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Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels

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...that horrible 4 game losing streak when we had 11 players out (Rudd, Vermijl, Clarke, Cunningham, Davies, Woods, Fisher, Spurr, Welsh, Maguire, Earl) and it is only the 1 defeat - to a dubious penalty at that! - in the other 17 games.

I think the gaffer - and the players - know what they are doing.

The 2nd half of the season, with hopefully 3 or 4 quality new arrivals (within our budget) to ease the work load on certain areas of the 11 in January, and it should be an exciting run in to May. We will certainly better both the 11th and 62 points of the past 2 seasons.

Turn up v Sheffield United people and back this team onto its inevitable march into the Top 6.


COYW!!!
 
great post mr daniels!! i'm very confident for an exciting second half to this season and the club deserve all our support. up the lilies!!!!
 
I like your optimism JD but I still believe even with a few in we will not be quite there yet . We just are not scoring enough which I believe will be a bridge to far for this season . Sorry for the downer hope I am wrong but eleventh or twelve for me will be about where we will finish.
 
sussexrob said:
I like your optimism JD but I still believe even with a few in we will not be quite there yet . We just are not scoring enough which I believe will be a bridge to far for this season . Sorry for the downer hope I am wrong but eleventh or twelve for me will be about where we will finish.
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I was just going to say something similar myself although I do think bringing in a few will certainly help.

I don't think we're quite near to mounting a serious challenge for the top six just yet - we lack some serious quality in the final third and until that is addressed, I think we'll just be pottering around in mid-table. We need at least 4/5 new signings and if Hemmings, Ridsdale etc are serious about mounting a play-off push/promotion challenge then they need to show some serious intent.
 
Jack Daniels said:
...that horrible 4 game losing streak when we had 11 players out (Rudd, Vermijl, Clarke, Cunningham, Davies, Woods, Fisher, Spurr, Welsh, Maguire, Earl) and it is only the 1 defeat - to a dubious penalty at that! - in the other 17 games.

I think the gaffer - and the players - know what they are doing.

The 2nd half of the season, with hopefully 3 or 4 quality new arrivals (within our budget) to ease the work load on certain areas of the 11 in January, and it should be an exciting run in to May. We will certainly better both the 11th and 62 points of the past 2 seasons.

Turn up v Sheffield United people and back this team onto its inevitable march into the Top 6.


COYW!!!
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of course 🙂
 
shabbagaz said:
I was just going to say something similar myself although I do think bringing in a few will certainly help.

I don't think we're quite near to mounting a serious challenge for the top six just yet - we lack some serious quality in the final third and until that is addressed, I think we'll just be pottering around in mid-table. We need at least 4/5 new signings and if Hemmings, Ridsdale etc are serious about mounting a play-off push/promotion challenge then they need to show some serious intent.
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I also thought we were lacking the quality required, especially after seeing the way sides like Leeds can play when I watched them in the championship goals programme on TV last night. Then I realised we are only a point behind them!! And that's with no obvious 'stars' in our line up, a horrendous injury list and a tiny budget. It's like comparing heavyweight and lightweight boxers - and Pound for pound, we can be one of the best teams in this league.
 
Not sure if we have the fire power to reach the top 6, always hopeful, but I do think we will better the last two seasons
 
Dirty Harry said:
I also thought we were lacking the quality required, especially after seeing the way sides like Leeds can play when I watched them in the championship goals programme on TV last night. Then I realised we are only a point behind them!! And that's with no obvious 'stars' in our line up, a horrendous injury list and a tiny budget. It's like comparing heavyweight and lightweight boxers - and Pound for pound, we can be one of the best teams in this league.
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Consistency H..... I reckon we all agree that we can beat anyone in this division on our day but can we battle on gaining points week after week?...... I wouldn't discount it just yet. 🙂
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Add another striker (which we have), Maguire back another CDM and I think we have the squad to challenge.

Replacing Hugill will be one as well when he does eventually go.
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Yes - we do not need a huge number of incomings especially since Horgan and Harrop are maybe now starting to play the AN way and with the return of Cunningham and Earl in the New Year and Maguire maybe about March. An aggressive ball-winning central midfielder as a permanent signing and a robust centre forward on loan as back-up for Hugill is arguably all we really need.
 
Jack Daniels said:
...that horrible 4 game losing streak when we had 11 players out (Rudd, Vermijl, Clarke, Cunningham, Davies, Woods, Fisher, Spurr, Welsh, Maguire, Earl) and it is only the 1 defeat - to a dubious penalty at that! - in the other 17 games.

I think the gaffer - and the players - know what they are doing.

The 2nd half of the season, with hopefully 3 or 4 quality new arrivals (within our budget) to ease the work load on certain areas of the 11 in January, and it should be an exciting run in to May. We will certainly better both the 11th and 62 points of the past 2 seasons.

Turn up v Sheffield United people and back this team onto its inevitable march into the Top 6.


COYW!!!
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Thanks for that post- - I was actually wondering WHAT OUR RECORD IS LIKE WITH BEN DAVIES IN or OUT of the team.....

Did his appendix do more than anything else to affect our top 6 status?
 
shabbagaz said:
I was just going to say something similar myself although I do think bringing in a few will certainly help.

I don't think we're quite near to mounting a serious challenge for the top six just yet - we lack some serious quality in the final third and until that is addressed, I think we'll just be pottering around in mid-table. We need at least 4/5 new signings and if Hemmings, Ridsdale etc are serious about mounting a play-off push/promotion challenge then they need to show some serious intent.
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I disagree. I think we have quality in the final third - the likes of barky, harrop, horgan, robinson, Johnson, hugill, and Maguire until his injury have all shown that they have enough quality to make us into a play off side. We do need one clinical striker and a central midfielder to challenge pearson. Unfortunatly me and other fans have to realise that we aren't just going to go out and buy a 20 goal a season striker. They cost 10 - 15 million money that hemmings will not spend and I don't blame him. The loan market could be one way or we could look in the lower leagues and hopefully pick out someone who can be the difference.

Lee Gregory might be one player that could add some goals but I have fait in neil and hemmigns to do the right thing.
 
I think a problem for Harrop and Horgan may be that AN considers them as impact players....I hope that they do get chances to start games soon.
 
White123 said:
I disagree. I think we have quality in the final third - the likes of barky, harrop, horgan, robinson, Johnson, hugill, and Maguire until his injury have all shown that they have enough quality to make us into a play off side. We do need one clinical striker and a central midfielder to challenge pearson. Unfortunatly me and other fans have to realise that we aren't just going to go out and buy a 20 goal a season striker. They cost 10 - 15 million money that hemmings will not spend and I don't blame him. The loan market could be one way or we could look in the lower leagues and hopefully pick out someone who can be the difference.


Lee Gregory might be one player that could add some goals but I have fait in neil and hemmigns to do the right thing.
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As our reputation increases we may find PL clubs are ok with loaning us a Tammy Abraham’s type striker...
 
ernest said:
Yes - we do not need a huge number of incomings especially since Horgan and Harrop are maybe now starting to play the AN way and with the return of Cunningham and Earl in the New Year and Maguire maybe about March. An aggressive ball-winning central midfielder as a permanent signing and a robust centre forward on loan as back-up for Hugill is arguably all we really need.
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We should be looking to improve our squad at every transfer window. We have twice been down to our last 18 players in recent weeks (although we clearly had some very bad luck with injuries. We also had 4 players who reached 5 bookings (Pearson, Huntington, Johnson and Fisher) all of whom may well go on to get 10 before the next amnesty. Would argue that in addition to the DCM, we definitely need a permanent forward or 2, another defender and a right sided midfielder. We can then afford to offload a few of the players lower down the pecking order, like Vermijl & Pringle.
 
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