| Lessons from last year 15:24 - Jul 18 with 2639 views | greyhound |
One of the key messages from last year was our transfer business was to late. With that I almost expected an early deluge of signings and us to know where we would be with a fairly over inflated squad going on the training camp.
There's a lot floating about around our lack of business, joe meanwhile has rightly pointed out we have a squad size of 28 which is problematic from a registration perspective. However of those 28 we have to many goalkeepers, not enough forwards and are imminently going to lose 2 fairly key people from the last 2 campaigns.
Is it going to be another summer which leaves us gelling into October, i don't know, I'm just concerned that the squad won't be settled in a situation where we all have hopes of a return to the prem with better capability.
The business model was always set out to buy players and sell for profit so im not overly concerned about the loss of delap and Hutchinson, I would just like those roles replaced with their new counterparts sooner rather than later.
For instance Al hamadi and hirst is an extremely concerning forward line. Injuries, aside I don't think there's the goals we need between them. |  | | |  |
| Lessons from last year on 10:15 - Jul 19 with 274 views | NthQldITFC |
| Lessons from last year on 09:17 - Jul 19 by billlm |
Your right to be concerned,
I hope we don't go deep into this transfer window chasing unrealistic targets,
That will damage our season,
On the flip side some on here who have been fairly informative over the tears think we're going big and bold they normally are itk,
So my fingers are crossed we have got it right,
Would be a real mess considering we knew we were down kong before the season finished so had extra time to prepare, |
I think the difference is, this season, that we are pretty much top of the pile for choice of club for:
a. up and coming domestic or foreign potential recruits who want to play in the PL, but aren't yet quite good enough to get a contract there.
b. young PL players who are due for a loan season at the best place their parent clubs can find to prepare them for PL next season.
Yes, we'll have some possibly 'unrealistic' targets that we'll be aspiring to as our ideals, and yes we'll miss out on some/all of them, but we'll have a big list of the a's and b's above dangling and waiting for our decision.
I think it's just about timing - ideally sooner rather than later, but we won't be going into September with a weak squad in any respect. |  |
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| Lessons from last year on 10:19 - Jul 19 with 257 views | Axeldalai_lama |
Was it? Really? The KEY message? Not the vast gaps in quality, the fact that 3 going up came straight back down, the many clubs we played with multiple £30 million players on their bench, the impossible to bridge gaps in one or two transfer windows. All would have been fine if we'd have got similar, potentially lesser players in earlier and gelled?
Obviously a little facetious but come on! It's a gamble, a balance and I would definitely say it hasn't always worked, but I think it's almost a necessity to some extent with the current way the transfer market is. Maybe a balance and we potentially get someone in around now who is solid but less inspiring? Would the fans be happier with that, would McKenna ultimately be disappointed, wondering what if, would he have to limit his ways of playing. It's all linked and just demanding all business gets done and dusted early has many drawbacks as well as some positives. [Post edited 19 Jul 10:20]
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| Lessons from last year on 10:20 - Jul 19 with 252 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Lessons from last year on 09:44 - Jul 19 by darkhorse28 |
You’re 100% right about needing time to gel a team dynamic…, but I think you miss the important bit.
A lot of the players we collectively spent over £100 million on, could have an eternity together, and still wouldn’t be good enough. Quality just wasn’t there.
As evidenced by them actually doing far worse the longer they were coached and together.
They never gelled and that’s down to coaching, management, and lack of quality, it certainly wasn’t down to lack of time together. |
That's simply not true. Jack Clarke got better (in a team that got worse).
Ogbene started well and got injured.
Szmodics started well and got injured.
Philogene was never properly fit and then got injured.
Delap was brilliant.
Omari had a decent "young player's first year in the Premier League".
O'Shea had a good season.
Greaves was probably the most "jury is out" of the new signings who played a decent chunk of games. Did he play better than Cam Burgess? Many of us think not.
Muric had brilliant moments, and some of the worst clangers ever witnessed from Town keepers.
Palmer was pretty solid.
Loans:
Cajuste played pretty well.
Phillips failed to live up to his reputation.
Enciso started slowly, but got better.
Most of the money was spent on young players. Some were injured, so the jury is out. The two most expensive have, and will, generate a profit.
It was the loans that failed us, more than the signings. | | | |
| Lessons from last year on 10:25 - Jul 19 with 235 views | Vic |
| Lessons from last year on 09:10 - Jul 19 by PrideOfTheEast |
It’s surprising to me that we’re a couple of weeks away from the start of the season and we have Ali as alternative to Hirst. I don’t understand why we find it so hard to find a striker - we’ve been looking for several windows now. Delap was always going, Hirst is yet to prove he can stay fit for a season and Ali isn’t a suitable alternative.
If Ferguson was on the list that seems incredibly optimistic. |
The (what feels to me to be the) repeated lack of getting a CF in the summer window is my only gripe with our transfer business over the last few years. It feels like we set our sights unrealistically high that by the time they don’t come off we’re too late. Even last summer, despite getting Delap in early were we’re scrabbling around with Broja at the last moment and went into the season with only an injury prone Hirst as backup. It’s a mystery to me. |  |
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| Lessons from last year on 10:31 - Jul 19 with 213 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Lessons from last year on 10:20 - Jul 19 by ArnoldMoorhen |
That's simply not true. Jack Clarke got better (in a team that got worse).
Ogbene started well and got injured.
Szmodics started well and got injured.
Philogene was never properly fit and then got injured.
Delap was brilliant.
Omari had a decent "young player's first year in the Premier League".
O'Shea had a good season.
Greaves was probably the most "jury is out" of the new signings who played a decent chunk of games. Did he play better than Cam Burgess? Many of us think not.
Muric had brilliant moments, and some of the worst clangers ever witnessed from Town keepers.
Palmer was pretty solid.
Loans:
Cajuste played pretty well.
Phillips failed to live up to his reputation.
Enciso started slowly, but got better.
Most of the money was spent on young players. Some were injured, so the jury is out. The two most expensive have, and will, generate a profit.
It was the loans that failed us, more than the signings. |
The dark budgie doesn't work with facts, so you've wasted your time listing all those good, and relevant points. | | | |
| Lessons from last year on 10:43 - Jul 19 with 169 views | pointofblue |
| Lessons from last year on 10:20 - Jul 19 by ArnoldMoorhen |
That's simply not true. Jack Clarke got better (in a team that got worse).
Ogbene started well and got injured.
Szmodics started well and got injured.
Philogene was never properly fit and then got injured.
Delap was brilliant.
Omari had a decent "young player's first year in the Premier League".
O'Shea had a good season.
Greaves was probably the most "jury is out" of the new signings who played a decent chunk of games. Did he play better than Cam Burgess? Many of us think not.
Muric had brilliant moments, and some of the worst clangers ever witnessed from Town keepers.
Palmer was pretty solid.
Loans:
Cajuste played pretty well.
Phillips failed to live up to his reputation.
Enciso started slowly, but got better.
Most of the money was spent on young players. Some were injured, so the jury is out. The two most expensive have, and will, generate a profit.
It was the loans that failed us, more than the signings. |
Greaves started well; his injury really seemed to stall.
I also think he looked far more comfortable playing alongside Woolfenden than O'Shea though that may have just have been timing. Burgess looked to be the better partner for O'Shea. | |
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| Lessons from last year on 10:54 - Jul 19 with 144 views | NthQldITFC |
| Lessons from last year on 10:20 - Jul 19 by ArnoldMoorhen |
That's simply not true. Jack Clarke got better (in a team that got worse).
Ogbene started well and got injured.
Szmodics started well and got injured.
Philogene was never properly fit and then got injured.
Delap was brilliant.
Omari had a decent "young player's first year in the Premier League".
O'Shea had a good season.
Greaves was probably the most "jury is out" of the new signings who played a decent chunk of games. Did he play better than Cam Burgess? Many of us think not.
Muric had brilliant moments, and some of the worst clangers ever witnessed from Town keepers.
Palmer was pretty solid.
Loans:
Cajuste played pretty well.
Phillips failed to live up to his reputation.
Enciso started slowly, but got better.
Most of the money was spent on young players. Some were injured, so the jury is out. The two most expensive have, and will, generate a profit.
It was the loans that failed us, more than the signings. |
I read your concise and accurate reply and can only wonder at what the persistent idiot you're replying to could have said.
Your content, as always, is excellent, but please 
...it only gives them 'oxygen', stick it on ignore and do us all a favour. | |
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