Brayford Injury

[Ricky]

If not Coady then players like Coady. Good young players with resale value who play in key positions on the pitch.

If you're in League One, need to build a team and have £2m (and then some) to spend, blowing it all on a right back is just about the last thing you do. Unfortunately for us Nigel Clough was running the show and that's exactly what we did.

 

[Sean Thornton]

If not Coady then players like Coady. Good young players with resale value who play in key positions on the pitch.

If you're in League One, need to build a team and have £2m (and then some) to spend, blowing it all on a right back is just about the last thing you do. Unfortunately for us Nigel Clough was running the show and that's exactly what we did.

Exactly. Coady might not have come anyway but he was the right type if player. The type of player ignored by Adkins.

 

[nopigfansintown]

He might well have done, but I see him as more of the prototypical type of signing we should be making. I like Brayford, but I would rather have had three or four young players with big playing potential and resale value, even if one of these wasn't Coady.If the money was there to do both then fair enough. That's what I want the club to do this summer, but my faith is running thin. I think a realistic timeframe given this approach is two years for promotion, but there understandably isn't the patience now

 

[BerksBlade]

'Quality' right back Brayford was never worth £2m to us and those clamouring for him were wrong. £500k-1m on Coady would've been far more sensible. Signing one right back for that money does not constitute sound long term planning. In League One, it was pure idiocy.
I'm all for long term planning but as long as we're in a desperate state this division, you have to get the balance right, and we haven't, by a long way.

But financially speaking, we're not in a desperate state... I'll concede that signing Brayford and Freeman at virtually the same time wasn't right, but due diligence must have been done on the financial side. So it's not "idiocy" - it's a calculated gamble that Brayford galvanises the team as he did when he was on loan. We could have spent the same money getting Connor Sammon and Jake Buxton in FFS. If JB hadn't got injured playing out of position we might have beaten Swindon and got to the play-off final. If we had then he would have been worth £2M?

 

[UnitedBlade]

Takes some doing to tear the calf with nonone around him. Done for the season probably.

Yes, that's why Adkins is saying it was a freak accident. He hasn't said it is a tear but I'm surmising if it is "nasty" it could well be.

I've seen it happen though, someone goes down as if they were shot and the calf has just twanged.

He also said he'd previously feared Baptiste would be out for a long time but he's back for Saturday, so who knows.

The season's over anyway.

 

[UnitedBlade]

Think it was his calf that kept him out for months last time. This could be career threatening if it's a repeat.

No it wasn't a calf injury last time, it was knee ligaments.

 

[nopigfansintown]

But financially speaking, we're not in a desperate state... I'll concede that signing Brayford and Freeman at virtually the same time wasn't right, but due diligence must have been done on the financial side. So it's not "idiocy" - it's a calculated gamble that Brayford galvanises the team as he did when he was on loan. We could have spent the same money getting Connor Sammon and Jake Buxton in FFS. If JB hadn't got injured playing out of position we might have beaten Swindon and got to the play-off final. If we had then he would have been worth £2M?

The club could afford it but I'd question whether its a sound investment strategy.

 

[Ricky]

But financially speaking, we're not in a desperate state... I'll concede that signing Brayford and Freeman at virtually the same time wasn't right, but due diligence must have been done on the financial side. So it's not "idiocy" - it's a calculated gamble that Brayford galvanises the team as he did when he was on loan. We could have spent the same money getting Connor Sammon and Jake Buxton in FFS. If JB hadn't got injured playing out of position we might have beaten Swindon and got to the play-off final. If we had then he would have been worth £2M?

Brayford was poor before his injury when he was playing right back. Swindon battered us before a late rally. We were second best by a long way.

Maybe we're not in a desperate state financially but it's obviously nowhere near as healthy as spending what we did on Brayford and the pitches would lead you to believe. We've been in a desperate state on the pitch for a long time - nowhere near good enough. They should've addressed this far more intelligently. There was nothing calculated about that gamble on Brayford. It was mindless. I might agree if we spent half of what we did.

A calculated gamble is signing a number of promising young players with potential and resale value. Speculating to accumulate. Knowing that if just one comes good you'll get your money back on them all. Players like James Tarkowski, Daniel Johnson and Sam Morsy. But we don't do that.

 

[boo radley]

Never knew what all the fuss was about. Cost us a goal in his first game.

 

[Toronto Blade]

Not to worry the club will move heaven and earth to get him ready for the annual summer sale.
As far as building a promotion team every year the board aspire to finish lower than the season before it is the one thing that they are good at.

 

[Whiston Blade]

No great loss, gives him more time to post pictures on twitter of his hip beard, real ale's and talk about horse racing.

 

[Blade56]

No great loss, gives him more time to post pictures on twitter of his hip beard, real ale's and talk about horse racing.

Nah, beards are so 2014. Shave the fecker