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« Reply #17175 on: Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 21:54:04 » |
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I mean, I have no reason to doubt it’s legitimacy if that carries any weight
I wasn't calling anything into question. I was just trying to understand. |
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« Reply #17176 on: Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 22:11:19 » |
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I wasn't calling anything into question. I was just trying to understand.
No, I fully get that. Wasn’t trying to suggest you were. |
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« Reply #17177 on: Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 22:49:25 » |
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Bodes well that we are seemingly being gazumped by Sutton United and Walsall...
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« Reply #17178 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 06:26:10 » |
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Bodes well that we are seemingly being gazumped by Sutton United and Walsall...
The stuff a percentage of our fan base live for… |
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« Reply #17179 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 08:49:19 » |
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Bodes well that we are seemingly being gazumped by Sutton United and Walsall...
I though Walsall has a bit of cash now, but to lose out to Sutton would be disappointing* *don't know how they are financed, and it may not even have been financial, blah blah |
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« Reply #17180 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 08:55:04 » |
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At the risk of speculating about speculation, a team making a better financial offer to a player does not neccessarily mean that they have more money/a higher budget than us, it may just be that they value that single individual higher than we do. If we were bidding for someone as a backup player, we may not want to pay what a team with a smaller budget would pay for a key first teamer.
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« Reply #17181 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 08:56:40 » |
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Guess work on my part but think it’s less about budget and more about % of budget.
For example Johnson could be Walsall break the bank marquee signing who is their top earner and is eating up a massive % of their wage bill.
Having an 80k budget with 20 players on 4k a week against a 100k budget with 30 players on 3.3k - is still a lower budget but also still able to outbid.
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« Reply #17182 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 08:58:10 » |
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…and either could work better.
Small squad with slightly better players or larger squad with slightly less quality.
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« Reply #17183 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 08:58:26 » |
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At the risk of speculating about speculation, a team making a better financial offer to a player does not neccessarily mean that they have more money/a higher budget than us, it may just be that they value that single individual higher than we do. If we were bidding for someone as a backup player, we may not want to pay what a team with a smaller budget would pay for a key first teamer.
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« Reply #17184 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:00:50 » |
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We'll have none of that anti negative happy clappy shite here....  |
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« Reply #17185 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:02:41 » |
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Plus, as I keep saying - we have alot of squad already here. With the keeper signing today hopefully we could put out a decent (if inexperienced) XI this afternoon. Not sure many clubs could say the same?
3-5-2 (wing backs)
Keeper
Brewitt
Clayton
FBT
Hutton
McEacheran
Khan
Cain
Lavinier
Austin
Wakeling
Subs: Aguiar, Minturn, RHM, Darcy, Devine
…not the best team, not a perfect team - but how many clubs could put out a better team today?
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« Reply #17186 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:10:50 » |
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…not the best team, not a perfect team - but how many clubs could put out a better team today?
Wrexham, Notts County, Walsall, Mansfield, Stockport, Bradford, Doncaster and MKD to name a few IMO based upon current squad depth from last season + new signings. |
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« Reply #17187 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:12:36 » |
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Let’s see their XIs then…
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« Reply #17188 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:14:04 » |
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Let’s see their XIs then…
Look at the players that they got rid of in the other thread and their new signings in the other thread I posted. They are all in there which is what I based my views upon. |
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« Reply #17189 on: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 09:24:38 » |
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At the risk of making something which is a counterpart for PV's list of signings, here's a "current squad size" count for L2. Based on the number of players listed in the first team squad on Wikipedia, so not exactly perfect.
If someone wants to do XIs, knock yourself out!
Accrington 27
AFC Wombles 29
Barrow 20
Bradford 29
Colchester 18
Crawley 22
Crewe 29
Doncaster 28
FGR 22
Gillingham 27
Grimsby 31 (!)
Harrogate 29
Mansfield 22
Franchise 30
Morecambe 11 (!!)
Newport 26
Notts County 24
Salford 15
Stockport 20
Sutton 21
Swindon 20 (Includes Jack Copland)
Tranmere 19
Walsall 21
Wrexham 31
So we're below average on that, but not a huge outlier like Morecambe.
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