Stand up and be counted

It needed spending in January to keep the club running now.

 

One week ponty end is aled up and scrapping, next week, comatose. Our 'ultras' are more like 'betas'.

 

You're off your head then.

 

Okay

 

Oakwell is like a morgue every game. The players tried their bollies off last night against overwhelming adversity and nothing from 4/5ths of the crowd except tutting, bleating and shouts of "kick it" and such like gems

 

Very quiet last night considering a top 6 place was possibly up for grabs.

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Given up sugar for February?

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Nah mate, never done dieting.

 

Sorry mate, I dunno why I quoted you as well

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No problem mate, quote me any time you like. I only talk bo**ocks.

 

We've had a third of a starting line up that could have got us promoted this season sold during the course of it. We started an home match with zero strikers on the pitch and failed to create much and then went two down (should have been three but pen got overturned) because of sloppy defending. The weather was **** too. I agree that the atmosphere wasn't great and that the players deserve better (because it's not them that's given up this season and happy with the next few months just to finish anyhow) but they have to perform and give the crowd something to get behind them with.

 

Nobody has give up on anything. We still could get into the play-offs. If we don't it won't be any sort of a disaster. It wasn't in any way our aim at the start of the season. And it's not like we had a divine right or were guaranteed to finish in the play-offs with the players we have sold

 

We haven't replaced them yet. We will in the summer. Think of the bigger picture instead of just the here and now.

This seasons objective has always been to stay in the league. We've pretty much done that.

Id rather consolidate with loans in January (instead of wasting money on overpriced players) and replace the trio properly in the summer.

 

Sit daaarn and be counted by all means. A month ago after going one darn there were rousing chants to let the team know we were still behind em, last neet very few did that and why, well I blame this bleedin transfer window and the part we have played in it.

 

It was freezing and I was tired from work. I went, I watched, I clapped, I joined in a few songs but I didn't really feel like singing at the top of my voice and doing a jig - sorry.

 

Yes, we could have bought that guy that Wolves got from Portugal for £10+M and gone bust in the summer

Thats not to say that we probably could have spent more of it on a striker, but we might be counting our chickens before they are hatched - I would guess that Man City didn't just give Everton a bundle of cash in a large holdall, but will be paying in installments, and our chunk will also come in similar installments. This might also be the case with the other outgoing players.

We might get ~£15M in total for the transfers eventually, but that does not mean that we have £15M *now* to spend.

 

No but we could then surely structure deals in the same way?

It is not transfer fees that are the issue anyway, it is wages.

 

Or we could have activated the 300k release clause of Matty Taylor before LJ got in there. Maybe we could have signed Stevie Malan who's record looked good to me. How about Simon Murray at Dundee United? Linked to him also and he's another who on paper has a decent record who i'm sure could do a job for us for the small fee he'd have cost. Josh Morris at Scunny? Josh Marquis with 17 goals in just 30 for Donny this season?

Plenty of players out there in cheaper leagues that would have done a job for us.

 

The only transfer I was genuinely upset about happening was Hourihane, and it's quite clear we've brought in Mowatt as a replacement who with time and training may develop into a better player. Winnall was replaced in the summer with Bradshaw, doesn't excuse the club for not bringing in a 4th striker no but it's not like he was irreplaceable was it. Fair enough the window hasn't been great but you just whinging for the sake of it and it just gets boring.

 

I'm not disagreeing with you - probably a load more around Europe as well if you look hard enough - but we do seem to be limiting ourselves to the English leagues at the moment. Was just commenting on someone wanting to spend all the money in January.