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  1. 9 hours ago, JTG said:

    Made the mistake of reading through a thread on FMTTM about it and I'm stunned by just how many people are willing to justify yet more price increases, and the blasé attitude from them with no compassion or empathy at all for those who would be inevitably priced out of going to the games. I get that going to the football might just be a hobby for some, but for others it's their escape and it would be devastating for them to have to forfeit going to the games because of price hikes imposed by the club.

    A few people were putting across the point of view that the cost of everything is going up, so it would make sense that prices went up. It seems like the majority were not in favour any any sort of price rise.
     

    I think the main point of contention though was from posters disgruntled at the price difference for walk ups vs season ticket prices. 
     

    Im firmly of the belief that ST holders should receive significant discounts for committing up front. Yes the club could do even more in terms of innovative ticket ideas - but overall their current ticket strategy seems to be working.

     

    best way to play it would be to freeze existing prices but explain the impact this has on transfer budget etc…

  2. 26 minutes ago, Islander said:

    It’s good to see all the positive remarks about Roberts.  After all, he’s our player and wants to be here, not a loanie playing here for a place in a world cup squad., who looks a bit casual at times.

    I hope Wilder sticks with him and he justifies the selection.

    Can’t have been easy to come into the team so close to the timing of the match and it sounds like he took his chance well, regardless of not having a great deal to do.

    To be honest he really had very little to do. Solid game but very hard to tell whether that was because of the improved defence, lack of attack from Swansea, or other reasons. Glad for him but Steffen to take the shirt back for me.

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  3. 52 minutes ago, Will said:

    It completely depend on this transfer window.

     

    Last year we all rightly expected us to make the playoffs. If the squad is relatively unchanged then that has to be the expectation again.

    Personally after selling bamford Gibson and traore and not replacing traore, I wasn’t expecting playoffs last season. No one has a right to expect the play offs in any given season.

     

    This year I’ll be happy if we are top ten with some youngsters brought in a different playing philosophy on the pitch.

     

  4. He needs to test it legally before he does the same here. After, there’ll be nothing to stop him selling the stadium, training ground etc to Bulkhaul for inflated prices to keep us ffp safe.

    My understanding was that MFC, Baulhaul and Rockcliffe all came under Gibson O’Neill now anyway, hence we were able to get rid of the club debt. Would have thought that would stop us doing a derby

  5. Out of the two, Besic is by far the safer option.

     

    We are hoping to sign and get the £25m Bolasie that Everton signed from Palace, in reality would we get that?

     

    With the wages being thrown out Bolasie is a gamble. He could be fantastic, but he could also be a shadow of his former self. It takes a long time to get over an injury like that.

     

    Bolasie works out at about 3-4 mil, not a huge gamble when you consider we’ve sold all our best players and are sat on a lot of cash.

    I still don’t know why people assume we are ‘sat on a lot of cash’. We have no idea what the money from those players has gone towards. It could just be wiping off some of the debt on players brought over the last few seasons.

     

    One things for sure, the club isn’t self sustaining with input from Gibson without the money from parachute payments. £3-4 mill may not seem like a huge gamble now, but if we don’t get up and the payment end - £3-4 mill is more likely to be our entire transfer budget.

  6. If we could sign Besic and hang on to the rest of our squad, I’d be quite happy. Not the most eventful of transfer windows, but far better than last years car crash when we threw away millions.

     

    We would be way too slow and weak in wide attacking positions if it stayed like this imo. No cover at full back either.

     

    Downing and Braithwaite are a decent pair of wingers with Tav and Chapman as backup, I can live with that.

     

    Most of our defenders can cover at fullback, it’s the easiest position on the pitch.

     

    We may not have that much pace, but what’s wrong with a slow build up, it worked for the great Liverpool and ***nal teams of the past.

     

    Regardless of what we need in the team, How someone can be happy with pocketing 40 odd mil on out going transfers and not investing it in the team is baffling to me.

    Let face it though, none of us know if any of this money is being ‘pocketed’. Given our massive outlay last season and the fact we must have one of the highest wage bills in the league, and we had a large squad and the fact that parachute payments run out, maybe we have just been sensible about revinvesting some of the money, but making sure we are viable in years to come. Just because the club rightly haven’t come out and said ‘we have to sell’ doesn’t mean they don’t, I find it baffelling why people think every single pound coming in from player sales (which we don’t know how it’s structured) should go on new player transfer fees, given that we know that without additional none continuous funds the club looses money year on year.

     

    Worst thing that could happen is what happened last time we were relegated where we splashed all the money upfront, missed out on promotion and then couldn’t invest properly for another 5 years.

  7. A point wouldn’t be a disaster from this game but a win would really start to solidify our play off place. They are a team that knock the ball around quite well but have come unstuck this season by physically stronger teams and those who can play on the break, which is our forte.

     

    Hopefully aitor can do us a favour against Sheffield United and a Derby Cardiff draw on Sunday would really make for a great weekend.

  8. Why would Adama be up against Terry? He's on the wing and Terry is central. But regardless there isn't a player in this league quick enough to keep up with Adama. They will have to stick 2-3 men on him when he get's the ball and even that didn't work for Bolton. Adama will create a lot of space for the others in attack by drawing players to him and probably prevent at least Villas full back from getting forward.

     

    Adama does seem to drive inside as well the down the wing but if you look at the game when he gets the ball he nearly always drags the cb wide to help the winger. Prime example being wheater coming over on Saturday in the lead up to the second goal.

     

    Any situation where we can isolate terry against Adama will certainly be fun.

  9. Though downing played pretty well today, clearly the best passer on the pitch but did loose it a couple of times. Not sure I'd agree with holding up break aways, it wasn't a coincidence he was at the centre of most of our breaks, but each time the supporting runs were poor.

     

    Fry got lucky on a couple of occasions, that block on the line I don't think he knew anything about. That said he's a lot better with every game and was mostly great.

     

    Leadbitter and Clayton were vintage at their best, controlling the game and winning the midfield.

     

    Britts first touch let him down a fair few times but he was a massive threat and can't argue with the goals.

     

    Traore was unplayable and is clearly getting better.

     

    All around great performance other than a 15 minute or so spell.

  10. James Cook would be a strange choice of hospital to use, there are at least two NHS hospitals closer as well as the private hospital that the club does Medicals at.

     

    Obviously this could be true regardless of that but something doesn't sound right about that.

     

    James cook is the absolute logical place to go. Unless it's something relatively simple or scheduled surgery both Darlington memorial and the friarage will just refer you to straight to james cook as that's were the specialists are. Hence why many people just go straight to jcuh and bypass the others to save time.

  11. Jota isn't the be all and end all, even just looking at his highlights so far the season he looks to have the long range shooting ability of Fabio rochemback, blazing them all over the shop.

     

    We've had a fantastic window, the players just need time to gel and monk needs to get his system sorted out. I for one would be happy for the window to shut right now.

  12. I really hope they make it to general sale for the Bolton away game!

     

    Are season ticket holders able to see how many seats are still available?

    All of the upper tier has sold out, not sure what's left on lower.

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