I don't know how much of the wage cap we left after Innis, but I'd rather we spunked it (hopefully around £5-10k per week) on one proven striker now, Eisa or Marquis for example. Can't remember the last time a side got out of league one without a goalscorer
Like the sound of this giant psycho fella from Palace.
Just the ticket for League One and gets our squad average height above 5ft 4.
Would be nice if at least one of our academy products could find the heart to stay for a season or two before chasing their fortunes elsewhere but that as they say, is football.
Really? We played Sunderland - who could easily be champions - last week and got a relatively comfortable draw, since when we have added players and more to come back from injury. There is always a danger of severely over-rating the quality of the league, there are really very few outstanding teams in this division.
It looks like Luton have made an improved bid for Doughty.
Eurgh. Luton.
Exactly. Maybe they should focus on re-inventing themselves as a football club that isn't shit. Then come back with an improved ground. In an improved town. In an improved location. I'm still not over Walsh and Elliott.
Really? We played Sunderland - who could easily be champions - last week and got a relatively comfortable draw, since when we have added players and more to come back from injury. There is always a danger of severely over-rating the quality of the league, there are really very few outstanding teams in this division.
I think that says a lot about how average Sunderland are at the moment. I think we definitely would have had a tougher job if we had played Ipswich last Saturday
With Doughty there is the question of whether he's good enough as a player in his own right to merit a system being built around him or whether we could potentially have a better team without necessarily having the best individual players.
He's got pace and directness but if we make him the teams key man and he gets injured or suspended we'd be screwed. On the other hand you theoretically can swap JW for Maddison or vice versa, or Bogle for Aneke etc. If the Smyth signing comes off, he's the cover/alternative to Washington etc. We could still use the same system with different players.
Doughty is out for whatever reason there's no-one to directly replace him as you can't teach someone to be a fast runner.
Stripey Nigels seem to really rate Inniss. Some calling out Hodgson for never giving him game time.
I can't imagine many are moaning about their defence. It's their defensiveness organisation under Hodgson which has (sadly) kept them up for several seasons
I’m not overly fussed if I’m honest, I’d prefer to keep him though but if he’s refusing to sign a new deal then so be it....
I am, we’d need to replace him with a winger with the potential to score 10+ this season, which Doughty has.
As I said I’d prefer to keep him but if we’re being offered decent money then take it if he won’t sign a new deal. Agreed, we’d need to sign another winger on top of the winger we already need.
How many wingers did we use when we won the play offs?
None because we had mobile strikers who could drift wide and cause full backs problems, so a different formation suited us.
Bowyer’s moved to a 4-3-3 formation and building the squad with that in mind. You’d think he wouldn’t have to completely change his plans just by one player leaving.
He changed to 433 because he had Doughty, people put that and the signing of Maddison together and came up with 433 as the preferred formation.
LB has talked about "different systems" back normally about 3 or 4 at the back.
Changing to 433, as the default, would have needed major surgery. Where would you put Williams, Oztumer, Aneke etc in a 433?
Yeah he has talked about different systems, but he’s likely to have one as his main system. I wouldn’t assume he’s set on that being a diamond, that worked well when we had the right strikers for it. At the moment we probably don’t have that.
Williams and Oztumer can’t stay in the team, while Aneke can’t stay fit. We won’t be building a system around any of them.
When they do play it wouldn’t be surprising to see Williams our wide or in the midfield 3, Oztumer on the right of the front 3 or Aneke as the central striker. They’ve all played in positions other than a “number 10” during their careers.
They have also all been pretty poor to average as anything else other than a "number 10". Bowyer has said before that Aneke isn't a 9.
Like I said we will see.
Oztumer and Aneke have been generally poor full stop. He did say that about Aneke but played him there v Sunderland as he has done in other games, he’s not completely against using him up front.
We will, and if we move back to a diamond it’ll surely be Maddison who plays the 10 role ahead of those 3.
As always how we line up will come down to injuries, suspensions, opposition and what actually gets results. I just think we’re less likely to play a diamond than we did in 18/19. Not saying Bowyer will only play 4-3-3, he’s never only used one formation.
It looks like Luton have made an improved bid for Doughty.
Eurgh. Luton.
Exactly. Maybe they should focus on re-inventing themselves as a football club that isn't shit. Then come back with an improved ground. In an improved town. In an improved location. I'm still not over Walsh and Elliott.
That was selling our future. They were the two most talented teenagers I had seen for Cafc until Joe Gomez came along.
Stripey Nigels seem to really rate Inniss. Some calling out Hodgson for never giving him game time.
I can't imagine many are moaning about their defence. It's their defensiveness organisation under Hodgson which has (sadly) kept them up for several seasons
Not moaning about their defence, moaning a player they liked wasn't given a chance.
I do think a portion of Nigels find Hodgson too conservative across many aspects of management, rightly or wrongly.
I won’t believe Doughty’s leaving until it’s “confirmed” by Rich Cawley and/or Pete O’Rourke. Unfortunately RH’s recent track record isn’t as stellar as it once was so I’m a little less inclined to believe it.
There’s about five pages of people calling him greedy etc over one whisper that was posted up here earlier today. Imagine if nothing’s happened and he’s reading those posts LOL.
Two pages later and still people getting angry about something that probably isn’t happening.
Let’s wait and see shall we? I’m confident no one meets our valuation and he’ll still be here at the end of the window.
Makes sense if the Chelsea lad is lined up. Same position but due to his age and it being a loan means a bit more money to be spent elsewhere.
Thing is Koiki was a long term replacement, whereas the Chelsea loan is just that, a loan, and we all know about Chelsea and their loan "deals", could be a very short season loan indeed, if it comes off
Stripey Nigels seem to really rate Inniss. Some calling out Hodgson for never giving him game time.
I can't imagine many are moaning about their defence. It's their defensiveness organisation under Hodgson which has (sadly) kept them up for several seasons
Not moaning about their defence, moaning a player they liked wasn't given a chance.
I do think a portion of Nigels find Hodgson too conservative across many aspects of management, rightly or wrongly.
Makes sense if the Chelsea lad is lined up. Same position but due to his age and it being a loan means a bit more money to be spent elsewhere.
Thing is Koiki was a long term replacement, whereas the Chelsea loan is just that, a loan, and we all know about Chelsea and their loan "deals", could be a very short season loan indeed, if it comes off
But this time we will actually pay (some of) the wages and have players with an age > than the loanee playing around them. We can't be that shit at Christmas again.
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Just the ticket for League One and gets our squad average height above 5ft 4.
Would be nice if at least one of our academy products could find the heart to stay for a season or two before chasing their fortunes elsewhere but that as they say, is football.
I'd be surprised if that doesnt limit him to Millwall | Palace or West Ham at a stretch
If you played for one of those two and had a chance to play at a higher level than them, would you take it?
Maybe they should focus on re-inventing themselves as a football club that isn't shit.
Then come back with an improved ground. In an improved town. In an improved location.
I'm still not over Walsh and Elliott.
He's got pace and directness but if we make him the teams key man and he gets injured or suspended we'd be screwed. On the other hand you theoretically can swap JW for Maddison or vice versa, or Bogle for Aneke etc. If the Smyth signing comes off, he's the cover/alternative to Washington etc. We could still use the same system with different players.
Doughty is out for whatever reason there's no-one to directly replace him as you can't teach someone to be a fast runner.
thought of him coming to us might be the the aim, hopefully not
We will, and if we move back to a diamond it’ll surely be Maddison who plays the 10 role ahead of those 3.
As always how we line up will come down to injuries, suspensions, opposition and what actually gets results. I just think we’re less likely to play a diamond than we did in 18/19. Not saying Bowyer will only play 4-3-3, he’s never only used one formation.
That was selling our future.
They were the two most talented teenagers I had seen for Cafc until Joe Gomez came along.
Not moaning about their defence, moaning a player they liked wasn't given a chance.
I do think a portion of Nigels find Hodgson too conservative across many aspects of management, rightly or wrongly.
loan is just that, a loan, and we all know about Chelsea and their
loan "deals", could be a very short season loan indeed, if it comes
off