Whitleyhoop Awful awful uninspiring signing!! But let's be fair McDermott went from slough town to us.. Don't be upset by signing "slough town dream players! Did McDermott honest think the fans would warm to this??? WOEFUL WOEFUL
rhroyal We can moan all we like, but signing good players in our position is hard. We're using our PL status and resources to ensure that if the worst does happen, which it probably will, we'll have an excellent squad with which to bounce back up.
The likes of Leigertwood, Gunter, McAnuff, Gorkss, Hunt and Federici will be useful players next season, I expect Alf to be truly prolific after his experiences this year. HRK, Pearce (if we keep him), Morrisson, McCarthy, McCleary, Kebe and Karacan will have all gained a lot from this season and will be better players than the ones who went up. And we have the resources to keep all or sell at high prices and replace. And we'll have bright youngsters to challenge them.
Even if we lose Pog, Guthrie and Carrico (which may not happen after 6 months), I expect us to be a fearsome team in the Championship for 13/14 and come back up a side capable of holding our own at this level more, without breaking the bank. We're potentially only 5/6 years behind West Brom; keep looking at the big picture and don't lose sight of that.
The last relegation was with a team being broken up and on decline. I honestly think this squad is still young, hungry and being built and I don't see a relegation stopping that as there are no stand out candidates for the PL vultures to ensnare away from us.
Woodcote Royalrhroyal We can moan all we like, but signing good players in our position is hard. We're using our PL status and resources to ensure that if the worst does happen, which it probably will, we'll have an excellent squad with which to bounce back up.
The likes of Leigertwood, Gunter, McAnuff, Gorkss, Hunt and Federici will be useful players next season, I expect Alf to be truly prolific after his experiences this year. HRK, Pearce (if we keep him), Morrisson, McCarthy, McCleary, Kebe and Karacan will have all gained a lot from this season and will be better players than the ones who went up. And we have the resources to keep all or sell at high prices and replace. And we'll have bright youngsters to challenge them.
Even if we lose Pog, Guthrie and Carrico (which may not happen after 6 months), I expect us to be a fearsome team in the Championship for 13/14 and come back up a side capable of holding our own at this level more, without breaking the bank. We're potentially only 5/6 years behind West Brom; keep looking at the big picture and don't lose sight of that.
The last relegation was with a team being broken up and on decline. I honestly think this squad is still young, hungry and being built and I don't see a relegation stopping that as there are no stand out candidates for the PL vultures to ensnare away from us.
An excellent post from someone whose vision is clearly light years ahead of those who chose to post so many embarrassingly blinkered contributions above.
As someone who doesn't think we are dead and buried just yet, if relegation means being able to read more of this after all the glory hunting ignorance has sailed into the sunset, I think I could live with it
The worse case scenario was always to take our huge 5 season windfall and use it to build for a stronger future in the way clubs like WBA have done before us.
To many of us who will be back next season regardless, this is what it's all about.........................growing the club long term so that one day we can compete on equal terms with most of the top flight. We will never achieve this by trying to out spend those with greater resources.
) over us and Brian says we haven't been able to get even one PL player not getting games at their current club interested in coming here for the chance to full time first team football. 
royalsteveWoodcote Royalrhroyal We can moan all we like, but signing good players in our position is hard. We're using our PL status and resources to ensure that if the worst does happen, which it probably will, we'll have an excellent squad with which to bounce back up.
The likes of Leigertwood, Gunter, McAnuff, Gorkss, Hunt and Federici will be useful players next season, I expect Alf to be truly prolific after his experiences this year. HRK, Pearce (if we keep him), Morrisson, McCarthy, McCleary, Kebe and Karacan will have all gained a lot from this season and will be better players than the ones who went up. And we have the resources to keep all or sell at high prices and replace. And we'll have bright youngsters to challenge them.
Even if we lose Pog, Guthrie and Carrico (which may not happen after 6 months), I expect us to be a fearsome team in the Championship for 13/14 and come back up a side capable of holding our own at this level more, without breaking the bank. We're potentially only 5/6 years behind West Brom; keep looking at the big picture and don't lose sight of that.
The last relegation was with a team being broken up and on decline. I honestly think this squad is still young, hungry and being built and I don't see a relegation stopping that as there are no stand out candidates for the PL vultures to ensnare away from us.
An excellent post from someone whose vision is clearly light years ahead of those who chose to post so many embarrassingly blinkered contributions above.
As someone who doesn't think we are dead and buried just yet, if relegation means being able to read more of this after all the glory hunting ignorance has sailed into the sunset, I think I could live with it
The worse case scenario was always to take our huge 5 season windfall and use it to build for a stronger future in the way clubs like WBA have done before us.
To many of us who will be back next season regardless, this is what it's all about.........................growing the club long term so that one day we can compete on equal terms with most of the top flight. We will never achieve this by trying to out spend those with greater resources.
spot on. I thought hope and alexander were the 2 stand out players for Crawley in the fa cup game against us
i still think we can stay up - wont be easy and itll rely on a massive change in results but we still have to play all the teams around us at home so all is not lost yet - whilst it wont be easy, west brom on sat is a must win game and whilst that wont be easy given their start its games like this we have to win if we aim to stay up
Ian Royal I'm not saying he won't be used, but I can't see him making a big impact in our relegation fight.
Colin CheeselogBig Ern I understand your point, and if this is a speculative low risk signing for the future, then great. My point is that Brian has said we need some established players with Prem experience to come in, and Hope Akpan is certainly not that. I agreed we do not want washed up has beens who are only here for the money, but we do need some more established players to come in if we are at least to stand a remote chance of staying up. I am 99.9% sure we are going down, however I do not want us to give up fighting with plenty of games still to play. If these are the signings we are going to make, it appears we have given up already and that will make many supporters lose heart.
Signing young players for the future does not categorically mean we won't be signing anybody else. I'm sure signings like this have no bearing on what players Brain wants for the 1st team between now and the end of the season.
Did people have similar hissy fits when we signed Morrison? It's essentially the same idea; get a prosing young player now, hopefully to come into the 1st team in the future.
Did Man Utd fans have girly rants when they signed Nick Powell from Crewe because he's not Messi?
Signing young prospects and established players are entirely seperate and signing a young player doesn't impact on plans to sign established players.
Perhaps we should have signed established players instead of signing up Pearce, Karacan, HRK etc when they signed as children?
rhroyal We can moan all we like, but signing good players in our position is hard. We're using our PL status and resources to ensure that if the worst does happen, which it probably will, we'll have an excellent squad with which to bounce back up.
The likes of Leigertwood, Gunter, McAnuff, Gorkss, Hunt and Federici will be useful players next season, I expect Alf to be truly prolific after his experiences this year. HRK, Pearce (if we keep him), Morrisson, McCarthy, McCleary, Kebe and Karacan will have all gained a lot from this season and will be better players than the ones who went up. And we have the resources to keep all or sell at high prices and replace. And we'll have bright youngsters to challenge them.
Even if we lose Pog, Guthrie and Carrico (which may not happen after 6 months), I expect us to be a fearsome team in the Championship for 13/14 and come back up a side capable of holding our own at this level more, without breaking the bank. We're potentially only 5/6 years behind West Brom; keep looking at the big picture and don't lose sight of that.
The last relegation was with a team being broken up and on decline. I honestly think this squad is still young, hungry and being built and I don't see a relegation stopping that as there are no stand out candidates for the PL vultures to ensnare away from us.
Norfolk Royal There's an added celebrity bonus here as he looks a bit like popular children's TV presenter Andi Peters.
Woodcote Royalrhroyal We can moan all we like, but signing good players in our position is hard. We're using our PL status and resources to ensure that if the worst does happen, which it probably will, we'll have an excellent squad with which to bounce back up.
The likes of Leigertwood, Gunter, McAnuff, Gorkss, Hunt and Federici will be useful players next season, I expect Alf to be truly prolific after his experiences this year. HRK, Pearce (if we keep him), Morrisson, McCarthy, McCleary, Kebe and Karacan will have all gained a lot from this season and will be better players than the ones who went up. And we have the resources to keep all or sell at high prices and replace. And we'll have bright youngsters to challenge them.
Even if we lose Pog, Guthrie and Carrico (which may not happen after 6 months), I expect us to be a fearsome team in the Championship for 13/14 and come back up a side capable of holding our own at this level more, without breaking the bank. We're potentially only 5/6 years behind West Brom; keep looking at the big picture and don't lose sight of that.
The last relegation was with a team being broken up and on decline. I honestly think this squad is still young, hungry and being built and I don't see a relegation stopping that as there are no stand out candidates for the PL vultures to ensnare away from us.
An excellent post from someone whose vision is clearly light years ahead of those who chose to post so many embarrassingly blinkered contributions above.
As someone who doesn't think we are dead and buried just yet, if relegation means being able to read more of this after all the glory hunting ignorance has sailed into the sunset, I think I could live with it
The worse case scenario was always to take our huge 5 season windfall and use it to build for a stronger future in the way clubs like WBA have done before us.
To many of us who will be back next season regardless, this is what it's all about.........................growing the club long term so that one day we can compete on equal terms with most of the top flight. We will never achieve this by trying to out spend those with greater resources.
Pepe the HorsemanNorfolk Royal There's an added celebrity bonus here as he looks a bit like popular children's TV presenter Andi Peters.
Hope Akpan wouldn't be too pleased to hear that.
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