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Post by allan 1958 (OAF-WROY)(SSLFF) on Jul 22, 2024 20:58:38 GMT 1
Is there any hope anywhere? Bit dark, mate! Yes at the John Smith's on the kilner bank
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Post by COWSHEDPHIL on Jul 22, 2024 21:22:11 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Jul 22, 2024 21:24:05 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. I wouldn't say spanked , plus they are a decent team with some known players and internationals. We will be signing more players, this camp will give Duff plenty of answers to questions he will have.
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Post by Dan on Jul 22, 2024 21:24:31 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. 3 weeks is a long time in football eh?! We’re gonna win the league. I got us at 9/1. Wonder what we’ll be when the season kicks off.
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Post by VLP Fan Club on Jul 22, 2024 21:26:49 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. We’ve also trained twice before the game…
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Post by thomo on Jul 22, 2024 21:29:22 GMT 1
It is a scary thought if Nicholls and Helik go, given we already need a CB, CDM, and ST to complete our first team that would be 5 signings required before the end of the window. That's half a bloody team!
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Jul 22, 2024 21:40:58 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. For the first hour (until we made changes) we more than matched them. The difference being was that they had fast forwards and we have slow defenders.
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Post by ezzie on Jul 22, 2024 21:46:45 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are.
We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill.
We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening.
We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers.
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Post by 2ellandback on Jul 22, 2024 21:49:06 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are. We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill. We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening. We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers. I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs.
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Post by rockwall on Jul 22, 2024 21:52:05 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are. We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill. We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening. We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers. I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs. And they got spanked 7-0 by Paderborn. Imagine the meltdown on here.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 22, 2024 21:52:35 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are. We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill. We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening. We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers. I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs. And we've made the biggest profit in transfers than any league 1 club.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2024 21:57:42 GMT 1
If the signings don't get made early it is usually a game of who blinks first with them coming in on deadline day, if the FAX is working. Still business to be done.
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Post by ezzie on Jul 22, 2024 22:05:57 GMT 1
I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs. [/quote] So they’re majorly putting their money where their mouths are and backing up their big plans. People keep hiding behind ‘oh what if they don’t gel’ like Ipswich in LG1? who smartly crafted a LG1/Champ super team and are now in the PL. And let’s just say there’s an infinitely better chance at them doing well when laying good money for proper talent, than paying relatively nominal fees for players that you have to pray become world beaters. Let’s say they sign Stansfield and pair him with May - people still worried about them gel’ing? No because they’ll very likely score 45 goals between them. I no doubt we’re in the hunt for 2 STs, and also have no doubts one of them will be a young kid on loan who we’re praying can score goals. Let’s hope we pick up some major, significant transfer traffic this week, as it’s clear from Nagle and the board the only acceptable feat this season is promotion. You don’t get that with Ward, Lees, Ruffles, Turton, Pearson, Hogg etc in your starting lineup, or anything other than the bench for that matter
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Post by Headless Chicken on Jul 22, 2024 22:12:52 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. Could there be a more 'DATM' post than this.
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Post by willhudd on Jul 22, 2024 22:26:38 GMT 1
I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs. So they’re majorly putting their money where their mouths are and backing up their big plans. People keep hiding behind ‘oh what if they don’t gel’ like Ipswich in LG1? who smartly crafted a LG1/Champ super team and are now in the PL. And let’s just say there’s an infinitely better chance at them doing well when laying good money for proper talent, than paying relatively nominal fees for players that you have to pray become world beaters. Let’s say they sign Stansfield and pair him with May - people still worried about them gel’ing? No because they’ll very likely score 45 goals between them. I no doubt we’re in the hunt for 2 STs, and also have no doubts one of them will be a young kid on loan who we’re praying can score goals. Let’s hope we pick up some major, significant transfer traffic this week, as it’s clear from Nagle and the board the only acceptable feat this season is promotion. You don’t get that with Ward, Lees, Ruffles, Turton, Pearson, Hogg etc in your starting lineup, or anything other than the bench for that matter [/quote] The challenge with football is often a lack of knowledge or understanding of players especially with regards to league 1. You come across as a premier league fan trying to understand the football league and the players within. What is your knowledge of the bham signings other than they have spent money? Still plenty of the transfer window to go...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2024 22:28:16 GMT 1
No need to worry. Not sure if anyone is into betting but i had a look at the odds and we was 12/1 outcasts to win this game. They was 1/9 to win! It isn’t a random shite side, im pretty sure they was in europe a few years ago!!
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Post by royrace on Jul 22, 2024 22:38:22 GMT 1
Getting slightly concerned by the lack of rumours. We're one injury away from having as bad a forward line as last season and Duff likes to play with two.
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Post by thomo on Jul 22, 2024 22:49:10 GMT 1
Getting slightly concerned by the lack of rumours. We're one injury away from having as bad a forward line as last season and Duff likes to play with two. And given Healey's injury record you've gotta say that 'one injury' is very likely to happen
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Post by utttrooper on Jul 22, 2024 23:21:50 GMT 1
Getting slightly concerned by the lack of rumours. We're one injury away from having as bad a forward line as last season and Duff likes to play with two. Stick Josh Austerfield up front
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Post by leagueoneherewego on Jul 22, 2024 23:32:20 GMT 1
No need to worry. Not sure if anyone is into betting but i had a look at the odds and we was 12/1 outcasts to win this game. They was 1/9 to win! It isn’t a random shite side, im pretty sure they was in europe a few years ago!! they were in the europa league last season. went out in the group stages.
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Post by dxterrier on Jul 23, 2024 0:13:55 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. Just seen extended highlights... Defence all over the place for all 4 goals, all looks disjointed as if nothing has changed. I know its pre season but I would have thought they would have looked more interested, bright spot is Miller looks a decent threat. Worrying, I think talk of promotion is very very premature Remember 4 go down from league 1
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Post by melbourneterrier on Jul 23, 2024 2:53:38 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are. We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill. We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening. We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers. I read over the weekend that Birmingham have spent more than 22 of the Championship clubs. So? Take us and Brum out of the conversation , there's 22 other clubs in League One. Other than them hijacking the May transfer, I really don't understand the obsession with Brum recently. Spending large doesn't guarantee success, we should know that! They also have a new manager too remember. I think we should be focussing on ourselves, not Brum. Truth be told, I couldn't give a toss how much they're spending. FWIW, The players we have signed all have been impressive and typically the better players in their teams. Miller has looked great in pre-season, there were rumours of Kane potentially going to Championship before we signed him, Evans was their Player of the Season and I believe Lasse was as well. All signed to fit directly into Duffs system and all in the prime of their careers. We all know that we are in desperate need of a new striker or 2 - even Nagle pretty much confirmed as such. Given we've been heavily linked with Hodge, one would assume they are in the market for a CDM as well. Whether or not we are looking at CBs, I'm not so sure. I wouldn't mind a 6 month loan, to cover Balkers injury. I'm sure there'll still be plenty of activity - both in and out before the window shuts. What I'm expecting to happen at least is that the future of the players who aren't on the tour (High, Austerfield, Hudlin, Simpson, Bojan) are all likely to depart whether it's through loans or permanent transfers. I fully expect we'll see a striker or two in and a CDM in. There may be more than that, but that's the minimum of what I'm expecting.
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Post by dbterrier32 on Jul 23, 2024 3:09:53 GMT 1
It is a scary thought if Nicholls and Helik go, given we already need a CB, CDM, and ST to complete our first team that would be 5 signings required before the end of the window. That's half a bloody team! I think the lack of game time Nicholls is getting this pre season surely means he is off.
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Post by Metch on Jul 23, 2024 4:40:06 GMT 1
Getting slightly concerned by the lack of rumours. We're one injury away from having as bad a forward line as last season and Duff likes to play with two. Stick Josh Austerfield up front Not a bad shout, apparently played the occasional striker role when he was 14.
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Post by htfcterry on Jul 23, 2024 5:04:43 GMT 1
I think we’re coming off as critical in terms of high profile signings that we so desperately need (LCB, DM, 2 x ST), because look at Brum, our main ‘rivals’ they’ve done much of their business and put their money where their mouths are. We had all this about getting signings done early so they’re flying in preseason gel’ing, getting up to scratch with tactics/playstyles, Duffs processes etc. yet we’re 3 weeks away from the season starting with 3/4 impressive signings required that should be automatically coming into the first team. It was a great window sorting much of the midfield issues out we’ve suffered from for earlier, but it’s slowed up massively, with very little inside on the rumour mill. We’re literally a Helik injury away from Pearson, Lees and Turton/Ruffles as a back 3 and that’s frightening. We’re a Healey injury away (remember his struggles last season) from Danny Ward and Koroma being our starting strikers. Brum have spent almost £15m to get out of this league. I'd much rather do transfer business the astute way like we have been doing than just throwing a load of cash at it. Look what happened last time we threw a load of cash at investing a team, nearly double relegation. They're piling so much pressure on this rookie manager they have and themselves, I'd love nothing more than to see them flop.
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Post by kwami-hodouto on Jul 23, 2024 7:18:58 GMT 1
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Post by dezzly on Jul 23, 2024 7:32:11 GMT 1
Well we’ve just been spanked 4-2 by a Cypriot team and there’s not been any rumours of any signings for a while. We’ve also trained twice before the game… 3 times infact.double session day before and the morning of the game they trained.It’s if we rock up and Peterborough and look like that would be the worry.We won’t though.
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Post by mosher on Jul 23, 2024 8:19:44 GMT 1
All these folk citing Brum splashing the cash.
Have our fans learnt nowt?
Splashing the cash guarantees absolutely nothing, see our transfer dealings in 2018 for proof.
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Post by bells ringing :) on Jul 23, 2024 8:25:16 GMT 1
All these folk citing Brum splashing the cash. Have our fans learnt nowt? Splashing the cash guarantees absolutely nothing, see our transfer dealings in 2018 for proof. Or even the Rubery era ? or the Hoyle 3 year lead upto promotion ? How many players did we sign, what wages were we paying it was crazy for the time. Clibbens said we had 5 players on 10k a week plus , which back in 08 - 2012 was a lot.
On paper thus far, our signings look decent and i am sure there is more to come que Nagle saying that himself. There is a balance to be had.
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Post by gowlinggoal on Jul 23, 2024 9:14:57 GMT 1
Would love two or three more signings but we might need to be patient if we’re looking at PL loans as managers may not lend anyone until they know the players who were in the Euros or Copa are back and firing.
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