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Being realistic

lenny

lenny

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Reading the threads on here about our next manager or our signings , we need to be realistic given how much the owner will spend and who we can attract . Almost all the players who have been a success in recent years have come from lower league clubs or been loans from premiership clubs , a lot of the lower league players have been gambles and occasionally they have come good . It’s the same with our successful managers they have been gambles when they got the job, maybe Grayson was the only one who had some sort of success before he became our manager and yes Neil but even those some people were not happy with them they wanted better .
Unless our owner suddenly loses his senses (from where they have been since he took us over) we need a lot of luck in both choosing the next manager and who we sign.
Trevor has tried to take us up on the cheap and has failed and the club is going backwards at a worrying rate, the end of the season will be the biggest challenge to his ownership of the club since he took over . Quite a few fans on here call almost every manager and every player we are linked with rightly or wrongly it’s where the club is at .
I am not saying I accept that , I want the club to get good players and a top manager , but where the club is at the moment there will be other opportunities for both players and managers who are far more attractive than us.
Whoever we appoint as manager or we sign as a player will get my support I definitely won’t slag them off before they’ve been given a chance to prove themselves, being realistic they will mostly be gambles .
 
lenny said:
Reading the threads on here about our next manager or our signings , we need to be realistic given how much the owner will spend and who we can attract . Almost all the players who have been a success in recent years have come from lower league clubs or been loans from premiership clubs , a lot of the lower league players have been gambles and occasionally they have come good . It’s the same with our successful managers they have been gambles when they got the job, maybe Grayson was the only one who had some sort of success before he became our manager and yes Neil but even those some people were not happy with them they wanted better .
Unless our owner suddenly loses his senses (from where they have been since he took us over) we need a lot of luck in both choosing the next manager and who we sign.
Trevor has tried to take us up on the cheap and has failed and the club is going backwards at a worrying rate, the end of the season will be the biggest challenge to his ownership of the club since he took over . Quite a few fans on here call almost every manager and every player we are linked with rightly or wrongly it’s where the club is at .
I am not saying I accept that , I want the club to get good players and a top manager , but where the club is at the moment there will be other opportunities for both players and managers who are far more attractive than us.
Whoever we appoint as manager or we sign as a player will get my support I definitely won’t slag them off before they’ve been given a chance to prove themselves, being realistic they will mostly be gambles .
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Good points and I see that you appreciate that the " long haul " is on top of us yet again.... I've been at it 40 years and apart from the odd hard on ( in the lower leagues ) nowt has changed.
 
The fact we're waiting until the summer makes me convinced were biding our time for a manager to become available on a free.

As for players, I can't see us paying many fees, the pittance we received for Davies, Pearson & Fisher doesn't even cover what we paid for Whiteman. If we can't sell season tickets then we're going to be rebuilding the squad for next to fuck all.

Far too much hope being placed on James Beet too, other clubs have full on teams doing this stuff, we have one guy doing it by the sound of it.

We need five class loan players to give us a chance.
 
sf said:
The fact we're waiting until the summer makes me convinced were biding our time for a manager to become available on a free.

As for players, I can't see us paying many fees, the pittance we received for Davies, Pearson & Fisher doesn't even cover what we paid for Whiteman. If we can't sell season tickets then we're going to be rebuilding the squad for next to fuck all.

Far too much hope being placed on James Beet too, other clubs have full on teams doing this stuff, we have one guy doing it by the sound of it.

We need five class loan players to give us a chance.
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Knowing PNE low season ticket sales will see us go with what we have and we all have a pretty good idea how that will finish, given this season's showing.
 
Paul Szacsky said:
Knowing PNE low season ticket sales will see us go with what we have and we all have a pretty good idea how that will finish, given this season's showing.
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We literally need to sign 8 first eleven players, assuming Ledson, Whiteman, DJ & Browne won't be shoehorned into the team at the same time. Pearson needs replacing.

Big upgrades needed on Sinclair, Potts, Maguire & Barkhuizen who should all see plenty of the bench next season if Ridsdale does his job.

Never mind a striker and our laughable defence.
 
Are you afraid sf? Because I bloody am, I just can't see Trevor lashing out the readies, his money I know but losing our best players for peanuts because of the contract debacle is going to really hurt us next year, despite what Riddler says we have not and will not replace for as good as or better.
 
Paul Szacsky said:
Are you afraid sf? Because I bloody am, I just can't see Trevor lashing out the readies, his money I know but losing our best players for peanuts because of the contract debacle is going to really hurt us next year, despite what Riddler says we have not and will not replace for as good as or better.
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Yeah I think we're going down and it's an exact repeat of Maurice Lindsay 'seizing control'.
 
Ando60 said:
I can’t see us selling 3,000 ST’s Paul..... it’s gonna make grim reading.
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I along with the group I sit with bought one for this season but we took the option of carrying them over to next season 🙄 so in effect we’ve sold some already.
I wonder how many in total took that option?
 
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