TomTom92 Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Re - Knight Ive always rated Knight and for me his best position would be in a midfield 3 playing the Bryson role. Ironically he’s played in this position about 3 times since he came in to the team. This season once again he’s been a victim of his own flexibility. He’s played at least half the season at right back or right wing back, he is neither but churned out 6/10 performances most weeks to be fair to him. The other half of the season he played as an attacking midfielder ‘in the hole’, his goal and assist record speaks for itself, this is not his position. Unfortunately we’re now left with a player who’s probably ready to leave, has only 1 year left on his contract and whose season was average. Can’t see us getting more than £3m for him. If he stays great, but I think he’ll go and I wish him the best. As others have pointed out there’s plenty of worthy replacements knocking around. Srg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean (hick) Saunders Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Funny how Im over the playoff disappointment already and quite excited about the next few weeks and next season. If we had sneaked the playoffs I would now be feeling anxious about the risk of another Wembley disappointment.. Excited also I might add. Maybe as I’m am middle aged I’m just happy when things aren’t going wrong. It feels a bit like things going right. BarrowRam, Carnero, ImARam2 and 10 others 5 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINMANTED Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 on reflection,i think not making the play offs has done us a favour.if we had gone up to the championship a bigger rebuild would have been needed,and i am absolutely convinced the efl would not of lifted the embargo and let us be competitive, as it is another season in league 1 is obviously seen as fitting punishment and we are now able to build for the future Dean (hick) Saunders, BarrowRam, Zag zig and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 (edited) 42 minutes ago, TINMANTED said: on reflection,i think not making the play offs has done us a favour.if we had gone up to the championship a bigger rebuild would have been needed,and i am absolutely convinced the efl would not of lifted the embargo and let us be competitive, as it is another season in league 1 is obviously seen as fitting punishment and we are now able to build for the future The decisions around our spending was already negotiated according to the RamsTrust minutes from a fans meeting a few weeks or more ago. The only thing stopping us putting our business plan in to the EFL for next season was not being sure of the league we'd be in. So I am sure the EFL had looked at our budgeting and agreed to lift transfer restrictions whichever league we played in. But we didn't get into the Play-offs and that's that. I'd have rather we'd taken our opportunity to get promotion but in the end we weren't good enough. Edited May 12, 2023 by RoyMac5 Old Spalding Ram, SKRam, sage and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubbs Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 (edited) Striker I'd want us to look at would be Ben House. I think he'd be a decent pressing forward that would suit Warne's pressing, although his aerial duels aren't great, if he's paired with a big lad up top it could work quite well. Edited May 12, 2023 by Jubbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINMANTED Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said: The decisions around our spending was already negotiated according to the RamsTrust minutes from a fans meeting a few weeks or more ago. The only thing stopping us putting our business plan in to the EFL for next season was not being sure of the league we'd be in. So I am sure the EFL had looked at our budgeting and agreed to lift transfer restrictions whichever league we played in. But we didn't get into the Play-offs and that's that. I'd have rather we'd taken our opportunity to get promotion but in the end we weren't good enough. the decision had definitely been made already,it normally takes the efl months/years for such decisions as we know,but i am convinced a different decision was waiting had we have got promoted,but as you say,we are where we are so will never know Edited May 12, 2023 by TINMANTED add text DesertRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raich Carter Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 6 hours ago, TINMANTED said: on reflection,i think not making the play offs has done us a favour.if we had gone up to the championship a bigger rebuild would have been needed,and i am absolutely convinced the efl would not of lifted the embargo and let us be competitive, as it is another season in league 1 is obviously seen as fitting punishment and we are now able to build for the future Agreed. From a supporter perspective, at this moment I'd rather be fighting for promotion than battling relegation which is what would have been likely if we'd gone up. Of course we're going to miss out on a lot of players who want to play Championship but equally, because we're a decent sized club, that's off-set somewhat. As you say, we can afford to take younger players on and let them get the games in readiness for the step up. SKRam and DesertRam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angieram Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 6 hours ago, RoyMac5 said: The decisions around our spending was already negotiated according to the RamsTrust minutes from a fans meeting a few weeks or more ago. The only thing stopping us putting our business plan in to the EFL for next season was not being sure of the league we'd be in. So I am sure the EFL had looked at our budgeting and agreed to lift transfer restrictions whichever league we played in. But we didn't get into the Play-offs and that's that. I'd have rather we'd taken our opportunity to get promotion but in the end we weren't good enough. That's not quite true, in that it was written ready for either scenario but the EFL still had to approve it. I'd say indications were good, though. RoyMac5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 22 minutes ago, angieram said: That's not quite true, in that it was written ready for either scenario but the EFL still had to approve it. I'd say indications were good, though. Yeah sorry I kinda paraphrased because I couldn't be bothered to find the links. 👍 angieram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 Has anything come from the club regarding this, or are we just going off the radio Derby report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ev6is Posted May 12, 2023 Author Share Posted May 12, 2023 1 hour ago, ossieram said: Has anything come from the club regarding this, or are we just going off the radio Derby report? Radio derby would not be allowed to announced anything unless it is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean (hick) Saunders Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 33 minutes ago, B4ev6is said: Radio derby would not be allowed to announced anything unless it is true. Funny if it was an ELF joke.. 🙄 DesertRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertRam Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Hard to wait for the ins, dying to know what the overall confidence levels will be, I still believe that had we had Chester fit and Beilik in Midfield we would have been up there with Plymouth and Ipswich, so it follows, automatic is definitely on the cards this time around 🥂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottsRam77 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 Just now, DesertRam said: Hard to wait for the ins, dying to know what the overall confidence levels will be, I still believe that had we had Chester fit and Beilik in Midfield we would have been up there with Plymouth and Ipswich, so it follows, automatic is definitely on the cards this time around 🥂 Settle down lol Tamworthram and jimtastic56 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 13 hours ago, DesertRam said: Hard to wait for the ins, dying to know what the overall confidence levels will be, I still believe that had we had Chester fit and Beilik in Midfield we would have been up there with Plymouth and Ipswich, so it follows, automatic is definitely on the cards this time around 🥂 Still wouldn't have scored many. We'd have been trying to do a Sheffield Wednesday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 On 12/05/2023 at 17:07, ossieram said: Has anything come from the club regarding this, or are we just going off the radio Derby report? Just watch the Warne interview that came out a day or two ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmoram1995 Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Haha 😂 Gibson staying down NottsRam77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRBee Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 1 hour ago, simmoram1995 said: Haha 😂 Gibson staying down Who will he try to sue this time? Dordogne-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 On 11/05/2023 at 23:02, kevinhectoring said: In financial terms Knight is our MVP by a mile and for good reason. ‘Not nailing down a position’? Any sane manager starts him right attacking midfield. You seem to be blaming him because the manager thinks he’s good enough to start in a position that doesn’t suit him. I think he’ll go. If he does I really wish him well but we’ll have done very well if we have a better player next season Right attacking mid? Really? A player with little pace, almost no acceleration, not a technical dribbler and almost no end product. Wing back for his stamina and ability to support both defensively and offensively, maybe, but an attacking right mid is insane to me. He’s a box to box midfielder who offers high energy and can keep the ball. He’s not a player you can rely on for creatively or goals, he just isn’t good enough technically, nor is he a defensively player. He’s simply a support midfielder. Get him in amongst it, he’s an asset, but he’s not a player you can rely on to win you games. NottsRam77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinhectoring Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 5 hours ago, Ambitious said: Right attacking mid? Really? A player with little pace, almost no acceleration, not a technical dribbler and almost no end product. Wing back for his stamina and ability to support both defensively and offensively, maybe, but an attacking right mid is insane to me. He’s a box to box midfielder who offers high energy and can keep the ball. He’s not a player you can rely on for creatively or goals, he just isn’t good enough technically, nor is he a defensively player. He’s simply a support midfielder. Get him in amongst it, he’s an asset, but he’s not a player you can rely on to win you games. Sure, Knight is not a player you can rely on to win you games Put him in a midfield with complementary players though, and the midfield will win you plenty. We’ve not seen the best of him this season. AM is too shorthand to describe what role he does best - as you point out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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