Gamst

‘Birthday Boycott’ has a nice ring to it.

Is anyone aware of whether we are considering any freebie centre backs? Craig Dawson would be a good shout and scores a few goals. Surely if we had any sense this would be something we are looking into because we currently have only Scott Wharton who has just missed more than a whole season through injury as our only recognised CB available for the Watford match and thats just ridiculous.

We have excelled at receiving good fees for our players this summer! Wrexham are overpaying for a mediocre defender and if we had replaced him then it would have been no big deal. Instead we are now just really low on defensive numbers. It’s week 3 of the season and Wharton is the only available true centre back at Watford and he missed all of last season with injury. If any decision highlights where the owners/boards priorities lie then it’s this. Cash in and jeopardise the clubs chances on the pitch or protect the squad at all costs. Maybe we have a good freebie lined up, but I think we all know that won’t happen. The only positive I can see is that there is literally nobody else to sell and maybe that means the owners will sell up after a colossal summer asset strip. Probably wishful thinking.

Would suggest they couldn’t help but accept a couple of extra million despite knowing there was no time for a replacement. Greed trumped wisdom as per usual. Hyam is Mr Mediocre and if a replacement was found then fair enough. If there’s no replacement then it’s greedy and negligent.

That would be insanity. Toth getting a season ending injury against Watford meaning poor Michalski or Goddard get thrown in game after game is a destruction pathway not a development pathway!

Poor result, but looking a little bit less like relegation fodder.

We were playing in the division higher than Brum last season, why are we not bringing in sponsorship revenue on this scale?

It’s easy to criticise and I’m all for building up the pressure on the owners but I think everyone expected us to lose comfortably today (myself included) but we fought and were unlucky to lose. No points accrued but some hope restored and it gives us an outside chance of staying up this season if we play with that degree of fight. Despite the disappointment today I’m actually a lot less despondent than I was this morning.

I thought exactly the same. Then wikipedia told me he was a 30 year old lower league journeyman. Then I was really concerned that he stood out so much against our team.

If Derby are willing to pay him twice his salary then that is the going rate. It’s not a coincidence that none of our established players are signing contracts. We are not paying people what they deserve and why on earth would they sign for inferior terms? It’s not like Derby are Al Ittihad.

Trav, Brittain, Eustace are completely right to jump ship. They don’t support the club and are looking after their own careers and maximising their earnings. It’s a complete no brainer for them and the supporters who cannot see the obvious decline of our club are blind/stupid.

Good old loyal Hedges will no doubt stick around.

That was pretty concerning. By the end we had a strong team (for us) out there and really didn’t create much or appear superior in any department to our newly promoted L1 opponents. I’m not bothered about losing and can forgive the young keeper making a bad mistake, my concern is how little we created against supposedly inferior opponents at home. Where are the goals going to come from if we are only adding an unknown European RW to our ranks? I would be seriously shocked if we don’t get soundly beaten on Saturday.

For reasons unknown, 0-2 this afternoon.

Brittain leaving is not mismanagement. It’s deliberate. Everyone at the club knows the contract status of the players and I’m sure if he offered to sign on a contract on the same or worse terms then he would have done it already. The issue is penny pinching and the goal is to always do things as cheaply as they can get away with. The same applies for Dolan, Travis, Batth and Tronstad. The club aren’t stupid, they just won’t stump up the money required to seal the contracts. If we are unwilling to pay the going rate for these players then they won’t sign and nor should they. I see it differently with Sammie and Adam Wharton who deserve to leave for a higher standard club. Brittain et al will make horizontal moves to teams who pay the going rate.