Weaker now than at the start of Jan


I was one who would have been happy with one loan to support Gelhardt’s playing time and provide cover for injury. Wasn’t arsed about bring two in, or it having to be a permanent.

And they still fucked it.

It’s like Donald is still in charge but has Speakman instead of that Hill knacker.
 
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It's obviously not ideal with having one striker, that's fine. If you a bit pissed about that. That's fine.

But on the other hand, suggesting they 'don't want to go up' to one of the richest leagues in the world, and also saying we're in danger of a relegation battle is embarrassing.

Like I don't think we'll finish top 6 now myself, but I don't think we'll absolutely plummet. It's disappointing a bit but it's ridiculous to suggest we'll lose the next 6 games on the bounce
 
Cant get my head around how people are blaming Speakman? Our transfer business especially in January has told us he hasn’t been given any money. He’s been working in the frees and loan market and even Geldhart had to be sold a vision because Mowbray stated he had much better financial deals on the table elsewhere. This is a 20 year old young lad from Leeds on loan for 4 month having to be sold a vision ffs!
Strikers are the hardest position to fill and when you don’t have a pot to piss in and need a few of them it’s always going to be difficult. If I were him and the rumors of top 6 prem teams circling I would be off! KLD on the other hand if he doesn’t have the finances to take us forward needs to look for some investment and quick!
 
I think it's clear the top brass are scared to go up. It's true if we did we would be ahead of schedule and more than likely get embarassed in the PL, ignoring the obvious financial benefits of even 1 season there.

The other consideration is that automatic promotion is essentially decided, very little chance anyone catches the top 2 now, so to gamble big on getting to the playoffs, another gamble in itself, possibly wasn't deemed worthwhile.

Even if you accept the above lines of thinking, my bigger concern is how this affects our team longer term in the Championship.

Next year no Amad, possibly no Stewart, Gelhardt will go back to Leeds. Square 1 again, even if we sign a couple of strikers we wont know if they are any good for us, and settled until we are into the next season (on paper a potentially much harder league than this year's).

Good contingency planning should have meant we always have someone we know can do the job to step in, but they bet the house on Stewart alone.

There's a whole other set of issues regarding lack of experience losing Wright, then Evans Batth and Pritchard who are all out of contract in the summer.

If any of these young players who are all big gambles, fail to deliver, then who is the experienced hand ready to step in?

Half of these signings have less than 10 professional appearances. It wasn't an issue when we signed players like Cirkin, or started to introduce Dan Neil to the team because they were surrounded by experienced pros to guide them through.
 
I think they spent the money already need to get to the summer to make a stronger team for next season regarding getting more strikers in plus 14 points is safety and playoff spots is 34 points in the next 19 games remaining…
 
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They’ve fucked up as it stands.

As an example .

I’m not a season ticket holder but have attended 7 home games this season as has my daughter with me.

We ain’t t coming back this year .


We are angry .
Strong words. What happens when we start scoring goals for fun.
Amad only has to move a few yards inside and with the new lad we could have a new Quinn/Phillips. Fuck you doomsday merchants and let's get behind what we have, they certainly haven't let me down this year. Fuck off up the road and put in 7 matches there.
 
Some people are happy with it just so no criticism goes towards KLD/Speakmans way. I feel theres been so much positivity around the club lately and all thats just been torn to shreds with this decision to leave us with one young on loan striker to lead the line for four months. You cant tell me they couldn’t find another forward. The ones that cost buttons have probably all gone so thats why were short. I feel the manager has been let down badly. Seems like we are just happy not to push for a playoff spot, and it seems to me like theres no ambition to match this huge fan base.
 
I think we are all very disappointed that we haven’t brought in at least 1 other striker, but some of the posts on here are just embarrassing really. A ball hasnt even been kicked yet since the window closed so we have no idea how this group will do. I personally am also disappointed and thought in all honesty that Simms or one other would be in, but it is was it is and I’m sure we didn’t bring one in for a valid reason. Maybe the ones we were in for weren’t available and the price wasn’t right, or dare I say we have a model now,where we don’t panic buy for the sake of it. Yes we are short we can all see that, but I wouldn’t be too hard on Speakman who has done excellent. I might get peletera here, but that’s how I see it.
 
Wba,swansea,sheff u, reading, Bristol city, and Blackburn have all had ONE in, Boro and brum..2..weve got 4 in. Doesn't seem we're much weaker when compared to others.
 
Losing Simms and Ross obviously makes us weaker up top because we know what they are capable of, we don't know what the new lads are capable of so I suggest we give them a chance and see if Mowbray can work his magic again and find a blend that works, we basically have no choice anyway so might as well back who is here as to a man they've given us everything so far, don't want this to get poisonous at the actual games because that benefits no one. The time to vent is in the summer if the gamble didn't pay off and we've struggled. Funnily enough I think it won't be lack of goals that may scupper us I think it will be not having big lads defending set pieces/corners that we see us a lot more vulnerable, we'll see....dare I say KTF....
 
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Only having one available fit striker who is a loanee would be unacceptable for any professional football club and failing to even bring in even your option C or D man with 3 days of the window still open (from point of RS injury) is even more so, whether in the prem or league 2 - Irrespective of your league position or circumstance.

Have the recruitment team been out on the piss today?

Agree - add the FACT that this is the second time it’s happened this season is almost unforgivable.
They’ve had lots of praise and rightfully so but deserve flak for this situation.
 
They will have made moves for strikers but signing the correct players that will improve the squad is difficult. There’s no point in signing fillers like ‘Kaziah Sterling or Jerome Sinclair.

Having said that, it’s really disappointing and leaves the team and Mowbray in a really tough position. Tony must be fuming.
 
It's obviously not ideal with having one striker, that's fine. If you a bit pissed about that. That's fine.

But on the other hand, suggesting they 'don't want to go up' to one of the richest leagues in the world, and also saying we're in danger of a relegation battle is embarrassing.

Like I don't think we'll finish top 6 now myself, but I don't think we'll absolutely plummet. It's disappointing a bit but it's ridiculous to suggest we'll lose the next 6 games on the bounce
I don't think we'll plummet either, however this league is very tight a bad run here and there and the comfortable mid table finish is at risk of turning into a bottom half scrap when adding another striker would've helped. Let's hope the young lad stands up and someone else in the squad finds some goals so that doesn't happen. It's just a shame, the playoffs are there for the taking and we've finished the window weaker than when we started it, could be a massive missed opportunity.
 
I’m stunned by it all to be honest. Just cannot get my head around it.

The failure to enter the season with more than Stewart and Simms was an enormous mistake and was shown to be so in the most glaring fashion - being forced to play 2 months without a striker.

To have now come out of January in an even worse position than that is honestly mind blowing.

The season is over. They’ve settled for mid table. And all the momentum, all of the positivity and goodwill has been extinguished.

One forward for the rest of the season. Unbelievable.
 
It's obviously not ideal with having one striker, that's fine. If you a bit pissed about that. That's fine.

But on the other hand, suggesting they 'don't want to go up' to one of the richest leagues in the world, and also saying we're in danger of a relegation battle is embarrassing.

Like I don't think we'll finish top 6 now myself, but I don't think we'll absolutely plummet. It's disappointing a bit but it's ridiculous to suggest we'll lose the next 6 games on the bounce

They’ve massively reduced the chances of play offs by only having 1 fit loanee striker on the books.
This season might be a better chance of making top 6 than next btw - Amad our best player goes back and if bids start coming in and players are out of contract, not replaced adequately, it’s a whole new rebuild. Missed opportunity, imo.

I also don’t think we have enough cover in the goalkeeper position. We are shortest in probably the 2 most important areas of the pitch.
I’m stunned by it all to be honest. Just cannot get my head around it.

The failure to enter the season with more than Stewart and Simms was an enormous mistake and was shown to be so in the most glaring fashion - being forced to play 2 months without a striker.

To have now come out of January in an even worse position than that is honestly mind blowing.

The season is over. They’ve settled for mid table. And all the momentum, all of the positivity and goodwill has been extinguished.

One forward for the rest of the season. Unbelievable.

Pretty much covers it 👍
 
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Losing Simms and Ross obviously makes us weaker up top because we know what they are capable of, we don't know what the new lads are capable of so I suggest we give them a chance and see if Mowbray can work his magic again and find a blend that works, we basically have no choice anyway so might as well back who is here as to a man they've given us everything so far, don't want this to get poisonous at the actual games because that benefits no one. The time to vent is in the summer if the gamble didn't pay off and we've struggled. Funnily enough I think it won't be lack of goals that may scupper us I think it will be not having big lads defending set pieces/corners that we see us a lot more vulnerable, we'll see....dare I say KTF....
But it will get poisonous at the actual games when we play teams off the park , dont score and end up going down one nowt week on week and we incrementally drop down the table . Every time that happens people will turn to each other and say " well if we'd had a striker on the pitch "
It will feel that the board knew this and were perfectly ok with us watching that to get to the summer when we could have been seeing us win , which by the way is what we pay for.
Lots of faith lost at a time when everyone was feeling united , that cant help but transfer to the pitch and to such a young team.
No one was asking to break the bank or sign Harry Kane , some prospect from Belgium or Denmark would have done just to say " well we cant expect you to watch nowt can we "
Smacks of total disregard for fans experience for half a season , if it goes badly the kids coming to olay in front of 40k massive support will be playing to a half empty ground disaffected . Sell that to next seasons exciting loans.
Of course it may all work out , but its now clear that certainty of fan experience is low on this ownerships agenda . Next years season tickets will reflect that
 
But it will get poisonous at the actual games when we play teams off the park , dont score and end up going down one nowt week on week and we incrementally drop down the table . Every time that happens people will turn to each other and say " well if we'd had a striker on the pitch "
It will feel that the board knew this and were perfectly ok with us watching that to get to the summer when we could have been seeing us win , which by the way is what we pay for.
Lots of faith lost at a time when everyone was feeling united , that cant help but transfer to the pitch and to such a young team.
No one was asking to break the bank or sign Harry Kane , some prospect from Belgium or Denmark would have done just to say " well we cant expect you to watch nowt can we "
Smacks of total disregard for fans experience for half a season , if it goes badly the kids coming to olay in front of 40k massive support will be playing to a half empty ground disaffected . Sell that to next seasons exciting loans.
Of course it may all work out , but its now clear that certainty of fan experience is low on this ownerships agenda . Next years season tickets will reflect that
It’s alright. They’ll wheel out Steve Davison to say that actually everything is ahead of schedule.
 

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