Sam Nombe

I think you're vastly over rating him, just my opinion ofcourse.

Good luck to him, worked hard and will be remembered well

 

Our captain left

Then our leader & oldest player was nudged out

And our strikeforce is powder puff now

 

You keep saying this, but it isn't true. Do you honestly think, if he's as good as you think, he'd drop all the way to non-league? He got a great offer on a longer contract, he took the best financial decision for him at his age and all the power to him for it.

 

I disagree with you again here, sol was brought in half way through the best window ever where we sold pinnock and lindsay and tried to replace them with players who hadn't played in England before and played in poor European leagues he did well for us but you can't make players stay if they want to leave and they are home sick let them go.

 

Tell him he's too important, let him spend international breaks and xmas in Austria if he's homesick, like I say its just lame excuses for poor judgements

 

Its not true?

He wasnt the oldest?

He wasnt a good leader?


Truth is bfc dont value these qualities so they dont put up a fight to keep these older lads

 

I'm sorry but disagree again, that would just be poor management. We have no idea how he was feeling. Duff said last season, that no matter how hard players try, they'll never replicate the same pressure/performance in a friendly/end of season meaningless game, as they would in a proper competitive meaningful game. I think it's similar with players who want out, especially ones who want to transfer out, they're not going to put their bodies on the line or put that extra % in matches. Even when homesick. You need to be fully committed to play professional football at a club, and losing that edge is a bad thing. If someone is set on leaving, let them leave - get the right price of course.

 

The nudged out part. The club needs to be compartmentalised into 2 separate entities. The last board, and this one. Last season this board got it almost spot on. Duff, Connell, Thomas, Phillips, Cadden and so on. Now they've got Phillips & Connell signing a longer contract despite not getting promoted. We got a great fee for Andersen despite being in league one & on a 1 year contract. I'm not totally convinced on the new personnel just yet, but they deserve time, as does Collins

 

To be honest I reckon

The club dicards 32 year olds for 22 year olds

And cooks up excuses they can say in the media

You never see an older player replaced with another older one

 

Jesus Christ we can,t even compete with the Rotherham now instead we sign there reserve striker to help them fund nombe.
We have become a joke.

 

Rotherham are a better run club in the championship.

 

Yes I will agree with you on that one.

 

Who exactly thinks we're a joke? Other than some of our fans and, to be honest, I'd say that's a case of the pot calling the kettle.

 

That Kayode is on the bench for Rotherham tonight so maybe the move isn’t that close.

 

Kayode apparently has a mega long throw and is decent at heading. Hopefully he’ll launch it in the box then run in and head it. New tactic.

 

Rotherham currently 6-1 down against a team in tue same league…. You’d like to think he’d have a change of heart going there.

 

Unfortunately this whole debate seems to have gone off at a tangent arguing the toss about one poster's attitude to Norwood. In reality and to most fair-minded fans both Norwood and Cole were good for us last season - Norwood the better 'all-rounder' for me given Cole's variability between home and away performances - and the difference between having enough to go up was actually elsewhere. This is shown by a comparison with Plymouth.

I don't think that Ipswich are a realistic comparison as they could afford to burn money tying up about ten credible L1 strikers but if we want to go up automatically we need to be able to compete with this season's Plymouths.

As I say, the difference wasn't Cole and Norwood - they got 26 league goals between them as opposed to Hardie and Ennis who got 25 for Plymouth. The difference was that Plymouth then had Whittaker and Cosgrove with 17 goals whereas we had Tedic and Watters with just 8 (most of which were in semi-dead rubbers at the end of the season).

That's the real difference - imagine if we'd had 3rd and 4th strikers as productive as Plymouth's - another 10-15 goals at the right times would have done us the world of good. (I know we had Philipps with 9 from midfield but Plymouth had Azaz from there with 8 and we actually outscored them from other areas of the team).

Unfortunately from the strikers we now currently have I don't even see the same productivity as last season. Cole should get his 15 again (maybe a couple more given his start) but beyond that I simply don't see three more 10-12 L1 goal forwards this season currently in our club. Even Cole had a dip around Christmas time last year I think mainly because he was tired having to bear the load so much, whereas Plymouth could rotate players in and out to keep them relatively fresh.

I will keep saying it but you can never have too many quality strikers and unless we get a couple of credible L1 plug and play-able ones I think we could well fall short again up front. That would be a shame because one of the ways we could counterbalance some of the substantial quality drop at the back is by improving over last year up front.

 

Completed his medical with Rotherham

 

If we’re talking about players we shouldn’t have got rid of then look no further than…



Was a genius idea replacing Chaplin with Iseka!

 

I think we have some seriously challenged people who support Barnsley