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But Sisu are bad, very bad, so taking the transfer fees for our young starlets is part of a strategy to fleece the club... *eyes roll* We’ve signed 11 permanent players - all experienced pros at our level. 15 players in total. The club has clearly invested in the team. We still need a few more...

It’s a loan with a view to a permanent deal. I imagine the logistics of a deadline day signing has meant the deal is structured how it is.

You play too FIFA if you think 125k for a L2 loan is ‘pathetic’.

Please tell me about this bigger picture? I assume that was paraphrasing me? - Most teams fail to get out of this league at the first time of asking - we’ve done this all on one transfer window. - Most of our players are under contract barring Bayliss. There probably won’t be a lot of pressure...

Thomas left because his contract expired. The other two aforementioned players probably weren’t going to start, so 750k (if rumours are to be believed) for those two isn’t all that bad. Oh, and we’ve signed 15 players, with only 4 being loans, and JCH is with a view to a permanent.

You raise valid points, I have an optimistic outlook on things (I imagine from my posts, very obvious). We could be in a very distopian position come the start of next season, who knows? I say we have had attempted to make changes. We experimented with 3-4-3, we’ve now switched to 4-4-2 and...

It’s a bit of a moot point because we’ve built a squad for L2. Doyle being the epitome of that - great L2 player at this stage of his career. The question should be, is this team good enough to get out of L2? At full fitness, without a doubt. You’ve basically listed half the starting lineup...

I see why people are frustrated, I am too. Even with injuries, we should be doing better against the sides lower down the division. But, some Newport County poster did warn us that this was the nature of the league. The proof is in the pudding, not many teams bounce straight back up and I think...

For this season? We didn't need to sign permanent players in the positions we did. Jones and Andreu are still at the club, but are injured. So your options in replacing them are loans or free agents on short contracts. We nearly signed Craig Davies, who's on 11 goals in L1, and ended up with...

Well, the season isn't over yet and this could just be a wobble. We've put this team together over one summer, and with long-term injuries to key players like Jones and Andreu, I think he probably deserves the benefit of the doubt. He's also proving well at utilising our academy products...

That, or now that McNulty has more goals than both of them...

League 2 is a difficult league to get out of, ask many other ‘big’ clubs who’ve experienced it. We’ve put together this team in one transfer window as January was mainly replacing injuries to key players. We’ve had season-ending injuries to key players who are game changers and match winners. I...

It may well be unbalanced, but, I think you have to view it all in context. The squad we had was so bad last season, we had to overhaul it. I imagine our player turnover in comparison to the top 7 is way above average. We’ve put a good squad together over ONE transfer window. As for January, we...

A lot of football fans in general view the game or management as if it were Football Manager, or worse, FIFA. Unfortunately. Ps. For the record, I’d have said it ‘Aggressively’

Yes, because he was at Solihull Moors, they wanted him, so he mutually terminated his contract. If it’s not terminated by mutual consent, you have to pay off the player’s whole contact. In the case of Beavon, that’s mean paying all his wages until 2019.

Threads like this show how fickle fans really are.

Well, how can we 'share the RICOH properly' when Wasps own it outright, and have no obligation to keep us there. I think in the long term, be it 10-20+ years, we will now need our own stadium. I personally think CCC and ACL ought to share part of the blame for that. At least when we when we...

Worrying stuff. I think no matter how bad the CCFC and ACL/CCC relationship got, they should’ve ‘safeguarded’ one half of the stadium for when CCFC were finally ‘fit’ to buy a share in the RICOH. Allowing another independent rugby club purchase the whole ground, puts the future of the club at...

We don’t have Nazon anymore, and I don’t think Ponticelli is ready at this point in time. Biamou, whilst he hasn’t been prolific, hustles for the ball in the air and in the press. He doesn’t have a load of assists, but he’s involved. Two clear examples come to mind, both of McNulty’s goals v...

Jodi Jones was on for about 10 goals at least this season. Andreu averages about 10-15 goals a season - that’s about 20 goals gone missing. Remember, MR’s favoured formation in the summer was 4-2-3-1. We’ve also had Nazon who scored goals and I think JCH will turn out to be a good signing too...