Plus Kane, Thomas, Henry, Campbell and Kanu. Nowhere near as bad as you're making out.
We're an attacking player light that's for sure. Getting rid of DJ and Kirk without replacing one of them is poor. Obviously was the intention with Edwards but shouldn't be getting rid of DJ if it's fallen through.
currently not fit
can you start again with players who are currently fit & ready to play 90 mins.
Exactly this. Now have no squad players that come in if (when) injuries. Two injuries added to those highlighted above leaves us looking at likes of Chin again to fill bench
Seems people struggle to understand the concept of a squad.
‘I don’t think I’d have been brought in if there were no funds. I’ve been promised funds to bring some players in‘ - Andy Scott, December 2022. Either he’s really stupid and was easily deceived by Sandgaard or he’s a liar
He lied.
Its now plain to see he was recruited by TS to get as much money in & to reduce the wage bill.
I hope he does leave by midnight tonight & takes Holden with him. He lied too.
Plus Kane, Thomas, Henry, Campbell and Kanu. Nowhere near as bad as you're making out.
We're an attacking player light that's for sure. Getting rid of DJ and Kirk without replacing one of them is poor. Obviously was the intention with Edwards but shouldn't be getting rid of DJ if it's fallen through.
currently not fit
can you start again with players who are currently fit & ready to play 90 mins.
Exactly this. Now have no squad players that come in if (when) injuries. Two injuries added to those highlighted above leaves us looking at likes of Chin again to fill bench
To be honest, I have no problem with having the likes of Chin on the bench. Sending him on after 70 minutes is very different from having to start him out of position at LB
If you lot lose the plot over Lavelle and Thomas going, you need your bumps read. I get the feeling over O'Connell but those two are shit.
But we need a squad. Currently leaves us with Inniss, Ness and a crocked Hector.
Is Hector crocked? Evidently he’s been training with Chef Wendy for quite a while and for the last two or three days with us, reported to be in tip top condition. Doesn’t sound like he’s crocked to me…..unless you know otherwise that is?
Even if he isn't crocked he hasnt played a competitive game all season and eight in total in the previous two. However, was reported in the Sheffield Star that he completed the first part of his medical and was then given two days off, didn't return to complete it. Plus comments from their manager, Darren Moore, suggested he isn't yet fit to play. Smacks of Harry Arter, Joe Ledley to me.
Can you provide a link where Moore suggested he isn't fit to play please?
Obviously it's a bit sad to lose EOC as he's class, but everyone else who's left wasn't wanted, and the ones we've brought in either have pedigree or at least got signed by Ipswich in recent years
Does not look a great transfer window for us unless you think cutting the player wage bill is all it is about. I hope the new players wil prove me wrong ,but just have that gut feeling they wil not.
Sounds like EOC was not in Holdens plans at all and was offered a lot of money by Wrexham.
I just saw Chris Martin has leftBristol City…always rated him in the past.
Holden is a yes man that will peddle any nonsense he’s told to say.
FFS, how the fuck do you know that……a totally ridiculous comment. Didn’t take long before a knife or two is being pulled on someone who has been doing pretty well thus far under very trying circumstances…..Christ alive he’s only been here five minutes, give the guy a bit of respect, no need for that comment whatsoever, way OTT.
And they’re already turning on Ness and Leaburn. So there’s only Dobbo left 😂
Fucking Hell, those Texan billionaires don"t like spending money do they?
Guess that's why they are cashed up.
Shambles, the tree is rotten and there's no lack of pruning the deadwood that will solve this one. Been passed from crooks to spivs to maniacs to banjo playing morons for a decade now, this is an ex-tree.
Plus Kane, Thomas, Henry, Campbell and Kanu. Nowhere near as bad as you're making out.
We're an attacking player light that's for sure. Getting rid of DJ and Kirk without replacing one of them is poor. Obviously was the intention with Edwards but shouldn't be getting rid of DJ if it's fallen through.
currently not fit
can you start again with players who are currently fit & ready to play 90 mins.
Exactly this. Now have no squad players that come in if (when) injuries. Two injuries added to those highlighted above leaves us looking at likes of Chin again to fill bench
Seems people struggle to understand the concept of a squad.
In - AMB, Kane, Penney, Ness, Hector, Kilkenny, Bonne plus Henry and Campbell Outs - Mac, Lavelle, O'Connell, Lavelle, JFC, McGrandles, Kirk, DJ and Stockley
It's pretty much 1 in 1 out. We're just a winger short but better at FB. Progress - probably not. But on the verge of losing every single match, nope.
O'Connell probably had a really good offer put to him. Double your wages, come straight into a starting xi. Add on the fact that it's highly likey Wrexham will be promoted this season. He'll also be able to get a nice gaff in Cheshire.
@golfaddick not sure Holden signed on the dotted line to see most of his defence removed, leaving him with little chance of success and his own reputation as a manager in tatters.
We are a couple of injuries from disaster. Just because our whole squad is shit, it doesn't mean moving a lot of shit on and replacing them with loans or short term freebies improves anything.
In six months' time we are left with AMB, Egbo, Ness, Morgan, Dobson, Fraser, CBT, Leaburn and Kanu.
If you think Barker, Deje, Clayden etc mean we have a team that finishes ANYWHERE but bottom half you are deluded!
We are 14th currently. The squad above doesn't touch what we have now.
Wake up!
Wbat actual reality of results can argue what we are left with improves on this years' results???!
Why are people blaming Holden? The guy has come in to do a job on the pitch. He offers his opinion no doubt but ultimately the end decision isn't his on who we sign.
So Holden tells us how Bolton have been building a team for 2 years and that is why they have beaten us so easily. So what is our plan? No plan except cut the wage bill amd hope we stay up. Then no players in the summer so we build again. Andy Scott was a really crap journey man footballer, a really crap manager and now in whatever role he has at our club he is a liar and a really crap Director of football. Methven may have seen more Charlton matches live than me recently and have some dreadful plans for our club but whatever happens I will always have the memory of him looking so angry as we lifted the L1 play off final trophy.
You aspire to us being bottom half league one? I'm not the one embarrassing themselves.
If you went into this window thinking we were going to massively improve then you’ve purely set yourself up for a fall.
There’s no doubt the improvement we need for longer term success hasn’t happened, but has anything happened that will harm it? I really don’t think it has.
A massive indictment of our transfer activity that we've loaned out 3 players today, in Kirk, Lavelle and DJ, who all should have been first team regulars.
It's great on paper to sign talented young players and give them long contracts, as you should be investing in assets for the team, ones which you can sell on at a profit. Instead all 3 are out of favour and being loaned to smaller clubs. To L2 in the case of DJ.
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Its now plain to see he was recruited by TS to get as much money in & to reduce the wage bill.
I hope he does leave by midnight tonight & takes Holden with him. He lied too.
You have jumped in twice this window and said Edwards and Tayo Edun were done.
Surely a deal is only done when they put pen to paper; Do you agree ?
JFC, McG, Kirk, Lavelle going have zero impact, all dreadful players or knackered. Stockley and McGrandles will have minor impacts.
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Hector is not fit
Scott clearly came to massively reduce our budget and lied to our faces when he first arrived.
Holden has lost a lot of credibility today.
Hope TS Leaves in the summer not 80% but 100% and that PV can come riding to our rescue.
We have 8-9 really decent players that a new owner could build a very strong team around but it looks bleak right now.
Joking apart, it’s been a strange old window.
Guess that's why they are cashed up.
Shambles, the tree is rotten and there's no lack of pruning the deadwood that will solve this one. Been passed from crooks to spivs to maniacs to banjo playing morons for a decade now, this is an ex-tree.
Then once everything is done there is a last minute issue - failed medical results, paperwork, an outgoing player's transfer cancelled. whatever.
It's hardly our ITK poster's fault, is it?
Outs - Mac, Lavelle, O'Connell, Lavelle, JFC, McGrandles, Kirk, DJ and Stockley
It's pretty much 1 in 1 out. We're just a winger short but better at FB. Progress - probably not. But on the verge of losing every single match, nope.
I'd do the same if i was him.
Andy Scott was a really crap journey man footballer, a really crap manager and now in whatever role he has at our club he is a liar and a really crap Director of football.
Methven may have seen more Charlton matches live than me recently and have some dreadful plans for our club but whatever happens I will always have the memory of him looking so angry as we lifted the L1 play off final trophy.
Edwards was coming in but failed the medical. He was right but circumstances changed the final outcome.
Digging people for sharing what they hear is bollocks.
Our management of all things football related is absolutely horrendous.
EOC going
Not brining in an extra forward, not necessarily a central striker
Leaburn staying, I believe he was quite close to moving 10 days ago.
This was always going to be a reshuffle, not a rebuild.
I highly doubt we will get relegated, a lot of deadwood has been chopped away, which most wanted.
I'll judge this window in August if we use the headroom to bring in some genuine quality then this window would have done its job.
It's great on paper to sign talented young players and give them long contracts, as you should be investing in assets for the team, ones which you can sell on at a profit. Instead all 3 are out of favour and being loaned to smaller clubs. To L2 in the case of DJ.