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CovLis86

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,321
Saddlebrains said:
Going back in for Kitching now Brekalo looks like Leeds
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Is Kitching worth the say, 4 million he's likely to cost? Feel Cashin would be a better deal, costing the same to avoid the request for a loan back this season.
 
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Hobo

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,322
BlueSkiesForever said:
Hoping for a big marquee signing today, something that’ll give us momentum going forward. I feel that after that Sunderland game some people have had their expectations tempered a bit (me included). Would love to see someone come in that we can all get behind and think “Yes! That’s the one!”
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Always the same with City fans, win and we are going to win the league, lose or draw and don't score and it's all doom and gloom.

They put too much emphasis on each individual game rather than look at the Longview and bigger picture. At this stage of the season there are no "must win games" (although already it has been posted about Watford on Saturday). Teams are still settling down.
 
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PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,323
CovLis86 said:
Is Kitching worth the say, 4 million he's likely to cost? Feel Cashin would be a better deal, costing the same to avoid the request for a loan back this season.
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Kitching has played with Bobby Thomas before and Collins so I assume its a quicker bed in process meaning less risk in the short term
 
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slowpoke

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,324
CovLis86 said:
Is Kitching worth the say, 4 million he's likely to cost? Feel Cashin would be a better deal, costing the same to avoid the request for a loan back this season.
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Is Cashin left sided ?
 

Hobo

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,325
slowpoke said:
Is Cashin left sided ?
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He played left side of the three v Peterborough so assuming yes.
 

BlueSkiesForever

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,326
Hobo said:
Always the same with City fans, win and we are going to win the league, lose or draw and don't score and it's all doom and gloom.

They put too much emphasis on each individual game rather than look at the Longview and bigger picture. At this stage of the season there are no "must win games" (although already it has been posted about Watford on Saturday). Teams are still settling down.
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Agreed there are no must win games atm and I don’t feel that there’s too much of an air of doom and gloom around the club currently but it would be nice to have just a couple more points on the board, I can’t complain too much though.

I could be wrong but I feel like this season will be about rebuilding and not so much about getting automatic promotion. I can’t see us finishing in the top 2 with the current squad, maybe sneak a play-off place again but wherever we finish we should stick with Robins for another season and hope Doug backs us again in the window next season. Build a solid foundation now and then put the finishing touches in next year. I think that’s why it’s important that we get a Hamer replacement, give us a strong starting 11 to build the squad around over the next 2-3 years or so.
 
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CovLis86

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,327
slowpoke said:
Is Cashin left sided ?
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Yes, he's left footed too.
 

Hobo

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,328
BlueSkiesForever said:
Agreed there are no must win games atm and I don’t feel that there’s too much of an air of doom and gloom around the club currently but it would be nice to have just a couple more points on the board, I can’t complain too much though.

I could be wrong but I feel like this season will be about rebuilding and not so much about getting automatic promotion. I can’t see us finishing in the top 2 with the current squad, maybe sneak a play-off place again but wherever we finish we should stick with Robins for another season and hope Doug backs us again in the window next season. Build a solid foundation now and then put the finishing touches in next year. I think that’s why it’s important that we get a Hamer replacement, give us a strong starting 11 to build the squad around over the next 2-3 years or so.
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I would love a win v Watford which would put us in a healthy position. If we don't it won't be the end of the world.

We are in the process of a big rebuild and with so many strong teams in the league I can't see us getting a top two slot. We need a kinder season injury wise than last year.

Just keep picking up points and see where you are at Easter. Easter onwards is where you need your best form and take momentum into the play offs like last year.

The most important thing for me is just enjoy the football. Unlike some I enjoyed Sunderland. A bit of a technical game with the defenders on both sides coming out on top. Defensively we were a lot better against Sunderland than we were against Middlesbrough when we were extremely sloppy and lucky at times.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,329
oooo just got 'Brekalo not dead yet'

I'm assuming it means transfer wise not that he's passed away
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,330
Sky Blue Harry H said:
I never quite get this mindset. The club has to manage its finances, and as a set of fans, we are not the clubs accountants. We don't ask where the £100k Sky money has gone for a match, or where the saved wages of Waghorn have gone, other than in a generalised sense. Nobody asks how Ayari's loan is being funded, where Van Ewjik's wages are being met from. Money comes in, and goes out. Why are we specifically monitoring where money is being spent from Gus's sale? Grumble over, I spent a big chunk of my life dealing with budgets, and people seem to get lost in the minutiae of tracking specific bits of income and expenditure rather than looking at the big picture. I agree, though, that scrutiny is needed of the overall position.
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Well we do really. We asked why SISU were charging a large %age on their loans and how this meant a lot of fees went into servicing the debt, much of it needlessly from a club POV rather than a business investment for the owner.

Likewise, we do indeed ask why the budget is as it is. A Hamer fee to have some go towards running costs = fine. A Hamer fee to have all go towards running costs = not fine.
 
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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,331
Deleted member 5849 said:
Well we do really. We asked why SISU were charging a large %age on their loans and how this meant a lot of fees went into servicing the debt, much of it needlessly from a club POV rather than a business investment for the owner.

Likewise, we do indeed ask why the budget is as it is. A Hamer fee to have some go towards running costs = fine. A Hamer fee to have all go towards running costs = not fine.
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OK, look at it another way - assuming you have children, could you honestly tell me where a year's child benefit payment has been spent (because I know I couldn't)? It goes into your overall income, yet you don't identify what that specific bit of income has been spent on. Similarly, if you won £150k on the lottery, would you set out to spend it all in 12 months, or would you look at your overall position and factor that in before looking at what you spend. Scrutinise the overall position - fine, but asking what individual strands of income have been spent on is pointless imo.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,332
Boring this is aint it
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,333
Saddlebrains said:
Boring this is aint it
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Make something up
 

SleepyGinger

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,334
Looks like O’Brien going to M’boro
 

Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,335
shmmeee said:
Make something up
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I might do actually give me a bit
 
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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,336
SleepyGinger said:
Looks like O’Brien going to M’boro
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Not sure that is where their problem position lies.
 
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Hoofhearted

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,337
Sky Blue Harry H said:
Not sure that is where their problem position lies.
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Agreed I thought there midfield looked ok, there forward line was shite and the back 4 looked shaky
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,338
SleepyGinger said:
Looks like O’Brien going to M’boro
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I assumed this was made up !
 

Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,339
Might tweet Grady Diangana is the Gus replacement and watch everyone kick off
 
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ptr

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,340
More likely to be Jim O’Brien than Lewis. Can see Carrick walking soon.
 
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Hoofhearted

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,341
Saddlebrains said:
Might tweet Grady Diangana is the Gus replacement and watch everyone kick off
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And then half an hour later, tweet sorry I meant Ricardo Dinnanga
 
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Perryccfc

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,342
Saddlebrains said:
Might tweet Grady Diangana is the Gus replacement and watch everyone kick off
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It’d be in-keeping with the rest of the shit you tweet tbf
 
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Hoofhearted

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,343
Perryccfc said:
It’d be in-keeping with the rest of the shit you tweet tbf
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Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,344
Perryccfc said:
It’d be in-keeping with the rest of the shit you tweet tbf
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Ooo look how edgy i am with my office USA display pic
 
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Martin180

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,345
ptr said:
More likely to be Jim O’Brien than Lewis. Can see Carrick walking soon.
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Jim O'Brien *shudder*

Up there with the worst players I've seen in a Cov shirt . Forever out of position and had very little ability . Some fans loved him cause he ran around a lot
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,346
Martin180 said:
Jim O'Brien *shudder*

Up there with the worst players I've seen in a Cov shirt . Forever out of position and had very little ability . Some fans loved him cause he ran around a lot
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Scored one hell of a goal at Walsall though
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,347
Remember O'Brien coming on at half-time for one of the two Peterborough games where we were 2-0 down and I give him all the credit for the 3-2 win. Essentially it was a lot of headless chicken running about but it seemed to wake everyone else up
 
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ptr

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,348
Martin180 said:
Jim O'Brien *shudder*

Up there with the worst players I've seen in a Cov shirt . Forever out of position and had very little ability . Some fans loved him cause he ran around a lot
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It was at a time when our team was so poor that actually, running around a lot was a lot more than the others could be arsed to do.

But yes, absolute headless chicken. Constantly dragged at around 60 minutes because he was blowing. Used to hate it when he’d blame others for his shite passes as well.
 
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slowpoke

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,349
Absolutely bloody useless.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,350
Apologies if it's already been posted here, but does the loan market also close on 1st September, or is there a different deadline for that?
 
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tom88

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,351
Jim O’Brien or Jake Shears?

 
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procdoc

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,352
Sky Blue Harry H said:
Apologies if it's already been posted here, but does the loan market also close on 1st September, or is there a different deadline for that?
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Loan market closes too. Can still sign free agents after the deadline
 
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slowpoke

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,353
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Scored one hell of a goal at Walsall though
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Dave Bradford remember him, for me would easily get into the worst players ever top five scored one of the best goals I ever saw at Highfield Road, a 40 yard+ thunder bolt volley still rising when it hit the back of the net.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,354
procdoc said:
Loan market closes too. Can still sign free agents after the deadline
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Thanks - was what I'd thought, but the number of loans from PL clubs seems lower than I seem to remember at the moment. A late flurry awaits!!
 

Perryccfc

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  • Aug 30, 2023
  • #5,355
Saddlebrains said:
Ooo look how edgy i am with my office USA display pic
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Fuck that was a cracking comeback. Fair play
 
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