HMS Piss the League

[Sean Thornton]

Great. An argument about average championship wages where no one knows what the figure is.

 

[Yogi]

I personally won’t be board hms piss the league she always springs a leak

 

[dublin 10 blade]

But will we take 3k to QPR in HMS Piss the League?

Otherwise it’s just a battered old tug boat.

Only if we get em in the FA cup
And only if we’re a Div 3 team like last time

 

[Netsix_and_chill]

I am willing to commit to HMS Minimum 12th so far, I will go as far as HMS Playoff Spot should we get another couple of decent signings in and the injured lads return to fitness

 

[dn5 shaun]

But will we take 3k to QPR in HMS Piss the League?

Otherwise it’s just a battered old tug boat.

How ever many we take to QPR will be more than pigs will this season

 

[HarryHaslam]

Happy to have boarded

 

[Aston max]

Like you I'm hopeful but it could just as easily go the other way. Anels just been relegated, Doyle was pretty anonymous when he played against us, Berge could still leave and we've lost our best player from last season. Times that by a zillion and dip it in chocolate.

Bladey bladeness

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

I'm feeling confident. I wasn't. But the names we've signed already and names we're linked to give me reason to be optimistic.

 

[mancunianblade]

Why not ?
Five at the back plus keeper leaves space for Doyle.
May be a bit imaginative but exciting !

Being imaginative would mean looking at alternatives to 5 at the back

 

[mattbianco1]

And that's why it's a good job you aren't in charge of the finances for a Championship team. You can have cover. You can't have cover that constitutes some of your best and most expensive players and still keep a hold on the outgoings

Using only "senior players" and assuming Davis and Clark sign, here is our squad of players including cover for all positions...



That's a 24 man squad and not counting youth players: Brunt, Osula, Gordon, Lopata, Jebbison, Starbuck, Seriki & Broadbent who could all feature

 

[mattbianco1]

Delete this thread

I did say it was tongue in cheek.

Top 6 again, IMO.

 

[Addison]

Using only "senior players" and assuming Davis and Clark sign, here is our squad of players including cover for all positions...

View attachment 138882

That's a 24 man squad and not counting youth players: Brunt, Osula, Gordon, Lopata, Jebbison, Starbuck, Seriki & Broadbent who could all feature

Clark is a LCB and can also play LWB or DM he won't be challenging Basham on the right unless we have a serious injury problem.

 

[mattbianco1]

Clark is a LCB and can also play LWB or DM he won't be challenging Basham on the right unless we have a serious injury problem.

Ah right. That means we're not seeing JOC then

So Basham's cover is Anel or Gordon

 

[GrunkyPeep]

But there's also a £35m revenue drop from last season

I'm reasonably confident there is something in the books that we are missing that helps us out.

Maybe we have laid off a good chunk of our installments on perm signings.
Maybe we have had some unexpected investment.
Maybe last year we saved well enough to earn something back for this year.
Maybe we had some money earmarked for the new training ground and we can't get what we want so we've spent it elsewhere.
Maybe McBurnie tanked the last few years specifically to stop us from having to pay some incentives (good lad!)

 

[Carlton Blade]

Using only "senior players" and assuming Davis and Clark sign, here is our squad of players including cover for all positions...

View attachment 138883

That's a 24 man squad and not counting youth players: Brunt, Osula, Gordon, Lopata, Jebbison, Starbuck, Seriki & Broadbent who could all feature

And that's an extremely expensive squad with a lot of players expecting to play.

I've never said "depth is bad". Just that it's difficult both financially and from a view of keeping players happy

 

[Carlton Blade]

I'm reasonably confident there is something in the books that we are missing that helps us out.

Maybe we have laid off a good chunk of our installments on perm signings.
Maybe we have had some unexpected investment.
Maybe last year we saved well enough to earn something back for this year.
Maybe we had some money earmarked for the new training ground and we can't get what we want so we've spent it elsewhere.
Maybe McBurnie tanked the last few years specifically to stop us from having to pay some incentives (good lad!)

If we can afford it without compromising the health of the club I'm all for it (as long as the players are all signed up for rotation as well)

 

[mattbianco1]

And that's an extremely expensive squad with a lot of players expecting to play.

I've never said "depth is bad". Just that it's difficult both financially and from a view of keeping players happy

But we've made the signings BEFORE anybody has been sold. Is that not a massive gamble that Berge "may" be sold? If nobody bids for him and we have those players in, we can't just send them back.

 

[Carlton Blade]

But we've made the signings BEFORE anybody has been sold. Is that not a massive gamble that Berge "may" be sold? If nobody bids for him and we have those players in, we can't just send them back.

Not arguing that. My initial point was that if Davis comes in I think Berge would be going out

 

[mattbianco1]

Not arguing that. My initial point was that if Davis comes in I think Berge would be going out

Why though? Totally different positions.
If Berge goes, we only really have Ndiaye for the #10 role. Some have said Doyle could play there, but will he?

 

[Carlton Blade]

Why though? Totally different positions.
If Berge goes, we only really have Ndiaye for the #10 role. Some have said Doyle could play there, but will he?

I have no idea on Doyle. I suppose it depends what we told City we want him for? I'm not saying we can only have a couple of decent back ups, just that I'd be surprised if we can afford to have that many salaries on the books who aren't automatic starters

 

[Newbury Blade]

Why though? Totally different positions.
If Berge goes, we only really have Ndiaye for the #10 role. Some have said Doyle could play there, but will he?

“Some” have said = Guardiola has said.

 

[Booker4]

Using only "senior players" and assuming Davis and Clark sign, here is our squad of players including cover for all positions...

View attachment 138883

That's a 24 man squad and not counting youth players: Brunt, Osula, Gordon, Lopata, Jebbison, Starbuck, Seriki & Broadbent who could all feature

Firstly I must apologise that you were right and I was wrong on Anel in that he has played LCB for Bordeaux as well as RCB! I know we touched on this before, but I still think based on previous choice of players under Hecky that Anel will be playing RCB as he's right footed and in training there's already been a mention of Anel driving down the right, Fleck will play LCM as it stands and Norwood could well just find himself out of the team as a certain starter with Doyle likely to take the place of Norwood. I may be totally wrong here but that's been his general pattern. I expect the link to Clark who is left footed is an indication that Hecky is looking to sign a LCB for competition with Robinson.

On one of the recent videos Stuart McCall says "we had left footers playing on the right because of injuries". 18.10 minutes on the video below.

 

[SwindonBladeJnr]

Great. An argument about average championship wages where no one knows what the figure is.

If football forums have taught me anything, it's that you can be a know-it-all whilst knowing nothing.

 

[mattbianco1]

I expect the link to Clark who is left footed is an indication that Hecky is looking to sign a LCB

Agree on this. I thought Clark was right sided until today. If we get Clark then i guess it will be:

Anel - Egan - Clark

(poor Bash! )

 

[Booker4]

Agree on this. I thought Clark was right sided until today. If we get Clark then i guess it will be:

Anel - Egan - Clark

(poor Bash! )

I guess he'll have to play as a squad player this season but he is a great back up and presumably Anel can move to CB if Egan gets injured also. I can still see Bash playing a fair bit RWB is another option if we decide against signing cover for Baldock until Bogle is fit. There's Osborn also as a cover option like last season if we're really short.

 

[JJBlade]

The football gods will make you eat those words

We'd become so insignificant that they'd forgot about us, then we ended up 5th in the Prem and they woke up and quickly put a stop to all that nonsense

It started with the relatively small matter of breaking the goal line technology at Villa after lockdown, and then proceeded to end the career of our best player, and then systematically injure anybody that even looked like getting us going again

 

[ZoneManWilf]

The football gods will make you eat those words

We'd become so insignificant that they'd forgot about us, then we ended up 5th in the Prem and they woke up and quickly put a stop to all that nonsense

It started with lockdown

Fixed. Little does the world know that the only reason for a global pandemic is because a team in red and white from the north of England got a bit big for their boots, and higher beings had to intervene.

 

[SRA76]

How ever many we take to QPR will be more than pigs will this season

Went to 14 away games last season. Rather go away then home tbh far better crack. And last seasons away support was superb noise wise. Especially forest in 2nd leg away. Awesome. Numbers wise we could still improve tho. I’m sure we use to travel in bigger numbers than we do now

 

[JackSUFC]

Went to 14 away games last season. Rather go away then home tbh far better crack. And last seasons away support was superb noise wise. Especially forest in 2nd leg away. Awesome. Numbers wise we could still improve tho. I’m sure we use to travel in bigger numbers than we do now

We had the 2nd highest average away following in the league last season.

Boro were top with 2,260. Ours was 2,257.

 

[jt64]

Exactly - how many away games didn't sell out?