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Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:37 pm
Plenty of clubs have billionaires or are essentially franchise clubs

We don't, and we have a huge debt repayment issue

We also have some very capable premier league players, which is why they are moving for what are very good fees at championship level

So that's a no then.

fatboy47

We've been relegated, he's got two years left on his deal and he wants to go Easy stuff to parrot out after every departure...but it doesn't answer the slightly awkward question I posed earlier in the thread...to briefly rephrase it Plenty of clubs have managed to retain a strong core of their best...

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Jambo wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:14 pm
Athletic saying £20m for McNeil. Had our pants pulled down for the third time this summer then.

Totally agree.

fatboy47

Sell anyone and everyone of any value appears to be the policy. It clearly is. And from the bland acceptance in evidence here, you'd have to suspect that no club that's ever been relegated from the Prem has ever been able to hang on to any of its best players. Some evidence of actions taken by the ...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:46 pm
Boring p****

Hi Alan.

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Father Jack wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:43 pm
I really don’t want us to sell Dwight.
But if we do- I’ll be very unhappy if it’s for less than £25m.
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Surely Dwight doesn’t have a release clause in his contract?

I imagine he'd be long gone were that the case.

fatboy47

Just keep remembering that it's not asset-stripping.

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claretlegend wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:01 pm
McNeil to Everton is one i've been told today. Sources can't be revealed but it's apparently reliable. We'll see...

Don't be coming on this thread peddling your rumours.

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2 Bee Holed wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:53 pm
Crikey!

Toodle pip, old boy.

Yup.

Off ya pop!

fatboy47

The biggest negative for me has been the hesitancy around the ground just to celebrate a goal. In the back of your mind you’re always expecting a goal to be checked for one thing or another. That alone, I’ll be glad to see the back of. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if it gets introduced in the Cha...

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I'll miss it like I'd miss a nasty dose of galloping knob rot.

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:45 pm
That's the evolution of society, the appetite for printed media has been gradually waning for years.

As has the number of people capable of reading it.

fatboy47

33 Queen olives, 137ml juice, I think you'll find.

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Rovers.

New manager.. Cash available and being spent on proven champ material..excellent pre-season.. 1st half of last season they were flying until they imploded... Cat 1 academy producing some usable talent.

Hopefully I'm totally wrong.

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This thread is so ridiculously one sided. It's like cops and robbers. One side is completely good and one side completely bad. Ying v yang It amazes me how so many seemingly intelligent people, are so completely brain washed by the people they follow on twitter. Madness Hard to be impartial tbf Dam...

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Realist here.

If we were to lose Taylor and one of McNeil/Cornet then I'll be having a flutter on relegation.

The clearout has gone beyond sensible. Stick Hennessy back in there and a defence lead by Collins with Pieters as utility backup would look a bit more like.

Bottom half as it stands.

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Thought this was gonna be about buying a new bed.

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People seem extremely willing to accept that this is going to be a rebuilding season where promotion isn't the aim It'd be just as well not to mention that in the blurb on the ST sales page. If I thought for one minute that the club weren't arsed about promotion I wouldn't set foot in the place.

fatboy47

I'm not badly off...by my standards at least..some might think me affluent even..

Doesn't mean I'd pay 20 quid for a Mars bar though.

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:46 pm
Only 3 on that list who I'd have kept on.

Pope, Hennessy, Tarks, Pieters, Lennon and Collins would all have been very valuable assets

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Bosscat wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:46 am
I wonder if they wore this new away kit
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As some has pointed out it looks like its covered with abstract lady gardens

Quite apt for a club full of fannies.

fatboy47

Hardly anyone, including me, is interested in this hyped-up guff.

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Coventry have spent most of the last 10 seasons grubbing around the lower leagues whilst trying to hang on to their souless, two thirds - empty football ground cum shopping centre.

We've spent most of it in the Premier League.

We're a big deal at this level. For now at least.
They, simply, aren't.

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Possibly.

Also distinctly possible that it'll be turned into a mausoleum should the results not match expectations.

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warksclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:29 pm
Hope he gets sorted soon as he will need to get to know his new colleagues pre season and be involved in training and friendlies.

Just me that doesn't give a Brad Pitt then?

fatboy47

Looks like Callum Britain is on his way to Ewood...very very decent acquisition for them at RB if it happens.

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No barriers to cricket for working class kids insofar as I can see.
The problems are more about the need for instant gratification, brainless razzmatazz, saturation TV coverage and innability to focus on anything other than a screen for more than a few minutes.

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Spiral wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:50 pm

None of that works if the player thinks the manager is a tw@t.

Probably explains why Brian Laws never used that strategy.

fatboy47

Ben's gone.
Deal with it.

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:28 pm
As Lenny said above he was injured the last two months of last season. Possibly he isn’t currently up to passing a medical?

In which case, according to the acknowledged wisdom on here, he'd still be on the Turf Moor payroll and comfortably ensconced in our treatment room.

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Maybe he's earned enough in the last 10 years and has other fish to fry.
The silence is pretty deafening if not.

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Coeus wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:20 am
What do we want his dad for!

He's a good bloke.

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:03 am
Article in SSN app today lists their choice of the best U25s in the Championship, only Scott Twine from our squad makes the cut with O’Hare in there but still a Coventry player as I write.

That's it then. We're absolutely buggered.

fatboy47

My brother-in-law/nephews are ST holders in the Holte end. Pretty sure they got them immediately when they were old enough to go - no waiting list at all. I reckon clubs claim to have them when they don’t - keep people renewing. Suspect you're spot on there. Supply and demand economics just doesn't...

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Nothing whatsoever to fear in this league if we get our sh1t together.

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Playing out from the back isn't some kind of new-fangled self-desruct strategy unless done by the elite, any more than Ben Mee's vacant lumping up the park being the preserve of the alleged dinosaur clubs. It'll be interesting to see if VK can staff the place with players who have the wherewithal to...

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Kompany out.

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I'm happy with the Scillies.

Rarely below 8 in winter, rarely above 25 in summer. Low humidity.

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Some of that tackling would make him a walking red card in the Prem.

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PremierLeagueClass wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:56 pm
Are we likely to see a much bigger pitch this season (and shorter grass)?. Weren’t we right on the limit for both under Dyche?

Are you gonna shove the Dobson stand back 5 yards or am I?

fatboy47

Ben Davies on his way to Ewood.

Very good signing. Fair play to them.

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eastcoastclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:52 pm
If a player wants to leave, they leave.

It's the reality of modern football.

Agreed.... But you said they "needed replacing"

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eastcoastclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:35 pm
Or the majority are just being realistic and know that we had an old squad that needs replacing,

Wow!! Really? Mee.. Tarks.. Pope.. Collins.....thats who's left us so far.... They needed replacing? Really?

The ones in need of replacing will be the ones we're left with...trust me.

fatboy47

As the 3rd relegated PL side, we should be bang on favourites to lift the title. The fact we're like 6th favourites in the betting and some fans seem happy with mid table suggests something has gone seriously wrong somewhere. . Bang on the money. Operation "lower /eradicate expectations" is on track.

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randomclaret2 wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:24 am
You might draw the conclusion the club need money and they need it quickly...

Yup. Fire sale in other words.

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:46 pm
Been thinking and thinking, can't name a left footed rightback!
Surely there must have been a few!

Keith Newton could certainly hack it at right or left back.

fatboy47

We need to be careful publicising this video, just asking for a top six club to come along and nick him.

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BigChaCha wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 11, 2022 4:40 pm
Have a look at the skills and ball control of Luke McNally in this video!... If you didn't already know he was a Central Defender, you'd think he was a creative outfield player or Striker after watching this... Super impressed -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlC1l3UEhM

Is that you Alan?

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dandeclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:16 pm
When do we get to ask the question legitimately on asset stripping?

Dont go there Dan. I had my arse kicked and handed to me last year when I suggested that it'd be on the cards at the first sign of stormy weather.

4 champagne players out of the club for beer prices.

fatboy47

Not really part a transfer rumour, but the idea that we should be offering a contract to Vydra and that we have some moral obligation to him is bonkers Beats me too tbh. So, in theory, when Ings ran down his contract, he did so without financial risk should he have suffered a serious injury in his ...

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