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Post by tepidterrier on Mar 16, 2022 10:34:30 GMT 1
What happens to this squad if we get promoted? The best thing about it is the team spirit and togetherness, so common sense tells me additions should be minimal. But if we get promoted we will need more quality all over the pitch.
At the moment I think we only have 3 players, O'Brien, Colwill, and Nicholls, where I'm convinced they'll adapt straight away. Others could surprise us (VLP stepped up much better than Kachunga last time for example), or take a little bit to adapt to the level, but surely we'd need a few in. But how many? And who?
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Post by detox on Mar 16, 2022 11:03:08 GMT 1
shhh
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Mar 16, 2022 11:30:29 GMT 1
What happens to this squad if we get promoted? The best thing about it is the team spirit and togetherness, so common sense tells me additions should be minimal. But if we get promoted we will need more quality all over the pitch. At the moment I think we only have 3 players, O'Brien, Colwill, and Nicholls, where I'm convinced they'll adapt straight away. Others could surprise us (VLP stepped up much better than Kachunga last time for example), or take a little bit to adapt to the level, but surely we'd need a few in. But how many? And who? Much too soon Tepid. |
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Post by Stewpot on Mar 16, 2022 14:00:28 GMT 1
If, and it's a big if, learn from the previous 2nd season debacle, bring in a bit of quality if available at a decent price, and just accept we're coming straight back down. No more spunking cash on half-arsed mercenaries who are only here for what they can milk us for.
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Post by Tinpot on Mar 16, 2022 14:13:25 GMT 1
Yep. Use as much of the windfall as possible to cement our position as one of the front runners in the championship. We're far more likely to come back down than establish ourselves in the PL and our investment should reflect that.
If we can get value, great - but in a sense we should forget trying to stay up & focus more on just building the club.
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Post by hoggy1975 on Mar 17, 2022 11:21:51 GMT 1
IF we go up, I’d like us to focus on signing top championship players who aren’t on inflated wages and want to play for the club.
Bank the money. I agree with the poster above.
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Post by Orinoco on Mar 17, 2022 12:47:41 GMT 1
Hopefully the mistakes from our last visit have been noted.
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Post by durhamterrier on Mar 17, 2022 21:45:27 GMT 1
If we go up , look to invest in top end championship talent … they’ll have something to prove in the prem and should we go down they’ll be good enough to go again .
Avoid the French market like the plague too .
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Post by detox on Mar 18, 2022 10:22:50 GMT 1
kiss of death this thread...
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Post by Paphos Terrier on Mar 19, 2022 20:46:05 GMT 1
kiss of death this thread... Yeah, we all know where the money would go... |
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Post by kennyk2 on Mar 20, 2022 10:29:06 GMT 1
There is of course an up side of not reaching the play offs. The recruitment team will be finding it really hard to plan for the future at the moment... do we need Premier League quality players, or stay with the Championship planning. We'd need PL players because besides Lee Nicholls and Lewis O'Brien, I can't see anyone good enough for the PL.
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Post by tepidterrier on Mar 20, 2022 13:49:49 GMT 1
Just a blip against 1 very in form side and 1 very expensive side while our players are knackered. Hull is the perfect game to get us back on track. Fuck the defeatism we're going up
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Post by Orinoco on Mar 20, 2022 14:18:14 GMT 1
Only got 2 games between now and 11th of April, plenty of time to analyse what went wrong and hopefully correct it.
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Post by Gold Coast Terrier on Mar 24, 2022 2:10:43 GMT 1
Most top Championship players have inflated wages these days, and when you look at how those types did for us last time around it wasn't great... Ince, Pritchard, Williams and Malone.
I would keep the nucleus and (an unpopular opinion) bring in some non-flashy premier league experience types as long as their character is right and they're willing to learn Carlosball. Honest pros like Ben Mee, Jack Cork, Adam Smith. They might not be right but you get what I mean. They'd take short term contracts so wouldn't be such a liability. Similar to Tom Lees, I trust Carlos to take those experienced pros and lift them to new levels.
Experienced pros get a bad rep, as we still think back to the days their legs were gone by the time they hit 32. But I think we're seeing this change as modern day pros avoided the days of players not looking after themselves and boozing whenever they get the chance.
I think we'd need to take a couple of punts on strikers though. Darryl Dike could be one as I think he scores all types of scrappy goals, which is what we'd need to rely on.
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Post by terriers2000 on Mar 30, 2022 14:47:51 GMT 1
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Post by terriersyndrome on Mar 30, 2022 19:25:14 GMT 1
We fluffed that one last season. |
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Post by Orinoco on Mar 31, 2022 7:01:56 GMT 1
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Post by tepidterrier on Apr 2, 2022 11:35:28 GMT 1
Adebayo on the end of Thomas's deliveries would be just the ticket, there's a reason we were in for him before. Would be a sideways move though frankly so would be surprised if it's seen as worth going for. We need someone with his profile though, big aerial presence and years ahead of him.
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Post by durhamterrier on Apr 3, 2022 16:11:09 GMT 1
Imagine he’ll be sought after by Norwich , Burnley or Watford this summer
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 3, 2022 16:30:39 GMT 1
Adebayo on the end of Thomas's deliveries would be just the ticket, there's a reason we were in for him before. Would be a sideways move though frankly so would be surprised if it's seen as worth going for. We need someone with his profile though, big aerial presence and years ahead of him. Although I highly doubt that reason was Sorba, given we only signed him a fortnight or so before attempting to sign Adebayo, and none of us (CC included - he's admitted that he didn't see him as a regular starter at the beginning of this season) knew how good Sorba was going to get. If we go up though we could do a lot worse than go back in for him. I expect he'll cost a bob or two more than he would have had we signed him 18 months ago though! |
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Post by Gold Coast Terrier on Apr 5, 2022 1:28:08 GMT 1
Easy to add our name to this list as we were previously linked. |
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Post by Convictatthemac on Apr 7, 2022 13:58:18 GMT 1
Ola Solbakken RW, but can play across the front three. Major upgrade on Sinani and will cost less.
In fact, we should be scouting the whole Bodo/Glimt team, they’ve done really well in Europe, play a high energy brand of football and play as a team. They are everything we want to be.
Morelos, striker from Rangers.
Scott Twine, AM from MK Dons.
Ramsay, RB from Aberdeen.
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Post by harrychrishner on Apr 10, 2022 19:02:42 GMT 1
If we go up...... Otium was predicting 14th in the league with this shower a few months back. The eternal pessimist or maybe he didn't have a clue!
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Post by crux on Apr 11, 2022 13:33:50 GMT 1
If we go up...... Otium was predicting 14th in the league with this shower a few months back. The eternal pessimist or maybe he didn't have a clue! To be fair, a week ago some on here were also 'predicting' we'd be about 10th now! |
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 11, 2022 15:21:07 GMT 1
If we go up...... Otium was predicting 14th in the league with this shower a few months back. The eternal pessimist or maybe he didn't have a clue! To be fair, a week ago some on here were also 'predicting' we'd be about 10th now! To clarify - I said after the Hull game that depending on results elsewhere we COULD be 10th by the time we kicked off vs Luton. Which we could have. It was also possible that we could still have been 3rd now. By & large results were favourable to us between our last game & now but there was no pessimism there. Just a fact, neither optimistic nor pessimistic but entirely neutral. |
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Post by crux on Apr 11, 2022 15:33:18 GMT 1
To be fair, a week ago some on here were also 'predicting' we'd be about 10th now! To clarify - I said after the Hull game that depending on results elsewhere we COULD be 10th by the time we kicked off vs Luton. Which we could have. It was also possible that we could still have been 3rd now. By & large results were favourable to us between our last game & now but there was no pessimism there. Just a fact, neither optimistic nor pessimistic but entirely neutral. 🤣 I knew I'd get a bite with that, it's why I put it in quotes 😙😉. We are having a fantastic season really. With one proper striker and only one winger performing all season, there's no way we should be one of 6 teams looking for the 4 play off places with 5 or 6 matches to go. PS: If we win tonight and Friday, I'm not giving up automatic promotion yet! |
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 11, 2022 15:56:38 GMT 1
Fair do's, you got me!   |
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Post by insooth on Apr 20, 2022 15:37:16 GMT 1
If we reach the promised land will we buy sell or borrow extra players during the short summer?
Carlos tends to look only to the next match. Will he have players in his mind? Will Heff know a few good German players.
There must be many good English ones who are itching to play in the Premier,
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Post by allan 1958 (OAF-WROY)(SSLFF) on Apr 20, 2022 16:09:26 GMT 1
Tooooooooooooooo soon
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Post by keithAM11532 on Apr 20, 2022 16:18:57 GMT 1
Moving to If we Go up
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