Wilder still looking thru the Open Window

[ChipButtyBlade]

For a player ?

No games for us until after the window has firmly shut,so its make your bed time and lay in it.

Do any of you think that he is going to go and get a Centre Half.

I hope he does,i hope the penny has dropped that we need a player in the back 3 that can hold the defence together,shipping goals like we have recently should have sent alarm bells ringing.

Wilder do summat,dont go into the remainder of the season keeping you're fingers crossed that everything will be ok in the defence department.

 

[DronnieBlade]

We shouldn't close the door just yet.

Players will become available, at the right price, with the right profile. We would be daft not to explore at least.

But there are several players that need to be moved on, if only on loan to make room for any additions.

It's 1 out 1 in at best now !!

UTB

 

[Jesus_was_a_Blade]

i hope the penny has dropped that we need a player in the back 3 that can hold the defence together

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Anyone thinking that we might see some players leave?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

He's da man but why/where has he not been selected,if its injury then we need to get another fitter Jake W.

 

[Esablade]

Always loved that one, believe it's on constant rotation down t'Lane...

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Always loved that one, believe it's on constant rotation down t'Lane...

First single record i bought was Gassoline Alley Bread by The Hollies.

 

[silver blade]

Always loved that one, believe it's on constant rotation down t'Lane...

looking through an open window? He's not going to jump is he?

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

I loved looking thru' windows.
Especially thru my 36x magnifying night-vision goggles.

Until....

Anyway, the charges were trumped up and I got off with a warning.
Judge D. Mental bought them from me for 175 Pesos.

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Anyone thinking that we might see some players leave?

Hope so.
Trouble is can we find any mugs, sorry clubs to take our Deadwood.

Where's Del Boy when you need him.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Hope so.
Trouble is can we find any mugs, sorry clubs to take our Deadwood.

Where's Del Boy when you need him.

We'll still have the deadwood, it's the cream of the crop i'm concerned about going...

How many of the current squad will be still here IF we get promotion?
How many of the current squad will still be here IF we're still in League One?

 

[Stretch]

Hope so.
Trouble is can we find any mugs, sorry clubs to take our Deadwood.

Where's Del Boy when you need him.

To be completely fair we haven't got an awful lot of deadwood left, although I understand that varies depending on who you ask.

I can see a strong case for shipping out McNulty, Long and perhaps Hussey (although he's barely been here long enough to be classed as deadwood) of the other well trumpeted culprits Scougall has contrubuted with important goals, Clarke has barely got going but seems to be prone to a few knocks at the minute. Both still appear to be very much in Chris' plans.

 

[JohnDenver]

Jake Wright story of the day:

He's recently moved to Dronfield and his friendly new neighbour asked him if he played football..... Because he needed players for his 5-a-side.

Don't worry Jake - get us promotion and folk will recognise you for years to come.

 

[Kenilworth]

Jake Wright story of the day:

He's recently moved to Dronfield and his friendly new neighbour asked him if he played football..... Because he needed players for his 5-a-side.

Don't worry Jake - get us promotion and folk will recognise you for years to come.

Was it you Jade? The neighbour?
Does it mean ya know summat now?

 

[JohnDenver]

Was it you Jade? The neighbour?
Does it mean ya know summat now?

Nope. Still an empty vessel.

 

[I should coco]

Nope. Still an empty vessel.

But isn't it 'the empty vessels that make the loudest noises'?




ISC - Taking threads into Post Graduate Accoustics since 2015

 

[ljk]

It's fair to assume that O'Shea, Carruthers and Hanson will all play a fairly big role in the second half of the season. Likewise we probably won't see much more of Clarke and Hussey. Buying even more players will mean we have a markedly different squad in the second half of the season compared to the first.

I can't recall any automatic promotion winning teams that have ever done that.

I'd implore some fans to ride their shitfits out, then look at how much the team has changed in the six months Wilder has been here.

We can only progress so fast, and the revelation that Wilder hasn't turned an utterly shite team playing turgid football into a team that walk the league without any bad patches isn't exactly something the fans should lament.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

Since EEL is playing crap and obviously isn't signing permanently, a centre back that's ours would be an obvious move if we were going to sign anyone else, but needing to sign centre backs has been something fans have said every year for the past few seasons, but the managers disagree (and we do actually have some spare this season unlike with the Nigels).

My only concern with the transfer window is that we've signed players who play where we we're already strongest rather than improving on the weak spots.

 

[Mouth of the South]

I still think the squad is lacking in pace, particularly going forward so would ideally another game changer signed, although I appreciate this is v unlikely due to budgetary constraints. Hall from Oxford would have been a decent choice but it appears Oxford had a change of heart on letting him go.

I'd also like for as many of the players who are unlikely to get close to the 1st team (Long, Hussey, Reed) as well as Scougall and McNulty (both being miles away from being good enough) to be moved on, either loan or perm if any other clubs express an interest/are daft enough.

Re: the issues at the back - quite simple - go with JOC, Wright, EEL and consider Bash instead of Fleck, who has gone off the boil of late.

 

[GrayBlade]

Since EEL is playing crap and obviously isn't signing permanently, a centre back that's ours would be an obvious move if we were going to sign anyone else, but needing to sign centre backs has been something fans have said every year for the past few seasons, but the managers disagree (and we do actually have some spare this season unlike with the Nigels).

My only concern with the transfer window is that we've signed players who play where we we're already strongest rather than improving on the weak spots.

When you say strongest do you mean in number or quality GG?

We haven't got a recognised wide midfider and O'Shea or even Carruthers could play there as well as CM, and although we've got plenty of 'strikers' only Sharp has scored enough and none have them are good in the air so Hanson was definitely needed IMO. And also we'd not got any decent cover at full back so bringing Riley in made sense to me.

As for the OP, I think we could possibly still bring somebody else in, but Wilder will know by now that the worse thing he can do is raise expectations and then see fans go into meltdown if it doesn't happen, so he does right to say nowt. It could depend on us getting out some of the dead wood.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

By strongest I mean the middle three of Fleck, Coutts and Duffy. Accomodating O'Shea and Carruthers means they either take the place of one of our best players or we change formation. Either "could" play wide, but even though they'd be better than Scougall at it (a blindfolded, three-legged donkey would be better out wide than Scougs), that'd still be playing them out of position. Signing one of them is absolutely fine, but getting both seems kind of unnecessary as there's not really room for them in the side.

Signing Hanson is fair enough as an alternative if we resort to lumping it, but he's not going to solve our lack of goals from our second striker as he's not much of a goalscorer.

Riley is a good signing for wide positions if we actually used him instead of an out of position striker or an out of position central midfielder.

 

[Grappler]

Jake Wright story of the day:

He's recently moved to Dronfield and his friendly new neighbour asked him if he played football..... Because he needed players for his 5-a-side.

Don't worry Jake - get us promotion and folk will recognise you for years to come.

Some decent boozers in Dronfied, if he likes real ale

 

[blade too long]

Wilder still looking thru the Open Window