Tombo

1 hour ago, Ambitious said:

It's possible, but I guess it depends on the people coming in and their estimations of Clowes as the decision maker. Parish was one of the people who bought the club from Simon Jordan after the banking crisis destroyed his source of funds, by the time he reduced his shares to the 10% he has now he had proven over more than a decade that he was very capable at running a club, with a semblance of stability at the very top level. 

I still think it's very unusual that someone would buy 80% of a loss-making business and hand the keys over to a person who has limited exposure and success at running a football club. It comes down to a few things, obviously (& rightly) Clowes is a popular figure with the fans and will retain the backing of us all for generations to come. I guess a new owner/investor could hide behind him as a shield, in that sense he's invaluable, but when it comes to making key decisions (hiring/firing managers, board members, etc) I'd have to assume that the person with the majority ownership will want to have final say. 

If one party bought 80% not a chance.

If a number of investors were to join him and he remains the largest shareholder with 20%, very feasible.

He took the club over as a single party but now wants a consortium of a kind, but won't go any lower than 20%. Other individuals may have 1% or 15%, but he remains the main man. Quite messy, but I'd have thought that's why he insists on retaining Executive Chairman status to ensure the business continues on the course he has set it on

I'd like to add that it was a lot of fun giving them hell yesterday but I wish only the best for Knight and Bird.

They didn't move clubs to be bit part players. Knight is captain and was really trying to drive his team along, and Bird was more or less playing number 10 not far from the striker and most of what they did create came through him

That wasn't even a good performance from either of them but they were still their key men. They are genuine quality and they served us well for the time they were here. Good luck to them

We're defo Championship ready

It's a long season though. More like that and we'll be absolutely peachy

This Al-Hamadi stuff was a wind up on Twitter wasn't it? It was a fake account

Just now, rammieib said:

Another 90 minutes nearly and we haven’t in four games created a decent open play (no obvious defensive error) opportunity.

How long can this crap go on for?

4 goals in 3 league games btw

1 hour ago, Turk Thrust said:

He’s a big lad, lager than life and I’m quite hoptimistic about him coming, so this thread will have a brewtiful and hoppy ending.

 

 

 

 

I’ll get me coat……

He's what Americans call a Tallboy

I might be wrong but I don't really know how exactly he fits the profile. What does he offer that we don't have?

Forgive me if I'm cynical but is this just another massive bloke so we can try to score from as many corners as possible? Is that really the best we can do?

I'm not clamouring for us to spend a load of money but must admit on the 21st August I am getting a bit antsy now about who is coming in next.

We do still need some strengthening in key areas of the pitch, and with the window shutting in just over a week we don't even seem to be linked with anyone. I know transfers can come out of left field but it's all gone quiet. Doesn't sound like we're very close with anything at the moment

You know we've heard it said that at Championship level you don't get away with the silly mistakes that you can in League One. And today was a great example.

Boro made a silly error which we punished clinically. That's the Championship, and that's us. Because we are Championship and you can't get away with such a sloppy backpass.

Not against a Championship side such as us

Not at this level

Championship again ole ole

2 hours ago, Srg said:

Gimme gimme gimme a keeper from Sweden

To the tune of "The Winner Takes it all"

He's Widell-Zetterstrom

Our keeper standing tall

Beside the victory

That's his destiny

That's my genuine shout too, close to the real lyrics so it could catch on.

I think we are getting more posts about the toxicity of the forum of late than we are genuinely offensive or reactionary posts.

Interestingly, I'm finding the amount of moaning about moaners quite tedious and boring.

Now you've got me moaning about people moaning about people moaning about the football. When will it end?

Could be as simple as putting an enquiry in as an option if others don't come off. Can't imagine he's high on the list but you need backups upon backups on your shortlist

I really don't know how anyone can take guesses on if he's "League Two" or "League One" at best when none of you have seen him play, and there is almost no statistical data available to come to any real conclusion.

I don't even think St Johnstone know what his level is and they would know better than anyone.

He's been playing at professional level for six months. Give it a rest with the snap judgments because they are not just ill-informed, they are absolutely uninformed. Zero evidence.

1 minute ago, IslandExile said:

Two defenders scored from set pieces. 

NML aside, the forwards offered little threat.

We didn't need them to, because we scored twice from set pieces. That should usually be enough to get a result.

If it bothers you that scoring twice undermines your point, you should evaluate why that upsets you. Would you have preferred we didn't score them goals so it solidified your point?

Some soul searching to do. Long season mate.

Really not willing to get into an argument with some of the clowns who only seem to pipe up when we're doing badly so I'm just going to drop a fact that is a fact and not negotiable

We set up today to play attacking football, and didn't try to grind out a result. We committed men forward to try and score goals and as a result conceded 4. This was the case from minute one right until the end.

No further questions 

1 minute ago, IslandExile said:

Forget goalkeepers, we need forwards.

Scored twice tonight btw

Tomorrow 6pm by the way

2 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

Just in case we do get this one over the line, and assuming he then becomes referred to as "JWZ" on here, should I be reading that as "JWZee" or "JWZed"?

This is important to me.  

TIA

I'll just call him Jay-Z.

If you having goalie problems, I feel bad for you son

I think realistically we stay up, in the end probably more comfortably than it will have seemed at times. So by a good few points in the end but it will be a rocky one and we'll have to keep our heads through the sticky spells where we may spend some spells in the drop zone.

Of course, some fans heads have monumentally fallen off their shoulders before pre season has even ended, so that bodes well for how we'll handle losing more games than we will win

One thing I'm looking forward to in a bizarre way is enjoying draws again. Having them mean a point gained rather than 2 points dropped. I thoroughly enjoyed last season and the promotion but it was exhausting going into every game and thinking "we HAVE to win, we simply NEED all 3 points". It isn't realistic and PW was always quick to point out how much of a lie this was.

I'd like some late equalisers or late winners that feel like we've actually achieved something rather than "lucky escape"

1 hour ago, duncanjwitham said:

Last season, in the Premier League, Man City:

Scored the most goals
Had the 2nd most shots
Had the most shots on target
Scored the most goals from open play (by a long, long way)
Had the most possession in the final 3rd
Had the 4th most dribbles

Of course they did. They're a very good team

Do you enjoy watching them though?

2 hours ago, Ambitious said:

If you want to see the keeper pass the ball to the centre back and keep recycling possession, patiently waiting for openings then I would imagine Warne/Evans aren't the managers you want. Nevertheless, both do want their teams to play fast attacking football but equally don't place much emphasis on passing the ball out from the back. 

Watch Oxford in their latest friendly, for example, I do find it odd that this constitutes a footballing side and if you don't do it then you're simply anti-football. It's like common sense is being ignored in place of a total-football ideology. 

 

I think a conversation needs to be had about what exactly constitutes "attractive football" anymore.

Do Pep's City play "good football"? I don't think so, I think it's dull and negative and just suffocates the game into submission until you win.

Do fans want to see their team play it around the back and keep the ball away from the pressing attackers?

A team who move the ball fast on the counter and try to beat the defensive line and get in behind is much better to watch, even if it means that they have to play very direct football to get it into the attacking third as quickly as possible.

There's more to enjoying watching your team play than just "I hope they don't pass it more than 5 yards at a time otherwise we'll get called hoofball merchants"

I think it looks mint

(Has anyone done this yet? Can't be bothered to go back through the thread)

I think its clear we've looked elsewhere and gone for Zetterstrom when his obligations for Djurgarden are done

Not sure why we're still talking about this

I really like it, I'm honestly baffled at the negative reaction because I don't see the problem.

Each to their own I suppose, but I don't know what there is to dislike about it

Very cool concept to launch a kit. If I had kids of age to care about DCFC it'd be a fun thing to go out and do on a Sunday. I really like this.

However, I can't be bothered to leave my house on a Sunday and my kid is too young to care

If someone here goes and does the legwork be a dear and post them so we can all share in the fruits of your effort.

Cheers