Or people just interested to see how these players are getting on. We not allowed to talk about ex players now? Why does it make you angry to point you have call fellow supporters stalkers and pathetic? People could say the same about you and this thread…?
Just like last year with the three promoted teams - 75 games, 43pts, -95GD. Love to see us go up but it won't be nearly as much fun as this season!
The real positive for us is our young players haven't reached their ceiling yet. Bellingham, Rigg, Mayenda, Mundle, Watson and Aleksic are all under 21.Just like last year with the three promoted teams - 75 games, 43pts, -95GD. Love to see us go up but it won't be nearly as much fun as this season!
Spot on. It's a forum for all. Not just for your (not you BBP) preference.
I think Ipswich have planned it out for if they go down looking at the players they brought in. They will be in a good position to go back up and seemingly built so that they can continue to build from there.
True. But I’m sure Leeds would say the same about Summerville, Rutter and Blackburn with Szmodics etc etc.
It gives a minority of “whataboutery” idiots something to point to every time one of our players gets linked with a move away:
Doak looks a good player from what I’ve seen/know. But that screams of planning for next year. They’re still within a chance of stopping up.
Just looked at the table & thought Wolves would be further in front like. Feels like they’ve picked up a fair amount of points lately. If I just an Ipswich or Leicester supporter I’d be miles away from saying we’re fucked. It’s 2 from 3.
Don’t think we’d spend as much, but I think we’d spend it a bit more intelligently. Ipswich have a bit of a scattergun feeling about their signings. Clarke being an example. Sign him & never play him in a position where he excelled. Obviously if they stop up this post is complete bollocks.
It’s not a bad point though.
I’m interested to see how he does.
Don’t think professional sports people think about it that way - Clarke failing at Ipswich has no bearing on Watson’s ability to be successful at Brighton. For every failure there will be successes, and you won’t be successful if you don’t push the boat out and give it a go.
That’s a fair enough comment, but there’s truth in the saying the grass isn’t always greener & you’ve got an almost perfect example in Clarke. Not only do they play the same position, they look spookily similar
Reading between the lines he wanted to play PL and Ipswich was the only offer that came in of the back off as good a season as he was ever going to have. So his option was another season with us (no guarantee he would be as successful or that we would go up). So with the finances added in it was pretty a straight forward decision.That’s a fair enough comment, but there’s truth in the saying the grass isn’t always greener & you’ve got an almost perfect example in Clarke. Not only do they play the same position, they look spookily similar
We’ve picked up a good handful of players who just haven’t made it looking for that big move. Clarke, Roberts, Le Fee maybe. It was all important to these lads to play football & they’ve got (or would have) a chance of achieving top tier football without jumping ship into another team where they might not get onto the pitch on a Saturday.
You would expect a professional footballer to back themselves, but going back to Clarke, would it be naive to back yourself in a league higher in an unfamiliar position? You wonder if formations & the part he’d play were discussed during signing negotiations
