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Bid rejected for Clarke


If Clarke is miffed, get those contract talks opened up again and increase his wage a bit with an extension.

Best case scenario it makes up for any frustration with us not accepting a bid. Worse case it lets clubs know they’re going to have to pay through the nose to get him.
 
The Cabbage said:
Nah, but I remember questioning the general consensus abiut on here at the time. All hinged on being ‘not satisfied’ with the playoffs I think. In context it read like just getting into the playoffs wasn’t enough. If we’re in them we’d be expecting to be a serious challenger.
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Cheers for your comments and interpretation.

We won't be serious challengers if we are considerably weaker than last season that's for sure.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
Can you recall what he said word for word mate? .Seemed massive inference to top 2
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"We want to be putting out a team that can be challenging at the top of the league," said Speakman told the club's Youtube channel.

"No-one is satisfied with getting into the play-offs - while it is a great achievement in the first year back, we have to keep being successful and we have to keep improving."
 
samaistonsrightfoot said:
"We want to be putting out a team that can be challenging at the top of the league," said Speakman told the club's Youtube channel.

"No-one is satisfied with getting into the play-offs - while it is a great achievement in the first year back, we have to keep being successful and we have to keep improving."
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Cheers for that.

None of that aligns with selling off all our best players then. Everyone can just chill
 
The Cabbage said:
He’s not happy just making it to the playoffs. If we’re in them we’ll not be satisfied unless we go very close to winning them.
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So you are actually saying he meant that he does't want automatic promotion, just to do a bit better in the play offs than we did last year?

Really?
 
Hot Since 82 said:
Throw away comment? He was being interviewed in his capacity as Head Of Every f***ing Thing To Do With Football at SAFC.
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Yea, but it was a conversation about how they would feel towards ambitions next season. It was a simple discussion on people generally wanting to stay up after being promoted, and that he felt that had moved on to a place where everyone would no longer being happy with the playoffs. About how far the club had come etc. It's a giant leap in my opinion to take that and say his expectations are that we are top two next season.

It's why it was a stupid thing to say because it could be taken in that way. If he places top two expectations on Mowbray then he is kidding himself.
 
Georgewhitt said:
Oh ok. So doesn't want automatic, but wants the lottery of the play offs, resulting in promotion. But not the easy way like the automatics. Ffs.
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You were asking how else “not just participating in the play offs” could be read. I’ve offered you a suggestion on how else it could be read
 
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