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JoeB2
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Think Crawley are evidence that you can’t judge recruitment on “what have they done elsewhere”.
Lolos, Orsi, Addai all arrived with less than stellar CVs, if you work on the Wikipedia scouting approach.
It’s all about the qualities of the player and whether they fit into what you want to do, not what they did in a completely different context elsewhere. Don’t get obsessed with ‘proven’ - though experience is definitely needed.
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Ignore, folks. Don’t post under this post. Let him talk to himself until he gives up.
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Going back to STs.
Ours are the 13th most expensive in League 2. Not bad at all.
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Killer’s Revenge clearly doesn’t have a lot going on.
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19 minutes ago, Vtid said:
Could play them both behind the striker in a 4-3-2-1 maybe but it’s a long shot & there’s no width then. You have a good point but if you sell one who would you replace him with as they would be sitting on the bench anyway If we are not playing two attacking mids. They’d have to be as good as the one you sold & happy to play back up. Difficult one, I have a feeling Chislet will be gone anyway
We’d end up shoehorning players into wrong positions, or choosing a system that doesn’t work to fit them.
They’re good players but unfortunately just don’t work together. It’s like having two good left backs.
Sell Chislett, make Garrity captain, and reinvest the money up front.
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1 hour ago, Guitar Ray said:
I think you’re off on this one Joe, depending on how far into 6 figures you’re thinking. I’d never want to sell goalscorers by choice. Obviously if offers do come in then we’ll have to consider them. Anyway, both players have completely different attributes. Garrity, a hard working battler who can win you the ball and scores goals from midfield. Chizzy a tricky flair player who creates chances and scores a few himself. I’d try and keep both and maybe hope for a stupid offer in January if we’re not challenging. As ever money will dictate, be that a better wage offer for the player or a fee we can’t refuse.
Where do you play them both? What formation facilitates that?
You either
a) drop Garrity deep - a waste
b) put Chislett wide - a waste
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I think a better way of putting it is that Moore is not a manager who can drag a failing club up single-handedly, the way DC has often done. He can make a decent squad compete at the top end, but he isn’t a firefighter.
When he’s in a situation with a good budget and a decent squad, he’s pretty much guaranteed his employers a playoff finish throughout his career. When he’s in a situation with a poorer budget and a lacking squad, he’s been relegated.
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A classic example of a player signed on reputation, but was on the decline and didn’t fit the system at all. Very poor business.
You sign players to fit a preconceived idea, not make it up as you go along.
We’ve had no plan when signing players since January 2022 - Flitcroft’s first summer was the only time you could see what we were trying to do.
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Folk picking and choosing Moore’s past record to suit their argument.
He’s got some excellent success in good situations and poor failures in bad situations.
We need to make sure this is the former.
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A problem with Garrity and Chislett being our best players is they get in each other’s way. Both want to be in the attacking midfield role and the other inevitably has their wings clipped. Selling one for 6 figures makes sense.
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Madden makes a lot of sense for us but will probably go to Salford.
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4 hours ago, Dipepa delight said:
Look at how Ipswich have bounced up 2 leagues .
Team spirit 10
Will to win 10
Togetherness 10
Going out to win gamely 10
Vale follow there go for it tendencies .
Easy said than done but bad sides can be turned around by playing as a team not like a bunch of individuals .
Vale this last season
Team spirit3
Will to win 3
Togetherness 3
Going out to win gamely 2
We have to find the Ipswich formula and quick
The formula is posting the all-time record for financial losses in League 1. They lost £20m and spent nearly £13m on wages alone. It dwarfed everybody else.
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Not sure what lesson that was. He was just a young lad who get sent off. Was a fantastic talent.
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Moore’s certainly putting a lot of pressure on himself. If this goes wrong he’s gone from 96 points in League 1 to being sacked in League 2, after a very poor spell at Huddersfield.
He can’t blame ‘recruitment structures’ or anything like that as it appears he wants full control.
He’s effectively risking his management career on success with PVFC within the next 12 months.
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I come away, all things considered, pretty grateful about things - which I accept isn’t a standard thing to say a week after relegation!
We’ll be rayt.
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How long in will it be asked “when are we going to start leaving a man up for corners?!”
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Not me saying I want Harratt before folk start weeping and wailing about mentioning previous players. Just clearly a link there.
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1 hour ago, werstayinup said:
Before he was injured was Harratt a regular under Moore at Huddersfield?
Yes played in every game bar 1 under Moore until injury and then suspension.
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Sean Raggett would be good probably.
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Neither Marquis or Taylor any good.
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2 minutes ago, leedsvaliant said:
I just wonder whether Moore thinks that Uche might be a point of difference as a 4th choice striker? He's going to be up against poorer defenders who might struggle with his physicality and a good option to throw on if needed. If he had any ability at all with the ball he'd be a hell of a player. I also worry that his fitness levels as a professional athlete are pathetic. He's blowing out of his arse after 45 minutes.
I can see some sense in keeping him though, so long as he gets an absolute beasting in pre season and Lee Bradbury (a good striker in his day) gets to work on his decision making and using his attributes to the best way.Uche is a completely unique player who has spent the last few years playing 30+ games a season in the Championship. He’ll never be prolific but he offers a physical profile we simply won’t find anywhere else.
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14 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:
We usually operate with between the 6th-10th highest wage in League 2, and gut instinct tells me that’s where we’ll be next May.
I misspoke and meant we usually have between the 6th and 10th largest home attendance in League 2.
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I’ll put the extremely controversial view out there and get pelters: Uche with a full pre-season will be absolutely fine in League 2.
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I don’t think Uche has been properly fit at all this season. Arrived late after not playing for months, got fit then out for months, then a few appearances here and there before season end in a diabolical side creating nothing.
If he walks away from us a League 1 club signs him, simply because he’s such a freak footballer. I wouldn’t be disappointed if he did leave.
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