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Post by drfootball on Aug 9, 2019 16:48:28 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2019 17:05:42 GMT 1
I am confident in my abilities.... I am a great manager at work. Where others fail, I'll bloody show them how it's done!! I am successful in most things I do. And then I come up against some new scenarios... and some difficult people and all in an industry I'm not fully conversant with and my initial 'I'll bloody show em' and my optimism that I'll get this and that done has to be tempered down a bit. It's called reality and I don't think PH was malicious or intended to mislead etc. He is on a steep learning curve at the moment, but my original point stands- give him more than 2 mins in charge before turning out with the pitchforks!! Ok Phil
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Post by crux on Aug 9, 2019 17:23:25 GMT 1
It happens all the time but why then did he say that players were lined up to replace any outgoings? Where's Smith's replacement, where's Billing's replacement, where's Mooy's replacement? All sold after he made the statement. Unless Chalobah is so good he's going to replace all 3. He could have simply said that we'll try our best to replace any outgoing players. Despite only recently becoming Chairman, he also said that he'd been involved in the planning since February. To me this is the main issue. He's made bold statements about 3 quality prem loans coming in and about us replacing outgoings, and it hasn't happened. If you can't guarantee it, don't say it, or like you said, say we'll try to. It now seems like a cheap way to get fans on side. I agree PH should have prefaced his comments with 'we are trying to ....', but most people would have ignored that bit!! However, we do have 2 loans from the Premier League. Only time will tell whether they are quality and have the same impact as Mooy, Ward, Palmer and Brown in our promotion season. I suspect the 3rd loan was either a left back as we were expecting Kongolo to leave the club or, as someone else posted recently, during a trial we decided they were not what we wanted. It was suggested the ex WHU midfield player could have be the trialist. However there were two behind closed door matches where no team details were leaked out, so trials for potential loanees could have been those matches. We have replaced Smith with Blockhorn and Billing with Brown (R), as well as Mooy with Chalobah - which are the only outgoing transfers since the end of season clear out. I cannot see how we can replace Zanka when he leaves, unless there is a decent free agent knocking about - although Elphick may be seen as his replacement. I agree with the consensus that we are a left back short - unless Brown (J) is better than his Exeter loan might suggest. Kongolo is a decent option at left back, but he needs to improve the attacking side of his play. I actually think his best position is left side of a back three, rather than one of a pair of centre halves. I also think we are a goal scoring option short, but Fraser Campbell could cover that. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Mounié left before the end of the month and Campbell will be/is his replacement.
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Post by sensible idiot on Aug 9, 2019 17:36:20 GMT 1
This is the first thread I have ever created. I was expecting irrational hatred and abuse.
It's nice that some folk agree with me (yippeee) , what's even nicer is that not one of the posters who disagrees with me / have a different point of view to me have called me names etc.
For that I thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2019 18:53:39 GMT 1
This is the first thread I have ever created. I was expecting irrational hatred and abuse. It's nice that some folk agree with me (yippeee) , what's even nicer is that not one of the posters who disagrees with me / have a different point of view to me have called me names etc. For that I thank you. only people who retort to swearing are mostly the ones who are narrow minded.its time some gave the chairman a break. but you can bet if we lose tomorrow they will be back on with therevitriol comments.
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Post by Jack on Aug 9, 2019 20:12:47 GMT 1
Hodgkinson will be hailed a hero when he announces that we only loaned Wagner to Schalke for a year and he had signed a new 3 year contract just before he left.
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Aug 9, 2019 20:26:59 GMT 1
Hodgkinson will be hailed a hero when he announces that we only loaned Wagner to Schalke for a year and he had signed a new 3 year contract just before he left. Now that would be good news. Can you imagine the welcome he’d get when he returned?
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Post by Jack on Aug 9, 2019 20:58:55 GMT 1
Hodgkinson will be hailed a hero when he announces that we only loaned Wagner to Schalke for a year and he had signed a new 3 year contract just before he left. Now that would be good news. Can you imagine the welcome he’d get when he returned? I can imagine the one he'd get from Diakhaby & Mbenza.
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