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You forgot to add "fire sale"

 

Don't know why folk still don't get..the plan..

 

If the plan is to give our rivals a leg up cheaply then we are certainly doing well.

 

Sell all the seats and insist that supporters bring their own.


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After watching the reds for 35 years..ish i just cant understand why we have suddenly become a selling club...

 

We have always been a selling club but never at this pace before .

 

And if the plan is to keep the first team in permanent revolution with players going on average every few months as soon as a half decent bid is made we are going down. Honestly don't know how much longer the manager will put up with this given we are already woefully short of numbers and potentially quality..£3.5m for Robbo - seems cheap to me and not worth the trouble and disruption his exit will cause.

 

What exactly are we building for? This plan is no good, we will just keep going round in circles and we will end up relegated. Guaranteed if Moncur bags 10 before January then he's sold for a pittance and we are back to square one again. Surely our long term goal is to be at the highest possible level? That will never happen unless we actually build something, apart from the odd exception of course, but that's when we should re invest. All these players we have bought in this last couple of weeks have no Championship experience, and if they don't hit the ground running fast then I really fear we will end up like Rotherham, down by Christmas without properly competing!


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Running to stop still us ok. Running to go backwards I'm not sure about.

To quote The Wire "you don't do more with less you do less with less".

 

Pathetic thread

 

We all get it, we have to sell players to stay afloat. We've clearly got a great scouting system as we've unearthed a number of hidden gems with bags of potential. And we've got some great coaches too, because we really help those players reach that potential. And now we've built a reputation where by we are THE club to come to if you want to work hard, improve, and go on to get a lucrative deal at a much bigger club. If someone is offering 8 grand a week and we're offering 5, they might actually come to us now because in 12 months they could be earning 30 grand a week, which makes the difference between 8 and 5 look like fluff. It's a brilliant model, we've clearly got the personnel to make it work, we should be laughing.

But we've sold fcucking everybody. You can't do that and hope to compete. You sell a couple which allows you to keep the others. That's the point. You do it gradually so you keep afloat and keep momentum and keep competing. You keep some stability, gradually introduce the new players, then at the next transfer window maybe sell one more and bring a couple of others with potential in. We need to employ someone with a nail gun and fix some of our players to the ground because I've never before known a club who isn't in financial difficulties that is so desperate to dismantle such a wonderful team. Supporting a club that sells its best players is easy. We've always done it. Supporting a club where you don't recognise anyone at all when you turn up in August because we've sold everyone with a market value, well, I'm finding it difficult. The club is bigger than any one individual, but when there's no continuity, when it's all about making money from buying and selling with little or no regard for the affect on the team; that's not football. That's watching someone play around in the commodities market.

 

Should we struggle this season Hecky should be given time to recover - if Cryne sacks him for failing to cobble together yet another team in 3 months then he really needs to consider what he's about.


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Zero pressure on the manager as far as I'm concerned.
You never know, the new players might hit the ground running, but I think it's a huge ask, even if in the long run they turn out to be good players.
We're less a football team and more a platform to show off emerging talent that we can sell as at a profit. Every club is that to a certain extent, but it seems that's all we are.

 

Time for you to post that boy for sale vid again. Please.

 

Excellently put.

I accept the model.

I can accept losing players like Conner etc.

But when it's the entire team......

Like you say it's difficult. I've stopped telling our kid who's come in and who's gone.

I can't keep up.



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I'm trying to see the positives in them all getting 3 yr deals but meaningless if what's just happened with Roberts is repeated. Hopefully there's extensions built in after a season or 2 if they prove successful


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"The Plan" is **** and the sooner we go back to signing players like Wiseman, Kennedy, Lita, etc. the better...

 

Shouldn't you be following Hemsworth Tyke around the board.

 

Eloquently put. Of course we sell players we always have always will but on this scale it's just beyond ridiculous.

For me all this selling off the entire team has finished me. I can't face new things at the best of times I'm too old for all this change.

The lack of stability. The constant loans. I feel we have no real identity. We are just a player factory not a team.

I will pick and choose my games this season. Do other stuff. Live life. Supporting our 'team' feels a little empty to me at the minute.


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