tomsdubs

This squad is plenty good enough to escape this league, other managers regularly speak of being envious even ones at clubs above us. I don't really give much creedance to this average age stat this season. The way the team are playing doesn't really correlate to age, we aren't fading in the last 10 we just aren't turning up half the games we play.

Such a Derby signing, can't wait to complain about this guy.

In the pro warne thread I raised this after previously I was told I need to give my head a 'wobble' and that we shouldn't be expecting to spend any kind of nominal fee. Since posting about the money lost because yet again it is clear the players are self motivating (apparently I was wrong), no one has responded. I'm sure next big game the players decide to self motivate themselves for they'll start quoting me. I also pointed out the longer we stay down in L1 the more our revenunes will drop but this wasn't accepted either.

Pretty sure my points about motivating the players still stands after tonight. FA Cup getting to 3rd round could have landed us a nice financial bonus, 40k tonight could have paid some wages? With Mendez-Laing out and it showing badly, the more I look at the transfers over last couple of years Warne has been winning games with performances from lads mostly he didn't sign. Ratio of duds to goodens at the moment is not good for him. Not given up hope but the signs we could go on some magical run required to get promoted (a necessity) just aren't there.

No Mendez-Laing zero invention. That was such a poor performance.

I remember him from the old forum days back when I was a kid, always Mr Positive and you could tell he loved DCFC more than anything. Condolences to his family.

I just watched some recent highlights with Olaofe in, all rounder with a good touch. Little bit raw but with coaching could turn into a decent player. Holds it up well. Saw we've been linked with Al Hamadi, seems like a more polished player on the stuff i've watched. Kemp scores and Young gets 4 in one game against Crawley, both look pretty tidy player but they aren't very tall so might be limited in a Warne side. Personally though I think we need at least another winger to support ML and Barks, losing Embleton left us massively reliant on those two to perform every game. Luckily Wilson has stepped up lately.

I'm not really thinking of mega fees, if there is a good prospect doing the biz in L2 for a nominal fee surely we have to take a look? Good defenders can be found on frees but I see usually good attackers you need to pay up for most of the time.

We're paying Embleton's wages for the whole season and we dont even own his contract, just putting it out there. Bad luck on our part but that is the risk signing loans on full wage. All dead money now.

That's reasonable but looking at our squad we've had a number of lads brought in aren't really performing or constantly injured. Elder injured all the time, JJ injured permanently, Ward always injured it seems. Waghorn looked inspired initially but now struggling. Embleton got totally crocked which was a shame because I rated him. Bradley gets beaten everytime a team hoofs and up and under ball and loses his head at away game home fans. We need to add in Jan upfront, if Mendez-Laing is out for a while I reckon we'll dip in form as we are massively reliant on him. Is our cautious approach causing us to spend more in the long term? I'm not impatient for us to be a top Champ side any time soon but I think we should maximise what is in front of us, this league is poor.

We are 8 points away from top 2 currently with arguably the strongest squad in league, if we never take a small calculated gamble now then you start to question the ambition. Crowds will drop and so will revenue if we don't escape IMO. We don't have to risk the club at all to do so, just a small bit of investment to give the squad a lift for the second half of the season. We've seen other clubs do it succcesfully so many times while we've watched on over the years.

From the forum the club held Warne seemed to say he had some money to spend but didn't think anyone was worth it? Obviously we don't know who his actual targets were but we need to make a move at some point if we want to progress.

Don't need to give anything a wobble, just cause we were in danger 18 months doesnt change the reality of what is infront of us or should it lower what we can achieve as a club. Find that notion honestly stupid. Shame you had to become condescending. 1m would not break the bank and would be well within our spending plan if we had dealed appropriately. Every signing a club make is a gamble and it is all managed risk. We didn't manage risk under Mel and paid for it. But We didn't even need to spend that much in my eyes, happy to look at L2 for some prospects. How much was Alfie May now top scorer in League One? I'm glad you can put everyone in a box as wrong though, must be amazing being you.

I don't care where they are in the league mate, I look at their squad and quality of play and we should not be losing to those sides if we play even to 75% of our potential. We had a run of performances that were frankly dire, hopeless football which ended up with Hourihane falling out with the fans and just saying "we're playing to orders". This isn't evidence in Warne's favour is it? Look he might get a run going and i'll give him some credit if he finally gets some better team selections going. But I caveat that with the fact to me it looks like the players have had stern words among themselves rather than Warne did something magic that made them switch on and give their all for 90 mins. Like you say with the subs I think Warne puts himself in bad positions because he never seems to know his best 11 (although he's getting more consistent now), spends too much time concerned about opponents in a low quality league. Recruitment is a big one for me in a weak L1 season if we had just invested a little we'd surely be cruising this league. The players we talked about in the summer are having great seasons as well e.g Rodrigues at Oxford. On the poor decisions by players, do you not feel like this is more a coaching/cohesion issue? Many times you wonder when watching Warne's side what the actual plan is. I was at Crewe and we were all behind goal second half wondering who in the hell all the crosses were for as Washington could play 24 hours and still never win a header. This season just feels like a fumble to me, we should be relishing the challenge, should have just spent a million on a few good playuers and prospects. Another year down here will have negative impacts on the club in all areas IMO.

Warne literally said in the interview there were all having a go at each other and he just let them sort it out.

The players deciding to start fully trying after a dressing room meltdown isn't necessarily a great look for Warne, why couldnt he motivate the players before? The football isn't amazing but with the strength of our squad and the weakness of the league I view anything other than fighting for the top 2 as underachievement. I still get angry to how poor some of the sides that beat us at home are, shocking we lost some of those games.

Welcome to Tory divide and conquer UK. Stir it up, stit back and watch the carnage.

Like I said before he may not be a world beater but his service at times has been dire. When he came on at Crewe as I was right down close to the pitch he was screaming at the wingers to put the crosses in low. Immediately after that he had his dissalowed goal but goes to show if we actually play to our strengths we'll win games.

Saw him up close at Crewe, as in running directly towards me about 5m away. He was quality when he came on there, very positive.