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covcity4life

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #106
Londonccfcfan said:
The point we are making is does anyone think we have a top 6 budget yes or no.

I think no. Hence Robins overachieving currently.
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I would agree
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #107
Londonccfcfan said:
Yes yes I hear you Barry fry’s tweet is gospel.
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It wasn’t a tweet...

And he knows far more than anyone on this forum...
 
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ccfchoi87

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #108
Our ‘budget’, whatever you define that as, is probably not top 6. Our wage bill certainly is
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #109
Looks like Robins had more clout than Jackett when it came to buying Godden

Portsmouth end pursuit for Peterborough United’s 18-goal striker amid £750,000 price tag
 

Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #110
SlowerThanPlatt said:
It wasn’t a tweet...

And he knows far more than anyone on this forum...
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Clearly didn’t understand his duties as a director. Hence his ban from anything football related last year.
 
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theferret

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #111
It was Darragh MacAnthony. Barry Fry? This isn't the 90s. He revealed it, and it was reported in the local Peterborough press. Also listed on transfermarkt.co.uk and they don't show fees unless it is confirmed. You seem almost annoyed by the size of the fee?
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #112
I would imagine it’s the biggest fee since Eastwood

Pressley when he had to sell Clarke and Wilson has to scrabble around for bargains like McQuiod, Robins has a cool three quarters of a million to buy a replacement
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #113
Londonccfcfan said:
Clearly didn’t understand his duties as a director. Hence his ban from anything football related last year.
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Again you fail to understand simple things. Read the article. The reporter asked him if he got the £750k he wanted and he said well he would still be here if we never.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #114
Posh director of football Barry Fry said today: “Matt is having a medical now.” When asked if he’d got the £750k Posh had been seeking, Fry replied: “Of course or he wouldn’t be going would he?”

Peterborough United agree to sell striker to Coventry City
 

Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #115
So anyway. What was the point. Before you fog everything and go into tangents as you love nothing more.

Reiterate. We don’t have a top 6 budget. And most rational persons would agree apart from Pratt and Wendell.
 

Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #116
SlowerThanPlatt said:
Posh director of football Barry Fry said today: “Matt is having a medical now.” When asked if he’d got the £750k Posh had been seeking, Fry replied: “Of course or he wouldn’t be going would he?”

Peterborough United agree to sell striker to Coventry City
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Wow that confirms it. Lol.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #117
Londonccfcfan said:
So anyway. What was the point. Before you fog everything and go into tangents as you love nothing more.

Reiterate. We don’t have a top 6 budget. And most rational persons would agree apart from Pratt and Wendell.
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I’ve never said we have. But you’ll be able show we haven’t then if you are so certain?
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #118
Londonccfcfan said:
So anyway. What was the point. Before you fog everything and go into tangents as you love nothing more.

Reiterate. We don’t have a top 6 budget. And most rational persons would agree apart from Pratt and Wendell.
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You can’t define budget have no idea what we have at all and then get shown we can bid for players that are beyond Portsmouth’s financial constraints

Not going well is it?
 

SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #119
Londonccfcfan said:
Wow that confirms it. Lol.
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As opposed to Londonccfcfan who calls other fans cunts if they don’t agree with him
 

itsabuzzard

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #120
This thread has taken a surreal turn. How on earth can anyone make definitive statements about budgets when in possession of precisely fuck all in the shape of facts and figures? Nuts.

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hill83

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #121
itsabuzzard said:
This thread has taken a surreal turn. How on earth can anyone make definitive statements about budgets when in possession of precisely fuck all in the shape of facts and figures? Nuts.

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No different to all the keyboard Peps on every other thread.
 
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usskyblue

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #122
itsabuzzard said:
This thread has taken a surreal turn
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Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #123
usskyblue said:
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Lol when doesn’t it. Jeez.
 
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itsabuzzard

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #124
hill83 said:
No different to all the keyboard Peps on every other thread.
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Well, it's one thing to argue the relative merits of players and managers, but plain daft to be adamant about something that you obviously can't back up with simple figures.

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Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #125
itsabuzzard said:
Well, it's one thing to argue the relative merits of players and managers, but plain daft to be adamant about something that you obviously can't back up with simple figures.

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It’s an opinion. So imo Robins doesn’t have a top 6 budget. Simple.

So he’s overachieving imo. An opinion many other fans share.
 

itsabuzzard

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #126
Londonccfcfan said:
It’s an opinion. So imo Robins doesn’t have a top 6 budget. Simple.

So he’s overachieving imo. An opinion many other fans share.
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An opinion based on what, exactly?

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hill83

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #127
I think he’s got a bigger budget than Man City and nobody is telling me otherwise. So he’s under achieving.

Uber for Robins
 
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itsabuzzard

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #128
hill83 said:
I think he’s got a bigger budget than Man City and nobody is telling me otherwise. So he’s under achieving.
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Taxi!

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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #129
Londonccfcfan said:
It’s an opinion. So imo Robins doesn’t have a top 6 budget. Simple.

So he’s overachieving imo. An opinion many other fans share.
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No that’s not quite what you said. You said he did - you’ve now changed it to your opinion
 
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theferret

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #130
Londonccfcfan said:
So anyway. What was the point. Before you fog everything and go into tangents as you love nothing more.

Reiterate. We don’t have a top 6 budget. And most rational persons would agree apart from Pratt and Wendell.
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And, we do/we don't, what's the point? Robins has had money to spend, we spent 800K the season before on Chaplin and Baka. But, he's also had to sell key players. He's doing a great job. Overachieving? Maybe if you're going to judge it solely on budget, but based on the squad we have? Possibly not, but then he's assembled the squad so deserves some credit for that. This budget league table is meaningless, aside from Ipswich and Sunderland I doubt there's much difference between ourselves and those around us. When we were 9th last week were we underachieving? It's an odd way of looking at it if you ask me, but hey ho.
 

Londonccfcfan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #131
SlowerThanPlatt said:
No that’s not quite what you said. You said he did - you’ve now changed it to your opinion
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My opinion is fact.
 

itsabuzzard

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #132
theferret said:
And, we do/we don't, what's the point? Robins has had money to spend, we spent 800K the season before on Chaplin and Baka. But, he's also had to sell key players. He's doing a great job. Overachieving? Maybe if you're going to judge it solely on budget, but based on the squad we have? Possibly not, but then he's assembled the squad so deserves some credit for that. This budget league table is meaningless, aside from Ipswich and Sunderland I doubt there's much difference between ourselves and those around us. When we were 9th last week were we underachieving? It's an odd way of looking at it if you ask me, but hey ho.
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The budget league table is meaningless because there isn't one.

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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #133
itsabuzzard said:
The budget league table is meaningless because there isn't one.

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Although normally the wages paid matches the league table
 
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itsabuzzard

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #134
Sky Blue Pete said:
Although normally the wages paid matches the league table
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Then that would be one way of gauging whether MR is over-achieving or not. Presented with a league table of figures maybe we could even all agree. On second thoughts...

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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #135
Grendel said:
Looks like Robins had more clout than Jackett when it came to buying Godden

Portsmouth end pursuit for Peterborough United’s 18-goal striker amid £750,000 price tag
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Hadn’t Pompey spunked 2 million on Marquis prior to this?
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #136
Grendel said:
You can’t define budget have no idea what we have at all and then get shown we can bid for players that are beyond Portsmouth’s financial constraints

Not going well is it?
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In the same window Portsmouth paid £1.5m for Marquis. Godden clearly wasn’t beyond their financial constraints, they just weren’t willing to pay £750k for him.
 
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robbiethemole

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #137
isn't it nice not to be fighting over the performances on the pitch?? instead people are arguing over budgets, which nobody on here has any idea of what they are!!
some on here would start an argument in solitary confinement.
 
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Skybluefaz

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #138
Grendel said:
You can’t define budget have no idea what we have at all and then get shown we can bid for players that are beyond Portsmouth’s financial constraints

Not going well is it?
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Portsmouth paid over a million for Marquis didn’t they?
 
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Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue

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  • Jan 2, 2020
  • #139
Skybluefaz said:
Portsmouth paid over a million for Marquis didn’t they?
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If I remember rightly it was estimated at about £1.5 million. Pompey sold £5-6 million pounds worth of players in the summer, which is likely to be where the money came from.

We sold Bayliss (was it for a reported £2million?) and Chaplin (reported £1million) which is where I’m guessing the money was reinvested to buy Godden and Allen and the smaller fees for Rose etc.

Back to the original topic, Robins is the best manager I’ve seen in my lifetime at the City and I think he’s doing an outstanding job, especially with everything going on off the pitch. Grateful to have Robins at the club - cancel the Uber. Pusb
 
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Astute

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  • Jan 3, 2020
  • #140
Yeah. So which manager is better than which manager? How do we consider the upheaval going on at our club as in never knowing what city/town we will be playing in? Were players enticed on the Brum stadium this season? Or was it our manager?

Budget. Are we counting the money from players sold? Or is it jist on what we have spent?

Whichever way you put it Robins has a very good record at our club. And when we get those who want Robins gine they never come out with a better manager that is available and would be willing to move to us.

It is hard to compare Robins to Hill. Hill had a stadium and a very large support. Robins doesn't know which stadium he has and a low support base because of this. We are playing good football but have been missing a striker. Can we see how it goes niw we have a striker back and scoring?
 
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