Davefevs

Totally agree. Might be looking to provoke a response.

I’m gonna wait til I see where we are squad wise for the first game (albeit window still open).

I really want us to be smart in recruitment and re-contracts, but I’m not sure that will happen….so I feel that your first para might be what we have to go with. Scary.

Feels like Crossroads is more apt….what happened to Benny (which one you may ask)?

No, he was initially around as consultant during McInnes’s time. But I was referring to him coming back in December 2015, before officially being announced a couple of days after Cotts was sacked in Jan 2016. Grim Reaper entering the building, Cotts knew he was a goner, seeing as Burt had thrown all of Ashton’s recruitment bollocks in the bin!

The model Brentford planned and executed was vastly different to ours. Much myth about recruitment data, when in fact they had 100s of scouts on the ground in strategic areas like Denmark (obvious with the Ankersen connections), but French Ligue 2…and importantly able to move quickly as things like Brexit came into play, e.g. disbanding scouting in French Ligue 2 because they don’t pass work permits. Mark Ashton pretty much disbanded scouting down to 3 people. And they got rid of Academy, and went with a B Team model, because of the draw of London kids to PL clubs, even if Brentford picked them up at 8/9. So it’s alright saying SL aspired to be like Brentford, but he paid lip service to how they did it…he just looked at the end result…player trading. And boy, was that right up Ashton’s street! Piss-poor really!

Haha, was that after Ward had been red carded. We saw Ward’s ability (not from a set piece) when he rattled the post!

….or again???

When Joe was mascot, Cotts was nowhere near the dressing room, he wanted nothing to do with it pre-match! After the match, Walsall in particular he was great with us. I won’t get the figures exactly right but it was in the region of: Gray - £4m / £14k p.w Maguire - £2.5m / £10k p.w (he’d not set the world alight in his first season at Hull) Pelling came along, tried to undercut the deals: Brentford said piss off, we will tout him around, Burnley came in and offered £6m and £18k wages. Hull said if you want to play silly beggars the price is now £4m. Someone on here might correct those figs but it was those ball-parks from memory. The Gayle stuff later in the window is irrelevant to this, as was the subsequent offer for Gray after the season started.

As my uncle used to say - “if the horse had stopped for a shit it wouldn’t have win the race”! ?

Little punched him allegedly! Allegedly everything was agreed with Maguire and Gray, Cotts went off on hols, to find Pelling had tried to re-negotiate the deals for less (not forgetting Burt was the DoF). I believe it to be true. We need a “Cider with Cotts” one day.

I’m sure someone will correct me with the facts if I’m wrong, but… KD / JL in place KD appoints Cotts (Keith Burt already in place from SOD days) KD’s health suffering, so.. KB promoted to DoF (playing budget and recruitment under his control) MA in unofficially Cotts sacked MA gets rid of KB (gradually removes scouting network too KD steps away (end of 18/19 season - our best finish) JL left alone with MA The Shitas touch begins!

Him and Burt had a good eye for players, adding to the promotion crew: Gray and Maguire ? Fredericks Liam Moore Baker Callum Robinson

Better hope Reg Dwight sells out then ?

Good work all season on this @BCFCGav. Hopefully it will be quieter next season.

It’s a good point. My feeling is that it’s so, so quiet on the comms side whoever it’s to come from. Huboo, one day of hullabaloo! Season Tickets, nothing inventive, all comms died down after a day or two.

When did Ian Dury add parts 4 and 5?

Is he still trotting out that? Scenario 1: so Mark, are you doing something that might make you appear in a good light? Well, it’s commercially sensitive, but yes I am! Example: sell-on percentages Scenario 2: so Mark, are you doing something that might make you appear in a worse light? No! Example: loan fees

Agree. Think there might be several other clubs struggling with the 70% too. It’s not just wages, but transfers too (I assume they mean amortisation). In effect it will be “sell to buy”. I don’t think that will fuel the reversal of the transfer market depression either, which will pour cold water on any clubs proposals to claim transfer fee losses on covid either. Academy will be key.

“Your” owner / chairman is pretty vocal. ?

If you read back what Jon said, it wasn’t actually that bad, but….he was answering like a fan, when he should be answering like a Chairman. If that is what he really thinks as Chairman, then why no action?

Spot on Neil. ??????

You know it will only look believable if it’s in comic sans!

Joe is asking foie gras and caviar!!!

Thank god cash out didn’t work….£60….will pay for lunch tomorrow.