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roversfan99

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  1. 100%, with 9 days after the game to Wigan and 7 days prior. I doubt he will go full strength unfortunately.
  2. If Brown played a minute for us he would be unable to go elsewhere.
  3. What is he and what are we trying to do? What do you not like about him? I dont recall seeing him so what type of defender is he and where would you rank him in the pecking order of Hyam, Ayala, Wharton and Phillips? Doubt its based on ROI, we prefer to let assets run their contracts down.
  4. I cant see any sense in Hedges at right wing back which he cannot play effectively whilst dropping Dack and not starting Markanday. Plus Wharton is injured. Kaminski Rankin Costello Ayala Hyam/Wharton Pickering Travis Buckley Markanday Dack Dolan Brereton Subs: Pears, Wharton/Phillips, Carter, Morton, Szmodics, Hedges, Gallagher
  5. @JoeH did you imply at one point that Porteous would not be a particularly good signing and is very slow? And is this based on data or watching him?
  6. https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/hibs-in-no-rush-to-accept-latest-ryan-porteous-offer-as-new-signing-targeted-in-time-to-face-hearts-3989866 Mentions that the player is "seduced" by a foreign move. Also hints that our bid is insufficient.
  7. A few people on here seemed very aggrieved that Mowbray didnt use Davenport more and subsequently we released him. Lincoln have also released him after barely featuring.
  8. If we was run normally and selling assets and reinvesting, an opportunity to sign a well thought of player at a knock down price would be easily done rather than such a huge part of the budget.
  9. Its such an inefficient way to seperate generating funds through sales and buying players. There are numerous summers in which we have barely spent anything, its all random. Even if there is an unlimited Venkys pot, which there isnt. Surely there should be a focus on sustainability especially with everyones favourite excuse, FFP. No one in the club can ever bemoan FFP when the owners are dismissing the idea of generating funds through sales to reinvest. You also mention the summer spending, say we spent roughly £5m, a very reasonable net spend. Rothwell and Brereton in the last year could have generated over double that, so it pales into insignificance. Even had we taken the say £12m, reinvested that and Venkys could keep the budget of £5m they planned to spend, we would still be in a better position.
  10. A key driver of turnover ie the selling and subsequent reinvestment of player sales is just totally discarded, these figures pale into insignificance if our owners keep pissing potential transfer fees away. Where is this from? Would be an expected piss take. Not sure where £5m comes from but you don't seem to fathom the fact that the alternative to taking these sums is to replace Brereton for free. Straight question, do you think we can sign a quality striker on a permanent contract on a free transfer, as well as a left sided midfielder? Would it be easier with £5m even or zilch? You are throwing lots of excuses in front of the club regarding transfers. Surely now we have created this extensive recruitment team supposedly, we are in a strong position to deal with the hurdles of signing players to be able to do it effectively?
  11. As you will have gathered, I think the idea of essentially writing a season off at this level with so many poor teams is a nonsense. But I don't think that it is genuinely the case anyway. The Brereton situation is the obvious sign, but we would have discarded the idea of loans, why sign Morton if we have 4 central midfielders of our own, of which Morton is I think in the middle age wise and not an upgrade on them? We aren't behaving like a club regardless of interpretation of any soundbites and I can't fathom how people can be pacified by them against tangible evidence of some short term thinking. The most constructive way of going about things would have been to sell Brereton, sign a couple of loans if anyone was available to improve the team by all means, and have a push with a newly signed striker bought with the Brereton money, knowing that even if we don't go up, we won't have a huge gap in the summer and no money to fill it. We go into next season in a massively worse position without our only goalscorer and penniless, so how can this be the foundation of anything? I think you have lost my point in your attempts to defend every thing the club does. The initial reply was to the assertion that this season is a platform towards next season. My point is that there are numerous blatant decisions that have been made with short term priorities, so I can't fathom how anyone can trust the process IF the plan is to use this season as a springboard for next season. Take the Morton example. I am not saying that we should dismiss the idea of loans because I hate the idea of writing off seasons, each team selection should be made to win that individual game. My point is that having him at the club at all doesn't tie into the idea of next season being the one that we push on in.
  12. Not disagreeing with any of those reasons, but again this doesn't fit the narrative that this season is purely one of laying the foundations for next. Brereton won't be here next season, so keeping him and playing him every week not only reduces the game time for those who will, but loses us a significant sum to reinvest to aid that. I am not saying we shouldn't play Brereton, Dack and Ayala, we are a much better team with those 3. But I am not having this supposed idea that we essentially write a season off and more importantly, numerous decisions made go against this idea.
  13. We already had Jones, if we want a central midfielder we should actively sign one, not one who can do a job there.
  14. If we want a central midfielder which we should then it should be a natural one, not a makeshift one.
  15. Even if it isn't a Danny Graham style target man, which I don't think would suit us anyway, surely the aim has to be someone who specialises as being a main striker. This "flexible attacker" bollocks is nonsensical.
  16. Does the fact that we are allowing Brereton to run his deal, have loaned in 3 players including one who plays every single game, and are seemingly looking for more loanees not all fly in the face of this theory that is emerging that this year is purely for building foundations? Ayala is preferred to Phillips, Morton to Wharton, Brereton to Dolan, Dack at times to Szmodics, so many decisions made looking to win each individual game rather than with one eye on next season. Either the onus being on next season is management spiel (that people are taking too literally) with the intention of buying patience, or the plan is genuine and just being executed poorly.
  17. Whiteman is a solid Championship midfielder and much more effective than the likes of Garrett but he won't be coming here, we don't want competent, experienced midfielders "blocking pathways" nor could we afford him.
  18. This window won't be helped by the lack of funding combined with the insistence by the owners to let Brereton run his deal down.
  19. He is an incompetent idiot but he isnt the problem. There is one problem and always has been but the penny hasnt dropped for some.
  20. We were right to reject a fee rising to £10m and take zero because it didnt match our fabricated and unrealistic valuation. Apparently.
  21. Mowbray's sins? Tomasson/Broughton have also brought in an influx of loanees. He also did develop assets which generated some profit ie Armstrong but over £10m worth of it has been pissed up the wall by our stubborn owners. Individuals beneath Venkys can be blamed but they dont warrant the brunt of it. This summers recruitment was actually even more short term because the permanent signings were not ones youd expect to generate a profit on. He should have been sold in the summer and I get that the chance may have gone but I think we should at least be trying to get a fee for him this window.
  22. Im not going to stop saying it or accept it. Over 8m is a lot more than zero which we will have this summer and is a hell of a lot relative to our general budgets, more than the last 2 summers combined. Its also why I dont swallow this bollocks about projects and the first year being a development one or a few hit. Keeping him and signing 3 loanees, one of whom plays weekly regardless of performance is not in line with that. And now we want more loanees. Ill judge Broughton mainly on transfers and ultimately what happens on the pitch as anything he is supposedly doing should lead to on field results. Weve supposedly put together a new recruitment team, and now you are saying it isnt easy? Surely theyve been bloody appointed to make best use of resources available and sign as well as possible, otherwise what is the point? Its much easier replacing him with the best part of 8m than with nothing.
  23. Hes been there before but barely played. Then went to Halifax and could only score 1.
  24. It wouldnt even take a big roll of the dice. Sell Brereton, buy a striker and a couple more with the proceeds and it benefits us short and long term. Project my arse.
  25. You are really clutching at straws. He was as effective as a traffic cone.
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