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He is not only an experienced player at this level but you underplay how effective he is at this level and how hard it would be to replace him. It will be very difficult to replace him, especially seeing as we will be doing so for a small fee most likely from a random European league. Tavares had a decent game againsr Bradford, is thay enough for you to consider Travis to already be replaced adequately? Lunacy if so. Baradji seems to be flavour of the month based on a highlights reel. If he needs months off that should be off the table straight away. Beyond that, we also dont have a slot for him in terms of ESC. And beyond that, you are replacing a proven good Championship midfielder with someone who has had one good season seemingly at a relegated Swiss club.

I dont see how it is evident personally. If anything, surely us trying to be more athletic and get about the pitch, that suits the strengths of Travis. He is naturally a player to sub off when chasing a game because you tend to put more attacking players on. But I am not having that he is going even slightly because Ismael doesnt rate him. He seems annoyed that he is leaving. He is leaving because we took ages to offer him a new deal, and now he can get a wage far more suited to a proven Championship midfielder. I also suspect he can see a sinking ship around him.

From one extreme to the other. Filling the squad with 5 loans to make uo the numbers, or refusing to sign any at all instead relying on kids who clearly arent ready to make up the numbers, purely to hit a ridiculous target. A couple to top up the squad should be signed.

Where are the goals?

Why would a battering to heavily fancied Birmingham make a considerable difference to media spotlight? They dont seem that arsed about whats going on at Wednesday. Even if we lose comfortably and there are a few chants, it wont make any difference in the media.

Im not convinced by him. But its astounding how Barnsley fans who saw him take them to 5th think hes shit.

He also reiterated that its 1 signing plus replacements. Which is nowhere near enough.

Ive been told many times that everything is aligned and all of the signings are exactly tailored to what he wants. He seemed seriously pissed off post match, again. He also cant be happy with the business we are doing.

Everything about him is lazy and half arsed. Doesnt put any thought into anything he does, and he isnt very good to begin with.

Baradji is out for months. And needs a permit.

The point was more that you clearly are allowing your pre conceived dislike of him to cloud your judgement if you are specifically just posting numerous critical posts about him during tonights game. There are many players who warranted a number of critical posts about today and he was certainly not near the top of that list, or indeed one of them at all. He was only on for half an hour but on a few occasions he played nice correctly weighted passes and was let down by his technically inept team mates. He did also play one brilliant through ball to Kargbo despite the ball being played at him at a stupid height which led to Ohashi's chance. Surely Elliott Jackson saying that he was impressed by him in an open training session doesnt carry any weight? He did well tonight and was one of very few positives. He did make a few stray passes and got caught dawdling once or twice but overall he was a semblance of calm amidst a chaotic and inept performance around him. I feel like in the main we are going for athletes and not considering ability as important but to be fair he seems to have a bit of both. A good performance against Bradford and impressing in a training session, good signs. But Tronstad and Travis are very good Championship midfielders. Its a hell of an assumption and expectation. If Travis goes, to be honest we need a replacement whether Tavares moves ahead of him or not due to the alternatives. We certainly need a lot more players. Lots of surgery to do, not just one player plus replacements. As you say, attack needs a lot doing.

He does need to do more than he did last year but on tonights performance, only someone with a specific dislike of him would repeatedly target him for criticism. He was levels above the crap around him.

Definitely some promising signs but Travis is a proven quality Championship midfielder and our captain. When he goes, we need a proper replacement. We wont get one but we need one. Tavares can hopefully push as 3rd choice and beyond that, the cupboard is bare. Could roll up Buckley, Forshaw and Montgomery into 1 and wouldnt have a Championship midfielder.

Tavares did pretty well, and certainly agree on your comments on the young lads not being ready and needing an overhaul in attack. We have no competent wingers. Need 2 and a striker.79 But of course we will miss Travis.

Do you still think that my comments about squad depth are "ridiculous?"

He was our best player when he came on. What he certainly doesnt warrant is so many comments calling him out of all players on that pitch tonight.

Another embarassing night and an indication that this "plan" to have a team packed full of athletic cheap nobodies from random leagues and loads of academy graduates is only going to send us into imminent serious shit. If we go into a season with Michalski as number 2 goalkeeper then we are taking a ridiculous risk. Nowhere near being ready, quite clearly. Montgomery is also nowhere near being up to the standard, why are we playing a player that was in the 9th tier last season? Tyjon is the best of the 3 but he isnt ready either. De Neve's goal makes it a weird night because he was absolutely pitiful otherwise. Hendriksson looks totally lost too, can barely control the ball. Tavares was sloppy at times and is not a Travis replacement but showed up pretty well overall and certainly levels above those 2 mentioned. Otherwise, Cantwell is miles above anything else in our attack, @RevidgeBlue clearly has it in for him. Kargbo is literally just a great athlete and a terrible footballer. Gueye is a woeful striker. We are about 4 or 5 players short even before you consider sales. Including the depressing news that now our captain wants out of the shit show. The fact that hes desperate to go to Derby, that Eustace left for Derby, that Batth and Weimann left for Derby and Brittain desperately wanted to go to Boro sums us up. The club stinks.

That is not the fear that they have.

Very good depth? Only Carter and Cantwell are competent first teamers unavailable to start these first 2 games, I know the latter will be on the bench. If we was to change 11 tonight, our 11 would be something like Michalski, Miller, Atcheson, Wharton, Pickering, Montgomery, Tavares, Mullarkey Matthews, Tyjon, Kargbo, Gueye. If you think that is very good depth, especially considering the inclusion of 5 youngsters with a combined 1 league start between them (in which he was sent off) then I suspect youll be in for a rude awakening as the season goes on, if we dont strengthen.

Suspect it will a team selection that highlights our lack of depth.

Our recruitment has been a bit strange when you think about it. We signed a player who had been playing at left back for last season and much of his career as a winger. A central midfielder to play as a number 10. And 2 right backs, one who has kicked on playing as a wing back and the other as a right sided centre back. I wonder if we will end up playing a back 3/5 this season purely by accident because of imbalances in the squad and recruitment.

We did see it as a priority at the start of the summer. Gestede said publically, so something has changed.

Not sure if it has been mentioned but Miyoshi set up a goal when he came on. Not that it matters as our dawdling has cost us that one due to the permit situation.

They werent at easter, they all said themselves. At that point, youve missed your best chance.

Another club may well be offering well above what we can afford. Which is why we should have offered these players deals far sooner, if we even have at all. No excuse. At least we can replace another proven Championship experienced player with a no mark from some backwater.