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We’ve got a football identity, just like Barca, Madrid, Liverpool or Man City. Our identity though is just that we’re shit and cheap.

 

I posted similar but my opinion is although we are super defensive, we get the ball into midfield a lot. It's not like we are playing complete hoof ball but when it gets to midfield it's either sideways or backwards, their is no intent to carry the ball forward or pick a forward pass. Devitt is a different type of midfielder to Reeves/Palmer and I think he can offer something we haven't really seen this season.

 

He's not dynamic though or a ball carrier. Nice touch and vision from what I remember but he's not going to carry us up the pitch with the ball at his feet. Still think we would need Connolly on the opposite wing if we are to accommodate Devitt into the team. We've somehow ended up with no pace like last year. Literally only got two ball carriers in the side. Connolly with no end product and Ismail has the quality we need but is never fit.

 

First Reeves, then Donaldson now Devitt- embarrassment of excuses.

Reeves comes back and is utter useless.
Doyle comes back we still don't score, so people think Donaldson won't.

Now, attention turns to Devitt who has played about 2 games for us. It's was embarrassing enough to think Reeves who hadn't played for 2 years would be the answer.

I like Devitt but he's been on the bench last two match and we needed goals etc and Bowyer didn't us him.

Bowyer is far too negative for players like Devitt, Vaughan, and Doyle but unless our manager changes his mindset to the game nothing will change.

 

Yes mismanaged from down and out to the brink of automatic promotion. Can we have some more mismanagement please.

 

I always seem to remember him carrying the ball when he was with us but I'm sure he played as a winger in his time here? I agree with the rest of what you are saying.

 

They put them back to save the club.

 

The Rhodes did put the money back to the club though to save us from total collapse.

 

They were great days under Geoffrey, no doubt about it and we were heading for financial ruin under the Dave Simpson board whom Geoffrey took over from. You just have to weigh up wether the price we paid for 4 years of hope,ambition and glory were worth the aftermath which has crippled the club over the years with no owned ground and trapped in the lower divisions indefinitely. On balance I'm glad we had the Geoffrey years as we would have bumped along in the lower two divisions throughout the 90s. Just wish he hadn't been greedy and not took rediculous share dividends, didn't lumber us with the upper tier of main stand and north west corner which crippled us and let Paul Jewell sign the players and not himself. We could have stayed an average 2nd tier side similar to Bristol City, Norwich, Brentford. It galls me to see the likes of Brighton and Bournemouth plodding along in the top flight. Teams we used to beat easily in the 80,s and 90,s.

 

Fully agree I have followed the club for more than half its existence and most of the time it has been frankly very poor stuff. So to see going toe to toe with the best for two years was something I never thought I would see. And the games leading up to getting there are a special memory. We did pay a big price for it and it’s a bitter regret how we went about our second season but I can say we played in the premier league.

 

Brighton and Bournemouth are plodding along in the top flight due to £100's of millions of investment. Just like we did to a lesser extent under BFG. Its hard to say for definite but i wager that had Richmond not come along this club would just bumbled along aimlessly like it has done for most of its history. Chances are we would have been in league 2 just like we are now just minus the 25,000 seater stadium. Wether we would have still owned the stadium is open to question.

 

There was a strong rumour a while ago that person(s) were interested in buying the club but Rupp was asking for the amount he had put in to purchase the club plus some extra. They were not prepared to pay that amount for a club that had just been relegated and appeared to be in disarray. Whether they might still be interested now the club appears to have been stabilised is a very good question. I wonder if anyone has asked them?

 

Maybe because he's not 100% match fit, now there's a clue ?.
Both Devitt & Donaldson were involved in the full training session today.

 

Fit enough for the bench, fit enough to play!!

Why would you put a player on the bench you can't call upon.

Please the pair of them we're in full training.

 

Rumour has it Rupp wanted £10m. You buy City what are you buying? Football League golden share, the IP associated with the name and badge and a dozen mainly hopeless players in contract at the season end. I’m not even sure it’s a stable club, it needs shit loads spending on it.

 

I think your right @Rogered Tart ,the late 90s would almost certainly have been further struggle without Richmond intervention. We were heading for the rocks under the Simpson board, he was a nice bloke but him and his board were out of their depth. Just wonder why we couldn't have attracted the investment that Bournemouth and Brighton managed to attract. We have potential, a good support base, certainly Bournemouth don't have that ,yet we just get local interest that will never get us to take off or unfortunately an eccentric German who became a very disruptive influence who has fortunately gone. Just have to hope that Rupp who is loaded can see some potential in us and invest similar to Richmond in the 90s.

 

Broncs, he's never going to get anywhere near match fit sat on his arse.
Last 2 games on the bench, not 1 minute on the pitch.
If hes fit enough to be on the bench, surely 20 mins in either or both games should have been the minimum

 

Because that's how football works, if you have a player returning from injury on the bench there maybe a situation in the game were you don't want to go like for like so you maybe put a defensive midfield player on it happens..

 

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