RevidgeBlue

It's only transitional because the Club CHOSE not to back Eustace and extend the contracts of himself or any key players. Any normal Club having got to the position we were in in January would have moved heaven and earth to a) Keep the manager happy b) Extend the contracts of key players and c) Make a proper push for the plays offs not bring in a load of players who weren't match fit Instead.... ..

Potential bombshell this one if anyone acts on it - as per my post above.

Got to be careful how I put this but if you have incontrovertible proof that a) The Club applied for and actually received charitable funding for the appointment of a Fan Engagement Officer but that b) No such officer was ever appointed then depending on the degree of good faith involved on the Club's behalf, that is potentially obtaining money under false pretences and fraud. Perhaps a detailed complaint to the Trustees of the Premier League Charitable fund and /or the Police would be in order?

Im not sure of the exact figures but presumably we'll be substantially in pocket once Brittain is finalised. What you've written above also presumes that it's not acceptable to ever have a positive net spend on transfers.

Thought Mimms, Livingstone and Dobson were all fairly decent at the time. Without Jack's intervention and the impetus provided by their arrival I've little doubt we'd have gone down without a whimper that season.

John Beck - former Cambridge manager. Famous and briefly extremely successful but relatively short lived long ball merchant. Players were brick out houses who'd run all day. One of the tactics was to welly the ball forward as quickly as possible towards the opposition corner flags and chase after it.

Does that credit extend if those 3 are simply straight replacements for Brittain, Travis and Tronstad? I wouldn't give too much credit for bringing in inferior players. Obviously if they did turn out to be better, credit would be due. I sort of agree that we seem to appear to know certain players are leaving and we're getting warm bodies in to replace them first. That wouldn't have happened under Waggott imo but it doesn't count for that much if the players coming in are a lot worse.

God help us. Expecting a heavy defeat, anything at all from the game will be a bonus I think.

Last time we totted up, are we on about 22 if Brittain goes and 23 if Miller comes in?

I dont see it as a change in the style of play so much as a concerted drive to replace slightly more expensive players with cheaper ones all over the pitch. I'm still not sure how VI thinks it can possibly work as I don't believe he's naive or stupid.

Yes, but if you're going to try and turn us into Harry Bassett's Wimbledon or John Beck's Cambridge the players at your disposal have to be VERY good indeed at implementing the system and style of play otherwise it doesn't work. Doubtful whether it works these days anyway imo.

Where's the picture of Broughton next to him, grinning like a Cheshire cat?

Signing the lad with Crohns sounds far riskier than signing Baradji with a stress fracture to me. In general though, am I the only one on here who's completely unenthused by the constant mention of signing players with pace and height? That's all very good IF they can play a bit as well but not if they look like they've never seen a football before when it arrives at their feet. I'd rather hear descriptors like, "very skillful player" "technically good" and "good tactical awareness" over mentions of what a good athalete they are every day. As the old saying goes - "A good big 'un will generally beat a good little 'un." However a good small 'un will generally beat a crap big'un as well!

And when it doesn't work (again) he'll steadfastly refuse to bow to demands to vary his style of play.

Pity you weren't playing then. From the sounds of it it bothered the senior pro's like Travis and Tronstad.

Surely if nothing else, behaving and preparing for a match in such tin pot and amateurish fashion is a sure fire recipe for the players picking up muscular and hamstring strains and injuries?

Midfielder number 58 possibly on the way but still no credible links to any forward players whatsoever. Grim times.

We desperately need strikers in, not to sell them. Selling Ohashi or Gueye would be worse than selling Travis or Tronstad for me, at least we have plenty of options in midfield. If we did let either go, given the fact we're threadbare up top to begin with, it could only be construed as a deliberate attempt to make sure we are relegated imo.

Don't know why. We dont seem to think forwards matter this season.

Im glad you said it, it's what I've been thinking! What are the chances of some sort of mystery problem causing the Miller deal to collapse in best O Brien/Mcguire/Baradji fashion? Followed by RG telling us how it's an "exciting opportunity" for the other RB we signed to show what he can do.

So, with eight days to go before the start of the season we're five forward players down on what we had by the end of the January window. Not that there's any cause for concern or anything.

Love the way you make it sound how losing Brittain was part of the grand masterplan, has made us stronger and we need to move onto RW next! Yes - having downgraded at RB we need to downgrade from Dolan at RW as well next. 🙂

Lol. 🙂 Chaddy seemingly proved completely wrong about Brittain not going anywhere but still coming out swinging. You're like the boxer who gets knocked spark out then when he comes round has to be restrained from getting at his opponent because he doesn't realise the fight is over.

The only one it can be is B. We're no longer the pride of East Lancs let alone Lancashire and the way the Club is run and interacts now bears no resemblance to the 135 years before they arrived.