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Connor Sammon scores for Alloa 🤣

Cue incoming from out of nowhere !

The youngsters of today don't know they're born ....Facebook,  Tw#tter and the multitude of other social media outlets ,  bring back the good old days of " We're not signing Colin Todd. We can't afford him !" , then seeing the.Newspaper headlines on holiday in Dorset as we break the British transfer record .......those were the days !  .....sighs and wipes a tear from his cheek 

Helped identify Vickers, Wilson, Ward, Nelson, Bradley, Elder & Washington as targets 

“We’re not signing Colin Todd, we can’t afford him!” Mr B Clough. 
We can trust the truth re transfers when a player appears in our team after the whistle tomorrow.
Even waving a team scarf and/or introduced as “Our latest signing” (Ian Storrey Moore) may not be anything more than a statement of hopeful intent!

We may have had S. Bloomer and Crusty Bloomer in the canteen at one time or another 

Agree , if the money the sale would generate can't be reinvested to strengthen then why weaken the squad .  Thought he'd been looking better in pre season According to reports or have I got it wrong ?

The criticism of Warne in the transfer market is rubbish.
Can anyone name me one of his permanent signings who has been rubbish?
Thank the Lord we now have someone who does due diligence before he signs someone I.e. actually watches them playing in games, checks their character to make sure they will fit in with the rest of the team. Not prepared to pay over the odds for someone who will not improve what we already have.
Over the last 10 years the list is as long as your arm of players we have purchased for exorbitant fees (Blackman, Anya, etc etc etc), fuelled no doubt by power crazy chairmen desperate to get to the promised land. Look where it got us - just remember that horrible, sinking feeling just over 12 months ago, when our Club was about to exist no longer.
Give me Clowes, Warne and a bit of realism every time!!!!
 
 

And what sort of trouble are Reading in ? 

And what sort of trouble are Reading in ? 

Sheffield Wednesday had the oldest squad in the league last season and spent most of it in the top two and eventually achieved promotion with a couple of forwards who didn’t exactly score + 15 goals each 

I think that it is unfair to lump all players in the category of only going where the highest wage is. I'm sure many players also consider location, the manager, ambition of the club, ground and training facilities, crowd, length of contract, potential bonuses, etc. If a player doesn't want to play for Derby because another team are prepared to pay 10 or 20% more, then he's not the kind of player that PW will want at the club.

Think you need to take a break and have a kit kat,  that and give your head a wobble.

You're conflating two points in your post.
You say on one hand that the recruitment for offensive players has been poor then you mention people irrationality defending Warne. The implication of this is clear which is you lay this at Warnes door.
But then you go on to say that Clowes shouldn't have said that our budget this season was competitive nothing to do with Warne. Then you say the local press shouldn't have been trumpeting the lifting of transfer restrictions nothing to do with Warne.
Consider for a moment that Clowes may be right and our budget is competitive? So we are competing against other teams who also are trying to pick up a proven goalscorer for next to nothing on sensible wages.
But because we haven't managed to achieve this so far then the issue clearly is Warnes pulling power as a manager. 
Just because we are competing doesn't then automatically mean we are going to steam roller the teams we are competing with. Clowes didn't say that. 
I'm all for people posting their opinions as it is a forum but it's a double edged sword, if folks don't like being called out on some of the items they comment on then maybe they should consider the import of what they post before they hit the Submit Reply button. 
 

Offensive players are the most sought after one’s who also cost the most money, maybe we have a player or two lined up but the selling/loaning club are looking at a replacement first.
So many experts on here who don’t know what is happening in the background. we are a League One club on a business plan irrespective of how massive the fans think we are, we can’t just click our fingers and every player that Warne wants comes running.
I always look forward to the start of the season… maybe some people should do the same! 

I like the way you use the closing sentence to sum up your post.
Cant quite decide if some fans have been in a coma for the last few years or are just out of touch with reality. 
 

And as I post that we score. Typical 🤣

He’s not our only option. This narrative is really tiresome. I agree (as does everyone else including the manager) that we need MORE options up front, but Collins isn’t all we have.
We’ve got Collins and Washington as out and out strikers, there’s clearly an intent to play NML in a central role and he scored a lovely goal against Stoke and has looked sharp today with one stunning effort saved by the keeper. When fit we’ll have Barkhuizen and Sibley in forward areas, and Bird looks to be playing a freer, more advanced role. 
It’s worth remembering Sheff United’s defenders have been playing at a consistently higher level than our attack for the last few seasons and includes a highly rated young international (if my hours of FM are to be believed 😉)

One mistake a bad season does not make ......Buckenbauer help him he will !!

This is it exactly. Realistically it might be waggy or nothing and I’d happily take waggy in that scenario. Would we all have liked to sign a 24 year old up and coming on the cheap who’s had a stellar season and seemingly going places? Yep, obvs. But it’s a tricky window without seemingly a huge amount of financial wiggle room.
And the following point about it being a joke of a budget is all well and good to stomp your feet about when it’s not your money and you’re not trying to balance the books. I’m disappointed we didn’t manage to take a punt of some relatively cheap prospects, but ultimately I’ve not forgotten the scenario we’re still coming out of and the dose of realism and perspective this gives.

That's not what Warne said at all, it is being misconstrued by some people, either deliberately or otherwise.
He actually said that there was a certain amount of room left in his budget and he wants more 3 players (LWB, "10", "9"), but if he spent a transfer fee of say £300,000+ coupled with the wages for this player then he'd only be able bring in 1 or 2.
For some context, let's say there's £1.2m left in the budget for this season, this would mean that we could bring in 3 x players on frees/loans at £8k a week each.
But if we paid £400,000 for a player we now have £800,000 left in the budget which means we can only afford to pay 2 x players at £8k a week each.
This is basic business logic.
I'm glad we've set a budget for the playing squad and are sticking to it, it's long overdue.

Nazareth you say ......was he a Bad bad boy ? ......did he turn up on my White bicycle ?

Nazareth you say ......was he a Bad bad boy ? ......did he turn up on my White bicycle ?

I've just seen Steve Bloomer ..........
Watchin' 

Wee Archie , Archie Gemmill !!