Instead of allowing our NEW manager

Deep joy!

 

Typically a good team has a good midfield and a poor team has a poor midfield. We were a poor team last season and have lost our loans, Knasmullner and Mallan. We've still an abundance of forward only thinking midfielders. I can't imagine a high press working with our current group.

 

We were a decent team with a poor manager

 

We were a poor team, with poor players, poor tactics, poor effort, poor skill and poor management, off the back of erratic poor recruitment and management decisions.

There really wasn't a lot of good from last season, at all.

 

2 wingers for starters, as hedges, an injury prone Isgrove and DMH aren't really going to cut it are they?

Let's face it Bradshaw is off, therefore that leaves Moore & Thiam, which hardly fills me with hope, therefore another 2 strikers.

We also require a decent defensive midfield player in my opinion, as our central midfield options are attack minded.

This while, we wait to shift players out. Its going to be a last minute rush to sign folk, and be left with January-esque signings.

 

Once listened to Stanley commentating on Freddie Trueman taking a wicket against the Aussies in a Test Match thus:
" Freddy Truebold, fastee runee down a wickie, fastee bowlee, wickie flyee, floppit down on kneebolds, alleluia OUT."
Absolute legend. Don't forget as said in a previous thread, those were the days when we had steam radio as the only real
form of entertainment. Me Fatther used to sit in our front room puffing on his pipe, whilst I played Subbuteo on the carpet.
He listened to a programme called " Round the Horne". You would here a door slam and a bloke would say " I'll not take my
Coat off ' cos I'm not stopping" at which point ar old feller would be nearly pi*sing himself. Later on we would hear a bloke
called Ronnie Ronaldo doing bird impressions, a Russian tap dancing troupe and a ventroquiloist Peter Brough and his
dummy Archie Andrews. When we first got a telly, I watched a programme called " Muffin' the Mule." These days, that would
be classed as some form of sexual perversion. How times have changed. !!!!

 

The guy at the door was Ken Platt, and the ventriloquist was Peter Brough.

 

How long before you create a thread telling us your real name is Claus from Denmark, only to have your bonfire pissed on by our multilingual friend, Tomi?

 

I don't think our current needs are the same as they were 12 months ago. Different level, fresh start.

 

We need at least 5 goalkeepers.

 

Aye. Let him tekk his time. After all, it's only ten weeks since we were relegated. No rush. After all, Sheff U spent half a dozen seasons in t'Alehouse League so we can live with that. No worries. We don't want to go up too soon.

 

One issue seems to be the differential closure dates for the transfer window between England and the rest of Europe - English clubs shopping abroad (which with a French CEO and German management team it would be reasonable to assume we are) only have until August 9 to buy but the transfer window in Germany, for example, is open until 31 August. This will lead to (even more) inflated prices to English clubs if they want their man three weeks before the German club could still receive offers for him from other quarters. Moreover, the German club may be reluctant to let a fringe player go until they are further on finalising their own squad which a lot of them may still be doing with over three weeks left when our window shuts.

 

Are you confusing two programmes with one, or possibly one with two?
Round the Horne had Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. They never came in through a door saying I'm not stopping.
They did however have Julian and Sandy and the great J Peasmold Gruntfuttock.

 

Me neither. Its because we haven't got any money.

 

Could you argue we don't need a ball winning midfielder? Be interested to hear it if you can.

 

I’m still trying to remain patient, as there are 2/3 weeks left. But it does seem slightly odd not a single first team player has been signed. No out of contract players were brought in - may well have missed out on players going to higher clubs or they just didn’t seem any worth signing. But GG was clear - we had a list of targets. Be nice to have an update on how those targets are progressing. It can’t have been the plan to wait until last couple of weeks of pre season. Strange plan if it was. If it was to let the new manager have a say then that’s fair enough. But he’s been around the club for nearly a month now & you would think targets would have been approached.

We definitely do need that. We have plenty of attacking CMs, but we need someone to sit in front of the back 3 or 4 and break play up, start attacks moving. It is probably the most crucial area of recruitment for me. Get that right, with one ready to go and one development player and I would say we could make a fist of it. Ideally I think we should get that position filled to replace Gardner and Williams, a winger to replace Hammill and then it’s a case of one in / one out probably.

 

To be honest Mr B, I didn't take much notice which was which programme. I only heard the comments cos I was playing Subbuteo with my mate behind the settee. Our family Doctor was a hard drinking Irishman who had to have a driver because he was permanently tanked up. My Mum was not very well one day and the old man called the Doc for a home visit. Me and my mate were in the middle of a Subbuteo FA Cup Semi Final and on his way from the back door to the stairs he trampled
over the ball, a net and some five Subbuteo figures, bringing the game to an end. Only time an FA Cup games has ended with both sides in tears. I was told that when the Doc eventually died , with the refund on all the empties, apparently his widow got enough cash to wallpaper and paint every room in their house.