by Forbury Lion » 22 Jun 2015 16:45
by John Smith » 22 Jun 2015 16:54
maffffJohn Smith I think we're more likely to be fishing around League 1 which might spell us playing there the following season. Hopefully.
Hopefully? Yeah, because that always works out well doesn't it.
Let's have a oxf*rd pitch invasion to celebrate our regression if we win the race for relegation next year.
by Froomes » 22 Jun 2015 17:06
John SmithmaffffJohn Smith I think we're more likely to be fishing around League 1 which might spell us playing there the following season. Hopefully.
Hopefully? Yeah, because that always works out well doesn't it.
Let's have a oxf*rd pitch invasion to celebrate our regression if we win the race for relegation next year.
Without wanting to sound like a broken record it would let us start a fresh. Look at Southampton, Norwich and Leicester, and to a lesser degree, Wolves.
Well, we had a pitch invasion for finishing 7th so why not!
by CountryRoyal » 22 Jun 2015 17:09
John SmithmaffffJohn Smith I think we're more likely to be fishing around League 1 which might spell us playing there the following season. Hopefully.
Hopefully? Yeah, because that always works out well doesn't it.
Let's have a oxf*rd pitch invasion to celebrate our regression if we win the race for relegation next year.
Without wanting to sound like a broken record it would let us start a fresh. Look at Southampton, Norwich and Leicester, and to a lesser degree, Wolves.
Well, we had a pitch invasion for finishing 7th so why not!
by Forbury Lion » 22 Jun 2015 17:30
by JC » 22 Jun 2015 18:00
John Smithandrew1957 Reading between the lines of the Clarke interview if he cannot sign at least 5 players he will be off. He said "I would like to bolster the midfield with at least one more player and I think we need two strikers. If we got them, then I would be happy to work with that squad."
Therefore, if he is not able to sign the players we so obviously need then I would not blame him if he walks.
The Thais probably have no more than a week to come up with the money or we will lose our primary targets and then have to settle for either youth or players no one else wants. Then I fear a long season of struggle ahead.
A lot of you are saying we're going to use a lot of youth players. I just can't see it. As promising as many of them are, most of them really aren't ready. Kuhl looked great but then Nigel threw him in for a few appearances and he had a mare at Brentford away and never played since.
I think we're more likely to be fishing around League 1 which might spell us playing there the following season. Hopefully.
by strap » 22 Jun 2015 18:02
Sutekhroyalp-we Steve Clarke interview on bbcrb this afternoon. Tim & Adie interviewed him from Ascot and he says he's after a senior defender, midfielder, goalkeeper and 2 strikers.
So pretty much what we all think we need so he's in tune with us. So let's say that Quinn, McShane and Jones or Foderingham. That leaves the hardest part.... 2 strikers, and our interest has supposedly cooled on Sa.
by Ian Royal » 22 Jun 2015 18:09
FroomesJohn Smithmaffff
Hopefully? Yeah, because that always works out well doesn't it.
Let's have a oxf*rd pitch invasion to celebrate our regression if we win the race for relegation next year.
Without wanting to sound like a broken record it would let us start a fresh. Look at Southampton, Norwich and Leicester, and to a lesser degree, Wolves.
Well, we had a pitch invasion for finishing 7th so why not!
Or you could look at Oldham, Swindon, Coventry, Portsmouth, Sheffield United and Barnsley....
by Ian Royal » 22 Jun 2015 18:17
strapSutekhroyalp-we Steve Clarke interview on bbcrb this afternoon. Tim & Adie interviewed him from Ascot and he says he's after a senior defender, midfielder, goalkeeper and 2 strikers.
So pretty much what we all think we need so he's in tune with us. So let's say that Quinn, McShane and Jones or Foderingham. That leaves the hardest part.... 2 strikers, and our interest has supposedly cooled on Sa.
The Chronic report of the smae interview notes we have only 14 senior players and no senior keeper.
Blackpool version 15-16.
by Froomes » 22 Jun 2015 18:19
by Ian Royal » 22 Jun 2015 18:24
Froomes The point is there's more chance it won't work out than there is of us doing a Southampton!
It really isn't that difficult to see that saying 'relegation will give us a fresh start' is naive at best!
by andrew1957 » 22 Jun 2015 18:31
Ian Royal
I make it 15, not including Kelly, Karacan or Ferdinand, based on players to have made at least 5 first team appearances last season. And even then isn't that more than double what Blackpool had? Weren't they down to something ludicrous like 6 at one point?
I bet Blackpool didn't have an excellent pool of young talent to rely on as back up either. Whereas we have Tshibola, Keown, Sweeney, Tanner, Novakovitch, Cardwell, Samuel, Fosu and co.
by andrew1957 » 22 Jun 2015 18:38
Ian Royal Clearly the preference is rebuild with a season of survival showing clear improvement, followed by a campaign hovering around the play offs and then winning the league. But sometimes taking a step back helps you take two steps forward. It's not like anyone's saying they want us to be relegated. Or they want us to try to be relegated.
by Ian Royal » 22 Jun 2015 19:03
by Royal Rother » 22 Jun 2015 19:27
by SCIAG » 22 Jun 2015 20:46
Ian Royal Have you tried comparing it to last season?
Federici, Gunter, Kelly, Obita, Pearce, Morrison, Ferdinand, Williams, Guthrie, Karacan, Akpan, McCleary, Blackman, Pogrebnyak, Cox, Mackie, Drenthe.
by howser » 22 Jun 2015 20:56
by Ian Royal » 22 Jun 2015 21:04
SCIAGIan Royal Have you tried comparing it to last season?
Federici, Gunter, Kelly, Obita, Pearce, Morrison, Ferdinand, Williams, Guthrie, Karacan, Akpan, McCleary, Blackman, Pogrebnyak, Cox, Mackie, Drenthe.
Missing Cummings, HRK, and McCarthy. Presuming Murray and Norwood are deliberately excluded because they didn't join until after Morrison left.
howser Liked the Clarke comment that if the deals arn't done in the next few days then the players concerned will look elsewhere, nice way of forcing the issue. How the hell we haven't got the green light to get some new blood yet amazes me, it's not like the transfer window has ben thrust upon us at 5 minutes notice, for goodness sake this should have been sorted weeks ago, and there is the aroma of a money shortage. I wonder if they are not forthcoming where that leaves Clarke ? he must have had some guarantee of available finance prior to accepting the job, would he walk away ? I don't think anyone could complain if he did ?
by NewCorkSeth » 22 Jun 2015 21:17
Ian RoyalSCIAGIan Royal Have you tried comparing it to last season?
Federici, Gunter, Kelly, Obita, Pearce, Morrison, Ferdinand, Williams, Guthrie, Karacan, Akpan, McCleary, Blackman, Pogrebnyak, Cox, Mackie, Drenthe.
Missing Cummings, HRK, and McCarthy. Presuming Murray and Norwood are deliberately excluded because they didn't join until after Morrison left.
Yeah, fair catch, I thought I'd miss a couple. Forgot to check when McCarthy left. Spot on for Murray and Norwood.
Still, it's hardly a huge difference. Particularly when you factor in who was fit.
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