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Timetable to remove chancers and KLD taking real control.

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oddbod said:
I am not going over old ground mate .....you think he did a good job i don't........Do you really think we would have got anywhere near promotion if Stewart had got injured?
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If Stewart was injured and broadhead injured at the same time we’d have struggled
Likewise if Patterson and hoffman and burge were all injured at the Same time we would have struggled.
They weren’t. Teams have financial constraints. A league 1 side will struggle to have 3 quality players for 1 posits in - however In jan we had 3, but Defoe didn’t work out. We’re you happy with Defoe signing?
forever changes said:
SD looks like he doesn’t want to be there !
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no one wanted him there then, including himself …
Far Tibetan Mountain said:
Broadhead is backup for stuart, so what yoy are talking about is backup for the backup. players like Dajaku, Clarke and Roberts could have done a job up front at a pinch. Granted they wouldn't have been as successful as stewart but we wouldn't have been fucked.

For that, he followed the lead of a large majority of the fans and went for defoe.
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Yep
Stewart upfront
Broadhead back up
Defoe was back up for Stewart and broadhead.
And some of our fans think we could have got in someone else to be back up for these 3 in league 1. Aye, good players would have been rushing to be 4th choice striker in league 1 like…
Defoe didn’t work out, it’s a shame, these things happen, but the majority of fans wanted him and thought he would , and tbh, like I’ve said before , he seemed a logical choice as anyone we got in instead of him was going to be 3rd choice, so we couldn’t have got anyone of any quality. I doubt marquis would have come to us to sit on the bench. There was no one else really.
Some of our fans aren’t thinking logically, imo like.
I think at the time, anyone we could have got, roberts or Pritchard would probably have been better upfront instaed
 
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offmenut said:
If Stewart was injured and broadhead injured at the same time we’d have struggled
Likewise if Patterson and hoffman and burge were all injured at the Same time we would have struggled.
They weren’t. Teams have financial constraints. A league 1 side will struggle to have 3 quality players for 1 posits in - however In jan we had 3, but Defoe didn’t work out. We’re you happy with Defoe signing?

no one wanted him there then, including himself …
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why do people bend the truth?do people really believe that if stewart had got injured in February (an out for a couple of months)that broadhead could have provided adequate cover? Do people really believe that?
 
oddbod said:
why do people bend the truth?do people really believe that if stewart had got injured in February (an out for a couple of months)that broadhead could have provided adequate cover? Do people really believe that?
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Stewart was the best striker in league 1 marra.
No one could have provided adequate cover, except broadhead , as imo he was the 2nd best striker in league 1!
What I’m saying is I don’t think it’s realistic for you to think we could have got anyone in to be 4th choice (behind Stewart , broadhead and Defoe)
We’re a league one club. We couldn’t spend millions.
You obviously do. You think there was someone of huge quality we could have got in to sit on the bench for the rest of the season just incase Stewart and broadhead were both injured at the same time and incase Defoe didn’t work out.
I think you thinking that is ludicrous! Sorry, but I do
 
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offmenut said:
Stewart was the best striker in league 1 marra.
No one could have provided adequate cover, except broadhead , as imo he was the 2nd best striker in league 1!
What I’m saying is I don’t think it’s realistic for you to think we could have got anyone in to be 4th choice (behind Stewart , broadhead and Defoe)
We’re a league one club. We couldn’t spend millions.
You obviously do. You think there was someone of huge quality we could have got in to sit on the bench for the rest of the season just incase Stewart and broadhead were both injured at the same time and incase Defoe didn’t work out.
I think you thinking that is ludicrous! Sorry, but I do
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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.
 
MADBOB THE MAKEM said:
Everyone was their inc half of Moscow.
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You've got to assume that's Sartori's links to Rybolovlev then. I know there are rumours of the next big investment already being 'in place', so I'm wondering if they were at Wembley and just not well known. Or they are well known to us and we haven't put 2 and 2 together yet.🤨
 
oddbod said:
If he is sole head of recruitment he should take responsibility for not signing backup for Stewart in January...........He gambled on stewart not getting injured and won.........however in no way you could describe what he did as a professional job.
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Absolute nonsense. We had a very specific job to sign a third choice striker for a team that played with one up front most of the time. We signed one and it didn't work out. Thems the breaks. But to describe it as unprofessional betrays a fatal oversimplification of the job at hand. In real life you can't just keep signing player after player, redundancy after redundancy. We had to comply with SCMP rules as well as being an attractive offering to a prospective player. Of course there is a gamble in there. There is in all real-world squad building. It doesn't make it unprofessional.
 
The Cabbage said:
Absolute nonsense. We had a very specific job to sign a third choice striker for a team that played with one up front most of the time. We signed one and it didn't work out. Thems the breaks. But to describe it as unprofessional betrays a fatal oversimplification of the job at hand. In real life you can't just keep signing player after player, redundancy after redundancy. We had to comply with SCMP rules as well as being an attractive offering to a prospective player. Of course there is a gamble in there. There is in all real-world squad building. It doesn't make it unprofessional.
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why sell aob in january or flanners for that matter
 
oddbod said:
why do people bend the truth?do people really believe that if stewart had got injured in February (an out for a couple of months)that broadhead could have provided adequate cover? Do people really believe that?
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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:
 
The Cabbage said:
Absolute nonsense. We had a very specific job to sign a third choice striker for a team that played with one up front most of the time. We signed one and it didn't work out. Thems the breaks. But to describe it as unprofessional betrays a fatal oversimplification of the job at hand. In real life you can't just keep signing player after player, redundancy after redundancy. We had to comply with SCMP rules as well as being an attractive offering to a prospective player. Of course there is a gamble in there. There is in all real-world squad building. It doesn't make it unprofessional.
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Remember what was said the striker deal was agreed then he pulled out last minute.
 
The Cabbage said:
We definitely were not short a CB. We had 4 on the books and one in the stand for the vast majority of games. Think there was one game where we didn't have enough. Every other week it was Neil's choice.
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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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The Cabbage said:
Absolute nonsense. We had a very specific job to sign a third choice striker for a team that played with one up front most of the time. We signed one and it didn't work out. Thems the breaks. But to describe it as unprofessional betrays a fatal oversimplification of the job at hand. In real life you can't just keep signing player after player, redundancy after redundancy. We had to comply with SCMP rules as well as being an attractive offering to a prospective player. Of course there is a gamble in there. There is in all real-world squad building. It doesn't make it unprofessional.
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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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