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Reply | Umm
at 12:45 30 Jul 2021
That last transfer window, when we loaned in Harrop, Mathieson, Parrott and that guy from Barnsley, while loaning out Ndaba, Donacien, El Mizouni and McGavin was extraordinarily wasteful, even by Lambert / Evans standards. Possibly even more daft than the Quaner / Dawkins window. |
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Reply | Umm
at 12:01 30 Jul 2021
I think that's the point though, that none of those players in that list took responsibility for being the driving force behind the club, for being the player that everyone looks to when you go a goal down, the player that never gives up and makes everyone else play 5% better.
Aside from Chambers and Skuse (maybe 1 or 2 others I've forgotten) over the last few years, the rest of that lot all played with the mentality of 18 year old kids, with really fragile confidence & poor communication on the pitch etc.
For someone like McGavin (as an example) he came in to the team to play alongside Huws in a few games when Huws was playing like he'd won a competition, couldn't make 5-yard passes, looked completely mentally shot - so for McGavin, in his handful of appearances, rather than have someone helping him out, talking him through the game, boosting his confidence, McGavin is (probably) in at the deep end with very little support, because Huws has to concentrate on find a way to not be completely useless himself. Think that sort of thing played out loads of times at ITFC since 2018. |
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Reply | Umm
at 11:52 30 Jul 2021
You do wonder though whether with proper coaching, a team with identity and strategy, a positive environment, a good fitness team beefing him up a bit, Lee Evans alongside him on the pitch, and four really sharp forward players, he couldn't have done a decent job.
But then, I think they had to move away (including Bishop as well), if only to start afresh where they're not really carrying too much baggage or too many hopes and dreams, they're both just relatively low risk signings who will be viewed solely for their performances on the pitch, instead of permanently being measured up against the player that people hoped they could've been. |
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Reply | Umm
at 11:43 30 Jul 2021
Yup, we had Nolan, Donacien, Spence, Harrison, Roberts, Adeyemi, Jackson, Edwards, Huws and Nsiala at the club in the 2018/19 season on permanent contracts in that mid-age bracket, and they were pretty much all either injured or woeful. |
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Reply | Aden Flint (n/t)
at 08:27 30 Jul 2021
Makes you wonder why no-one on here had the foresight to torpedo the Finidi and Sereni deals. |
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Reply | Cook on training
at 07:27 30 Jul 2021
Isn't this an indictment of the way the medical & fitness aspects of the club had been run? I don't really understand how/why so many fans seem to want to blame the playing squad for the way Evans ran ITFC. |
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Reply | Aden Flint (n/t)
at 16:37 29 Jul 2021
To be fair she must have pretty strong ankle ligaments. No way Teddy Bishop could do that. |
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Reply | Attn: cyclists
at 14:09 29 Jul 2021
A pedestrian is about 60 times more likely (in the UK, 2019 figures) to be killed by a car than a bicycle. [Post edited 29 Jul 14:09]
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Thread | Disappointed with new signing
at 20:45 28 Jul 2021
Chaplin in that hooded sweatshirt with the big pocket at the front, shirt underneath not tucked in. Disappointing way to dress for his first day at a new job. Did he refuse to pull on some ITFC clobber? Did we not have anything that fit?
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Reply | Is there an official cut off point when we are allowed
at 20:42 28 Jul 2021
To be fair, the club must be significantly increasing it's overheads with all these new off-field signings, not to mention the wages committed to players across these 3 or 4 year contracts. Obviously it's very exciting, but we've got to be looking at (based on the Evans era) a loss of > £5m, which will increase a lot in the championship if we got promoted and have a proper go at getting into the top-half etc, so you do have to wonder a bit about how long the Arizona Fire Service pension fund will be willing to sink money into the basically bottomless pit of trying to get into the premiership.
Other than that, the signings and the off-field restructuring look very good. |
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