bury had it all sown up when the window opened.
Wanted to move south so moved from to Bury? Has he got the same map as Dale Stephens?
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Then again, so am I.
I like Holmes but he's 31 in the summer and has never played above L1 level. I don't think they'll be too many interested Championship clubs apart from Sheff Utd
I'm still waiting for him to name the "in form" striker that he said that we were going to sign - not youngsters with no experience - we have plenty of those..........and it showed tonight.
Yes you can say he knew what he was getting into by coming here and whatever else, you’re right, he said it himself, so many people told him not to touch it, but he came with the attitude of why not? Why could he not come here and turn things around as long as he was able to just get on with the job he needed to do? And for that I respect him, he has more balls than a lot of managers in my opinion.
He’s extremely frustrated because he wants to succeed, he wants us to succeed, but right now he is getting held back in every way possible that could bring us forward, make us better and progress. At the same time he doesn’t know if he is going to lose any of his best and influential players when we need to be strengthening instead. The man is crying out for the takeover to happen.
I respect your opinion mate, I do, and I apologise if have snapped at you, but he really is doing his best for us right now and wants success here. Because believe me, things could be a lot worse than they are, if it wasn’t Karl and it was someone else in charge, we could easily have no manager as well to add to everything else that is falling apart with our beloved club. And as much as you may not like him, I am certain that would only make things 10x worse.
Just pissed off that we are so close this season & I fear that any takeover will be too late and/or all the best players would have gone and we will be left in this division for yet another season.
3 weeks ago
“ no one will be going out unless I have suitable replacements”
Last night
“Not able to say that players won’t be going out this month”
And the feeling sorry for him, Na plenty before him were puppets wasn’t going to be any different for him, aim For me now is get to end of season hopefully a takeover, just another year down the drain with a mid table finish and pray to fucking god that the new owners have a bit more ambition that the current prick that owns us.
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He wants to do his job to the best of his ability with the backing of an owner that will fund some new signings whilst we have a horrific injury list.
He’s not everyone’s cup of tea but he’s our manager, the best we’ve had for a while and fwiw, I think he’d get us promoted with a bit of backing. As it currently stands he’s has promises broken, is looking over his shoulder and is on the back foot. What do you all expect him to be doing
I don't normally like all his talking but think he should raise the issues he is working in under this joke ownership
I told him that's because we've never been well financed.
Someone bring the moolah and we'll bring the fans!
as ive mentioned its not just karl
weve got an owner that doesnt care
a manager that has only 1 formation
SOME players that don't really care
add them 3 up and were gonna win sweet fa
in other news
neil harris was at the game last night according to twitter watching ricky holmes and josh ruffels of oxford.
Now he is probably thinking it wont be done anytime soon, and RD will probably sell players and pocket the cash
Holmes to Preston maybe
Holmes hasn't really been one of our best players since October though.
Again, unfortunately with us, it seems like when we get what we want and have needed for so long, (Roland selling) it will probably be too late to actually be effective for this season. In my opinion, that would be all his own doing, and doing on purpose for one last time.