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£100 million worth of investment has a lot to do with it.

 

We were complaining on TCA mate, warning signs were there early on. I still don't know how he managed to acrue as many points as he did, the football was dire for a long time.

 

Bowyers biggest problem was moving away from what had served him well in terms of points early doors. And that was to stay away from anything resembling a 4-4-2 because we didn't have the players to do it. Unfortunately it was as boring as hell to watch, made Parky football look like Klopps. The final nail in the coffin was Doyle coming back, he had no idea how to play him. Those four games in January, we didn't create a single chance for him, you could see the life being sucked from him every game.

 

You do talk daft.

 

Step forward - Steve Claridge

 

Surely with UK contractual law, you would be liable for a current contract until it's natural completion ?
Therefor Vaughan & AOC would just sit tight, if you wanted to pay them off (not sure how you would make them redundant with a bona fid contract) , bet you would still be looking at least 60-70% of it's current value & then they would be probaly be doing us a favour & have a cub to walk into. Which in the current climate aint going to happen.

 

End of June isn’t it

 

Just scrap transfer windows for everyone outside PL. causes panic and bloating of squads

 

Why? There will be plenty of out of work footballers (estimated to be 1000+) available who willing would take short-term contracts

 

Exactly it would pay for itself. Probably would only cost what we are paying Akpan and Riley for example if not less.

 

Problem with the moneyball approach is though that despite all the hoopla, just how many titles -- division, American League, World Series -- did Oakland (who really started it all) win? There's a place for its concepts, but it remains another approach with no guarantees.

RCB

 

I hope stuart can do with him what he did with Marshall and turn his fortunes around.

 

We were boring and dreadful then.

 

I'm not sure dreadful paints the full picture, at the point @Bronco references. That said, it wasn't great either and the cracks in the plot, was their to all see. The style and character of the football was forgiven by many (not all, I acknowledge), as the results were more than satisfactory.

 

But we were there and talking at the time of a play off place minimum.

 

We might be a bunch of feckwits but we know football and must be taken seriously. Just like Edin.

 

It's going to be a long wait @Mike Hunt before the CEO leaves I think, I cant see the owner who knows nothing about the game bringing someone else in.

 

On the other hand Rupp needs someone who can help him get his money back. I worked with a HR consultant who used to say there’s a big difference between 20 years experience and one year’s experience twenty times over.