Crazy Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 11 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said: Remember the good old days when we were competing with Villa for players, now it's bloody Luton. If they hadn't got em all at 40k a week we'd have been bust 3 years ago. Or we'd be in the premier league and villa would be in coming out of administration into league one ?♂️ Will Hughes Hair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gee SCREAMER !! Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Crazy said: Or we'd be in the premier league and villa would be in coming out of administration into league one ?♂️ This is Derby. You know they'd all have multiple ACL'S within the month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, Crazy said: Or we'd be in the premier league and villa would be in coming out of administration into league one ?♂️ Think they were lucky that they held on to Grealish as well. By far the best player in the division who woke up during that winning streak of about 10-11 games. Crewton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I wonder if we’re considering using him at left back? His natural position is CB but he can also play LB too. If we also sign Chester, and renew Davies & Chester, we’ll be pretty much sorted at centre back with Cashin already renewed. He’d be pretty big for a full-back, but so is Forsyth. We might be looking to be a bit more physical at the back in League One. I’m not really sure how we’d be able to keep all 5 mentioned players happy if they are solely for the centre, that’s one of the last positions you’d want to constantly rotate and change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerphilly Ram Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Kernow said: I wonder if we’re considering using him at left back? His natural position is CB but he can also play LB too. If we also sign Chester, and renew Davies & Chester, we’ll be pretty much sorted at centre back with Cashin already renewed. He’d be pretty big for a full-back, but so is Forsyth. We might be looking to be a bit more physical at the back in League One. I’m not really sure how we’d be able to keep all 5 mentioned players happy if they are solely for the centre, that’s one of the last positions you’d want to constantly rotate and change. If Rosenior plans on playing 3 at the back we could carry that many cbs, no suggestion that he will, but that would be a solution. Back 3 of Davies, Chester, Cashin with Stearman and Roberts as options? More of the 3-4-3 type set up we’ve tried before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Just now, Caerphilly Ram said: If Rosenior plans on playing 3 at the back we could carry that many cbs, no suggestion that he will, but that would be a solution. Back 3 of Davies, Chester, Cashin with Stearman and Roberts as options? More of the 3-4-3 type set up we’ve tried before? If we go for that formation, then yeah it would make sense. Makes Buchanan leaving a little more annoying though as I think he’d be better on the left of a back 3, or as a LWB than he ever was as a LB in a flat back 4. George Nunn can also play LWB, might make sense as to why we’re seemingly after him too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 11 minutes ago, Kernow said: If we go for that formation, then yeah it would make sense. Makes Buchanan leaving a little more annoying though as I think he’d be better on the left of a back 3, or as a LWB than he ever was as a LB in a flat back 4. George Nunn can also play LWB, might make sense as to why we’re seemingly after him too. Nunn played RW for the U23s when he was on trial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 10 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said: Nunn played RW for the U23s when he was on trial Fair enough, the usual websites have him more of a left-sided player, but the more versatile the better. Ghost of Clough 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Says nothing we don't already know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vonwright Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 On 05/07/2022 at 09:59, Gee SCREAMER !! said: Think they were lucky that they held on to Grealish as well. By far the best player in the division who woke up during that winning streak of about 10-11 games. The side they put out in the play-off final was ridiculously strong, really. They had Mings, Tuanzebe, McGinn, Grealish, Abraham and El Ghazi all starting (not to mention the likes of Hourihane). They really should have finished top two. Mount, Tomori and Wilson papered over a lot of cracks for us that year. Comrade 86 and jono 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC27 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Mount Tomori Wilson Ashley Cole Keogh Bogle. 2 full England internationals there. One made his debut while playing for us. The big difference is we had them for the full season with the same manager. Villa got Mings (who made a real difference to their season) in Jan. We should have finished top 2 with the squad we had! Sheffield United and Norwich were on paper a lot worse. 41 minutes ago, vonwright said: The side they put out in the play-off final was ridiculously strong, really. They had Mings, Tuanzebe, McGinn, Grealish, Abraham and El Ghazi all starting (not to mention the likes of Hourihane). They really should have finished top two. Mount, Tomori and Wilson papered over a lot of cracks for us that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 43 minutes ago, vonwright said: The side they put out in the play-off final was ridiculously strong, really. They had Mings, Tuanzebe, McGinn, Grealish, Abraham and El Ghazi all starting (not to mention the likes of Hourihane). They really should have finished top two. Mount, Tomori and Wilson papered over a lot of cracks for us that year. Good side but very lucky to get past West Brom. 10 games to go they were bottom half so think top 2 is a stretch, your only as god as you play. We should have been top 2 on paper from 2014-2017 . There best player that day was Lampard compounded by a casual goalie. Entirely different game last 25 minutes when someone tried to run past Mings. Hence his 5 mins of pretend cramp to ease the pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewton Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 23 minutes ago, DCFC27 said: Mount Tomori Wilson Ashley Cole Keogh Bogle. 2 full England internationals there. One made his debut while playing for us. The big difference is we had them for the full season with the same manager. Villa got Mings (who made a real difference to their season) in Jan. We should have finished top 2 with the squad we had! Sheffield United and Norwich were on paper a lot worse. I don't agree with you there. Even with the 3 excellent loanees, our squad wasn't one of the two best in the Division. Norwich and Sheff U certainly over-achieved, Leeds also due to Bielsa, but Villa's squad was head and shoulders above ours. West Brom and Stoke retained the majority of their PL squads and Boro had Randolph, Friend, Ayala, Fry, Flint, Leadbitter, Clayton, Howson, McNair, Downing, Besic, Assombalonga, Hugill, Braithwaite and Gestede - they should have waltzed into the top 2 with that squad, even without Martyn Waghorn (lol). Top 6 was a reasonable expectation for us, but we lacked the overall quality of at least 4 other teams. vonwright 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 44 minutes ago, Crewton said: I don't agree with you there. Even with the 3 excellent loanees, our squad wasn't one of the two best in the Division. Norwich and Sheff U certainly over-achieved, Leeds also due to Bielsa, but Villa's squad was head and shoulders above ours. West Brom and Stoke retained the majority of their PL squads and Boro had Randolph, Friend, Ayala, Fry, Flint, Leadbitter, Clayton, Howson, McNair, Downing, Besic, Assombalonga, Hugill, Braithwaite and Gestede - they should have waltzed into the top 2 with that squad, even without Martyn Waghorn (lol). Top 6 was a reasonable expectation for us, but we lacked the overall quality of at least 4 other teams. Mason Mount started out very good, but then had about 3 months where he was still learning the game, but finished the season very well. Tomori struggled early doors but then grew into an absolute monster. Wilson got worse as the season went out. We had a good team, of course, but all three of our loanees struggled at diffeent points of the season. I think that's forgotten. Crewton, Andrew3000 and Carl Sagan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFC27 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 57 minutes ago, Crewton said: I don't agree with you there. Even with the 3 excellent loanees, our squad wasn't one of the two best in the Division. Norwich and Sheff U certainly over-achieved, Leeds also due to Bielsa, but Villa's squad was head and shoulders above ours. West Brom and Stoke retained the majority of their PL squads and Boro had Randolph, Friend, Ayala, Fry, Flint, Leadbitter, Clayton, Howson, McNair, Downing, Besic, Assombalonga, Hugill, Braithwaite and Gestede - they should have waltzed into the top 2 with that squad, even without Martyn Waghorn (lol). Top 6 was a reasonable expectation for us, but we lacked the overall quality of at least 4 other teams. We had a period of injury to MM, if he hadn’t spent that time out we’d have been in the automatic fold. The squad was ridiculously full of top players for the championship. Each position you’d have struggled to make a case for a better player obviously with a few exceptions but ultimately that was a very very good squad Marriott Waghorn Bennett(form of his life) Lawrence Mount Wilson Tomori Keogh Bogle Carson Cole Malone Huddlestone Johnson Bryson King Nugent Crewton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Back on topic - this lad any good? jono and Comrade 86 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Ram Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 1 hour ago, rammieib said: Back on topic - this lad any good? Nah….but Mason Mount lost a bit of form for us whilst on loan…..discuss norwichram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumram Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) Interesting we’re still in for this lad after signing Chester. With Davies seemingly almost certain to renew his contract, you’d have to think signing Roberts means we won’t renew Stearman’s deal. Edited July 7, 2022 by Millenniumram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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