I think fans just need to realise where we are. There are lots of big clubs in the championship coupled with the 3 who come down having bigger budgets than us - we just aren’t going to compete with that plus any clubs who are spending money, so mid table is a realistic position for us. It’s possible with this model we could sneak into the play offs if we get a couple of good loans but we are nowhere near being able to get promoted and being able to stay in the premier league.
You’ve just confirmed my exact point. As I said previously if we sell our best players. Ie. Clarke, Ballard, Neil. What we see over 12 games is what we will get next season. Huggins will prob not have a contract either.
I have confirmed nothing except for your ungrounded fears. IF we sell all those players (we won't) and IF we don't bring in any quality replacements (we will) THEN the form of our past 12 games will carry forward over a full season (it won't).
Because of course being the second worse team in the entire league for nearly a third of the season with all those players in our squad is just because of bad luck. Seriously as I said if we don’t make changes and carry on as we are then what do you think is gonna turn around that form? Or are you saying as I said we need to make changes?!
I'd include Alese in that list but a lot of the rest should be out on loan, just foreign youngsters not ready yet, possibly never will be.
Firstly, when we are able to field our best eleven we are not the second worst team in the entire league. We haven't been able to put Clarke and Roberts out together since Hull. At that time we were in 6th with 36pts. Since then, with injuries and suspensions, we have got 11pts from 12 games and have been 19th overall in that span - not even in the relegation zone for that "third of a season".
It's also very easy to see us going down.
People are still hoping we sign an experienced dm and a proven forward along with one or two others with experience. I don't know how many windows it will take for the penny to drop that we're not in the market for those kinds of signings.
We will have to see what happens. I base my thoughts on the last three transfer windows and the fact that the players we signed offer us no strength in depth at all. Hence the issues you have just stated. Indeed the players in the last window look worse than I’ve seen since the days of McFadzean. If im overly pessimistic I’d say you’re overly optimistic.
That's the big, big test. We'll get 18m+ for Clarke. What will they do with it?...a fair old wedge of that needs to put back into the team. And it shouldn't be spent buying a handful of 19 year olds for 2m each. We need a few quality signings to go straight into the 11. At least some of them need to be 23+ in age I think.We'll stop up OK. The questions is will the club sign the players we need to help us move on. We'll have money in the bank from selling Clarke.
Shorter than Milton nunez under a steam roller!
If Speakmans on the interview panel how is that possible?
Well 3 out of the 4 permanent managers under Speakman have been improvements on what came before. Not gonna be many better Championship jobs available in the summer.
