CVD usually agree with you and appreciate the optimism after the last 48 hours of collective suicide by the usuals. Just don’t see Allen as strong enough in this league - he was pulled at half time vs. Luton from memory as we were completely over run in midfield at the start of that match.
This is a bit mad. You choose to stay up all night for something no one has said they'll do. You get the hump with the club. Full weirD
Couldn't agree more. We have spent a lot of money for a club still rebuilding. That is finite I'm sure we had hoped for more windfalls to bring in more players but they didn't happen. Put simply we spent what we could afford.
Agree 100% - I’m a little disappointed so let’s hope we don’t fuck our season up with injuries to midfield.
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Apparently so.Although I think we went into deadline day needing 3 and now need 4.
I can't, no. They're targets that will be carried to the next window. One came very close, wage structure proving difficult, I believe it fell through quite late on. I didn't know anything about the RB we had a bid rejected for. Also there was a loanee who picked up an injury and remained with parent club. Seems things just weren't falling into place for us.
Thanks @Jimmy87 but this is not the narrative some on this forum want so put your tin hat on.
Top man, love your little insights
I wish I could say more, but I respect the club want to move quietly. If people knew the type of players we are going for, it would probably change a lot of views on the matter. We're almost 2 years into a 5 year plan (probably a provocative statement today), it's going to take time to get the right players in the right positions. Replacing one by one is tedious, but that's FFP and wage structure for you, I don't want us to return to the days when we were all selling, no reinvesting. It's just perspective. I get the frustration, but I see people on here who are nowhere to be seen when the team are doing well, then whipping up the negativity at the first opportunity. That's not general fan frustration, it's doom mongering. Looking at it, I don't think any of the teams touted for the top, have really had the best starts possible, look at Luton. I still think the Championship is wide open this season. Strange results everywhere in the first few weeks.
Reading that, it is obvious all you want to do is to get off the fence & say Robins out
I could not agree with you more.
Don't get me wrong, I have my opinions (on today especially). I just don't see the point in breeding negativity. There's a lot to be worked on. Let's hope for once, the break favours us.Reading that, it is obvious all you want to do is to get off the fence & say Robins out
Agreed, we don't want players on long contracts who are not necessarily what we were looking for, having to make them fit just because we needed to fill a gap. I did ask the question of whether we may look at any free agents, no definitive answer but not scoffed at. I think it's more a case of players / agents wage demands than us being reluctant to operate slightly outside of it. The fee can be agreed, but the wages are often a stumbling block.
That's MR for you. Do you honestly believe that to be the case? There was a lot going on yesterday.
Well he's unlikely to say I was stumbling from bird to bird, in a drunken mess, on the dance floor minutes before the ugly lights came on.
It was bollox
Yeah, I guess that ties in with what I was told today. Wages seemingly the general problem. Or more so, the agents.
On the contrary, what he’s written, in a much more humble way than a certain other ITK would, is very fair. However the midfield recruitment notwithstanding, these players look lost for long spells during games which is really concerning.
Palmer and his agent clearly have a vastly inflated view of his ability.
There is also a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Case in point passing up Browne in pursuit of Stamenic and getting neither.
