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11 hours ago, DCFC1388 said:

Their local journo says we still hold an interest. I find it interesting Charlton have had a bid accepted 2 weeks ago but the deal hasnt been finalised.

Everyone is waiting for his beard to grow so he'll be eligible to sign for us.

48 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Yes, but who scores the goals?

We don’t have goalscorers in our squad. We have to find them.

Knight, Bird, Sibley, Hourihane, Smith, NML, Collins.

I reckon maybe twenty goals if you’re lucky from that combination. Washing-up might add half a dozen to that.

That’s relegation stats not promotion ones.

The aim of high press is usually not goal-scoring per se, it's about not conceding. Attack wins you games, defense wins you titles.

For example, in 2019-2020 Warne's Rotherham scored 57 and conceded 37. Best goalscorer Labado with 14, no other players got to double-figures. Fourth best goalscorer scored 4 goals.

Collins can score that 14, he has scored 28 in this league and had 11 last season, which was dire by his standards. Knight and Washington can get around 10 because pressing gets you better goal-scoring chances than the slow build-up. Then there's Warne's favorites, set-piece goals.

As I said, I think the only way to solve this problem is to start to appreciate other sides of football than McGoldrick's class. Also, we can get promoted without him and actually, I think we have a better chance without him. I'm expecting us to be a well-drilled unit next season and darn hard to beat. If we concede less than a goal in a game (like that 37 which averages 0,8), our chances for promotion are excellent.

Obviously, it would be much more fun to watch McGoldrick's flair but Warne is here to get us promoted and he knows how to get it done. To be honest, League One defenders are technically so horrible that IMO high press is the correct approach. 

I think the only way is to acknowledge another beautiful side of football. Washington and Collins as a strikers, Knight as a 10. It won't be pretty but I wouldn't want to be the defender playing against their relentless press.

If offered, I’d take the second place now. Aim has to be higher though and third or below would be disappointing. 

2 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Any news on him? Or have we missed the boat? 

At his age, ability-wise he should be in his brine.

On 21/06/2023 at 10:17, BaaLocks said:

Or, if you want another example, five millionaires get in trouble at sea and we mobilize search efforts from around the world and it is the lead item on all news channels. Seven hundred migrants in a boat get into in trouble off the Greek coast and they are ignored for two days before the boat eventually sinks.

It really is disturbing and it shows who we, or the media, care about.

Just when I moaned that I haven’t heard any our signings before…

Absolutely buzzing to be proven wrong straight away !  💪

2 common themes:

I've never heard any of them. 

And to be honest, I've never heard any of the players we've been linked with this summer.  Difficult to get excited about the silly season as no King Colin or similar star players are lined up.

17 hours ago, Foreveram said:

Looking at stats for aerial duels and this bloke came out quite high.

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr Von Richthofen , age might be a problem though.

Too red for my liking.

Davies, McGoldrick, Roberts, and that second-choice keeper, whose name I can't recall, for me.

6 hours ago, Kernow said:

McGoldrick has said he wanted to join Notts no matter what. I don't know what we could have offered him to get him to stay, I'd rather the club operate sensibly than try and put silly offers in front of 35 year old players to get them to stay.

Roberts was never our player. On loan from a Premier League club, now wanted by Championship clubs. You can't pin that on Paul Warne.

Jason Knight has had his international manager saying he should be/needs to be playing at a higher level. Probably true but all international managers will want their players playing as high as possible. All that's come from Derby is that claims he's close to leaving aren't true.

Hourihane has a job coaching 15 year olds in the evening and the media took a few words he said and spun them out of context for a story.

Rodrigues' dad has apparently followed Oxford on Instagram. That's about it. There's been nothing substantial to say he's going anywhere yet.

Yes business is being done, but slowly. This link tracks the done deals, it's hardly thriving with activity just yet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/transfers

Local reporters have said we are close on deals but players are still on holiday. We seem to want to operate in a much quieter way, which is much better. We don't need to play out transfer sagas publicly.

We need to sign players, and we will sign players. We still have 56 days until the season starts, it's hardly time to panic. It's lucky we're having nice weather at the moment, lots of people will be able to put their freshly washed bedding out to dry after wetting it because McGoldrick has joined Notts County.

This is not helping. I want to see people panicking. 

Can someone link me the transfer rumour? 

Good to have the decision made. 
 

It’s definitely great move for the DM, I’m happy for him. 
 

It’s bad loss for a team, but at the same time it makes room for a new star striker. It’ll be a big pull and hopefully, for someone younger. 
 

I’m quietly happy for the club. For me, this is the sign that they don’t lash out long and expensive contracts anymore. My trust levels towards current policies have risen a bit more. 
 

Also, I quite enjoy the meltdown of some nervous wrecks. Yeah, I know I’m awful. 

1 hour ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Wish I could give this two likes 🤣

To be honest, it's not only the look. Marshall seems to be quite excited on multiple levels. 

As he should be, getting called up is awesome.

2 hours ago, Dartmouth Ram said:

Just been called up to the Northern Ireland squad

 

 

I want to date someone who looks at me same way as Marshall looks at Bonis. 

Very unprofessional comment by Kenny. He might be right, but it’s not his place to make such a comment. 
 

Bamford. 

I though there should be  a trustworthy source for a transfer rumour….

Source is good, but there’s nothing about the transfer tho. 

Sex with three persons is called a threesome.

Sex with two persons is called a twosome.

They call me handsome.

I just got this pic straight from Pride Park. As you can see, Pukki got his deal done already and Messi can't believe his luck to join League One! Double signing imminent! Is Sergio Ramos next?

12 hours ago, The Last Post said:

Quote

 

 

Oh, I thought you meant me as you quoted me! 
Apologies for the misunderstanding.

1 hour ago, The Last Post said:

Yep, The same as you've convinced yourself that McGoldrick is a Forest fan...you started it 😁

You might want to check your facts before accusing such a thing….

I hope Alram remembers to rest his arm. Otherwise, there's a good chance of repetitive strain injury.

Somehow he reminds me of Horatio Carbonari.

3 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

I doubt it - the overweight Greek owns the other club 

It kind of ruins my post then 🤣