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  1. Thanks @petehinton. That is woeful on Rover's part isn't it? A family club without any real academy/development pathway for it's young players. No wonder a load of them jump up into the midland's academies, at the first chance of the club getting a fee for them. How the club thinks they will progress on the pitch whilst having to rebuild every single summer is beyond me. Surely you need the ability to build a squad over a number of years, whilst providing continuity and giving opportunities to younger players to step up. If you're having to replace 12-15 players every season, you're relying on luck more than planning in order for it not to go completely wrong. You can imagine whoever follows Barton, will look at the infrastructure of the club, and think this is a cluster####.
  2. I'm pretty sure that the "South Stand" is the new deluxe stand behind the goal that hasn't actually been built yet. It was very nice of Rovers to move a vulnerable 80 year old to a new seat in a stand that doesn't exist. Judging by the seat ticket prices, they probably have made a few more quid out of it as well.?
  3. I know that the Gas don't actually have an Academy as such. But do their development squad actually play in any sort of league? My eldest is in the SGS Football Academy squad (coached by Dave Hockaday) and they play Bristol Rovers throughout the season (as well as other CAT 1, and CAT 2 Academy sides) as well as being in a league (Elite College Football Academy). I can't see that Rover's have a Youth/ development side that plays in any sort of league at all? Any young player seems to get farmed out at the first opportunity to a step 3/4/5 side. Greenslade and Ward were at Hungerford where their "Successful" season ended in Hungerford's relegation from Conference South as the rock bottom team. Not sure Joey has to many dealings with the under 18s of course, as he would probably not pass a DBS check . ??
  4. I think the inability to pay any sort of fees is tied to a UEFA sanction for the next 3 windows over the Sala saga. So much for the wealthy owner spending tens of millions on transfer fees this summer then.?
  5. Great money for Wolves there. Seems like the Saudi clubs are going to start paying the high transfer fees, as well as the high wages now. Not too dissimilar to the Chinese clubs from 5-10 years ago (Oscar for £67m still makes me laugh).
  6. @Carey 6 Louis what's that player valuation software that you showed me that professional clubs use? Would be interesting to see what price they put on Scott?
  7. Christ @Davefevs i need you on my unit. It's has gone a bit mental again unfortunately.
  8. The partnership he had with Webster was probably the best CB partnership I've seen us have since Merrick and Collier. The last few years have not been great form wise as his own game before the injuries was affected by the chaos around him. Leading to the emotional outburst after the Barnsley game, and of course the giving up of the captaincy. He is still a top defender at this level though, and hopefully will be able to put these injuries and move forward with his career again. I would love to see him in a City shirt again, but the reality is, it has to be on our terms and on on a wage in line with our new budgets. If he is able to accept those for whatever reason, I'm sure he will be welcomed back into the squad for next season. If not, we move on. It's simple really, as a club we are moving forward, and as NP has stated over the years, people now need to "be on the bus".
  9. Thanks for the stats @Davefevs This to me points out the areas of his game in which Scott excels. The point I was making around his shooting and set piece delivery was areas where he needs to improve as @Kid in the Riot states. When shooting he needs to develop hitting through the ball ( a good example Haydon Robert's goal for Derby from outside the box). I think Weimann's goal against Blackpool was our only goal from outside the box this season (I stand to be corrected if not). Is Scott an excellent young player, absolutely. Is he the most outstanding young prospect we've had for a long while, without a doubt. But he is still on an upward trajectory(hopefully) and needs to improve in certain areas to continue his journey into the PL, he is of course still only 19. The run he made for the goal against West Brom in the cup was excellent. But we didn't see enough of those this season. For me he was trying so hard at times to get us on the front foot moving forward that it affected his game. Without Naismith in the middle he was having to come deep to get the ball and get us moving forward. I'm sure if he is still here in August, then that's something NP will address. He certainly wasn't at his best after he came back from injury in the last 2 months of the season. Whether the speculation had had an effect, who can say. But Burnley in particular did a job on him in the last game, leading to his uncharacteristic error. The Scott saga has got all the makings of a late transfer for me unfortunately. It would be wonderful to get it done early, but like Bryan's one (that last game against Forest when we knew he was off), I think it'll be late in the window. As an aside, have we ever actually turned down a bid for him? I remember saying Wolves had a £15m 9ne turned do2n unofficially, but unlike Forest's one with Semenyo I don't remember any club officially testing the water with us do far?
  10. Went big on the loan market last year didn't they @Davefevs@Mr Popodopolous A lesson that it doesn't always bring you the success that the fanbase thinks it will do. Some of those released players (Clucas, Powell in particular) would probably have commanded decent transfer fees. Just like us in 21/22 season, a lot of money walking out of the club on a free. Other players like Dwight Gayle aren't going to be exactly cheap either. I'm amazed it a way that the EFL has never really questioned their Covid write offs. Unlike the Derbys and Weds of this world that got hammered, Stoke seem to have breezed through the period of accounts scrutiny.
  11. I think you've hit the nail on the head perfectly @Kid in the Riot. He reminds me a bit of kids that haven't really been trained in Academies when they were younger on how to kick a ball properly. For all his ability, his shooting can be poor, and you would expect more from his set piece delivery as well. He certainly has all of the raw ingredients to get to the top, but anyone buying him would probably view him as huge potential, but until he's worked on those areas that he needs to, not really a starter in a PL team. The price tag is high, as his profile will never be higher than what it is now, but if I was a lower end PL team I would also be looking at Cam Pring, who's trajectory performance wise reminds me of when Jim Brennan's career took off back in the day.
  12. Didn't he start off well there, before getting injured and then having a poor showing at the end of the season. All a bit Groundhog day with City for me there.
  13. Never the same player after those shin injuries for me. Seemed to lose a yard if pace, and attacking endeavour. Technically very very good and you could see why he got into England Under 21s. The injuries also changed the way that he tackled/got involved physically for me. He seemed to be hesitant for a while, demonstrating a lack of confidence that NP picked up on at times.
  14. Good points well made @Davefevs I think other than the Alex Scott one, the other 4 years handed out have come back to bit us somewhat. I think we're probably a bit more circumspect nowadays.
  15. When was the last time we gave a 4 year contract to any player. Normally 3 years + option at a push. Just like Weimann's last contract solution, those extra years make a difference, rather than wages.
  16. Same odds as Plymouth? ? Hmm.... they really don't rate us do they?
  17. It's funny reading Robin's quotes. "Fast, pacey, attack minded" are not adjectives that spring to mind with Dasilva. Technically very good, and excellent close control would be my ones. Can't quite remember a time last season when Jay actually got to the goal line to get a cross in. He would normally look to stop a good 10 yards beforehand before producing another wonderful overhit cross.
  18. Yep, It'll be interesting to see what their definition is of a "Concourse". Given their excellent disabled sections, I'm guessing it'll be a hole under the seats of the stand with 1 or 2 portacabins selling food/drink. Hardly a concourse as such. Also what about the toilets in this stand? That would take time to build/get the plumbing done (probably by asking for volunteers again). I'm guessing the portaloos will be making a reappearance on the hurry up, but how many are they going to need for a stand that supposedly carries around 3-4k? Plus by law, they would have to have disabled facilities as well. Still just over 2 months until the start of the season, no rush Rovers, in your own time, absolutely clueless. As it stands how many balls are they going to lose into the back of people's gardens there? Probably put up a large net to protect it all. This is going to look absolutely awful come August.
  19. God knows where we would have been without the Academy over the past couple of years, L1 probably. However, unless the current bunch move on/god forbid pick up longer term injuries, it is difficult to see where the next batch will get the same amount of minutes. The difficulty for the Academy, Tinnion and of course NP to a certain extent is how to continue to integrate the under 21s, and even younger ones in some way; whilst adding experience and championship quality that will allow us to push on into the top half of the division. There are going to have to be some hard calls (of the Towler ilk i think) along the way. We are guilty of our own success to a certain degree. But the Championship is such a hard division that having young players playing in the first team in order to give them experience is generally not an option unfortunately, they have to be better than what we already have at our disposal. Who'd be a coach? ?
  20. I had hoped after Gould's hard work that the whole saga of FFP and Parachute payments would have led to the Championship being a fairer place for a majority of the teams. Is it still the case that nothing has been decided, or even in fact gone to a vote of any kind? It just seems to me around 8 teams (the ones that have revolving promotion/relegation doors) seem to dictate the financial policies for the whole division, knowing that they will be backed by the PL in their endeavours. A real shame that at least 2 out of 3 promoted will continue to be from this group.
  21. Are we sure about those figures for Leeds and Brentford? Our wage bill is £26m in last accounts. I can't see that Brentford and Leeds are £10-12m less than ours? Forest bought in 22 players, and are paying Lingard a reported £200k per week. A lot of those figures seem somewhat low in my opinion. https://www.teamtalk.com/news/ranking-every-premier-league-club-by-their-annual-wage-bill-man-utd-above-liverpool-and-arsenal This seems a lot more likely list.
  22. Are we sure about those figures for Leeds and Brentford? Our wage bill is £26m in last accounts. I can't see that Brentford and Leeds are £10-12m less than ours? Forest bought in 22 players, and are paying Lingard a reported £200k per week. A lot of those figures seem somewhat low in my opinion.
  23. Wait until the school holidays start, and Roy DeAlien comes back.....??
  24. Maybe when the new stand is built, they can move this deluxe main disabled section over from by their East Terrace. Someone has made a fortune selling those white garden chairs to them.?
  25. Is Chukwuemeka from Chelsea going to be a part of the squad when he is finished with Chelsea? Certainly made a difference in their Euro campaign/
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