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Do you think there isn't already a similar list?

 

The last 3 or 4 windows show there quite clearly isn’t. Prove to me otherwise?

 

Read my last post.

 

Vaughan gone allegedly your honour

 

i have read it now. Had replied preciously before reading.

I agree it’s looked promising in patches with Watt as an example. But we still have glaring holes in the squad that by the sounds of it we are no clearing to filling. Yes we have a window and a long one but would be nice to know we have got our bodies in and any loans we make are for cover for a change?
What happens if we don’t get these loans at right back? How far down the list are we? Our core squad should be our players for 2 seasons so we can get some consistency and a togetherness. Instead it chops and changes every summer. That’s my main issue.

 

I personally don’t think we will get any more strikers in and that’s worrying. I think mccall said in the zoom we have 4 who are all the same. So that leaves 3 for one position with Clarke playing off of them. If we want to go to a 2 we play Donaldson and Novak for example.

that’s fine but goals will be a problem and other areas of the squad have to be strengthened where we have holes

 

Either you are overpaid at your current job, unlikely given salary levels in the UK, or you are completely crazy. You would take a significant reduction in your salary to analyse a different set of statistics simply because those statistics have something to do with football.

I simply don't believe it. An accountant is an accountant whether it is at Morrisons or Bradford City.

Would I give up thousands of pounds to work for a football club because it is a .... football club....not on your bloody nelly.

 

I like that idea...consistency... but we know it isn't going to work as each and every manager, including our current one is going to scream, when it starts going wrong, "But they aren't my players", "I need a couple of windows" et al. Even the fans on here trot these out in defence of manager a/b/c each and every time. So neither side is going to align with a philosophy that states that the manager needs to work with what he has.

 

Like i've stated before , dont know why we dont get George Williams , welsh lad recently released by Forest Green. Had bad luck with injuries last season , but is young enough , and i reckon hungry enough to do a job here .

 

Let’s see what crops up...

 

I dont mind Vaughan going if we get a decent replacement or maybe 2 players. If it was me I would either go for cal Roberts at notts county he was notts county best player by a mile in play offs or resign dylan Connolly and probably a striker on loan from a higher division with out and out pace maybe Callum Morton who was on loan at Northampton from west Brom 8 goals in 12 appearances from january onwards

 

Just wondering if were not gonna play with a front 2 next season, that could be another reason why we let Vaughan go without a fight. 3 4 3 3 centre backs then 2 centre mid with wood on left wing back and we need a new right side wing back with 1 central number 9 either novak Donaldson or Guthrie then 1 either side ( that's where Clarke played for grimsby) I think the incoming signings will tell us this in the weeks to come

 

Not only do I see a problem with the artillary there I also see a problem with the supply line !, Motley-Crewe ? Ishmail ? Pritchard ? All three next to useless. Not sure what it adds up to but it aint goals thats for certain. This looks a worse group than last time if that were even possible ?

 

Pritchard isn't useless, he's a steady player for any top half team - but I agree, DMH and Ismail don't exactly whet the appetite.

Currently, I can't see past a midfield three of Pritchard-Cooke-Watt, and I'm having to assume we're playing a diamond as it stands, with Clarke behind Donaldson and Novak.

Other than switching to a lopsided 4-3-3 with one of the front three being a winger, I'm not sure what else we're looking at.

 

I wasn’t questioning the value or use of ‘Analysts’. Having worked extensively in the investment banking industry I am acutely aware of the value of research.

Your insistence that you would do this, to a degree, from some sort of altruistic stance has me wondering.

You are in one if two brackets. But which one?

1. Late in your career where the money you have made and invested is now sufficient so that ‘Money’ is no longer the goal of working or the need to work is no longer there.

or

2. Still young and early in your career where the thought of ensuring your investments (pension, etc etc) isn’t really on your radar yet (but hey it comes up pretty quickly!) so you are relaxed about what you earn.

I used to be no 2, never took a job just for the money (though the City paid plenty in the 80’s and 90’s) but when I hit 30 and kids came along that changed pretty sharpishly.

So which is it?

 

Yep. Clarke said so himself when he signed. Stuart wants him to play behind the front two so any time he starts it's diamond time.

 

Is that true about the test?? Did the club actually say that? If so then that is absolutey disgraceful.

 

In reality the club are talking about peanuts. Imagine losing out on a player because of £100... That would be a new low even for us.

 

Parker just put out an article saying we are in talks with two strikers.

McCall: “I’ve already spoken to a couple of players over the past week. Convincing them to drop to League Two is probably the problem. But we’ll keep banging on the door.”

 

As said in our chat yesterday Petrov, this could again be a McCall football 'generalism' which doesnt always come across the right way