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Much prefer to see Serie A back on terrestrial, a highlights package sat morning and  game a Sunday on channel 4 would be like being back in the 90s

2 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Reguarding the fees, of kelly, reid and bryan.

This is a much diffrent market now.

If we get a bid, anything bigger, than what we got for them, id be amazed.

I really cant see why some people are expecting 25 million bids.

 

Keane Lewis Potter went for £16mil plus a stack of add ons in the summer, 12 goals. 

Semenyo has the highest ceiling, he scores goals, he hits double figures this season then we may be looking at a similar ball park. 

3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Absolutely & it is always forgotten that he scored against Villa in whatever the Europa League was called then that season & got 3 against Exeter as we chose to have a look at him in a friendly first.

I think he really struggled to settle, pretty sure someone on here got to know him & said his family found it very tough & he was also unwell.

I actually remember him coming on for his debut as a sub (Pompey at home, I think) & he looked lively, but after a few sub appearances he faded & as you rightly say, spells elsewhere just haven’t worked out.

Having seen Engvall the first couple of times I was completely baffled by what we ever thought it was he had, reminded me of Liam Robinson, he ran around but he wasn’t particularly quick, ok-ish first touch but not great in the air & didn’t look a poacher, either.

The strangest signing in recent BCFC history. To pay that much for him and then LJ give him literally no game time is a weird one. LJ gave players chances he must've been just awful.

33 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

That o donnel was a strange one.

Sure i saw him put in a motm performance, think he even saved a pen?

Couple of weeks later, i think he was lobbed, at rotherham,? from way way out.

Dont think he played again.

O donnell started excellent then made a series of mistakes and never recovered, confidence was shot. Strange really because i thought he had everything to be a top keeper, but you need the mentality as well as the physical ability to make it.

16 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Funny isn't it, you look at the headline figure of £170m spent in a single decade, the stadium redevelopment and the HPC, and you assume that all along the aim must have been to reach the Premier League.

Then you consider we settled for Academy Cat 2 status, when we could have gone for Cat 1 (outside of FFP spending too), and look at the managerial appointments - particularly Millen and Holden, and we can argue about a few of the others - the lack of any football direction off-field, and the self-sabotage of the summer transfer window of 2015, and think, was the aim really & truly to reach the Premier League? 

I have never been convinced it was, and still am not. If it had have happened then I think it would have been more by luck (2008) than design.

It will be very interesting to see, when all is said and done and the Lansdown's depart, how much of a "loss" they really will have made on the club (including the real estate), if any. 

I think the aim was to get to the PL but he wanted to do it on the cheap - and by that I don't mean the boom or bust method that some sides have done, but in terms of appointments and wages.....the only time this slipped was during the MA era and that was more to do with not having his finger on the pulse.

Employing the likes of Millen and Holden are pretty scandalous when you take everything into account.

Just now, Redtucks said:

So it's wrong to try to predict the team, but OK to troll???

 

Don't rise to it it's pretty embarrassing on their part.

Just now, cidercity1987 said:

Wells for Sykes (Weimann back to his position last year)

Dasilva for Pring

Not keen on DaSilva. He isn't dynamic enough.

4 minutes ago, Robbored said:

What if several players  are unavailable on Saturday?

Is that a serious question? How am I supposed to answer that if we don't know who those players are. .

Bentley 

Wilson Klose Naismith Atkinson Pring

Scott Williams

Sykes

Weimann Martin

Much prefer Pring to DaSilva especially in the wing back roll.

3 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

Very important win that ahead of Wigan, if we had lost that or gone 3 3 I think it would have beem very toxic.  Happy for Wells and Conway and good to see Matty James back.

Wigan a much much bigger game - will still turn toxic if we lose Saturday.

1 minute ago, Sheltons Army said:

A mix CA

Certainly not their first picks , but not ours either

Our side was considerably stronger than there's. 

Weimann getting another 90. Interesting.

No idea maybe.

Just now, RedM said:

Cov have been a different team since the break, particularly after the triple subs

The likes if Gyokeres (sp?) Godden etc would cause us serious problems.

1 minute ago, AshtonRobin21 said:

Making a statement tonight! 

Some big individual performances as well. 

Hopefully it will lead to them getting an opportunity for Saturday  

O leary

Wilson vyner klose idehan pring

Massengo King

Sykes

Conway wells

Still paying the price for the Mark Ashton era and will be for some time.

On 08/08/2022 at 11:49, TonyTonyTony said:

Pretty damning that.

The context is that now, NP pretty much has his own defence. Naismith, Atkinson, Klose, Wilson, Sykes are all NP signings

When is it right to judge how shit our defending is? How much longer do we just say "ah give Nige time"

We have 2 difficult away games and a severnside derby in the next 4 games - unless we pull out fingers out we could be sat at the bottom of the league then things will turn toxic

To put into context- NP Centre backs this season Klose, Vyner, Naismith, Atkinson. Last season add Kalas. Compare to Mciness, Fontaine, Mcmanus and Bates, even remember that Irish blonde lad playing left of a 3.

He has no excuses.

When you lose your first 2 games you are putting massive pressure on you're ability to get a win ASAP- away to Wigan will obviously be a challenge but a real possibility that we will be 0-0-3, and with every result more pressure on pearson.

5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

(might need to be pulled out every now and again, but that’s his future for me)

He will make the best out of wherever he plays, but I think he will influence the whole game from CM…and he has legs.

If we could find a way to get another body in midfield even better., but Scott needs to be in the thick of it…intelligent enough to play anywhere though.

Scott Williams with Sykes in front. Jury still very much out on Williams has not started the season well.

2 hours ago, Andy082005 said:

No one expects us to turn teams over. Had we drew 0-0 yesterday with a fairly solid defensive performance….I’d argue that was signs of improvement 

I’m getting fed up of people making out like we have got a squad of players that are not good enough for this level. You’re brainwashed .

Where as they may not be a top 6 or even a top 10squad, this manager and the coaches SHOULD be getting far more out of them 

We have just bought in Luton’s player of the year and already we have turned him into an absolute liability . Now….if that’s because he isn’t being played in the right role….then who’s fault is that??

This team should be doing better. It just doesn’t seem to matter what personnel he starts with….it churns out the same results and the same performance  week in week out The same weak mentality 

He has had plenty of time. 18 months and 2 pre-seasons, and we look no better now then we did when he came in. 
 

He just isn’t cutting it 

Manager needs to take responsibility. He has had plenty of time to mould this side and he continues to struggle.

He has improved his game massively.

24 minutes ago, PFree said:

You are right about who is affordable and who would come here, but who knows how attractive we are in reality? 

I always fancied having Chris Wilder here myself, but others, Daniel Farke, Nuno Santo, would John Terry and his contacts be worth a punt with NP upstairs, dare I say Alex Neil (as his teams are always well organised and drilled), Bielsa, Solskjaer, and yes, some of these are and were available during NP’s time.

That said I was genuinely excited when NP was appointed and sincerely still want him to succeed.

Sir Alex and Wenger were also available as was Big Ron, perhaps we shouldve given them a call. Trust me if you think we are attractive to those names you have mentioned then your living in a fantasy world.

1 minute ago, ExiledAjax said:

Yes context is important for passing stats, as I said, what I posted were headlines rather than detail. In general it's good numbers. Are numbers from SOD's time still relevant? Different division, completely different players, different football. If you want one piece of context then Sunderland had just a 66% success rate from only 297 passes.

"Conceding hatfuls of chances". I accept that we are conceding a high number of shots on target, but they are weaker chances than our own. Lower xG per shot against, so that suggests its possible to keep them out. Also, having one penalty in the 10 shots on target we've conceded will drastically raise the average quality of those shots. So it's a bit warped. Anyway, the positive is that we are dangerous ourselves. That's what we can control completely, and we're good there.

We can debate, counter-argue, and tear down the positives if we like, or we can build them up and treat them as we should.

They are still relevant because it shows that tons of passing means very little if it isnt effective, look at swansea yesterday lost 3 zip with far superior passing numbers.