RevidgeBlue

Genuine question because I don't know the answer - Do losses for FFP purposes completely reset at the end of every three year cycle or are they calculated over the previous three seasons on a permanent rolling basis?

It wasn't our decision to pull out on the grounds of financial prudence though, the player seemingly turned us down. The bottom line is it seems this guy was a priority target for us and we've failed to land him. I was hoping for a massive improvement in the area of recruitment under the new regime. Must also be massively disappointing for JDT who has worked with the player before. Not particularly encouraging going forward.

No offence chaddy; but talk about a contradiction in terms!

I know that's about the best we can cobble together as things stand but that's a fairly horrific looking line up imo. Defensively Carter is primarily a centre half not a RB and we will sorely miss the excellent Nyambe. The crock Ayala needs turfing out, jury's out on Pickering. Further forward Hedges is pony imo, Markanday is completely unproven and it's unclear at this stage whether Dack can get back to anything approaching his best. Brereton might not even be staying. Anyone who thinks Mowbray left us with a solid platform needs to look at the above and give their head a wobble. The rest of us will probably be reflecting on what a vulnerable position Mowbray has left us in and what a complete waste of time and money the last four seasons have been.

I second the above. Although I think everyone is getting on chaddy's case rather unfairly here, I thought he posted quite clearly that he had a meeting with Waggott to discuss the pitch etc. How can he divulge what was said before the meeting has even taken place?

Not sure if that is aimed at me but don't know what you're on about if it was. You'll have noticed I really loved the Coventrio...........and Park. Three down, one to go. (Hopefully)

Really dispiriting interview with Waggott in the LT today. Lots of psycho babble, waffle and moaning about operating from 3 bases. (Sounds like Brockhall is still under threat if he gets his way eventually) Edit: Do they communicate by telegram? Can they not pick up the bloody phone to one another? Also part of the budget for players taken up with players already here. What does that even mean? And what's the point of Broughton if he has to go trailing back to Waggott for approval on everything? Sounds like an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and Waggott trying to make it appear like he actually does something worthwhile and is indispensable.

Always "expected" and "hoped" with our lot. Never "will be".

You're going nowhere fast relying on Gallagher. Apart from maybe League 1. We'd be as well off trying to get £3m back on him than trying to pimp BBD out imo.

You know my view on that. No-one's been banging that particular drum harder than me for the last 3 seasons.

Must admit, was hoping for some fireworks myself next week, anyone who's out of contract will be a free agent by 00.01 Saturday morning so it might concentrate a few minds and start the ball rolling.

Don't disagree on either of the above. It's surely down to the manager and CEO to identify and prioritise the key assets in the squad however.......

It was not "not allowed" when Armstrong left, Obafemi turned us down and Maja failed a medical here.

Yes, Exactly what is needed .........if it happens. Even more so than usual this time round having lost three first team regulars due to Mowbray and Waggott's negligence. Plus the usual summer exodus of loanees which leaves us scratching about as normal.

Yep, I was led to believe there was a lot more than a million or two made available to spend as well. Albeit it is now completely water under the bridge.

I didn't think he looked that good! Really poor signing imo.

Unless the Peterborough Chairman was lying we submitted an identical bid to Bournemouth for Dembele so that bid obviously wasn't reliant on any Rothwell sale and would tend to indicate there was money available to spend.

The Club would have been in a far better position imo if the owners had actually been a lot more invested and hands on and over-ruled Mowbray on various occasions over the years. - Not paying £2m over 2 years for Mulgrew to play for League 1 Clubs - Not handing Gladwin a new deal to train with us to get fit. - Not handing out lengthy deals to dross like Evans and Bennett and the ageing Graham - Not giving Downing another deal then never using him. - Not paying players who hadnt featured at all in the Covid hit season for another 3 months at the end - Not paying £5m for Gallagher who wasn't particularly good first time he was here - Not signing Chapman twice and rarely playing him on either occasion. - Not signing Davenport and rarely playing him - Not handing out a 4 year deal to the useless Pears and another to a Greek keeper who was never used - Pre pandemic, not running massively bloated squads full of squad fillers - In conjunction with the above, stipulating on the contrary that the key assets in the squad should be protected and not be allowed to approach the last twelve months (or less) of their contracts. You think I have an agenda against Mowbray and you'd be right in that respect as I regard him as pound for pound one of the worst managers we've ever had. On the flip side of the coin I find your insistence on defending him against every single word of criticism very odd. It comes across as if you were related to him.

Well, hopefully. That's why I was concerned about him being in Portugal.

Most of what you say is very fair. Would you not accept however there is a LOT to do before the start of the season? Maybe the recruitment experience will be a completely different animal under Broughton ,JDT and his team to that under Waggott, Mowbray, Venus and Park. I think people can be forgiven for being nervous though as it seems to me we've had immense trouble landing players in general over the last 5 years and have been virtually unable to land "oven ready" (sorry) or off the peg experienced Championship performers.

Well, when we get round to signing someone we can discuss it. Meanwhile........

We are nothing like Luton financially, why do people always ignore the £20m p.a. the owners pump into the Club on top of our existing revenue? The Club's we should be judging ourselves against should be ones with a turnover of around £30m p.a.

Think of "the flex".

Your assertion that I objected to was that "Top Championship defenders are on £50k p.w." That list proves otherwise as according to that only 12 players total allegedly earned those figures in 2021/22. If you're going to pull up stats, at least pull up ones which support your point of view. Interesting to see the discrepancy in the list between Lenihan at nearly £12k and Rothwell and Nyambe at only c £4.5k. I wouldn't say there should be much discrepancy between any of the 3 myself. No wonder RN and JR were cheesed off.

There were extenuating circumstances given our League position at the time. With hindsight, it was a gamble that didn't quite pay off not selling Rothwell to our main rivals at the time in January, but I think the owners were completely correct to take the stance they did. It would have been at a minimum areally bad look going forward, and frankly the last straw if he'd excelled for them and fired them to promotion and we'd dropped away as we did. That particular issue of should we/ shouldn't we have sold Rothwell isn't really relevant to how we got into the position of all three walking out for nothing however.