Covkid1968#
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Currently feeling a bit meh about the season. Nothing to do with lack of signings or people leaving....I've just not got into any level of excitement yet. Maybe it will happen Saturday morning!!
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Not as underwhelming as our play off season? We only signed Kasey Palmer.
The retention rate is high 90% of a squad that came 5th with our best player out injured for the majority of it. We have a big squad. What were you hoping for?
In the meantime, we've replaced the biggest weakness in the side in our goalkeeper, and we've signed the best player from one of the competitors, I can't agree with the comments on lampard either. Hes is a big name, Who's just took us from 17th to 5th last season with more aura about him then any of our managers in a big time.
Robins has gone - Its time to move on.
I have to say I'm very similar at the moment. Expect that'll change around 10ish when I'm getting ready to head up to the ground though!
Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue
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(+ Callum Doyle) Yes but we retained Gyokeres and Hamer, two of the best players in the league the previous season. MVE and Rudoni are not as make or break as those two.
It feels like we’re not as close to getting back to the PL as we were in 2023. This transfer window has been insipid. We don’t have any game deciding players to the level of Gyokeres or Hamer and this summer, none of the major issues have been resolved in attack and we still have too many strikers that can’t score at the club.
We haven’t signed Lampard as a player in his 20s. What aura exactly? His big name has helped to land who? Matty Grimes and a Preston loanee?
Lampard couldn’t get us past a semi final and didn't inherit as bad a form or situation as you are implying.
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Chicken Mcgraw
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Fergusons_Beard
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Last years Play Off semi finalists beat the Play Off Finalists.
It’s just a better team.
Amalgamate them both and they would’ve stayed up in the Premier League.
Dovin
MVE Thomas Fadz ?
Grimes
Hamer Rudoni
Hadji Gyo Mason-Clarke
Only weakness is Left Back-and CB as I felt that Fadz got dominated in the final.
Hamer gets injured we have Sheaf.
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Lamps
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With quite a few I would say put us out of the playoffs for the reason of being happy if we're in and being shown to be right if we're not.
SeaSeeEffCee
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Yet to see a neutral prediction that didn’t have us in the play-offs to be honest.
Legia Sky Blue
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The FIFA/ Football Manager generation are never going to be happy unless we are making 8 signings every Summer. Occasionally clubs do recruit like that (Birmingham and Wrexham this Summer for example) but there are no guarantees it will work out for them. In reality though, unless we lose Rudoni and/ or Wright before the transfer deadline I think we are in a decent position to carry on where we left off, but hopefully this season we have a decent start instead. I think we are likely to bring in one or two extra players before the deadline anyway, possibly PL loans which often can't be sorted until the end of August, so I will wait until then before joining the doom mongers.
While some of our opposition have been busy bringing in new players, they have had more need to do so than us and I don't see many players that I would have been desperate for us to sign instead. Those teams might also take a while before they take shape, giving us a useful headstart over them. Let's hope so anyway.
While some of our opposition have been busy bringing in new players, they have had more need to do so than us and I don't see many players that I would have been desperate for us to sign instead. Those teams might also take a while before they take shape, giving us a useful headstart over them. Let's hope so anyway.
itsabuzzard
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Any relation to Mick McManus?
CCFCAnalysis
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shmmeee
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Well probably the opposite of all the things I said I wasn’t happy with.
CCFCAnalysis
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You don’t actually care about the football? You’re only interested in be drama that surrounds it?
Side that’s just finished 5th, despite a horrific start. With everyone under contract, no loan players lost, and two of our most concerning positions strengthened
The shit we’ve been through over the years, and you want more upheaval.
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shmmeee
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What?
I thought we got found out by better teams last year. We struggle to break teams down if they sit in and we have a defence that can relied on to give a goal up if you wait. If we want to get better or even if I want to watch better football we need better. We need options out wide for when it isn’t working. We need a CB who can organise the defence or at least make fewer errors and defend his box. The wide players we have need to step up their end product and if we keep Wright he needs to start performing regularly up front.
Want more upheaval when I’ve said I’m sick of the stadium shite reading its head?
I think you need to lay off the crack pipe tbh.
CCFCAnalysis
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It’s the same squad that finished 5th, albeit strengthened at full back and in goal. And yet you want the busiest transfer month in our history?
And your writing off a proven GK, player of the season for Swansea, after a pre-season friendly
Are are concerned about KKH, another player of the season
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skyblue025
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New season starts the same as every other one. Full of optimism that this is our year.
By 3pm Saturday reality will kick in. 70% possession but lose 1 nil to their only shot on target after Sheaf gives the ball away 35 yards from goal, JDS is caught out of position ball watching, Kitch comes flying out of defence to attempt a tackle but gets nowhere near the ball or the player and the keeper lets a soft shot through his legs. Simms gets slated for not running enough, Wright comes on as a sub but looks uninterested and EMC gets injured. Ref will be shit, linos worse.
Anything I've missed?
By 3pm Saturday reality will kick in. 70% possession but lose 1 nil to their only shot on target after Sheaf gives the ball away 35 yards from goal, JDS is caught out of position ball watching, Kitch comes flying out of defence to attempt a tackle but gets nowhere near the ball or the player and the keeper lets a soft shot through his legs. Simms gets slated for not running enough, Wright comes on as a sub but looks uninterested and EMC gets injured. Ref will be shit, linos worse.
Anything I've missed?
shmmeee
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Yeah the squad hasn’t improved. As I said. If you’re excited then fine, maybe don’t post in the thread of people saying they’re not?
I wanted improvements to the first team outfield, it hasn’t improved, it’s arguably got worse. So I’m not as excited as previous seasons. I’m really not sure why this has upset you so much.
CCFCAnalysis
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How can a squad that has only lost Binks, have got worse?
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shmmeee
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Because we’re likely to lose MvE, that’s why KKH was signed. And some players like Simms who were coming off a good season last year have dropped off the face of the earth this year. Sheaf is in decline, Allen, Bidwell. Players don’t just stay where they are. The only change to the outfield so far is likely to be KKH for MvE and for me that’s a downgrade. But nice job jumping from first team to squad to try and prove a point. We’ve also lost Tavares and Paterson who while both shit did occasionally do a job on the wings. So we’ve lost cover in several places not just CB no matter how shit it was.
suffolkskyblue24
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson
Lamps
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So we're worse off mainly because we've got rid of players you call shit?
You mentioned Simms dropping off the face of the earth. That was last season. That's not him making us weaker this season.
KKH looks good going forward. We will see how good he is defensively but you speak as though it's a downgrade without him playing in anger. It does release funds to strengthen elsewhere.
StrettoBoy
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standupforcity
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Can't wait! Nuff said!
Kingokings204
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I wouldn’t even mind but it’s totally unfounded. Even if we stayed completely still we still finished 5th last season. We would be competitive.
lord alone knows what these people would be like if we sold rudoni.
Ccfcisparks
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I mean even if we stay still, it doesn't mean other teams are. Your point doesn't make much sense.
Kingokings204
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why? I’m not on about other teams. Who knows anyway if they have stood still or not?
Watford have signed 9 players but got rid of 9 players. Have they stood still?