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Ron Burgundy said:
I regularly drop your posts into my conversations on the Finney to portray intelligence.
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They must think you're a right thick cunt.

Seriously though, that team was unbelievable. And whilst we did well getting the money we got for Hugill and Robinson (and arguably Cunningham), Pearson, Johnson, Browne, Davies, Fisher and even Maguire were either allowed to leave for fuck all or plummeted in value from that point.

So, realistically, if I drop Cunningham from the success list and Fisher and Maguire from the failure list (although I'd still argue we let Fisher go far too cheaply) we've had a success rate of 33% of player transfers.

We reinvested the Hugill and Robinson money into wages for numerous players (plenty undeserved) and grew our squad by spending on Stockley and Bayliss as well as splashing out on wages for Sinclair and to a lesser extent, but still wanted to include him, Rafferty.

It's fucking criminal what happened to that squad, and Ridsdale wants shooting at dawn for it.
 
simo said:
You could almost certainly do better with less but that takes quite a lot of planning and thought, which I simply don't think we are capable of.

Keep the same people in place with less and we're basically trusting to luck that the odd punt of loan signing plays our way. You can't rely on that, obviously.
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The whole bloody problem at PNE.......... Nail on Head in my view.
 
Thracia said:
I think some of the biggest letdowns in the squad were this season's new signings - Brady, Woodburn, Onomah, each for different reasons delivering much less than we required.

You say DJ and Browne's value was "not translated onto the pitch", but our form was in a tailspin until DJ was restored to the squad. We won't have that option when DJ is gone.

A few windows from now, we'll just have a new crop of one-year mercenaries and loans turning up, like every window. It's just going to be a fresh roll of the dice every year from now on.
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That seems to be the way the draggers operate too.
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
Similar to me and a list of players almost identical to mine, just missing the best of the bunch...

In fact I'd have Sean St Ledger on mine too, what a player
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And the cock ups between him and Lonergan were legendary...... Don't worry I loved him too. Warts and all. 🙂
 
Liberation said:
And the cock ups between him and Lonergan were legendary...... Don't worry I loved him too. Warts and all. 🙂
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SSL was a great player for us without a doubt but I recall him playing for Boro against us at Deepdale (think he was on loan at the time?) & he didn’t cover himself in glory on that day which always tainted my memory of him slightly.
 
stf4ever said:
I love DJ. My favourite player of my adulthood. My first game that I remember is from 1997. My list of favourites from my years watching are:

Fuller
Gregan
Eyres
Nugent
Johnson

I stopped going every game during Westleys years. Since then I've gone to away games with mates who support other teams and the odd home game. Every mate of mine, bar none, says that he's our best player. I fully agree.

I'll miss him tremendously.
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Swap Eyres for our Joey and I agree with that.
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
Rudd < Woodman
Fisher > Potts
Clarke = Storey
Davies > Lindsay
Hunts < Hughes
Earl < Fernandez
Pearson > Whiteman
Browne = Browne
DJ = DJ
Gallagher > Ledson
Welsh < McCann
Maguire > Delap
Robinson > Parrott
Barkhuizen < Cannon

Not loads different really I don't think. Just had a much better manager who got more out of the players we had I think and played a more enjoyable style of football (2017/18, before it got stale).
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It's a little different than what you've put. Maxwell was the first team keeper. Cunningham actually played more games than Earl that season.

I'd argue Huntington that season was miles better than Hughes has been this season. Cunningham from that era was better than Fernandez. Browne was better that season. Also Hugill < Evans but some people are harsh on Hugill. Harrop played a fair bit that season and his performance that season was better than Woodburn's this season. The impact of Gally and Pearson on that season was huge and our midfield was way stronger than it is now because of them. And that defence was our best defence since coming back into the Championship
 
pne1881 said:
SSL was a great player for us without a doubt but I recall him playing for Boro against us at Deepdale (think he was on loan at the time?) & he didn’t cover himself in glory on that day which always tainted my memory of him slightly.
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Genuinely don't remember that.... But he did come back after telling Strachan to fuck off....... Never the same player though.
 
BPIG said:
Rudd < Woodman
Fisher > Potts
Clarke = Storey
Davies > Lindsay
Hunts < Hughes
Earl < Fernandez
Pearson > Whiteman
Browne = Browne
DJ = DJ
Gallagher > Ledson
Welsh < McCann
Maguire > Delap
Robinson > Parrott
Barkhuizen < Cannon

Not loads different really I don't think. Just had a much better manager who got more out of the players we had I think and played a more enjoyable style of football (2017/18, before it got stale).
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our squad now is much much worse than the one in 17/18. Plus you have missed out players.

For example, hugil played half of that season as did Cunningham (who was injured for the first half)

You also had Browne who was in the form of his life. And before people say he’s only regressed since Neil left. He was pretty shit in Neil’s last two seasons as well.

The only players I see in this squad who are better than that one. McCann over Welsh. Cannon over barky. Fernandez over earl but Cunningham over Fernandez. The rest especially defenders are better by a country mile.
 
stf4ever said:
I love DJ. My favourite player of my adulthood. My first game that I remember is from 1997. My list of favourites from my years watching are:

Fuller
Gregan
Eyres
Nugent
Johnson

I stopped going every game during Westleys years. Since then I've gone to away games with mates who support other teams and the odd home game. Every mate of mine, bar none, says that he's our best player. I fully agree.

I'll miss him tremendously.
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What about big Claude and yoel 😱
 
Thracia said:
I think some of the biggest letdowns in the squad were this season's new signings - Brady, Woodburn, Onomah, each for different reasons delivering much less than we required.

You say DJ and Browne's value was "not translated onto the pitch", but our form was in a tailspin until DJ was restored to the squad. We won't have that option when DJ is gone.

A few windows from now, we'll just have a new crop of one-year mercenaries and loans turning up, like every window. It's just going to be a fresh roll of the dice every year from now on.
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I think is 100% where we are heading.

Basically most summers there will be an almost total rebuild. The problem is, anyone we'd look at and go 'lets tie him down to a 3 year deal' would almost certainly cost money or they'd not be available for free. I really can't see us going and spending the money now to 'take' anyone from a league 1/2 side or Scottish PL like we did with McCann, Whiteman etc.

So its almost certain that all recruitment will be 1 year deals on a free (or 1+1 like Woodburn) and loans.

Its a massively risky strategy as it will only take one window of fuck ups to end up with a side that is absolutely dog shit and basically relegated by January and who better to oversee this than Peter '2 in 5' Ridsdale!

Of course, you could get lucky and it all works out and they bond quickly into a half decent side, but the lack of continuity makes it ever more likely that the worse could happen.
 
Liberation said:
Genuinely don't remember that.... But he did come back after telling Strachan to fuck off....... Never the same player though.
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Think he celebrated a late equaliser.

I had a chat with him before the game, said it was ‘weird’ to be here as an away player and was desperate to come back.
 
Mooney said:
Think he celebrated a late equaliser.

I had a chat with him before the game, said it was ‘weird’ to be here as an away player and was desperate to come back.
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Originally signed by Southgate wasn’t he? loan to buy agreement but then Southgate was replaced by Strachan and they didn’t get on so he ended up coming back.
 
Mooney said:
Think he celebrated a late equaliser.

I had a chat with him before the game, said it was ‘weird’ to be here as an away player and was desperate to come back.
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I seem to remember him putting in a few "committed" tackles shall we say but I could be wrong, my memory isn't the greatest.
 
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