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DAVEf
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Some fans are optimistic, some are pessimistic, some are ambivalent and some are so regularly pi**ed they don't know if they care or not (or even what the original question was).
Personally, I reckon it's only one season which we'll get through with some very good memories and some very bad memories to take with us before we get around to worrying/celebrating/moaning about the next season. |
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LeJuge
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| deepseahoop wrote: | To be fair it's difficult to tell until the balls start being kicked but it seems to me you've spent a lot of money on untested goods, untested in the Prem where as the shrewd Mr Warnock is not finished yet and nor is the transfer market which i believe closes on 31st August.
You've also made the same mistake as many posters on here which is to believe the hype about our owners, wait and see is all I can say, wait and see, when the deadline has gone then we can see who has spent what on who and not before.
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Signing big names doesn't always work either though mate, look at Bullard and Giovanni etc! I think the way that we are looking at it is to sign players who may or may not be good enough for the Premiership, but who are easily good enough for the Champs and affordable should we go down.
In other words, the board want to ensure that if we go down we go down with a squad that we can afford and one that can go back up. The last time we went up we signed players like Mattias Jonsson and Thomas Helveg, who were very quick to jump ship. Ashton stuck it out for a bit but left halfway through the next season.
I suspect that we may well yo-yo, but we would take that. We actually had a 5 year plan with a yo-yo factored in. We have debts of £20m, which we are said to be clearing in one year. If we go down with no debt and a squad that is sustainable (no players need to be sold), then that is fantastic for the club as long as we got the right man to replace Lambert (assuming that he would leave). If we did manage to stay up, we would be in a fantastic position next year with no debt and a young squad with rising stock. It is said that if we stay up this year we would extend the ground to 35000, which is no doubt playing a part in the transfer policy. We sell out every game in a 27000 seater, I think thats the way that the club is looking to grow.
So it is pretty win-win really. Relegation is a hard pill to swallow however it is done, but after nearly going out of existence four years after last coming down, it looks like we have learnt our lesson. It is effectively what West Brom did for a long time, going up and coming down with a slightly better squad each time.
At the end of this season we are going to have less debt and a better squad whatever happens, and I think we will all take that after playing League 1 football for the first time since the sixties and being months from Administration.
Good luck to you also of course! Nice to see you lot back, even if it is for a year, reminds me of the old 92-93 days! |
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flatfoot
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| LeJuge wrote: | | deepseahoop wrote: | To be fair it's difficult to tell until the balls start being kicked but it seems to me you've spent a lot of money on untested goods, untested in the Prem where as the shrewd Mr Warnock is not finished yet and nor is the transfer market which i believe closes on 31st August.
You've also made the same mistake as many posters on here which is to believe the hype about our owners, wait and see is all I can say, wait and see, when the deadline has gone then we can see who has spent what on who and not before.
Good luck. |
Signing big names doesn't always work either though mate, look at Bullard and Giovanni etc! I think the way that we are looking at it is to sign players who may or may not be good enough for the Premiership, but who are easily good enough for the Champs and affordable should we go down.
In other words, the board want to ensure that if we go down we go down with a squad that we can afford and one that can go back up. The last time we went up we signed players like Mattias Jonsson and Thomas Helveg, who were very quick to jump ship. Ashton stuck it out for a bit but left halfway through the next season.
I suspect that we may well yo-yo, but we would take that. We actually had a 5 year plan with a yo-yo factored in. We have debts of £20m, which we are said to be clearing in one year. If we go down with no debt and a squad that is sustainable (no players need to be sold), then that is fantastic for the club as long as we got the right man to replace Lambert (assuming that he would leave). If we did manage to stay up, we would be in a fantastic position next year with no debt and a young squad with rising stock. It is said that if we stay up this year we would extend the ground to 35000, which is no doubt playing a part in the transfer policy. We sell out every game in a 27000 seater, I think thats the way that the club is looking to grow.
So it is pretty win-win really. Relegation is a hard pill to swallow however it is done, but after nearly going out of existence four years after last coming down, it looks like we have learnt our lesson. It is effectively what West Brom did for a long time, going up and coming down with a slightly better squad each time.
At the end of this season we are going to have less debt and a better squad whatever happens, and I think we will all take that after playing League 1 football for the first time since the sixties and being months from Administration.
Good luck to you also of course! Nice to see you lot back, even if it is for a year, reminds me of the old 92-93 days! |
I had heard about the yo-yo factor...I hope it works for you far better than it did for Watford - though you do seem to have thought it out a lot better than Watford did |
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LeJuge
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| deepseahoop wrote: | To be fair it's difficult to tell until the balls start being kicked but it seems to me you've spent a lot of money on untested goods, untested in the Prem where as the shrewd Mr Warnock is not finished yet and nor is the transfer market which i believe closes on 31st August.
You've also made the same mistake as many posters on here which is to believe the hype about our owners, wait and see is all I can say, wait and see, when the deadline has gone then we can see who has spent what on who and not before.
Good luck. |
What is your opinion on your signings now? |
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we are back
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| I have no time to read a BOOK, you farmers from Norwich, say it in few words please. |
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LeJuge
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| we are back wrote: | | I have no time to read a BOOK, you farmers from Norwich, say it in few words please. |
A few words:
"haha, your rubbish". |
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DAVEf
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| LeJuge wrote: | | we are back wrote: | | I have no time to read a BOOK, you farmers from Norwich, say it in few words please. |
A few words:
"haha, your rubbish". |
Amusing how it's so often the Illiterates who have a need to have an alter-ego. |
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