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  1. 31 minutes ago, TLF10 said:

    Morning people. The final instalment of my “realistic signings we could target for a key position this summer”.

    Today I am focusing on the attacking midfield area: 

    Working of the assumption Forss, Jones, Azaz, McGree and Silveria will remain, I think we need 1 more so its 2 in every position

    1. Omari Hutchinson - Chelsea (Loan)

    2. Chris Willock - QPR

    3. Joe Gelhardt- Leeds

    4. Jeremy Sarmiento - Brighton (Loan)

    5. Dembele - Blackpool

    6. Manuel Benson - Burnley

    7. Santos - Chelsea (Loan)

    8. Dele Alli - Everton (Free)

    9. Tyhrhs Dolan - Blackburn (Free)

    10. Josh Bowler - Forest

    11. Ryan Kent - Fener (Apparently terminating his contract there)

    12. Facunda Pellistiri - Man Utd

    13. Femi Azeez - Reading

    14. Sam Greenwood - Leeds

    15. David Brooks - Bournemouth

    Discuss away…

    Willock, Gelhardt, Dolan, Dembele, or Kent would be my picks from that, although I think the latter two would have suitors more appealing than us.

    The 2 Chelsea lads and Pellistri are good options also but with them being loans we would only end up having the same conversation in a year (Hutchinson and Pellistri I feel will go to a club higher than us, probably somewhere in Europe or a newly promoted prem team next year anyway)

    If we can get Greenwood on decent wages for 1.5 m though, honestly I'd be happy with that. All players struggle for consistency when they first start playing regular first team football, I think theres a player in there still

  2. 1 hour ago, Changing Times said:

    A lack of game time and feeling disrespected?  If everyone is fit and playing at their best, White is maybe the 5th best right back in England.  I wouldn't have him ahead of Walker, Trippier, James or Alexander Arnold personally.  So if he really doesn't want to be selected cos he thinks he should have played more then it's probably best he doesn't play for England.  I can't say I'm fussed one way or the other about him.

    I read somewhere he had a falling out with one of the coaches or something 

  3. 1 hour ago, Simply Red said:

    Tom Cannon - 3 goals in 16 games - no ta . Ross Stewart perma crock .no ta . Piroe - Possibly but doubtful Leeds will let him go . Archer - would love it but again doubtful . Diaz - as archer . Stansfield - will get better.

    Theo Bair , Matheus Saldanha , Mojmir Chytil , Kaly Sene ,Adam Hlozek , Willem Geubbels ,Sam Gallagher , Sinan Karweina top my list . Ladislav Krejci , Danny Armstrong , Alex Cochrane , Alan Browne, Femi Azeez, Pavel Sulc and Tochi Chukwuani and we are close.

    Add a RB 

    Danny McNamara , Max Lowe , Rhys Norrington Davies, Ola Aina , Sam Mccalum, Sam Byram , Charlie Taylor. 

    ---------------------------Dieng

    ----------VDB----------Fry/ Lenahan ---Krejci

    McNamara-----Chukwuani-----Browne---Cochrane

    Azeez--------Armstrong-------Sulc ----Karweina ----Sene 

    -Hlozek-----Saldanha --Gallagher--Chytil ----Bair  --Geubbels

    The Above if we lose Hackney and Mcgree which I hope will stay .

    McNamara, Browne, Gallagher OOC June, so free.Experienced in the championship.

    Chukwuani OOC no brainer. Azeez OOC low risk.

    Cochrane £1m , Armstrong £1m , Bair £1m-£1.5m, bargains.

     

    Cant speak for all the names on your list but Hlozek is playing regularly for Leverkusen at the top of the Bundesliga. Sulc and Saldanha played in Europe this year for Plzen and Partizan respectively. Chytil played Europa League. None of these are realistic targets in my opinion. 

    You've also got Bair who is in his mid 20s and has a 1 in 3 record this season in Scotland, and Gallagher has scored 1 in 6 in the league we are currently in, admittedly I've not watched much of them live but would they really be better than what we currently have?

  4. 3 hours ago, AnglianRed said:

    They should just ask the RFU how they implement the Third Match Official (TMO) system and copy that. Its worked very well for years, seems a lot less complicated and a lot more consistent.

    Although in football's case part of the problem is the offside rule itself. To my mind, to make it more consistent and fairer, the whole of the attacking player's body should be beyond the defender...as in if you drew a line on the graphics screen, all of the attacking player's body would be over it.

    To my mind that constitutes an unfair advantage.

    All this crap about being offside by a hand or foot is just stupid IMO.

     

    Having appeals I'm not so sure about. I know they do that in tennis and cricket - but they use Hawkeye to decide if a ball is out of court / hitting wicket etc. which at least is more consistent than a bunch of people looking at video replays.

    Think I'd rather the decision-making process remained in the hands of the refs and VAR team - the rules just need to be simplified and given a common-sense approach, instead of the ridiculous absolutist rules we have now.

    Havent they been trailing that change to the offside rule? It'd be much better for the game I agree!

    I think the issue with appeals is that the opposing team could take advantage by making you use all your appeals and then continuing to break the rules when you run out of challenges

  5. 4 hours ago, ScarBoro said:

    These changes would be great. I’d add another one - the handball rule needs changing. Whatever they do will have issues, unless they simply say all handball is a foul irrespective of circumstances, which is maybe too severe. Possibly go with - If it’s deliberate handball, it’s a foul and if accidental then no foul. Deliberate would include the unnatural position issue, but they should specify a distance the ball needs to have travelled. They also need to show clear pictures to the public of what is and what isn’t unnatural under the rules and train the officials to use them and stick by them.

    The handball rule is a nightmare full stop but I'd probably agree with the definition you've gave there

  6. 34 minutes ago, Old Codger said:

    Possibly but if it was only limited to things like penalties, blatant simulation, red cards or missed fouls and had to be made within 30 seconds or so, then possibly not. The answer to spurious appeals is simply to say "Tough, you wasted your chance, so don't try to cheat". All systems have faults but if it could be made to work like it appears to in baseball, hockey and the like, then why not. If we can't be bothered to try, then we are stuck with what we have and sometimes things do work out. You are undoubtedly right that people always try to manipulate things but if a system could be introduced that improves the game, it should be at least looked at. Will never be perfect but who knows till its tried. Can you think of a way forward that aids the decision making without the current faff-on?   

    There's 3 changes to VAR I would make which I think would improve it massively.

    #1: Use the instant offside system they had in the World Cup where it shows a blue screen with the decision. Why on earth the FA has settled for this fallible "drawing lines on a pitch" nonsense is beyond me, as mistakes have been made multiple times.

    This is the sort of thing I mean:

    #2: More transparency in the decision making process. Every team has a big screen in the stadium now. Get the checks played on the big screen, get the audio on between the ref and the VAR room so we can understand what they are looking at. It might not speed it up much but you could maybe see how it works and learn to live with it a bit more, rather than just sitting in your seat wondering what's happening. 

    #3: A time limit per incident. VAR is meant to correct "clear and obvious errors". You get say 30 seconds to watch a suspected foul on repeat again from different angles and decide if it is being given or not. Should be more than enough time to see if the referee missed a foul or not. Sometimes there's claims of multiple potential checks in the build up to a goal which is why I have said per incident, I'd give max of 30 seconds for each incident. That should be enough to find a decent angle and check. And, following point #2, everyone in the ground would be able to listen and see what checks were being made and look at the incident themselves from the clearer angle

     

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  7. 3 hours ago, Changing Times said:

    I wasn't discounting them mate.  I was saying that the reason they are so far ahead is because of the mediocrity below them.  You seem to be saying that they are just brilliant, and everyone else below them is as good as last season?  I'm saying that outside of those four teams the rest of us are worse than last season.  We certainly are, as are Sunderland, and Coventry in my opinion.  That's the three play off teams from last year.  Norwich and West Brom have moved up but I don't see them as having much stronger squads than last season.  So it feels like more of a case that they've moved up simply because others, like ourselves, are clearly worse.  I mean your original point was that we haven't regressed much but we are miles behind where we were last season, do you really not think that?  What have we been watching this season that is even close to some of what we saw last season?  I'm not just talking about style, I'm talking about the actual level of play? There is a large gap between us last season, and this, which is clear regression.  We're celebrating scrappy wins over crap teams precisely because we've been nowhere near the level we want to be.  The fact that we are where we are in the league table is because the league as a whole, not just a few teams, is weaker. 

    Or, from an alternative viewpoint, are the metrics you are using to show how the league is poorer outside the top 4 (lower points totals, worse GD, worse W/L ratios, etc) caused by the top 4 being so dominant when playing the teams beneath them?

    Would be interesting to see a table without the results against the top 4 from this year and last year to marry them up. The teams in the league may not be any worse but may have stagnated whilst much better opposition has arrived

  8. 2 hours ago, Dynamo Kev said:

    have our fans become unambitious these last few years?

    happy with the likes of Greenwood being signed.

    content with players like barlaser, engel, ayling, thomas, silveira, fry. i could go on and on here. there are so many of our players short of the talent that's required to get us promoted. 

    we have so many championship bog standard nobodies in out team these days and we seem to be in denial about it. we even have these nobodies being rated as highly are the actual real talent we have in the team, Rav, Hackney and Jones. these are our only players that are good enough to play in the league above. unsure about mcgree bangura and lath. but they might be okay. 

     

     

    Fry is a fine Championship defender as part of a unit of 4 CBs.

    Silvera and Greenwood are still young. Nobody is calling for either to be first choice and both have chipped in with goals from a second choice role.

    Silvera and Engel have move to new leagues, new countries which takes time to settle and have been in an inconsistent side. Both have shown improvement since their early season performances.

    Barlaser has an eye for a pass and has had some good performances and some poor ones, although I dont think he makes the first XI as he seems to need a bit more time and space than he is afforded in our 4231 system. I've not seen anyone saying he should be first choice.

    Thomas and Ayling will be gone in the summer and we are already fully stocked in their positions without them (although a longer term RB is needed).

     

    I dont think any squad in the Championship is fully stocked with Prem quality players because they wouldnt be in this league if they were. Recognising that all the above players could play a role as part of our squad is not being unambitious, its being realistic and acknowledging some players wont be up to the prem even if we get promoted but might be good enough to chip in when needed with our promotion goals

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  9. 54 minutes ago, ScarBoro said:

    I get your fugires and it all seems logical However, there are two possibilities

    First one -  AV have an obligation to buy back immediately on relegation, in which case the whole transaction will obviously go in 23/24 and simply cancel out the profit AV had theoretically made. For FFP this means no profit for AV and their only option is to try to sell Archer before end of their financial year if they want/need to claw back the “lost” ffp profit. That gives an advantage to any potential purchaser in bargaining down the price, but makes a loan deal pretty unlikely (but they could try another sale with buy back clause of course)

    second one - The buy back clause says AV have to buy Archer back on 1st July or later, to take transaction into 24/25 financial year. Problem with that is the obligation is still regarded as a contingent liability for AV in 23/24 accounts, and  as it has over 50% chance of happening (in reality it is 100% certain), then accounting rules require them to show the cost in 23/24, even if Arxher does not legally become their player again until 24/25.

    So for their published accounts either way they lose the benefit of the sale this financial year. Assuming the ffp rules don’t allow them to treat it differently for ffp, they can only solve the problem by moving him on again.

    Wouldn't the buyback have to take place when the transfer window opens again? Regardless of the clause, they can't complete the transfer paperwork until the window opens. So it would go on the summer and next year's accounts either way

  10. 3 hours ago, Changing Times said:

    I wouldn't have thought that would be possible mate.  From a FFP perspective that would mean they'd supplied incorrect information, assuming that the £18m fee was what they put through their books.  Same goes for Sheff Utd.  

    Surely it's not out the realms of possibility? It would just be classed as a 9m sale rising to 18m if certain targets were hit, with a 7m mandatory buyback if the target was not hit? We dont know exactly what will be declared on their accounts yet I dont think?

    Alternatively, if they have ran it through as an 18m sale with a 16m buyback option, due to Sheff U paying the fee in installments the agreement is Sheff U just dont pay the second 9m installment and Villa pay the extra 7m back. Which also makes sense for Villa as they added a full 18m to the FFP this year but next year the fee would go down as 16m split over the length of the contract Archer has agreed to sign when returning to Villa (which could be like 3.2/4m a year depending on what terms the new contract states)

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  11. 15 minutes ago, TheJew said:

    Happy Birthday 🎂 

    Thank you mate

    13 minutes ago, Norman_Conquest said:

    First of all, happy Birthday.

    You only have to look at the formation against Chelsea to answer that, Carrick choose Engel ahead of him.

    Thanks bud.

    I think Engel works better as a LB in a 4 than a LCB in a 3, I think Clarke is better suited in that spot.

    As McNair is leaving, Clarke Fry VdB and Lenihan leaves us with 4 defenders, so I wouldnt be letting any of them go to be honest especially after seeing how injuries have affected this season, 2 for every spot is necessary. Even without injuries, playing twice a week to a top level is damaging over a sustained period, look at how knackered some of our players this season when they had to play as the alternatives were injured. 

    If we switch to a back 3 permanently I'd say theres an argument for getting another CB in too as we would need at least 5 in the squad (unfortunately for McNair unless he takes a massive payout I don't see him staying as he is meant to be on a bomb).

  12. Away in Toaster for a bit of R&R so missed the game but 3 points is 3 points. We keep up this form and we may sneak into 6th and then who knows, form is always relevant going into the playoffs.

    Nice of Boro to not spoil my birthday celebrations, I shall be tucking into an extra few glasses of gin tonight to celebrate.

    Huzzah

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  13. I'd like to see the same formation on Tuesday, with Jones in for Ayling (if fit) being the only change. If we have to manage LL, let him terrorise their defenders for the first 60 mins before letting someone like Silvera take over.

    Wont get to watch this I dont think as it's my birthday and the Mrs is taking me away for a few days so I wont have the dodgy stick, which is a shame as I reckon we're gonna put 3 past them 

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