I know this isn't related but why do your posts have narrower margins than the rest of us?I’ve been quietly confident all summer that this team is capable of doing very well this season, I realise we
are only 2 games in but I’ve not seen anything yet to change my mind, still big players to return from injury
and strength in depth throughout the squad.
We seem comfortable and settled in the formation we play, if we go behind we always seem able to pick
ourselves up not panic ‘step up a gear forcing ourselves back into the game, we have the look of a team
that will keep working and improving as the season goes on.
There’s always a lot of talk on here about budgets and the size of ours apparently acting as some sort of
barrier that will ultimately prevent us from achieving anything more than just avoiding relegation ‘in fact
many stating that to do so would be a huge achievement....I disagree.
I’m not denyIng that a teams budget would usually offer a good indication as to where a team will finish
up at the end of the season ‘but not always.
So we are signing players for probably at the most 1million and many for far less than that, where as a lot
of our rivals are signing or have signed players for 5million 7 million and up to 10million and beyond, but
how many players do we have now that would comma that type of fee ?
O’Hare, Dabo, Hamer, Marosi, Rose, Hyam, Ostigard, Godden etc, then there’s Gilles and McCallum I know
they’re on loan but they are still in our team this season, so we may not have signed millions of pounds
worth of players but we do seem to have millions of pounds worth of players.
I could of course be miles off ‘but I for one am feeling increasingly confident of a very good season
Narrow minded limitations.I know this isn't related but why do your posts have narrower margins than the rest of us?
Let’s not kid ourselves .... there is a direct correlation between playing budget and league position across all 4 divisions. Occasionally through good management and shrewd transfers a team outperforms the correlation. Sheff Utd last year is an example of this.I genuinely dont think budget makes a great deal of difference currently. Having no fans levels the playing field so to speak. Sounds like twisted logic but need to make the most of having no fans, points wise at least.
we didnt have the top budget in league 1 last year by a long way (ok was probably around 8th - 10th)Let’s not kid ourselves .... there is a direct correlation between playing budget and league position across all 4 divisions. Occasionally through good management and shrewd transfers a team outperforms the correlation. Sheff Utd last year is an example of this.
I do believe the lack of fans makes the difference between home and away games more marginal then before, but playing budgets will still be the biggest factor.
we didnt have the top budget in league 1 last year by a long way (ok was probably around 8th - 10th)
There are outliers every year but the best way to work out league position is wage budget. Apparently transfer fees have very little impact strangely but you can generally plot 97% of the entire football league based on wage budget. We're luckily to have been in the 3%.we didnt have the top budget in league 1 last year by a long way (ok was probably around 8th - 10th)
I agree, but I really think we could be an anomaly, as I say we have several players in our squadLet’s not kid ourselves .... there is a direct correlation between playing budget and league position across all 4 divisions. Occasionally through good management and shrewd transfers a team outperforms the correlation. Sheff Utd last year is an example of this.
I do believe the lack of fans makes the difference between home and away games more marginal then before, but playing budgets will still be the biggest factor.
after 50 years of being in the 97% - and at the bottom of the 97% , its about bloody time!There are outliers every year but the best way to work out league position is wage budget. Apparently transfer fees have very little impact strangely but you can generally plot 97% of the entire football league based on wage budget. We're luckily to have been in the 3%.
Actually I think lucky is doing us a slight disservice. Long term planning, style of play and all pulling in the same direction all give us that little edge. Clubs with more money can just be profligate with no homework, look how Sunderland have done in L1.There are outliers every year but the best way to work out league position is wage budget. Apparently transfer fees have very little impact strangely but you can generally plot 97% of the entire football league based on wage budget. We're luckily to have been in the 3%.
Let’s not kid ourselves .... there is a direct correlation between playing budget and league position across all 4 divisions. Occasionally through good management and shrewd transfers a team outperforms the correlation. Sheff Utd last year is an example of this.
I do believe the lack of fans makes the difference between home and away games more marginal then before, but playing budgets will still be the biggest factor.
Leicester didn't have the largest playing budget (far from it) when they won the EPL...
Think I read somewhere 4th biggest. May have made that up ... but give those knicker stitching crisp eating King stealing feckers nothing.Leicester didn't have the largest playing budget (far from it) when they won the EPL...
What I’m trying to say ‘though probably not very well‘ is despite not having the budget
which many agree you need to do well in this league, we find ourselves (in my opinion)
with 5 or 6 possibly more players in our squad that I wouldn’t want to swap with anyone
at any other Championship club.
So looking at squads by current value we are probably up there despite not spending
the money.
ie: if say ‘and this is sketchy, Brentford have spent 20million on players and the team
have a current market value of 35million.
And we have spent say 3.5million on players and the team has a current market value
of 23million we aren’t that far away.
So Forget the budget, on the pitch atm we are comparable to most In quality and value.
Perhaps he's on a tighter budget?I know this isn't related but why do your posts have narrower margins than the rest of us?
I’m not trying to compare us to Brentford or anyone else, I’m simply saying that currently we can competeIt is impossible to value our squad really and compare them to Brentford, we’ve played 2 Championship games
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