I’ve heard the criticism of Davies and some of it may be deserved, but assuming there is a budget for keeping us up, how big a priority is it given our lack of goals?
I’d go for not a big priority at all. Given our budget there is little to no chance of us signing an improvement.
Which is very strange. We get taken over by a billionaire consortium and then we're told that we won't be doing anything different in terms of signings. None of us expected us to spend big, but if we're not going to raise the bar a little then we're in for more of the same on the pitch.
Given there is no confidence in Townsend, he needs to be shipped out in January. Get someone in who compete for the shirt. If the keeper is in bad form it gives zero confidence to the players in front of him.
They might be billionaires, but that doesn't mean they intend to become mere millionaires. They've come to invest, not to participate in a dick-measuring contest.
I'm sure there will be a budget. The question is would you spend it on a goalkeeper, or perhaps a quality midfielder and a couple of strikers?
Hecky apparently said not. Someone quoted him yesterday. Seems it will be "as you were" in terms of where we get our next lot of players from.
Then I'm sad to say we will be in league 1 next season. We need a blend of youth and experience. Its men against boys at times and were not going to get out of trouble with late teen early twenty year old lads with little or no experience of the championship.
We’re a Championship football club that has only one viable first team goalkeeper which I find astounding. Davies has produced some fabulous displays and has saved us on countless occasions but unfortunately he has also had his fair share of nightmares that would’ve seen him replaced had a viable alternative been waiting in the wings. We need another goalkeeper who can actually challenge Davies and provide competition which should actually bring out of the best in Davies as there would be no room for complacency.
Got to be a midfielder for me. A leader that's not just there to help out his defence like Williams does. He's so deep we may as well use him as sweeper.
Maybe we have only been able to purchase from the bottom half of the spreadsheet before re affordability. If so we could now be looking at the top half. Still shopping in the same shop but now looking at top shelf.
Fair enough, he’s dropping a few clangers recently, but I’m sure he’s up there in terms of volume of saves made. He made the most saves, in the league, last season. He’s probably not putting any confidence into the defence, at the minute, but the problems are all over the field. We struggle to retain the ball upfront, and it usually results in it coming straight back at us, through our weak midfield, and the defence. Strengthen up top, and add a proper midfielder, to play alongside Williams, and we’ll see improvements.
I agree. For example if we loaned a striker on around 20k a week until the summer where we could have a better look at options and had to pay their wages in full, a million at the most is small fry for a board people think are worth upto nine billion combined, but that striker could keep us up. If we are going to stay the same we might as well have kept the club fully in the Cryne family.
Does anybody think it would help if the captaincy was passed over to an outfield player, so that Davies could focus on the day job?
I could think of more ways to make a profit on 20 million ,why spend that and not speculate to accumulate.
Seems like the captaincy’s a curse. We probably need someone more experienced to take it. A midfield general perhaps?
Seems like the captaincy’s a curse. We probably need someone more experienced to take it. A midfield general perhaps? Only three men for the job, Neil Redfearn, Conor Hourihane and Jacob Butterfield.
