 | Forum
Reply | Without the outgoing we would be stronger
at 22:21 2 Aug 2025
I’m not so sure on that one. Morsy at his age needed a replacement either way, Hutchinson I feel like they replaced with Philogene in January, that transfer is weird otherwise when you have Clarke and Szmodics. I like Broadhead and feel like he would possibly have played his way in at some point but he’s definitely not first choice and is replaceable for the money. I would be very surprised if we weren’t considering that all of those 3 would be leaving from at least the start of this year. |
| Forum
Reply | Glasto
at 10:21 26 Jun 2025
I don't think the viewing figures would do so well if it was a load of people doing pingers at 2 am followed by deep and meaningful chats tbh.
Give me 90's and 00's guitar bands every day of the week please. |
| Forum
Reply | Omari off?
at 10:26 25 Jun 2025
His release clause being higher is just indicative of a worse agent or less leverage, it's always in a players best interests to get this as low as possible unless they negotiate it away for better wages.
Hutchinson is a strange one for me. Makes a lot of things look easy but I felt in the championship he was better when he wasn't being relied upon to be the main man and the times where he was it hurt his productivity. He's got plenty of time to fix that though and if he does I would imagine England caps are on the horizon.
I wonder if we were aware of this interest from January tbh, it would make a bit more sense of our pursuit of Philogene. |
| Forum
Reply | Hmm, The Athletic framing Omari’s performance
at 15:50 14 Jun 2025
Isn’t profit or loss recognised on disposal vs amortised cost? Hence why a home grown or long term player sale is beneficial for psr.
To whit, anyone sold that isn’t fully amortised will have a cost saving as well as a profit attached so if Hutchinson were to follow delap it’s probably a £9m or so saving to the P&L this year plus whatever the net is after sell one. |
| Forum
Reply | Just been listening to BM Podcast
at 14:08 28 Apr 2025
That £30m is heavily dependent on the price we get for Delap. I don't see us getting more than we paid for everyone else so income if we sold any of last summers incomings would be limited to one years amortisation of last years fee. Add to that a second year of amortisation on anyone that doesn't get sold and a case could be made for not spending massively.
That being said though, I don't think we need to. Barring in CM, the team that went up is either still here or has been improved upon so 10-15m on some midfielders would hopefully do the trick. |
| Forum
Reply | Birmingham are at home tomorrow
at 08:23 15 Feb 2025
At uni in Birmingham I met a villa fan who blamed his banning order on BC fans. It turned out he’d urinated off the top deck of villa park onto some of them.
Throw in West Brom which is only really the other side of Handsworth and two of the three will be at home reasonably regularly. Not the same rivalry but the distance is about the same. |
| Forum
Reply | Sky say five in
at 10:46 3 Jan 2025
We're 18th so it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that anyone outside of Delap have really shown themselves to Premier League quality just yet.
If the opportunity presents itself to improve then we should take it, even if the improvement is in an existing area of strength. The main issue at the minute will be money, you've got to expect that we were pretty much at the limit of what a transfer spend could look like for a club that might get relegated. Unless we're sure of recouping some in the summer (Delap) then any significant outlay will be gambling with the club's future. |
| Forum
Reply | Latte Lath to Leicester
at 10:35 3 Jan 2025
Antonio started 11 of 14 games before his crash so they'll need a replacement. Plus factor in his age and the fact that he nearly died and it's unlikely that he plays again. |
| Forum
Reply | Rashford
at 11:21 18 Dec 2024
I think United fans have been expecting him to put a shift in for the last 5 years too and barring one season it just hasn't happened.
His attitude stinks at the minute, he's going out every weekend, leaking dressing room info to the press and generally being moody. I'm sure he can go somewhere and do well if he gets away from all of that but for us right now it's a no thank you from me. |
| Forum
Reply | Elgin Marbles
at 14:21 3 Dec 2024
I don't have any problem in giving them back. They're culturally significant but the British Museum will have plenty of other items of a similar age/quality/interest level that they can wheel out without causing a diplomatic incident every few years. |
| Forum
Reply | Have you actually seen what Morsy is refusing to support....
at 14:00 3 Dec 2024
That isn't really an equivalency though is it.
As club captain he is part of the rainbow laces campaign and has actively opted out of it rather than passively not spoken about it.
If it isn't something he can support then he isn't club captain material imo. 10% of the population is LGBTQ. In all probability he's signalled to at least one squad member that he thinks less of them |
| Forum
Reply | Sounds as though Sir Keir Starmer
at 11:32 28 Nov 2024
Surely the majority of what remains of the party would want someone who hasn't fallen for all of this Tufton Street culture war business?
Besides Farage already owning it, the GE showed that the UK public weren't as enamoured with it as they are in the US, surely a return to principals (and vague respectability) would be what appeals?
Not sure what it means but I note that both Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) and Matthew Stadlen (Telegraph), who were pretty staunchly Tory right the way up to Sunak, both seem to have pivoted against the more right wing element of the party too. Hopefully that signals a slightly reversion to to mean for the right wing press but could also just be personal preference, will be interesting to see what plays out. |
| Forum
Reply | Business' reaction to NI increase
at 10:54 26 Nov 2024
By their nature as small businesses, most would notice a reduction in a full fte proportionally more than they would a small reduction in profits or their customers will in tiny uplift in price. This is going to the consumer, not the business. |
| Forum
Reply | The trend to excuse Trump voters
at 10:26 14 Nov 2024
It wouldn't surprise me if this has been covered elsewhere in thread but on the evidence of the final page, reading through to check would probably be too tiring.
To be clear about my position I wanted Harris to win, put £100 on that outcome the day before the election and am myself completely quality of the same thinking up to a week ago. The outcome is very much turkeys voting for Christmas but still...
I think the OP makes the same mistake that I, and many woolly liberals/democrats made in the run up to the election and completely overlooks what based on the result, appears to be a very squeezed middle in the US. When food prices are up 35%, rent is up 50% but salaries at the low to middle range haven't really moved, people are going to vote for their own prosperity. When you're struggling to keep a roof over your head despite working 60 hours a week then whether or not the alternative to the status quo is or isn't completely odious doesn't really come into it. I hate to use the term privilege because I think it tends to be offputting but in this case I think it probably has become a luxury to be able to afford to be able to think about the character of who is being voted in.
Anecdotally, trump fervour was substantially down. There were fewer yard signs even in deep red areas and his rallies were much smaller than Harris and had streams of people leaving early.
The same dynamic can be seen here but with parties reversed. Despite the popular press leaning right and stoking culture ways and the ease with which BBC impartiality rules can be exploited by extreme views, the UK voted Labour in by a landslide. There is a very large portion of the population that only really engages with politics every 4 or 5 years and their motivations are based around their own quality of life. |
| Forum
Reply | Yes it is....
at 21:38 11 Nov 2024
Villa did it with Archer in the summer. Something about never registering him so he was able to leave again. |
| Forum
Reply | No Town player in Deeney's team of the week
at 11:47 7 Oct 2024
Slightly odd pick for me. We couldn't handle Antonio or Kudus at all and with some slightly better finishing Kudus could have had 3.
Bowen took his opportunities to contribute but the other two were why we were playing so scared imo. |
| Forum
Reply | Johnson and both CB’s very poor
at 21:57 5 Oct 2024
I’d say he continued pretty poorly too. Was pretty consistently second best to Antonio who just bullied him. He missed a free header at the other end too so all in all a bad day at the office for him.
Johnson came across as playing scared, the mistake for their second clearly got to him and his mentality switched to don’t mess up again rather than play your game and it just didn’t work.
Kudus, Antonio and Wan-Bissaka all showed up for them today, it wasn’t men against boys but it was definitely a lesson in what happens when we make silly mistakes. |
| Forum
Reply | Pound reaches 2 year high vs the Euro, and 2.5 year high vs the USD
at 11:08 3 Oct 2024
This is the type of narrative crafting I expect from twitter bots. I have no idea what your views on brexit are but it definitely comes across like you're attempting to spuriously deflect about it's impact on the current strength of GBP.
Given how easily disprovable both of your statements have been, this is a pretty strange hill to die on. |
| Forum
Reply | Hutchinson
at 14:16 22 Sep 2024
Similarly to Feb/March last year, I think he feels the pressure of being a starter, and tries to do too much. There were a couple of times where he stopped the ball then tried to trick his way into space where he’d maybe do better continuing at pace or laying the ball off but that will come with time.
I think Burns has been a good option so far this season so I’d like to see the Clarke, Szmodics, Burns option given a go with Omari off the bench at 60 at either 10 or wide right. |
| | crouchendyachtclub
|
Site Scores| Forum Votes: | 40 | | Comment Votes: | 0 | | Prediction League: | 0 | | TOTAL: | 40 |
|
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.