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Injuries?

Injuries?

Look on the bright side at least pearsons not going to get booked for the next few weeks. ����
 
Aitch said:
We've had all summer to sign a central midfielder, so we can have no complaints that we are lacking in there now. It's OK to say we couldnt do a deal on deadline day, but one should have been done long before. We've just got to get on with it now and hope the bodies available step up to the plate.
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proton said:
No we are not Man city but the need for a cm has been going on for some time,has been identified by AN himself and SHOULD have been addressed by the club.
Hoping for the best regarding injuries/suspension is all well and good,planning for something less ideal is better.
Football has a nasty habit of punishing poor planning, bit like life in general really.
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Spot on.
 
proton said:
No we are not Man city but the need for a cm has been going on for some time,has been identified by AN himself and SHOULD have been addressed by the club.
Hoping for the best regarding injuries/suspension is all well and good,planning for something less ideal is better.
Football has a nasty habit of punishing poor planning, bit like life in general really.
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Got to agree. You don't have to be Man City to get a young Celtic player in for 300k. As I just said on another thread, we can't be taken seriously for a top 6 push without have a strong squad and more depth. Over 46 games you need good players to slot in.
 
wahwahwah said:
If he wanted us to play through the middle more, why wasn't this conveyed to the players during the game?
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If you read more of the article you will see that he states that Sunderland had tried to play through the middle and got caught out on the counter. Therefore, we tried to play it wide to avoid that scenario. That's why Huntington was often playing the long pass out to Barky. I think it was such a move that led to our goal.

On the subject of bringing in another midfielder, I'm sorry but with such poor crowds we will have to beg, steal or eventually borrow one. To go out and buy a ready made quality player is just not possible with our budgetary constraints.
 
royribble said:
If you read more of the article you will see that he states that Sunderland had tried to play through the middle and got caught out on the counter. Therefore, we tried to play it wide to avoid that scenario. That's why Huntington was often playing the long pass out to Barky. I think it was such a move that led to our goal.

On the subject of bringing in another midfielder, I'm sorry but with such poor crowds we will have to beg, steal or eventually borrow one. To go out and buy a ready made quality player is just not possible with our budgetary constraints.
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The point is we should have acted before Pearson got injured not bemoaned the fact once it occurred. As for budgets TH knew the size of our crowds when he made his speech about wanting to be competing at the upper end of the division. Poor planning on the clubs' behalf.
 
proton said:
The point is we should have acted before Pearson got injured not bemoaned the fact once it occurred. As for budgets TH knew the size of our crowds when he made his speech about wanting to be competing at the upper end of the division. Poor planning on the clubs' behalf.
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Big blow not signing a central midfielder. The lad from Crewe was set to sign but then got injured. Don't know if he was ready to go straight into Championship football or not.
 
proton said:
The point is we should have acted before Pearson got injured not bemoaned the fact once it occurred. As for budgets TH knew the size of our crowds when he made his speech about wanting to be competing at the upper end of the division. Poor planning on the clubs' behalf.
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I agree with regard to T.H's comments, however, we don't know what efforts were made to get a centre mid player in and what obstacles we were unable to overcome. I just get the impression that some of our fans expect things to happen easily and can't wait to criticise the club if it doesn't. Anything can still happen. It's a long season and we are only just into it, so let's wait a bit and see what happens.

Three points Tuesday night and we will all feel very differently, keep the faith.
 
royribble said:
I agree with regard to T.H's comments, however, we don't know what efforts were made to get a centre mid player in and what obstacles we were unable to overcome. I just get the impression that some of our fans expect things to happen easily and can't wait to criticise the club if it doesn't. Anything can still happen. It's a long season and we are only just into it, so let's wait a bit and see what happens.

Three points Tuesday night and we will all feel very differently, keep the faith.
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Of course, it's early days but the need to sign another cm is a long standing one and the problem we have now is that it cannot be sorted until January, this leaves us vulnerable.
The issue should have been sorted earlier by the club.
 
proton said:
Of course, it's early days but the need to sign another cm is a long standing one and the problem we have now is that it cannot be sorted until January, this leaves us vulnerable.
The issue should have been sorted earlier by the club.
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Everyone knows we need another CM but more importantly it needs to be the right one. We don't know why things didn't work out in the window but at least we didn't panic and give a contract to a duffer.
 
Yoowell said:
Everyone knows we need another CM but more importantly it needs to be the right one. We don't know why things didn't work out in the window but at least we didn't panic and give a contract to a duffer.
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I seem to be struggling to make the point, we should have sorted it earlier so no need to panic in the latter stages of the window.
I suspect we all do know why things didn't work out and it starts with £
 
proton said:
I seem to be struggling to make the point, we should have sorted it earlier so no need to panic in the latter stages of the window.
I suspect we all do know why things didn't work out and it starts with £
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AN came in July and the window closed at the end of August....I guess you are saying it should have been one of his earliest decisions?
As to it being all about money I'm not sure about that but if we have a pay structure then we should stick to it.
 
Yoowell said:
AN came in July and the window closed at the end of August....I guess you are saying it should have been one of his earliest decisions?
As to it being all about money I'm not sure about that but if we have a pay structure then we should stick to it.
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Well he identified it himself as an area that needed addressing, so I guess that is what I'm saying.It was an area that needed addressing even before he arrived.
As for sticking to a pay structure, well OK but that is going to make challenging at the top end very difficult and the way things are going it will get harder not easier.
 
pnenycx said:
Oh yeh, we're Man City and can just go out and buy a decent player as needed to add to squad depth.
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We didn't need Man City's millions to sign another central midfielder, just like we didn't need millions to sign some of the really good players we've got in the squad.

proton said:
No we are not Man city but the need for a cm has been going on for some time,has been identified by AN himself and SHOULD have been addressed by the club.
Hoping for the best regarding injuries/suspension is all well and good,planning for something less ideal is better.
Football has a nasty habit of punishing poor planning, bit like life in general really.
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Agree, although I'm not entirely sure whether it's poor planning or a bit of a lack of decisiveness in the market, something I feel we've been culpable of at times in recent years. We only seem to significantly strengthen (like last summer's deadline day) when we're doing badly. There's nothing wrong with strengthening whilst you're doing well and taking a more proactive approach.

It's good that the club granted Neil's wish to keep Hugill, but at the same time I thought when he came in he'd be able to do a bit more than a right back on a free and a 19 year old on loan.

As you suggest, the most disappointing thing about it is that Neil said it was an area he needed and wanted to strengthen and the club couldn't deliver it, for whatever reason.
 
sedgwick__7 said:
We didn't need Man City's millions to sign another central midfielder, just like we didn't need millions to sign some of the really good players we've got in the squad.



Agree, although I'm not entirely sure whether it's poor planning or a bit of a lack of decisiveness in the market, something I feel we've been culpable of at times in recent years. We only seem to significantly strengthen (like last summer's deadline day) when we're doing badly. There's nothing wrong with strengthening whilst you're doing well and taking a more proactive approach.

It's good that the club granted Neil's wish to keep Hugill, but at the same time I thought when he came in he'd be able to do a bit more than a right back on a free and a 19 year old on loan.

As you suggest, the most disappointing thing about it is that Neil said it was an area he needed and wanted to strengthen and the club couldn't deliver it, for whatever reason.
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Agree about the strengthening when doing well,much easier for new players to come into a winning set up than a losing one.
 
there is a young central midfielder in Scotland who could have done a job..... I think his name is Grimshaw ?!

Did anyone read the Rudy Gestede article at weekend? Out until nearly Christmas and still in hospital following an operation...

the injury? DEAD LEG !! lets hope Ben's isnt as bad as that - internal bleeding or calcification of the muscle being the 2 biggest dangers.
 
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