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Duvel

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  1. A few of us posted the same thing the other day when these players were being linked. At the moment we seem to be signing project players who we can develop over the course of next season and beyond. I'll be very surprised if many of them are in the team when the season starts. I think if you asked Scott and he was being honest he'd admit that a certain percentage of these signings don't usually work out. That isn't a problem though, if the outlay is small enough or at a manageable level then you can afford for a few of them to fail. The other side of that is if a couple of develop to be
  2. Can someone summarise this mornings events please? Just turned on my phone and it seems like I might have missed some stuff!
  3. Giles and Archer had played at this level before and both had been pretty successful at this level before we had loaned them. They were more tried and tested at this level a year ago that the lad from Brentford and the Dutch defender and would be far more tried and tested now if we brought them back. They were different signings a year ago to what we've just brought in and are linked to at the moment. I think apart from Dieng our current links and business are players who'll be on the fringes of the first team. The hope will be for some of them to break into the team but with the expecta
  4. As I said in my previous post I like the direction we are going in and I agree with you, I think there'll be a mix of young development signings and Premier league loans. I just don't think the current business/links show evidence of anything other than a recruitment team with a longer term plan.
  5. The only evidence at the moment is we are signing young players with a plan to develop them, it seems more of a long term goal rather than a one season promotion push. If we then sign more tried and tested players as well then I'd say that is ideal. But I agree with you the current signing/links are not evidence of an autos push at all, they are the exact opposite.
  6. Yeah I know all that but I don't think our current signings/links are evidence of a team who are clearly pushing for a top 2 place as suggested by another poster. Every club could say the same couldn't they?
  7. Is it better for Ramsey and Archers development to play half a dozen European games against Eastern European minnows or play 40 games in the Championship? If Villa think the pair can challenge for a first team place then I think they'll stay there, if they don't then I'd expect them to be out on loan again.
  8. I wouldn't expect us to be aiming below the top 2 but I don't think the current recruitment is necessarily an example of that. The majority of our signings/links seem to be young players with very little experience at this level. To be honest I don't expect all of these types of signing to hit the ground running, they seem to be players we'll develop over time so I don't think the signings/ links suggest a top 2 push at all. If a rival club were signing these players I don't think we'd be quaking in our boots. I like the direction we're going in but I don't think any of these players ar
  9. Van Hecke was starting for Brighton towards the end of the season wasn't he? If he does leave I'd imagine there'll be better options for him than us.
  10. So in that situation its likely we'd have had the same final this year and obviously Luton won it anyway. I agree with your idea by the way but with the 3rd place team going up there shouldn't be many complaints anyway. Our form in February/March would have been enough to beat any of the playoff teams over 2 legs and at Wembley and its a shame we couldn't reproduce that. Pointless going back over that now though 😭
  11. There's not a prayer of getting Traore back here for god sake, let's be realistic 😂 As an absolute worst case scenario for him I'm sure the 3 promoted teams plus the likes of Bournemouth, Forest and whoever else stays up today would love to have him. Those types of clubs could offer him Premier league football and more money. Then you'll have La Liga interest because he's Spanish and has played for their national team so he'll be fairly well regarded over there.
  12. Thanks Reading through that is pretty much what I expected. I think the problem would likely be improved with more staff, the club would have to do a proper analysis to see if the extra staff could be paid for with increased sales I suppose.
  13. I'd rather Coburn go out on loan again rather than be sat on our bench. Maybe to a newly promoted championship club until January, see how he does.
  14. Bottling it is where you don't hold your nerve and can't handle the pressure of a big game. Lack of effort is something completely different. Unfortunately nowadays every team that loses on the biggest stage is said to have bottled it and its just daft, only one team can win and sometimes you're just second best on the day. We didn't lack effort and we didn't bottle anything. In my opinion we just ran out of steam as a group, with injuries and fatigue. The playoffs are decided by the best team at that moment in time, its not always the best team who wins it but the form team.
  15. Because he's injured a lot, it feels like we can rely on Lenihan being on the pitch a lot more. I think Lenihan has got better as the season has gone as well so I wouldn't say there's much between them in terms of ability. Also I think our record at scoring goals from set pieces is really poor, in this division it would be good having another centre back who can defend but also has a bit more of a physical presence on set pieces. I'm happy with Fry as a player but with his injury record I don't think it would hurt to have cover/competition for him. He might also be a player
  16. I know this has probably been covered a million times but the queues at the kiosks in the ground are just ridiculous. I got there early last night hoping to get a pint but there's no chance unless I was prepared to miss the kick off. If you want food or drink at half time you have to be prepared to miss 10 minutes of the game, so we have a situation where the stands start emptying from about 35 minutes and don't fill up again until after the 2nd half has kicked which can't help the team. Many people like me just don't bother so the club are missing out on loads of revenue. I
  17. I saw this interview recently from one of the best basketball players in the World talking about defeat in a playoff game. And its absolutely how we should be looking at things. I've heard people talking about embarrassment a few times on here and (another site) and there's nothing to be embarrassed about, you lose more than you win in sport. We've just got to dust ourselves down as a club and go again
  18. Yeah Ramsey and Howson would have certainly added a lot to us over the two legs. Looking back Howson has been a huge loss actually.
  19. I just don't see how you can really get a strong feeling about next season at the moment when we don't know what our team and squad is gonna look like.
  20. Yeah good point, I think we'll have Ramsey back on loan if Villa will let us because despite the injury history he played so well. Fry I'm not so sure, if there's a Premier league offer for Fry I'd consider it and even if he stays I'd like someone else to come in who can compete with him for a place alongside Lenihan.
  21. This sounds like sour grapes but looking back do you think we are as good as we thought or was the division just really weak this season? I know Carrick has had us playing in a really attractive style but the fact that Sheff United have got promoted and will be followed by Luton or Coventry it just makes me think the league is so poor. None of them look remotely close to Premier league quality. When you look at some of the teams who've been promoted over the last few seasons many of them looked a lot better than the top 6 from this season. Even ourselves, when you think about it very few
  22. He's not ready for Villa yet, can you see him replacing Ollie Watkins? Not a chance. The best version of Archer will end up on loan at a top 6 Championship club on loan or maybe competing for a place at a new promoted club on loan. There's a huge difference between Championship and Premier both technically and physically and I don't think he's ready for that yet. Even if we keep him and Chuba id like another option off the bench for us.
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