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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 01 Aug 19 9.57am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Well it is forecast time and he has written a preview on us for the coming year, in the Guardian.

16th place and a quite thorough analysis IMHO.

 

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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 01 Aug 19 10.02am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Originally posted by steeleye20

Well it is forecast time and he has written a preview on us for the coming year, in the Guardian.

16th place and a quite thorough analysis IMHO.

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Bangell Flag Oxford 01 Aug 19 10.12am Send a Private Message to Bangell Add Bangell as a friend

Completely depends on what happens in the next week. RB, LB, striker and another attacking midfielder, and we'd have a great squad. Fail to get a RB and striker, or lose Zaha, and we're looking at relegation.

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 01 Aug 19 10.20am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Bangell

Completely depends on what happens in the next week. RB, LB, striker and another attacking midfielder, and we'd have a great squad. Fail to get a RB and striker, or lose Zaha, and we're looking at relegation.

Bang on. I really will be surprised if we sign a ready left back as backup though, with Schlupp as a utility backup already here.

 


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Ian-VI Flag Vicenza 01 Aug 19 10.37am Send a Private Message to Ian-VI Add Ian-VI as a friend

If we get new players we could have a good team yes, but even if we don't we'd never be relegated with the actual team.
Norwich, bournemouth, burnley, brighton, Sheffield etc fans would give their right hand to have our team with Guaita, sakho, wilf, townsend, luka, and so on...

 


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antipodeagle Flag Wellington 01 Aug 19 10.39am Send a Private Message to antipodeagle Add antipodeagle as a friend

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Bang on. I really will be surprised if we sign a ready left back as backup though, with Schlupp as a utility backup already here.

And Ward able to do a reasonable turn there at a push...assuming we get that new right back.

 

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Booted Eagle Flag Bristol 01 Aug 19 10.47am Send a Private Message to Booted Eagle Add Booted Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Ian-VI

If we get new players we could have a good team yes, but even if we don't we'd never be relegated with the actual team.
Norwich, bournemouth, burnley, brighton, Sheffield etc fans would give their right hand to have our team with Guaita, sakho, wilf, townsend, luka, and so on...

The counterpoint would be their first teams might not be as good but they have a better squad than us, which they keep on improving. Our squad is wafer thin and a few injuries away from crisis, hence Dom's prediction of us being right on the wire in terms of the relegation picture even with the first team quality.

 


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cpj Flag Kent 01 Aug 19 10.47am Send a Private Message to cpj Add cpj as a friend

Originally posted by Ian-VI

If we get new players we could have a good team yes, but even if we don't we'd never be relegated with the actual team.
Norwich, bournemouth, burnley, brighton, Sheffield etc fans would give their right hand to have our team with Guaita, sakho, wilf, townsend, luka, and so on...

Seriously? The jury is still very much out on him. From what I saw last season he was no better than WH - constantly beaten at his near post, poor distribution, rushing from his goal at wrong moments and flapping at crosses.

 

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Frickin Saweet Flag South Cronx 01 Aug 19 10.47am Send a Private Message to Frickin Saweet Add Frickin Saweet as a friend

it does conjure up an amusing picture of Dougie and Parish looking at each other with blind enthusiasm, trying to look and sound like they have a plan, but really they have no idea of which players to target for recruitment and and how to get business done. it reminds me of a client I recently worked with - all chat but no idea of what they're saying or doing. It's amusing because it's clear that we have no workable system for recruiting players but I think on some level they think they do or convince themselves that there is a plan.

 

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rob1969 Flag Banstead Surrey 01 Aug 19 11.00am Send a Private Message to rob1969 Add rob1969 as a friend

Reckon this assessment is about right - unless we get at least two decent additions in next week in which case we could be mid table.
Would be great if we could hit the ground running for once and pick up a few points in early games but not holding my breath.

 

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Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 01 Aug 19 11.42am Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Frickin Saweet

it does conjure up an amusing picture of Dougie and Parish looking at each other with blind enthusiasm, trying to look and sound like they have a plan, but really they have no idea of which players to target for recruitment and and how to get business done. it reminds me of a client I recently worked with - all chat but no idea of what they're saying or doing. It's amusing because it's clear that we have no workable system for recruiting players but I think on some level they think they do or convince themselves that there is a plan.

Looking at Bournemouth, in pre-season they have gone down the route of signing young players in their early 20s IE Kelly,Stacey,Billing,Danjuma.
Last season they recruited Brooks and Mepham.
Certainly good sell-on value !

 

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Ian-VI Flag Vicenza 01 Aug 19 11.47am Send a Private Message to Ian-VI Add Ian-VI as a friend

Originally posted by Booted Eagle

The counterpoint would be their first teams might not be as good but they have a better squad than us, which they keep on improving. Our squad is wafer thin and a few injuries away from crisis, hence Dom's prediction of us being right on the wire in terms of the relegation picture even with the first team quality.

Which is exactly what I said, he thinks this team can end 15th = safe.
Of course we need more players, there's no doubt about that, but I keep reading that if the team stays as it is we're doomed. And that's not true. This team is stronger than 3 teams at least, as it is today.
It's 6 years that the same users keep seeing us relegated for 30 matches to then realize we're midtable... I would quit predicting if I saw I'm wrong year after year...

Edited by Ian-VI (01 Aug 2019 11.48am)

 


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