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Cledara Abbey sounds like a porn star or a secret CIA chemical warfare base
 
 

More about being aware that the bounce and run of the ball is unreliable. Overplaying on a bobbly surface can be as frustrating as having cross after cross headed away by dominant defenders. Put pressure on their defenders and hope that the surface causes them more problems than it does us. It's not a day for passing around at the back. On a narrow pitch, the middle is a difficult place to play through a team, even on a flat surface. They'll regard a point as satisfactory, so I expect they'll play ala Northampton and hope to nick a goal - we have to make sure they have to work harder for one than NTFC did that day.

Houihane has 5 goals and 8 assists.
Adams and Smith have been doing just fine and have been consistent. 

Play Bird , who has been out for weeks , can’t tackle , picked Bristol city over us , going in 2 games . Not for me , thanks . 

Play Bird , who has been out for weeks , can’t tackle , picked Bristol city over us , going in 2 games . Not for me , thanks . 

But our midfield is better than it has been all season with Adams and Smith? 
leave Bird on the bench! (Or even better in a cage) That way he can’t F it up for us. Can you imagine if he started and we got battered in midfield again.

Paris Maghoma on loan from Brentford would be a very good signing. Having seen him a few times now this season he always seems to be Boltons best player & always causing the opposition problems

Point I was attempting to make was that our summer transfer targets need to be a step up from the last two summers.
We will need players either used to playing at a level akin to the championship on a regular basis or capable of playing at that level.
I also intended to look at what it takes to be successful at this level.
In any case the quality and type of player we sign in the summer needs to be of a higher calibre than players aged 30+ and young loan players who take time to adapt to the championship level of play.

I think the intent of this thread was for people to discuss and suggest players who we could sign to improve the squad, not to suggest how likely we are to fail next season. I thought after last night there’d be more optimism around 😞 

Genuinely wondering, if we needed 4 strikers in the summer which I think we do if Collins and Gayle don’t get new contracts. 
 
Would you take Clarke Harris (29) at Derby as a fourth choice striker for a squad option. A big physical presence who bags goals on a free. 
 
Fell out of favour with Peterborough as he wouldn’t sign a new contract but still has 13 goals and 3 assists in 38 appearances mostly from the bench. 
Averaging a goal every 154 minutes in the league. I’d certainly take him on a 1 year contract with a 1 year option.

Hope he has more in in than that seeing as we gave him a new 2 year contract

How many of those signings were 30+ and injury prone, were on the subs bench in the teams they came from.
How many did we throw money at to get them to come to us because the players who might have been a better fit would not have come from the championship to league one.

We've been paying Championship wages to players who were willing to jump down into League One. For reference, our wage bill in 22/23 was £6m higher than Rotherham - 170% We have increased the wage bill this season even further so could already be inline or greater than the likes of Preston (£18.8m). 
I would assume there is going to be even greater investment going into next season, but paying the wages hasn't been the problem. It's been the recruitment and how we have had to recruit. I'm excited (albeit nervous too) to see how the club approach it should we win promotion. 
I think there will be a whole host of changes and I think the club know that which is why they've put the brakes on new contracts for next season. I actually believe they understand the gravity of the task and the standard we will need to be at in order to be competitive. 

I have no problems with Roy having his opinions , but it would be nice to call a Truce for 2 weeks and celebrate promotion.Then we can start on the subject of recruitment.

I have no problems with Roy having his opinions , but it would be nice to call a Truce for 2 weeks and celebrate promotion.Then we can start on the subject of recruitment.

I have no problems with Roy having his opinions , but it would be nice to call a Truce for 2 weeks and celebrate promotion.Then we can start on the subject of recruitment.

I have no problems with Roy having his opinions , but it would be nice to call a Truce for 2 weeks and celebrate promotion.Then we can start on the subject of recruitment.

Some headline. Swap Portsmouth for Derby, and O’Neills for the Neptune, and you’ve got yourself a date in 10 days time.

Bolton have had a monumental drop off in form. Since February they have only won 6 in 17 games, picking up 26 points.
Over a season that isn’t even top 9 form.
Usually 2 points a game is the requirement for automatic promotion. Not this year.
Whoever goes up in the playoffs is finishing bottom of the Championship next season
 
 

Boro have a proven Championship player on loan . He has scored in the Prem, the right age and could be bought for around £4 mill. Lewis O’brien is perfect for a passing game , and got Huddersfield into the play off final. Perhaps Florists would let him go if they stay up .

And this is the problem with signed layers aged 29 to 32. Their career trajectory is downhill.
 

Well done Pompy deserved title.

Congrats to all the Pompy fans in peace. Definitely can't say it wasn't deserved.
Us next.

I have to admit NR you're 100% right, If people can be negative when 2nd from top then maybe around the end of August then 😁

Trust me, if we are around bottom 4 or 5 it will be well before Xmas that the negatives start!