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38 minutes ago, tomski said:

think everyone needs to get behind the players. I’m as angry as the next man about Wembley but this group will be the one that delivers or won’t in the next season and encouragement will be better than any negativity. COYFWM 

Get behind them. get the ground. that is what they need :D

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17 hours ago, tomski said:

think everyone needs to get behind the players. I’m as angry as the next man about Wembley but this group will be the one that delivers or won’t in the next season and encouragement will be better than any negativity. COYFWM 

They’ll be backed as they always are but I do think people’s patience will be thinner this season. It’s shit or bust time for Evatt and there’s 33,000 Wembley receipts that have been kept… 

if the start isn’t great it will come on top pretty quickly. 

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6 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

They’ll be backed as they always are but I do think people’s patience will be thinner this season. It’s shit or bust time for Evatt and there’s 33,000 Wembley receipts that have been kept… 

if the start isn’t great it will come on top pretty quickly. 

Completely agree. Feel that way about Evatt myself and there is only 1 scenario he wins me round and I just can’t see it. Players will be here long after.

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Being linked with Southampton forward Dom Ballard 19 who spent a few weeks on loan scoring 5 in 12 before snapping his Patella Tendon which ruled him out from November until the end of the season.

 

This last part makes me feel there may be some truth in it

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8 hours ago, masi 51 said:

Being linked with Southampton forward Dom Ballard 19 who spent a few weeks on loan scoring 5 in 12 before snapping his Patella Tendon which ruled him out from November until the end of the season.

 

This last part makes me feel there may be some truth in it

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds :) - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

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10 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds :) - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

One to chuck on as a sub in the box along with 5 other forwards when chasing a goal

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17 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Apparently we're in the mix with Huddersfield and ....erm... Wycombe.

Interesting one though. He's a real fresh-faced kid but I've seen him play for England youth and he's a proper "fox in the box" type - scores all his goals from 2yds :) - but he has a real instinct for goal and makes excellent runs to get there.

Where I'm struggling is that in an Evatt team he would be a luxury because he would be useless pressing 30 yds away from goal - but put the lad in the box and he's a finisher. I dunno - maybe the "new" playing style demands a wannabe Gary Lineker type player?

Another player not for the system. Belting

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52 minutes ago, Big E said:

Another player not for the system. Belting

When we signed Dion, I thought he was a "fox in the box" who would get a ton of goals and he turned out to be an excellent runner who chased down everything and totally fitted into the system we were playing although a lot of the time I was thinking "he shouldn't be there" - he should be lurking around the penalty spot looking for a chance - but we simply weren't set up that way and Dion does a job. Question is whether or not the "new" system would accommodate an out and out finisher? Or even if there is a role in the modern game for such a type of player? Maybe Dom has other aspects to his game that I haven't seen - but from what I've seen he's a goalhanger - or "tittyliner" as we used to call them.

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7 minutes ago, Rizlar said:

Anything Nixon writes ignore I am sure he makes it up also Jack  Taylor available on loan could be better than McAtee?

i've broken more transfer news on here than Nixon

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Barely any of our recent signing were a thing to me before we got them. Whether going on to be successful or otherwise.

So many out there won't fit the Evatt system, whether that has altered a bit, a lot (it won't) or not at all.

So every name brings up a Google search. It seems to be slow progress to date ... for a man who stresses the importance of 'a full pre-season' that must be a concern.

God help him if we're 3-0 down after 60 minutes v Orient. 

 

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Iles saying that the Randall deal is dead - which we sorta knew - but announced we offered over a million for him. Really?

There's a lot of talk about us not paying over our valuation for players and holding out for the right players at the right price, but I'm struggling to see where that valuation came from unless Randall's skills are deemed ideal for the new system.

We have bids in for Armstrong, Dembele and McAtee - and maybe others - and maybe we're just after any one of them rather than all of them?

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1 hour ago, Wanderlust said:

Iles saying that the Randall deal is dead - which we sorta knew - but announced we offered over a million for him. Really?

There's a lot of talk about us not paying over our valuation for players and holding out for the right players at the right price, but I'm struggling to see where that valuation came from unless Randall's skills are deemed ideal for the new system.

We have bids in for Armstrong, Dembele and McAtee - and maybe others - and maybe we're just after any one of them rather than all of them?

And maybe you've not got a clue like the rest of us

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