If we go into Saturday with no senior left back again then I will begin to question how good people actually are at their job. Would be criminal.
If they don't, the LB they eventually bring in better have been worth waiting for.
And you just know it will end up being that Omole (who we have been linked with)kid from Tottenham - who we could have signed weeks ago.
Only if Spurs agreed to let him go weeks ago snd not holding out to see if they can get a championship club … if not he will be allowed to leave on 31st to league one club
“he will be allowed”…..how do you know that, got a contact at Spurs now have you? You say it as if you know…..you don’t know but you can and should say he ‘maybe’ allowed to join a league one club. Typical of you.
If we go into Saturday with no senior left back again then I will begin to question how good people actually are at their job. Would be criminal.
If they don't, the LB they eventually bring in better have been worth waiting for.
And you just know it will end up being that Omole (who we have been linked with)kid from Tottenham - who we could have signed weeks ago.
Only if Spurs agreed to let him go weeks ago snd not holding out to see if they can get a championship club … if not he will be allowed to leave on 31st to league one club
“he will be allowed”…..how do you know that, got a contact at Spurs now have you? You say it as if you know…..you don’t know but you can and should say he ‘maybe’ allowed to join a league one club. Typical of you.
Before this season, I’d never heard of Stockton, the striker at Morecambe. He’s now scored 6 goals in 6 games this season.
I would have seen him in the L2 section of EFL on Quest, but before this season his goal scoring ratio was nothing special - 13 in 43 last season was by far his best
We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
If we go into Saturday with no senior left back again then I will begin to question how good people actually are at their job. Would be criminal.
Only then you’d be questioning it?
For me if waiting meant we got someone of real quality for the 40 games left then ultimately I think it will be a good decision.
If we don't, then I'd have been happy to have signed a journeyman league one left back instead and that's exactly what we should have done as Purrington is more then capable of helping us get out this league as first choice.
He was not first choice for most of last season because he was not seen as good enough. Now we are so desperate that,along with Gilbey, another in and out player, we expect him to make us promotion challengers. How far our expectations have fallen.
We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
Lets circle back on that after we play Crewe on Saturday, who helped do our playoff chances in April when we had a much better team than we have now.
Yet Crewe's team has also been decimated from that night.
Three of their team that drew with us at the Valley last season, started their last League game
Pickering: He was only ever on loan from Blackburn after they signed him last summer Wintle: Gone to Cardiff Dale: "Ill" yet off to the Championship Kirk: No idea what happened to him Lowery: Refuses to sign a new deal so has been frozen out
We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
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We need to be careful with Sandgaard and not piss him off to the point he might become disillusioned and walk away.........even if it means another year or so in L1 we need to face up to that fact.....
I am fine with another year or so in league 1. My worry is that at present there is a risk of it being far worse than that (with our current squad and with an average expectations of injuries we are in a relegation fight IMO).
You honestly believe we are on a par with the likes of Cambridge, Crewe, moreCombe, Cheltenham, Plymouth, Fleetwood?
we have had a very bad start but to say we are in a relegation fight is crazy.
here are 10 clubs who the bookies think will finish below us
With all the credit from last season, our two season tickets cost the grand total of £218. Multiplied across all ST holders, this must = less money for new players. I'm as disappointed as anyone about our start to the season but not surprised we aren't splashing the cash... but it would be nice to see some new talent coming in!
This is all in last season’s loss to the club. They may have held the cash - or not if it was held back from them by the bank - but it was never theirs until it was exchanged for tickets or streams.
I can understand why people are glad they didn’t have to pay out full whack for a season ticket this year but it’s not a factor for the club. Plus there were only 3,500 season tickets sold, so it affects a minority of buyers.
If player recruitment was directly based on ticket income we’d never bring in anyone as we always make an operating loss. There’s no surplus to spend.
More bad news....two of our shot shy none creative players have been selected for internationals over w/e 4 Sept. Therefore our only striker who can kick a ball at the goal and our only LB left standing will not be available for at least one game, barring injuries! We have fuck all of a first XI and 2 more will be absent.
I didn't think any of ours would be of that quality.
What a joke . We lose players we can't afford to lose
need to ensure our next signing is a full international, preferably for Italy, Spain etc.
Apparently Ghandour or what ever his name is has been called up by Lebanon. He was on the bench against Sheffield Wednesday.
With all the credit from last season, our two season tickets cost the grand total of £218. Multiplied across all ST holders, this must = less money for new players. I'm as disappointed as anyone about our start to the season but not surprised we aren't splashing the cash... but it would be nice to see some new talent coming in!
This is all in last season’s loss to the club. They may have held the cash - or not if it was held back from them by the bank - but it was never theirs until it was exchanged for tickets or streams.
I can understand why people are glad they didn’t have to pay out full whack for a season ticket this year but it’s not a factor for the club. Plus there were only 3,500 season tickets sold, so it affects a minority of buyers.
If player recruitment was directly based on ticket income we’d never bring in anyone as we always make an operating loss. There’s no surplus to spend.
No matter how many times its repeated it never seems to sink in. To cover, just cover, the operational loss we would need to sell about 20,000 seasons tickets at an average price of about £400. Then we can start paying the players wages.
Not signing a left back already is criminal. However, what’s worse, far worse, is not looking to replace Aneke and his goals. How on earth can you expect to get into the top 6 when you don’t even look to replace your top scorer and most impactful player. It’s absolutely criminal.
Failure to bring in a left back is bad enough. Failure to replace Aneke is saying you’re naive and stupid enough to think you can be successful.
Not signing a left back already is criminal. However, what’s worse, far worse, is not looking to replace Aneke and his goals. How on earth can you expect to get into the top 6 when you don’t even look to replace your top scorer and most impactful player. It’s absolutely criminal.
Failure to bring in a left back is bad enough. Failure to replace Aneke is saying you’re naive and stupid enough to think you can be successful.
Stockley is/was the Aneke replacement. Aneke managed 15 goals across a whole season, Stockley got 8 in a half season.
Not denying we are still a body light though. We need someone to replace those Stockley goals. And ideally not wait until January to bring them in.
Not signing a left back already is criminal. However, what’s worse, far worse, is not looking to replace Aneke and his goals. How on earth can you expect to get into the top 6 when you don’t even look to replace your top scorer and most impactful player. It’s absolutely criminal.
Failure to bring in a left back is bad enough. Failure to replace Aneke is saying you’re naive and stupid enough to think you can be successful.
Stockley is/was the Aneke replacement. Aneke managed 15 goals across a whole season, Stockley got 8 in a half season.
Not denying we are still a body light though. We need someone to replace those Stockley goals. And ideally not wait until January to bring them in.
Stockley was never the replacement for Aneke. We wanted both to be at the club, Aneke chose to move to The Championship.
The fact is, we haven’t replaced him and his impact and we most certainly won’t find someone this late in the window that will.
Stockley and Aneke are different players, quite simply Aneke is a better player who has struggled with fitness/minutes for a number of reasons.
We missed out on the play-offs when we had Stockley and Aneke. We haven’t got a hope in hell when we only have Stockley.
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I’m hoping that’s not a potential player in the back of the car, Ben Watsons brother perhaps?
Taxi for SoundAs.
Maybe we should look into bringing in Cameron Archer from them
Second youngest scorer behind Louis Barry for them
Has scored a hat-trick tonight, albeit only against Barrow
How far our expectations have fallen.
Three of their team that drew with us at the Valley last season, started their last League game
Pickering: He was only ever on loan from Blackburn after they signed him last summer
Wintle: Gone to Cardiff
Dale: "Ill" yet off to the Championship
Kirk: No idea what happened to him
Lowery: Refuses to sign a new deal so has been frozen out
if we don’t win on Saturday, we don’t get relegated
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This is the team and subs we had in April against Crewe, we will be almost half that strength on SaturdayIf player recruitment was directly based on ticket income we’d never bring in anyone as we always make an operating loss. There’s no surplus to spend.
Absolute zero.
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Failure to bring in a left back is bad enough. Failure to replace Aneke is saying you’re naive and stupid enough to think you can be successful.
Not denying we are still a body light though. We need someone to replace those Stockley goals. And ideally not wait until January to bring them in.
The fact is, we haven’t replaced him and his impact and we most certainly won’t find someone this late in the window that will.
Stockley and Aneke are different players, quite simply Aneke is a better player who has struggled with fitness/minutes for a number of reasons.
We missed out on the play-offs when we had Stockley and Aneke. We haven’t got a hope in hell when we only have Stockley.