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« Reply #1 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 08:41:07 » |
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Bollocks.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 09:29:38 » |
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Bollocks.
My thoughts exactly. He wouldn't be much of a manager if he hadn't considered the implications of certain players leaving and who would replace them. |
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Ardiles
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 09:58:42 » |
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Doesn't Mark leave all of that to Lee Power though? Personally, I've always thought of him as more of a Coach than a Manager.
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 10:51:38 » |
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Whoever decides on possible transfer targets, the last thing you want to do is tell the media who they are before any deals are done.
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 11:37:19 » |
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Cooper and Power as likely as not know who is coming in and who is going or likely to go and where. We all just have to sit back and wait for the bombshells and surprises.
I can't make the Crawley game, however any player absentees may well be tactical or they maybe because of ongoing negotiations, you never know. Maybe, just maybe no-one goes anywhere and we actually end up strengthening the squad! Mind you that would fall into the bombshell and surprise box.
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 11:44:17 » |
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Well If anyone does go, it wont be on the cheap. Power/Cooper whoever have shown they have an eye for a player, so whatever happens happens, I'm not unduly worried.
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 12:05:04 » |
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I don't think much will happen with outgoings until the end of Jan anyway as we are likely to hold on for the best offer as are spurs with Pritchard. Therefore we probably got another month with most of what we got except ajose
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 12:06:47 » |
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I guess its not a bad strategy. Get a few decent loans and young kids in at the beginning of the year. Get the team safe of relegation (hopefully) and then sell for a profit. Give the next lot a chance so that they are ready to be supplemented by some decent loans the following year and repeat the plan.
Whether that is what will happen or not is anyone's guess.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:15:27 » |
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I guess its not a bad strategy. Get a few decent loans and young kids in at the beginning of the year. Get the team safe of relegation (hopefully) and then sell for a profit. Give the next lot a chance so that they are ready to be supplemented by some decent loans the following year and repeat the plan.
Whether that is what will happen or not is anyone's guess.
would people be happy with this? |
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« Reply #10 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:42:36 » |
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It's the same philosophy employed by Fitton, and whether we are happy with it or not, it will probably come to pass. The only differences with Fitton's regin seems to be that are linking much mroe closely to Prem teams as a source of players than he managed to do and that a style of play seems to have been inprinted into the Managers role (a bit like Swansea to some extent).
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« Reply #11 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:44:16 » |
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No thanks. personally I'd rather we succeeded or failed with our OWN players - not a team whose heart is made up of other club's young starlets who will invariably depart.
How can anyone build and sustain a team when every 6 months the process has to start again.
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« Reply #12 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 13:48:36 » |
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No thanks. personally I'd rather we succeeded or failed with our OWN players - not a team whose heart is made up of other club's young starlets who will invariably depart.
How can anyone build and sustain a team when every 6 months the process has to start again.
Based on the fact that it is our stated philsophy from our Chairman, and that nearly all clubs from the top 4 in the Prem down now staff this way (see Everton as a higher profile example) since the Academy sytem came into play so the big boys hoover up all the potential talent and then loan them out, then I'd suggest you might not like football. |
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« Reply #13 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 14:03:29 » |
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How can anyone build and sustain a team when every 6 months the process has to start again.
Yeovil have been doing this ever since they got into the football league. In that time they have been promoted twice and never relegated while we.... |
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« Reply #14 on: Monday, December 30, 2013, 14:20:01 » |
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No thanks. personally I'd rather we succeeded or failed with our OWN players - not a team whose heart is made up of other club's young starlets who will invariably depart.
I don't think the concept of a team having its 'own' players holds as much water as it used to though. Go back a few years, and your own players would probably hang around for longer than they do now before moving on; while loan players were the exception. I think there is much less of a distinction now. Season long loans are more common for a start. To me, any player who spends the season with us on a season long loan is every bit as much a Swindon player as one that we sign outright and then moves elsewhere after a short period. |
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