Lrrr

126* from 194 balls for Bartlett

2 hours ago, Slippin cider said:

Newey to leave Red Bull ….watch their car go to rat shit after his departure…

Depends if he gets put on gardening leave or whether he sees out his deal as doesn't he have another year left? Unless he has a break clause. 

On 14/04/2024 at 19:07, Davefevs said:

Got to get ahead of Bazunu, Travers and Kelleher.  That’s the problem.  In fairness, Bazunu has looked poor this season.

Bazunu’s achilles rupture could help max find a way in 

51 minutes ago, spudski said:

I've got a gut feeling if we sign Twine, then Tommy will stay. 

Or we use Tommy to fund signing Twine 

2 minutes ago, Robbored said:

15 goals - how many were penalties?……. I get that he has to bury them  but essentially pens are a free shot at goal.

To me Conway is lightweight and misses too many one on ones. He messed one up today but got lucky and won a penalty.

Someone has to take them... 

Tommy hasn't lived up to his own standards this season but equally for the most part of the season (particularly Manning's early games) we were creating sod all for him. Last season he had the tied 3rd best conversion rate for strikers in the Championship, poor finishers don't finish with a 23% conversion rate.

8 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

I feel they are being clear by their actions but may be completely wrong of course. My feeling they don't is because they moved him on twice this season just feels like they are trying to actively sell him. There are a few permutations which will change things i.e what league they will be in. We'll see I guess. Either way we won't pay 5 million in my opinion.

Well he's not a PL player so a pretty obvious reason why he's not been in their squad this season, Hull's attacking options were ridiculous and they added to it in January, would have been so much competition for places if he'd stayed, they brought in Carvalho and then Zaroury from Burnley as well and he hasn't even been starting the last few games & Delap has only just come back from injury. 

41 minutes ago, Robbored said:

If City can get that amount for Conway then fair play but at the same time whoever pays it are mugs in my view.

How many chances did he miss today? I can think of two that a proper striker would have buried. The penalty he won and then converted was because he’d messed up another one and one and the keeper brought him down. How many pens has got this season? - they add to his tally of course.

Tommy will get a team that creates chances 15 ish goals a season in the Championship, he's 21 and seems to have come back from his injuries well, physically he also ranks pretty well in the Championship, all things that teams would be happy to pay that amount for, if he has a very good season and bags 20 for them which he'd be very capable of doing his value jumps to £15m and even if they don't go up they profit on him. 

38 minutes ago, Markthehorn said:

Is it on later so they can get decent coverage of the Ipswich match in?

I believe the show time shifts around pretty regularly, doesn't seem to be a big priority of theirs given how they've stripped back the content. 

16 minutes ago, RedRoss said:

They clearly don't want him

'Cleary' 

Just now, Robbored said:

Thing is - we don’t know yet if there’ll be any wriggle room. Much will depend on the outgoing income. Obviously some players will be moving on, Conway possibly who’s probably our best asset - £2m for him and who knows?

Twine was unable to play as much as he’d wanted but when he did play there were definitely signs of his class and today’s performance certainly showed off that class - I was a little disappointed when he got subbed.

It'll be more than £2m for Conway, my guess £5m to £7m, one of the relegated teams (or whoever stays down from play offs) or maybe even Celtic/Rangers would pay that much for him. If it was only £2m you hold on to him and take the compensation you'd get when he's OOC as it wouldn't be far off that if not more anyway. 

3 minutes ago, MythikRobins said:

Wouldn't mind Rudoni or Karamoko Dembele. Both left footed which we desperately need Manning has shown he likes to play left-footed players on the right and right-footed players on the left.

The Mehmeti "chance" today was a good example of why, if he had a left-foot he might've shot rather than attempting to check back onto his right.

I'm not sure on Dembele, good player but he's very small & not entirely sure he's got the physical level in terms of running required for the Championship, equally I don't think Brest would let him go cheaply as a '26 contract as well like Twine. 

1 minute ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Is that not what a forum is for ?

Running joke, equally its what the transfer forum sub forum should be used for 

2 minutes ago, the1stknowle said:

If they stay up, they will want to cut losses on him. And if they come down, they will be looking to chop squad generally and cash in a bit. And who would pay 5m for him (and I say that as someone who really likes him). Assuming his market is the championship, then not many will have 5m to spend on him - maybe one of the relegated teams I guess.

We obviously can't do 5m for him; probably not even half that. But if there was a chance at a price that didnt spunk our entire budget on one player, I'd be really keen to keep him.

If they come down they'll have much bigger assests they can sell for big money, Twine with a season of Championship football & relatively low cost to them would likely still have use, even relegated teams still need squad players. 

14 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Excellent game today, looked really sharp and linked up play really well. His performance was capped off with a well taken free kick.

Manning wants to sign him and if he has a little financial wriggle room Burnley may well take far less than the inflated £5m they’ve been asking for.

An offer of £2.5m might just tempt them……….

I thought you didn't like wild unfounded speculation 

7 minutes ago, Boston Red said:

Have we stolen eleventh at the death?

I'm looking at 9th  tough games in hand for Preston & Coventry, Preston then play WBA and Coventry have QPR who've been in decent form with us against Stoke who may be on the beach a little after survival 

11:05pm ITV1? 

17 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

And a previous manager of ours was regularly described as a dinosaur…

 

Evans is a unit though…

Nothing to do with being a dinosaur or not but they don’t shut up the whole game, wouldn’t be surprised if 4th officials debate calling in sick on match day 

Hope the city bench have some earplugs in with Evans and his assistant in the other dugout 

Bairstow sticking his name back in contention, how dead must the pitches be at the IPL though with with all these huge scores

1 hour ago, petehinton said:

I think he is eligible, but don’t think he will be used 

I agree I don't think he'll be used, this will be training with the first team as added exposure

U21's are on professional contracts and therefore expire same time first team players would at the end of June

The thing about trying to enter an academy later is that the club will only bring in a player if they’re significantly better than what they already have in that position or they’re short in that position. Being in the system earlier gives that player that advantage 

3 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

The “plan” clearly involves “young, hungry” players.

He says the same thing about six times..

Certainly makes the point that we won’t be signing “31 year olds looking for a last big payday”.

This is a very simplistic answer, the likes of Wilbraham & Wade Elliott show that you can get real value from older players.

Dismisses the question about the value of King & James very swiftly, too..

Is that real?

Christ.

As much as young & hungry is said I don't think an older 'hungry' player would be dismissed if they have the quality & still pull the physical levels we require, more then just a case of are they the right fit. 

2 hours ago, HengroveReds said:

Several in that era at 14/15 years old left to go to bigger clubs:

Jacob Maddox - left for Chelsea, now at Forest Green

Kyle Scott - left for Chelsea now at FC Cincinnati

Herbie Kane - left for Liverpool now at Barnsley and doing very well. 

Any more? 

Maddox and Kane at least weren’t released though, they were pinched through EPPP