Andrew3000

I might have posted this before.
Can't think why? 🤦‍♀️

Good knowledge, Andrew. All I know is that his nickname is 'His'.

Well, my knowledge of him is a bit sketchy, but he's good at drawing defenders, his final ball is on point and could lead to a fountain of goals in our team, especially if you subscribe to the view that we are keeping didzy and our coaching staff have some useful tips.. The only blot on his copybook is flipping his lid occasionally. Good on pens and is sure to make his mark somewhere next season. I've never felt so sure about a signing.

Did you read that in the paper mate?

Would that be because his name is Sam Nombe?

If we were to look at the Irish league, Neil Farrugia would be a perfect Paul Warne player, plays left wing back or right wing back, very good going forward and defensively, is a great dribbler and creates lots of chances from out wide. Is a great athlete aswell at 6 foot 1 and has recently been called up to an Irish training camp hosted last week. 

Sign Pennington and Knibbs

So has he penned a deal yet?

Wouldn't be a bad rotation option as one of the '10s'. Mendez-Laing, Sibley, Knibbs and one other.
Not sure where that leaves Barkhuizen. Potentially backup for the wing back positions.

Not done super in depth research but I’m pretty sure Oxford picked up a few from Ireland in the tenure of our new head of recruitment. 

Consistently scored and assisted goals in the championship and league one, playing in midfield for a top 6 (horrible) championship side this season, managed by a player who knows a bit about playing in midfield. He combines goals and assists with being combative in midfield, he’s exactly the type of player we would need in the middle of the park to complement Bird/Knight/Hourihane.
A team is more than just the sum of its parts. Warne has been able to build sides capable of promotion from this league that have scored goals and been able to defend. Some of the players in those Warne sides have gone on to play well at other clubs. Your argument that he can’t find a player, especially now supported by a “recruitment expert” who found a number of gems for Oxford at this level just seems to ignore what facts are out there in favour of your dislike of Warne. 

The issue is that we spend an exorbitant amount of money to develop players and end up with bigger clubs coming in an cherry picking anyone with a lot of potential.
We could just as easily let the bigger teams develop these players and then pick up the ones who just don’t make it, like Haydon Roberts, who can step into our first team squad immediately.

Deserved a thread of its own really. 

Just bumped into Old Trampie in the outer recesses of my mind. You’ll be pleased to know he’s been happily ensconced in a romantic interlude with a tea lady in someone else’s head for the last eighteen months but he’s back for at least a couple of weeks. As long as I keep him in cheap cider.
Anyway, it seems he’s been keeping his ears and eyes open…
Apparently, given the play off result yesterday Trampie’s is swearing on a can of White Lightning that Derby are planning to contact Barnsley about the availability of Kitching and Anderson. Kitching is now our number one target and Warne see’s Kitching as the central defender leader to lead the Rams to glory in this division and the one above. Initial bid will rise to a Barker sized fee with add ons, but this does represent roughly half of our transfer budget / war chest.
Anderson is the more achievable, with the player keen on the move and would provide height and steel alongside Harding as Warne is fearful of playing Harding and Cashin in the same back three as neither are six footers. Trampie expects us to drive a hard bargain on this one though. Meaning that both transfers require ‘work’ and could drag on later into the window.
The oracle has spoken.

I think Rooney will step up. He made occasional errors but I can’t remember him having a bad game. On top of that he’s got physical presence 

Bit of both 

Glad we’ve got all that pesky football out of the way and we can start looking forward to the real reason we love this sport…
 
The Summer Transfer Window opens Thursday! The summer sagas, the twists and turns, the crushing blows when a free agent goes elsewhere, the highs when we see a Twitter announcement from the club, the disappointment when tweet literally anything else that’s not a signing, Imminent!, 48 hours!, what will be the journalistic buzzword this year?, what Twitter account can we trust, will Nixon show any form or consistency?, when will Barry the Ram turn up?
Best time of year!
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It's impossible to say until we've signed some players. We could have a really good window, or a terrible one. Either way it guarantees nothing come the first day of the season.
But with the potential for us to recruit, and almost everything we can offer as a club being better than our League One competition, this really is a big chance for us. Bookies have us at 5/1 to win the league, it was 6/1 before the final so it shows that they think our biggest competition is now gone. I'm surprised the odds are so short given the squad we currently have. Maybe in a couple months, but that isn't a great bet right now.

Really tough on Barnsley, happy for Darren Moore, but Barnsley maybe even deserved to win, plus VAR was up to its usual useless self.
From a selfish point of view, it’s better for our chances next year. In commentary they said Barnsley expected to be between 8th and 12th in line with their budget compared to the other sides, I can’t see that changing next year. In terms of budgets, we won’t know exactly how much we can spend but it’s going to be within the top 2 or 3 in the division you’d think.

Happy for DM.
Bannans pitch map was ridiculous. Fair play to him for driving that team forward. 

I reckon I can be convinced that we’re not the worst team in PL history.  As quoted in another thread we spent about £15M to get to 11 points.  Leicester have spent over £400M and almost half that again as their wage bill to get to 33 points and relegation.  Makes sense in my head!!

Once you've seen the resemblance you can't un-see it...

Yeah I’m really embracing the excitement. Tbh, I prefer the wheeler dealer nature of our trading these days over the 2015 Mel era where you knew we would be blowing millions. It feels a lot more exciting knowing it’s low risk but you might find an Ebiowei or a Mcgoldrick and all the signings can’t really fail to meet expectations as there are none.
When we were signing Johnson et al, they were doomed from the start. I’d say in hindsight Johnson was a decent player for us but I always thought he was gash because of the price tag