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Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

(Going to assume that this post is sarcastic as I’m sure you don’t actually think we had that money to spend on any player)
Feel like I’ve said this about ten times now but I don’t quite understand how anyone can argue that Warne isn’t impressive at this level. He’s had four promotions. He got us promoted in his first full season. Yes, the football has been less that pretty, but the job he has done is impressive.

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

(Going to assume that this post is sarcastic as I’m sure you don’t actually think we had that money to spend on any player)
Feel like I’ve said this about ten times now but I don’t quite understand how anyone can argue that Warne isn’t impressive at this level. He’s had four promotions. He got us promoted in his first full season. Yes, the football has been less that pretty, but the job he has done is impressive.

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

(Going to assume that this post is sarcastic as I’m sure you don’t actually think we had that money to spend on any player)
Feel like I’ve said this about ten times now but I don’t quite understand how anyone can argue that Warne isn’t impressive at this level. He’s had four promotions. He got us promoted in his first full season. Yes, the football has been less that pretty, but the job he has done is impressive.

Nobody is saying we were poverty stricken. And before you accuse me of doing this by using the word "shoestring", let me just clarify that I used that word simply to describe the small amount of money we had to work with and the balancing act the club had to go through to sign a player: CBT being the most obvious example of this. Fornah and Kane Wilson two others.
Our budget, even under restrictions, was almost certainly competitive when compared with the division as a whole. I'm sure Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers would struggle to match us ever with the EFL looming over us. 
But we certainly weren't in a position to splash the cash either, were we?
Other teams were managing to beat us to the signing of players because they could pay fees that we couldn't. Warne even acknowledged this when speaking about a striker that had joined a rival (believe it was Lang going to Portsmouth?).
You're trying to make out that we had money to spend and just chose not to. I don't think that's true or even fair. 
The wider point of this whole discussion though is around whether Warne and the club did an impressive job recruiting this season with those restrictions in place. I think they did. 
You don't seem to want to engage in that discussion, but instead you would rather play the role of an English teacher marking an exam paper, dishing out big red crosses for the use of terminology you find "erroneous" 
I've agreed with many of your points over the season on Warne and his style of play, but it's starting to feel now like you are just entrenched in a position of constant criticism of him that isn't particularly fair.

We have been having to operate under financial restrictions for the last two seasons that the likes of Ipswich, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Bolton, Charlton, etc have not

The football hasn't been too impressive at times, but getting four promotions from League One absolutely is.
He's managed to get us up on a shoestring budget with a squad debilitated by injuries. We could have been stuck down in this division for years. 
I appreciate people have an issue with the football that's been played on the pitch at times - I am one of these - but you cannot tell me that what he's achieved at this less isn't impressive. 

Remember when you were getting funny with a poster for being needlessly rude in their response to you?
The point I’m trying to make is that his recruitment was impressive this season considering the restrictions he had on spending 

As I said earlier in this thread, the wage bill is probably that high due to the contracts of players not signed by Warne, so I’m not sure it’s fair to use that against him. 
Think your second sentence is pretty knowingly unfair, too. You know as well as I do that there were still restrictions on spending; restrictions that have now been lifted!
I’ll say it again: there are areas that you can rightly criticise Warne on, but this surely isn’t one of them!

All of the money we did have had to go into wages. We literally didn’t spend a fee on a player. We had weird loans and promotions clauses and all kinds of creativity going on. How else could you describe the other than shoe string? We weren’t able to compete with Bolton and Pompey for players - we even got out manoeuvred by Charlton!
There are things that Warne can be fairly criticised on but I don’t think managing our budget can be one. Credit where credit is due!

It’s a thread about how impressive Warne has been - you can say you’re just being the forum fact-checker if you like, but it is pretty obvious why you are doing it
 

As I said earlier in this thread, the wage bill is probably that high due to the contracts of players not signed by Warne, so I’m not sure it’s fair to use that against him. 
Think your second sentence is pretty knowingly unfair, too. You know as well as I do that there were still restrictions on spending; restrictions that have now been lifted!
I’ll say it again: there are areas that you can rightly criticise Warne on, but this surely isn’t one of them!

As I said earlier in this thread, the wage bill is probably that high due to the contracts of players not signed by Warne, so I’m not sure it’s fair to use that against him. 
Think your second sentence is pretty knowingly unfair, too. You know as well as I do that there were still restrictions on spending; restrictions that have now been lifted!
I’ll say it again: there are areas that you can rightly criticise Warne on, but this surely isn’t one of them!

As I said earlier in this thread, the wage bill is probably that high due to the contracts of players not signed by Warne, so I’m not sure it’s fair to use that against him. 
Think your second sentence is pretty knowingly unfair, too. You know as well as I do that there were still restrictions on spending; restrictions that have now been lifted!
I’ll say it again: there are areas that you can rightly criticise Warne on, but this surely isn’t one of them!

I really enjoyed it, too. I’m yet to read an Ishiguro book I haven’t liked!

Klara and the Sun is a wonderful book.

That's some effort.
I'm in a book group and read one book for that every month, and another for pleasure, so around 24 in the year. 
Very few books on your list that I have read, but we did Klara and the Sun recently and I loved it. 

Oh come on, we wasn’t able to pay a fee for any players! You can’t tell me we were the big spenders

The football hasn't been too impressive at times, but getting four promotions from League One absolutely is.
He's managed to get us up on a shoestring budget with a squad debilitated by injuries. We could have been stuck down in this division for years. 
I appreciate people have an issue with the football that's been played on the pitch at times - I am one of these - but you cannot tell me that what he's achieved at this less isn't impressive. 

I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)
Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Hustler (Walter Tevis)
Why I Write (George Orwell)
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 
The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)
Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)
Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 
Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

If you ever get the opportunity to chat to someone who was around the team at the time, ask them what sort of “leader” Keogh was during Nigel Pearson’s time at the club.

I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)
Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Hustler (Walter Tevis)
Why I Write (George Orwell)
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 
The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)
Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)
Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 
Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)