Tomphil2

When hes grown a mullet.

Didn't they sign an injured lad from City then, Beckford or something ? Played about ten mins. Difference is the club was truly skint then not just owned by clowns dripping in gold.

Did Rolls Royce make a van ?

If only football actually worked that way. It's business think, like saying we'll keep the old van and get another used one then when one's off the road the other will cover. Footballers ain't vans.

They've clearly been trying to prep the way for this from the start of the window just like they were looking for a rb/rwb from the off. Obvious what the plans were at the start of summer to cash in on two more 10k a week or thereabouts 1 year left players who have several known interested buyers. Squad building my arse it's all about realising what assets are left and replacing with much cheaper potential.

They also remain under the impression we are after these players to boost the squad and not prep the way for more sales.

You want your quality on the pitch as much as possible not just through the door in the building so to speak.

Why are they so intent on signing players with known existing problems ? Never ever underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

Overseas managers and their assistants clueless to anything but the big 4 - and West Ham - being paid absolute fortunes by an FA only interested in 'shirt selling' players and corporate sponsors favourites.

I suspect there'll be a lot more of that kind of thing now the king pillock is in sole charge. Imo it's another reason they want a squad full of kids and foreign signings as they won't moan the same as senior pros will they'll be told this is the way it is and swallow it. I believe a few issues relating to this that angered JDT and his coaches and Eustace stamped his feet about it and got a bit more sanity. Back to cutting every corner again now.

Doubtful, they'd have had him out the door way before now one way or another. He was another academy grad who was on peanuts until they tied him down so he'll be on about 5 or 6 grand a week hence they don't seem to mind him hanging around.

You need ti get 3 a time in then usually one turns out quite good, one flatters to deceive and the other is useless. We wait with baited breath to see what this season brings but i really fear there'll be nowt decent this time because they don't want to pay the wages anymore.

To be honest today turned out pretty much as i thought it would i expected them to be quicker and have a bit more quality however i thought be try and be solid but hardworking to nullify that. It was anything but in the first half, better in the second but they sat off a bit and Rovers looked to step it up a bit, not bothered about the result but first half was a bit concerning. Sooner the real stuff starts the better..... i hope.

They want hard workers who hit certain running stats and that's it that's all they can provide Ismael with on little to no budget. We can't/won't buy quality so the criteria is young, cheap, half a chance to improve and be worth more under standard club policy whilst VI insists they must hit certain stats. Nowt to do with actual style really it's more about the ability to cope with this league physically.

I think we should take bets how long into the season post window shutting it takes for big Val to start using lack of experience as the go to excuse when things aren't going well ?

They found a good balance to share the goals/assists last season in those two plus Dolan and Weimann but now it's back to eggs in one basket whilst praying another couple of unproven types step up. Big big risk and needless to be honest because players are out there but these lot don't want to know unless it's 5 grand a week or less, free or a few hundred grand plus add ons and under 25. Useless policy without money.

What i can't believe is one or two posters on here doing the club PR work of saying we are fine with Gueye and Yuki as our main strikers this season. Beggers belief that and can only be toeing the club mantra of giving mins and increasing value being the number 1 priority over everything else. We NEED quality up top and failing that we need another hardworking presser with an eye for goal that isn't Leonard.

It's deffo an 'i don't want to get injured' type of performance so far.

You won't like to see or hear it but a pounding today will be a good wake up call to those clever arseholes who think they can fill the team up with cheap punts and kids.

Today was always going to expose the weak spots but the main thing is get through it with no injuries the result don't really matter.

When powers that be are terrified of losing grip to someone else, who might make a better job of it and expose the cack handed and possibly dodgy running of it they have been making for years, what do they do ? They always use fear spread by whatever means necessary. The willingly gullible always lap it up.

I actually think the scenario is they are prepared to sail as close to the wind as possible in order to keep the ship afloat but if/when the inevitable happens they'll find something else to blame it on.

If some 'golden generation' England managers had heeded those words we might have won something again by now.

Not if he's told from above that we owe future instalments and don't want to or can't pay them.

Absolutely nailed it here.