Jackson doesn’t have a clue tbf. I’ve read the story and it says ‘2 including an attacking midfielder’ which in itself is ambiguous. Does he mean an AMC or RW etc etc?

It was 3 or 4 the other day RW, AM, CM and CB. Got a link to the story?

What I read was that stress fractures take about 6 weeks to heal, no idea if true….but as he played yesterday it seems he’s fit. So I don’t get it either. Pay as play on the transfer fee makes little sense from the selling clubs perspective. Pay as you play on the wages makes little sense for the player. Unless it’s a heavily incentivised so he gets a lot more if he does play regularly. Have any of the Noxon followers asked him to clarify what he means?

That makes more sense

I don’t understand the pay as you play bit? So we’re going to pay the same fee for the player, but only offer him a pay as you play deal? Seems a very odd approach. If they have serious doubts on his fitness then why are they signing him?

Yeah, he’s a RB. Correct. The bloke who’s gone to Charlton contributed nothing from RB last season. That’s isn’t an assumption. The manager has stated he brought in the new RB because of the qualities he has. That isn’t an assumption. He sold JRC cos he didn’t have those qualities. That isn’t an assumption. Based on those things my OPINION (another concept you’re struggling with) is that we are stronger. The fact it needs to be repeatedly explained to you is quite bizarre😆

My original post was based on the squad we have now. If you want to make a different post on the squad you’re assuming we have when the transfer window closes then crack on. Fairly simple really.

What?

As per the post you’re quoting I gave the context for why I think we’re stronger. RB - last season JRC was shite/injured and contributed nothing from RB. We have now signed an actual RB who plays in the way the manager wants i.e. quick and athletic, everything JRC isn’t. It’s a clear improvement in that area given the context.

Don’t disagree with much of that, and there are a lot of unknowns. If we go back to the beginning of last season all the talk was we were fucked because we’d lost 30 goals from SS. That clearly wasn’t the case. What changed was that we improved massively in defence, which was mostly due to the way Eustace set up the team. We got a lot of points winning games 1-0 so SS didn’t need ‘replacing’ in a like-for-like sense. In the pre-season predictions thread this time last season I made the point we’d do a lot better than the doom mongers predicted simply because of the way Eustace was going to set up. I think Derby may do well this season for exactly the same reason. This season is harder to predict as you rightly point out. VI is an unknown. There was no in between last season under him - we went on a relegation-esque run of form, and then on a promotion-esque run of form. I’m optimistic we will do well, but unlike under the very cautious Eustace I think that if it goes wrong under VI it will go dramatically wrong.

The context being that Toth is generally accepted to be better than Pears and so will be first choice. Last season Pears played more games than Toth iirc. IMO Pears is a liability. If Toth is consistently competent then he will be an upgrade on Pears IMO. Toth has also had a season to acclimatise to a new league. For that reason I think we’ll be stronger even if the personnel hasn’t changed.

Nope, you’ve missed the context. Try again.

LW - Kargbo has a full pre-season under his belt and experience in the Championship. De Neve is an unknown. Hedges was used there a lot last season and everybody agree he’s shit (including you) so we are clearly stronger right? AM - Nobody really nailed down that position last season, think we used 4 or 5 players in there over the course of the season. Cantwell is a No10 by his own admission. He also has a pre-season under his belt and will be a lot stronger physically this season. He’s the best footballer in the team on his day. Tyjon by all accounts is a good footballer who may be able to influence games from the bench. Striker- both Ohashi and Gueye are now accustomed to the physical and mental demands of the Championship. Ohashi has also now had a full pre-season. Like I said, context matters.

The start of last season.

That doesn’t invalidate what I said, and I’ve repeatedly said we need improve our attack, specifically the RW position. 👍

Context dear boy. Read the beginning of my post and try to apply some critical thinking.

Deary me. The clue was in AS OF TODAY. By the same token we haven’t finished signing then, but that was about as relevant to my post as your response.

Squad/First Team strength compared with last season (as of today). Context is important and I’ve taken into consideration the change of manager Nd how he wants to play, and also how accustomed to the Championship the players are compared to last season. GK - stronger RB - stronger LB - no change RCB - no change LCB - no change CM - stronger RW - weaker LW - stronger AM - stronger CF - stronger

They barely played and were shite. It’s like moaning about losing ACD, another who was shite. If De Neve has 5 good games he’ll have contributed more than those 3 combined.

I’m sorry I asked you to justify position/by-position where we are weaker. As suspected you hadn’t thought it through. And I’m in a ‘hoop’🤣 And who mentioned the season after next? That’s quite a bizarre deflection from the discussion about if we’re stronger or weaker this season. If you fancy naming the positions we are weaker than last season (outside of the ones I’d already referenced in my original post) I’m all ears?

Got a link?

I mentioned we needed to replace Weimann and Dolan in my original post that you quoted. Not sure why you’re repeating that here, that’s already factored in. Wharton and McLoughlin have effectively replaced Batth. We have no idea how that will pan out so to say we’re weaker is wrong as it’s unknowable. In every other position we are at least as strong, but in no way are we obviously weaker. Please list the exact positions we are weaker and explain why?

No offence but you’re one of the ‘everything’s shit’ guys so the context would be lost on you.

I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. Go position for position and tell me where we are weaker both in terms of first team and squad?

Last season proved you don’t need a 20+ goal striker to have a good season. Did anyone even reach double figures in league goals?