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Thread | Adkins leaves Hull
at 12:45 8 Jun 2019
Allams working their magic again. Looks like they'll be in real trouble once Bowen and Grosicki are sold. |
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Thread | QPR Women restructure
at 10:17 24 May 2019
Not sure what to make of this:
https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/womens-news/qpr-women-set-for-major-restructure/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48260221
Sounds a lot like the breakaway at Millwall, with a desperately positive spin on it. Hoos (who I dimly recall as coming across pretty ambivalent the whole thing in his old interviews - I might be wrong) saying they "will continue to aid the team financially going forwards" however.
If cost-cutting is the true consideration I guess the broader question is balancing that with the continuing need to present the club's relevance to the wider community in light of the stadium negotiations. Can't imagine they're a huge financial burden though. |
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Thread | Short and long term balance
at 10:05 11 Nov 2018
Interesting to compare reservations many have voiced on here about the tweak in our strategy this season wrt loans of players we're unlikely to afford to keep and comments from the Brentford boards following yesterday. (Reservations is putting it nicely - outright hostility early on, abandoning the club ethos, back to giving hack managers whatever they want, "bombing out" etc etc). Here's a selection:
The leadership group not doing it. We lack leadership.
As good as Mepham & Konsa are individually there's something fundamentally wrong with the defensive unit. We miss the experienced centre half to organise the back four.
We've seemed to have assembled a defence to resell for profit and not to win the league. Needs a shake up inc Bentley.
Individually worth a fortune. As a unit they are worth pennies.
Sometimes it's the potential and talent of our two CBs at other times it's a matter of inexperience and youthfulness. Two or three years down the line they will be top players.
They will be outstanding players, but we don't have an outstanding defence.
We are so brittle. Put under any concerted pressure and we concede. Concede and we go to pieces. Need to toughen up fast.
In all probability this crap run means that we’ll lose our best players come the end of season or possibly before. Then the whole bloody merrygoround begins again.
Thinking back to our early season form I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest Brentford folded in a way very similarly to us before the loans came in (and indeed Ollie's side last season quite often)...
I don't think there's a right answer here suffice to say if there is one it's obviously somewhere in between the extremes of old lags on a last payday and and a team of precocious wunderkind. But the uniting factor is that as the bloke there says, without promotion "the whole bloody merrygoround begins again" - Brentford will back themselves to pocket the profit and unearth another gem, we will as it stands presumably back ourselves to again identify another batch of more experienced players that will always be left discarded while everyone else keeps spending.
Clearly a blend of the two approaches would be ideal - but who is striking the better balance? Eze, Lumley and arguably Manning are coming along nicely but we also have a whole B team of capable players now pretty much wasting their time playing U23 games (raft of loans desperately needed come January IMO).
At the same time however the wildly distorting factor in this league of mediocrity is the obscene jackpot at the end of the rainbow - so huge and life-changing it's arguably irresponsible not to go for it if do you find yourself with a team that can string a couple of passes together. [Post edited 11 Nov 2018 10:06]
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Thread | Rangel
at 17:49 4 Sep 2018
You'd think he was the manager watching this. Seems a top fella, any chance he's doing his badges...?
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Thread | Goss
at 20:41 4 Jul 2018
Seems to be firmly back in the fold and featuring heavily in the club's social media.
Just wondering if he might not turn out have a big role to play next season - if we're to take the Chris Martin interest as any sign of intent, then a key part of McClaren's Derby side was Hughes and/or Thorne as deep technical controllers, with the likes of Hendrick and Bryson doing the legwork box to box, which suits plenty of our other midfielders fine.
Also note Scowen today saying “I’d like to add more goals to my game. I spoke to the gaffer and he knows that I’m originally a ‘number eight’...
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Thread | Eze Referendum
at 20:14 28 Dec 2017
Due back Jan 2nd. Pros and cons on both sides - but what's the will of the people?
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