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    Summer transfer rumours and speculation

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    18 minutes ago, werstayinup said:

    Just to start it off I have a good friend who has watched a player at Altrincham a lot and he is raving about Conn-Clarke(He thinks Peterborough among many others have been watching him) Boro snapped up the lad from Barnet if i remember rightly who has since shone for them... possible target should Chislett leave?

    Will fit in  at The Posh - they go for double barrelled surnames quite a bit

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    PVFC Meet delegation of fans regarding current concerns

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    52 minutes ago, PV1973 said:

    I had no clue what the numbers at the beginning and end even meant. Still it’s also worth noting that recruiting isn’t just an individual thing. It’s a group of players that you’re assembling. A collective. At the moment we are so far from looking like a team that’s it’s unreal. We’re more like a collective shambles. What flitcroft has done since the promotion season is indefensible

    One things for sure. I can see with my own eyes that we’ve built a squad with hardly any goals in it, just looking at individual players stats tells you that. So what were our recruitment team seeing? We’ve decided to play a wingback system and we amazingly have no wingbacks. We have no strikers when we were drastically short of them in January and still are. We’ve tried to go to a back 4 and we have no fullbacks. Also we have that intangible thing of having no characters on the pitch and seemingly no togetherness. We had that in abundance 2 years ago when we went up. It’s been slowly dismantled. 

    But overall just look at our performances and league position. We are terrible. There’s no dressing up how bad the recruitment has been since promotion.  We were hearing rumours sneaking out of the club about flitcrofts “negotiation tactics” at the end of the promotion season when players were leaving or offered poor deals. It’s snowballed since then to the position we’re in now where his free rein has seen us have the squad striped of characters and leaders to become an unbalanced mess with no one who we can feel connected to or invested in. He has to go. No ifs or buts. 

    I think it’s the total number of signings that season?  With the listed names the ones who are deemed to be a success with % overall?

    it’s also worth noting that there is considerable extra cost/resource being funded in terms of both DF salary + analysts / researchers to assemble this ‘phenomenal’ bunch.

    in the boardroom Carol / Flicker can power point and convince themselves as much as they want as to reasons - distorted market etc, but other clubs have overcome these challenges and you cannot present your way out of the league table which does not lie!
     

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    Shrewsbury (H) match thread - 9th March

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    Thanks Carol and DF.  Chuffed you’ve managed to put together this phenomenal squad.  

    You 2 are so right and us fans are so blind that we just can’t see it!

    and we’ve also given Robbie a nice title, and given the riffraff a free drink.

    all is well in the world of PVFC, and I nearly forgot to mention your OBE!

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    David Flitcroft Out

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    18 minutes ago, philmpv said:
    20 minutes ago, philpvfc said:
    Yep, but when his contacts dried up our performances slipped. He’s done the same again at Cheltenham, signing Pett and Taylor, results picked up when he first went there but it is most likely they will still go down.

    Even if they do, they will have made a hell of a fist of it. They were dead and buried when he took over

    Exactly! 

    I mean, it’s not like he will have only had 35 games to get his 50 points / borderline play off form or picked up a team who hadn’t even scored a goal before his arrival or anything!

    Clearly needed a break from the game, but looks all the better for it.
     

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    David Flitcroft Out

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    48 minutes ago, philpvfc said:

    TBF, most attackive players who have played 20 games or more this season have scored more than the 2 Loft and Uche have scored between them.

    Exactly, but we haven’t been able to sign one!  Most decent centre backs have more than that.  DC did manage to go out and ge5 them through his own contacts / personality / bond with the players named.

    David Flitcroft Out

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    1 hour ago, philpvfc said:

    He’s not as bad as you make out, he’s done a good job at most the clubs he’s been at on division 2, however he’s not as good as a lot make out, he has always struggled in division 1 but like Crosby, he had a very poor transfer window when we were doing very well for the first 4 months after promotion, don’t think you can blame Clarke for that. 

    He also blames him for global warming and the cost of living crisis no doubt.

    which of the ‘deadwood 2021’ clearout proved DC wrong by going on to perform well at a higher or even the same level?  NONE, but RZ can’t let that get in the way of a personal vendetta of course.

    DC also had the ability to attract players who had played for him before (despite being such a nasty man)  Ellis and Marty Taylor being two.  Marty Taylor, for all his faults already has more League 1 goals at Cheltenham after just 1 1/2 games than Uche and Loft combined.

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