eddielewis

3 minutes ago, YouRams said:

If Charlton get it together up the top they'll cause a few teams around us some problems in the run in. Defensively we looked solid, wasn't too worried when the pressure was on. On to the next one 🐏

Got to hope they take points off Portsmouth and Bolton before we play them again at the end of the month

3 hours ago, eddielewis said:

Mike Bassett Christmas pudding 3-5-1-1 formation with Hourihane as the sixpence 

Mike Bassett Christmas pudding 3-5-1-1 formation with Hourihane as the sixpence 

6 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said:

Given Rotherham's limited financial capacity, and the disparity between the quality of our respective academies, straight comparisons aren't necessarily fair given these differences. Players under 23 tend to be expensive to sign due to value added for potential; for a team constantly scrapping to keep its head above water, it makes sense they targeted players in their prime rather than youngsters that need developing before hitting their stride?

Yes a straight comparison isn't exactly possible with ourselves but Rotherham in my eyes are on par with Peterborough with their financial capacity yet they seem to do well with finding and improving young talent. Arguably Rotherham should be better placed with able to find young talent for their academy with bigger catchment of Sheffield/Yorkshire.

48 minutes ago, Waghorny said:

Think a fair few will now be suggesting Hourihane in over Bird, wouldn't be opposed to that:

Wildsmith
Nyambe - Nelson - Cashin - Sibley
Thompson - Hourihane - Fornah
Wilson - Collins - NML

Subs: Vickers, Ward, Bradley, Bird, Robinson, Barks, CBT

Yeah doubt Bird will start with him travelling to Bristol to sign yesterday probably not in best frame of mind either.

32 minutes ago, StaffsRam said:

Given the number of players out of contract in the summer we're going to have another rebuild job on our hands. With that comes the "they need time to gel" thing - If we don't go up this season there's probably a sub-conscious admission that we won't challenge next season either way.

Which is why I think the sort of think the set up we kind of have with Warne greatly influencing the recruitment is kind of old fashioned. If you look at the modern examples of successful clubs living within their means Luton, Brighton, Brentford (theres more examples these are the most successful) they have all had a common link in which the recruitment is taken away from the manager nearly entirely. They have had managers come and go and it's not fazed them one bit. They have never had replace a whole XI because the new manager can't work with them. Managers kind come third now with philosophy - players - coach just because they usually last less than the players nowadays.

What happens to the recruitment when we lose Warne be it a sacking or moving to another club. Do we hire another Manager that plays the same as Warne or do we go another route and have to sign players to match that Managers style. I just don't think our recruitment set up is future proofed.

5 minutes ago, simmoram1995 said:

Bird fee believed to be £2.5m + appearances + 10% sell on 

Wells and Cornick spoken about on loan.

id imagine back in for smith as well. long night ahead.

If it's £2.5 mill not a single penny should go towards short term solution loans. All of that should go towards rebuilding the club with players under 25 on a permanent this coming summer.

Caleb Taylor (Martin Taylors son) joined Bolton on loan. Good signing for them was impressive at Cheltenham last year.

2 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

I thought the budget was £13.50.

In clubcard vouchers but Tesco is too expensive for Chansiri

Probably this rests on them finalising the American striker Maguire they are tussling Blackburn to get through the door. Looks like Chansiri is also trying to knock off some money from Orlando for him which is making things difficult. Hopefully we have another target in mind because that has all the makings of a 10:59 deal.

2 minutes ago, Eoghan1884 said:

Jozwiak off to Granada in La Liga. Anyone know if we have a sell on %

I doubt it we probably if anything passed any future benefit on to Poznan to clear the debt

Looks like a player who has had the injury bug knee injury (chipped bone) and also torn his pec muscle on the pitch according to a Cardiff interview last year so don't be surprised if he just crumbles with the state of our pitch

1 minute ago, Gerry Daly said:

They are getting one of the auto places for certain. Can we finish above Bolton and Peterborough for the other one? I wouldn’t bet much money on it would you?

The Bolton game is huge in March will NML be available for that as I think it's international break and I don't think we will hit the quota of 3 call ups for a postponement unless Washington is back fit for a call up then?

Alan Nixon saying Owen Moxon is close to joining Portsmouth

3rd Based on the form tables of the last 10/15/20 games it's tight between the top 4. I don't think there's enough in any team to really pull away. Bolton and Portsmouth have difficult run ins but that doesn't meant much the way our performances have shown. If we want top 2 we can't afford to lose more than 2 more games based on the average amount of 2nd placed teams have had over the last 6 years. Not quite sure if we will lose NML for the international break in March (Bolton game) as Washington is injured so we won't fulfill the quota of international players to postpone the match.

According to Derby Telegraph Oxford are after Marriott and Bolton have bid for Aaron Collins from Bristol Rovers meanwhile Callum Lang has scored to make it 2-1 for Portsmouth.

5 minutes ago, Spanish said:

Eddie effing Lewis, wonder if he is available

I know fozzy is out but don't give Warne ideas 😂

3 minutes ago, Spanish said:

Eddie effing Lewis, wonder if he is available

I know fozzy is out but don't give Warne ideas 😂

2 minutes ago, Scott129 said:

What is the point in our scouting department? What do they actually do all year?

You could flip it the other way and say that Warne is hampering the scouting dept by shunning their suggestions to the point that these are the only available players.

Whatever the truth is the football recruitment needs addressing. We're looking subpar and old fashioned.

5 minutes ago, roboto said:

I would think the striker from a premier league club we’re waiting for might be Divin Mubama. West Ham are short on strikers, but he needs some proper game time that they can’t currently offer him.

The is the problem now with 9 man sub benches Prem teams don't feel as guilty having one or two of their promising young players struggle for minutes because they feel they get 'enough' experience just hanging around the first team sub benches on matchdays and therefore it's so much harder for us and teams further down the pyramid to convince top teams for loans. You have to sell big clubs a proper plan of how were going to use their talent nowadays let alone crazy loan fees (which shouldn't exist in my view if they from prem clubs)

This is how imagine it will be if the second half is any similar 😂

No possession whatsoever but it's all our doing. Just kick and rush bypassing the midfield. Curtis and the rest of the Cheltenham defence will just eat up any of our attacks (if you can call them that!)

Elder is made out of polystyrene surely? it's crazy that we've got him for 2 more seasons hopefully there's an exit clause with him this summer

9 minutes ago, RamFan13 said:

Very much doubt that🤣

It's a bit fishy that!

17 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

He's played a blinder so far, get him in. Might be a tad expensive mind as his wage demands are significant and I fear he won't be as quick across the ground as our current left winger.

15 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Might find it difficult getting to the game as for some inexplicable reason the trains are unreliable.

But at least he'll make sure the ticket office is open