better days
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It's easy to underestimate the effect of how a manager sells a club to a player
Robins is pretty good and has a decent reputation but of all young British managers Danny Cowley is seen as the rising star
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Robins is pretty good and has a decent reputation but of all young British managers Danny Cowley is seen as the rising star
Wyken Sky Blue
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Grendel
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It’s called covering all bases
Manchester_sky_blue
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It is what it is. All of our players are for sale at any time, if someone came in and offered proper money for our entire first team squad today they'd all be gone by tomorrow. It's not great but that is the reality and we just have to deal with it as best we can.
Mcbean
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Onwards - close thread and start another - got to keep the pressure on - this ones dead and had much hot air - as I understand the free transfer boys all get snapped up
Late so possibly someone ex Championship will come our way after all we are Coventry City and none of you remoaners should forget it !
Late so possibly someone ex Championship will come our way after all we are Coventry City and none of you remoaners should forget it !
Sky Blue Pete
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He must have plans
skybluegod
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What? How are we going into this season weaker than when we went into last season?
Last season the attackers on the first day were:
- Biamou- Still here
- Andreu- Think we all agree was pretty crap
- Hiwula- Who is a much better player than when he first came?
- Clarke-Harris- who had 1 good game in 5 for us?
-Ponti- Who then spent the rest of the season injured or in the u23's
This season
Biamou
Jobello- Has to be an improvement on Bayliss at RM?
Krastaneer (probably got that wrong)- A possible improvement? We don't know
Hiwula- As i said a much better player than when he first came.
Baka- better than ponticelli, probably not an improvement on Clarke-harris though?
Wouldn't say we are weaker than last season? Just wouldn't say we are better. Probably about the same as it stands.
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee
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You are either about 13 or have some kind of mania issue
ajsccfc
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Fuck's sake, give it a rest will you. We were just in the fourth division and are playing in someone else's ground, we're not some kind of giant.
torchomatic
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Certainly don't think we are weaker, but we definitely could be a lot stronger.
Liquid Gold
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Fair enough probably not in an attacking sense as a whole but at centre forward we've gone from
Baka
Biamou
Chaplin
JCH
To
Baka
Biamou
Add that Biamou is coming back from an ACL and it's negligent to be this close to the season with no other options.
fernandopartridge
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I'm not sure why you've lumped wingers in?
OK - we're struggling to break down Southend on Saturday, let's have a look to our options on the bench......
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I don’t think fairness comes into it. Once you put our future in the hands of third parties all bets are off.
Yeah... would have been more helpful if the council didn’t sell a city asset to a third party from London.
I mean ACL was doing just fine without Coventry City.
the rumpo kid
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Have I missed something? Because I can't find any confirmation that this lad has signed for anyone !
Well we had a striker, Chaplin, who didn’t score and a forward, Thomas who couldn’t score. we’re no different really. If this Walker has gone elsewhere so be it, there’s plenty of fish in the sea and there’s still time to get one in on a permanent deal and there’s the loan market yet and I also think Hiwula could do an effective job down the middle but I would like another striker in.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Who’s to say we haven’t switched back to Bright considering wolves have just splashed out 23 million on an attacking player
skybluegod
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You said attackers? In what world are attackers not wingers?
So we have two changes from last season? JCH swapped for Baka? And ponticelli.
Kastaneer can play as a Striker.
It wwas the same as last season, look at our Bench, hell look at our starting line up. I didn't say we were stronger. I just said we aren't any worse off than last season. If we still have the same attackers at the end of August then panic.
skybluegod
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To be fair I only had JCH and Biamou at the start of last season. Baka didn't sign until after the Scunthorpe game from memory?
If we still only have the current options come end of August then i will worry.
Liquid Gold
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Yeah that's fair, Chaplin didn't come until the end of august either. Sort of makes my point though that successive seasons we've started without enough options up front. This is an area we struggled in last year too.
We've got 6 games before the end of the month, 18 points available, we could be kicking ourselves if we have a slow start because we can't put the ball in the net. Again!
larry_david
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Trust in baka. Trust in hiwula. Trust in max.
skybluegod
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I agree, it is a shame but to be honest it will always be the way. As everything seems to happen last minute for strikers as a chain needs to be set off! I fully expect one to sign within the next 2 weeks to be honest. I like you will be very disappointed if we wait until the last second again!
Liquid Gold
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It's just a shame, we put so much good work into recruitment and getting players over the line early then we don't sort a striker until the last minute and it has the potential to undo all the hard work.
I'm not sure about this 'striker move later' concept either, is there anything to back that up or is it just the way we appear to work?
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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I did think of him after posting - Bristol definitely got a lot more out of him than we did (although he has blown pretty hot and cold throughout his career)
shmmeee
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At this point last year we had no Chaplin, Baka, Hiwula or Thomas.
skybluegod
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I agree, but i guess the problem is not many good strikers end up being released.
It just appears to me how it works to me. I could probably go back and find evidence, but in general people seem to hold onto their best strikers until they have a replacement lined up. And so they often drag out all summer, when buying players. Also for loan strikers from the Prem- it normally isn't until the end of pre-season that they are allowed out on loan.
So to answer your question it is just how it appears to me, obviously not all striker moves are like that, just seems to be the case for a lot of transfers.
skyblueeyesrevisited
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Close the thread and move on.
SkyBlueDom26
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Great_Expectations
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If on August 31st we haven’t signed another striker, then the meltdown is more understandable.
At this point, with a month left and Hiwula, a striker who we all agree is talented, fit and ready to start the season, plus two attack minded and, on paper, improved wingers outside of him, we don’t need to panic.
The Walker deal is frustrating, but it happens. Who’s to say he’ll work at this level anyway? Or he would fit into our system?
As I’ve said before; our scouting system appears to be much improved and Badlan appears to know what he’s doing. Coupled with the fact MR has been backed and evidently has money still to spend, let’s chill and have a bit of faith.
At this point, with a month left and Hiwula, a striker who we all agree is talented, fit and ready to start the season, plus two attack minded and, on paper, improved wingers outside of him, we don’t need to panic.
The Walker deal is frustrating, but it happens. Who’s to say he’ll work at this level anyway? Or he would fit into our system?
As I’ve said before; our scouting system appears to be much improved and Badlan appears to know what he’s doing. Coupled with the fact MR has been backed and evidently has money still to spend, let’s chill and have a bit of faith.
Skyblue_CP
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Not going to lie, i wouldn't want to come here... go to a club that has terrible PR and is in the news for all the wrong reason. Playing at a stadium outside the city that will have no more than 3-4k echoing inside. Or a nice little 10k stadium filled to the rafters with a good atmosphere and on the up... its a no brainer.
fernandopartridge
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I just don't buy this "We've got until 31st August" stuff - we should be going into the season fully ready. Not scrambling around for a striker again.
We started poorly last season, 1 win in the first 6 games and 1 goal from open play, we can't afford to do that.
We started poorly last season, 1 win in the first 6 games and 1 goal from open play, we can't afford to do that.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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It's a shame because most of our team looks really good. Striking wise we are looking very absent and it'll be really frustrating if it is our downfall again.
Anyone that thinks we are better up front than last season at present needs to put the wacky gas down.
Anyone that thinks we are better up front than last season at present needs to put the wacky gas down.
Evo1883
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I don't understand what I've just read, we havent struggled to score in pre season have we.
Sunderland have... They've scored 2 goals and look at the striker options there.
Absolute nonsense
fatso
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Trust you!