ollycutts1982 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 My realistic expectation for this season is to not hear Warne paddle the ‘they’re a young, athletic and energetic side’ line when we’ve lost or been outplayed. He’s been here long enough now to have all the young energetic players he wants. Wolfie20, BPV, jimtastic56 and 5 others 2 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valakari Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 We actually still have a team of crocks...Rooney, Ward, CBT, Washington, Elder, Fozzie, now Osborn who picks up his fair share too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 (edited) 10 hours ago, Bris Vegas said: I expect bottom 8 given the lack of signings and other things considering. I feel Warne will have done a good job if he can have us near to the top of the latter third. Anything above 16th right now and he deserves great respect. That makes no sense. We have (again) a good budget and we are a good 'draw' as a club. We saw the players that can be attracted to the Club when Rooney/Rosenior signed players, so why would anything above 16th be good? Edit: unless you mean top 6? 😄 Edited August 3 by RoyMac5 europia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreveram Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 5 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said: That makes no sense. We have (again) a good budget and we are a good 'draw' as a club. We saw the players that can be attracted to the Club when Rooney/Rosenior signed players, so why would anything above 16th be good? Edit: unless you mean top 6? 😄 Bookmakers have us finishing 14/16 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Hennessy Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Club are aiming for / hoping for mid table...if it proves reality I'd be happy with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthram Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 2 hours ago, Terry Hennessy said: Club are aiming for / hoping for mid table...if it proves reality I'd be happy with that... The club are aiming for top I would hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Tamworthram said: The club are aiming for top I would hope. I'd agree in theory they are aiming to win every game, but are realistic enough to know thwt isn't going to happen... and are planning for safety/midtable ... if that proves easy enough then they will push on as far as they can. I'm sure Clowes and Warne discuss this regularly and 'survival' or 'midtable' or whatever is discussed. If Clowes is saying 'finish top' I'd be saying 'we need better players, more investment, greater depth'....sure I'd always hope we could beat the odds, out-perform the facts, surprise everyone.. but I'd definitely not be 'aiming' for it. Aim means planning for to me...and we aren't doing that I don't think. Edited August 3 by Chester40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 38 minutes ago, Tamworthram said: The club are aiming for top I would hope. I think the most obvious aspects will be how we set up from the kick off and will be really apparent when it's 0-0 and there's 30mins left. Last season we'd be looking at switching the wide players, trying to get a goal. This season in many games my expectation will be that a point would be a good result and we'd be shoring up the defence not gambling on 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ram59 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 3 hours ago, RoyMac5 said: That makes no sense. We have (again) a good budget and we are a good 'draw' as a club. We saw the players that can be attracted to the Club when Rooney/Rosenior signed players, so why would anything above 16th be good? Edit: unless you mean top 6? 😄 Anything above 16th would a 10+ place improvement on last season, I would be happy if we could maintain that progress over the next 3 seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramcoteRam84 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 We’ve not finished our business. We’ve made some smart additions, looks like we’re having a top class keeper coming in, Defence is solid (forget preseason Nelson Cash Nyambe are class), but we lack depth especially with Rooney out and are weak at left back, midfield looks strong, need some stardust in attack. I genuinely think we’ll be in that glut of teams from 9th down to 17th and if we can finish anywhere in between that we’ve done well, anything top half is overachievement. Caerphilly Ram, DerbyAleMan and Rammy03 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Autos. Nailed on. COYR EtoileSportiveDeDerby, Reggie Greenwood, Rammy03 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammy03 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 5 hours ago, jimtastic56 said: Seem to remember going to watch Rams blow away Prem teams in pre-season friendly’s in the Lampard season . Mount , Wilson & Timori added to a decent team . Going along to day thinking of Collins leading the attack , back in the Champ . More than a little concerning . Yep that's true but we did have David Nugent starting those games also. Marriott and waghorn came into the fold once the season had already started. I expect that will be the case with a few signings this year as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 6 hours ago, RoyMac5 said: That makes no sense. We have (again) a good budget and we are a good 'draw' as a club. We saw the players that can be attracted to the Club when Rooney/Rosenior signed players, so why would anything above 16th be good? Edit: unless you mean top 6? 😄 We regularly overestimate the quality of our squad. I said at the back end of last season that the current squad would come straight back down. Who have we added since then? Not a lot IMO. We need another 5 or so decent additions. That’s why I said if Warne can get us above 16th with what we currently have, that would astonishing. Plenty of time left in the window. But as I see it, we are in for a season of struggle. BPV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 4 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said: We regularly overestimate the quality of our squad. I said at the back end of last season that the current squad would come straight back down. Who have we added since then? Not a lot IMO. We need another 5 or so decent additions. That’s why I said if Warne can get us above 16th with what we currently have, that would astonishing. Plenty of time left in the window. But as I see it, we are in for a season of struggle. Right, got ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Brolly Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 9 hours ago, RoyMac5 said: We have (again) a good budget What is it and how does it compare win others in the championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 30 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said: What is it and how does it compare win others in the championship I can't tell you David said so. Mick Brolly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimtastic56 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said: I can't tell you David said so. With 21.5 k season ticket holders - that must have brought in about £5 mill . Give Clowes Developers a £1 million in rent for a season . Telly money and away fans pay the wages . That leaves £4 mill for a centre forward . ( did that on the back of a fag packet). RoyMac5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnero Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 3rd quartile, 13th-18th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimmu Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Promotion to La Liga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB BIGGS Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Can’t help thinking that anyone who is suggesting we should be finishing in the top half is looking to put pressure on Warne and his Management Team…..😎😎😎😎 Foreveram and jimtastic56 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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