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So you don’t want to play a passing game and you don’t want to play route one. What style do you want to play?
Wonder why, thought he was happy here ..
We didn’t play to his strengths (surprise, surprise)
His pinpoint accuracy from set-pieces is legendary – but we carried on with Evans and Jacobs taking corners.[/quote]Mulgrew took corners didn’t he? He had the odd free kick as well and didn’t he miss a penalty?
Still quite local for those who want to go. Its at the Lancashire FA County Ground in Leyland. Free entry with season ticket.Indeed
I agree. I think Gelhardt should be given a run, but from what I’ve seen Jensen Weir should be knocking on the door too.
He took Chesterfield into the playoffs when they were tipped for the drop. With better players he will do a better job as he proved.
He isn’t that leagues version of Steve Bruce or Neil Warnock though I’ll grant you.
The failed signings are a by product of the club we are. It was the same in the Prem.
We can’t afford to buy Championship quality players such as Assombalonga, Bamford, Watkins. We can’t afford PL players stepping down like Austin. We have to sign risks, either established players at the end of their careers that we may get something out of or players in leagues one and two we hope to step up.
In the Prem we signed players from Scotland. Some worked, McArthur, McCarthy, Maloney and some didn’t…Sammon. We signed lower league players like Cotterill and Folan who weren’t good enough and we signed foreign players like Boselli and Agahowa.
We also have to work the loan market usually signing promising youngsters from PL clubs. Again at a risk. Some work like James and Zaki but when they do work there is no chance we can keep them nor can we realistically replace them unless we find another gem. Others don’t like Olsson and the guy from Wolves.
We have lost Powell and James who were arguably our best players. We haven’t and we can’t replace them. We have taken a risk on Jamal Lowe….he isn’t good enough…and we have signed players like Fox, Mulgrew and Pilkington who will do a job for us if we keep them fit but that’s the risk. If they weren’t injury prone they would be at better clubs than Wigan Athletic.
It isn’t a case of having no ambition, it’s simply being realistic. We cannot financially compete at this level especially with FFP rules.
I once went to a meeting with Jonathan Jackson who explained our accounts and how we struggle to operate at this level. Derby County’s wage bill is higher than the TV revenue so already they operate at a loss. Luckily for them they have a fanbase to fall back on. We don’t and so we can’t afford to operate at too great a loss which means our wage structures and transfer budgets are far lower than most clubs at this level. We are League One millionaires and Championship paupers.
At least we now have some positive news on this front – it appears Cardiff don’t want to pay our asking price of £4m – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51112571That could mean that he isn’t actually that good….
Hopefully he hasn’t had his head turned by talk of higher wages and the like and becomes trouble in the camp.
Cook should have played Windass or Lowe alongside him early doors to set up a partnership. Its probably still not too late for that, but we all know Cooky won’t do it.Said at the start of the season that Lowe should play off him, but turns out he’s shite lol.
Windass would make a great 10 to his 9 though I think as he’ll do all the running.
Think you may find that 8000 severely reduced next season if Cooks still here.A football club is for life not just for certain managers/players.
Not the same ring to it as dog for christmas, but you get the idea.
We get plenty of balls into the box brownbill there is just usually nobody on the end of them. Whoever we do decide to play up front needs to “goal hang” if you will and not leave the penalty box. We leave our lone striker absolutely stranded because he doesn’t get the support from midfield he needs when playing this system.
He’s apparently going to single handedly save us from the drop
Who’s apparently?, is this your latest imaginary bullshit brown source ?[/quote]
You don’t have social media do you?
He’s been referred to on the likes of twitter and facebook a number of times as our best player by plenty of people who big him up weekly when we lose as though he is some sort of saviour and we would never lose if he played. I think that is probably what 442 is, rather sarcastically, alluding to.
