| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season 11:40 - Jul 24 with 3684 views | Bluefish |
With so many obvious gaps before?
At what point is it OK to stop overdoing the CEO praise and be concerned? The longer it goes on the longer the free pass for gelling has to last. We can't have another season of excuses |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 11:44 - Jul 24 with 3070 views | pointofblue |
Last season? In hindsight we had about eleven gaps and that was just the first XI. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 11:56 - Jul 24 with 2988 views | Keno |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 11:44 - Jul 24 by pointofblue |
Last season? In hindsight we had about eleven gaps and that was just the first XI. |
plus the gap in the management, medical staff, training staff and club structure
We did have Doris the tea lady, who lets face could have filled the manager roll better than the manager did [Post edited 24 Jul 2021 12:17]
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 11:59 - Jul 24 with 2960 views | MattinLondon |
I’m going to be concerned when we start losing matches and not one second before. |  | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:01 - Jul 24 with 2946 views | WD19 |
Are you starting to worry that we have not replaced the wingers we let go with comparable quality!? |  | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:14 - Jul 24 with 2866 views | billlm |
I'm actually with you on this one, seems we're struggling a bit to get a few more in, we need them, the banished u23's won't feature again that seems obvious, don't think there included today, and then we're down to inexperience that's not getting us out of league one anytime soon, I'm aware the windows open for a while, loosing early points by not gelling is going to harm our season, |  | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:20 - Jul 24 with 2832 views | WD19 |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:14 - Jul 24 by billlm |
I'm actually with you on this one, seems we're struggling a bit to get a few more in, we need them, the banished u23's won't feature again that seems obvious, don't think there included today, and then we're down to inexperience that's not getting us out of league one anytime soon, I'm aware the windows open for a while, loosing early points by not gelling is going to harm our season, |
Most teams in this division churn the majority of their squad each year.
Which in hindsight goes some way to explaining our fast start over the last two seasons. | | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:21 - Jul 24 with 2826 views | tractordownsouth |
Our squad is still more settled than many of our potential promotion rivals. Sunderland, Oxford and Rotherham all have bigger gaps than we do. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:25 - Jul 24 with 2796 views | Guthrum |
Which gaps?
We can put out a pretty decent First Team and have reasonable cover in most areas of the pitch. A couple more defenders might be good and perhaps another wide-man.
But we're hardly a couple of days from the window closing having just lost our main striker. We also have to bear in mind there's a squad limit of 22 outfield players born after 31st Dec 2020, so not too much room for non-Youth "spares". |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:33 - Jul 24 with 2752 views | jayessess |
Not sure what difference either our concern (or our free pass for that matter) is going to make, to be honest. The rest of the squad building will happen when it happens.
For what it's worth, whilst we've still obviously got plenty to do, I reckon we've probably got enough to cope with the first few weeks of the season now. If we end up having to go to the end of the transfer window on a couple, so be it. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:39 - Jul 24 with 2702 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
I don't feel were behind the curve in terms of where we are against the rest of the division.
Only Wigan have done a lot of busisness. Yes we let a lot of players go but id rather that than be having to wait on a move out to get someone out before we can get someone in.
The busisness we've done so far feels decent and I just feel the addition of a good CB and we're not far away, if we had that I'd be less worried waiting for the domino effect to kick in |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:06 - Jul 24 with 2576 views | Bluefish |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:25 - Jul 24 by Guthrum |
Which gaps?
We can put out a pretty decent First Team and have reasonable cover in most areas of the pitch. A couple more defenders might be good and perhaps another wide-man.
But we're hardly a couple of days from the window closing having just lost our main striker. We also have to bear in mind there's a squad limit of 22 outfield players born after 31st Dec 2020, so not too much room for non-Youth "spares". |
We can barely fill the bench without injuries and we have binned off our youths with any sort of experience. We have big gaps | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:08 - Jul 24 with 2558 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:06 - Jul 24 by Bluefish |
We can barely fill the bench without injuries and we have binned off our youths with any sort of experience. We have big gaps |
I guess we'll find out this afternoon won't we?
Have a day off the trolling ffs. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:08 - Jul 24 with 2556 views | pointofblue |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:06 - Jul 24 by Bluefish |
We can barely fill the bench without injuries and we have binned off our youths with any sort of experience. We have big gaps |
If only Edwards had signed that contract... | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:15 - Jul 24 with 2513 views | ITFCBlues |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 12:25 - Jul 24 by Guthrum |
Which gaps?
We can put out a pretty decent First Team and have reasonable cover in most areas of the pitch. A couple more defenders might be good and perhaps another wide-man.
But we're hardly a couple of days from the window closing having just lost our main striker. We also have to bear in mind there's a squad limit of 22 outfield players born after 31st Dec 2020, so not too much room for non-Youth "spares". |
Reasonable cover, really? No LB cover, woefully short at CB, CM really short as well and wide areas as well are really short.
I still think we're 5 or 6 short. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:30 - Jul 24 with 2419 views | Bluefish |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:08 - Jul 24 by Cheltenham_Blue |
I guess we'll find out this afternoon won't we?
Have a day off the trolling ffs. |
I always wondered what people meant by a snowflake.... | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:32 - Jul 24 with 2410 views | WD19 |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:15 - Jul 24 by ITFCBlues |
Reasonable cover, really? No LB cover, woefully short at CB, CM really short as well and wide areas as well are really short.
I still think we're 5 or 6 short. |
Kenlock, Downes and Jackson are still in the building as ‘cover’ in the event of a total transfer window disaster.
The only place we are really, really short is CB…..and a winger.
It’s natural to be apprehensive….but we are not at the bed wetting stage yet. | | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:39 - Jul 24 with 2371 views | Guthrum |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:32 - Jul 24 by WD19 |
Kenlock, Downes and Jackson are still in the building as ‘cover’ in the event of a total transfer window disaster.
The only place we are really, really short is CB…..and a winger.
It’s natural to be apprehensive….but we are not at the bed wetting stage yet. |
We also have the busiest five weeks of the transfer window still to come. | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 14:14 - Jul 24 with 2244 views | Trequartista |
Didn’t we go about 5 years without any attacking midfielders under Mick?  |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 14:33 - Jul 24 with 2179 views | ITFCBlues |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:39 - Jul 24 by Guthrum |
We also have the busiest five weeks of the transfer window still to come. |
Of course. It's not bed wetting. It's being 2 weeks from the start of the season. You can afford a slow start and to be playing catchup with a completely newly assembled squad that will need time to settle.
Today's bench shows you just how short we are. | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 14:36 - Jul 24 with 2162 views | billlm |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:08 - Jul 24 by pointofblue |
If only Edwards had signed that contract... |
I agree we need him | | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 15:28 - Jul 24 with 2084 views | Guthrum |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 14:33 - Jul 24 by ITFCBlues |
Of course. It's not bed wetting. It's being 2 weeks from the start of the season. You can afford a slow start and to be playing catchup with a completely newly assembled squad that will need time to settle.
Today's bench shows you just how short we are. |
What's wrong with our bench? Are those not some of our better young prospects who the Manager might be wanting to test out?
People cry out for Youth, then when they're given a chance in preseason ... | |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 18:09 - Jul 24 with 1887 views | Churchman |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 13:15 - Jul 24 by ITFCBlues |
Reasonable cover, really? No LB cover, woefully short at CB, CM really short as well and wide areas as well are really short.
I still think we're 5 or 6 short. |
We are about five short, but I hope the management are patient with recruitment. The last thing we need is the panic driven low quality, throw outs from other clubs we’ve got so used to over the years. |  | | |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 18:19 - Jul 24 with 1806 views | Bobbychase |
Not fecking yet.
There's still a fortnight until the season starts, and the window remains open beyond that. As far as I can tell, Wigan aside, we have done far more business than anyone else.
And it's far more important to get quality players for this level than just get some bodies in the door for the sake of it. Like Hawkins last season. |  |
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| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 20:04 - Jul 24 with 1613 views | bluejacko |
| Have we ever been at this stage of a pre season on 18:19 - Jul 24 by Bobbychase |
Not fecking yet.
There's still a fortnight until the season starts, and the window remains open beyond that. As far as I can tell, Wigan aside, we have done far more business than anyone else.
And it's far more important to get quality players for this level than just get some bodies in the door for the sake of it. Like Hawkins last season. |
Yes but some on here have got to moan | | | |
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