bluebruce

I've always understood that you're not supposed to end a half whilst a team is actively engaged in an attack. Noticed how you never see a fulltime whistle blown when somebody is about to strike the ball? I don't know if it's a written rule or an unwritten one, but when I was a kid I was told it was a rule.

Clearly shouldn't have been played in this one. As I said before the game there is no way I would have done anything other than rested him. And it seems I was justified in that as he apparently played shit, and they lost anyway.

I wasn't correcting you, just stating it seems very unlikely he will actually be playing. Has Guehi had injury problems? The reason I'd be surprised if Wharton plays isn't because he is a key player for them, but because he will likely be identified as being in dire need of a rest.

I'd be surprised if they didn't rest Wharton against the mighty Macclesfield.

I see. So, last minute, then 'it got confirmed so late there wasn't time to scour the continent'

Ah yes, I remember about Gueye now. Shows how pointless the point system is when someone like Gueye automatically qualifies but a better player, like Toth for example, doesn't. I'd imagine they'll get that Toth paperwork sorted..right after the window closes.

So what's your usual name on here then?

Whilst I agree that's the likely profile we get with our budget, what market do you think we should be looking at, with our obvious budgetary constraints? I'm not sure if we even have an ESC slot free anymore (until Gueye moves), can't remember. But I'm sure Kent and Wilsden can.

My point was only that his goals record there isn't as good as people are making out. When adjusted for the league it's likely worse than the goals scored by a striker who is criticised for not scoring enough, and his work rate may have improved but it would have to be by a hell of a lot to be on Ohashi's level so it's another area he isn't as good. So I'm not bothered we sold him as it stands. He may well be better than Gueye, but the failure wasn't selling Leonard (who probably helped fund Gudjohnsen who is better). The failure was in not also shifting and upgrading on Gueye. But yes I wouldn't have objected to loaning him instead, unless it meant no Gudjohnsen. Although as we have seen, these loaning clubs often seem less likely to give our loanees regular minutes than when they sign them permanently. I remember Fisher getting no game time at all I think when we loaned him to MK Don's or AFC Wimbledon. Then they signed him the next summer for free and immediately he became their first choice.

Probably a rough equivalent to him getting about 5 goals and 2 assists at this level if he was a regular starter. Which is worse than Ohashi has done, who people complain about, and minus the epic workrate. Still not too fussed he has gone. Has the potential to improve of course given he is still quite young, so we will see how he does. Good luck to him. If we were a normally ran club my main thought at this stage would just be that I hope we put a decent sell on in.

However, in fairness he did seem to double down on it when people said it wasn't happening because he came on for Birmingham.

We will be fine, just need to play a five goalkeepers formation....

We had one. People used it to sarcastically react to posts they didn't agree with.

That's against a Coventry who even after that win sit bottom of the group and behind Leyton Orient U21s. So you have to think the red card was the main factor there. That said, 4 of their 5 points have now come against us. Perhaps the Cov u21s carry the same hoodoo over us as their senior side seem to!

Yes of course there could be other factors or incidents that we aren't privy to that change things, but based on the available information (that he isn't good enough and isn't training professionally) it would be unfair for him to walk away with about a million (allegedly) if the rest of his contract got paid off in full now, then probably walk into another reasonably paid gig immediately, to a club signing him for free when we paid a decent fee, all because he wasn't up to it. I'd consider that another of life's injustices, although the sort of thing you half expect under this mob.

I don't think that would be the fairest thing to do at all. I don't agree with being paid exorbitant sums for failure and laziness.

It's the latter more than the former IMO. He definitely isn't so bad that he shouldn't even make a bench that has zero strikers in a team that plays 2 at a time, one of whom already isn't a striker (or any good at all). Ismael wants to make a point about training standards, and that's his prerogative tbh.

Depends how long he is out for.

This is a bit of a problem. We need to ditch somebody just to play the lad we already brought in. Obviously we will look to sell Gueye, but we need a new striker. So we need to ditch someone now, and we also need to ditch someone for everybody we bring in, even though some will only be loans. O'Riordan can't go back on loan unless it's back to Donny. I imagine Forshaw will be the one making way for Cashin to be able to play, even though they're not the same position and may give us a depth problem at CM. Either that or Pratt will be sent on loan, which I'm not really keen to see. Of course we have plenty of players we'd like to see the back of, including ones we only signed in the summer, but who wants them?

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Hi, I did sign up and haven't heard anything so far. Do you know roughly when you'll be in touch, so I know when to check things haven't landed in my junk mail etc?

Quite a lot of noise that Arsenal are still looking to sign Tyjon. Also saw a claim that one of the offers we rejected for him in the summer was 2.2 million, which is far higher than I'd seen before, and that he's now available for about 1 mill. If that's the case (as long as the 2.2 wasn't 80% in add ons) you have to question why we would turn that down. Which means we probably didn't, but assuming it's true for a second you'd surely go straight to the player and say 'look is there any way you're signing this deal or not?'. And if the answer is no you flog him. Keeping him, refusing to play him cos he won't sign, and seeing his market value halve 6 months later is just fucking dumb.

It was never a kids programme. It's rated as a 15. Contains swearing, violence, horror and gore. It just has kids in the main roles - well, it did when it started, they're all adults now. Lots of 80s nostalgia. It recalls a lot of films from around then in various ways, and I think that's part of why they chose to have the main cast be kids. Because the writers probably grew up themselves in that era, and saw films like The Goonies, Gremlins etc as well as the adult stuff. For the first three seasons, I thought it was good but not worth the huge level of hype. But the fourth season was truly excellent. The fifth somewhere inbetween.

Ta, so he couldn't be flipped in this January window if a team actually wanted to play him (and if they didn't they may as well let us keep him). Other than to a team in the MLS or something like that, with a weirdly timed season. Sounds like he will almost definitely be here to the summer.

It makes sense, and I've seen those before too, but I could have sworn I'd also seen one or two where the player either simply didn't want to go there or couldn't agree terms. But if what Wilsden is saying is right then perhaps I've imagined it, or it was in the distant past. Did he not play a game early in the season for Yverdon? Would that not prevent him playing for a third club this season? Can't remember if that's a calendar year thing or a season thing (which would seem odd as leagues have different season dates).