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I agree we shouldn’t be paying extortionate sums for players who aren’t worth it. My issue is in allowing him to leave relatively late, we increased the chances of not covering his absence.
I agree we shouldn’t be paying extortionate sums for players who aren’t worth it. My issue is in allowing him to leave relatively late, we increased the chances of not covering his absence.But by all accounts people weren’t even in the ballpark before Sheff Utd came in. Transfers are tricky. With Vik we knew he was going, sporting were in the right ballpark at start of window but it was all about squeezing as much as we could while lining deals/replacements up. With Gus, Sheff Utd suddenly slap suitable offer in out the blue. players we could've gone for might’ve already moved, clubs and agents start asking silly money or other/better clubs come in for same player.
By all accounts we’ve put in a big offer for Kitching and it was rejected. Might’ve happened with others. Should we just keep increasing until they accept ?! Be silly to. Best laid plans and all that.
There needs to be a complete shift in mentality in a lot of fans.
Nobody is writing off any hope of a play off push but there is a clear expectation by many that we are aiming for promotion this season.
We need to enjoy the season. We've got a good team but this is the most challenging Championship in history.
One of the things that has helped us in recent years is how fans have had low expectations and got behind the team regardless.
King has made a rod for his own back, you can't hike up the prices massively across the board and expect the fans to start lowering expectationsThere needs to be a complete shift in mentality in a lot of fans.
Nobody is writing off any hope of a play off push but there is a clear expectation by many that we are aiming for promotion this season.
We need to enjoy the season. We've got a good team but this is the most challenging Championship in history.
One of the things that has helped us in recent years is how fans have had low expectations and got behind the team regardless.
I agree we shouldn’t be paying extortionate sums for players who aren’t worth it. My issue is in allowing him to leave relatively late, we increased the chances of not covering his absence.
It’s a bit naive to think we’ve sold a record number of season tickets without an expectation of a play off push. That won’t be repeated unless we are seen to be pushing as hard as we can for promotion
The championship won’t get any easier
Could be the case that Doug was boxing clever. I wouldn't be surprised if there are still a number of targets. Maybe one is close to getting over the line .
King has made a rod for his one back, you can't hike up the prices massively across the board and expect the fans to start lowering expectations
Actually selling Dom Hyam was a master stroke, we got to the play offs due to the tightest defence in the clubs history. Hyam missed out!Maybe if he took us off to Northampton next week or sold Dom Hyam tonight you'd be happier?
Why didn’t we sign a player before Gus left?
pretty basic stuff
There needs to be a complete shift in mentality in a lot of fans.
Nobody is writing off any hope of a play off push but there is a clear expectation by many that we are aiming for promotion this season.
We need to enjoy the season. We've got a good team but this is the most challenging Championship in history.
One of the things that has helped us in recent years is how fans have had low expectations and got behind the team regardless.
Depends what those offers were, but I doubt there would have been a problem with us asking for a week or two to replace the player, assuming targets had already been identified. That way we'd be negotiating without public knowledge that there's over £10 million in our transfer kitty.Agreed but I’m guessing Sheff Utd offer was too good to turn down and hamer was refusing to sign a new contract. Maybe we should’ve sold him at for a lowball offer (and bought in a cheaper replacement) earlier in the summer, I wouldn’t have though
I think most except this is a mid table team.We'll probably be in and around it but if we are 14th in November, people will be losing their heads.
If people are only buying season tickets because they think we are making the play offs this season, that's worrying. We need to be developing a fan base for rainy days and not just the highs of last season.
There should be an expectation of aiming for promotion, we narrowly missed out last year. The league isn’t as strong as people are making out. Every team we have played we should have beat. Play offs should be attainable for this squad, anything less is a failure.There needs to be a complete shift in mentality in a lot of fans.
Nobody is writing off any hope of a play off push but there is a clear expectation by many that we are aiming for promotion this season.
We need to enjoy the season. We've got a good team but this is the most challenging Championship in history.
One of the things that has helped us in recent years is how fans have had low expectations and got behind the team regardless.
I’m sorry this squad isn’t good enough currently to get top 6There should be an expectation of aiming for promotion, we narrowly missed out last year. The league isn’t as strong as people are making out. Every team we have played we should have beat. Play offs should be attainable for this squad, anything less is a failure.
Not true. Loads of posts slagging him off for making out to fans he wanted to stay.The only person who seems to escapes any criticism for the way the Hamer move come about, is Gustavo Hamer strangely enough
Can accept why he wanted to move to Sheff Utd but people peddling the myth that he’s Cov through and through and is desperate to sign a new contract was nonsense and didn’t really help the situationNot true. Loads of posts slagging him off for making out to fans he wanted to stay.
Why didn’t we sign a player before Gus left?
pretty basic stuff
I’m sorry this squad isn’t good enough currently to get top 6
mid table finish which I’d take going into next year
this season is probably going to be a write off in terms of a promotion push
Can accept why he wanted to move to Sheff Utd but people peddling the myth that he’s Cov through and through and is desperate to sign a new contract was nonsense and didn’t really help the situation
There should be an expectation of aiming for promotion, we narrowly missed out last year. The league isn’t as strong as people are making out. Every team we have played we should have beat. Play offs should be attainable for this squad, anything less is a failure.
Absolutely no way you can say its not good enough for top 6 with any certainty at all.
This time last year we were struggling and people were saying we would be relegated and we ended 1 kick away from the EPL.
Let's see what happens when things have settled down and new players have bedded in.
Why didn’t we sign a player before Gus left?
pretty basic stuff
We did with Vik which is rare for Cov. We obviously had plans for if Hamer went but just because it's written on a bit of paper doesn't mean it's definitely going to come off.Why didn’t we sign a player before Gus left?
pretty basic stuff
We did with Vik which is rare for Cov. We obviously had plans for if Hamer went but just because it's written on a bit of paper doesn't mean it's definitely going to come off.
We don't know for sure that's the case. What I'm saying is before we sold a striker we poneyed up and brought a striker at decent expense for us and the majority of us viewed Simms as the Vik replacement until Wright rocked up.We didn’t. We signed Wright after Vik had left. Simms was the second striker we were after with Walker leaving. The poacher to replace Godden eventually.
I mean as things stand Doug has over £10m net in his pocket 're the transfer in and outs this season. So far.Don’t know if this point has been raised elsewhere, imagine it has
But if we have had £4m knocked back by Barnsley for Kitching it does put to bed the Doug has pocketed all the Hamer money shouts
Considering the only team that’s still in the league that finished above us last season is in worse shape - which last season. championship sides are better than us?Absolutely no way you can say its not good enough for top 6 with any certainty at all.
This time last year we were struggling and people were saying we would be relegated and we ended 1 kick away from the EPL.
Let's see what happens when things have settled down and new players have bedded in.
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