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SleepyGinger

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #666
This is a great signing the bastards
 
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SleepyGinger

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #667
There’s not many guaranteed 3 points in the league any more. Everyone is recruiting smartly these days.
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #668
Samueljames1991 said:
I just checked it's 8 open play goals and 11 pens

That's an awful return at that level for the money they spent no matter how you try and spin it
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He can't control that. It's bizarre that's the point you're pushing. His numbers last season also aren't really that awful and you can't just discount pens to suit your argument.

The season prior in the Championship he scored 13 goals in open play.
 

David O'Day

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #669
SleepyGinger said:
This is a great signing the bastards
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surprised he hasn't ended up at a better team

Sargent likely off then?
 

Tommo1993

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #670
Football snobbery is hilarious
 

Jamesimus

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #671
SleepyGinger said:
There’s not many guaranteed 3 points in the league any more. Everyone is recruiting smartly these days.
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Sheffield Wednesday and Hull aren’t…
 
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TomRad85

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #672
SleepyGinger said:
There’s not many guaranteed 3 points in the league any more. Everyone is recruiting smartly these days.
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It's a good league.
 
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AOM

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #673
Jamesimus said:
Sheffield Wednesday and Hull aren’t…
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Hopefully Wrexham or (unfortunately more unlikely) Birmingham to fill that third relegation spot
 

Sky Blue Wozza

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #674
SleepyGinger said:
There’s not many guaranteed 3 points in the league any more. Everyone is recruiting smartly these days.
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This is true - I even fear for our bi-annual Middlesbrough roll-over
 
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Samueljames1991

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #675
KenilworthSkyBlue said:
He can't control that. It's bizarre that's the point you're pushing. His numbers last season also aren't really that awful and you can't just discount pens to suit your argument.

The season prior in the Championship he scored 13 goals in open play.
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If you spent 15m on a player and he returned 8 open play goals in league 1 would you be impressed?

They massively overspent on him it's not bizarre it's fact. 13 goals in the championship is still not worth what they spent either.
 
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ccfcricoh

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #676
TomRad85 said:
It's a good league.
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its both a good league and also when the fixtures came out i got a sense of optimism because there were no names that i was overly concerned about (bar the relegated teams)

appreciate thats a contradiction mind
 

SleepyGinger

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #677
Jamesimus said:
Sheffield Wednesday and Hull aren’t…
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Yeah they are a few years behind in Yorkshire
 
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TomS91

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #678
TomRad85 said:
Neumann is a 27 year old who's whole career has been in Bundesliga 2.
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He’s a very good defender
 

David O'Day

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #679
TomS91 said:
He’s a very good defender
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Is he?
 
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Potbellypig

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #680
From Birmingham's current crop, I only see Doyle as a player that gets into any of us, Ipswich, Saints, Leicester and Sheffield Utd teams. With not many of them getting into the teams below like a Norwich, Watford or West Brom.

As a football fan, I'd love to see the Brum derby back in the PL, but I just don't see the team as close to good enough at the minute. They need 4 or 5 big signings to be up there still imo.
 
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Balli001

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #681
Galbraith signs for swansea
 

Winny the Bish

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #682
SleepyGinger said:
This is a great signing the bastards
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Genuinely stunned by this signing for Norwich. Very very good striker and a rumoured fee of £12million!

Apparently turned down Lens who finished 8th in Ligue 1 last season.
 
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Jamesimus

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #683
SleepyGinger said:
Yeah they are a few years behind in Yorkshire
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Few years behind paying their bills for sure.
 
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shepardo01

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #684
Stolen from twitter...
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #685
Winny the Bish said:
Genuinely stunned by this signing for Norwich. Very very good striker and a rumoured fee of £12million!

Apparently turned down Lens who finished 8th in Ligue 1 last season.
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Are they in fresh hand's now?
 
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Gleneagles65

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #686
wingy said:
Are they in fresh hand's now?
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USA owners, Delia long gone.
 
Last edited: Jul 4, 2025

Tommo1993

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #687
I’ll be keeping count of how many idiots saying ‘it’s a shit league this season’.
 
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shepardo01

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #688
Signing for WBA
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #689
New owners splashing out!
 

Lamps

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #690
['Member: 2320"]
Blues will go straight up
[/QUOTE]
Can't see it at all myself. Yes they broke the record points but they are hoping for several signings to gel quickly. They also need players to jump from League 1 to the Championship. To go straight up they need to be better than Southampton and Ipswich. We're in good shape. Sheffield United shouldn't be too bad either.
 
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Marty

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #691
I hope Blues blow up big time, sick of their fans already, a few I work with think they have the league sown up already.
 
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shepardo01

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #692
Marty said:
I hope Blues blow up big time, sick of their fans already, a few I work with think they have the league sown up already.
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Yep - they are pissing me off.
Fans, club, pundits ... One big jizzfest.
All we've had so far is @Saddlebrains offering a few favours.
Hope they struggle.
 

shepardo01

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #693
 

Skyblueweeman

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #694
Who? Is he any good?!
 

Sick Boy

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #695
shepardo01 said:
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Poor bastard.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 4, 2025
  • #696
shepardo01 said:
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Way they've done that makes him sound like some kind of waste removal kingpin.
 
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baldy

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #697
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Way they've done that makes him sound like some kind of waste removal kingpin.
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Surely that wording's Bindon before though
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #698
Samueljames1991 said:
If you spent 15m on a player and he returned 8 open play goals in league 1 would you be impressed?

They massively overspent on him it's not bizarre it's fact. 13 goals in the championship is still not worth what they spent either.
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Wasn't it 10 open league goals from open play?

They certainly overspent, but once again, as a player he can't control the fee that's spent on him.

I'm not saying he shouldn't have done better last season that's undeniable, and I've already pointed to his drop off in form at the back end of the campaign, but scratching off goals (he scored another 5 from open play last season in cup comps for both Fulham and Brum) as well as penalties is a feeble way to prove a point to be honest.

He's a decent player and is still relatively young so has plenty of room to develop. If you don't agree, I don't particularly care.
 

Chicken Mcgraw

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #699
shepardo01 said:
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Fantastic signing. Interested to see the centre half we bring in.
 
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CovRes

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  • Jul 5, 2025
  • #700
KenilworthSkyBlue said:
Wasn't it 10 open league goals from open play?

They certainly overspent, but once again, as a player he can't control the fee that's spent on him.

I'm not saying he shouldn't have done better last season that's undeniable, and I've already pointed to his drop off in form at the back end of the campaign, but scratching off goals (he scored another 5 from open play last season in cup comps for both Fulham and Brum) as well as penalties is a feeble way to prove a point to be honest.

He's a decent player and is still relatively young so has plenty of room to develop. If you don't agree, I don't particularly care.
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19 goals, of which 10 were penalties.
 

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