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Post by oneneilwarnock on Jul 1, 2024 12:42:49 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that.
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Post by ezzie on Jul 1, 2024 12:44:18 GMT 1
Can you stop with this garbage?
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Post by jqhtfc on Jul 1, 2024 12:44:19 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that. If fit I totally agree re healey think he’s easily a 20+ goal striker at this level
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Post by benhomly on Jul 1, 2024 12:44:38 GMT 1
What do you call a few extra quid? If it's an extra £2k a week that's £300k over a 3 year contract and for someone who's bummed around non league/L1/L2 until the age of 30 that's a lot of money. Oh and if he came here he'd still have to travel to a shithole. Would you rather we just kept bettering their offer until our budget had run out? No but you don’t back down as soon as they come? They’ve come in placed one bid higher and snatched him off us. And you know this as fact do you?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 12:45:04 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that. If he stays fit. We have 3 injury prone strikers (Healey,Ward,Radulovic) Big worry for me
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Post by DuffMan on Jul 1, 2024 12:45:19 GMT 1
Just a possible bit of balance, but it is possible that it is as much a matter of the wise/sensible use if money that you have available to spend (regards both fees and wages). For me it's as simple as we wanted him, he's proven at this level, the manager knows him, likes him and wanted him here. If we haven't made the deal happen then we've failed. It's that simple. If he goes to Brum it's a rival in the same league that we should be able to compete with, especially with the manager connection. Feels a bit like last season so far tbh, appreciate it's early days but if we're missing out on targets it's not a good start. Either way I wish they'd announce something! They have much bigger financial backing we can only do what we can afford to within our owners proposed sustainable plan. If you break it every time someone out bids you, you end up in admin and bust again
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Post by lankystreak on Jul 1, 2024 12:45:47 GMT 1
Hearing news from a completely anonymous source who I won't reveal that Town are 'hanging tough' about new signings Is this a cryptic clue that we're expecting plenty of New Kids On The Block? Or am I way off the Marky Mark?
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Post by dooky82 on Jul 1, 2024 12:45:51 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that. Lots of penalties and the odd free kick too so no good for us!
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Post by Tiro on Jul 1, 2024 12:45:57 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that. If he stays fit. We have 3 injury prone strikers (Healey,Ward,Radulovic) Big worry for me Everything is a worry for you. Everything.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 12:46:05 GMT 1
No but you don’t back down as soon as they come? They’ve come in placed one bid higher and snatched him off us. And you know this as fact do you? Well it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? We’ve been trying for weeks, finally agree a deal and they come and snatch him off us. Now it’s pretty much confirmed he is a blue player, without any mention of us trying to go back in for him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 12:46:55 GMT 1
If he stays fit. We have 3 injury prone strikers (Healey,Ward,Radulovic) Big worry for me Everything is a worry for you. Everything. 👍
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Post by benhomly on Jul 1, 2024 12:48:39 GMT 1
And you know this as fact do you? Well it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? We’ve been trying for weeks, finally agree a deal and they come and snatch him off us. Now it’s pretty much confirmed he is a blue player, without any mention of us trying to go back in for him. Admit it, you don't have a clue what's gone on. Do you really think his agent will have sat back once an offer from us came in without touting his name around? Charlton might have been happy with the offer but his agent won't have been. Naive or what.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2024 12:50:52 GMT 1
Well it’s pretty obvious isn’t it? We’ve been trying for weeks, finally agree a deal and they come and snatch him off us. Now it’s pretty much confirmed he is a blue player, without any mention of us trying to go back in for him. Admit it, you don't have a clue what's gone on. Do you really think his agent will have sat back once an offer from us came in without touting his name around? Charlton might have been happy with the offer but his agent won't have been. Naive or what. When did i say i have a clue? Just pretty obvious what’s gone on, we’ve dicked about and got a key player snatched off us
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Post by CowshedJack on Jul 1, 2024 12:52:29 GMT 1
Could you imagine if we somehow pulled it off and signed Alfie May and he was shite ahahaha
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Post by jjamez on Jul 1, 2024 12:52:30 GMT 1
I'm not bothered about missing out. It's how we've missed out.
They seem to have got the deal sorted over a weekend, it's taken carthorse weeks to get close. Is he really that incompetent?
We've obviously wanted him because duff did and his previous few seasons at this level. Now there must be someone who is capable of doing it, they might have never played at this level yet but might have talent to do so, maybe even have age on their side too
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Post by crux on Jul 1, 2024 12:53:44 GMT 1
Can you stop with this garbage? It's still better than most of the shite that's been posted recently. Especially the amount of bedwetting over a striker nobody on here had heard of 4 weeks ago, who may or may not be going to Birmingham instead of possibly coming to us.
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Post by DuffMan on Jul 1, 2024 12:53:52 GMT 1
I'm not bothered about missing out. It's how we've missed out. They seem to have got the deal sorted over a weekend, it's taken carthorse weeks to get close. Is he really that incompetent? We've obviously wanted him because duff did and his previous few seasons at this level. Now there must be someone who is capable of doing it, they might have never played at this level yet but might have talent to do so, maybe even have age on their side too Or his agent looked at our offer and told Birmingham if they beat it he’ll go there. They don’t just accept the first offer on the table
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Post by Tiro on Jul 1, 2024 12:54:04 GMT 1
Admit it, you don't have a clue what's gone on. Do you really think his agent will have sat back once an offer from us came in without touting his name around? Charlton might have been happy with the offer but his agent won't have been. Naive or what. When did i say i have a clue? Just pretty obvious what’s gone on, we’ve dicked about and got a key player snatched off us What’s ‘obvious’ about this other than pure speculation. You don’t even know for sure he’s gone yet. Stop melting and spamming the board.
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Post by ezzie on Jul 1, 2024 12:56:48 GMT 1
Just a possible bit of balance, but it is possible that it is as much a matter of the wise/sensible use if money that you have available to spend (regards both fees and wages). For me it's as simple as we wanted him, he's proven at this level, the manager knows him, likes him and wanted him here. If we haven't made the deal happen then we've failed. It's that simple. If he goes to Brum it's a rival in the same league that we should be able to compete with, especially with the manager connection. Feels a bit like last season so far tbh, appreciate it's early days but if we're missing out on targets it's not a good start. Either way I wish they'd announce something! Completely agree, apart from it still being ‘early days’ 😬 Pre-season is already a full week underway and we’re already in July!
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Post by Gag_N_Bone_Man on Jul 1, 2024 12:57:14 GMT 1
just heard that we should keep an eye out at 2pm...
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Post by ezzie on Jul 1, 2024 12:59:39 GMT 1
15 of May's 23 goals were against sides in the bottom half, call me deluded but i think Healey can match that. To be quite honest, yes Healey COULD very well get 20 goals next season, however it is nowhere near a certainty. May has done that, 3 times in 3 seasons. Don’t forget Healey has had his fair share of injuries. God forbid but if he isn’t playing 38+ games next season we’re in big big trouble.
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Post by townatheart on Jul 1, 2024 13:00:07 GMT 1
just heard that we should keep an eye out at 2pm... Think we have had enough of that line of attempted comedy😉🙃, unless of course you are being serious!
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Post by CowshedJack on Jul 1, 2024 13:01:03 GMT 1
Last decent striker we signed was Mounie in 2017 btw.
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Post by CowshedJack on Jul 1, 2024 13:01:26 GMT 1
just heard that we should keep an eye out at 2pm... Is that when Brum are announcing their new striker?
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Post by ringdisco on Jul 1, 2024 13:01:26 GMT 1
just heard that we should keep an eye out at 2pm... Prob that defender from Pilgrims, that.
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Post by BLUE&WHITE on Jul 1, 2024 13:01:47 GMT 1
Last decent striker we signed was Mounie in 2017 btw. Fuck. Was that really 2017 ?!?!?!
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Post by Sio on Jul 1, 2024 13:02:29 GMT 1
Last decent striker we signed was Mounie in 2017 btw. Karlan Grant
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Post by CowshedJack on Jul 1, 2024 13:04:09 GMT 1
Last decent striker we signed was Mounie in 2017 btw. Karlan Grant Famously not a striker and played on the wing at Town, which is why he’s failed at every club he’s gone to.
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Post by 2ellandback on Jul 1, 2024 13:04:11 GMT 1
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Post by RickDangerous on Jul 1, 2024 13:09:16 GMT 1
Last decent striker we signed was Mounie in 2017 btw. Only because Birmingham didn't want him.
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