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Timetable to remove chancers and KLD taking real control.

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TZMouk said:
I disagree, we had Doyle, Batth, and Wright. And at the time of the window we'd shown we play 3 CBs a fair bit. Then we had Arby coming back from a serious injury. Willis still out. Wright had injuries earlier in the year/previous years, Doyle was 17/18 and Batth getting up there in years. I'd say that we were 1 short, in an ideal world we'd have an U23 player ready to step up, especially at this level, but that age group has been pretty neglected by the previous regime.

How many games did Winchester have to fill in a lopsided, albeit, flexible back 3?
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Again they were all Neil's choice. He played a back three of Cirkin, Wright and Winchester in games where he had Batth on the bench and Doyle and Xhemajli in the stands. Xhemajli made his debut in Neil's 4th game in charge and was available for selection from January onwards. We had at least three centre halves available for the majority of the time post January. It's maybe tighter than we might like but it's enough - particularly with O'Nien in the squad.
 
oddbod said:
We sign a 39 year old striker who has played 9 minutes of football and expect him to be ready to play 180 minutes most weeks.....I thats a top notch job!
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Yeah it wasn't a good idea with hindsight. But signing an older experienced pro to sit on the bench most weeks was exactly the right route to go down. And let's face it, it was Defoe giving up that meant he wasn't available. He could have contributed off the bench if he could have been arsed.

Edit: Also who expected him to play 180 mins most weeks? We had a first and second choice striker for that already - both recruited under Speakman and both fairly decent if you hadn't noticed.
 
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oddbod said:
Was Stewart voted best striker ?according to sky vokes was! Broadhead when fit yes but stats don't lie nobody but an idiot would rely on broadheads fitness!
Anyway its in the past now and time is the great truth finder so i will make my predictions....broadheads career will be marred by injury and we should not sign him ..speakman will be found out to be a complete blagger and neil at some point on here will lose the plot, the dressing room and be out of his depth if he doesn't jump ship before that because of lack of backing from ownership group.
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:lol::lol: Fucks sake man
 
The Cabbage said:
What's the alternative in the real world? Bin off Broadhead so we free up the wages to sign a better replacement? Don't sign Roberts and sign a target man instead? With resources limited you have to place a bet. Speakman did. And he won :cool:
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king of the hindsight ye like mate ......we will just have to disagree mate i firmly believe if stewart had got a long term injury we would have been no where near promotion and you do so its as simple as that.
 
TZMouk said:
I disagree, we had Doyle, Batth, and Wright. And at the time of the window we'd shown we play 3 CBs a fair bit. Then we had Arby coming back from a serious injury. Willis still out. Wright had injuries earlier in the year/previous years, Doyle was 17/18 and Batth getting up there in years. I'd say that we were 1 short, in an ideal world we'd have an U23 player ready to step up, especially at this level, but that age group has been pretty neglected by the previous regime.

How many games did Winchester have to fill in a lopsided, albeit, flexible back 3?

EDIT: I should add we've gotten away with it, and I'm sure it's not Speakman deciding to not get another in. Plus like others have mentioned we have O'Nein and as above Winchester who could fill in, but I still think we were short.
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Perhaps marra
We were gonna sign kongolo so they were after another one. Shame about that as that would have been some transfer - failed at the last minute
oddbod said:
i agree with your user name!
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And I agree with yours!!
 
oddbod said:
king of the hindsight ye like mate ......we will just have to disagree mate i firmly believe if stewart had got a long term injury we would have been no where near promotion and you do so its as simple as that.
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No mate. Been saying exactly the same for years. You can't build a squad with redundancy on top of redundancy. One you can't afford it. Two it pisses the players off. Three it prevents opportunities for young players. Fans get an easy time building fantasy squads made up of 30 plus senior pros. We don't have to pay them, we don't have to stay inside SCMP, we don't have to manage the players (and young players) involved. Fans never moans at clubs who have too many players. They should though. It's that waste of money on players who don't get used most of the time that prevents the club spending most of its money on actual difference makers.
 
The Cabbage said:
Yeah it wasn't a good idea with hindsight. But signing an older experienced pro to sit on the bench most weeks was exactly the right route to go down. And let's face it, it was Defoe giving up that meant he wasn't available. He could have contributed off the bench if he could have been arsed.

Edit: Also who expected him to play 180 mins most weeks? We had a first and second choice striker for that already - both recruited under Speakman and both fairly decent if you hadn't noticed.
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how many games did broadhead play since the close of the jan window?
 
PennywellMackem said:
Oooooh, now I'm getting a bit more excited and intrigued. I think KLD is doing a greatjob b, but he's going to need help if he's as ambitious as I think he is. Did you recognise him Bob?
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I wouldn't get too excited at a time when Russian money isn't welcome in England, look whats happened at Chelsea.

I expect he was just there as a guest of Sartori's and nothing else.
 
kildaremackem said:
yes..if KLD listens to them..I suspect in fact that he is..that he is trying to haggle down the price he al;ready agreed to, based on their advice. KLD wants SAFC as a business...he isnt a sugar daddy owner.
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He wants it as a business, not a cash cow. Getin! Can't wait! Owned by people who want to make it work sounds fine by me.
 
Oily Oily Oily said:
They interested again, had big backers last time!
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no they didnt! they ran once they viewed the books and the reality of owning safc overshadowed the dream. They do get on here so unless you know for sure im thinking its bollocks.....they might want to relook at netflix update though.
 
I think Donald will cash out fairly quickly once a price is agreed but Methven will cling on like a barnacle with a bouffant.

Hopefully both will slither down the u bend of history and KLD will own an actual majority share in place of the theoretical one he currently has.
 
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