CapeTownRams

Danish goalkeepers all over the place it seems ! Must be the Schmeichel effect…

Hello.
I’m by no means an ITK Alan Nixon impersonator and i’d only come on here and say owt if i believed there was any sort of legitimacy.
Chap who told me we’d want Adams permanently in the summer when we signed him, I had a chat with him on Friday, fee is the stumbling block. all parties want the move but Cardiff want a decent fee.
Sibley deal - apparently it seems to be length of the deal holding it up. we’re offering a shorter contract than desired. hopefully can be resolved.
Collins - same as above. we want a 1 yr deal. his camp want 2.
Herbie Kane - haven’t entered discussions, doubts that we will.
 

Sorry is such an ugly word in these circumstances 😂

Sorry is such an ugly word in these circumstances 😂

So pleased for Oxford; played the game of their lives, much better than Bolton on the day. And from a purely selfish point of view, a fabulously close away game for me again next season - I live 2 miles from their ground! 

Oxford deserved it and Bolton bottled it

Easily.....as it turned out 

I guess coming back from 2-0 down to Oxford and getting promoted ain't for everyone. 

Man , I detest Bolton- so happy if they fluff it.😂

We seem to have become obsessed with signing players in the 22-28 age group and with good sell-on credentials…
All well and good, but to me the priority is getting players in who can keep us up/make us competitive and maybe in the second season make a run for promotion…
30 year olds will work just fine- if we go up we build again….
Jim Smith took us up and competitive with some older players…
Champo emphasizes more skill/composure than outright athleticism for 90 mins unlike L1….

We seem to have become obsessed with signing players in the 22-28 age group and with good sell-on credentials…
All well and good, but to me the priority is getting players in who can keep us up/make us competitive and maybe in the second season make a run for promotion…
30 year olds will work just fine- if we go up we build again….
Jim Smith took us up and competitive with some older players…
Champo emphasizes more skill/composure than outright athleticism for 90 mins unlike L1….

We seem to have become obsessed with signing players in the 22-28 age group and with good sell-on credentials…
All well and good, but to me the priority is getting players in who can keep us up/make us competitive and maybe in the second season make a run for promotion…
30 year olds will work just fine- if we go up we build again….
Jim Smith took us up and competitive with some older players…
Champo emphasizes more skill/composure than outright athleticism for 90 mins unlike L1….

We seem to have become obsessed with signing players in the 22-28 age group and with good sell-on credentials…
All well and good, but to me the priority is getting players in who can keep us up/make us competitive and maybe in the second season make a run for promotion…
30 year olds will work just fine- if we go up we build again….
Jim Smith took us up and competitive with some older players…
Champo emphasizes more skill/composure than outright athleticism for 90 mins unlike L1….

And Bradley 

I don’t know that their presence on the vegas trip should be a direct indicator of their futures. Hourihane, Collins, Sibley, Thompson, Smith, Bird, Adams are all there and as it stands aren’t going to be Derby players next year. 
 
From what I can see Waghorn, Ward, Wildsmith, Forsyth, Loach, Fornah, John-Jules, Nyambe and Barkhuizen are missing from this group shot that was shared;
 

 
Top row L-R; Cashin, Bradley, Elder, Wilson, Collins, CBT, Smith, Nelson, NML.
Bottom row L-R; Washington, Vickers, Sibley, Hourihane, Bird, Thommo, Adams.

It’s going to be a massive rebuild and with it comes massive risk. The new players ( of which there will be many) will probably take a good while to gel and that could quite easily lead to a bad start to the season results wise. A bit like the past season but maybe worse…
Not all the signings will be a success cos that’s how football works.
We will need to be patient and understanding. If CBT can find his feet in the championship that would be a massive plus and almost like a new player on the books given how little he contributed last term. 
Ditto to a slightly less extent Bradley- cos if he’s not up to the Champo we will be desperately short of central defensive players. Mind u, I am still hearing that Fozzy will be with us for another year….(hopefully then coaching staff )…

Obstruction rule completely ignored and forgotten by refs. All the goals in the Ars vs Spurs game were blatant blocking/fouls on the Spurs keeper…
Interesting that Nelson started doing it for us as well in the closing games of the season..
They are fouls, pure and simple.

Wash was barely adequate for L1 and certainly not good enough for the Champ. But hard to see who would take him off our hands- best we can hope for is a loan out for the season where we still pay a good proportion of his wages.
Love Waggy but he has to go too. Same with TJJ. We need some real quality strikers… probably two.

Give me a break. It's not like he's moving country. He's still speaking the same language, with the same weather , same food , same music and TV. This is no excuse for a professional in any career. Can't imagine telling my boss I'm doing a crap job because I'm living a whole 2 hours away from where I previously lived.

Obstruction rule completely ignored and forgotten by refs. All the goals in the Ars vs Spurs game were blatant blocking/fouls on the Spurs keeper…
Interesting that Nelson started doing it for us as well in the closing games of the season..
They are fouls, pure and simple.

Obstruction rule completely ignored and forgotten by refs. All the goals in the Ars vs Spurs game were blatant blocking/fouls on the Spurs keeper…
Interesting that Nelson started doing it for us as well in the closing games of the season..
They are fouls, pure and simple.

Hate Bolton. 

Wash was barely adequate for L1 and certainly not good enough for the Champ. But hard to see who would take him off our hands- best we can hope for is a loan out for the season where we still pay a good proportion of his wages.
Love Waggy but he has to go too. Same with TJJ. We need some real quality strikers… probably two.